Links 28/11/2011: iodoom3, Android Scare
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2011-11-28 10:49:31 UTC
- Modified: 2011-11-28 10:49:31 UTC
Contents
-
Desktop
-
Server
-
Applications
-
Google Reader is the undisputed champ among Web-based RSS and Atom feed-readers. But while the search giant gets plenty of karma points on the software freedom front, Google Reader's status as a commercial product means that from time to time, features have to come and go. The latest change is the removal of social-networking "share this" functionality, as Google Reader gets merged into Google Plus. The open source feed reader NewsBlur is ready to make a play for your attention, adding not just link-sharing but multi-user rating and intelligence.
-
Instructionals/Technical
-
Games
-
The wait until now was for a Linux client to run games Desura streams. However, now that it is here, users face a new dilemma – Download from Desura or desuraUbuntu Software Centre?
-
Remember that source code project to overhaul the Quake 3 Engine and make it more secure, viable and updated for game management projects? Well, the same team behind the ioquake3 source code project, which overhauled the engine for better and more platform support as well as all sorts of other goodies, is at it again this time using the Doom 3 source code.
For now the project has only been just announced and that means that the team is consolidating resources and setting an outline for what the project will eventually blossom into.
-
-
Red Hat Family
-
Red Hat makes money giving away software and selling support services.
Adam worries about a future where “copyright exists on paper only,” but all of the above business models rely, in one way or another, on copyright protection. Hollywood uses copyright law to shut down pirate movie theaters. Apple uses copyright law to shut down unauthorized clones of its hardware products. Even Red Hat relies on copyright law to help it enforce the GPL license, which prohibits third parties from incorporating open source code into proprietary products. The fact that these businesses have chosen monetization strategies that don’t involve selling copies of content directly to the general public doesn’t mean they don’t benefit from copyright protection.
-
Debian Family
-
Derivatives
-
Canonical/Ubuntu
-
Flavours and Variants
-
Some publication stirred the bee's hive when they cited Distrowatch ratings as an indicator that Ubuntu is losing it's popularity to LinuxMint and other Linux-based distributions.
One needs to be extremely careful while taking into account Distrowatch's ratings because that is not the 'goal' or 'purpose' of Distrowatch. It provides info about the latest releases. Period.
-
-
Phones
-
Android
-
Science is the effort of trying to understand how the physical world works. From observation and experimentation, science uses physical evidence of natural phenomena to compile data and analyze the collated information.
-
SwipePad is a simple application that lets you launch any app with a single swipe action from within any other app. Upon being recommended by a friend of mine, SwipePad was one of those applications I installed immediately after receiving my first Android phone. Since then, SwipePad has become an integral part of my daily life that I almost started seeing it as one of those core apps for Android which comes as default.
-
In its eagerness to put a computer running its software on every desk, Microsoft has spawned a number of ancillary industries, the most pernicious of which is the anti-virus group. McAfee is a major force in this industry.
-
You probably use open source software every day, but it's equally as likely you have no idea what it is or who is building it.
Fortunately for us, Gavin Jackson is one chap who knows what it's all about and he came into the studio to give Louise Maher the low down.
"Open source software is any software that has been released under a licence that allows people to download the source code for viewing, for modification and also for redistribution," Jackson explained.
"A lot of big business relies on open source technology, they probably wouldn't exist without it, so it's an interesting phenomenon."
-
HTML5 development shop appMobi will now open source key elements of its mobile technology in an attempt to accelerate industry migration to HTML5. This move will see the appMobi cross-platform device APIs released to the community contribution model of development and, as a consequence, also embrace support of HTML5 development for both Android and iOS platforms. appMobi will also release the source code for its mobiUs browser, which sets out to allow HTML5 web apps to perform identically to native apps.
-
Finance
-
On November 25, two days after a failed German government bond auction in which Germany was unable to sell 35% of its offerings of 10-year bonds, the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble said that Germany might retreat from its demands that the private banks that hold the troubled sovereign debt from Greece, Italy, and Spain must accept part of the cost of their bailout by writing off some of the debt. The private banks want to avoid any losses either by forcing the Greek, Italian, and Spanish governments to make good on the bonds by imposing extreme austerity on their citizens, or by having the European Central Bank print euros with which to buy the sovereign debt from the private banks. Printing money to make good on debt is contrary to the ECB's charter and especially frightens Germans, because of the Weimar experience with hyperinflation.
