Techrights

04/08 The Sensitive Ukraine Documents Weren’t Grabbed From Social Control Media, Just Leaked There (Microsoft Azure, Windows, and/or Rogue Insider Most Probable Factor to Blame)

04/08 Copyright Trolls: Anatomy of a Troll Attack on Techrights

04/08 Links 08/04/2023: ExTiX Deepin 23.4 and Moving from Rust to C++

04/08 IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 07, 2023

04/08 NOW: Pensions Unable to Deliver Letters of Assurance After 3 Months of False Promises From 3 Staff, Including Management

04/08 Ukrainians Say No to Microsoft

04/08 Links 08/04/2023: OpenShot 3.1 and Mesa 23.0.2 Released

04/08 Another Round of Layoffs at Microsoft

04/08 Playing Games in Gemini: The Story of SpellBinding and More

04/09 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 08, 2023

04/09 Links 09/04/2023: Easter’s Slow New

04/09 Links 09/04/2023: Still Slow News for Easter

04/10 Google is Dead, Say Microsoft Pundits, But Despite the Chatbot and Hype (and Amid Bing Layoffs) Bing Share Falls From 3.6% to 2.6%… in a Matter of 6 Months

04/10 On the Client Side, Linux Has Become Market Majority

04/10 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 09, 2023

04/10 Links 10/04/2023: LibreArts Weekly and More

04/10 Links 10/04/2023: Linux 6.3 RC 6 and LibreSSL 3.7.2 Released

04/10 Links 10/04/2023: OpenBSD 7.3 and 4MLinux 42

04/10 [Meme] Sirius AstroTurfing

04/10 Sirius ‘Friends’ Try to SLAPP or Intimidate Victims of the Company, So More Victims of the Company Speak Out

04/10 Running Techrights in 2023

04/10 U.S. Banks, Including Chase and Synchrony, File Suspicious Activity Reports and Shut Down Accounts for ‘Logging in From Another Country’ and Transferring Retirement Funds; May Also Affect VPN Users

04/10 Desktops/Laptops: Windows Down to 64%, GNU/Linux Rises to 6.3%

04/10 Windows Market Share: From 80% to 26% in a Single Decade

04/11 Links 11/04/2023: FreeBSD 13.2 is Out and Alyssa Rosenzweig Leaves Collabora

04/11 Links 11/04/2023: GNU Parted 3.6 and More

04/11 IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 10, 2023

04/11 Microsoft Windows in India, China, and Nigeria (Over 3 Billion People)

04/11 MIT Technology Review is Running SPAM for Microsoft and Azure (Distracting From Mass Layoffs)

04/11 Sirius ‘Open Source’ Unopened: History of Threatening People and Intimidating Critics Was Always a Bad Strategy

04/11 [Meme] More Money in McDonald’s Than in Sirius ‘Open Source’

04/11 Helsinki Times Shows Disturbing Trend of ‘News’ Sites Which Falsely Market Themselves to Readers

04/11 Links 11/04/2023: Budgie Desktop 10.7.x and Ubuntu Budgie 23.04

04/12 ‘Linux Jobs in the UK’ Mailing List Censors Message Cautioning About Fraud in Company That Advertises Job (Sirius ‘Open Source’)

04/12 What the Hard Data Says About Gender Inequality in Europe’s Second-Largest Institution, the EPO

04/12 [Meme] Unified Patent Court Versus Judges (That Aren’t Fully Controlled by the EPO’s Junta, the Controversial Granting Authority)

04/12 FSF: Google’s Decision to Deprecate JPEG-XL Emphasises the Need for Browser Choice and Free Formats

04/12 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 11, 2023

04/12 The Web Site ‘It’s FOSS’ Is Not Always FOSS (Sometimes Actively Harmful to FOSS)

04/12 Links 12/04/2023: Nginx 1.2 and Kubernetes 1.27

04/12 Links 12/04/2023: ‘Youtube-dl Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatised Censorship’

04/12 CEO of Sirius UK Continues to Purge Any Remnants of His Past With the Company (Trying Hard Not to Associate With It)

04/12 Still Waiting: Pension Providers in the UK Stalling for Months After Several Independent Reports of Pension Fraud

