TechBytes Episode 67: Nokia Down, Android Up

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2012-04-13 21:33:04 UTC
Modified: 2012-04-13 21:33:04 UTC

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Summary: The first episode in a long time discusses changes in form factors and the stronger points of Linux

Today we spoke about Nokia, Linux, proprietary software on GNU/Linux, and finally something about LibreOffice. We didn't prepare topics in advance, but it should be an entertaining episode nonetheless. The show closes with "Ceiling Of Plankton" (a song by Givers).

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Show overview	Show title
Episode 66: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 66: First of the Second Series

European Patent Office (EPO) Series: "Operation Influencer": Costa's political career was far from finished
GNU/Linux Usage Rising Among Gamers, But "Hardware Survey Data Not Available.": Not anymore, not for now anyway
Quantum Quantum Quantum Quantum (Pump, Then Dump): What has IBM become?
KDE Has Long Used Dragons, and Dragons Come From Hatched Eggs: That Microsoft Lunduke tries to paint this as some "trans agenda" thing says a lot about Microsoft Lunduke and his COVID-19-damaged brain
IBM Announces 5 Billion Dollars "Invested" in "AI", in "Security", and 10 Billion Dollars for "Quantum", But IBM Does Not Have This Kind of Money (It's Fake News to Manipulate the Share Price): IBM has fast-growing debt and liabilities, it does not intend to invest this kind of money, it's a smokescreen and false promises timed to alleviate the sagging share price (52-week low)
Have a "Lifetime" Without Microsoft: The online rage over this is still ongoing
The Cyber Show on the Importance of Software Freedom and Why GNU/Linux Could Not be Stopped: an excellent article
Drew DeVault Can Still Redeem His Reputation. Revisiting His Attacks (and Attack Site) on Richard Stallman Might be a Good Start.: DeVault has openly apologised (this past spring)
The Register MS is Publishing Paid SPAM; Some of It is Designed to Prop Up the "AI" Pyramid Scheme: The Register MS participates in scams
SLAPP Censorship - Part 97 Out of 200: Garrett in Hiding (From the Simple Observable Fact He's Closely Connected to the Microsofter Who Strangles Women, Tells Women to Kill Themselves, and Worse): They use one another; they are coordinating this via the SLAPP industry in another continent
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, June 03, 2026: IRC logs for Wednesday, June 03, 2026
Jumping Up and Down on the Shoulders of Giants, Never Talking About What Bill Gates Did: We're back to 2019
Despite LLM Slop or Chatbots, Our Traffic Has Doubled Since We Moved Everything to the UK (in 2023): The demise of news sites was not what we thought it would be
Software Developers Attacked by Plagiarism Engines Because These Developers Can Teach People How to Exercise Control, Not Outsource to Monopolies of Slop and Back Doors: "Universities should be telling industry what is to be done next, not the other way about. Present education policy has the tail wagging the dog."
Communicating With Freedom - Part I - Developing “Quibble” and Improving GNU LibreJS in the Process: In the next part we shall examine where things currently stand
Quantum Computers Are "All the Rage" (35 Years Ago, What IBM Promises This Year is What People Promised When the CEO Was in His 20s): "Quantum" hype is high on the agenda
How IBM Removes 15% of Its Staff Without Even Checking Performance of Staff (or Calling That "Layoffs"): Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) as veiled RAs
Links 03/06/2026: Mobile Systems, Openwashing, and New Antenna: Links for the day
Canonical as Reseller of Back Doors in "Ubuntu" Clothing: Microsoft is the antithesis of security and autonomy
Romania Used to be Windows Stronghold, But That's No Longer the Case: Windows was once upon a time so ubiquitous that institutions didn't bother supporting anything except it
When Science and Religion Are on the Same Side, United Against Slop Pushers: The "Mathematics Pope" (sometimes known as "Pope Pi") brought together science and religion, united against technofascists who are mostly college drop-outs who abhor women
Links 03/06/2026: "In Turkey, Criticizing a Corporation Can Land You in Jail" and "Court Bans X Account of Turkey's Oldest Newspaper": Links for the day
Web Censorship Benefits the Corrupt and the Criminal: More so when corrupt politicians are in charge
Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine Undoing Censorship of Corporate Wrongdoing: That won't go away anymore
"For Entertainment Purposes Only" But Everyone Must Adopt It for Work and Governance, Say Anti-Scientific Technocrats: "The present mentality around "AI" is like driving to the gym to use a treadmill - it's walking for people who hate fresh air and beautiful changing scenery."
Gemini Links 03/06/2026: Ian Murdock's Ex-wife Footprint in Debian and Alhena 5.6.1 Released: Links for the day
Irish Company statCounter Recognises It Overestimated Microsoft Windows' Market Share in Ireland: it seems like the Irish people are gradually moving away from Windows
Corporate Media Participates in the Lie That Mass Layoffs at GitLab and Loss of Geographic Footprint in More Than a Third of Countries is "AI" and Thus "Success Story": There's no way to spin this as positive news
Slop Prompting is Not a Coding Skill and Slop Deserves Shunning: Red Hat is hypocritically shunning the very same thing it keeps promoting
IBM colleagues "handed out a PIP and then right after the end date they are gone": Some go into early 'retirement' to save face
SLAPP Censorship - Part 96 Out of 200: When You Receive Death Threats From Anonymous Sockpuppets/Burner Accounts Connected to People Who Strangle Women and Tell Women to Kill Themselves: Women are not objects and my wife ought not be mentioned in "threats to kill" (how cops have described this)
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: A Tale of Two Antónios - Introducing the Other António: António Costa
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 02, 2026: IRC logs for Tuesday, June 02, 2026
Advertisements as Articles in The Register MS: Trust in media
Social Control Media Does Not Improve Reach, It Wastes a Lot of Time: many people still think that no presence in Social Control Media necessarily means invisibility
Links 02/06/2026: New York Times Debunks "Hey Hi (AI) Layoffs" (Excuse, False Narrative), Sheinbaum Publicly Bemoans US Meddling: Links for the day
Despite Mass Layoffs and Culls Dubbed "Buyouts" Google's Debt Doubled in a Year and It's Desperate for Money (to Pay Salaries and Bills): Google and GAFAM in general have mass layoffs because they have no clear route towards profitability
Gemini Links 02/06/2026: Arch Linux WriterDeck and Papyrix Reader: Links for the day
Bloggers Still Have Considerable Impact on This Planet: Nowadays, in academia almost anywhere in the world, there's growing expectation that lecturers will spend not much of the time doing research or even teaching
The Firing Line Against Techrights: Tomorrow we'll tell a story about campaigns to intimidate us with death threats
The Cyber Show on the Fight Against Technofascism: It's very long (all combined), but nevertheless refreshing
What Efforts to Cancel Richard Stallman Ought to Teach Us About the Media, Including Very Large British Publishers: Richard Stallman is like a modern-age Alfred Dreyfus
After Threats to Greenland Northern Europe Seems to be Moving Away From Microsoft Windows Even Faster: The facts on the ground are, more people/businesses/institutions "get the message"
Claim of 500+ IBM Red Hat Layoffs With Termination Next Month: IBM is doing great... at hiding internal affairs
Slop Did Not Rewire Democracy, It's a Giant Flop: we already see slop giants accepting they'll never make money
The Register MS Embeds in Articles "SPONSORED LINKS" That Link to "AI" Ponzi Scheme/Scam: The circular financing giants are allocating budget for the spam, as do the banks (lenders)
Many Countries Divest From Microsoft: new numbers at statCounter today
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: A Tale of Two Antónios - On the Campaign Trail in Brussels: Part 1
SEO is an Acronym That Stands for Slop Engine Orientation: The Web changed a lot when Web directories, portals, and then social control media gained popularity
IRC Network OFTC is Shedding Off Servers: Down to 17
Julian Assange's Counsel Jennifer Robinson Has Just Won an Award: Jennifer Robinson is relatively young
Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (Swiss Federal Railways) and Richard Stallman: It seems like RMS is receiving endorsement or at least belated recognition from very high-profile institutions
Almost 30 Years After Rob Malda Made Slashdot It Still Inspires New Implementations: Maybe the issue isn't Slash per se, just the complexity of it (which SoylentNews complained about in the past)
Links 02/06/2026: "The Infosec Phrasebook", 'Perfect Randomness' and "Leaving the Tech World Professionally": Links for the day
Faking Demand for Slop: Google's Search Prompt Becomes Slop Prompt (Bait, Switch, Fake Usage): If there is no consent, then it's unsustainable
When You Give People (or Companies) Money to Buy Your Own Products and Then Call It "Revenue": A lot of modern "economics" don't benefit ordinary people (all they get is high inflation rates); they're devaluing money by faking economic activity
IBM is Self-Detonating, the Cheeto-Infused Rally is Another Con by Don: pump and dump
"Quantum" as the "Next Big" Bubble: disappointing and delivering nothing
Links 02/06/2026: "$1.5 Trillion Defense Budget Benefits Billionaire Cheeto Mussolini Supporters", US "Plans to Criminalize Sleeping Outside": Links for the day
Gemini Links 02/06/2026: Organising Oneself and Killing Off Distracting "Notifications": Links for the day
SLAPP Censorship - Part 95 Out of 200: The Growing Risk of Tolerating Men Who Abuse and Physically Assault Women: FOSS should not be a "safe harbour" or "hideout" for criminals
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 01, 2026: IRC logs for Monday, June 01, 2026

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