TechBytes Episode 34: Done on a Dongle

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 1: Brandon from Fedora	TechBytes Episode 1: Apple, Microsoft, Bundling, and Fedora 14 (With Special Guest Brandon Lozza)	1/11/2010
Episode 2: No guests	TechBytes Episode 2: Ubuntu's One Way, Silverlight Goes Dark, and GNU Octave Discovered	7/11/2010
Episode 3: No guests	TechBytes Episode 3: Games, Wayland, Xfce, Restrictive Application Stores, and Office Suites	8/11/2010
Episode 4: No guests	TechBytes Episode 4: Fedora 14 Impressions, MPAA et al. Payday, and Emma Lee's Magic	9/11/2010
Episode 5: No guests	TechBytes Episode 5: Windows Loses to Linux in Phones, GNU/Linux Desktop Market Share Estimations, and Much More	12/11/2010
Episode 6: No guests	TechBytes Episode 6: KINect a Cheapo Gadget, Sharing Perceptually Criminalised, Fedora and Fusion 14 in Review	13/11/2010
Episode 7: No guests	TechBytes Episode 7: FUD From The Economist, New Releases, and Linux Eureka Moment at Netflix	14/11/2010
Episode 8: Gordon Sinclair on Linux Mint	TechBytes Episode 8: Linux Mint Special With Gordon Sinclair (ThistleWeb)	15/11/2010
Episode 9: Gordon Sinclair returns	TechBytes Episode 9: The Potentially Permanent Return of ThistleWeb	17/11/2010
Episode 10: Special show format	TechBytes Episode 10: Microsoft FUD and Dirty Tactics Against GNU/Linux	19/11/2010
Episode 11: Part 2 of special show	TechBytes Episode 11: Microsoft FUD and Dirty Tactics Against GNU/Linux - Part II	21/11/2010
Episode 12: Novell special	TechBytes Episode 12: Novell Sold for Microsoft Gains	23/11/2010
Episode 13: No guests	TechBytes Episode 13: Copyfight, Wikileaks, and Other Chat	28/11/2010
Episode 14: Patents special	TechBytes Episode 14: Software Patents in Phones, Android, and in General	29/11/2010
Episode 15: No guests	TechBytes Episode 15: Google Chrome OS, Windows Refund, and Side Topics Like Wikileaks	30/11/2010

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 16: No guests	TechBytes Episode 16: Bribes for Reviews, GNU/Linux News, and Wikileaks Opinions	3/12/2010
Episode 17: No guests	TechBytes Episode 17: Chrome OS Imminent, Wikileaks Spreads to Mirrors, 'Open' Microsoft	5/12/2010
Episode 18: No guests	TechBytes Episode 18: Chrome OS, Sharing, Freedom, and Wikileaks	11/12/2010
Episode 19: No guests	TechBytes Episode 19: GNU/Linux Market Share on Desktop at 4%, Microsoft Declining, and ChromeOS is Coming	16/12/2010
Episode 20: No guests	TechBytes Episode 20: GNU/Linux Gamers Pay More for Games, Other Discussions	18/12/2010
Episode 21: No guests	TechBytes Episode 21: Copyright Abuses, Agitators and Trolls, Starting a New Site	20/12/2010
Episode 22: No special guests	TechBytes Episode 22: Freedom Debate and Picks of the Year	27/12/2010

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 23: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 23: Failuresfest and 2011 Predictions	2/1/2011
Episode 24: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 24: Android, Microsoft's President Departure, and Privacy	10/1/2011
Episode 25: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 25: Mono, Ubuntu, Android, and More	14/1/2011
Episode 26: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 26: €£98 GNU/Linux Computer, Stuxnet's Government Roots, and More	18/1/2011
Episode 27: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 27: Linux Phones, Pardus, Trusting One's Government-funded Distribution, and Much More	22/1/2011
Episode 28: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 28: The Weekend After Microsoft's Results and LCA	30/1/2011
Episode 29: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 29: KDE, Other Desktop Environments, and Programming	31/1/2011

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 30: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 30: Microsoft at FOSDEM, Debian Release, and Anonymous	7/2/2011
Episode 31: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 31: Nokiasoft and Computer Games	13/2/2011
Episode 32: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 32: Desktop Environments, Computer Games, Android and Ubuntu as the 'New Linux', Copyright Mentality	22/2/2011

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 33: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 33: Patent 'Thieves' and News That Deceives	6/3/2011

