Looks Like GNU/Linux and Free Software Folks Are Exiting Twitter Fast
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2023-01-04 10:33:56 UTC
- Modified: 2023-01-04 11:20:33 UTC
Twitter is doing just fine!
Summary: In spite of posting more tweets, all the statistics are down, perhaps a symptom of many people leaving Twitter in the wake of last month's big Twitter scandals (Tux Machines is followed by the sorts of people who are likely to have moved to Mastodon)
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Synthesised Voices Aren't a New Technology (the Hype Might Be, They Call It "Hey Hi" Now)
- I still consider this an extension of the "hey hi" (AI) hype
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- Almost Half the Web Users Connecting to Your Site Are Using Linux
- almost 1 in 2 Web-connected devices runs Android and about 2% run "proper" GNU/Linux
- The Web Has Severe Amnesia Problems, But We Still Remember How Gilberto Gil Promoted Free Software in Brazil
- The Digital Tipping Point (DTP) is years behind us now
- LLM Hype is Already Descending, Apple Stopped Investing in the Money Furnace
- Wall Street is a perverse force in the technology market, incentivising the most harmful (and mostly useless) things
- Change Control and What Will Come After Git (If That's Still Possible at All)
- It would be wrong to believe (at least misguided) Git can be a "standard" skill 30 or 50 years from now.
- On the Web, HTTPS Has Actually Become a Privacy Problem (Broadcasting Usage/Access to the All-Seeing CA Eye). Geminispace Doesn't Have This Problem.
- Down to 23 capsules: the rapid demise of Certificate Authority (CA) Let's Encrypt in Geminispace
- Links 07/10/2024: Politics, Education, Wars, Financial Crunch
- Links for the day
- Munich Was Having Real Difficulties Moving From GNU/Linux to Windows
- How many are still using GNU/Linux?
- Links 07/10/2024:China’s 'Deflation' (Price Decreases), Brazil Still Bars Twitter ("X")
- Links for the day
- Links 07/10/2024: "Creative Computing" Turns 50, Long War in Middle East Turns 1
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 07/10/2024: Luck and Dishonesty, Gaming Getting Worse
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 06, 2024
- IRC logs for Sunday, October 06, 2024
- EPO: We Give Recognition to Frauds
- Good to see some frank recognition right there in the EPO's own Web site
- Even Though We Don't Focus on statCounter for Now (Not Our Top Priority) GNU/Linux Reaches New Highs This Month:
- We caught GNU/Linux at 4.86% before, but only temporarily
- Links 06/10/2024: Ham Radio for Recovery, Health Problems Worldwide
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 06/10/2024: Special Interest Galore and Religion
- Links for the day
- Keeping Control Out of Dictators' Hands
- When people are just "numbers"...
- Links 06/10/2024: Misinformation Growing on the Web, "Hey Hi" Hype Waning for Lack of RoI
- Links for the day
- [Meme] Years Have Passed and EPO Management Still Isn't Obeying a Ruling From a Court Regarding Communications Between Staff
- Representatives talking to their staff is "privacy violation"?
- Presentations of the Staff Union of the European Patent Office in Its Headquarters Tomorrow After Work
- Annual General Meeting and reports
- Gemini Links 06/10/2024: SSH Keys and Hobby Game Development
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 05, 2024
- IRC logs for Saturday, October 05, 2024
- [Meme] How to Keep Granting Hundreds of Thousands of Fake Patents (Without Upsetting Anybody in Politics and Media)
- This is very Kremlin-like
- EPO Examiners to Adopt Resolution Condemning EPO Management for Breaking the Law in Order to Grant Many Illegal Software Patents
- Europe's second-largest institution (EPO) is a law-breaking institution hiding behind the veil of "law"
- [Meme] Sup, Nazi?
- "Come back, one year"
- Calling "Nazi" and "Right Wing" Everyone Who Does Not Agree With You (Even Leftists Whose Views on Some Issues Slightly Differ From Yours)
- Oil money has become exceptionally notorious for takeover of online platforms and institutions/NGOs (using them to incite society inwards, not upwards)
- EFF Losing the Plot
- Like the Linux Foundation and OSI, the EFF has succumbed to corporate influence and is derailing itself (along with its original mission)
- Links 05/10/2024: Patents Being Squashed, EFF Insists on Children's Access to Porn
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 05/10/2024: Multitudinous Agreeable Futures and Misfin Mail
- Links for the day
- EFF Celebrates Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office as "Digital Inclusion", Mocks GNU/Linux-Based ChromeOS
- Yet another example/evidence that EFF has become a rotten pile of junk
- Links 05/10/2024: Amazon Culling 14,000 Managers, About 160 People Resign From Automattic
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Moles in Nerdearla, Openwashing and Whitewashing Microsoft With Its Latest Ponzi Scheme and Storytelling
- Also GPL violations en masse
- The Danger of Outsourcing Your Platform to Social Control Media and Getting "Information" There
- Stella is probably not aware of what she has just done
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 04, 2024
- IRC logs for Friday, October 04, 2024
- Links 05/10/2024: Shift to ARM, Microsoft XBox Crisis
- Links for the day
