Techrights /2023/08/

Techrights
08/01 Fine August in Techrights
08/01 Matthew Garrett’s Employer, Aurora Innovation, Continues to Burn Down Through Debt and Lack of Marketable Products
08/01 Codes of Conduct Ruin Free Software Projects
08/01 Gemini Links 01/08/2023: Gitea on Void and Unleashing Your Inner Mapper (OSM)
08/01 Links 01/08/2023: GNU/Hurd Strikes Back
08/01 IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 31, 2023
08/01 Linus Torvalds Proposes Tossing Out Microsoft TPM Garbage Out of Linux
08/01 Leftover Links 01/08/2023: Twitter de-X’ed, Microsoft Blasted for Epic Breach
08/01 Gemini Links 01/08/2023: ClockworkPi and Splitting the Web
08/02 GNU/Linux Market Share Catching Up With Apple on the Client Side, Even Exceeding It in Some Areas
08/02 “Canonical Works Closely with Microsoft”
08/02 Leftover Links 02/08/2023: Microsoft Covering Up Azure Breach
08/02 Links 02/08/2023: New Versions of Arti and FreeCAD Released
08/02 Links 02/08/2023: GNU C Library 2.38, Microsoft’s Collapse in Servers Continues
08/02 Links 02/08/2023: GNU Spotlight and More Microsoft Breaches
08/02 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 01, 2023
08/02 “The True Hypocrite is the One Who Ceases to Perceive His Deception, the One Who Lies With Sincerity.”
08/02 Mozilla Firefox 115.1 and 116 Released With Two Microsoft Windows-Only Security Issues Plugged
08/02 Gemini Links 02/08/2023: Mostly Personal Gemlogs
08/03 Gemini Links 03/08/2023: Illusionary Democracy and All Things Illegal
08/03 Links 03/08/2023: LibreOffice 7.6 RC2 and Azure Breached
08/03 Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein: the Media/PR Decoy Revisited
08/03 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 02, 2023
08/03 Leftover Links 03/08/2023: Tor Browser 12.5.2 and LF Misportrayed as ‘Linux’
08/03 For the Second Time in a Few Weeks Linux.com Posts Duplicates in an Otherwise Mostly Dead Site That Just Links to LF Press Releases (Sales)
08/03 Links 03/08/2023: Asahi Linux and Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 6 Plans
08/03 A Revised FAQ For Mozilla Firefox Users on Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 Outlining Why Mozilla Abandons Them
08/03 2 Months Ago IBM Said OpenSource.com Would be Back
08/03 Europe Needs More Patent Whistleblowers Like Martin Wilming
08/03 Microsoft’s Marketing Outreach for Its Plagiarism Disservice Devolves or Morphs Into Shameless SPAM
08/03 Gemini Links 03/08/2023: Switching to AwesomeWM
08/04 Gemini Links 04/08/2023: Gemini Client Preferences and FreeBSD Minimum Desktop Guide
08/04 Operation Mole — Part I — The Person Working to Kill GNU and to Kill Linux From the Inside
08/04 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 03, 2023
08/04 Links 04/08/2023: KDE Neon Experimental and GNU/Linux Grows Again on Laptops/Desktops
08/04 In the State of Washington Microsoft is Doing a ‘Staff Bloodbath’
08/04 Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) From Google Causes Widespread Backlash
08/04 [Meme] Split Personality
08/04 Leftover Links 04/08/2023: 10 Years of Let’s Encrypt, UEFI Security Chaos Again
08/05 Recommendation of The Cyber Show
08/05 Links 05/08/2023: GNU/Linux at Record Usage
08/05 Links 05/08/2023: Godot 4.0.4 and Rust 1.71.1
08/05 Gemini Links 05/08/2023: The Guppy Protocol and Generating Calendar Events From E-mails
08/05 Leftover Links 05/08/2023: Hospitals Vandalised by Microsoft Windows En Masse
08/05 Windows is Already Down Below 15% Market Share in India. An Import Ban Will Worsen Things for Microsoft.
