TechBytes Episode 30: Microsoft at FOSDEM, Debian Release, and Anonymous

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

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 16: No guests	TechBytes Episode 16: Bribes for Reviews, GNU/Linux News, and Wikileaks Opinions	3/12/2010
Episode 17: No guests	TechBytes Episode 17: Chrome OS Imminent, Wikileaks Spreads to Mirrors, 'Open' Microsoft	5/12/2010
Episode 18: No guests	TechBytes Episode 18: Chrome OS, Sharing, Freedom, and Wikileaks	11/12/2010
Episode 19: No guests	TechBytes Episode 19: GNU/Linux Market Share on Desktop at 4%, Microsoft Declining, and ChromeOS is Coming	16/12/2010
Episode 20: No guests	TechBytes Episode 20: GNU/Linux Gamers Pay More for Games, Other Discussions	18/12/2010
Episode 21: No guests	TechBytes Episode 21: Copyright Abuses, Agitators and Trolls, Starting a New Site	20/12/2010
Episode 22: No special guests	TechBytes Episode 22: Freedom Debate and Picks of the Year	27/12/2010

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 23: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 23: Failuresfest and 2011 Predictions	2/1/2011
Episode 24: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 24: Android, Microsoft's President Departure, and Privacy	10/1/2011
Episode 25: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 25: Mono, Ubuntu, Android, and More	14/1/2011
Episode 26: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 26: €£98 GNU/Linux Computer, Stuxnet's Government Roots, and More	18/1/2011
Episode 27: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 27: Linux Phones, Pardus, Trusting One's Government-funded Distribution, and Much More	22/1/2011
Episode 28: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 28: The Weekend After Microsoft's Results and LCA	30/1/2011

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 29: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 29: KDE, Other Desktop Environments, and Programming	7/2/2011

