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- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2020-08-14 17:40:15 UTC
- Modified: 2020-08-14 17:40:15 UTC
Summary: Teaching children about sex at the age of seven may seem controversial to most people, but not the Gates family
Recent Techrights' Posts
- 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
- 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)
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- BetaNews is Run and Written by Bots That Make Clickbait
- At least one author is doing this
- 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
- 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
- [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
- Links 23/11/2024: Press Sold to Vultures, New LLM Blunders
- Links for the day
- Links 23/11/2024: "Relationship with Oneself" and Yretek.com is Back
- Links for the day
- Links 23/11/2024: "Real World" Cracked and UK Online Safety Act is Law
- Links for the day
- Links 23/11/2024: Celebrating Proprietary Bluesky (False Choice, Same Issues) and Software Patents Squashed
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, November 22, 2024
- IRC logs for Friday, November 22, 2024
- Gemini Links 23/11/2024: 150 Day Streak in Duolingo and ICBMs
- Links for the day