04/12 The Impact of Microsoft Bribing the Media and Suppressing Facts That Are Rarely Mentioned (Despite Their High Importance)

04/13 Links 13/04/2023: Stable Kernels and Alyssa Goes to Dyson

04/13 Links 13/04/2023: Wireshark 4.0.5, Arianna 1.0, and Thunderbird Feature Requests

04/13 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 12, 2023

04/13 Links 13/04/2023: Nanonote 1.4.0 and LWN Looks at Mobian

04/13 Photographic Evidence of Standard Life’s Involvement in Fraudulent Pensions (Many Victims Affected)

04/13 Where Did the CEO of Sirius Run Away to Last Month? A No-Content Company With 4,000 Pounds and No Employees.

04/13 The Boss of Sirius ‘Open Source’ and His Ex-Wife Should be Reunited Inside the Prison Cell

04/13 [Meme] The Fraud-o-mat

04/13 Standard Life Covers Up Its Role in Pension Fraud, Lies to the Victims

04/14 Accounting at Sirius ‘Open Source’ Was Always Extremely Dodgy

04/14 The Pandemic is Killing Microsoft in Greece

04/14 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 13, 2023

04/14 Links 14/04/2023: Libreboot 20230413 and Kirigami Addons 0.8.0

04/14 Links 14/04/2023: More Twitter Losses and H-1B Exploitation

04/14 Links 14/04/2023: Godot 3.6 Reaches Beta, OSI Celebrates Proprietary Money

04/14 Pension Schemes Versus Pension Scams: The Curious Cases of the UK’s Large Pension Providers (Not France)

04/14 [Meme] The Smooth Criminals

04/14 Standard Life Tacitly Admits Doing a Sham ‘Investigation’ Without Bothering to Contact Sirius, Customer Relations Confesses That Manager Lied About Key Dates (Years) Several Times

04/15 Links 15/04/2023: EasyOS 5.2.1 and Arkansas Versus Fentanylware (TikTok)

04/15 IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 14, 2023

04/15 MIT Technology Review Became ‘Spamfarm’ of Microsoft

04/15 Links 15/04/2023: IBM Buys Ahana, pgAdmin 4 v7.0 Released

04/15 Links 15/04/2023: KDE ISO Image Writer Beta 0.9.2 and PowerDNS DNSdist 1.7.4

04/15 Links 15/04/2023: This Week in KDE and More

04/16 Links 16/04/2023: digiKam 8.0.0 and PGroonga 3.0.0

04/16 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 15, 2023

04/16 Microsoft Bing Hides News Regarding Microsoft Stabber Joseph Cantrell

04/16 Links 16/04/2023: Many Videos and Some New Distro Releases

04/16 [Meme] Recruiting to Steal

04/16 Standing Up for Defrauded Members of Staff (GNU/Linux Engineers) in the Age of Pension Scams

04/17 The Role of Integrity Financial Management Ltd. in Facilitating Fraud at Sirius ‘Open Source’

04/17 Elizabeth Chamberlain: The Future of the Right to Repair and Free Software

04/17 GNU/Linux Market Share (Client Side, Desktops/Laptops) Exceeds 14% in Norway

04/17 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 16, 2023

04/17 [Meme] Geeks Work So That Pension Fraudsters Can Go Out and Party

04/17 NOW: Pensions Finally Sends the Letters It Has Been Promising (in Vain) for Several Months Regarding Fraud at Sirius ‘Open Source’

04/17 Windows in Asia: All-Time Lows for Microsoft

04/17 [Meme] Stole 100,000 Pounds, Gained 100 Pounds

04/17 Accountancy of Sirius ‘Open Source’ Declines to Comment on Fraud at Sirius ‘Open Source’

04/17 Illinois State Government Targets Children With iPhone and Android Malware to “Report” on Friends, Family, and Neighbors

04/17 Microsoft’s LinkedIn Spreading Disinformation (Revisionism) About History of Sirius ‘Open Source’

04/17 [Meme/Facts] Drowning in Marketing Material and Assurances (From Sirius, Standard Life, Integrity Financial Management Ltd.) While Payslips Say We Pay Into a Pension Every Month

04/17 [Meme] Standard Life: We Don’t Know Who All Those GNU/Linux Engineers Are (But You Know, Standard Life; We Were All on Your System)

04/17 Links 17/04/2023: Top-Level Microsoft Exits and Worse

04/17 Links 16/04/2023: Trisquel GNU/Linux 11.0 Reviewed and World IP (International Propaganda) Day 2023 Approaching

04/18 Denis Carikli on Taking Control Over the Means of Production: Free Software Boot

04/18 Exposing Sirius Corruption, Which Tarnished the Image of Free Software and Injured GNU/Linux Advocates

04/18 Links 18/04/2023: Fedora GNU/Linux 38 and LXD 5.13 Released

04/18 Financial Advisers of Sirius ‘Open Source’ Decline to Comment on Fraud at Sirius ‘Open Source’ (Defrauding GNU/Linux Specialists)

04/18 Zoë Kooyman, Geoffrey Knauth, Sébastien Blin, Cyrille Béraud: FSF Keynote and Awards Ceremony

04/18 [Meme] We May Never Know What Bill Gates Paid Sirius Boss to Do in 2019 (Under a Strict Non-Disclosure Agreement)

04/18 Links 17/04/2023: GNU poke 3.1 and Deepin 20.9 Released

04/18 [Meme] Scamming and Stealing From Your Staff Using the Name ‘Standard Life’ and Fixers/Arrangers

04/18 IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 17, 2023

04/18 Amin Bandali on What’s New in Jami, End-to-end Encrypted (E2EE) Communication Tool (Formerly Known as GNU Ring)

04/18 What Happened Months Before Seattle Police Sent Almost 3,000 Pages About Its Arrest for Pedophilia at Home of Bill Gates

04/18 Links 18/04/2023: Netflix is in Trouble and Fox Loses to Proprietary Voting Machines Maker (Settlement)

04/18 Sirius Weaponised Wikipedia to Perpetuate Lies/Revisionism About Itself

04/19 Links 19/04/2023: More Facebook Layoffs and Another Tails Release

04/19 Saying Dumb Things, Turning Them Into Clickbait

04/19 Just Because Fox ‘News’ Lost (or Settled) Doesn’t Mean Voting Machines Are Safe or Acceptable

04/19 EFF Takes Money From US Nazis to Speak for Prostitutes and Frame Privacy (or Net Liability) as a Sex Issue

04/19 Microsoft Windows in Africa: From 98% to 17% in Just 14 Years

04/19 ‘Horror Stories’ Looking for Jobs as a Free Software Programmer/Advocate (Recruiters Who Force Free Software and FSF People to Create a Microsoft Account)

04/19 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 18, 2023

04/19 Last Month’s LibrePlanet Talk About Free/Libre Software in Africa

04/19 Nigeria: GNU/Linux Market Share Up to 5%, Windows Down to 50%

04/19 Liberating Topographical Maps

04/19 Links 19/04/2023: VirtualBox 7.0.8 and Annual Report for LibreOffice in 2022

04/20 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 19, 2023

04/20 Links 20/04/2023: KDE Gear 23.04 and RISC-V Supercluster for Very Low Cost

04/20 LibrePlanet Talk on JShelter for Browsing Securely, Presented by Libor Polčák

04/20 Links 20/04/2023: News Still Dominated by ‘Lunar Lobster’

04/20 A Bunch of Mastodon Posts (from mstdn.social) Were Deleted for “Fake News” and “Violent and Harassing”, and I Was Finally Banned. Here’s a Few.

04/20 Links 20/04/2023: Ubuntu 23.04 “Lunar Lobster” Released

04/21 Desktops and Laptops in India: 10% for GNU/Linux

04/21 Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) Crushing Farmers

04/21 Twitter Up in Flames (Like a Flaming Rocket)

04/21 Links 21/04/2023: FutureSQL 0.1.0 and Wine/Proton 8.0-1

04/21 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 20, 2023

04/21 Links 21/04/2023: More Ads Inside Window, More Layoffs in Proprietary Giants

04/21 Upcoming Series: How Sirius Attacked Itself (and Its Own Staff)

04/21 Links 21/04/2023: SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 5, More Trouble at Microsoft

04/21 Dakota J aka Tomat0 on Building Better Future in the Fediverse

04/22 Erin Rose Glass: LibrePlanet 2023 Keynote Talk on Education and the Future of Software Freedom

04/22 Sirius ‘Open Source’ Declines to Comment on Fraud at Sirius ‘Open Source’

04/22 The ‘Gulagboy’ Matthew Garrett is Once Again Defending Criminals

04/22 IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 21, 2023

04/22 Links 22/04/2023: Manjaro 22.1 Talos and OpenShot 3.1.1

04/22 LibrePlanet Talk About Getting Paid to Develop Free Software (and Whether That Should be Done)

04/22 Sebastian Marchano on GNU Taler

04/22 Holding Criminals Accountable — Part I — Sirius Crimes Reported to British Authorities, Formally Registered With References (Many Victims), Here’s What It Means and What Happens Next

04/22 In Taiwan, Windows Shedding Off Share, GNU/Linux Gaining

04/22 Links 22/04/2023: Several More Ubuntu-Based Releases, Tor Browser 12.5a5

04/22 LibrePlanet Presentation on Trisquel GNU/Linux

04/23 LibrePlanet Talk by Joseph Turner (USHIN) on Emacs for P2P Deliberation

04/23 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 22, 2023

04/23 [Meme] Soft on Crime

04/23 Links 23/04/2023: Libreboot 20230423, Arianna 1.0.1, and PeaZip 9.2.0

04/23 The Sirius ‘Open Source’ Fantasy — Part I — In 2022 the Company Was Already Too Deep in Debt

04/23 Links 23/04/2023: SolusOS/SerpentOS Shakeup

04/23 LibrePlanet Talk About ARM and RISC-V

04/24 LibrePlanet: Dr. William Cooper Davidon Uses Boeing 737 Max Aircrafts as Example of Proprietary Software Causing Deaths

04/24 The Sirius ‘Open Source’ Fantasy — Part II — Briefings About the Company

04/24 One Common Theme is That Companies Which Lack a Business Model Fall Back on Buzzwords Like ‘AI’ and ‘Crypto’

04/24 In the World’s Biggest Population, Microsoft’s Bing Fell Below 1%, Down Sharply Since ChatGPT First Announced

04/24 Aggressive Microsoft Marketing/Lies as Bing Falls Closer to 2% Market Share, Google Gains More Share (ChatGPT Has Only Harmed Bing, Which Has Layoffs Too)

04/24 The Layoffs at Red Hat Validate What We’ve Said for Years About IBM’s Hostility

04/24 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 23, 2023

04/24 Sean O’Brien and Mikalai Birokou on Least Authority Services via Free Software

04/24 ‘Linux’ Foundation Formally Selling SPAM Services in Violation of Terms of Services

04/24 The Microsoft Spin Machine Resumes Amid Layoffs, Azure’s Decline, and Worse News

04/24 Microsoft’s Quarterly ‘Results’ for This Week Expected to Disappoint, More Layoffs This Week or in Summer (July)

04/24 Nym Technologies for Privacy — and Freedom — on GNU/Linux

04/24 Links 24/04/2023: Qt Resorting to ‘Analytics’

04/24 Links 24/04/2023: Kdenlive 23.04.0 and Red Hat To Lay Off Over 700 Employees

04/24 Links 24/04/2023: Shotwell 0.32.0 and Linux 6.3 Released

04/24 LibrePlanet Talk About Free Software in Critical Agricultural Equipment

04/24 The ‘Clown Computing’ and ‘AI’ Bubble

04/24 Press Report This Morning: Microsoft Azure Layoffs Again, Entire Team Laid Off (Updated)

04/25 Corrupt Administration at the European Patent Office is Causing a Mental Health Crisis

04/25 Links 25/04/2023: More Downtimes and Financial Woes at Microsoft

04/25 The Sirius ‘Open Source’ Fantasy — Part III — Staff Input (From Technical Workers) Not Accepted

04/25 IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 24, 2023

04/25 Lori Angela Nagel on Promoting Free/Libre Software Philosophy

04/25 Microsoft’s Share in China: From Web Dominance to Almost Nothing in Less Than a Decade

04/25 All That Microsoft Has Left Now is Distraction and Destruction (Layoffs and Deflection Aplenty)

04/25 Links 25/04/2023: RapidDisk 9.1.0 and Microsoft Revenue Down in Many Areas

04/25 Microsoft, Based in Redmond, is ‘Exiting’ Redmond Amid Layoffs and Other Troubles (Updatedx2)

04/25 LibrePlanet Talk: Rayner Lucas and Tristan Miller on USENET and How It’s Moderated

04/25 Links 24/04/2023: A Focus on Red Hat and Fedora

04/25 Software Freedom Conservancy is Selling Verbal Thank-Yous So That Its Chief Can Earn a Quarter Million Dollars Per Year, Tax-Free

04/25 LibrePlanet: Weiming Hu on Free software for Environmental Sciences

04/26 Flávio Lisboa on Legacy of Free Software in the Brazilian Government

04/26 Links 26/04/2023: Release of Git 2.40.1 and Canonical Pushing Microsoft Clown Computing Again

04/26 The Sirius ‘Open Source’ Fantasy — Part IV — Crushing the Workforce Means Crushing the Company

04/26 The European Commission is Playing With Fire When It Comes to Patent Policy and Why the European Union Will Suffer

04/26 [Meme] Europe-US-International Patent Office (EUIPO)

04/26 Microsoft is Collapsing in Brazil Despite of or Because of the Chaffbot (HypeGPT)

04/26 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 25, 2023

04/26 Links 26/04/2023: Microsoft / Activision Deal Blocked and Qbs 2.0 Released

04/26 Kevin Shockey’s Presentation on Puerto Rico and FSF

04/26 Wikimedia Foundation at LibrePlanet 2023

04/27 Anthony Wang Introducing the ForgeFed Protocol (Decentralised Development)

04/27 Links 27/04/2023: GCC 13.1 and Intel’s Biggest Ever Losses

04/27 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 26, 2023

04/27 Links 27/04/2023: Microsoft Down Sharply on the Web and Weston 12.0.0 Alpha

04/27 Microsoft Leaving Atlanta

04/28 Links 28/04/2023: Dropbox Collapses, Promises ‘Hey Hi’ (AI) to Shareholders

04/28 Links 28/04/2023: Nitrux 2.8 and GNU Lightning 2.2.2

04/28 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 27, 2023

04/28 Netcraft Report for April 2023: Microsoft Down Sharply, Now Less Than 10% of Web-Facing Machines

04/28 No More Microsoft-Branded Peripherals After the Massive Layoffs

04/29 Links 29/04/2023: KDE Development Report and GnuPG 2.4.1 Released

04/29 IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 28, 2023

04/29 The Site ‘UNIXMen’ (Janus Atienza) Has Begun Posting Sponsored Spam Disguised as ‘Linux’ Articles

04/29 Links 29/04/2023: Many Companies Collapsing (or Resort to Enron-Style Accounting) and Yet Another Big Bank Bailout

04/29 Holding Criminals Accountable — Part II — Still No Action From Action Fraud

04/29 Links 29/04/2023: DDD 3.4.0 RC2 and Valgrind 3.21.0

04/29 Links 29/04/2023: Debian 11.7 and Wine 8.7 Released

04/30 46,000 Gemini Pages and All-Time Record Traffic in Techrights

04/30 Techrights Expresses Concern That Microsoft Weaponises Chatbots to Craft Linux-Hostile Cruft Without Any Accountability

04/30 The Microsoft FUD Machine Turning Up the Heat on ‘Linux’ While Lobbying to Ban Free Software at the Legislative Level

04/30 Links 30/04/2023: SystemTap 4.9 and Gnuastro 0.20

04/30 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 29, 2023

04/30 The Same Mismanagement and Micromanagement (Stalking/Bullying) That Caused the ‘Suicide Wave’ Under Benoît Battistelli

04/30 [Meme] Mental Abuse as a Motivator

04/30 Sirius ‘Open Source’ Fraud as Treated by the Police (Action Fraud UK)

04/30 In Sudan, Microsoft Windows Fell Below 10% Market Share This Month

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