08/05 IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 04, 2023
08/05 Leftover Links 05/08/2023: Rust Holes and More Layoffs
08/05 Gemini Links 05/08/2023: DSN Note, Social Spaces
08/05 Why UEFI is an Attack on Security and on Computing in General
08/06 AMD Sends Phoronix Lots of Very Expensive Gifts, Microsoft Gives Phoronix Free Access, Phoronix Writes Azure/AMD Puff Pieces
08/06 Links 06/08/2023: Bram Moolenaar Passes Away, Bootlin Toolchains 2023.08
08/06 GAFAM Trouble and Destruction of Their Own Products/Services
08/06 Links 06/08/2023: Games, GNOME, and IBM History With GNU/Linux
08/06 Leftover Links 06/08/2023: India’s Laptop and Tablet Import Ban Postponed
08/06 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 05, 2023
08/06 Gemini Links 05/08/2023: New SIM and a Goodbye
08/06 Microsoft-Funded Attacks on Free Software Under the Guise of ‘Open Source’
08/07 Links 07/08/2023: A Week’s Catchup and New Releases
08/07 Links 07/08/2023: LinuxSchools Server 14.0.1, DietPi 8.20
08/07 Gemini Still Growing? No WEI!
08/07 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 06, 2023
08/07 Linux Foundation Leadership Team: Technical Advisory Board Now Google-Microsoft Majority
08/07 Two Microsoft Moles No Longer at ZDNet: Mary Jo Foley and Liam Tung
08/07 [Meme] Axe-murdering for Fun and Profit
08/07 Don’t Use Mozilla VPN (Security Problems and Incompetence); Just Get Mullvad. Bonus: SeaMonkey 2.53.17, WEI, Firefox on Linux Getting Worse.
08/07 Links 07/08/2023: Linux 6.5 RC5 and New Issue of PCLinuxOS Magazine Released
08/07 Linux Subreddit Mostly Windows Spam After I Got Booted for “Off-Topic Post”. Bonus: Holocaust Collaborator IBM Joins Forces With McDonalds to Track Your Big Mac Attack With Licence Plate Scanners.
08/07 [Meme] Missing Out: Sexual Favours
08/07 [Meme] Homophobia Disguised as ‘Social Justice Warrior’
08/07 Russian Twist: Linux (Android) Overtaking Windows in Russia This Month
08/07 Gemini Links 07/08/2023: Thinkpad T60 With Hyperbola Linux, Guppy’s Use of UDP
08/07 Links 07/08/2023: RPoD, Thoughts on Guppy Protocol
08/07 Gemini Links 07/08/2023: Working With Elpher
08/08 Google’s YouTube Anti-Adblock Attacks Brave Again; More Thoughts on WEI
08/08 Gemini Links 08/08/2023: Apache Pekko and Retro
08/08 Links 08/08/2023: Incus and PineTab-V
08/08 IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 07, 2023
08/08 Links 08/08/2023: Linux 6.4.9 is Out, Microsoft Breach Causes More Backlash
08/08 Links 08/08/2023: Rhino Linux 2023.1 Release
08/08 Links 08/08/2023: Gemini Radio and UDP Criticism
08/09 ChatGPT’s Decline is Continuing and New Studies Show That It Sucks (Pure Hype)
08/09 Links 09/08/2023: New NVIDIA Driver and GNU/Linux Market Growth
08/09 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 08, 2023
08/09 Gemini Links 09/08/2023: Joy of Creative Effort
08/09 Canonical Already Behaving Like Microsoft Subsidiary (But No Takeover/Acquisition Announced)
08/09 Microsoft is Breached Thoroughly and Widely, But the Mainstream Media Hardly Talks About That
08/09 Gemini Links 09/08/2023: Risk of Proprietary Web Apps
08/09 Links 09/08/2023: Indian Defense Services Moving to GNU/Linux, WordPress 6.3 “Lionel” Released
08/10 Gemini Links 10/08/2023: TERM Tweaking, Blocking the Ad Block Blockers
08/10 Links 10/08/2023: Citus 12.0 and Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS Released
08/10 Leftover Links 10/08/2023: CNET is Burning Past Journalism
08/10 A Debian Developer’s View of Matthew J Garrett
08/10 Fedora Audio Broken like it’s 2008. (Pipewire)
08/10 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 09, 2023
08/10 Links 10/08/2023: More on India’s Defence Ministry (Moving to GNU/Linux!) and LWN’s Kernel Journalism
08/10 The World’s Mass Migration to GNU/Linux is Already Happening
08/10 [Meme] The Man Lies, the Shirt Lies As Well
08/10 IBM/Red Hat Fedora: Community Of Moderator-Led Harassment. (Very Family-Oriented.)
