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Turning 13.5 Years and Soon 30 Years Combined (With Tux Machines)

Tall cake



Summary: With about 30,000 pages in the site we're turning 13.5 this week (or last week, depending on what date counts as our 'epoch')

THIS WEEK is a little special. Not sentimental; maybe just a little noteworthy.



On the 7th of November 2006 this site was registered and 6 days later the opening sentence of the site said that "[t]he way to communicate with a corporation is economically."

Up until 2010 we led a campaign of boycott against Novell (we were also named accordingly) because, as the opening post stated: "It is unacceptable behavior on Novell’s part to legitimize and participate in Microsoft's FUD campaign, and to violate the very license that allows them to distribute the community’s work in the first place."

"Google's estimate of number of indexed pages is at 29,700 right now."Currently, the number of published posts is 27,211, putting aside site pages, wiki pages, Drupal side (tailored for new visitors) and various objects like videos. Google's estimate of number of indexed pages is at 29,700 right now. If one adds things like PDFs, text files, index pages and so on that sort of makes sense. We're thoroughly indexed going all the way back to the site's genesis. Not all pages are equal. IRC logs, for example, aren't the same as a long articles and Daily Links aren't original material but merely news clippings, sometimes with editorial comments attached to them. Last week we finally reached the point where our WordPress database (text only) exceeded 1 gigabyte as compressed file. We make nightly backups (the site is hardly accessible when that happens).

"Last week we finally reached the point where our WordPress database (text only) exceeded 1 gigabyte as compressed file."Depending on what one considers the birthday (whether the registration or the first post), right now we're somewhere in between the special day. Our sister site Tux Machines (GNU/Linux news) turns 16 next month, so a few months from now we'll have a combined lifetime of 30 years, not thirteen.

At the moment we're seeing a big growth in traffic (180GB in the past half-week and it's quite normal), we're getting more help/participation, our backup system now spans 3 countries/continents, and we're preparing/coaching an intern, who will hopefully be able to participate very soon. As an aside, we have some regulars in our IRC channel who are SUSE developers. Novell as a company perished a whole decade ago (time flies) and we can partly leave behind this baggage of SUSE (it was S.u.S.E. before Novell took over it and disgraced the brand, sadly associating it with Microsoft).

Recent Techrights' Posts

Microsoft GitHub: A Hair Salon Where You Get Awards for Nothing (NFT Vanity)
People aren't defined by some private (proprietary) database and Microsoft does not universally "score" developers
On Character Assassination Tactics
The people who leverage these dirty politics typically champion projection tactics
 
[Meme] Software in the Public Interest (SPI), Inc, Values Articles of Daniel Pocock at ~$5,000 Each (and Fails to Hide the Facts)
we are laughing, not grieving
Berlin police declined to investigate FSFE Nazi comparisons
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 06, 2024
IRC logs for Monday, May 06, 2024
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
[Meme] About 2,564 Internet Sites Now at Risk of Hostile Takeover by Microsoft-Sponsored Software in the Public Interest (SPI)
WIPO censors Debian suicide cluster
Links 07/05/2024: Burning Plastic Waste, Facebook Censoring Politicians
Links for the day
Gemini Links 07/05/2024: Smashing Windows (Microsoft Losing Users to GNU/Linux), Sixty Years of BASIC
Links for the day
World Press Freedom Day: WIPO censors Debian suicide cluster
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Southern Asia is All Android (Majority) Now
It's looking better (almost) every month
Windows Already Down to 1% "Market Share" in Some Countries
it is a dying breed
Tesla Has Become a Ponzi Scheme or a 'Meme Stock'
They tell us Tesla is "worth" almost twice as much as a company that sold about 30 times more cars
For People at Red Hat "Job is at Risk"
Red Hat is consulting some notorious firms to implement cuts
Linux.com Became Mostly Dead, de Facto Marketing Site of "Linux" Foundation Products (Unrelated to Linux)
what has happened to the authoritative domain Linux.com
In Europe, Android is Bigger Than Windows (Android Now Measured at 45.1% Worldwide)
Right now in statCounter...
Links 06/05/2024: Al Jazeera Raided, Wildfire Season Coming
Links for the day
Links 06/05/2024: Scams and Politics
Links for the day
Gemini Links 06/05/2024: Reading and Computers
Links for the day
United States Entering the $100 Trillion Debt Trap, We Compare GAFAM Debt
Google's debt is about 6 times less than Amazon's
GitLab's Losses Grew From $172,311,000 to $424,174,000 Per Annum
Letting this company have control over your (or your company's) development/code forge may cost you a lot in the future
statCounter's Latest: Android Bouncing to New All-Time Highs, Windows Down to Unprecedented Lows
Android rising
Can't Bear the Thought We're Happy and Productive
If someone is now harassing online friends, attacking the wife, attacking my family (not just attacking and defaming people I know online) there are legal ramifications
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 05, 2024
IRC logs for Sunday, May 05, 2024
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
Erinn Clark & Debian: Justice or another Open Source vendetta?
Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
Death of Michael Anthony Bordlee, New Orleans, Louisiana
Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
The Revolution Continues
Today we've published over 20 pages and tomorrow we expect more or less the same
Death of Dr Alex Blewitt, UK
Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), Inc. vs. Vizio, Inc. Is Costing the Free Software Foundation Money
FSF subpoena and deposition
Following the Herd (or HURD)
Society advances owing to people who think differently and promote positive change, not corporate shills
They Try to Replace the Creators of GNU/Linux and Hijack Their Word, Work, and Reputation
gnu.org is down at the moment; now I'm told it's back but very slow. DDoS?
Thiemo Seufer & Debian deaths: examining accidents and suicides
Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
Links 05/05/2024: Political Cyberattacks From Russia and Google Getting a Lot Worse
Links for the day
Gemini Links 05/05/2024: Infobesity and Profectus Beta 1.0
Links for the day
Running This Site Mostly a Joyful Activity
The real problem or the thing that we need to cancel is this "Cancel Culture"
Australia Has Finally Joined the "4% Club" (ChromeOS+GNU/Linux)
statCounter stats
Debian as a Hazardous Workplace Where No Accountability Exists (Nor Salaries)
systematic exploitation of skilled developers by free 'riders' (or freeloaders) like Google, IBM, and Microsoft
Clownflare Isn't Free and Its CEO Openly Boasted They'd Start Charging Everyone to Offset the Considerable Losses (It's a Trap, It's Just Bait)
Clownflare has collapsed
Apple Delivered Very Disappointing Results, Said It Would Buy Its Own Shares (Nobody Will Check This), Company's Debt Now Exceeds Its Monetary Assets
US debt is now 99.98 trillion dollars
FSFE Still Boasts About Working Underage People for No Pay
without even paying them
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 04, 2024
IRC logs for Saturday, May 04, 2024
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
The Persecution of Richard Stallman
WebM version of a new video
Molly de Blanc has been terminated, Magdalen Berns' knockout punch and the Wizard of Oz
Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
[Meme] IBM's Idea of Sharing (to IBM)
the so-called founder of IBM worshiped and saluted Adolf Hitler himself
Neil McGovern & Debian: GNOME and Mollygate
Reprinted with permission from disguised.work