TechBytes Episode 13: Copyfight, Wikileaks, and Other Chat

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 1: Brandon from Fedora	TechBytes Episode 1: Apple, Microsoft, Bundling, and Fedora 14 (With Special Guest Brandon Lozza)	1/11/2010
Episode 2: No guests	TechBytes Episode 2: Ubuntu's One Way, Silverlight Goes Dark, and GNU Octave Discovered	7/11/2010
Episode 3: No guests	TechBytes Episode 3: Games, Wayland, Xfce, Restrictive Application Stores, and Office Suites	8/11/2010
Episode 4: No guests	TechBytes Episode 4: Fedora 14 Impressions, MPAA et al. Payday, and Emma Lee's Magic	9/11/2010
Episode 5: No guests	TechBytes Episode 5: Windows Loses to Linux in Phones, GNU/Linux Desktop Market Share Estimations, and Much More	12/11/2010
Episode 6: No guests	TechBytes Episode 6: KINect a Cheapo Gadget, Sharing Perceptually Criminalised, Fedora and Fusion 14 in Review	13/11/2010
Episode 7: No guests	TechBytes Episode 7: FUD From The Economist, New Releases, and Linux Eureka Moment at Netflix	14/11/2010
Episode 8: Gordon Sinclair on Linux Mint	TechBytes Episode 8: Linux Mint Special With Gordon Sinclair (ThistleWeb)	15/11/2010
Episode 9: Gordon Sinclair returns	TechBytes Episode 9: The Potentially Permanent Return of ThistleWeb	17/11/2010
Episode 10: Special show format	TechBytes Episode 10: Microsoft FUD and Dirty Tactics Against GNU/Linux	19/11/2010
Episode 11: Part 2 of special show	TechBytes Episode 11: Microsoft FUD and Dirty Tactics Against GNU/Linux - Part II	21/11/2010
Episode 12: Novell special	TechBytes Episode 12: Novell Sold for Microsoft Gains	23/11/2010

