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schestowitzChina censors the Olympics, Microsoft puts DRM in it... Internet censorship plagues journalists at OlympicsJul 30 08:31
schestowitzhttp://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10002... Lovely!Jul 30 08:31
PetoKrausehm, fucktards.Jul 30 08:36
schestowitzIt's getting to be the same elsewhere in pseudo-democratic (corpocratic) nations.Jul 30 08:37
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kentma1schestowitz: just sent you an email - it's an obituary to Joe Barr I wrote in cola, but it was quite good, so I thought you might be able to find space for it on your site.Jul 30 10:05
schestowitzJust responded seconds ago.Jul 30 10:15
schestowitz"That's an excellent piece. And yes, I'd love to share it. I assume the subject line makes a good title? Do you want attribution? Jul 30 10:16
kentma1replied to the email with a yes on both counts :-)Jul 30 10:34
schestowitzYou know..? I now remember that sort of polite confrontation from Digg...Jul 30 10:42
kentma1you mean about debating points?Jul 30 10:43
schestowitzI accused Linux.com of running the anti-Linux ads (back then it was very aggressive... "Linux is a RISK!"... you know the gig). Anyway, Joe came to Digg and replied to the comment. He was obviously uncomfortable with the ads and he explained to me that it was the publisher's fault.Jul 30 10:43
kentma1ah, yes, I see what you mean now.Jul 30 10:44
schestowitzAs you may or may now know, Microsoft gave some dough to SourceForge and those sister sites. That's why I no longer trust Slashdot, either. The editor were also invited for a Redmond visit. They accepted the invitations.Jul 30 10:44
kentma1The bias at slash has changed very significantly over the years.  It used to be staunchly centered on "new" stuff, now, we'll, I don't really bother with it any more.Jul 30 10:45
kentma1This will not end, at least, until MS have run out of cash!Jul 30 10:45
schestowitzWell, yeah... Groklaw hardly trusts many news sites, either. There's a Microsoft money trail (or partners).Jul 30 10:46
schestowitzI wrote about it just 2 hours ago: http://boycottnovell.com/2008/07/30...Jul 30 10:46
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schestowitzhttp://boycottnovell.com/2008/0...Jul 30 10:55
schestowitzBad news for Microsoft: http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/goo...Jul 30 11:04
kentma1ah - that was quick publishign :-)Jul 30 11:06
schestowitzYes, probably will get some attention.I just wasn't sure if Joe wants to be remembered only as a FUD fighter. Jul 30 11:06
kentma1There are plenty of other obits around for him...Jul 30 11:07
schestowitzI've seen just one.Jul 30 11:08
kentma1ah, maybe there's only one other...Jul 30 11:08
PetoKrausnice.Jul 30 11:08
schestowitzWell, visible ones anywayJul 30 11:08
PetoKrausthat australia, i meanJul 30 11:09
schestowitzIt's Roblimo who cried as he wrote the first one. It made me very sad.Jul 30 11:09
kentma1PetoKraus: just for a minute, I though you liked my piece :-)Jul 30 11:10
PetoKraushehe i didn't read it yetJul 30 11:10
schestowitzPetoKraus: this things are not linear, either. Expect watchers to follow suit (NSW).Jul 30 11:10
PetoKrauswatchers?Jul 30 11:11
schestowitzThe Telegraph did it some days ago (bye Outlook, Office and Exchange)Jul 30 11:11
PetoKrausanyway, the price difference - 30M compared to 9.5M....Jul 30 11:11
schestowitzWatchers as in, say... CIOs that rely on the judgment and experience of peers. Wait-and-/watchers/... that's why Microsoft keeps that Big Lie about Munich going.Jul 30 11:12
PetoKrausi guess i completely missed THAT big lie.Jul 30 11:13
PetoKraus(not reading much lately)Jul 30 11:13
kentma1One of the most compelling and seductive logical fallacies is the "if someone else has done it, it must be right".  It's these people that Roy is thinking of, I think - they see that someone else has done it, so feel confident in moving in the same direction with low risk.Jul 30 11:13