Twitter as X-Rated Hatred: Criticising Microsoft is Not OK, Calling for Beheadings (With Bounties on People's Heads) is OK: Twitter automation missed 'hit job' advertising
Balancing Activism Against (or With) Basic Necessities and Daniel Cantarín on Our Collective Battle for Software Freedom Around the World: "I'm VERY angry about lots of stuff happening here in Argentina, all of it shielded behind the word "freedom"."
Links 16/08/2024: YouTube Bans and Surveillance Expanded: Links for the day
We Were Right All Along and the Collaborators of Microsoft Helped Competition Crimes of Microsoft: Once again vindicated regarding UEFI "secure boot"
[Meme] The New Windows Slogan: stat me up
Addendum: Associate's Notes on Free Software as a Labour Issue and the Connectivity Swindles: these are related issues/causes
Microsofters Infiltrating Roles of Authority and Government Positions to Protect Microsoft and to FUD Microsoft's Competition: friends of Microsofters who bully me and my wife
Links 16/08/2024: UK Skills Deficit and Kim Dotcom to be Extradited to the US (for Doing the Same Stuff GAFAM Does): Links for the day
Gemini Links 16/08/2024: Overgeneralisation and Games: Links for the day
Russia's Yandex 5 Times Bigger Than Microsoft... in Ukraine: They'd rather rely on the Kremlin than on Microsoft
[Meme] Gemini is Different, So What?: different, not worse
Now It's "Official": Over 4,000 Known Gemini Capsules in Lupa: For the first time ever
Clown Computing: Reprinted with permission from Dr. Andy Farnell
[Meme] What Freedom Means to IBM: Free labou
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 15, 2024: IRC logs for Thursday, August 15, 2024
From 99% in 2012 to 27% in 2024: How Microsoft Lost Georgia: What we're seeing is a migration from Windows to other platforms, notably GNU/Linux
To Understand Cisco's Mass Layoffs Look at the Company's Soaring Debt (Same at Microsoft): Look what's happening to Intel - down almost 60% since the start of the year, 57% to be precise
Windows Flying Low at 25%: It's another all-time low
[Meme] Long Texts You Never Bother Reading (Because Life is Too Short, Unlike Those Texts): The devil is in the terms of service
Links 15/08/2024: Monkeypox Hysteria and Modern Homesteaders Living Off the Grid: Links for the day
Gemini Links 15/08/2024: Confession of a Convention Game Master and Some Release nostalgia: Links for the day
Congratulations to Romania, Where Windows is Now "Minority Market Share" Platform: Time will tell if GNU/Linux can pass 5% on the desktop/laptop "form factor" there
Why It Matters That 4,000 Gemini Capsules Are Known to Lupa and Why Gemini Protocol Matters to Us: I have no doubt Gemini Protocol will continue to expand because it solves a real problem
Links 15/08/2024: Avast Surveillance Scandal Unsolved and Facebook Still Censors Terror Sympathisers: Links for the day
Daniel Cantarín's Response to Alexandre Oliva's Talk on Achieving Software Freedom in the Age of Platform Decay: Soylent News caught up with the series
4,000 Gemini Capsules: it's basically one capsule short of 4,000
"Microsoft is a Sponsor of The New Stack.": Many articles turn out to be just ads
New Highs for Android in Russia, But It's Reportedly Working on Its Own Linux-Based Operating Systems (GAFAM-Free): statCounter isn't equipped to properly parse user agents or to keep up
Upcoming Series: Terms of Service (TOS) Under the Microscope, FSF Party, GitHub Scandals, Clowns, and More: Right now we have way more material than we have time to cover. But that's a good thing.
Gemini Links 15/08/2024: Lies of Therapy and Web Applications: Links for the day
Software Freedom in Perspective - Part 5 - When Richard Stallman Came to Argentina: It might seem a bit harsh, but a discussion at the end of this series will tie things together and explain why those things were said
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 14, 2024: IRC logs for Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Russia develops an alternative to Android and iOS | News.az: Russia already has several of its own operating systems
Links 14/08/2024: Ecology and War Inside Russia: Links for the day
Daniel Pocock - Use of Technology in European Parliament Election Campaign (Public Talk): It starts in 4 hours
Android About to Fly Past Windows in Portugal: Perhaps by month's end or next month Portugal will be orange (Android majority)
How OpenAI Will Decrease the Losses: You have no losses when you have no users left
Giving Control to Microsoft is Always a Dire, Huge Mistake: Microsoft is known for buying things and sabotaging things, not for creating things
Founders That Sell Their Company to Microsoft Speak Out: "Microsoft's closure of Arkane Austin in May was one of the more shocking events of the past couple of years"
In Chile, Microsoft's Web Browser (a Chrome Copycat) Fell to 3.6%, About the Same as Firefox and Opera and Less Than Safari, Yandex Browser, Google Chrome: It does not look like Chileans fancy Microsoft's browser. They go out of their way to use something else, even on Windows.
Software Freedom in Perspective - Part 4 - Daniel on Linux-based Mobile Platforms in LATAM (Latin America): GNU, Linux, and mobile
Almost Nothing of Invidious Left Online (YouTube is Attacking Gateways): what it looks like at this very moment
Gemini Links 14/08/2024: Funeral for an E-reader and a Mother Wants a Laptop: Links for the day
Links 14/08/2024: 8 Years of GDPR and Ridicule of "Hey Hi" (AI) Hype: Links for the day
This is How You Give Microsoft More Control Over LibreOffice Both as Software and as a Project: Didn't the Document Foundation learn from prior Microsoft Store scandals connected to LibreOffice?
"Heroes of Fedora" Are Just Salaried Employees of IBM (But "Community" is Just Sounding a Lot Nicer): A real community would not allow IBM a majority
YouTube Has Thrown Free Software Users Into a Crisis: For many Free software users, who rely on Invidious, YouTube is nearly dead already
[Meme] "New Chapter in the FSF.": We expect to have some coverage from this week's event
There is No I in "GAFAM" and Soon There Won't be I At All (Like Novell Vanished, Not Overnight, as It Took Over a Decade): Intel is going through the biggest crisis in its entire history
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 13, 2024: IRC logs for Tuesday, August 13, 2024
It's a "sm0l" World and It Won't Outsource to the Pentagon Anymore: As many people aren't interested in a new PC - or simply cannot afford one - we can expect leaner operating systems to gain further
Software Freedom in Perspective - Part 3 - GNU/Linux in Argentinian Desktops/Laptops: Daniel explains why many years ago many PCs shipped with GNU/Linux and that there was an economic reason for it. At least in Argentina.
Tivoisation and Decommodification in Clown Computing: Some firms or organisations lost sight of what "servers" or "hosting" even mean
The News Vacuum: The problem is worse than just an absence of reporting
x86 Lowered the Standards of Hardware Products: A lot of it is just hacks and cheats that help fake performance

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