Another Gemini Milestone: 1,500 Active Capsules
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2021-12-04 01:47:12 UTC
- Modified: 2021-12-04 01:49:17 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- The GNU Manifesto is 40. Here's the Original Print (1985).
- Some unpleasant people want to replace GNU with Microsoft-controlled (GitHub) Rust copycats
- Unixmen Seems to Have Died After Turning Into a Slopfarm and Spamfarm, Is LinuxSecurity.com Next?
- Better to not publish anything at all than to resort to fake garbage.
- What Happened to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Elections: More People Begin to Speak Out
- Kuhn set another bonfire ablaze
- 2025 Rumours of IBM Layoffs in Marketing Likely True, Online Powwow Drops More Clues
- Expect over 10,000 layoffs this year (at IBM alone)
- Microsoft Windows Barely Exists in Haiti Anymore
- This trend in Haiti is a "story in progress"
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- Mauritius: Windows at All-Time Low, Down From 96% to 17%
- Put in simple terms, people choose to connect from the "phone" (running Linux), not some laptop running Windows
- Many IBM Layoffs Reported Today in Europe and North America
- there's definitely a lot going on today
- Links 18/03/2025: ‘Meritless’ Defamation Suit Thrown Out, InterDigital Software Patents Headed for the Bin Too
- Links for the day
- These Strange Web Statistics From The Bahamas Show Windows Falling From 93% to Less Than 5%
- There are about half a million there
- Gemini Links 18/03/2025: Weather and Resisting "MAGA"
- Links for the day
- Links 18/03/2025: New Apple Blunders and Windows Disliked by Users
- Links for the day
- Once Again 'Losing Track' of Who the Clients Are, The Serial Harasser and Strangler from Microsoft
- Timing is everything
- Android (With Linux) Rises to Record Highs in Hong Kong and in Macao
- Looking quite bad for Microsoft
- Distractions. Distractions Everywhere.
- distracting from the real solution
- EPO Concerns About the Education and Childcare Allowance Reform (ECAR) and School Liaison Officer (SLO)
- The public deserves to know as it impacts thousands of families
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 17, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, March 17, 2025
- Links 17/03/2025: Weather Changing and Connecting Docker to Localhost
- Links for the day
- The EPO Might Face Critical 'Brain Drain' (Abandonment by the Most Experienced Patent Examiners) This Year
- "a number of colleagues might feel compelled to inform the Administration before the end of May 2025 of their intention to retire as of 1 December 2025."
- Links 17/03/2025: Forced Labour and Memory on Tenstorrent
- Links for the day
- Links 17/03/2025: Live Nation’s DOJ Antitrust Battle Carries on, as Does the Demise of the "Hey Hi" Bubble
- Links for the day
- Links 17/03/2025: "Badly Misled About Covid" and "Gag of America"
- Links for the day
- The Lie or Half-Truth of Clownflare (or Equivalents) Improving Things
- It may seem "cheap" (temporarily) and "fast", but that's just bait
- Free Speech Around the World is Curtailed in the Name of "Protecting Us"
- We have spent many years speaking about how to combat this trend
- Enshittification of Online Media
- Now more than ever we must fight for independent press
- War Readiness Means Removing Every Windows Installation and CALEA-Compliant Equipment
- Finland is vulnerable for a whole bunch of reasons
- Reporting Facts is Not a Privacy Violation
- Techrights has long valued and defended privacy
- In the Russian Federation (Russia), Microsoft Isn't Even the 1%
- the government builds "homegrown" (not pertinent parts of them) distros with which to replace Microsoft, not just Windows
- Gemini Links 17/03/2025: "Hack the Planet", Klingnauer Stausee, and Enshittification
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 16, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, March 16, 2025
- Slow News Cycles Are Part of a Trend, Technology Gravitating Towards Rich People's Interests
- This issue isn't limited to the Web
- Recent Site Changes and Looking Towards 2026
- In November 2026 we turn 20
- Mozilla Firefox is Probably Already Below 2% in the UK (United Kingdom)
- LibreWolf identifies as "Firefox" by default
- When You Don't Want to Tinker Much You Just Use GNU/Linux, Not Windows
- With GNU/Linux upgrades are possible and, failing that, one can just back up the home directory and copy it "back into" the new OS
- Facebook REALLY, REALLY, R E A L L Y Does Not Want You to Read This Book
- It would be a CRIME to read it
- Coming Soon, the Next Chapter About the Crisis of the Open Source Initiative (OSI)
- We're far from done
- Illuminating Microsoft's Code of Conduct (CoC) Hypocrisy
- Oppressor victimhood? Leadership claimed by the worst offenders?
- Planet Ubuntu - or Ubuntu Planet - Has an LLM Slop Problem (Called Faizul "Piju" 9M2PJU)
- Does investigative reporting have any future at all?
- Links 16/03/2025: Handwriting Comeback and "MElon’s Attack on U.S.A.I.D."
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 16/03/2025: "Differences Distance" and "Dopamine-addicted Pigeon"
- Links for the day
- Expect GNU/Linux to Rise Sharply in China
- But Red China won't trust Red Hat (IBM), which works for the Pentagon and keeps the "secret sauce" for its OS secret (just what Americans accused China of doing with its distros)
- Links 16/03/2025: American Press Under Attack, "France Offers to Take in US Scientists"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 16/03/2025: Threats to Canada and How to Process News Online
- Links for the day
- Links 16/03/2025: Growing Tariff Hostilities and Social Media Surveillance
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 15, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, March 15, 2025