kentma1The best solution would be to expose the fallacy, but it's so compelling and seductive that most people cannot even recognise that it /is/ a fallacy.Jul 30 11:14
PetoKrausit's more of a psychology, or, deep human nature (to repeat stuff after others) than... fallacyJul 30 11:15
kentma1ah, you see what I mean.  It's a logical fallacy, and yet, so seductive, that you want to find any excuse to accept it as not being a fallacy...Jul 30 11:16
schestowitzPetoKraus: there are seevral exceptionally-successfuly multi-thousand-workstation migrations to GNU/Linux (usually SUSE) in Germany, but Microsoft et al try to tell a story about disasters.Jul 30 11:17
PetoKrausSuse though.Jul 30 11:17
kentma1I'm not sure that Munich is even a disaster - it was just a big job.Jul 30 11:17
schestowitzTwo black sheep make one black sheep feel comfort. There's also less liability ("he did it too")Jul 30 11:17
schestowitzMunich has a Debian derivative.Jul 30 11:18
schestowitzIt's the porting of software they use (hundreds of things) to GNU/Linux that took time.Jul 30 11:18
PetoKrausehm, have a link what happened?Jul 30 11:19
PetoKrausgoogle returned only 2 years old articleJul 30 11:19
kentma1If you look at more extreme cases, the fallacy becomes clear.  If my neighbour buys a cello and a range rover, does that mean I should buy the same?Jul 30 11:19
PetoKrausit depends what you want to doJul 30 11:19
schestowitz*LOL*Jul 30 11:20
kentma1It's essential to consider your own needs in every decision, the fact that my neighbour is a talented cellist and I'm not clearly weighs heavily.  When people come to complex technical decisions, though, they find it harder to weigh the facts and are more inclined to see what someone else did.  It's seductive.Jul 30 11:20
PetoKrausif you wanna get a jeep, get a rover :DJul 30 11:21
kentma1PetoKraus: ah, I already happen to have a landrover 110 :-)Jul 30 11:21
PetoKrausd'ohJul 30 11:21
schestowitzIn this economy (gas price)? Get a mortgage for gas, too.Jul 30 11:21
PetoKrausi am gonna get me Lada NivaJul 30 11:21
kentma1I recently traded in a discovery - I'm wondering if it were the right decision, though - I could run the disco on 50:50 diesel & sainsbury cooking oil.Jul 30 11:22
PetoKrausand change it from gasoline to gas.Jul 30 11:22
PetoKraus:DJul 30 11:22
kentma1didn't affect the performance much :-)Jul 30 11:22
kentma1the defender 110 engine needs modifications to burn oil, though.  If the price keeps rising, I might see if I can get them done, though.Jul 30 11:23
PetoKrausheheJul 30 11:23
PetoKrausi use public transport and not even consider getting license soon.Jul 30 11:23
kentma1cooking oil, I mean.  Diesel is oil, of course :-)Jul 30 11:23
PetoKrausyes, i know ;)Jul 30 11:23
PetoKraussainsbury can't sell diesel as cooking oil. i hope.Jul 30 11:24
*schestowitz trying to find an article from The RegisterJul 30 11:24
kentma1I mostly travel for work by public transport, but there are some things which just don't work that way.Jul 30 11:24
kentma1PetoKraus: hehe - some of it tastes so bad, I wonder :-)Jul 30 11:24
PetoKrausyou know, i shop at sommerfield mostly (when in the UK)Jul 30 11:24
schestowitzHaha. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07...Jul 30 11:24
schestowitzhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/2... "Stop giving the Terrrrrrrissssttsssss more ideas!"Jul 30 11:25
kentma1:-DJul 30 11:25
schestowitzXtreeeme recycling.Jul 30 11:26
kentma1This is why I was using the oil /before/ i'd cooked with it - just mixing it with the diesel was okay 8-)Jul 30 11:26
PetoKraushmmJul 30 11:26
schestowitzIf the price of oil goes back on the upside, people might start thinking of 'sacrificing' their children (and maybe not in the orphanage sense).Jul 30 11:26
