[Meme] Web Sites and Capsules: Not Mutually Exclusive or Binary Choices
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2021-07-19 12:31:05 UTC
- Modified: 2021-07-19 12:31:05 UTC
Summary: gemini:// and http:// (or https://) can work just fine in conjunction; more Web sites ought to realise that it's worth the effort (porting over to gemini:// which is not hard at all)
Recent Techrights' Posts
- BetaNews is Now Officially a Spamfarm With Phantom Authors and Fake Text (SPAM and Linkspam Made With LLM Slop)
- That's it, the site is virtually dead now (maybe that was the plan all along)
- Hazem Abbas of medevel is Ruining His Site With LLM Slop
- Some of his articles are original, but now everything is suspect
- Free Software Foundation: Anchoring the FSF in its values
- Original by Free Software Foundation
- GNU/Linux Surges to All-Time Highs in Greenland, Windows Sinks to All-Time Lows
- a lot of GNU/Linux gets detected there lately
- Microsoft in Trouble as Azure Breaks and Only Days After Promising Investment in "Datacentres" Construction of Actual Datacentres Paused (Expect More Azure Layoffs Very Soon)
- No wonder many people who got trapped inside Azure quit Azure, which keeps bleeding (losses and layoffs)
- Using a Popular Ponzi Scheme to Sell Expensive Hardware Mislabelled as "Hey Hi" (AI)
- Selling shovels in an age of "gold rush"
- Search Engine-Optimised (SEO) Googlebombs Target "Linux", "Ubuntu", and "RISC-V", Still Composed by Bots
- the way to defeat LLM slop (trash) is to call out serial sloppers or "repeat plagiarists"
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- If TikTok (China) Has the Rights of American Persons, Then ByteDance Can be Sentenced to Death
- TikTok - like Julian Assange - does not enjoy any protections of the First Amendment and since it's not a person it would lack these protections as an American company, too
- After a Year of Layoffs in Microsoft Nigeria (and Microsoft in Africa at Large) Windows Falls to New Lows and Bing Falls to 0.46% "Market Share"
- Of course Microsoft gave bribes in Nigeria to suppress GNU/Linux adoption
- An Important Lesson About Patents and Patent Maximalism (They Drive People and Companies Away)
- This previously happened in Texas, where companies perceived their presence (in any form) to be a liability as patent trolls could drag them to friendly courts and win "damages"
- When It Comes to Fentanylware (TikTok), a Digital Weapon of a Hostile Entity, Common Dreams is Jumping the Shark Again (Years After It Ran Out of Steam or Money)
- Or maybe it likes the agenda promoted (curated) by Fentanylware (TikTok) and its parent company, Bytedance or Chinese Community Party (CPP)
- [Meme] Real and Fake (or "several influential "open source" organizations [which] have come to be dominated by large companies")
- The Free Software Foundation has not sold out
- Microsoft's "Donald Trump First" Doctrine
- national deficits growing
- Gemini Links 11/01/2025: Wildfire, Militia and the Mole, IRC vs Social Control Media
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 10, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, January 10, 2025
- Links 10/01/2025: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Shrinking, "Not every user owns an iPhone"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 10/01/2025: Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Linux Desktop Setup
- Links for the day
- [Meme] Donald Trump Will Pay Microsoft Back
- bribery administration is 10 days away
- statCounter Sees GNU/Linux Tripling in Share in 3 Years in Iran
- ChromeOS adoption is low, but then again, nobody buys a Chromebooks with the expectation of better privacy
- Guardian Digital, Inc (linuxsecurity.com) is Again Spamming or Googlebombing "Linux" and "Security" Using LLM Slop
- Guardian Digital is basically a dodgy company. Don't trust Guardian Digital with your security.
- Unix Men (or UnixMen) Has Turned Into LLM Slop With Embedded Linkspam, Piggybacking "Linux" for SEO
- Welcome to 2025 and the "new" Web
- Computers as a Heat Source
- suppose you have over a dozen activated monitors in a room or two
- Social Control Media and 'Linux' Foundation Accelerate the Death of the Web
- Social Control Media is basically a dying business
- Links 10/01/2025: Disinformation Sold as "Artificial Intelligence (AI)" and as "Social Media" Now Facing Growing Scrutiny
- Links for the day
- Linux Foundation Increasingly Reliant on Paid Press Releases, Paid-for Stenography, and Even LLM Slop (Fake 'Articles')
- This LLM slop is a big problem both for Linux and for Google
- Links 10/01/2025: Scam Altman’s Younger Sister Files Lawsuit Claiming He Sexually Abused Her, Apple Faces Embargo
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 10/01/2025: Internet Archive Gopher Search Interface and Falling "in Love With the Small Web"
- Links for the day
- Starting 2025 on a Strong Note
- we ought to find more time to produce our own stories
- Entire News Sites Have Become Just the Output of Bots (or Chatbots Disguised as "Authors")
- the Web is screwed
- Colombian Trends Help Explain Why Microsoft Rushes to Start the Year With Mass Layoffs (Before Some Staff is Even Back to Work!)
- No wonder there are mass layoffs (first of GAFAM) as early as week 1 of 2025
- LLM Slop and Bot-Generated Marketing for the Linux Foundation and Its Openwashing
- Of course it's chaff
- Microsoft Gives Money to Trump, Poor or Even Sluggish Adoption of "Hey Hi" (AI) Reported Amid Mass Layoffs
- Microsoft now uses its media moles to downplay layoffs and bribes
- More IBM Layoffs (2025)
- IBM is being scattered away, yet the media barely covers it. It'll just happen "silently" over time.
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 09, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, January 09, 2025
- Using Microsoft Chatbot to Generate Microsoft FUD Against SSH/OpenSSH
- It's from the "prime suspect"
- Free Software Cannot Rely on Politicians, They Don't Even Care About Software, They Only or Mostly Care About Money
- There's no simple solution to this situation short of revolutionising the political system
- No, There's No "Age Of AI" or "Era Of AI" or "AI Revolution" or "AI Arms Race", It's Just a Dying Tech Industry Looking to Prop Up Its Valuation Using Hype and False Marketing of Mostly Dysfunctional Tools
- Please, enough with this nonsense
- [Meme] Just a Draft, Nothing Professional Like GNU
- the FSF is ~40,000 dollars short of its goal
- Draft About Drafts
- The static site generator (SSG) is improving
- When They Insist That Getting Rid of Paper Receipts and Paper Trail of All Kinds is Better (Manchester City Council and the "Smart" or "App" Mindset)
- just classic greenwashing
- Gemini Links 09/01/2025: Domain Changes, Dirty Links, and OpenWRT
- Links for the day
- Links 09/01/2025: X-Book (Facebook) Follows the MElon (Musk) Model and X Comes Under EU Investigation for Inciting
- Links for the day
- [Meme] Microsoft's Scam Altman, Bigger Scammer Than 'Crypto' 'Currency' 'Exchanges'
- More pollution, too
- Interest in Microsoft Waning, Company Deep in Debt and Mass Layoffs Implemented Every Month Since 2023
- As fewer people still use Windows (over time many move to Android or whatever) that site, microsoft.com, will likely languish some more
- Microsoft Says Scale of Layoffs in January 2025 is Several Thousands
- Microsoft is the first of GAFAM to announce layoffs in 2025
- Microsoft Windows Continues to Sink in India
- The consistent and almost linear decrease will continue because Microsoft has nothing in store other than vapourware and mass layoffs
- statCounter Has Outdated and Unfit-for-Purpose User-Agent Parsers
- poor recognition or parsing or classification of User-Agent strings
- Microsoft Starts 2025 Like 2024: Mass Layoffs Every Month!
- It's a company in tailspin
- [Meme] GAFAM Buying Shares in NYSE:EFF
- To the ordinary person, today's EFF isn't a go-to protector, it's just meant to look like one
- Sometimes the EFF Prefers to Talk About Sex, Not Tech (or Unnecessarily Conflate the Two Things)
- The old name (or brand) remains; the goals? Not so much...
- Beta'News' Still a Spamfarm Run by Bots
- It's a source of Web pollution
- Links 09/01/2025: Software Patents Squashed, Meta Becomes "MAGA" Booster
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 09/01/2025: Chants of Sennaar and Security Theater
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 08, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, January 08, 2025
