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- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-02-21 21:00:56 UTC
- Modified: 2014-02-21 21:00:56 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- On Groupthink, Mindless 'Sheep', and Toxic Online Cults
- This week, treat yourself to a life free of social control media
- BetaNews is Run and Written by Bots That Make Clickbait
- At least one author is doing this
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- Same Month Judge Suggests Selling Chrome (Compelling Google to Give It Away) Chrome Surpasses Two-Thirds of "The Market", Based on Surveyor
- tackling Google's browser monoculture is still a priority
- [Meme] Trying to Terrorise Critics
- How Microsofters roll...
- Illegitimi Non Carborundum
- If you try to suppress our publication, we'll not just bark back but also bite
- Why This Site Became "Simple" a Year Ago
- Light is good, heavy is bad
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 25, 2024
- IRC logs for Monday, November 25, 2024
- Links 26/11/2024: International Microsoft Outages, Microsoft Mass Layoffs Bigger Than Reported Last Friday
- Links for the day, Deutsche Welle and CBC focus
- Gemini Links 26/11/2024: Not Pagan, Emacs Wiki, and More
- Links for the day
- Links 25/11/2024: Egypt Harasses Bloggers, The University of Michigan Has Become Like a Corporation
- Links for the day
- Links 25/11/2024: Climate News, Daniel Pocock Receives a Fake/Fraudulent €17,000 Electricity Bill
- Links for the day
- [Meme] Microsoft: Our "Hey Hi" Hype is Going So Well That We Have MASS Layoffs Every Month. Makes Sense?
- Contradiction
- Latest Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Are Confirmed, Bing and Vista 11 Losing Market Share
- They tried to hide this. They misuse NDAs.
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 24, 2024
- IRC logs for Sunday, November 24, 2024
- Gemini Links 25/11/2024: Purity and Cory Doctorow's Ulysses Pact, Smolnet Portal and SGI
- Links for the day
- Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part VIII
- By Dr. Andy Farnell
- GNU/Linux Reaches All-Time High in Europe (at 6%)
- many in Europe chose to explore something else, something freedom-respecting
- Patents Against Energy Sources That Reduce Pollution
- this EV space (not just charging) is a patent mine field and it has long been that way
- DARPA’s Information Innovation Office, Howard Shrobe, Values Compartmentalisation But Loses the Opportunity to Promote GNU/Linux and BSDs
- All in all, he misses an opportunity
- Wayland is an Alternative to X
- the alternative to X (as in Twitter) isn't social control media but something like IRC
- BetaNews, Desperate for Clicks, is Pushing Donald Trump Spam Created by LLMs (Slop)
- Big clap to Brian Fagioli for stuffing a "tech" site with Trump spam (not the first time he uses LLMs to do this)
- [Meme] Social Control Media Bliss
- "My tree is bigger than yours"
- Links 24/11/2024: More IMF Bailouts and Net Client Freedom
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 24/11/2024: Being a Student and Digital Downsizing
- Links for the day
- Techrights' Statement on Code of Censorship (CoC) and Kent Overstreet: This Was the Real Purpose of Censorship Agreements All Along
- Bombing people is OK (if you sponsor the key organisations), opposing bombings is not (a CoC in a nutshell)
- [Meme] The Most Liberal Company
- "Insurrection? What insurrection?"
- apple.com Traffic Down Over 7%, Says One Spyware Firm; Apple's Liabilities Increased Over 6% to $308,030,000,000
- Apple is also about 120 billion dollars in debt
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 23, 2024
- IRC logs for Saturday, November 23, 2024
- [Meme] GAFAMfox
- Mozilla Firefox in a state of extreme distress
- Google Can Kill Mozilla Any Time It Wants
- That gives Google far too much power over its rival... There are already many sites that refuse to work with Firefox or explicitly say Firefox isn't supported
- Free (as in Freedom) Software Helps Tackle the Software Liability Issue, It Lets Users Exercise Greater Control Over Programs
- Microsofters have been trying to ban or exclude Free software
- In the US, Patent Laws Are Up for Sale
- This problem is a lot bigger than just patents
- ESET Finds Rootkits, Does Not Explain How They Get Installed, Media Says It Means "Previously Unknown Linux Backdoors" (Useful Distraction From CALEA and CALEA2)
- FUD watch
- Techdirt Loses Its Objectivity in Pursuit of Money
- The more concerning aspects are coverage of GAFAM and Microsoft in particular
