[Meme] Web Sites and Capsules: Not Mutually Exclusive or Binary Choices
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2021-07-19 12:31:05 UTC
- Modified: 2021-07-19 12:31:05 UTC
Summary: gemini:// and http:// (or https://) can work just fine in conjunction; more Web sites ought to realise that it's worth the effort (porting over to gemini:// which is not hard at all)
Recent Techrights' Posts
- [Video] Richard Stallman's Talk in Sweden, Attended by Nearly 700 People, is Now Online
- The Web page is in Swedish, but the talk is in English
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- Confirmed: Very Close Friend of Bill Gates and Microsoft's Biggest Patent Troll Nathan Myhrvold Flew the Lolita Express (a Gateway to Pedophilia), According to Bill Gates-Sponsored Seattle Times
- There is no speculation or any "conspiracy theories" here;' those are verified facts
- Gemini Links 25/10/2025: "The Highest Leader of The Global Civil Society Community", SSL Certificates Causing Bitrot
- Links for the day
- Links 25/10/2025: Target Layoffs and "Shutdown Sparks 85% Increase in US Government Cyberattacks"
- Links for the day
- "Big Data" Was a Big Lie
- Remember "Big Data"? Remember "Data Scientists"...?
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- Considering the huge proportion of Web requests that come from LLM bots (more so this past year or two), statCounter may struggle to justify the operating costs
- Techrights Anniversary Party on November 7th
- Let us know if you need any accommodation-related arrangements
- Trends That Must Alarm Microsoft and Mozilla
- Expect Firefox to no longer be supported by various sites in the US
- Why Microsoft Became the Layoffs Leader
- The corporate media is projecting or signalling its own dishonesty when it tells us that Microsoft is a very "valuable" company while the data shows Microsoft is also a "market leader" in layoffs
- Speaking for Ourselves and Letting the Facts Speak for Themselves
- we've already published over 50,000 pages
- For Second Time in a Day The Register MS Takes Money From Private Companies to Sell a Ponzi Scheme
- Do not have empathy for those who have zero empathy towards you
- IBM is Misleading IBM Shareholders
- IBM is still all about vapourware and buzzwords
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 24, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, October 24, 2025
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- Serial Sloppers like these don't belong in news sites. That's why he got sacked by BetaNews.
- Links 24/10/2025: Esperanto Music History, Anxiety, and New Portals
- Links for the day
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- Why does Google News still advance these fake sites to the top of search results?
- Links 24/10/2025: Inequality Grows, Billion-Dollar Scam Center Industry
- Links for the day
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- 21 Pages in Less Than 7 Hours is No Joking Matter
- We've become a lot more effective and efficient
- Correct Information is a Valued Asset in the Age of Slopfarms and Public Relations (PR) or Spin
- Publishing suppressed facts is never easy
- The Register MS Continues to Bag Money to Promote a Ponzi Scheme, Even Money From China
- Today in the front page
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- Even Vista 7 is still used more
- Rust is Very Secure
- If only Rust itself is secure
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- they're practical people who merely point out that a bunch of buffoons not only ruin Ubuntu but also every future distro based on Ubuntu
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- Like "Science" with a capital "S", what we see here commercial interests usurping everything
- Generation Chaff - Phase VII: Curtailing Alternative Media
- There was always an obligation - a collective duty of sorts - to uphold independent journalism
- Generation Chaff - Phase VI: Centralisation of Information (X, Cheetok/Fentanylware)
- Would you trust information when controlled by such people?
- Generation Chaff - Phase V: Censorship of Dissent (Painted as Harassment or Terrorism)
- Censorship is all around us now
- Generation Chaff - Phase IV: Apps Only Few Companies Decide On
- Tools are being collectively confiscated, under the premise or false prospect of "security"
- Generation Chaff - Phase III: Slop and Plagiarism
- A lot of the current so-called 'economy' is built upon false valuations
- Generation Chaff - Phase II: "Cloud", Blockchains and Other Hype
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- Generation Chaff - Phase I: Social Control Media
- IRC predates the Web
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 23, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, October 23, 2025
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- In a lot of ways, so-called 'Vibe Coding' is already considered vapourware or a passing fad promoted in the media by managers who try to justify mass layoffs, especially ridding companies of "very expensive" software engineers
- Links 24/10/2025: Microsoft's Killing of XBox Connected to Revenue/Profit Problems, "How Elon Musk Ruined Twitter"
- Links for the day
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- Links for the day
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- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 23/10/2025: Daylight Savings Time and Duration Shorthand
- Links for the day
- Links 23/10/2025: LLM 'Hallucinations' (Defects) in Practical Code 'Generation', China Becomes More Economically and Technologically Independent
- Links for the day
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- Links for the day
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- Would you invest your life savings in this kind of crap?
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- The IRS does not reveal who or what's tied to this refund (or the cause/reason)
- Social engineering attack: Debian voted to trick you on binary blobs
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Techrights Will Always Stand for Women's Rights
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- "No matter how much financial hocus-pocus they use to reclassify revenues to land in the "sexy" buckets (AI, Quantum), it still smells old and musty - just like this company."
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- A few years ago society was accelerating its journey towards feudalism, boosted by COVID-19
- Links 23/10/2025: Proprietary Blunders and CISA's Latest Disclosure of Holes
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 23/10/2025: Fast Past (F1), 99.9% Uptime
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
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