PetoKraushahaJul 30 11:27
kentma1schestowitz: uk!Jul 30 11:27
schestowitzWhat about it?Jul 30 11:27
kentma1sacrificing my kids?Jul 30 11:27
PetoKrausOnce the boys in blue realise that chip fat can be a weapon of terr'r, they'll pounce on anyone with a dodgy accent found loitering near deep fat friers. ie the scotch.Jul 30 11:27
PetoKraushaah! this is good :DJul 30 11:27
schestowitzBTW, I've just taken a look at Webalizer (first time in a month). The traffic in BN.com has increased consistency every single month over the past 12 months. It's at an average of 15,500 pageviews per day now. Scary.Jul 30 11:27
kentma1I don't have an altar with channels in for such activities :-)Jul 30 11:28
schestowitzThe other thing about poor economies is corporate misery, which leads to bad stuff.Jul 30 11:28
kentma1wow - that's some hit rate.Jul 30 11:29
schestowitzWatch Microsoft vs Yahoo's board, Novell selling out, Apache... well, taking some dough. If the economy is bad, people will 'prostitute' themselves and the rich ones can capitalise some more. (RIAA included)Jul 30 11:29
schestowitzGL probably has about 10 times that number, but mathfox turned logging off so that the AMD server can cope.Jul 30 11:30
PetoKrausha, they're hacking splashtopJul 30 11:31
PetoKrausgreatJul 30 11:31
schestowitzYes.Jul 30 11:31
schestowitzI kept quiet about it.Jul 30 11:31
schestowitzScript boyz will be script boyzJul 30 11:32
PetoKrausi just don't get why did they make it proprietaryJul 30 11:32
PetoKrausit's like.... pointless.Jul 30 11:32
schestowitzParts of it were open.Jul 30 11:32
schestowitzIt was on ZDNet... David, IIRC.Jul 30 11:32
schestowitzFound it: http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog...Jul 30 11:32
kentma1interesting... one wonders why Asus didn't go for something 100% open.Jul 30 11:34
PetoKrauswell, who knows. Asus is weird. They are having great ideas but they mess up the nuancesJul 30 11:35
PetoKraus(Xandros. Splashtop)Jul 30 11:35
schestowitzXandros won't last for longJul 30 11:36
schestowitzCanonical take a p00per on a lot of the desktop players, Mandriva included. It has hype going for it given that's it's a decent product with quality _on par_ with many.Jul 30 11:36
PetoKrauswellJul 30 11:41
PetoKrausi installed ubuntu few days agoJul 30 11:41
PetoKrausthere's only one thing missing...Jul 30 11:41
PetoKrauscinelerra. Other than that, i'd recommend it to everyone, except hard-core guys (gentoo ftw there)Jul 30 11:41
schestowitzI've had Ubuntu running on some boxes over the years, but SUSE and Mandriva give it a run for the money.Jul 30 11:42
schestowitzBTW: http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Ins...Jul 30 11:43
PetoKraushehe. anyway, the thing i don't like is mono-infection in ubuntu.Jul 30 11:43
schestowitzThey named it after Uwe Thiem, which is nice. http://dot.kde.org/1217341401/Jul 30 11:44
schestowitzhttp://boycottnovell.com/2008/02... Mark: "At this stage we see no significant issues with patents and Mono."Jul 30 11:45
PetoKrauswell yes, i know.Jul 30 11:52
PetoKrausanyway, there's been nice long discussion on E's mailinglist about license for whole EFLJul 30 11:53
schestowitz" E's mailinglist"?Jul 30 11:54
PetoKrausenlightenmentJul 30 11:54
schestowitzOh, *that* E. :-) E17Jul 30 11:56
schestowitzIsn't it maintained by just one Belgian guy who publishes ELive?Jul 30 11:56
PetoKraushaha, no, not reallyJul 30 11:56
PetoKrauselive is a distribution of debian + enlightenmentJul 30 11:56
PetoKrausthat belgian guy has not much to do with E developmentJul 30 11:57
PetoKraushttp://exchange.enlightenment.orgJul 30 11:57
PetoKrausthey did a new page lately, cool api... though the release date is still in far futureJul 30 11:58
schestowitzWasn't there a SF.net page? Which reminds me of how appalling it is that Slashdot is now by association sponsored by Microsoft. There's a reader exodus and no developer exodus, yet.Jul 30 11:58
