The Corporate Coup
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2020-03-01 17:54:09 UTC
- Modified: 2020-03-01 17:54:09 UTC
Summary: Wannabe leaders know better than the person who gave them their job
Recent Techrights' Posts
- 1901 Days in High-Security Prison (and 8 More Years in Severe Confinement) for the 'Crime' of Exposing War Crimes and Corruption
- Julian Assange clip
- Opensource.org = Microsoft Lobbying (Openwashing)
- Here's the latest pair of blog posts
- In Northern Mariana Islands, Where Julian Assange Pled Guilty 4 Weeks Ago, Windows Remains Second to Android, and GNU/Linux Still Grows in Oceania
- It was the first month ever that statCounter saw more Web requests there from Android than from Windows
- Good News About GNU/Linux, Geminispace, FSF, and Backlash Against Microsoft
- here are a few quick takes
- Backlash and Negative Press After Microsoft Tells Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) People to DIE
- Follow-up stories
- UEFI 'Secure Boot' Once Again Bricking PCs and Fake Security Models Are Perishing in Geminispace
- Let's Encrypt has just fallen again
- Red Hat's Official Site Yesterday: Promoting 'Secure' Boot in Machines You Don't Own or Control Anyway
- "To be clear, CentOS Linux no longer exist"
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- [Meme] Conservative (and Fake) Nuclear Physicist Bill Gates
- Didn't even graduate from college, media treats him like a world-renowned expert in nuclear energy
- The Gemini Capsule of Tux Machines Turns 2 in Six Days
- Many people actually use Gemini, some participate in it by creating their own capsule (or capsules)
- GNU/Linux Rises to 4% in Saudi Arabia, Says statCounter, Windows Has Fallen to 11% (Android Exceeds 60%)
- Microsoft might soon fall below 10% in KSA (Saudi Arabia)
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 18, 2024
- IRC logs for Thursday, July 18, 2024
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- If GitLab Gets Sold (Datadog and Google Named Among Potential Buyers), It'll Prove Our Point About GitLab
- Beware the bait on the hook
- Hot Summer: Microsoft Flirting With the "5% Windows" Club in Afghanistan
- The share of Windows in Afghanistan has fallen to almost 5% (1 in 20 Web requests)
- [Meme] Nothing Says "Independence Day" Like...
- Firing DEI on Independence Day period
- Links 18/07/2024: Hardware, Conflicts, and Gemini Leftovers
- Links for the day
- Links 18/07/2024: Retroactively Pseudonymised Litigant and Alberta’s Energy ‘War Room’
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 18/07/2024: A Welcome to Gemini and Politics of Assassinations
- Links for the day
- Fabian Gruenbichler & Debian: former GSoC student added to keyring
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Links 18/07/2024: ORG Complaint to ICO About Facebook, Korean Double Agent Unmasked
- Links for the day
- Joel Espy Klecker & Debian on Joe Biden's health and Donald Trump's assassination
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 17, 2024
- IRC logs for Wednesday, July 17, 2024
- Links 18/07/2024: Hostname Pedantry and Retro Coding
- Links for the day
- Fedora Week of Diversity (FWD) 2024 Attracting 0.01% of the IBM Staff "Was a Success"
- They expect volunteers (unpaid slaves) to do the PR for them...
- African's Largest Population (Nigeria) Approaching 80% Android "Market Share" Amid Steady Monthly Increases While Microsoft Has Mass Layoffs in Nigeria
- Microsoft- and Apple-sponsored Western (or English-speaking) media chooses to ignore that or treat it as irrelevant (a racist disposition in its own right)
- [Meme] The Warlord's Catspaw
- Thugs that troll us
- Microsoft Misogyny Will be the Fall of Microsoft (Covering Up for Misogynists is a Huge Mistake and Highly Misguided Short-term Strategy)
- Microsoft's undoing may in fact be its attitude towards women
- Microsoft's Bing Falls to Fourth in the Europe/Asia-Based Turkey, Share Halved Since LLM Hype, Now Only 1% (Sometimes Less)
- Turkey (Eurasia) is another example of Microsoft failing with LLM hype and just burning a lot of energy in vain (investment without returns)
- Red Hat Keeps Behaving Like a Microsoft Reseller (for Proprietary Stuff!), Microsoft Employees as Authors in redhat.com
- In some ways this reminds us of Novell
- Links 17/07/2024: New Attacks on the Press, European Patents Squashed Even at Kangaroo Court (UPC)
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 17/07/2024: Proponents of Censorship and New Arrivals at Gemini
- Links for the day
- Links 17/07/2024: School Budget Meltdown and Modern Cars as Tracking Nightmares
- Links for the day
- This Should Certainly be Illegal, But the Person Who Helped Microsoft Do This is Still Attacking the Critics of It
- perhaps time for an "I told you so post"
- Censorship as Signal of Opportunity for Reform
- It remains sad and ironic that Wikileaks outsourced so much of its official communications to Twitter (now X)
- [Meme] A Computer With an Extra Key on the Keyboard Isn't Everyone's Priority
- (so your telling me meme)
- The World Wide Web Has Been Rotting for Years (Quality, Accuracy, and Depth Consistently Decreasing)
- In the past people said that the Web had both "good" and "bad" and that the good outweighed the bad
- Comoros: Windows Plunges to Record Low of About 6% in Country of a Million People (in 2010 Windows Was 100%)
- Many of these people earn a few dollars a day; they don't care for Microsoft's "Hey Hi PC" hype
- Africa as an Important Reminder That Eradicating Microsoft Doesn't Go Far Enough
- Ideally, if our top goal is bigger than "get rid of Microsoft", we need to teach people to choose and use devices that obey them, not GAFAM
- Billions of Computers Run Linux and Many Use Debian (or a Derivative of It)
- many devices never get updated or even communicate with the Net, so exhaustive tallies are infeasible
- The Mail (MX) Server Survey for July 2024 Shows Microsoft Collapsing to Only 689 Servers or 0.17% of the Whole (It Used to be About 25%)
- Microsoft became so insignificant and the most astounding thing is how the media deliberate ignores it or refuses to cover it
- [Meme] Microsoft is Firing
- Don't worry, Microsoft will have some new vapourware coming soon
- More DEI (or Similar) Layoffs on the Way, According to Microsoft Team Leader
- What happened shortly before Independence Day wasn't the end of it, apparently
- Windows Down From 98.5% to 22.9% in Hungary
- Android is up because more people buy smaller mobile devices than laptops
- Microsoft Windows in Algeria: From 100% to Less Than 15%
- Notice that not too long ago Windows was measured at 100%. Now? Not even 15%.
- [Meme] Many Volunteers Now Realise the "Open" in "OpenSUSE" or "openSUSE" Was Labour-Mining
- Back to coding, packaging and testing, slaves
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 16, 2024
- IRC logs for Tuesday, July 16, 2024
- Microsoft Windows "Market Share" in New Zealand Plunges to 25%
- Android rising
- [Meme] Ein Factory
- A choice between "masters" (or "master race") is a false choice that results in mass exploitation and ultimately eradication (when there's little left to exploit)
- Links 17/07/2024: Open Source Initiative Lies and Dark Net Thoughts
- Links for the day
- SUSE Goes Aryan: You May Not Use the Germanic Brand Anymore (It's Monopolised by the Corporation)
- Worse than grammar Nazis
- Media Distorting Truth to Promote Ignorance
- online media is rapidly collapsing
- Gratis But Not Free as in Freedom: How Let's Encrypt is Dying in Geminispace
- Let's Encrypt is somewhat of a dying breed where the misguided CA model is shunned