Links 05/02/2008: Interviews, Vista Failures, Linux Phones and OSS Growth
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-02-05 17:24:35 UTC
- Modified: 2008-02-05 17:30:16 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- A Lot of Technological 'Progress' Has Been Nothing But Buzzwords
- Free software does not try to excite people people over nothing
- Proprietary Software: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
- Proprietary software has an entirely different mindset, revolving around business models rather than science
- Web Hostnames Down to Lowest Number in More Than 7 Years!
- the number of hostnames is falling rapidly (they hide this by choosing logarithmic scale)
- Over at Tux Machines...
- 2 days' worth
- Stop Begging Companies That Don't Value Your Freedom to Stop Pushing You Around
- That's not freedom
- The forbidden topics
- There are forbidden topics in the hacker community
- Curation and Preservation Work
- The winter is coming soon and this means our anniversary is near
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- Links 30/09/2023: Bing Almost Offloaded Due to Failure/Losses, Nvidia Raided
- Links for the day
- Community is the Lifeblood of Freedom in the GNU/Linux World
- Removing or undoing the "cancerd" (systemd) is feasible but increasingly difficult
- Richard Stallman Says He Will Probably Live Many More Years
- "Richard Stallman has cancer. Fortunately it is slow-growing and manageable follicular lymphona, so he will probably live many more years nonetheless. But he now has to be even more careful not to catch Covid-19."
- Quitting 'Clown Computing' and GAFAM is Only the Start
- The Web and the Net at large became far too centralised
- They Say Free Software is Like Communism When They, the Proprietary Software Giants, Constantly Pursue Government Bailouts (Subsidies From Taxpayers)
- At the moment Ukraine is at most risk due to its dependence on Microsoft (inside its infrastructure)
- Social Control Media Has No Future, It Was Always Doomed to Fail (Also Promoted Based on Lies)
- Recent events, including developments at Twitter, meant that they lost a lot of their audience and then, in turn, sponsors/advertisers
- They're Been Trying to 'Kill' Richard Stallman for Years (by Mentally Tormenting Him)
- Malicious tongue wanted to do him what had been done to Julian Assange
- We Temporarily Have Two Gemini Capsules
- They're both authentic and secure, but they're not the same
- Consumerism is Lying and Revisionism
- We need to reject these liars and charlatans
- Links 30/09/2023: Open VFS Framework, CrossOver 23.5, Dianne Feinstein Dies
- Links for the day
- Security Leftovers
- GNU/Linux, Microsoft, and more
- Microsoft Down on the World Wide Web, Shows Survey
- down by a lot in this category
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 29, 2023
- IRC logs for Friday, September 29, 2023
- A Society That Fails Journalists Does Not Deserve Journalism
- It's probably too later to save Julian Assange as a working publisher (he might never recover from the mental torture), but as a person and a father we can wish and work towards his release
- Almost Nothing To Go With Your Morning's Cup Of Coffee
- Newspaper? What newspaper?
- Techrights Was Right About the Chaff Bots (They Failed to Live up to Their Promise)
- Those who have been paying attention to news of substance rather than fashionable "tech trends" probably know that GNU/Linux grew a lot this year
- Selling Out to Microsoft Makes You Dead Beef
- If all goes as well as we've envisioned, Microsoft will get smaller and smaller
- Mobile Phones Aren't Your Friend or a Gateway to Truly Social Life
- Newer should not always seem more seductive, as novelty is by default questionable and debatable
- Links 29/09/2023: Disinformation and Monopolies
- Links for the day
- iFixit Requests DMCA Exemption…To Figure Out How To Repair McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines
- Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
- Jim Zemlin Thinks the World's Largest Software Company Has 200 Staff, Many of Whom Not Technical at All
- biggest ego in the world
- Microsoft GitHub Exposé — In the Alex Graveley Case, His Lawyer, Rick Cofer, Appears to Have Bribed the DA to Keep Graveley (and Others) Out of Prison
- Is this how one gets out of prison? Hire the person who bribes the DA?
- Richard Stallman's Public Talk in GNU's 40th Anniversary Ceremony
- Out now
- Links 29/09/2023: Linux Foundation Boasting, QLite FDW 2.4.0 Released
- Links for the day
- Red Hat Does Not Understand Community and It's Publicly Promoting Microsoft's Gartner
- RedHat.com is basically lioning a firm that has long been attacking GNU/Linux in the private and public sectors at the behest of Microsoft
- A 'Code of Conduct' Typically Promoted by Criminal Corporations to Protect Crimes From Scrutiny
- We saw this in action last week
- Objections to binutils CoC
- LXO response to proposed Code of Conduct
- Conde Nast (Reddit), Which Endlessly Defamed Richard Stallman and Had Paid Salaries to Microsoft-Connected Pedophiles, Says You Must Be Over 18 to See 'Stallman Was Right'
- Does this get in the way of their Bill Gates-sponsored "Bill Gates says" programme/schedule?
- Techrights Extends Wishes of Good Health to Richard M. Stallman
- Richard Stallman has cancer
- endsoftwarepatents.org Still Going, Some Good News From Canada
- a blow to software patents in Canada
- The Debian Project Leader said the main thing Debian lacked was more contributors
- The Debian Project Leader said the main thing Debian lacked was more contributors
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 28, 2023
- IRC logs for Thursday, September 28, 2023
- Links 28/09/2023: Openwashing and Patent Spam as 'News'
- Links for the day
- Links 28/09/2023: Preparing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 and 9.3 Beta
- Links for the day
- We Need to Liberate the Client Side and Userspace Too
- Lots of work remains to be done
- Recent IRC Logs (Since Site Upgrade)
- better late than never
- Techrights Videos Will be Back Soon
- We want do publish video without any of the underlying complexity and this means changing some code
- Microsoft is Faking Its Financial Performance, Buying Companies Helps Perpetuate the Big Lies (or Pass the Debt Around)
- Our guess is that Microsoft will keep pretending to be huge, even as the market share of Windows (and other things) continues to decrease
- Techrights Will Tell the Story (Until Next Year!) of How Since 2022 It Has Been Under a Coordinated Attack by a Horde of Vandals and Nutcases
- People like these belong in handcuffs and behind bars (sometimes they are) and our readers still deserve to know the full story. It's a cautionary tale for other groups and sites
- Why It Became Essential to Split GNU/Linux Stories from the Rest
- These sites aren't babies anymore. In terms of age, they're already adults.
- Losses and Gains in an Age of Oligarchy - A Techrights Perspective
- If you don't even try to fix something, there's not even a chance it'll get fixed
- Google (and the Likes Of It) Will Cause Catastrophic Information Loss Rather Than Organise the World's Information
- Informational and cultural losses due to technological plunder
- Links 28/09/2023: GNOME 45 Release Party, 'Smart' Homes Orphaned
- Links for the day
- Security Leftovers
- Xen, breaches, and more
- GNOME Console Won’t Support Color Palettes or Profiles; Will Support Esperanto
- Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