PetoKrausi doubt it'll ever be releasedJul 30 11:59
schestowitzIsn't it always "in development"?Jul 30 12:00
PetoKrauswell, almost looks like.Jul 30 12:01
schestowitzRe SF.net, it's good to have Google hosting around cause it'll never accept Microsoft money. I have a project on SF.net, but Microsoft will ruins things. it serves them well if they ruin these site and dissipate participants with junk posts, Microsoft ads, anti-Linux trolling, etc. They did this with SF.net when they picked anti-FOSS awards (likely to get used, get users sued).Jul 30 12:01
PetoKrausbut it's perfectly stable.Jul 30 12:01
schestowitzYes, so I hear.Jul 30 12:02
schestowitzWhen I say SF.net I refer to 'child' sites too, i.e. IT Manager Journal, Newsforge, linux.com, Slashdot...Jul 30 12:02
schestowitzAnd now they ruin Datamation (Jupitermedia) too, which had me lose interest in publishing there ever aqain. Brian Profffitt left them recently to do LDN and he hated the Microsoft ads too. They suddnly came in massive numbers as soon as he left LT and Carla took over.Jul 30 12:04
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kentma1http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07...Jul 30 13:31
kentma1mccreevy is determined to create himself a long-term job here.Jul 30 13:32
*schestowitz looksJul 30 13:33
schestowitzUh oh!!Jul 30 13:33
schestowitzThat's the 'Community' patent back door, I think. I'll read on.Jul 30 13:33
schestowitzIt's the Microsoft-funded scum (ACT, among others) which pushes for this. They try to poison and pollute the system with monopolies and choke anything that's peer-produced or shared.Jul 30 13:35
kentma1the garbage about "subsidised" patent claims is particularly revolting.Jul 30 13:35
kentma1It's just trying to drag everyone into the system so that they can be squeezed.  Mccreevy deserves investigation - he really does seem to be on someone's payroll in some way, or he's just exceptionally gullible.Jul 30 13:36
kentma1http://www.reghardware.co.uk/...Jul 30 13:36
kentma1ps3 is doing well, although sony as a whole are not.Jul 30 13:37
kentma1One suspects a combination of chinese competition and a recession.Jul 30 13:37
schestowitzYes, McCreevy is like Santa Clauf to the IP monopolies.Jul 30 13:38
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schestowitzhttp://osindia.blogspot.com/2008/07/paten...Jul 30 15:44
schestowitzhttp://www.prweb.com/release...Jul 30 15:44
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schestowitzMicrosoft appears to be moving off Windows (though Mary Jo Foley begs to dffer). http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/30...Jul 30 16:09
shyam_kmicrokernel-based OS? so next is 236 patent cases against hurd?Jul 30 16:11
shyam_k;-) they should do it that way..Jul 30 16:12
schestowitzHow is Hurd coming along anyway? I occasionally read about it. Microsoft has Xenis.Jul 30 16:13
schestowitz*Xenix.Jul 30 16:13
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SeveredCrossQuiet here.Jul 30 18:04
schestowitzYes. Feel free to bring up a topic or idea.Jul 30 18:05
SeveredCrossNah, just wanna listen in.Jul 30 18:06
schestowitzThe chats are bursty (fashion-wise). it's idle most of the time, but sometimes there's a more engaging conversation.Jul 30 18:07
SeveredCrossI happened upon the website, and while I can't say I agree with your points, I figured I'd listen in on the conversation some.Jul 30 18:11
schestowitzOne thing worth writing about tomorrow is probably the marketing (almost half a billion spent on brainwash at the moment). It's a turning point. The compatibility argument changes a wee bit if you consider the recession and the fact that not many people will buy compatible hardware for that 'new' OS (not Mojave).Jul 30 18:12
