IRC Proceedings: December 9th-December 15th, 2012

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2012-12-17 00:23:53 UTC
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IRC Proceedings: December 9th, 2012


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IRC Proceedings: December 11th, 2012


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IRC Proceedings: December 15th, 2012


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Recent Techrights' Posts

The Internet is Failing to Protect Democratic Processes and Human Knowledge: Amplifying lies, rewarding plagiarists
Links 05/11/2024: Criminal Referrals Regarding Patent Trolls and Disinformation About the Election Process (Already): Links for the day
Saving the Planet With Honesty, Transparency, and Sharing (Not Only of Computer Code): GAFAM is destroying the only habitat humans and other animals have and it'll only get worse
Disinformation About Election Outcomes Even Before Any Election Outcomes (or Election/Voting!): seeding doubt about election outcomes
Against Outsourcing of Sites and E-mail: Software Freedom is great, but it is not enough if you let someone else do it 'for you'
Drew DeVault: People Talking About My Attack Site (Against the Founder of GNU/Linux) is "Spam": "Spam on sr.ht mailing lists"
"Oppose the Fascist": what the founder of GNU/Linux said
Halloween, All Saints Day & Swiss citizenship: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
[Meme] State of the World Wide Web and Online Journalism: Technically a failure (DRM) and cannot even get basic things right
Trump's signature policy, building a wall, copied from Irish-Australian student politician: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Linus Torvalds' self-deprecating LKML CoC mail linked to Hitler's first writing: Gemlich letter: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
[Meme] Turning 18 in One Day: just one more day
Birthday Tomorrow: Many cakes and drinks are ready; we're one day away now
Gemini Links 05/11/2024: 'App' Needed for Parking, NNCP, Gomphotherium: Links for the day
How Voting Does Not Work: You cannot vote from an "app"
Links 05/11/2024: Bluesky and Enshittification, Pugad Baboy, and Lots of Disinformation Flooding the Web: Links for the day
[Meme] Sweaty Under the Belly: "OK, my critics are 'spam'"
Microsoft Bribing Canonical (to Stop Competing) and Bribing Users to Shun the Competition: Canonical is worth shunning
[Meme] The 2024 'Info Bros': And prehistoric googling
Computers Getting Worse (for the User) Over Time: This is like Windows-ism coming to "Linux" through the hardware
[Meme] How NOT to Vote: Another form of (mostly-unspoken-of) election interference
An LLM Inside a 'Search' Engine Means That Companies Tell You What They Want, Not What Web Pages to Visit: The future of 'googling' things might be as unreliable as using Social Control Media as a source of information
Google's Debt Has Increased and 'Cash on Hand' Fell by 22.27% This Past Year: These are the numbers that the corporate media intentionally leaves out
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 04, 2024: IRC logs for Monday, November 04, 2024
There's a Reason Why Techrights is Turning 18 and Tux Machines Will Turn 20.5 Next Month: I started advocating GNU/Linux when I was a teenager
Techrights Has a Long History of Fighting to Expose 'Team Mono' or Microsofters Inside GNOME: Never downplay the malice of Microsoft and its operatives
Gemini Links 05/11/2024: Halloween Over, Intention and Implementation, Bookmark Syncing: Links for the day
Microsoft Lost Nearly Half of Its 'Cash Reserves' This Past Year: Is Microsoft (MSFT) the next Intel (INTC)?
The Year Isn't Over Yet, There Will be More Waves of Microsoft Layoffs: Nowadays Microsoft just tries to conflate/equate its energy waste with "value"
The Corporate Media Blasted Bitcoin for Destroying the Planet and Must Do the Same to Incite the Public Against the 'Great Rigging of Wall Street' (Under the Guise of "AI", the Latest Gold Rush): "AI" is the next "metaverse" (trailing by a few months)
[Video] Richard Stallman is Back to Halo and Gown (in Peru) With 2+ Hours of a Public Talk: The globetrotting Richard Stallman gave many talks at the end of last month
Going Strong Against the Wind: the abuse serves to emphasise or affirm the importance of what we do
Links 04/11/2024: Squashing More Software Patents and Taiwan at Risk: Links for the day
Gemini Links 04/11/2024: Typing vs Writing and a Smol (Net) Pub: Links for the day
Links 04/11/2024: LibreOffice Had Adopted PeerTube, "Hey Hi" Hype is a Threat to the Energy Grids (Worse Than Fake-Coins): Links for the day
[Meme] Social Control Telescreens With Microphone: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Shout-out to Christine From FOSSForce: Who noticed our short story
Not Boycotting Apple (Yet)?: "Apple Forces The Signing Of Applications In MacOS Sequoia 15.1"
statCounter This Month: Android Has Nearly Become Twice as Big as Windows: If it happened, it would be an unprecedented milestone
Why Technical Sites Need Not Make Political Recommendations or Endorsements: Except perhaps when it's for some purely technical role, e.g. FCC chief
[Meme] Apple Freedom: Freedom is... the ability to purchase as many 'i' things as you want
Apple's MacOS Shows Us the Vision of Computing That GAFAM Has for Us (Digital Prisons): Freedom means "we the people" should be in control, not people being controlled by corporations (contemporary slaveowners)
"Active" as in One URL, One Emoji, and 4 Words in One Week: Diversity community in Fedora
Apple Vision Pro Has Failed, Just Like "Metaverse": Vision Pro lacks software
Things That Can Improve Election Integrity: the first two relate to "tech"
Rigging Elections is Difficult, Cheating a Little is Not: Avoid social control media, it is the biggest rigger of all
"People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones": On throwing stones in a glass house
Our Stance on Electronic (or Digital) Voting Machines: The simple activity of voting and counting ballots does not require thousands of complex machines with hundreds of millions of transistors and hundreds of millions of lines of code
Microsoft and "Retrospective Re-writing of History...": in YouTube anyone can make stuff up (as one goes along)
This Coming Week: Go exercise your right to vote
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 03, 2024: IRC logs for Sunday, November 03, 2024
Reddit is (Still) Lying and Faking: Don't fall for this phony idea that the above sites are grassroots or edgy; they're not
GNU/Linux Users Are Not Cheaters: The bottom line is, most cheaters use Windows
Links 04/11/2024: FCC, Broadband Industry Spar Over Net Neutrality; Software Patent Squashed: Links for the day
Gemini Links 03/11/2024: Official MyGemini.Space Announcement: Links for the day