Recent Techrights' Posts
- "Use Wayland" Isn't a Bugfix for X (X11 is Still Necessary)
- They tell us X is "dead" and we must all be herded into Wayland ASAP
- The New Head of OSI is an "Hey Hi" (AI) Obsessed Person
- when Bryant says "AI" that doesn't mean AI
- "Governments, local authorities, schools and hospitals can lead by example by procuring only Free Software"
- Crossposted from Tux Machines
- Cindy Cohn Leaving the Electronic Frontier Foundation While Its Co-founder John Gilmore, Whom She Apparently Helped Oust, Will Celebrate 40 Years of the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- EFF has been busy hoarding GAFAM money, whereas the latter is where all the real activism is done
- "Google is Googlebombing KDE's Project Banana"
- So is Google googlebombing KDE's Project Banana? You decide.
- Some Very Large IRC Networks Are Growing
- IRC will turn 38 next year
-
- Slopwatch: Google News is Slop, Google News is Plagiarism, Google News is Dying
- Google is off the rails
- Links 16/09/2025: "The Censorship Alarm Is Ringing in the Wrong Direction" and ASRock Does Microsoft E.E.E. on GNU/Linux
- Links for the day
- Serious "Breach of Confidentiality of Personal Data" in Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the EPO
- Yes, the same EPO that routinely uses "data protection" and "GDPR" as a pretext for hiding or covering up its corruption and white-collar crimes (it even uses that as an excuse for refusing to obey courts' orders)
- Adrienne Rockenhaus Says Her Husband Was Arrested for Running Tor and Denied Basic Rights in the United States
- the US seems to be getting "russified" in its approach towards Tor
- This is What Happens When Microsoft Canonical Lets Decisions on Ubuntu be Made by a Youngster From the British Army (Where He Did Mass Surveillance)
- "Is Ubuntu Compromised?"
- Back Doored Windows Giving GNU/Linux a Hard Time (Under the Guise of 'Security')
- Is this complication intentional? Most likely, yes
- Links 16/09/2025: Science, Security, and Conflicts
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 16/09/2025: Command-line Options in POSIX Shell and Introducing Acre 0.9
- Links for the day
- Microsoft 'Secure' Boot Versus Dual Boot With GNU/Linux
- they're meant to assume everything is OK
- Links 16/09/2025: While Oracle Pretends to be Rich It's Firing About 70 MySQL Workers, "Oracle's Revenge" (Faking Demand With "AI")
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Has Just Published a New Web Page About "Secure Boot Update Process" (Microsoft Also Admits Issues; PCs Can Stop Booting)
- Why was this page issued and published only hours ago?
- Microsoft Lunduke: I Spread Hate and Then I Receive Hate
- Cry us a river, Microsoft Lunduke
- "Disable Secure Boot and Fast Boot. Wipe and Start Over."
- At least they didn't say, buy a new computer...
- The Oracle Ponzi Scheme
- Oracle isn't doing well, but it's nowadays fashionable to say "clown" and "hey hi" to prop up one's stock, even based on nothing at all
- Taking Out the Battery, Opening Up Your Computer, Just Like a "Normie" Would
- At this stage, any person who still says "enable Secure Boot" is misguided or persuaded by companies that sell rootkits
- Slopwatch: Serial Sloppers and Slopfarms Still Infesting Google News (Fake 'Articles' About "Linux" Spreading FUD)
- searching for "Linux" today yields a lot of FUD
- The Reach of Techrights Has Broadened
- We nowadays cover a broader range of issues
- Complicating Things for No Actual Benefit, Just Added Risk and More Difficulties Adding GNU/Linux and BSDs
- Watch what it's like for people who wish to use BSDs
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 15, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, September 15, 2025
- Links 16/09/2025: Autumn Party, RPG Planet, and Optical ROOPHLOCH
- Links for the day
- Geminispace Growing at Pace of Over 10% Per Year
- Contrary to what some pessimists try to claim
- Linux Mint Forums Today: Disable 'Secure Boot', It Doesn't Improve Security, It's Just a Microsoft Obstacle to GNU/Linux Users
- They also mention MOK
- What Ruben Amorim and Stefano Maffulli Have in Common
- Censors Wikipedia and Social Control Media
- Microsoft Won't Cooperate in Trying to Tackle EPO Corruption (Microsoft Profits From This Corruption)
- Use something like BigBlueButton, Jami, Ring, and Jitsi instead
- Solved Less Than an Hour Ago: Trying to Escape Windows, 'Secure Boot' Gets in the Way
- 'Secure Boot' wasn't meant to even exist in the first place
- Stefano Maffulli, Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative, Resigns or Gets Removed (We'll Continue Covering OSI Scandals)
- A dozen mentions of "AI", not much about "Open Source"
- Andy Has Just Nailed It (Regarding Complexity and Failure, a la UEFI)
- The users no longer own or control what they buy
- Compatibility Support Module (CSM) Versus GNU/Linux Simplicity
- what Andy recently called "solutionism"
- Links 15/09/2025: "Postal Traffic to US Down by Over 80%" and 'Smart' Spinozacampus Laundry Room Goes AWOL
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 15/09/2025: Dungeon Hustle and Deleting Oneself From the Net
- Links for the day
- Breach of EPO's Duty of Care or Cigna Reimbursement Issues
- This is the sort of thing that motivated Luigi Mangione to assassinate a CEO
- Ask Ubuntu About "Secure Boot" Violation and Laptops That Don't Boot GNU/Linux
- Does anyone still believe that "Secure Boot" has anything at all to do with security?