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schestowitzI'm trying to get sorted out a Web-based access to the IRc channel.Jul 30 21:08
schestowitzDoes anyone know mibbit?Jul 30 21:08
SeveredCrossYes, but not very well.Jul 30 21:10
schestowitzIt works fine with mibbit servers, but now with Freenode.Jul 30 21:10
schestowitzOkay, I've just cracked the first barrier...Jul 30 21:14
schestowitzI think I know what's blocking it.Jul 30 21:32
>chanserv<unban *!*@gateway/web/ajax/mibbit.com*Jul 30 21:37
-ChanServ-Channel *!*@gateway/web/ajax/mibbit.com* is not registered.Jul 30 21:37
*#boycottnovell Banlist: Sat Jun 21 06:14:11 *!*@gateway/web/ajax/mibbit.com* ChanServ!ChanServ@services.Jul 30 21:40
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*#boycottnovell Banlist: Sat Jun 21 06:14:11 *!*@gateway/web/ajax/mibbit.com* ChanServ!ChanServ@services.Jul 30 21:41
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*#boycottnovell Banlist: Sat Jun 21 06:14:11 *!*@gateway/web/ajax/mibbit.com* ChanServ!ChanServ@services.Jul 30 21:42
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*schestowitz removes ban on *!*@gateway/web/ajax/mibbit.com*Jul 30 21:44
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*ChanServ has kicked mib_1vkv0v from #boycottnovell (Banned: Get a real IRC client)Jul 30 21:45
schestowitzHmmm... that didn't work.Jul 30 21:46
*#boycottnovell Banlist: Wed Jul 30 20:46:46 *!*@gateway/web/ajax/mibbit.com* ChanServ!ChanServ@services.Jul 30 21:46
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SeveredCrossUhm the reason it's getting banned is not the channel, it's freenode.Jul 30 21:46
*schestowitz removes ban on *!*@gateway/web/ajax/mibbit.com*Jul 30 21:46
schestowitzOh.Jul 30 21:46
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SeveredCrossFreenode has some strange strict rules about banning clients like Mibbit, etc.Jul 30 21:46
SeveredCrossTry to use CGI::IRC, it might not be banned.Jul 30 21:47
schestowitzBut it worked before [H]omer set up this rule.Jul 30 21:47
schestowitzHe banned it cause trolls came from there.Jul 30 21:47
schestowitzI'm sure it worked fine before. See http://boycottnovell.com/index...Jul 30 21:48
schestowitzWhat's more, I saw other sites linking to freenode from mibbit. I'll try again.Jul 30 21:49
SeveredCrossHmm.Jul 30 21:50
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*ChanServ has kicked mib_q19bm4 from #boycottnovell (Banned: Get a real IRC client)Jul 30 21:50
moparxcheck your channel settings. it is set for auto kick/ban for that hostJul 30 21:50
schestowitzNo luck.Jul 30 21:51
schestowitzOh.Jul 30 21:51
schestowitzDo  banning and kicking work separately?Jul 30 21:51
schestowitzI was simply blocked when it was on ban.Jul 30 21:51
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schestowitzIt's strange. I remove the rule (ban) [H]omer set up, but it comes back when mibbit connects.Jul 30 21:52
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moparxit shouldn't come back if you remove the akick. removing just from the channel ban list wont do anythingJul 30 21:53
schestowitzakick?Jul 30 21:53
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moparxtype this: /msg chanserv akick #boycottnovell listJul 30 21:54
>chanserv<akick #boycottnovell listJul 30 21:54
-ChanServ-AKICK list for #boycottnovell:Jul 30 21:54
-ChanServ-1: *!*@gateway/web/ajax/mibbit.com* Get a real IRC client [modified: 5 weeks, 4 days, 14:51:52 ago]Jul 30 21:54
-ChanServ-Total of 1 entry in #boycottnovell's AKICK list.Jul 30 21:54
schestowitzOh, I see.Jul 30 21:54
*#boycottnovell :End of Channel Ban ListJul 30 21:54
schestowitzHow do I clear the kick?Jul 30 21:54
moparxuse delJul 30 21:55
>chanserv<akick #boycottnovell del *!*@gateway/web/ajax/mibbit.com*Jul 30 21:55
-ChanServ-*!*@gateway/web/ajax/mibbit.com* has been removed from the AKICK list for #boycottnovell.Jul 30 21:55
moparx '/msg chanserv akick #boycottnovell del blahblahblah'Jul 30 21:55
