TechBytes Episode 16: Bribes for Reviews, GNU/Linux News, and Wikileaks Opinions

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
Episode 13: No guests	TechBytes Episode 13: Copyfight, Wikileaks, and Other Chat	28/11/2010
Episode 14: Patents special	TechBytes Episode 14: Software Patents in Phones, Android, and in General	29/11/2010
Episode 15: No guests	TechBytes Episode 15: Google Chrome OS, Windows Refund, and Side Topics Like Wikileaks	30/11/2010

Two Risks to Companies: The Microsoft Culture and the Microsoft Tools: Novell was killed by a form of "social engineering" by Microsoft
It's Hard to Trust People Who Worked - Not Only Those Who Still Work - at Microsoft: Bryan Lunduke is just what people would call an "arsehole of a person"
Links 06/07/2025: Climate Change and "The Right to Criticise": Links for the day
The Mainstream Media Took 4 Days to Realise Microsoft Shut Down Its Operations in Pakistan and Fired Everybody: We estimate that Microsoft has had about 29,000 layoffs since January
“Twibel” Actions Against Comedians (and Why It's a Truly Low Blow): they try to make up in quantities for a lack of merit or quality
[Video] "Copyleft Isn't a Bug.": "Copyleft isn’t a bug. It’s a feature. GNU GPL forced the world to treat code like a public good."
Being in Social Control Media Means Exposing Oneself to Heckling: Richard Stallman does not (either himself or directly) post to any social control media
Links 06/07/2025: Airlines Perils, Scams, and Breaches: Links for the day
For the Second Time, Bryan Lunduke From Microsoft is Siccing Racist Trolls and Vandals at Me: You're only reinforcing the point we made yesterday
Links 06/07/2025: End to End Encryption at Risk, Reuters Twitter ("X") Account Withheld in India: Links for the day
Gemini Links 06/07/2025: Tinylog and Certification Rotation: Links for the day
PCLinuxOS Sites Coming Back, Gradually: let's just be patient
Social Control Media, Even If Based on Free Software, Still Has Many Problems: a distraction from what actually mattered and still matters
IBM is Not Your Master: IBM makes friends with people who exclude the majority of the population: women
Help Fund the Free Software Foundation (FSF): If you have some dollars to spare, go support the FSF
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 05, 2025: IRC logs for Saturday, July 05, 2025
A Short History of Attacks on Techrights (and Boycott Novell Before That): good opportunity to tell again the story of several (not all) attempts to silence us
Leadership in Free Software: Don't let IBM lead. It's a terrible flag bearer.
Linux Foundation Apparently Flirting With Slop (Marketing by LLM-Generated SPAM): The Web is in a really bad state!
COVID-19 Sped Up Site Improvements in Techrights: A few months later we created our very own IRC network
Gemini Links 05/07/2025: Negative Questions and 'Touching Grass' (Going Outside): Links for the day
Links 05/07/2025: Dalai Lama Succession as 90th Birthday Approaches, 40 deg C in China: Links for the day
Links 05/07/2025: Hungary and US Defecting to Russia, "Google's Hotseat Hypocrisy": Links for the day
Gemini Links 05/07/2025: 4th of July 2025 and "Zig Roadmap 2026": Links for the day
How to Combat the Exploitation and Abuse by Microsoft GitHub: Not to mention corruption and crimes against women
Bryan Lunduke is Actually Sending His Audience to Attack People: "[Lunduke] is actually sending his audience to attack people."
Even The Right Wing is Rejecting Bryan Lunduke: no wonder he became so irrelevant and marginal
Microsoft's MSN Helps Microsoft Spread Lies About the Layoffs' Scale (Well Over 25,000 People Laid Off This Year): There seem to be monopolies on lies and on truth
The Death of X Has Been Greatly Exaggerated (by Compromised Media): X.Org Server is alive and well
Rewriting Things in Rust: How far would you go?
In 2025 Everything is "AI". Remember Blockchains?: Talk about what companies and things (services, products, software) actually do, not the labels they use
Julian Assange Has Been Free for a Year: Julian Assange and I disagreed on some things
Monopolies and Scalping: Monopolies gravitate towards price hikes
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 04, 2025: IRC logs for Friday, July 04, 2025
Microsoft's August Layoffs Wave: "August is Confirmed for Additional Performance Based Cuts": "August is confirmed for additional performance based cuts from the recent connects along with additional organizational cuts."
What Microsoft Reputation Laundering (With a Weaponised Law Degree) Looks Like in a Foreign Continent: You would expect this in uncivilised and primitive countries
Slopwatch: LLMs 'Write' Fake or Distorted 'News' About "Linux": LLM slop disguised as news
Links 04/07/2025: Google Replaces the Web With Slop, "AI Might Kill Us All": Links for the day
Gemini Links 04/07/2025: Mindfulness and F1: Links for the day
Weeks After Microsoft Bankruptcy in Russia the Company Shuts Down in Pakistan, Too: Last month Windows' share in Pakistan fell to an all-time low
Rob Musial's June 2025 Additions of Malware in Proprietary Software: Via the GNU Web site this week
Links 04/07/2025: Microsoft's H-1B Visa Applications Show Another Crisis Unfolding, Many More Deep Cuts and Shutdowns Revealed, Complete Microsoft Exits: Links for the day
Gemini Links 04/07/2025: A Day To Remember and "Stop Killing Games": Links for the day
Crime and Corruption at Microsoft GitHub Cannot be Covered Up by SLAPPs in Another Continent: We'll write about this for a long time to come
Slop Videos Are Disappointing Garbage, Nothing New, Just Brute Force up on Display or a Pedestal of Slop: Slop videos aren't a new thing
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 03, 2025: IRC logs for Thursday, July 03, 2025
The War on Local Storage (People Hosting Their Files Locally and Privately): There's nothing wrong with controlling one's computing
What Digital Independence Means: Independence in the digital realms means abandoning platforms like GitHub, not just rejecting proprietary software
NVidia is a Bubble: they temporarily see fortunes and wrongly assume perpetuity thereof
Fedora Does Not Care About Diversity and Inclusion, It's About Optics (Corporate Image): any notion of inclusion is superficial and misleading
Don't Buy the Excuses for Microsoft's Mass Layoffs: Back in the 90s, Microsoft bought a lot of companies to get and stay ahead

TechBytes Episode 16: Bribes for Reviews, GNU/Linux News, and Wikileaks Opinions

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