TechBytes Episode 89: Chromebooks, Privacy, and Vista 10

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2015-09-03 08:35:06 UTC
Modified: 2015-09-03 08:40:46 UTC

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Summary: An episode which focuses on the rise of Chromebooks, serious issues pertaining to privacy, media bias, and the demise of Windows

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The Munich-Based EPO is Still Using a Platform That Promotes the Far Right and Rehabilitates Nazism: Active Twitter account
How the EPO Pressures Staff Into Minting More Monopolies (Patents), Even Illegal Ones That Harm Europe and Ultimately Dismantle the Rule of Law: insights into the pressure examiners are under
LLM Slop Machines Are Not a Win for "Open Source" and If They Get Cheaper, It's Even Worse: If some program that claims to be "Open Source" pollutes the Web with fake articles (Microsoft SPAM and fake "Linux" articles), whose win is it?
Richard Stallman Speech in Bengaluru, "Silicon Valley of India": 62 years have passed since his "young nerd" days and he's still at it
More Illegal Patents at the EPO, Legality of Granted European Patents No Longer Matters to the Office: breaking the law for profit
Sharing is Caring (But Advocating Copyleft Makes You a "Target"): GPLv3 does not close all the loopholes which the "Affero" helps close
"Latest Technology News" in BetaNews Still LLM Slop and SPAM Composed by LLMs (It's Basically a Spamfarm Disguised as a News Site): Only a fool would visit BetaNews in search of actual news
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
The EPO's Corruption, If It Remains Untackled, Helps the Far Right and Enemies of European Unity/Solidarity: Do not negotiate with evil
The Web, Including Wikipedia, Gets Filled With Lies About Bill Gates, Added by Bill Gates and His PR Team: Of course Wikipedia is funded by Gates
Google: Your Only Option is Google YouTube (Coming Soon: Mandatory DRM and Attestation?): Digital Restrictions (DRM) to follow? Only for "approved" (attestation) browsers?
Mastodon Was Always Biased (Just Like Twitter After Abandoning Chronological and Neutral Timelines in Order to Become More Like Facebook): So bury-brigading and click-farming control what people see
Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Falls to Only 0.4% of the Total in Geminispace: Geminispace does not need to outsource trust
Links 29/01/2025: Dismantling Public Health in the US, Air Busan Plane Up in Flames (South Korea's Air Disasters Streak): Links for the day
Announcements and Administrivia: This week we're going out for two days in a row to celebrate an achievement that's very respectable
Gemini Links 29/01/2025: Japan, GTD, and More: Links for the day
Sir, Yes, Sir. The Life of EPO Patent Examiners.: If working for the EPO makes it harder to sleep at night, take action
Links 29/01/2025: Data Privacy Day and Growing Tensions in Europe: Links for the day
Nazi Twitter (aka "X") Became a Troll Site That Lets People Buy a Blue Tick While Its Boss Actively Promotes Neonazi Politicians: the intellectual level of people who infest the Web through "Twitter" or "X"
This is Why They're So Afraid of Richard Stallman (He Tells People the Correct History): Then they post about it to Microsoft's LinkedIn
Claim: Facebook Deletes Posts of IBM Red Hat Critics: As always, follow the money (advertisers)
Links 29/01/2025: Climate Crisis and "It’s time for the Xbox to fade away" (Microsoft Lose): Links for the day
Links 29/01/2025: Buying Groceries During a Trade War, Political 'Retro': Links for the day
Network Improvements Tomorrow: "Network maintenance" down in London
Articles About Free Speech at Facebook: 'Facebook vs Linux' story is now receiving a lot more media coverage
We Were Right About stallmansupport.org Making an Error by Joining Social Control Media. mastodon.social Suspends stallmansupport.org.: From what we can guess, accounts can be banned by some oversensitive admin or a mob of users ("bury brigades")
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 28, 2025: IRC logs for Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Facebook Banning Linux Sites (or People Who Link to Linux Sites) is Another Symptom of the Web's Demise: The state of media on the Web is really bad; Social Control Media amplifies the badness, as Facebook serves to show
Gemini Links 29/01/2025: Neovim Telescope and Writing Less: Links for the day
Links 28/01/2025: Chaffbot as Commodity Fad, New Import Restrictions in Thailand: Links for the day
Links 28/01/2025: "Against Social [Control] Media", "Smart" Buses' Ticketing System Cracked: Links for the day
[Video] Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS) in India, Talking About Proprietary Software's Dangers Only Yesterday: WebM file
Gemini Links 28/01/2025: Thinking About Not Much, Computing Fatigue, the Curse of JavaScript: Links for the day
"SuccessFactors" (SAP) Stunts at the EPO Used to Break Laws and Constitutions, Staff Tricked Into Harming Themselves: Ongoing corruption and lawlessness became the norm; Europe's second-largest institution (EPO) along with the largest institution (EU) has its very own Minsk
The GNU Manifesto Turns 40 in a Few Weeks: The FSF turns 40 later this year, too
Continued Support and Momentum at the Free Software Foundation (FSF): "This helps protect our community."
Another Talk by Richard Stallman Tomorrow, This Time in Bengaluru: This means that in January 2025 he is giving at least 5 public talks
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 27, 2025: IRC logs for Monday, January 27, 2025
Links 27/01/2025: Lukashenko's Sham Elections, TikTok for Insurrection Loyalist (Larry Ellison)?: Links for the day
Gemini Links 27/01/2025: IndieWeb Musings and Devlog: Links for the day
IBM Layoffs in "Co-location Mandate" Clothing: It's possible that later this week, around the time of the so-called 'results', many layoffs would be announced
Microsoft-Funded IDG Seems to be 'Googlebombing' the Term Free Software to Promote Proprietary Spyware Too: Microsoft advocated along with other proprietary things
Videos and Photos of Richard Stallman's (RMS) Keynote Address in India Earlier Today: He probably told the target audience (India) a thing or two about the role of proprietary software in colonialism
Rhino Linux Can (and Perhaps Should) Promote Alternatives to Microsoft Instead of Preloading Microsoft: Deeper down inside Rhino Linux there's a problem
GAFAM Hates - Except in a Worryingly Parasitic Way - GNU/Linux and Its Freedoms (or Its Users): Let the story from DistroWatch serve as a reminder that the era of Social Control Media is over
Links 27/01/2025: Social Control Media Explores Propaganda for Racism as a Business Model, China’s Tibet Dam Criticised: Links for the day
Slashdot is Once Again Publishing Lies and Revisionism for Bill Gates, Citing Microsoft's MSN to Rewrite History and Distract From the Jeffrey Epstein Crimes: Of course this also distracts
Too Big, Will Fail (How Linux Grew Way Too Fat): Linux has very extensive hardware support, but that comes at a cost
Richard Stallman Gives Keynote Address in a Few Hours: Richard Stallman's personal site was updated to give more details
Microsoft Relegated by Manchester United: No Microsoft
IBM Layoffs in 2025: Rumours Say Even Managers Will Get the Axe, Some Via Loopholes Like PIP and/or RTO (Preparations Already Underway): Where does IBM's money go?
FOSDEM Talks Are Vanishing: They no longer seem to be taking money from Microsoft and/or its tentacles
Gemini Links 27/01/2025: Mental Locomotion, Gemini Protocol Bots From China, and Domain-Specific Languages: Links for the day
Microsoft Still Hires Journalists to Reward Them (Belated Payment) for Microsoft Propaganda: The PR/lying pipeline
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 26, 2025: IRC logs for Sunday, January 26, 2025

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