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schestowitzOK. I'll test it now.Jul 30 21:55
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mib_m8odp7Hello world.Jul 30 21:58
schestowitzWow, that's quite some lag. Like 10 seconds.Jul 30 21:58
mib_m8odp7Hello world.Jul 30 21:58
schestowitzbetter than nothing, I guess.Jul 30 21:58
schestowitzI'll modify the site now. Thanks a milion, moparx  and SeveredCross.Jul 30 21:59
schestowitz*millionJul 30 21:59
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moparxNo ProblemJul 30 22:00
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[Meme] Opening a 'Webapp' With 'Only' 4 GB of RAM
Until 2020 none of my PCs ever had more than 2 GB of RAM
Destination 'Five Percent'
We reckon GNU/Linux can break the 5% barrier some time by the end of this year, even without counting Chromebooks
A Crisis of Online Journalism
Almost a week ago a journalist was forced to plead guilty for an act of journalism
Germany One of Many Countries Where Microsoft's Bing Lost Market Share After All That LLM Nonsense (Bing Chat and Further Rebrands/Renames)
openai.com traffic plunged 60% last month
Microsoft’s Latest Antitrust Scrutiny
4 new stories
Microsoft Layoffs, Mass Plagiarism, and More
outrage included
GNU/Linux Climbed 0.25% This Month (in statCounter)
Around midday on Tuesday we'll start seeing preliminary data for July
Ilya Gulko Introduces Pollyanna
"Pollyanna is a web framework that makes it easy to create your own libre social space, such as a social network or blog."
'FSFE': Underage Labour, GAFAM Fronting, and Identity Theft to Undermine the FSF's Current Fundraiser
looking to raise funds at the same time as the FSF
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 29, 2024
IRC logs for Saturday, June 29, 2024
Links 29/06/2024: Astronauts at Risk, Ukraine Updates
Links for the day
Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers
mostly redhat.com
Microsoft is Now Googlebombing or Spamming 'Open Source' and 'Linux' to Promote Proprietary Surveillance, Azure
Notice the title and the image, what's being promoted etc.
Seychelles: GNU/Linux Doing OK
Seychelles cannot be considered poor
Gemini Protocol Isn't Even Remotely "Dead"
"Lupa knows of 505,000 (half a million!) working Gemini URLs at present, up from about 425,000 this time last year"
About 10 New Free Software Foundation (FSF) Members Per Day
The total changed from 46 to 47 while typing the article
Vista 11 Adoption Unusually Low in Germany and It's Going Down, Not Up
This is not happening only in Germany
Kevin Korte on Computers Being Allowed to Make Decisions Based on Cryptic Algorithms and Proprietary/Secret Data
It uses buzzwords where none are needed
[Meme] Garbage In, Garbage Out (linuxsecurity.com)
It is neither Linux nor security, just chatbot-generated slop
Microsoft-Invaded CISA Spreads Anti-Free Software FUD (as If Proprietary Software Has No Memory Safety Issues), Brittany Day Uses Chatbots to Amplify and Permutate the Microsoft FUD
linuxsecurity.com became an anti-Linux spam site
Microsoft Laying Off Staff in an Act of Retaliation and Union-Busting
retaliatory layoffs at Microsoft
Gemini Links 29/06/2024: Content Drowning in 'Goo' and LLM Slop
Links for the day
Windows Lost Almost 92% Market Share in Egypt
From over 99% to just over 7%
In Ecuador, GNU/Linux Adoption Surged From Under 1% to Over 4% in About 3 Years
Not even counting Chromebooks
LibrePlanet: Cultivating Backups (of Recordings)
an appeal to recover some of these talks
Microsoft/Windows Machines Are Turned Off (or Windows Deleted/Decommissioned) in Web Servers, as the "Market Share" Collapse Continues
Taking full history into account, this is a decrease of over 90% in some cases
Corwin Brust Hosting Freedom: A Behind-the-scenes Tour With the GNU Savannah Hackers
"the "smiling faces" behind it."