Wine Took the Bait (Mono), Soon Starts the Microsoft Circus With the Banhammer: large companies are exercising more control over the thing/s they claim to "donate" to
[Meme] From Checked by Three Examiners to Gone (Granted) in 3 Seconds!: twice as many monopolies with 10% less staff
EPO Staff Representatives Explain the Latest Corruption at the EPO in a New Paper: Owing to corrupt management the EPO has resorted to corporate crime or organised crime designed to benefit large corporations. Who will pay the price? Everybody else in Europe.
[Video] Why Hurd and MINIX (or BSD) Didn't Get Ahead of Linux?: We've converted the video into WebM to make it more accessible
Dr. Richard M. Stallman (RMS) Explains That a Free/Libre Program Running on Somebody Else's Server (e.g. Clown Computing) Leads to Freedom Deficit: "when you are doing your computing you must not entrust that to somebody else's server because users including you should have control over their own computing but you can never have control over what somebody else's server does because somebody else installs software in that computer and configures it and thus decides what computing it is going to do."
ircII Has Turned 35: Don't listen to people who say IRC is "dead"
[Meme] Code of Conduct in WINE: irritate productive developers...
Number of Gemini Capsules Rising Closer to 4,100, Certificate Authority "Let's Encrypt" Down to 1.1%: Some time soon the Certificate Authority "Let's Encrypt" will probably fall below 1%
Richard M. Stallman Explains Why the Web Becoming a Pile of Proprietary JavaScript Programs (Not Pages to Render) Does Harm to Web Users: "The web was designed to let users control how that data would be rendered but businesses didn't like that."
Links 13/09/2024: Crackdowns on Bloggers, Deepfakes, Internet Archive‘s Wayback Machine Now in Google Search: Links for the day
RedMonk: September the Month of the Mouth of Redmond (Still): the usual storyline, i.e. what's not controlled by Microsoft's proprietary GitHub simply does not exist
Links 13/09/2024: Disinformation in Focus, End of Presidential Debates (Trump Accepts It Hurts Him): Links for the day
Mono as a Double-Purpose Trojan Horse Inside Wine: And now they can oust founders and top contributor with a CoC
This is How Bad Things Have Become at Microsoft: We're seeing nearly 80 reports in English about those layoffs
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 12, 2024: IRC logs for Thursday, September 12, 2024
Links 13/09/2024: Recorded Future Bought by MasterCard, Bits of Freedom Turns 25: Links for the day
Gemini Links 13/09/2024: Towards Aristocratic Personal Computing, Technology and Privac: Links for the day
Once Again, Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (Just Like Every Month This Year): Reporting and articles trickling in (in recent hours)
Rumour: Layoffs in IBM Consulting Today: IBM has had many layoffs lately
Microsoft Has Infiltrated the OSI and Its Moles (Whom It Pays to Speak 'for' OSI) Control the Narrative: This is utterly grotesque
Saudi Arabia and Its Footprint in X/Twitter: a massive proportion of pro-ISIS accounts in Twitter were operated from Saudi Arabia or by Saudi Arabians
Links 12/09/2024: Apple Owes a Lot of Money, Repressions and Censorship of Activists Noted: Links for the day
Anniversaries Coming Up: Probably the funnest year of our lives, and definitely the most productive
In Europe, Vista 11 Grew Only 3% (Relative to Other Windows Versions) This Year: That's a huge problem for Microsoft
Google's YouTube Censorship Has Gotten a Lot Worse and Anti-scientific (for Commercial Reasons): By today's standards, YouTube is not something RMS can (or would) use
Google Appears to Have Broken Every Single Instance of Invidious. It's a Wake-up Call, Please Stop Uploading Videos to YouTube.: Including videos of Free software events
[Meme] Video Uploads Improved: The tools are all in our self-hosted Git repository and the licence is, as usual, AGPLv3
Apple Event as Fine Example of the "IT" Circus: It's not clear if the enemy of Free software is a company like Apple is simply public ignorance that Apple keeps fostering
Imposters Inheriting Institutions: Dealing with the "imposter syndrome"
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 11, 2024: IRC logs for Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Gemini Links 12/09/2024: Clean Island and VCFMW19: Links for the day
Links 11/09/2024: EPO Patents Tossed Out by Courts, Software Patent Reveals Ford "Tech That Listens to Driver Conversations to Serve Ads": Links for the day
More "Linux" SEO SPAM, Wrapped Up as Clown Computing, Composed by a "Bullshit Generator" (LLM): linuxsecurity.com at it again this week
"Linux" and Linux.com Diploma Mill: The front page of Linux.com right now is the usual nonsense
[Meme] The Ponzi Scheme That Eats Rivals (by Paying Them to Stop Competing): Why compete when you can bribe and defang antitrust authorities?
In 2006 We Had a Novell Problem and Now We Have Several Novells: Microsoft thorns inside the community
Richard M. Stallman (RMS) Debunks Misconceptions About What Free Software Means and Explains How It Works: Free software means people (including users and developers) exercise control over the program, not the programmers
Links 11/09/2024: ROOPHLOCH Report, Small Web Experiences, and Cohost Effectively Dead: Links for the day
Links 11/09/2024: Russia Enters Latvia With Drone, Truth Social Stock Crashes: Links for the day
Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Has Fallen From 12% in Geminispace to Just 1.2% in Two Years (Capsules Usually Self-Sign Their Certificates): Don't ask the imposters about security
The "IT Industry" is Full of Imposters (It's a Growing Crisis): They often manage the companies
Richard Stallman Explains Stochastic Parrots (LLMs): From his latest talk
The Toys of Today's Kids and Coordination Woes, Not to Mention a Lack of Social Skills: Too much time indoors, too much screen time
Dispelling the Notion That Microsoft is Political Left: Microsoft not only got bailed out (several times) by Donald Trump but also approached him to take over TikTok without paying for it
Linus Torvalds, the Son of a Politician, Tries to Stay Out of Politics (or Political Topics): "I'm just a geek" has its limits in practice
Richard Stallman Still Deals With Politics: Stallman's gonna Stallman
GAFAM Not Invincible: The US has an election very soon and Microsoft is already bribing candidates for deregulation and favours, based on press reports
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 10, 2024: IRC logs for Tuesday, September 10, 2024
The Greatest Show on Earth (Buzzwords Circus): What next? Being denied medical service because you don't have a Facebook account?
Gemini Links 11/09/2024: Happiness, Improvised Nebuliser, and olden Age of Palm OS: Links for the day

TechBytes Episode 13: Copyfight, Wikileaks, and Other Chat

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