[Meme] Linux Foundation Can't Use Linux
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2021-04-17 11:07:38 UTC
- Modified: 2021-04-17 11:10:52 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- What Ruben Amorim and Stefano Maffulli Have in Common
- Censors Wikipedia and Social Control Media
- Microsoft Won't Cooperate in Trying to Tackle EPO Corruption (Microsoft Profits From This Corruption)
- Use something like BigBlueButton, Jami, Ring, and Jitsi instead
- We Are Sad to Hear the Story of Jonathan Riddell, Champion of KDE and GNU/Linux on Desktops/Laptops
- I have enormous respect for Jonathan and everything he has done
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- Geminispace Growing at Pace of Over 10% Per Year
- Contrary to what some pessimists try to claim
- Linux Mint Forums Today: Disable 'Secure Boot', It Doesn't Improve Security, It's Just a Microsoft Obstacle to GNU/Linux Users
- They also mention MOK
- Solved Less Than an Hour Ago: Trying to Escape Windows, 'Secure Boot' Gets in the Way
- 'Secure Boot' wasn't meant to even exist in the first place
- Stefano Maffulli, Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative, Resigns or Gets Removed (We'll Continue Covering OSI Scandals)
- A dozen mentions of "AI", not much about "Open Source"
- Andy Has Just Nailed It (Regarding Complexity and Failure, a la UEFI)
- The users no longer own or control what they buy
- Compatibility Support Module (CSM) Versus GNU/Linux Simplicity
- what Andy recently called "solutionism"
- Links 15/09/2025: "Postal Traffic to US Down by Over 80%" and 'Smart' Spinozacampus Laundry Room Goes AWOL
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 15/09/2025: Dungeon Hustle and Deleting Oneself From the Net
- Links for the day
- Breach of EPO's Duty of Care or Cigna Reimbursement Issues
- This is the sort of thing that motivated Luigi Mangione to assassinate a CEO
- Ask Ubuntu About "Secure Boot" Violation and Laptops That Don't Boot GNU/Linux
- Does anyone still believe that "Secure Boot" has anything at all to do with security?
- Talking About the Problem vs Talking to the Problem
- Wanting an audience is never a good excuse for compromising one's values and principles
- Focusing on Patents
- The reason we cover the EPO so much is that it's close to home
- "Secure Boot Violation": The 'Joys' of Fake Security Gone Wrong
- Not everyone reboots every day
- Links 15/09/2025: Russia Invades Romanian Airspace, Penske Media Sues Google Over LLM Slop
- Links for the day
- Links 15/09/2025: Bitcoin ATMs Scam and "Conservative Cryptography" (Backdoors Fantasies)
- Links for the day
- EPO Imitates Microsoft: "Three Days or More Per Week" Inside the Office to Get a Desk to Work on; "the Office Breaches Its Promise Towards Staff and Acts in Breach of Its Duty of Care"
- The EPO serves no actual function in Europe
- Links 15/09/2025: Political Affairs, Censorship, and Copyrights
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 15/09/2025: Music Genres, Invisible Networks, and Akademy 2025
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 14, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, September 14, 2025
- Satya's Plan B: Try to Hide the Massive Extent/Scale/Scope of Microsoft Layoffs
- fewer people buy Microsoft
- Red Hat News About De Facto Mass Layoffs (Bluewashing) Gone From Reddit (Censored by Gatekeepers), Still Online in The Register
- With RTOs, PIPs, relocation etc. expect IBM to "shed off" many Red Hatters
- UEFI "Secure Boot Doesn’t Play Nice at the Moment"
- UEFI "Secure Boot" does not improve security. It's an artificial obstacle in service of monopoly.