08/10 Linux Foundation Fails to Heed the Warning About Microsoft
08/10 IBM Red Hat Kills LibreOffice In Fedora and RHEL; Says “No longer has resources to maintain them.”
08/10 Red Hat is Wrong With Its ‘Sky is Falling’ Remark (About Community Regaining Control Over GNU/Linux Development)
08/10 Gemini Links 10/08/2023: Self-Hosted Web and Gemini, Why Stay With Gemini
08/11 Another Campaign of Mass Defamation by Matthew J Garrett
08/11 Canonical in Official Ubuntu Blog: Use Microsoft’s Proprietary Spyware
08/11 [Meme] Cyber Terrorism
08/11 Good Software Doesn’t Change Very Much
08/11 Rianne Schestowitz: Hate Crimes by Matthew J. Garrett (mjg59) Committed Against Me Online
08/11 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 10, 2023
08/11 Matrix.org Mess. IRC Bridges Down, Again.
08/11 Operation Mole — Part II — The Evolution of Matthew J Garrett’s Vast Army of Online Sockpuppets, Hiding Criminal Activities Behind the Tor Network
08/11 Links 11/08/2023: OpenSSH 9.4 Released, PostgreSQL 15.4 and PostgreSQL 16 Beta 3
08/11 As Soon as 100% of the World’s Top Supercomputers Ran GNU/Linux the Microsoft-Sponsored Media Stopped Mentioning Them
08/11 Gemini Links 11/08/2023: First Wavers and Unplugging the Ebike
08/11 Leftover Links 11/08/2023: More Microsoft Breaches and Windows TCO Stories
08/11 On the World Wide Web, Facts About Microsoft (and Many Other Things) Are Being Replaced With Lies
08/12 Techrights: Best Viewed in Gemini
08/12 Gemini Links 12/08/2023: Moving to Emacs and Discovering the PSP in 2023
08/12 An Exciting Year For Us
08/12 Libera Chat is a Toxic Troll Farm. Bonus: Code of Conduct Ticket Filed Regarding Fedora Moderator “Khaytsus”.
08/12 Links 12/08/2023: Microsoft Under Fire for Massive Breach, Fedora Has Staff Shortage
08/12 Links 12/08/2023: Firefox 116 on POWER, FSF Board Candidate Discussions in Second Round
08/12 GeekWire, Home of Longtime Microsoft Propagandists and Source Burners, Admits Taking Money From Microsoft
08/12 IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 11, 2023
08/12 Joke: Making SeaMonkey Modern with Flatpak. More Commentary on IBM Red Hat Management of Fedora. Bonus: OpenSUSE Evaluation.
08/12 Leftover Links 12/08/2023: More Microsoft Security Breaches
08/12 Summer’s Update on Gemini’s Growth and Our Presence in Geminispace
08/12 Conde Nasty Rolls Out Updated Reddit and Breaks SeaMonkey Rendering
08/12 [Meme] Smugly Serving Monopolies
08/12 The ‘Modern’ Web
08/12 Gemini Links 12/08/2023: TUI and IBM/Lenovo
08/13 Links 13/08/2023: KDE Development Report, Debian’s Abuse Culture
08/13 Gemini Links 13/08/2023: Browsing Gemini with Lynx
08/13 Discussion About The Cyber Show, New Programme by Helen Plews, Andy Farnell, and Edward Nevard
08/13 The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Needs to Find Its Gutsy Attitude Again
08/13 GNU/Linux News Sites Plagiarised by Computer-Generated Spew/Spam Sites (Offenders), Helped by Google News (Facilitator)
08/13 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 12, 2023
08/13 Gemini Links 12/08/2023: Using the Librem 5 and Late Stage Music Player
08/13 Links Leftover 13/08/2023: Microsoft Cortana’s Death
08/13 [Meme] If RHEL Becomes More Like Proprietary UNIX, Forking Will Follow
08/13 Taking It Easy at the ‘HQ’ of Techrights
08/13 Links 13/08/2023: New Linux RC, Window Maker Live 0.95.9-0, and Many Strike Actions
08/14 I Found a Two Year Old BtrFS Programs Bug in openSUSE; Still Better Than Fedora/RHEL
08/14 Corporations Decide What You Can and Cannot Say (or Who’s Permitted to Even Speak)
08/14 Gemini Links 14/08/2023: Movie Showcase and Digital Detox
08/14 [Meme] The Computer Generated Hype (So-called G.A.I.) is Dying Away
08/14 McDonalds Visit Disaster, Courtesy of IBM and Apps
08/14 Links 14/08/2023: IPFire Release and Loads of HowTos
08/14 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 13, 2023
08/14 IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 14, 2023
08/14 Links 15/08/2023: KDE Announces Wallpaper Competition and Linux 0.01 Analysed
08/14 Gemini Links 14/08/2023: Refurbishing Bikes and Why MorphOS is Gorgeous
08/14 Links 14/08/2023: GNU/Linux’s Firefox Problem and MX Linux Reviewed
08/14 [Meme] Obey Your Master, Obey IBM
08/14 Mullvad VPN Does Work on openSUSE; General Thoughts on openSUSE Leap 15.5. Bonus: Hopefully the Last Rants About IBM, Red Hat, Fedora.
08/14 The World Wide Web Crisis
08/14 Windows Overthrown in Niger, Down to 8% market Share (It Used to be 99%)
08/15 Gemini Links 15/08/2023: UTF-8 and Newsboat Over SSH RSS
08/15 IBM Signals That Fedora is Basically Finished, as Work on Desktop Spins Collapses in a Matter of Days
08/15 IBM’s Debt is Rapidly Growing (Despite Many Cuts)
08/15 [Meme] IBM Has Rejoined the Likes of Microsoft (I₿M and M$)
08/15 IBM is Killing Fedora (While It is Promoting Microsoft’s Proprietary Junk)
08/15 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 13, 2023
08/15 Links Leftover 15/08/2023: More Windows Breaches and Legal Problems for Internet Archive
08/15 My Favourite Part About Not Using GNOME Anymore: No More GNOME Software
08/15 No Thanks, Red Hat
08/15 Leftover Links 15/08/2023: Chinese Sanctions, OpenAI Bankrupcy Expected by 2024
08/15 Links 15/08/2023: Devuan 5.0.0 and OpenMandriva Lx 23.08
08/15 Free Software Contributions and Real Threats
08/15 William N. Braswell, Jr. (AKA Will the Chill) Talking About How Microsoft and ‘The Cloud’ Ruined His Work, Saying ‘Open’ AI “Needs to Go Out of Business”; Media Says ‘Open’ AI Probably Faces Bankruptcy Next Year or Later This Year
08/16 Techrights’ Position on IBM’s Red Hat (and Fedora): We Need to Move Back to or Towards Truly Community-Controlled Distros
08/16 Back On Libera Chat, But Banned From Fedora
08/16 [Meme] First They Came for CentOS (in 2020), But I Said Nothing Because I Didn’t Use CentOS
08/16 Links 16/08/2023: Kubernetes 1.28 and Debian Turns 30
08/16 Elana Hamasman, Who Managed the Defamatory Petition to Remove Richard Stallman From All Leadership Roles, Has Moved to Apple (Proprietary)
08/16 After Days of Dissent and Anger From the Fedora Community the Mailing List ‘Loses’ All the Messages
08/16 [Meme] Painfully Funny But Partly True (About Fedora)
08/16 Links 16/08/2023: First Contact With an Antenna, Ben’s Gemcast Has New Episode
08/16 The Backstory of Marcia Wilbur’s Story About Corporations as Freeriders and Community Volunteers as Their Modern ‘Slave Labour’
08/16 Links 16/08/2023: HashiCorp Goes Proprietary
08/16 IBM Still in Control of Fedora-Legal and FESCo Despite Unpaid Volunteer Labor Picking Up More Fedora Grunt Work
08/16 IBM Lied. ‘One Month’ is Now 2.5 Months and Still Counting…
08/16 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 15, 2023
08/16 Gemini Links 17/08/2023: Old Phone Morning Project
08/16 Did IBM Just Nuke Fedora’s Mailing Lists?