- We Are Sad to Hear the Story of Jonathan Riddell, Champion of KDE and GNU/Linux on Desktops/Laptops
- I have enormous respect for Jonathan and everything he has done
- Talking About the Problem vs Talking to the Problem
- Wanting an audience is never a good excuse for compromising one's values and principles
- Focusing on Patents
- The reason we cover the EPO so much is that it's close to home
- "Secure Boot Violation": The 'Joys' of Fake Security Gone Wrong
- Not everyone reboots every day
- Links 15/09/2025: Russia Invades Romanian Airspace, Penske Media Sues Google Over LLM Slop
- Links for the day
- Links 15/09/2025: Bitcoin ATMs Scam and "Conservative Cryptography" (Backdoors Fantasies)
- Links for the day
- EPO Imitates Microsoft: "Three Days or More Per Week" Inside the Office to Get a Desk to Work on; "the Office Breaches Its Promise Towards Staff and Acts in Breach of Its Duty of Care"
- The EPO serves no actual function in Europe
- Links 15/09/2025: Political Affairs, Censorship, and Copyrights
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 15/09/2025: Music Genres, Invisible Networks, and Akademy 2025
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 14, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, September 14, 2025
- Satya's Plan B: Try to Hide the Massive Extent/Scale/Scope of Microsoft Layoffs
- fewer people buy Microsoft
- Red Hat News About De Facto Mass Layoffs (Bluewashing) Gone From Reddit (Censored by Gatekeepers), Still Online in The Register
- With RTOs, PIPs, relocation etc. expect IBM to "shed off" many Red Hatters
- UEFI "Secure Boot Doesn’t Play Nice at the Moment"
- UEFI "Secure Boot" does not improve security. It's an artificial obstacle in service of monopoly.
- Gemini Links 14/09/2025: ROOPHLOCH, Music, and Reddit
- Links for the day
- If You Want to "make your 'Windows PC' lean, mean, and fast" You Will Install GNU/Linux or Some BSD
- That kind of article says a lot about IDG
- Slopwatch: Google News Infested With Slop (About Half of the Results for "Linux" Today)
- This is the sort of junk one finds when looking for "Linux" in Google News these days
- Links 14/09/2025: Ricky Hatton Dies and McDonald's Declares War on Tipping Culture
- Links for the day
- Links 14/09/2025: Disasters for CEOs Obsessed With Slop and Slop Companies School Like Fish
- Links for the day
- "Bad Shim Signature" (Microsoft 'Secure' Boot)
- "Fresh install not booting"
- What Microsoft Garrett and Microsoft Lunduke Have in Common
- Similar tactics, different "wings"
- Links 14/09/2025: US "Economy Sagging", "Michigan Economy Wobbles From Tariffs"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 14/09/2025: Minimalist Snippet Manager and Omarchy Linux
- Links for the day
- The Face of the Digital Far Right: Microsoft Lunduke
- Microsoft Lunduke is an online extremist that belongs to and panders to the far right
- 20 Years Later and Academia Isn't the Same
- "I never dreamed of being a professor"
- 'Cancel Culture' by the Right: Microsoft Lunduke Contacts People's Employers Trying to Get Them Fired
- Microsoft Lunduke panders to extremists online
- "Bad Shim Signature"; So 'Secure' That It Overrides Users' Preferences and Turns Itself Back on (Coercive Measure)
- This was a few hours ago
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, September 13, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, September 13, 2025