04.13.20
Mask Against the European Patent Convention
Summary: Maybe they’ve even managed to convince themselves that they’re doing Europe a ‘favour’ by routinely violating the European Patent Convention
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IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 09, 2020
IRC logs for Sunday, August 09, 2020
Release: Bill Gates' Engineer Busted for More Child Pornography Than Reported in the Media
Based on our analysis, which was repeated carefully twice, the sum of recognised hashes turns out to be about 7,500 (7,430 objects), which is more than was reported in the media after the arrest of Rick Allen Jones at Bill Gates' mansion
Links 10/8/2020: KPhotoAlbum 5.7.0 and MX Linux RC
Links for the day
UserLibre: What I Want You to Get From This Book
"Corporate-backed lies run the world, and the FSF used to get in the way."
Even the Mainstream/Corporate Media is Trying to Study Why (or If) Bill Gates and Epstein's Sex Abuse Ring Were Closely Connected
People in the media are eager to understand why Mr. Gates was so close to Mr. Epstein and even flew his plane (despite having several of his own)
The Incredible Demise of News Sites About Patents
Sites for (and by) patent lawyers/attorneys seem to be perishing, which means it's hard to know what's going on
Understanding Users and the Three Kinds of Computers: New, Slow and Broken
"Understanding the user is the first step towards a practical response to misconceptions."
The Good and Bad of a (GNU?) BSD (not GNU/LINUX) Future
"The software industry now occupies Free software's own territory. No longer is it Free software vs. Windows and MacOS, it's Free software vs. GIAFAM-co-opted Free software."
Links 9/8/2020: Popcorn Computers Pocket PC and New Interview With Richard Stallman
Links for the day
Education and Free Software
"If students learn how to code, they'll be able to figure out the applications."
Features Considered Harmful (Revised)
"But the benefits of Free software, free candy and new features are all meaningless, if the user isn't in control."
If We Weren't Silencing Founders, Critics and People We Just Don't Like
In the long run, history is rarely very kind to tyrants, especially the ones who did little more than lie to people and demand things that served no real purpose."
I Would Have Supported the Coup (Under Very Different Circumstances)
Richard Stallman's (rms) ordeals are showing us how not to deal with a founder; this is how power transition could be done instead, according to figosdev
It Looks Like Red Hat's (IBM) Fedora Project May be 'Outsourced' to Amazon's Datacentres
In "seeking a more modern and cost effective location" for Fedora Infrastructure it seems to have been decided, privately, that Amazon (AWS) would be the new home of this project; but there's sufficient obfuscation surrounding the matter and many people seem to be totally unaware
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 08, 2020
IRC logs for Saturday, August 08, 2020
Fearmongering Was Originally an IBM Thing, Not a Microsoft Thing
Microsoft made FUD famous, but it was actually IBM’s practice that made it commonplace in the first place (the term or acronym was coined before Microsoft even mattered and on the same year Microsoft was founded)
[Meme] People Get Fired for Being Bought by IBM (With a Crummy Severance Package)
IBM used to proudly provide job security and one could have a job there for decades (career ladders and worker benefits of all sorts are what some people assess this when looking for an employer, e.g. whether they can progress, get promoted, stay onboard); by today’s standards only a month’s salary is exceptionally bad, especially when one gets fired without warning, but this is what IBM did to some Red Hat employees
New FSF Video Makes the Case Against Microsoft GitHub (and Similar), So Why is the FSF's Board Being Filled Up With Active GitHub Users?
The FSF makes a good point about “important values like autonomy, sharing, social responsibility, and collaboration” — the very things that are under attack by Microsoft’s GitHub, which is all about coercion and monopolistic control over developers
Techrights is Not Against Microsoft
It may be a suitable time to explain why Microsoft is mentioned so much and why it's not a fixation but a reactionary priority
The THRIVE Guidelines
"Nobody is perfect, and it's obvious that people already hold some to a more unreasonable interpretation of their standards than others."
Links 8/8/2020: Mageia 8 Hits Beta and FSF Has New Video
Links for the day
[Meme/History] OpenPOWER or Just White POWER?
Antiwar and anti-nukes activists cannot support those causes and support IBM at the same time, as the founder’s son (father received a medal from the Nazi Party) flew “an American heavy bomber” and enjoyed a track record of nepotism, propelling him to the top both in the military and at IBM
Rebuilding Communities
"First, we should talk about how our communities have regressed."
[Meme] Microsoft in 2020: Liaising With Criminals to Make Crime the New Normal
As the TikTok situation serves to show, Microsoft is little but a criminal cult that relies on other criminals to do Microsoft's biddings
The Computer Anybody Can Edit
"Without rebuilding and recompiling all of the packages on a large distribution, it is possible to "remaster" an ISO and get a different system -- even before you install it."
Former Microsoft Employee on So-called 'Journalists' Being Blackmailed by Microsoft
Mitchel Lewis, a former Microsoft employee, remarks on Mary Jo Foley being 'punished' by Microsoft for not mindlessly publishing Microsoft propaganda (we remarked on this before as she had spoken to me about this over a decade ago)
IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 07, 2020
IRC logs for Friday, August 07, 2020
For the Want of a Pixel
"It is still possible to win, but the FSF has practically left the field."
Ubuntu and Fedora Project Serving Microsoft
The Ubuntu 'community' as well as the 'community' component of Red Hat (IBM) don't view Microsoft as a rival; over a decade ago Mark Shuttleworth accused Microsoft of "extortion" and "racketeering" (his words), but now he's paid to change his tune
(Don't Let's) Throw Caution to the Wind
"As it will become crucial to explain, the effect of all this dancing around truth and reality was to transform a volunteer force primed to bring freedom to users into cheap labour for an industry that exploits everyone in it -- all the way to the very top of Open Source itself."
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