Android at 90% or More in Chad
Windows below 2%
David Wilson: Cultivating a Welcoming Free Software Community That Lasts
"a feeling of shared ownership for all users."
Julian Assange Might Continue Wikileaks, But Certainly Not Yet (Recovery Time Needed)
And probably at a symbolic capacity only
Bringing in 12 Santas and Taking 13 Out (Old Interview With Julian Assange)
Julian Assange's life inside the Ecuadorian embassy
Neil Plotnick on GNU/Linux in the High School Classroom
uploaded to the LibrePlanet instance of MediaGoblin
Asia Appears to be Fastest to Adopt GNU/Linux
the home of a considerable majority of the world's population
Alexandre Oliva's LibrePlanet 2024 Talk About "Software Enshittification"
in spite of technical difficulties encountered while recording
What They Used to Do With Mono They Now Do With Systemd (Lower and Deeper Down Than Userspace)
Now we have a project started primarily by Red Hat (and managed by Microsoft GitHub, which is proprietary) being managed by Microsoft and primarily serving Microsoft and IBM
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 28, 2024
IRC logs for Friday, June 28, 2024
Links 28/06/2024: Kangaroo Courts and Patents Spam, EFF Still Fighting for CPC's TikTok (a Digital Weapon)
Links for the day
Links 28/06/2024: Overton window and Polarization
Links for the day
[Meme] In 50 Years...
Microsoft's Vista 11 will take 50 years to be fully adopted
Only About 1 in 8 Russian Windows Users is Using Vista 11
it looks like over the past 12 months Vista 11 hardly grew and it remains very low at around 12% of Windows usage in Russia
Links 28/06/2024: More Attacks on the Press, More Censorship in Russia
Links for the day
Gemini Links 28/06/2024: Christmas Prematurely, Self-hosting
Links for the day
IBM: So Long, Suckers. Your Free OS is Now Proprietary. Pay IBM or Else.
almost exactly a year after turning RHEL into proprietary software
Vista 11 is Doomed and Despite Lack of Adoption Microsoft Already Speaks of Vapourware ("12")
"Microsoft has pulled a Windows 11 update after users reported boot loops and startup failures."
ChromeOS Reaches Highest Share in Years at the World's Most Populous Nation, Windows Now at All-Time Low of 13%
We're talking about India today
[Video] "It Is Incredible That Julian Assange Survives"
There was a positive and mutual relationship between Wikileaks and Dr Jill Stein
Never Assume That Because the Law Exists the Powerful Will Follow the Law
Who's going to hold them accountable now?
Nearly a Month Has Passed and Nobody at the Debian Project Even Attempted to Explain What Seems Like Back-dooring of Debian (and Hundreds of Distros That Are Debian-Derived)
I can cynically guess that only matters when a user with a Chinese name does it
[Video] Julian Assange Explains Wikileaks' Logistics
predating indefinite detention
IBM Was Never the "Good Guy", Just a Self-Serving and Opportunistic Money- and Power-Hungry Monopolist, Living Off of Taxpayers' Money (Government Contracts)
The Nazi Party of Germany was its second-biggest client at one point and now it's looking to profit from the work of slaves
"I Hated Working at IBM. They Were the Most Unfriendly People."
Don't forget what Watson the son did to a poor woman on a plane
State of the News (and Depletion of Journalism Online, Not Just Offline)
Newspapers are not coming back and the Web is not coming back either
GNU/Linux Consolidates in North America
Android rising a lot this year, too
[Meme] More Monopolies Granted While Patent Examiners Die (Overworking for Less Compensation)
Work more; Get less
Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) is Taking the New Pension Scheme (NPS) to an International Tribunal (ILOAT)
SUEPO wants more EPO staff to participate in collective action
Stella Assange and the Legal Team Speak to the Media a Day After WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Arrives in Australia
Published yesterday by a number of mainstream publishers
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 27, 2024
IRC logs for Thursday, June 27, 2024
RIP Daniel Bristot de Oliveira, Red Hat death
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock