IRC Proceedings: May 24th, 2011

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2011-05-25 01:36:23 UTC
Modified: 2011-05-25 01:36:23 UTC


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Recent Techrights' Posts

France: Apple and Microsoft Down, GNU/Linux Up to New Record Levels: How will tariffs against France impact things in the coming months?
Open Source Initiative (OSI) Privacy Fiasco in Detail: What Was Reported to the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA): We hope to finish this whole lot within a week, then move on to election, lobbying etc.
Techrights Will Spend the Next Few Years Writing a Lot About Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs): It's a growing problem
The State of EPO Staff's Health in Rijswijk or The Hague: We're going to cover the EPO some more later in the month
NVIDIA Corp Lost 36% of Its "Value" Since Cheeto Inauguration, But "Gen Hey Hi" (GenAI) is Totally Not a Bubble: Selling loads of unneeded hardware based on hysterical hype; like selling shovels during a Gold Rush
Taking a Moral Stand Against Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) and the Worst Offenders/Facilitators: Any other stance would sidle with moral depravity or moral hazard
Links 06/04/2025: Many New Acts of Repression and Elements of Financial Depression: Links for the day
In Qatar GNU/Linux Rose From Under 1% to Over 4% in Two Years (or Over 5% If Counting ChromeOS): It's a big improvement compared to what we saw last year
LLM Scrapers Are a Nuisance, But They're Also a Reminder It's Time to Make Your Site Static: Perhaps the best protection is the ability to endure surges
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Links 06/04/2025: Attacks on Education, Fake Patents, and Fake (Illegal) Patent Courts: Links for the day
Links 05/04/2025: Tariffs Backfiring, YouTuber Arrested, X/Twitter Set to be Fined: Links for the day
Gemini Links 05/04/2025: Offline is For Everyone, Copyright Colonialism, and More: Links for the day
Links 05/04/2025: TikTok Unsold (Still), Royal Society is Dead: Links for the day
GNU/Linux Growing in East Asia, Windows by Default No More?: GNU/Linux is now on the shelf
Slopwatch: Anti-Linux 'Articles' From Linux-Hostile LLMs: It is almost always negative things and nobody can be held responsible for it except the charlatans prompting the LLMs
Links 05/04/2025: Fentanylware (TikTok) "Sale Looks Highly Imminent" (US), Stock Market Drowning in Panic: Links for the day
Gemini Links 05/04/2025: Moving Plants, No to Smartwatches, RAID Hygiene: Links for the day
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Techrights Has Dealt With More Potent SLAPPs Than Violent Microsofters Begging to Hide What They Did to Women: I became accustomed to SLAPPs
Links 04/04/2025: Fury in South Korea, Flight MH370 Remains Mystery: Links for the day
Gemini Links 04/04/2025: Anger and Raspberry Pi CM4: Links for the day
Links 04/04/2025: LLM Slop Bubble Bursting and Korea Music Copyright Association Bans Slop 'Music': Links for the day
Traf-O-Data, the Company That Jeffrey Epstein's BFF (Bill Gates) (Co)Founded 53 Years and Went Out of Business Due to Heavy Losses: Who will die first, Bill or Microsoft?
Why Microsoft's Shares Sank Almost 20% in Recent Months (the Bubble is Imploding): verified press reports from the past 24 hours
A Note on SimilarWeb: Or why SimilarWeb is meaningless for more than 99% of the sites on the Web
GNU/Linux Rises to Almost 5% in Algeria While Windows Sinks to All-Time Low: GNU/Linux grew tenfold
Where to Get More Gags: A valued reader recommended that to us
Links 04/04/2025: Tech Stock (Inc. GAFAM) Fall, Google Pretends to Do End-to-End Encrypted Emails (With Google in Control): Links for the day
IBM Said to be Shutting Down Offices or Sites in the United States: the press can no longer avoid admitting that IBM moves many jobs to India
To Participate in Fedora Diversity You Must Use Proprietary Software: Not for the first time either
LLM Slop as Attack Vector on the Reputation of Linux: The attacks on Linux have escalated to information warfare
Yandex About to Be Three Times Bigger Than Microsoft (Bing) in Asia: That's about 60% of the world's population
Gemini Links 04/04/2025: Decoupling Updates, Elaho as Gemini Client: Links for the day
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