Flashback: Team UPC in 2014 Saying UPC Would Start Next Year (2015)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2021-08-19 05:16:19 UTC
- Modified: 2021-08-19 05:16:19 UTC
Summary: Wouter Pors on UPC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- RMS is Done at KCL, Next Stop is Oxford
- The message of RMS has long resonated well in India
- US Government Already Bailing Out OpenAI/Microsoft With "Contracts", As Usual, Back Doors You Cannot Remove Becoming 'a Step Closer' on New PCs (Unless Everyone Acts ASAP)
- The next "logical" step towards digital prisons
- Towards GNU World Domination
- The FSF led by Geoffrey S. Knauth with his friend Richard Stallman in the FSF's Board [...] Let's encourage people to adopt GNU/Linux. There has never been a better time.
- GNOME, Microsoft, and GitHub: The Lack of Reporting on Abusive Colleagues Contributed to Profound Media Vacuum (or Blackout), Now Resorting to SLAPPs
- This lack of morality/courage has helped enable further abuse, lining up more victims
- Microsoft Already Attacks the BSDs as Well (the E.E.E. Way, as Usual)
- Bearers of bad news
- The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is in Trouble, May Soon be Out of Business
- Openwashing needs to end
- Microsoft's Debt Grew Over 6 Billion Dollars in the Last Reporting Quarter (Before Inauguration), Expect Worse Next Week When 'Results' Are Disclosed and Mass Layoffs Resume
- Microsoft is bleeding. It does not want people to notice.
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- Links 22/04/2025: Ending DEI Policies at Adobe, FTC Sues Uber
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Devises PR Stunts to Distract From Impending Mass Layoffs and Likely Bad Results Preceding Those Mass Layoffs
- A "voluntary exit plan"
- Gemini Links 22/04/2025: Deaths, HamsterCMS, and More
- Links for the day
- Links 22/04/2025: FTC v. Meta Trial and Google Remedies
- Links for the day
- In Turkey, Windows Down Rapidly While GNU/Linux Grows
- Although Turkey is in NATO (but not the EU), it cannot quite trust computer systems controlled by the United States
- Richard Stallman Has Updated His Article on Why "Free Software Is Even More Important Now"
- Richard Stallman is about to give a talk here in the UK in a few hours
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 21, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, April 21, 2025
- Richard Stallman Gives Public Talk in London in 7 Hours (Need to Register as Venue Limited to 150 Seats), Public Announcements Begin to Appear
- These are not announced weeks or months in advance
- Gemini Links 21/04/2025: Remembering Pope Francis, Crystal Simulation
- Links for the day
- Doing Microsoft's Job. On IBM's Payroll.
- today's Red Hat cannot recognise threats even after a head-on collision
- Google News is Rewarding Slopfarms, Not Journalism
- Don't read junk from chatbots
- Teaching GAFAM in Schools is Like Teaching Children to Smoke Tobacco
- So suggests an FSF presentation
- Richard Stallman, Whose Site is Trusted by Greater Manchester, Has Come to the United Kingdom
- He doesn't suck up to the Crown, so he'll never be "knighted"
- On Desktops/Laptops in Singapore Does a Fifth of Users Run GNU/Linux?
- Probably not, but it's growing fast there
- Links 21/04/2025: Fake Ceasefire and Software Patents (Fake Patents) Thrown Out
- Links for the day
- Companies With Fake Values and a Fake Economic/Financial State (Phony Valuations)
- It'll all go up in smoke, eventually
- Links 21/04/2025: Microsoft LLM Slop (Plagiarism) Going Out of Control, CT Scans' Cancer Problems Was Underrated
- Links for the day
- 4 Years Ago Freenode Crumbled From Within
- there are still hundreds of thousands of users online at any given time
- GNOME Has a Long History (Over a Decade) Misusing the Code of Conduct (CoC) to Censor (Cull) Legitimate Technical Criticism
- This has nothing to do with manners, it's about control (by cover-up)
- Microsoft Has Tainted GNOME, Which Has Key People Acting as a SLAPP Front Against Techrights (Trying to Censor the Site by Extortion and Many Threats)
- One common denominator (other than Microsoft salaries) is GNOME, which was led by an actual professional crank until she quit so suddenly months ago
- Homeland of Linux Kernel Turning to GNU/Linux?
- Adoption of Vista 11 has been relatively low
- According to StatCounter, This is What Linux Adoption Looks Like (Based on Web Requests Visible to StatCounter)
- How much worse will it get for Microsoft?
- Gemini Capsules Still Outsourcing to Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Now Measured at Less Than 10 (or Less Than 0.3%)
- In Geminispace, Let's Encrypt is not commonly used
- Twisting Microsoft's Failure (Transmitting Malware) as "SSH Backdoors" and a Linux Problem
- Somehow we almost always find that those FUD pieces about "Linux" are based on obvious falsehoods
- Vista 11 Has Burned OEMs and Some Move to GNU/Linux
- When people can finally avoid Windows (there's no reason to attach it to new PCs) there will be a lot more GNU/Linux users out there
- Remember That Microsoft Mass Layoffs Are Imminent Because Its 'Empire' is Falling Apart
- European politicians take a long, hard look a Free software
- Richard Stallman in the UK This Week, Scheduled to Give Two Public Talks (London and Oxford)
- Those talks do not cover the same topics
- Gemini Links 21/04/2025: April, Autism, and ASN
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 20, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, April 20, 2025
- Links 20/04/2025: Partly Assorted Scientific and Political Leftovers
- Links for the day
- Links 20/04/2025: Many Data Breaches and Growing Censorship Wave
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 20/04/2025: Canadian Elections and "Use the Best Tools You Have for the Current Environment"
- Links for the day
- Deja vu: Hitler's Birthday, Andreas Tille elected Debian Project Leader again
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Links 20/04/2025: Bleeding Constitution and ChatGPT Infuriates Users Some More
- Links for the day
- Chinese OEMs (and World's Largest) Pave a Path Out of Microsoft Windows
- So Microsoft now values (or prices) Vista 11 at just $140?
- Gemini Links 20/04/2025: Contradictions of Mark Carney and Blog Questions Challenge
- Links for the day
- Microsoft's 'Lawsuit Diplomacy' (SLAPPs Riding UK Libel Law and Piggybacking UK GDPR, Inapplicable!) Will Only Give a Worse Image to Microsofters (and Microsoft), Give Exposure to Even More Suppressed Facts and Scandals
- Microsoft came to dominate some sectors because of (or owing to) crimes; Microsoft won't just go away without some more crimes.
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 19, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, April 19, 2025
- Five (or Three) Years Without Social Control Media
- Glyn Moody quit X (Twitter)
- Electronics in People's Bedrooms
- Modern technology not only blurred the gap between "functions" of rooms
- Why GNU/Linux is Growing
- There's growing interest in GNU/Linux right now because people do not fancy buying a new PC just to 'upgrade' (more spying) Windows
