Links 28/11/2013: Free/Libre CMS News
    
     - Dr. Roy Schestowitz
 
     
      - 2013-11-28 14:24:06 UTC
 
      - Modified: 2013-11-28 14:24:06 UTC
 
     
    
   
 
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The eZ Publish Platform team spent the last six months developing new features, enhancements, testing and improving the v5.1. But now time has come to congratulate the team and contributors for their work on this brand new release!
 
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 Today, we're going to share with you the judges selection for the Critics Choice Award for Best Open Source CMS in 2013.
 
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Forum applications, or message boards, are server programs where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are at least temporarily archived. Also, depending on the access level of a user or the forum set-up, a posted message might need to be approved by a moderator before it becomes visible.
 
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Drupal camp day 1 begins! I’ll be doing my best to update this blog post ‘live’ from the day. There was a lot to absorb yesterday at the open for business conference, and I wrote *a lot*, but there’s going to be even more to absorb today, so I expect there will be even less time to keep up with the writing!
After a familiar but much quieter drive into Manchester compared with my trek yesterday, the day kicked off with a great keynote from Sensio Labs.
This was an eye opener regarding not just symfony (and we now know where that ‘f’ comes from!) but the plethora of other tools frameworks and platforms that are becoming common place and invaluable. Various ‘shows of hands’ for some of these were very encouraging!
 
 
    
   
   
   
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 - The Rumour Was True, Mass Layoffs at IBM Today
 
  - How widespread the layoffs are (or how they're disguised, e.g. PIPs) is hard to assess
 
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 - Holding Institutions Such as the EPO Accountable Through Public Information
 
  - Speaking truth to power is never easy
 
 - Techrights Will Contact German Media About the EPO's Substance Abuse
 
  - This scandal won't "go to waste"
 
 - EPO Staff Losing Holidays, as Usual, as the Office Increases Profits by Illegally Granting Invalid Patents While Reducing Salaries
 
  - How much more can the staff endure and generally tolerate?
 
 - Free Software Does Not Always Speak for Itself, It Needs Advocates
 
  - Legal matters that relate to sharing of code will be discussed
 
 - Over at Tux Machines...
 
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 - IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 03, 2025
 
  - IRC logs for Monday, November 03, 2025
 
 - The Register MS Continues Looking for Money in Promotion of the "AI" Ponzi Scheme
 
  - That The Register MS participates in this deceit rather than tackle/debunk it says a lot about The Register MS
 
 - IBM Layoffs in "Software", This Likely Impacts Red Hat as Well
 
  - Many people say "software" people are impacted
 
 - Escaping Proprietary Software, Not Just Escaping Microsoft
 
  - To take control of your life adopt GNU/Linux
 
 - A Lot of Fake News About Microsoft Headcount (Also: Microsoft's Debt Rose by About 24 Billion Dollars in Past 12 Months)
 
  - If you see some headline about Microsoft's CEO making claims about hirings, look away
 
 - Techrights Turns 19 in Three Days
 
  - It would be nice to meet for a chat
 
 - Akira Urushibata on How Grokipedia Fails to Work
 
  - The Grokipedia article gives the wrong character for the "Ko" on "Koan"
 
 - Links 03/11/2025: Data Breaches, Wars, and Digital Censorship
 
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 - Gemini Links 03/11/2025: Poetry, Old Androids and Small Shells
 
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 - Links 03/11/2025: Internet Anniversary
 
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 - Two Years of Uptime
 
  - Reboots are seldom involuntary
 
 - Richard Stallman is Giving Another Talk in Less Than a Fortnight
 
  - in two weeks' time (13 days from now)
 
 - Windows Falls Below 20% in the UK
 
  - Many people choose to leave Windows altogether
 
 - Microsoft's Search Business Falls to Lowest Point in 2 Years, Based on statCounter
 
  - what can Microsoft sell other than shares in Microsoft?
 
 - Evidence Regarding Layoffs at Red Hat
 
  - Seems like IBM layoffs
 
 - Microsoft: Our "Goodwill" Value Grew More Than Tenfold Since 2011
 
  - Hallmark of pseudo-economics
 
 - GNU/Linux as a Boarding Pass
 
  - being mostly analogue is still feasible
 
 - Links 03/11/2025: Lack of Trust in LLMs and Windows TCO at Jaguar
 
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 - Gemini Links 03/11/2025: Books in October and Change
 
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  - The Web has become monocultural
 
 - Debian is Non-Free
 
  - Devuan might be worth looking into
 
 - Slopwatch: Brian Fagioli and LinuxSecurity
 
  - This is a real problem and most certainly a big problem because when people try to find real information about security and GNU/Linux they instead read "word salads" made by bots
 
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  - Today we expect to be back to a more-or-less regular publication pace
 
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  - Links for the day
 
 - Over at Tux Machines...
 
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 - IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 02, 2025
 
  - IRC logs for Sunday, November 02, 2025
 
 - Microsoft's Debt Has Skyrocketed by More Than 15 Billion Dollars in 6 Months or 8.2 Billion Dollars in the Past 3 Months Alone
 
  - The corporate media intentionally disregards - or merely turns a blind eye to - such data
 
 - Rumour: IBM Layoffs in Canada Starting Tomorrow
 
  - "RA (IBM's term for layoffs) Coming to Canada this week (Nov 3rd)"
 
 - Debunking False/Misleading Statements Made or Told to the High Court
 
  - People who try to cheat the system by gaslighting judges will end up discrediting themselves
 
 - Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) by LLM Slop
 
  - The Web has become such a sordid mess that this FUD made by bots is what Google News deems to be "the news"
 
 - This Month's Analytics Show Vista 11 Down, GNU/Linux Up
 
  - After pulling the plug on Vista 10 we see losses - not gains - for Vista 11
 
 - Almost Fully Caught Up
 
  - The EPO series will continue very soon, maybe tomorrow or on Tuesday
 
 - Links 02/11/2025: Another Halloween Bust and MAGA Regime Says Public Universities Should No Longer Hire 'Foreign' Employees
 
  - Links for the day
 
 - The Long-Coveted Milestone of 3,200 Active Gemini Capsules
 
  - Despite being away some days last week, about 50,000 Gemini requests were served each day, on average
 
 - Five More Days Till Techrights Party
 
  - We'll have many more batches of Daily Links as we catch up with a 'backlog' of news
 
 - Links 02/11/2025: More Nuclear Escalations and "Anti-Cybercrime Laws Are Being Weaponized to Repress Journalism"
 
  - Links for the day
 
 - Gemini Links 02/11/2025: "The Pragmatic Programmer", Perl New Features and Foostats
 
  - Links for the day
 
 - Over at Tux Machines...
 
  - GNU/Linux news for the past day
 
 - IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 01, 2025
 
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