Eye on Apple: In Search of Answers, Still
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2009-08-27 01:07:25 UTC
- Modified: 2009-08-27 01:07:25 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- The Munich-Based EPO is Still Using a Platform That Promotes the Far Right and Rehabilitates Nazism
- Active Twitter account
- How the EPO Pressures Staff Into Minting More Monopolies (Patents), Even Illegal Ones That Harm Europe and Ultimately Dismantle the Rule of Law
- insights into the pressure examiners are under
- LLM Slop Machines Are Not a Win for "Open Source" and If They Get Cheaper, It's Even Worse
- If some program that claims to be "Open Source" pollutes the Web with fake articles (Microsoft SPAM and fake "Linux" articles), whose win is it?
- Richard Stallman Speech in Bengaluru, "Silicon Valley of India"
- 62 years have passed since his "young nerd" days and he's still at it
- More Illegal Patents at the EPO, Legality of Granted European Patents No Longer Matters to the Office
- breaking the law for profit
- Sharing is Caring (But Advocating Copyleft Makes You a "Target")
- GPLv3 does not close all the loopholes which the "Affero" helps close
- "Latest Technology News" in BetaNews Still LLM Slop and SPAM Composed by LLMs (It's Basically a Spamfarm Disguised as a News Site)
- Only a fool would visit BetaNews in search of actual news
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- The EPO's Corruption, If It Remains Untackled, Helps the Far Right and Enemies of European Unity/Solidarity
- Do not negotiate with evil
- The Web, Including Wikipedia, Gets Filled With Lies About Bill Gates, Added by Bill Gates and His PR Team
- Of course Wikipedia is funded by Gates
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- Google: Your Only Option is Google YouTube (Coming Soon: Mandatory DRM and Attestation?)
- Digital Restrictions (DRM) to follow? Only for "approved" (attestation) browsers?
- Mastodon Was Always Biased (Just Like Twitter After Abandoning Chronological and Neutral Timelines in Order to Become More Like Facebook)
- So bury-brigading and click-farming control what people see
- Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Falls to Only 0.4% of the Total in Geminispace
- Geminispace does not need to outsource trust
- Links 29/01/2025: Dismantling Public Health in the US, Air Busan Plane Up in Flames (South Korea's Air Disasters Streak)
- Links for the day
- Announcements and Administrivia
- This week we're going out for two days in a row to celebrate an achievement that's very respectable
- Gemini Links 29/01/2025: Japan, GTD, and More
- Links for the day
- Sir, Yes, Sir. The Life of EPO Patent Examiners.
- If working for the EPO makes it harder to sleep at night, take action
- Links 29/01/2025: Data Privacy Day and Growing Tensions in Europe
- Links for the day
- Nazi Twitter (aka "X") Became a Troll Site That Lets People Buy a Blue Tick While Its Boss Actively Promotes Neonazi Politicians
- the intellectual level of people who infest the Web through "Twitter" or "X"
- This is Why They're So Afraid of Richard Stallman (He Tells People the Correct History)
- Then they post about it to Microsoft's LinkedIn
- Claim: Facebook Deletes Posts of IBM Red Hat Critics
- As always, follow the money (advertisers)
- Links 29/01/2025: Climate Crisis and "It’s time for the Xbox to fade away" (Microsoft Lose)
- Links for the day
- Links 29/01/2025: Buying Groceries During a Trade War, Political 'Retro'
- Links for the day
- Network Improvements Tomorrow
- "Network maintenance" down in London
- Articles About Free Speech at Facebook
- 'Facebook vs Linux' story is now receiving a lot more media coverage
- We Were Right About stallmansupport.org Making an Error by Joining Social Control Media. mastodon.social Suspends stallmansupport.org.
- From what we can guess, accounts can be banned by some oversensitive admin or a mob of users ("bury brigades")
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 28, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, January 28, 2025
- Facebook Banning Linux Sites (or People Who Link to Linux Sites) is Another Symptom of the Web's Demise
- The state of media on the Web is really bad; Social Control Media amplifies the badness, as Facebook serves to show
- Gemini Links 29/01/2025: Neovim Telescope and Writing Less
- Links for the day
- Links 28/01/2025: Chaffbot as Commodity Fad, New Import Restrictions in Thailand
- Links for the day
- Links 28/01/2025: "Against Social [Control] Media", "Smart" Buses' Ticketing System Cracked
- Links for the day
- [Video] Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS) in India, Talking About Proprietary Software's Dangers Only Yesterday
- WebM file
- Gemini Links 28/01/2025: Thinking About Not Much, Computing Fatigue, the Curse of JavaScript
- Links for the day
- "SuccessFactors" (SAP) Stunts at the EPO Used to Break Laws and Constitutions, Staff Tricked Into Harming Themselves
- Ongoing corruption and lawlessness became the norm; Europe's second-largest institution (EPO) along with the largest institution (EU) has its very own Minsk
- The GNU Manifesto Turns 40 in a Few Weeks
- The FSF turns 40 later this year, too
- Continued Support and Momentum at the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
- "This helps protect our community."
- Another Talk by Richard Stallman Tomorrow, This Time in Bengaluru
- This means that in January 2025 he is giving at least 5 public talks
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 27, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, January 27, 2025
- Links 27/01/2025: Lukashenko's Sham Elections, TikTok for Insurrection Loyalist (Larry Ellison)?
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 27/01/2025: IndieWeb Musings and Devlog
- Links for the day
- IBM Layoffs in "Co-location Mandate" Clothing
- It's possible that later this week, around the time of the so-called 'results', many layoffs would be announced
- Microsoft-Funded IDG Seems to be 'Googlebombing' the Term Free Software to Promote Proprietary Spyware Too
- Microsoft advocated along with other proprietary things
- Videos and Photos of Richard Stallman's (RMS) Keynote Address in India Earlier Today
- He probably told the target audience (India) a thing or two about the role of proprietary software in colonialism
- Rhino Linux Can (and Perhaps Should) Promote Alternatives to Microsoft Instead of Preloading Microsoft
- Deeper down inside Rhino Linux there's a problem
- GAFAM Hates - Except in a Worryingly Parasitic Way - GNU/Linux and Its Freedoms (or Its Users)
- Let the story from DistroWatch serve as a reminder that the era of Social Control Media is over
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- Links for the day
- Slashdot is Once Again Publishing Lies and Revisionism for Bill Gates, Citing Microsoft's MSN to Rewrite History and Distract From the Jeffrey Epstein Crimes
- Of course this also distracts
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- Linux has very extensive hardware support, but that comes at a cost
- Richard Stallman Gives Keynote Address in a Few Hours
- Richard Stallman's personal site was updated to give more details
- Microsoft Relegated by Manchester United
- No Microsoft
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- Where does IBM's money go?
- FOSDEM Talks Are Vanishing
- They no longer seem to be taking money from Microsoft and/or its tentacles
- Gemini Links 27/01/2025: Mental Locomotion, Gemini Protocol Bots From China, and Domain-Specific Languages
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Still Hires Journalists to Reward Them (Belated Payment) for Microsoft Propaganda
- The PR/lying pipeline
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 26, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, January 26, 2025
