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Recent Techrights' Posts
- 'Dark Patterns' or a Trap at the European Patent Office (EPO)
- insincere if not malicious E-mail from the EPO's dictators
- There's an Abundance of Articles About the New Release of Kali Linux, But This One is a Fake
- It can add nothing except casual misinformation (fed back into the model to reinforce lies)
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- Links 20/12/2024: Security Patches, Openwashing by Open Source Initiative, Prison Sentence for Bitcoin Charlatan and Fraud
- Links for the day
- Another Terrible Month for Microsoft in Web Servers
- Consistent downward curve
- LLM Slop Disguised as Journalism: The Latest Threat to the Web
- A lot of it is to do with proprietary GitHub, i.e. Microsoft
- Gemini Links 20/12/2024: Regulation and Implementing Graphics
- Links for the day
- Links 20/12/2024: Windows Breaks Itself, Mass Layoffs Coming to Google Again (Big Wave)
- Links for the day
- Microsoft: "Upgrade" to Vista 11 Today, We'll Brick Your Audio and You Cannot Prevent This
- Windows Update is obligatory, so...
- The Unspeakable National Security Threat: Plasticwares as the New Industrial Standard
- Made to last or made to be as cheap as possible? Meritocracy or industrial rat races are everywhere now.
- Microsoft's All-Time Lows in Macao and Hong Kong
- Microsoft is having a hard time in China, not only for political reasons
- [Meme] "It Was Like a Nuclear Winter"
- This won't happen again, will it?
- If You Know That Hey Hi (AI) is Hype, Then Stop Participating in It
- bogus narrative of "Hey Hi (AI) arms race" and "era/age of Hey Hi" and "Hey Hi Revolution"
- Bangladesh (Population Close to 200 Million) Sees Highest GNU/Linux Adoption Levels Ever
- Microsoft barely has a grip on this country. It used to.
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 19, 2024
- IRC logs for Thursday, December 19, 2024
- Gemini Links 19/12/2024: Fast Year Passes and Advent of Code Ongoing
- Links for the day
- Twitter is Going to Fall Out of Top 100 Domains as Clownflare (DNS MitM) Sees It
- evidence of Twitter's (X's) collapse
- [Meme] Making Choices at the EPO
- Decisions, decisions...
- Large and Significant Error Correction in South America?
- Windows now has less than half what Android achieved in terms of "market share"
- IBM's Leadership Ruining Lives of People Who Thought Working for IBM Would be OK
- Nobody gets fire-lined for buying IBM?
- The United States' Authorities Ought to Become Enforcers of the General Public License (GPL) for National Security's Sake
- US federal agencies ought to pursue availability of code and GPL compliance (copyleft), not bans
- The Problem of Microsoft Security Problems is Microsoft (the Solution is to Quit Microsoft) and "Salt Typhoon" Coverage Must Name CALEA Back Doors
- Name the holes, not those who exploit them.
- A "Year of Efficiency"
- No, we don't mean layoffs
- Links 19/12/2024: Astronaut Record and Observer Absorbed
- Links for the day
- Links 19/12/2024: Seven Dirty Words and Isle Release v0.0.3 (Alpha)
- Links for the day
- Links 19/12/2024: Nurses Besieged by "Apps", More Harms of Social Control Media Illuminated
- Links for the day
- 15 Countries Where Yandex is Already Seen to be Bigger Than Microsoft (in Search)
- Georgia, Syrian Arab Republic, Cyprus, Moldova, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Belarus, Turkey, and Russia
- Links 19/12/2024: Magnitude 7.3 Earthquake and Privacy Camp
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 19/12/2024: Port Of Miami Explosion, TurboQOA, Gnus
- Links for the day
- Fake Articles About 'Linux'
- Dated yesterday
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 18, 2024
- IRC logs for Wednesday, December 18, 2024
- FSF Has Made It Halfway to Its Target (Funding Goal) a Week Before Christmas Day
- $400,000 definitely seems reachable now, especially if they extend the "deadline"
- [Meme] The Master Churnalist
- Speaking of press releases being passed off as "journalism"
- Spamnil's TFiR: Still Pretending Press Releases Are 'Articles' (TFiR 'Originals' as Plagiarism or Fluff)
- Same as last year
- Links 18/12/2024: Zakir Hussain Dies, TuneIn Layoffs
- Links for the day
- Links 18/12/2024: Karate Love and Advent of Code
- Links for the day
- Windows (or Microsoft) Has Become the "One Percent" (Market Share) in Chad
- How long before it falls below 1%?
- Arvind Krishna, IBM's CEO, Will Eventually Suck Up to Donald Trump Like His Predecessor Did or the Watson Family Did With Adolf Hitler
- Literally Hitler
- Being a Geek Need Not Mean Being Sedentary
- "In the past 18 months," Berkholz writes, "I’ve lost 75 pounds and gone from completely sedentary to fit, while minimizing the effort to do so (but needing a whole lot of persistence and grit)."
- GAFAM Kissing the Ring of the Mafia Don
- "resistance" to dictatorship and defenders of democracy?
- Slop Spaghetti From the Chef, Second Time Today
- Fresh slop ready out the oven!
- IBM - Like Microsoft - Lies About the Number of People It's Laying Off (Several Tens of Thousands, Not Counting R.T.O. "Silent" Layoffs and Contractors/Perma-Temps)
- How many waves of silent layoffs have we seen so far at IBM this year?
- Links 18/12/2024: EU Launches Probe Into TikTok (At Last!)
- Links for the day
- Links 18/12/2024: Doha/Qatar Trafficking, Bloat Comfort Zone, and Advent of Code 2024
- Links for the day
- Saving What's Left of Decent and Independent Journalism on the Web
- We increasingly (over time) try to make local copies (hosted on our server) of important documents; it's hard to rely on third parties
- [Meme] Microsoft's Latest Marketing Pitch
- "Stop Being Poor; buy a new PC with TPMs"
- In South Africa, a Very Large Nation, Web Developers Can Already Ignore Microsoft Browsers (Edge Measured Below 3% in 55 Nations)
- The dumb assumption you must naively test with Microsoft browsers is no longer applicable in a lot of places
- Open Source Initiative (OSI) is the Voice of Bill Gates and Satya Nadella
- Not hard to see what they've done with the money
- Microsoft Boasts That Its (Microsoft-Sponsored) "Open Source AI" Propaganda Got Cited in Media (That's Just What the Money Did)
- This is a grotesque openwashing campaign
- In Many Places Around the World, Perhaps as Expected, Yandex is Nearly Bigger Than Microsoft (Like in Several African Countries)
- Microsoft may soon fall to "third place" in search
- Keeping Productive This Christmas
- We've (pre)paid for hosting till almost January 2026 and fully back on the saddle
- IBM and Canonical Leave Money on the Table Because Microsoft Pays Them Not to Compete and Instead Market Windows, WSL, Microsoft 'Clown Computing', and TPMs
- Where are the regulators?
- Other Editors Who Agree "Hey Hi" (AI) is Just Hype But Won't Say So Publicly as It Might Upset Key Sponsors
- Some media would gladly participate in a scam to make money
- Brian Fagioli's Latest "Linux" Article Appears to be Fake
- Another form of plagiarism/ripoff using bots?
- IBM (and Red Hat) is a Patent Troll, Still Leveraging Software Patents to Extract Money Out of Other Companies by Suing Them
- Basically, when it comes to patents, IBM is demonstrably part of the problem, not the solution
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 17, 2024
- IRC logs for Tuesday, December 17, 2024