Tech 'Journalism' at Bottom Low: Microsoft Breaks 'Linux', ZDNet Uses It to Promote Vista 10 and The Register Calls Service/Product Shutdown 'Consolidation'
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2020-09-10 18:22:56 UTC
- Modified: 2020-09-10 18:22:56 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- At BetaNews, "Most Commented Story" Is Not a Story But LLM Slop! (Readers Talking to Bots)
- They make fake stories with provocative headlines and then boast that these get many comments
- [Meme] Swiss Lawyers/Attorneys Who Fake Qualifications and Rob People
- Switzerland mostly guards its reputation by censorship of media
- Just How Slow Has the News Industry Become?
- We're drowning in garbage from fake publishers
- BetaNews is Beta-Testing the Site as LLM Slop With Microsoft Propaganda Thrown In
- Many of the people there are Microsoft boosters and they use slop as "filler" (for marketing)
- Gemini Links 13/11/2024: Phasing Out 3G, Brian Kernighan Books, Tcl/Tk, Time to Ditch x86
- Links for the day
- BetaNews, Inc. Became a Spam Operation/Web Site, LLM Spew (Slop) for SEO Disguised as "Articles"
- Published 5 minutes ago by Brian Fagioli...
- WordPress is for the 'Old Web'; the New Web Necessitates Static Pages
- There are purely practical reasons to move away from WordPress and the likes of it
- Biggest Debt Leap in Years, More Than Half a Trillion Dollars in Just One Month
- We remind people (almost every year) that it's also "buynothingday"
-
- More Than 3 Years After Vista 11's Release More Chinese Computer Users Still Use Vista 7 (Than "11")
- it was "officially" released October 5, 2021
- In Switzerland, GNU/Linux Reaches Record Highs, But What About the Corruption?
- Pocock is a disappointed citizen of Switzerland
- Things That Still Work OK (But We're Being Shamed for Using)
- Using old stuff is nothing to be shamed of (or afraid to do)
- Free Software is About Collaboration
- WordPress limits it
- Even the Managing Editor of BetaNews is Doing Slop and Spam
- A Fish Rots From The Head Down
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 12, 2024
- IRC logs for Tuesday, November 12, 2024
- PERA Bill in US Senate Strives to Crush Caselaw, Making Patents on Mathematics and Algorithms 'Great Again'
- Follow the money
- Evolution of euthanasia & WIPO UDRP similarities exposed by W. Scott Blackmer
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Links 12/11/2024: A Lot of Censorship and SWNS at 50
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 12/11/2024: Invidious Down and YouTube Addiction
- Links for the day
- Links 12/11/2024: Hey Hi (AI) Failures and COP29 Fakers
- Links for the day
- Latest Rumours of Red Hat Layoffs
- Rumours or gossip is how almost everything starts
- Windows Falling to All-Time Lows and Microsoft Has Nothing to Replace It With
- It's mostly Android (Linux) replacing Windows
- Cybershow Has a New 81-Minute Episode on Digital Sovereignty and International Cyber-Relations
- it is a high-quality show
- Activism in the Digital Realm Can Never (and Must Never) Rely on GAFAM
- This simply means that tech activists must completely abandon any hopes of finding allies in Google or IBM or whatever...
- Golden Dawn(ald) and What GAFAM Means to Liberal Techies
- In one single screenshot
- IBM CEO Says Donald Trump as President-Elect is Good for IBM in New Interview With CNBC
- most unprincipled CEO ever?
- GNU/Linux Up to 6.1% in Finland (Almost 9% If One Counts ChromeOS Too)
- Home of Linux (the kernel)
- BetaNews Has Become a SPAM/Slop Factory, Brian Fagioli Publishes Fake 'Articles'
- everything is now suspect in BetaNews
- It's Morbid to Talk About Living People as If They're Dead
- What happens to LLM slop when Brian Fagioli dies?
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 11, 2024
- IRC logs for Monday, November 11, 2024
- Free Software and Love of Nature
- It's not a coincidence that many Free software activists are also lovers of nature
- Silicon Valley and GAFAM Were Never Liberal
- spineless CEOs and founders aren't against Trump
- Windows and 'The Desktop' Floundering
- Microsoft should be extremely worried
- WordPress is Bad for the Planet (Even If Many Still Use It)
- the costs nobody wishes to talk about
- Gemini Links 11/11/2024: Closed Systems and Verify You Are Human To Continue
- Links for the day
- Running Twitter at a Loss and Then Profiting From Trumpism
- How very liberal of Jack Dorsey, the greedy "Liberal" who only prioritised money
- Microsoft, Which Benefits From Donald Trump, is Normalising Donald Trump
- Some people still wrongly believe that Microsoft is left-leaning
- ChromeOS and GNU/Linux Growing in Spain (Almost 10% Now)
- Whether this persists next month and next year will certainly matter
- When You Upload Talks of Richard Stallman to Proprietary YouTube
- Also: notice they work to abolish the word "whitelisted"
- Free Software is Probably a Lot Healthier for You
- Does Free software help people live longer and/or live better for longer?
- Sweden: ChromeOS + GNU/Linux at 17%, an All-Time High
- According to statCounter
- Windows Collapsed to Only 12% of the Operating Systems Market in India, Says statCounter
- Windows falls to 64% on desktops/laptops in India, dips to 12% overall
- Links 11/11/2024: Mastodon Year 2 in Review, Freshworks Laying Off 13% of Staff
- Links for the day
- [Video] Daniel Pocock Warning About Someone Like Elon Musk Buying and Misusing Twitter Almost 7 Years Ago
- Daniel Pocock spoke about Facebook and Twitter while attending the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland
- [Meme] It Takes Only Words to Destroy Malicious People and Pathological Liars
- Trying to silence us is foolish. Boasting about this in public is worse than foolish; it's a legal liability.
- Dead Blog ('Hoisted By His Own Petard')
- The saying "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" is also applicable here
- Debian Voters Clearly Supportive of Richard Stallman (Founder of GNU/Linux), But Debian Leaders Keep Giving Voting Rights to Microsoft Staff
- It can be seen that the pro-Stallman positions are dominant
- WordPress is Unfit for Purpose in 2024
- The Web itself changed a lot and the majority of Web traffic is pure junk
- [Meme] Remember That Microsoft and Trump Already Have a "Targets List"
- Microsoft loves Trump bailouts
- Service Notice: IRC Downtimes RESOLVED
- We believe we've solved this entirely (or hope so), but it may take another week to know for sure
- Linux 'Not Inclusive' 6.12 (Trumpism Inside Linux Foundation Affirmed)
- They can make a codename for this release: Linux 'Not Inclusive' 6.12
- The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is Dead. Cause of Death: Microsoft Bribes.
- At the core, Linux Foundation and OSI adopted lies as a business model
- Joan Meyer correctly linked Gideon Cody raid on Marion County Record to Kristallnacht
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Trans People Misused to Attack a Project or Developer Who Has Nothing to Do With Them
- And why that truly hurts all trans people
- Our 18+ Years of Freedom-Fighting
- We always fight back
- Gemini Links 11/11/2024: Men Losing Grip and "You're Relaxing Wrong"
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 10, 2024
- IRC logs for Sunday, November 10, 2024
- Nobody Knows What's in Our Fridge! Wow, Spooky!
- Freedom means you can also purchase things anonymously
- Freedom Must Always Be Fought For (All the Time)
- Ridicule of "freedom fighters" in the digital realm is typically orchestrated by dictators or wannabes.
