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IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 27, 2022
IRC logs for Thursday, October 27, 2022
OSI for Plagiarism/GPL Violations (Under the Guise of "Hey Hi")... Brought to You by Microsoft
The corrupted OSI is once again doing "HEY HI" (AI) nonsense sponsored by Microsoft, which borrowed the term “HEY HI” to 'perfume' GPL violations at unprecedented scale
DRM is 'Protected' by Phoronix
x86 stronghold (rather weak lately due to the inflation and Windows failing users) is pushing DRM into kernel space, typically along with Microsoft and Google; Phoronix, which is funded or bossed by the x86 giants, is being far too weak or too “soft” (like it is on Microsoft), insisting that corporations treating clients like they’re criminals is in fact “protected content” (that isn’t independent, honest and courageous journalism, its’s docile cowardice)
Red Hat is Bragging, Knowing That It's Killing People for Profit With Raytheon and Lockheed Martin (That's Not Freedom, It's Death)
Red Hat, which pretends to have moral high ground over the Free software community, has Red Blood on its hands; today was a reminder of that
Links 27/10/2022: Ubuntu 23.04 is Lucently Likeable, OpenSSL Patch Coming
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More Problems With Google’s “Insecure Apps” Alert and SeaMonkey Mail
Reprinted with permission from Ryan
Links 27/10/2022: Zorin OS 16.2 and GNUnet 0.18.0
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Mozilla Keeps Changing Users' Settings to Blast Misinformation (or Present Dishonest Ads) at Them in New Tabs
The misinformation company Mozilla is promoting fake privacy (rebranded VPN operated by a surveillance company) to GNU/Linux users (Debian in my case) by ‘hijacking’ new tabs for ads’ sake; six days ago Ryan published "Mozilla Changes Firefox Settings/Themes Without Asking" (it seems to be what just happened to me)
Elon Musk is Buying a Dying Train Wreck Tomorrow (Twitter)
The disingenuous takeover by Elon Musk and associates (including the Saudi 'royal' family, in dire need of reputation laundering) is a disaster in the making; Twitter is going to die even faster than before
Let's Put an End to Software Patents by Contacting Our Representatives (Politicians)
A call for participation by readers, seeing that the EFF quit doing activism in this domain and the ‘Patent Maximalism Lobby’ makes some gains by misleading ‘our’ politicians
Critics of Voting Machines (Proprietary With Back Doors) Aren't Nazis
The general security of the voting process (freedom from meddling, tampering, outside intervention) has gotten worse due to digitisation/digitalisation, which makes the process more easily accessible to foreign and hostile countries; the accessibility, availability, and accuracy of the voting process (and the integrity of counting) is of utmost importance to a functioning democracy, but somehow it has become a partisan issue that involves unnecessary name-calling with various new factors like fashionable distractions in a growingly-divisive society (further divided due to a lack of investigative journalism and news vacuums filled by ‘disinformation farms’, notably social control media)
E-mail is Simple, Secure and Robust If Decentralised and Treated as Text, Not as Web Pages (Also, Webmail is Regressive)
E-mail has become a sordid mess; even though E-mail by far predates the Web (nowadays it's almost exclusively the latter) what many folks refer to as E-mail is basically some Web site and messages are in fact Web pages, not text
There's No Future for Investigative Journalism on the World Wide Web
On the World Wide Web, journalism is perishing; there are several reasons for this, but it's simply a reality we've come to accept
Links 27/10/2022: Important Bugfixes in Linux and Tor
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IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 26, 2022
IRC logs for Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Don't Outsource Schools and Universities to Pentagon-Subsidised Agents of Oppression
Technology has turned from a tool of enablement and emancipation into a facilitator of oppression and subjugation over those "using" it (or being used, remotely, by the real owners)
Pushing Back Against Software Patents and More
Techrights has been working behind the scenes to curtail software patenting; more information will come out soon
The R Foundation and R Consortium Aren't the Same; One is a Front Group for Corporations Like Microsoft
The so-called 'Linux' Foundation (run partly by Microsoft) helps Microsoft attack R, e.g. by taking on the R Foundation
It's Naive to Believe Foreign For-Profit Corporations Will Guard Democracy Online
Any nation's democracy is at risk from social control media giants that are for-profit corporations and not communication tools (meddling and interference is their main business model, if any viable business model exists at all)
Political Bias is a Distraction From Google's Abuse of Power Over E-mail
It's easy to get distracted by the media and think that Google's manipulation of E-mail traffic is a political rather than a corporate issue
Links 26/10/2022: AlmaLinux 8.7 Beta and SparkyLinux 2022.10 Rolling ISOs
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How Digital Systems Fail Our Institutions
By Dr. Andy Farnell
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 25, 2022
IRC logs for Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Layoffs at Microsoft's Friends, Who Help Spread Anti-Linux FUD and Pay the 'Linux' Foundation to Play Along
The company that pays the Linux Foundation to badmouth GNU/Linux is vanishing little by little; good riddance to bad rubbish (Synk comes from a rogue intelligence agency, which does wiretapping and assassination)
GNU/Linux Users Infuriated by Microsoft's Lennart Poettering Attacking Linux Freedom
Microsoft's Lennart Poettering didn't take long to show his true colours... (and agenda)
Links 25/10/2022: Microsoft Attacks Computing Freedom via Lennart Poettering
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Links 25/10/2022: Tails 5.6
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IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 24, 2022
IRC logs for Monday, October 24, 2022
Richard Stallman on Self-Driving Cars and Microsoft's Universal Back Door
Indian television covered Richard Stallman’s talks some years ago; later today he’ll be lecturing in India, so let’s take a look back at issues which are more recent
'IT Jungle' Still Failing to Properly Disclose That IBM Pays It to Promote IBM in About 90% of 'Articles' (PR Vehicle in 'Media' Clothing)
For nearly a decade already 'IT Jungle', which claims to be a news site, posted little except IBM promotion (puff pieces); the state of the "media" on the World Wide Web is really not good (it's paid by the companies it is covering)
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