- Gemini Links 14/09/2025: ROOPHLOCH, Music, and Reddit
- Links for the day
- If You Want to "make your 'Windows PC' lean, mean, and fast" You Will Install GNU/Linux or Some BSD
- That kind of article says a lot about IDG
- Slopwatch: Google News Infested With Slop (About Half of the Results for "Linux" Today)
- This is the sort of junk one finds when looking for "Linux" in Google News these days
- Links 14/09/2025: Ricky Hatton Dies and McDonald's Declares War on Tipping Culture
- Links for the day
- Links 14/09/2025: Disasters for CEOs Obsessed With Slop and Slop Companies School Like Fish
- Links for the day
- "Bad Shim Signature" (Microsoft 'Secure' Boot)
- "Fresh install not booting"
- What Microsoft Garrett and Microsoft Lunduke Have in Common
- Similar tactics, different "wings"
- Links 14/09/2025: US "Economy Sagging", "Michigan Economy Wobbles From Tariffs"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 14/09/2025: Minimalist Snippet Manager and Omarchy Linux
- Links for the day
- The Face of the Digital Far Right: Microsoft Lunduke
- Microsoft Lunduke is an online extremist that belongs to and panders to the far right
- 20 Years Later and Academia Isn't the Same
- "I never dreamed of being a professor"
- 'Cancel Culture' by the Right: Microsoft Lunduke Contacts People's Employers Trying to Get Them Fired
- Microsoft Lunduke panders to extremists online
- "Bad Shim Signature"; So 'Secure' That It Overrides Users' Preferences and Turns Itself Back on (Coercive Measure)
- This was a few hours ago
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, September 13, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, September 13, 2025
- Microsoft is Rapidly Dropped From Web Servers, Shows Survey
- Microsoft lost about 8% "market share" in just 3 months
- Many GNU/Linux Users Report MOK (Machine Owner Key) Issues in Recent Days
- many people don't report this online and never post in Reddit
- We Covered UEFI 'Secure Boot' Scandals. The World Listened.
- To hell with UEFI 'secure boot'
- Links 13/09/2025: Escalations in East Europe and POTUS’ Health Cover-Up
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 13/09/2025: Lagrange Turns 5 and Lagrange 1.19.2 Released
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Inside Your Linux: "Security vulnerability that allowed an attacker to bypass UEFI Secure Boot."
- 2 hours ago
- A New Low for "Linux Journal": Promoting MICROSOFT WINDOWS Using LLM Slop
- They've just jumped the shark entirely
- Fake News With Fake Numbers About Microsoft
- "This is what happens when the world's economy is governed by sick old men"
- Slopwatch: "Google News" is Fast Becoming a Mashup of Slopfarms, Linux Journal ("LJ") is a Dump of LLM Slop
- Well done, Google News. Google itself can flourish as a slopfarm mashup.
- Torturing Users Who Just Want to Run GNU/Linux on Their Own PC
- "Linux does not want to install"
- The Register MS Still Takes Money to Hype Up "AI" in Articles by Microsoft Resellers With the Term "AI" 30+ Times in Them
- Notice how many times they mention "AI"
- The Apache Logo News is VERY Old, Racists and 'Anti-Woke' Bigots Look for Something to Incite Other Bigots With
- Nothing to see here, move along
- Linux Mint 9/11: "4th One Today..." (in Reddit)
- Remember that not everyone having an issue reports it to social control media like Reddit
- Nepal Will Fall Without a Single Shot Fired, Thanks to Social Control Media
- Or very few shots (by the authorities)
- European Corruption in the European Patent Office (EPO) Targets Culture
- "In reality, the project includes a new “legal instrument” shifting administrative burden and liability on EPO staff while creating new uncertainty and externalising Amicale activities."
- European Authorities, Already Bribed and Infiltrated by Microsoft, Won't Help You Find BigBlueButton, Jami, Ring, and Jitsi
- Because they're paid by Microsoft and are Microsoft 'addicts' themselves
- UEFI Secure Boot Failing, as Expected for Nearly 15 Years Already (Techrights Said This Since 2012)
- in the media
- Debian 9/11
- people report this issue
- Gemini and Web Links 13/09/2025: MElon's Slop Grift and "Autonomous Trains"
- Links for the day
- Moving From Content Management Systems (CMSs) to Static Site Generators (SSGs) Saves You Time, Makes You a Lot More Productive
- try to reduce the cost (financial and computational) of running your site
- Pursuing Peace Through Violence
- You cannot "see" a person's mind, until the mouth opens
- Leak: European Patent Office (EPO) is Now Attacking Amicale Clubs
- corruption has become the norm and scientists are robbed of any dignity
- Can We Please Stop Celebrating Shooters?
- "An important point to hammer on is that CoCs were never intended for uniform or symmetric application"
- Oracle Fraud (or Defrauding Shareholders)
- "the obvious [lie] is that watts are (wasted) electricity [and] and FLOPS are computing capacity"
- Geminispace is Growing Faster in 2025 Than It Did in 2024
- What matters is that corporations haven't ruined it and LLM slop is extremely rare
- Links 13/09/2025: China Punishes for 'Negative' Posts, US Police Unable to Find Shooter
- Links for the day
- Who's the Mystery Financier of SLAPP Against Techrights and Is That a Millionaire/Billionaire?
- Whose idea was it to fund meritless lawsuits against my wife and I?
- Slopwatch: Slow Slop Day
- This distracts from or may take traffic away from the original articles, actually written by actual people
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 12, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, September 12, 2025