"Journalism in Twitter" is a Paradox: "I am writing an article" is not the same as "I am writing a set of tweets" (usually random thoughts and unverified assertions, citing other unverified assertions)
The Future of the World Wide Web is Just 'Webapps' in Chrome, Not Web Pages in One's Browser of Choice: The monoculture gets worse, not better
EPO Corruption is a Real Threat to the European Union (EU). The EPO Helps Russia. If It Does Not Reform or Reboot, It Can Contribute to the Collapse of the EU and UPC (Which Was Never Legal or Even Constitutional, It's a Captured Kangaroo Court Controlled by the Patent Litigation Industry).: second-largest institution in Europe
Linux is Becoming Non-free Software and the So-called 'Linux' Foundation Likes It That Way (It's Fronting for Companies That Violate the GPL, the Licence of Linux): What's happening here is, they rip off people using their "stolen" (GPL-violating) product
Red Hat: Thank You, Microsoft. Here's Your Paid-for Puff Pieces From Our Media Partner!: Sort of like "money laundering" (or funnelling of bribes) for bribed "journalists"
Today's Slopwatch: MaKenna Hensley's latest
Playing Social Control Media 'Games' Instead of Writing Articles: someone will need to run two sites. One is "In Support of Richard Stallman", which is run by oneself, and other is "Stallman Support".
The Patent Litigation 'Industry' Controls the European Patent Office (Vendor Capture) and Everyone Suffers, Even the European Union: Today we relay an EPO publications dated just 4 days ago (this past Tuesday)
No, Mr. "Journalist", You Might be Corrupt (But Denying It to Yourself and to Others to Pacify Your Consciousness): "Journalists" like the label because it makes the job sound like an honourable profession and they're presumed objective
Stop Glorifying Murderers, They Aren't Helping Anybody: Murder isn't the solution. Murder is a problem.
Europe's "Manhattan Project" Should be Abandoning Microsoft, Moving Everything to Free (Libre) Software: At the moment, Microsoft draws much of its budget from taxpayers
Gemini Links 14/12/2024: Minor Thing About git and jujutsu: Links for the day
Links 14/12/2024: Adobe's Shares Collapse, Apple Publishes Fake News With LLMs: Links for the day
Links 14/12/2024: ChatGPT Down, Microsofter Bracing for Layoffs: Links for the day
Gemini Links 13/12/2024: Firing at Work, jujutsu, and Gemini Mode: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 13, 2024: IRC logs for Friday, December 13, 2024
Links 13/12/2024: British Journalism Awards and Censorship by Copyright Misuse: Links for the day
Gemini Links 13/12/2024: "Virtue Signaling", Gopher, HTML and the 90s Web Aesthetic: Links for the day
Links 13/12/2024: Military Buildup Around Taiwan, More Health Problems Associated With Social Control Media Illuminated: Links for the day
Maybe - and Hopefully - More News Sites Will Go "Static" (More New Material Published But Established Pages Served Directly From the File System): Keeping things simple and light is important for the sake of scaling
[Meme] Vendor Capture for 'Civility's Sake': "I CoCed him already"
[Teaser] The EPO is Still Calling Monopolies "Products": Coming soon
Anonymity for Sources: At the moment we can learn about stories in person or in encrypted voice chat
What Topics We Prioritise: On fishing for topics to cover
Why We Cover the Topics That We've Long Focused on (by Choice): We'll continue to cover suppressed issues because such issues are usually obstructed
[Meme] The Reasonable Man: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world"
Oligarch-Owned Media Twists the Narrative and Demands More Surveillance: Corruption is the real issue here
Windows Falls to Single-Digit "Market Share" in Benin: Windows has fallen even further
[Meme] Doing Online Activism in Social Control Media: Dictators have always loved lists
Gemini Links 13/12/2024: Creative Moods, Berkeley DB, and More: Links for the day
Microsoft Windows Falls to New All-Time Low in Guatemala (Less Than a Quarter): When it comes to operating systems, we don't think we've mentioned it before
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 12, 2024: IRC logs for Thursday, December 12, 2024
[Meme] Leave My /home Alone: A new version of Systemd
There's a New Version of Lagrange (Gemini Reader) and Its Developer is Making an IDE/Editor: I share or reciprocate almost anything I can through Gemini Protocol
International Troll Alert by Helen Plews: Helen Plews from Cybershow has this new article
Nick's Job at OSI: Promote Microsoft, Promote Proprietary Software: This is what Microsoft pays him to do
[Meme] Award-Winning Back-stabbing Opportunists: part of the rebel alliance
The FSF (Free Software Foundation, Inc.) Can Reach Its Funding Goal of $400,000. This Bothers the Imposters and Foes of the FSF.: Software Freedom is something we must perpetually fight for
Azerbaijan Rejects Microsoft: Azerbaijan seems to have very little interest in Microsoft
Linux Foundation Pays for LLM Slop (Puff Pieces Made by Bots) About the Linux Foundation: The so-called Linux Foundation is responsible for the production of spam and slop
[Meme] You Just Grab Him by the CoC: Sponsors of Python Software Foundation... "You don't like Python's corporate sponsor?"
Explaining What Deb Nicholson Does to the Python Software Foundation: Of course the OSI, which Nicholson also occupied, still helps Microsoft attack copyleft
IBM Said to Be Firing People Days Before Christmas: IBM is entering taboo territories
Microsoft Falls to Just 11% in Ivory Coast: Microsoft tried hard to catch up in mobile
General Consultative Committee (GCC) Meeting at the European Patent Office (EPO) Shows Existing Problems: the "real problems" and why "digitalisation" doesn't solve them
Links 12/12/2024: Shell Settles With Greenpeace, DOJ Whistleblower Pilot Program: Links for the day
Gemini Links 12/12/2024: AuraGem TV and Advent of Code 2024: Links for the day
Fake "Linux" News, Produced by Microsoft Chatbots in 'Brittany Day' or "LinuxSecurity" Clothing: She's back at it
Microsoft OSI Promoting GitHub, Which is Proprietary and a Massive GPL Violator: OSI works for Microsoft, speaks for Microsoft, promotes proprietary software
Links 12/12/2024: Another 'Self-driving' Cars Dead End, Infowars Sale Blocked by Court: Links for the day
Links 12/12/2024: "Hey Hi" Hype Debunked, ActivityPub and Gemini Software on Same Server: Links for the day
Google Has Only Solidified Its Search Monopoly in Africa Since Microsoft's Chatbot/LLM Hype Started: Africa is basically a "Failed Market" to Microsoft
[Teaser] EPO is Running Out of Brains: EPO has been in the business of offering fake patents
South Korea Has Its Own Alternative to IBM's Proprietary RHEL: Owing to the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA)
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 11, 2024: IRC logs for Wednesday, December 11, 2024

TechBytes Episode 30: Microsoft at FOSDEM, Debian Release, and Anonymous

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