Microsoft Hasn't Changed Since the YouTube-DL Takedown
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-04-07 08:45:39 UTC
- Modified: 2022-04-07 08:49:40 UTC
Summary: Outsourcing to Microsoft is poor decision-making, as yesterday's news serves to remind us again (there's no due process!)
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Real Life Should be Offline, Not Online, and It Requires Free Software
- Resistance means having the guts to say "no!", even in the face of great societal burden and peer pressure
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- Links 27/09/2023: 3G Phase-Out, Monopolies, and Exit of Rupert Murdoch
- Links for the day
- IBM Took a Man’s Voice, Pitting Him Against His Own Work, While Companies Profit from Low-Effort Garbage Generated by Bots and “Self-Service”
- Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
- Links 26/09/2023: KDE, Programming, and More
- Links for the day
- Mozilla Promotes the Closed Web and Proprietary Webapps That Are Security and Privacy Hazards
- This is just another reminder that the people who run Mozilla don't know the history of Firefox, don't understand the Web, and are beholden to "GAFAM", not to Firefox users
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- Wiltshire is riding a high horse in the UK, talking down to Indians who are "low-level" volunteers in his kingdom of authoritarians, guarded by an army of British lawyers who bully bloggers
- Small Computers in Large Numbers: A Pipeline of Open Hardware
- They guard and prioritise their "premiums", causing severe price hikes due to supply/demand disparities.
- Microsoft Deserves a Medal for Being Worst at Security (the Media Deserves a Medal for Cover-up)
- There are still corruptible/bribed publishers that quote Microsoft staff like they're security gurus
- 10 Reasons to Permanently Export or Liberate Your Site From WordPress, Drupal, and Other Bloatware
- There are certainly more more advantages, but 10 should suffice for now
- About 200,000 Objects in Techrights Web Site
- This hopefully helps demonstrate just how colossal the migration actually is
- Good Teachers Would Tell Kids to Quit Social Control Media Rather Than Participate in It (Teaching Means Education, Not Misinformation)
- Insist that classrooms offer education to children rather than offer children to corporations
- Twitter: From Walled Gardens to Paywalls and/or Amplifiers of Fascism
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- The World Wide Web is Being Confiscated From Us (Like Syndication Was Withdrawn About a Decade Ago) and We Need to Fight Back
- We're worse off when fewer people promote RSS feeds and instead outsource to social control media (censorship, surveillance, manipulation)
- Next Up: Restoring IRC Log Pipelines, Bulletins/Full Text RSS, Wiki (Archived, Static), and Pipelines for Daily Links
- There are still many tasks left ahead of us, but we've progressed a lot
- An Era of Rotting Technology, Migration Crises, and Cliffhanging
- We've covered examples from IBM, resembling the Microsoft world
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- We want to champion another decade or two of positive impact and opinionated analysis
- Links 25/09/2023: Patent News and Coding
- some remaining links for today
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- SUSE's relationship with firms such as these generally means that SUSE works for authority, not for community, and when it comes to cryptography it just follows guidelines from the US government
- IBM is Selling Complexity, Not GNU/Linux
- It's not about the clients, it's about money
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- We've already begun the migration to static
- Linux Foundation: We Came, We Saw, We Plundered
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- Any newly-added layer represents more attack surface
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- They want your money, not your peace of mind. That's a problem.
- Modern Web Means Proprietary Trash
- Mozilla is financially beholden to Google and thus we cannot expect any pushback or for Firefox to "reclaims the Web" a second time around
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- We hope Unity will burn in a massive fire and, as for Godot, we hope it'll get rid of Microsoft
- GNU/Linux Has Conquered the World, But Users' Freedom Has Not (Impediments Remain in Hardware)
- Installing one's system of choice on a device is very hard, sometimes impossible
- Another Copyright Lawsuit Against Microsoft (or its Proxy) for Misuse of Large Works by Chatbot
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- the powerful companies/governments/societies get to know everything about everybody, but if anyone out there discovers or shares dark secrets about those powerful companies/governments/societies, that's a "crime"
- United Workforce Always Better for the Workers
- In the case of technology, it is possible that a lack of collective action is because of relatively high salaries and less physically-demanding jobs
- Purge of Software Freedom and Its Voices
- Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
- GNOME and GTK Taking Freedom Away From Users
- Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer