[Meme] It Was Never the Same After Bill Gates Paid the Sirius CEO Under a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2023-01-19 02:43:33 UTC
- Modified: 2023-01-19 02:43:33 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
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- in most areas it is not even profitable
- Software Freedom Month at NITK Surathkal and Yesterday's Talk by Richard Stallman
- the message being spread by the person who started it all
- Richard Stallman Has Another Talk in India Tomorrow, at Least Fourth India Talk in Recent Days
- In the past month he has given at least half a dozen talks
- GNU/Linux Reaches All-Time High in the United States, Based on statCounter
- Windows is the loser; GNU/Linux grows at its expense
- statCounter Reckons Less Than 10% in Mexico Still Use Windows to Access to Web and GNU/Linux Surges to All-Time High (Plus, Microsoft's Latest Debt Crisis)
- Looking at Mexico in isolation
- All Efforts to Censor Techrights Have Always Failed
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- Microsoft Bing Lies
- When they say "China" or "DeepSeek" censors things don't lose sight of Microsoft
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- BetaNews Began Removing LLM Slop About "Linux", But More of It Keeps Coming From Guardian Digital, Inc (at linuxsecurity.com)
- the other Serial Slopper, Guardian Digital, Inc
- Mollamby, Suicide Cluster, not trademark, the real reasons for Debian legal expenses, evidence
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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- [Video] Richard Stallman Auctioning a GNU (Gnu) at Surathkal, India
- clip is only a minute-long
- statCounter: GNU/Linux and ChromeOS Now Measured at 2.78% in Japan (It Used to be Less Than 0.5%)
- really 'took off' half a decade ago
- LLM Hype (Chatbots Hyped and Wrongly Characterised as "Artificial Intelligence") Cause Net Inflation
- Net as in Internet, not limited to the Web
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- The most plausible explanation is, Fagioli got caught or his conduct could no longer be ignored
- From India to Italy: Richard Stallman's Next Talk is Next Week in Torino
- Announced less than a day ago
- Corporate Media is Intentionally Lying for Microsoft, There's Now a Hiring Freeze, No Replacements for Workers Laid Off in Two Mass Layoffs Last Month
- Maybe the media - at least some of it - actually deserves doom. If it covers up for the powerful to muzzle and gaslight the oppressed, then what sort of media is that anyway?
- Gemini Links 04/02/2025: Tolkien and New Job
- Links for the day
- Covering EPO Scandals in an Age of Mass Censorship (and Europe Being Afraid to Introspect, for It Might "Help Putin")
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- So GAFAM is losing its power
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC logs for Monday, February 03, 2025
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- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 03/02/2025: X-less English Alphabet and antiX
- Links for the day
- Disappointing 'Results' and Mass Layoffs (Without Severance Pay) Sank Microsoft, But It's a Lot Worse Than Shareholders Care to Realise
- People are losing their patience
- statCounter: In Web Browsers, Microsoft Collapses to Worst Levels in 2 Years!
- Microsoft nowadays insists that it is a "market leader" in a market that does not exist
- statCounter: Apple's iOS About to Exceed Windows in Terms of "Market Share" (Despite Windows Being 'Sold' for Less)
- Vista 11 is only about 5% of the "market share"
- statCounter: GNU/Linux Reaches New All-Time Highs in Brazil and Argentina, Android Has Reached 60% in South America
- Microsoft cultivating buzzwords and cult-like thinking, not real products
- The Media Does Not Properly Report Microsoft Profits and Losses (It's Partly Intentional)
- So how many Vista 11 (preloaded) copies were sold with new PCs?
- Links 03/02/2025: Microsoft's Termination Controversy and EU Hey Hi (AI) Act Compliance Day
- Links for the day
- It Seems Like BetaNews is Finally Deleting Fake 'Articles' About "Linux" by LLM Slop (aka Brian Fagioli)
- Is BetaNews finally taking these problems more seriously?
- Gemini Links 03/02/2025: Art is Process, Smartphones, Internet, and More
- Links for the day
- Links 03/02/2025: USAID Under Attack, Vista 11 Breaking Itself Again
- Links for the day
- Copyleft is the Way to Go (Unless You're an Unpaid Volunteer of GAFAM)
- The GPL 'family' of licences is very old and those licences were last revised in 2007
- statCounter's Numbers Make Sense Given Microsoft's Falling Windows/Client Revenue
- There are already articles (some last week) saying that XBox should just be ended
- About 1 in 10 Laptops/Desktops in Venezuela and Cuba Uses GNU/Linux
- statCounter says GNU/Linux now exceeds 10% in Cuba
- At Microsoft, Promoting Back Doors, Proprietary Lock-in and Mass Surveillance Under the Guise of Diversity ("Microsoft Philanthropy Team")
- Microsoft staff enters NGOs to lobby for Microsoft and sell for Microsoft
- statCounter: Android Share in Operating Systems, Per Country
- Towards the bottom there are poorer countries
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 02, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, February 02, 2025
- statCounter: New Record Highs for GNU/Linux in Its Birthplace
- So Microsoft is in a tough place
- statCounter: In Canada, New Lows for Windows and Bing is Perishing
- Windows has fallen to about 60% in desktops/laptops
- Yandex Has Nearly Caught Up With Microsoft Internationally, Bing Falls to Pre-LLM Hype Levels
- Of course we've been saying all along that this would happen
- Germany's 'Share' of GNU/Linux Rises to All-Time High Based on This Surveyor
- Many public services have made the move to GNU/Linux
- Microsoft Uses the Mindset of Drug Dealers and Pays 'News' Sites to Sell 'Drugs'
- Microsoft pays publishers to spread the illusion that the only viable option for developers and non-developers is "drugs" like Visual Studio and Microsoft Office, respectively
- Windows Going South in the "Global South" (Africa and More)
- Microsoft has long been shameless about using the tactics of drug dealers
- Sharp Drop for Microsoft Windows This Month, Based on statCounter
- Facebook meanwhile censors GNU/Linux advocacy
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- many bots target our capsule (129,152 Gemini requests yesterday alone)
- Gemini Links 02/02/2025: Geminispace Targeted by Chatbots, Gabbro 0.1.1 Released
- Links for the day
- Links 02/02/2025: Website Revamps, Blogging About Blogging, and Self-Harming Tariff Wars (Higher Prices)
- Links for the day
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- Including attempts to gain control of TikTok, owing to the corrupt dictator long promoted by Larry Ellison (also via Twitter takeover)
- Links 02/02/2025: Union-Busting and Censorship by Executions
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 02/02/2025: Limits Pushing, Free Software Absolutism, and Why Gemini Matters
- Links for the day
- Slopwatch: BetaNews and linuxsecurity.com Have Just Published More Fake 'Articles' About "Linux"
- There's probably more "Linux" slop out there, but we do our best to identify it on a daily basis
- Over at Tux Machines...
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