The 'Influencer' Era is Over, Embrace Alternatives to Social Control Media and the Web

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2023-08-20 05:31:25 UTC
Modified: 2023-08-20 05:31:25 UTC

Video download link | md5sum 58edb12952f0c8931e282d00f245677e Improving Focus on Videos and Gemini Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0

Summary: It's only the 20^th of the month and we've already passed the monthly average in Gemini traffic; this video focuses on our use of Gemini (it started almost exactly 2.5 years ago) and video

TODAY we finally have our 48,000^th Gemini page and this month will be another record-breaking month in terms of Gemini traffic.

The video above talks about the continued growth of Gemini in general, how videos can be opened from Gemini, and the agony of looking for supposedly "professional" microphones (computers are nowadays fast enough to do Digital Signal Processing (DSP) in software). We have some plans until the end of this year and next year. Unlike many "influencers" who outsourced almost everything to Alphabet/Google/YouTube, our fate isn't determined by some hostile third party and it's very difficult to stop us or even slow us down. Some time tomorrow we expect to publish our 37,500^th blog post. ⬆

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Pushing Microsoft's Proprietary Trash/Trap as "Open" and "Linux" (Windows is 'Linux' Now?): Maybe it's time to just stop saying "FOSS". The people who use that term are promoting Microsoft.
Slopwatch: Comparing Linux to Vermin, Attacking BSD With LLM Slop, and Helping Microsoft Demonise Linux/OpenBSD/SSH Over Weak User Passwords: Microsoft must be laughing its arse off, seeing how a bunch of Serial Sloppers (no skills, no comprehension, no integrity, no creativity) and slopfarms use Microsoft LLM to flood the Web with anti-Linux FUD
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Links 05/06/2025: First US Spacewalk 60 Years Ago, GNU Octave 10.2.0 is Out: Links for the day
Scandinavia Saying Goodbye to Microsoft: The Danes have had enough of Microsoft
GNU/Linux Measured at 6% in Bangladesh, According to statCounter: Windows isn't growing, it's going away
Gemini Links 05/06/2025: Loop Earplugs Review and ANS Forth: Links for the day
Armenian Adoption of GNU/Linux: Russian influence in Armenian must be worrying to Microsoft
Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part II: Turning a Once-Respected Patent Office Into a Circus and Laughing Stock: It's not legal, but administrators who don't care about the law and don't fear the law would just go ahead and turn things to junk
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, June 04, 2025: IRC logs for Wednesday, June 04, 2025
Slopwatch: Mindless Slop Pieces, Fake Images and Text, Linux FUD on the Cheap: spewed out by Microsoft-controlled LLMs
Links 04/06/2025: Workers' Strikes, Sudan Exodus: Links for the day
Links 04/06/2025: Linux Foundation PR Spam and Lee Jae-myung Wins Election: Links for the day
Gemini Links 04/06/2025: Future Leaders of the World and Platforming Jordan Peterson: Links for the day
Links 04/06/2025: WSL Backfiring on Microsoft and "Disney, Microsoft Announce Massive Layoffs": Links for the day
Our Case is a Very Easy Win, the SLAPPs From Microsofters Were a Grave Error, and Censoring Information Won't Work (It'll Only Ever Backfire): Censoring is what people do when they lose the argument
Say the Truth, the Rest Will Follow: There's no guarantee that writing the truth will result in an audience (or readership), but over time - in the long run - people generally gravitate towards what they know or feel to be crude truth, not just what's comforting (albeit false or self-deluding, usually groupthink dictated from above)
How to Expose High-Level Corruption Without Getting in (Too Much) Trouble: Democracy depends on free press and freedom of the press depends on being able to safely publish (and keep available) material that bad people don't want to be known to anybody
In-Depth EPO Coverage at Techrights Turns Eleven: 11 years is a very long time
Windows Measured Below 10% in Afghanistan, GNU/Linux Gaining a Lot: about 80% are Android (Linux) users, compared to only about 10% for Windows
Poland's Political Predicament and Social Control Media: Democracy and fake "tech" don't mix well; the latter tends to interfere with the former and that's why we get more "Putins" out there
EPO: Taking Away From the Staff to Give More to the Rich: The Central Staff Committee (CSC) wrote to EPO staff earlier this week
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 03, 2025: IRC logs for Tuesday, June 03, 2025
Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part I: It's a Lot Like the EPO: we can commence a series soon
Gemini Links 04/06/2025: Inescapable Questions and Quitting All "Oligarch Tech": Links for the day
Slopwatch: Linux FUD From Slopfarms, Blaming Linux for Microsoft Issues; Even WebProNews Has Become a Slopfarm (Googlebombing "Linux" With Slop Images and Fake/Plagiarised Text): The Web is really getting bad; it's also overwhelmed by fake material or plagiarised material, wherein the plagiarism gets disguised/hidden by LLM sausage factories
Links 03/06/2025: Tiananmen Square Massacre Censorship and Growing Military Activities Around Taiwan: Links for the day
Linux is Already Dominant (Android), Let's Make GNU/Linux Dominant in Desktops/Laptops as Well: "Dr. Stallman recently warned everybody about Microsoft."
The Loyalty to Microsoft and the Salaries From Microsoft (Funding SLAPPs Against Techrights and Tux Machines): Garrett always knows better. He knows everything best.
Windows Falls in Italy as GNU/Linux Jumps to 5%: Italy knows a thing or two about digital autonomy
Nigeria is All Android and Google: Windows down to almost nothing in Africa's largest population
Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (Second Wave) Not Limited to Redmond: "More layoffs at Microsoft as axe falls in Washington and California"
Gemini Links 03/06/2025: Forth System and "Common Lisp is a Dumpster": Links for the day
The Leaks Were Right: Mass Layoffs at Microsoft in May, Then Another Wave in June: Just as we've been saying for over a month
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 02, 2025: IRC logs for Monday, June 02, 2025

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