07.10.13
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Links 15/09/2022: Koozali SME Server 10.1, Krita 5.1.1, and EndeavourOS Artemis Nova
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The Openwashing Festival of 'Linux' Foundation
The brand "Linux" is being ruined by people who misuse it to promote stuff that's inherently incompatible or antithetical to Linux
Links 14/09/2022: Pixelbook Grounded
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[Meme] Microsoft Love
Now that GNU/Linux approaches 10% in India (personal site) it’s clear that it’s a major threat to Windows (people in India and China don’t choose Apple), hence Microsoft is blocking it from booting and hijacking 'Linux' vendors which would otherwise file antitrust complaints; hiring and using people like Lennart Poettering and Miguel de Icaza is cherry on the cake — indicative of subversive agenda rather than love of Linux
We Exist Because of Software Patents' Threat to Free Software
Reminder of why Techrights exists and what motivated us (the above petition has long been offline, but we have this local copy of it; 2,221 people added their signatures to this petition by Bruce Perens)
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 13, 2022
IRC logs for Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Software Freedom Conservancy's (SFC) Income Fell 63% After Working to Oust the Founder of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), Richard Stallman
As the IRS forms reveal (those are mandatory by the way), the SFC maintains the lifestyle of a couple of fat cats (salaries and bonuses now over $200,000 per annum for the chief; no tax paid by the organisation) and a lot of income was lost after trying to ruin the FSF
Privacy-Respecting Book Loaning
An old video about how sending data to another country can help bypass oppressive laws at one's home country
“People Are Making a Profit From Developing Free Software”
An old video about the sharing of Free software or of software in general (it does not cost anything to make additional copies)
Links 14/09/2022: New Fedora Beta and Unifont 15.0.01
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OIN is Not the Answer and the Real Issue Is Software Patents
ZDNet's SJVN, sponsored by companies like IBM and even Microsoft, wants us to think that the Open Invention Network (OIN) will sort out the issues we're having with patents, but OIN represents or fronts for big businesses which stockpile software patents and actively lobby in favour of such patents
Links 13/09/2022: LinuxOne Emperor 4
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Why Does NPR, Funded by Bill Gates, Publish Such a Thing This Week?
PR is trying to normalise what many parents would deem obscene (but not the Gates family)
A False Sense of Privacy and Safety is Ruining Otherwise Fine Browsers (Like Kristall)
Impediments to self-hosting and self-determination (not outsourcing of "trust" for instance) are increasing; today we look at the case of Kristall, a highly versatile multi-protocol browser
IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 12, 2022
IRC logs for Monday, September 12, 2022
Links 12/09/2022: New in KDE Plasma 5.26, Istio Has New Releases
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Links 12/09/2022: LF Does Openwashing for Facebook/GitHub (Microsoft) and GNU/Linux Outperforms Vista 11
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Links 12/09/2022: Linux 6.0 RC5 and Qt 6.3.2
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[Meme] Let's Pretend It's Secure
The ‘free’ certificates cartel (a few questionable CAs that do not even assure security, they just urge everyone to outsource “trust” to them) for TLS over the World Wide Web isn’t much better than so-called ‘secure’ boot, except this one isn’t controlled solely by Microsoft; see more details below
Mozilla Is Not to Be Trusted and Firefox is Becoming a Mass Censorship Tool
Free software aficionados have long promoted and used Mozilla Firefox, but even though the brands are still the same the company and the product are not; we need to talk about what Mozilla and Firefox are becoming
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 11, 2022
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Links 12/09/2022: rpki-client 8.0 and Game of Trees 0.75
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Links 11/09/2022: Papirus Icon Set Refreshed
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Links 11/09/2022: FLAC 1.4.0 and Twitter Gives Whistle-Blower $7.75 Million 'Hush Money'
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Links 11/09/2022: MiTubo 1.3 and Haiku Activity Report
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IRC Proceedings: Saturday, September 10, 2022
IRC logs for Saturday, September 10, 2022
On the World Wide Web, 25 Years is an Eternity
TechDirt turns 25 and we too expect to reach 25 (we've future-proofed everything)
Links 10/09/2022: New Debian Builds and KeePass2 2.52 Released
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[Meme] Mozilla Does Not Trust Web Sites, But It Trusts the CIA Enough to Hire Managers From It
Who do you trust more? Mozilla or yourself? Or the so-called ‘Linux’ Foundation, which outsourced Let’s Encrypt to Microsoft?
Mozilla Hired Top-Level Managers Directly From the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Can They Be Trusted on Privacy?
Mozilla's composition of managers is a parade of spies and monopolies; the message (or promise) does not match the actions
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