08/17 Beyond the Web
08/17 We Don’t Do Political Wings, We Focus on Tech Issues
08/17 In Numbers: Fedora is Becoming Orphaned (Exodus), Many Packages Lack Essential Maintainers
08/17 Gemini Links 17/08/2023: The Velocity of Credit and Gemini Participation
08/17 [Meme] Thieves Will be Held Fully Accountable (You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide From the Crime)
08/17 How to Buy Your Keynote Speech From the Linux Foundation (the Case of Microsoft)
08/17 Since IBM (Red Hat) Blasted the Free Software Foundation for Lack of Diversity IBM’s Board of Directors — the Decision Makers of IBM — Reduced Women’s Participation From 3 to Just 2
08/17 Something Has Gone Terribly Wrong at IBM and It’s Killing What It Bought Just Under 5 Years Ago
08/17 IBM: Red Hat’s Free Software? No. Microsoft’s Proprietary Spyware? YES!
08/17 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 16, 2023
08/17 Gemini Links 17/08/2023: The Laws of Robotics and Dependencies
08/17 Links 17/08/2023: Blender 3.6.2 and GNOME 45 Core Apps Update
08/17 [Meme] Packaging Liberates?
08/17 Links 17/08/2023: OBS Studio 30.0, UK Government Suffers Microsoft Breach
08/17 Sirius ‘Open Source’ and Progress on Police Investigation
08/17 Rumour: President and CEO of Red Hat Resigns or Removed Again (Third Time in About Three Years)
08/17 The Twitter/X Walled Gardens Are Back. Way to Give the Platform Yet Another Death Blow.
08/17 WordPress.com Breaks In SeaMonkey Again. What Are “Open Standards” Anyway?
08/18 Gemini Links 18/08/2023: Calm Day in Geminispace
08/18 Gemini Links 18/08/2023: Role-Playing Tips and Gemini Radio
08/18 Rianne Schestowitz: A Woman’s View of a Dangerous Person, ‘Dr. Axe’ Matthew J. Garrett
08/18 Leftover Links 18/08/2023: IBM Working for Microsoft
08/18 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 17, 2023
08/18 [Meme] Dr. Axe, Securing Linux for Microsoft
08/18 The Matthew J Garrett Muppet Show (or Countless IRC Sockpuppets)
08/18 Mozilla Hires Yet Another Executive (Senior Vice President) From Facebook, So Forget About Privacy
08/18 New Paper by David Gray Widder (Carnegie Mellon University), Sarah West, and Meredith Whittaker Explains Microsoft’s Openwashing Con
08/18 What ‘Open’AI and ChatGPT Did to a Software Developer
08/18 In Spite of ‘ChatGPT’ Hype, Microsoft Falls Well Below 1% in Russia (for Search)
08/18 Links 18/08/2023: KDE Frameworks 5.109.0 and SUSE Gone Private
08/18 Operation Mole — Part III — Sabotaging Communities and Defaming People, Just Like the Sabotage of Linux and Deliberate Distortion of ‘Security’ (Giving Control to Microsoft)
08/18 Links 18/08/2023: Russia Chooses Linux for Domestic Smartphones, WordPress at 20 Years
08/19 Linus Torvalds Explains How Linux Started and Took Off
08/19 The Free Software Community is Exploited by Greedy Business People, It’s Not Freeloading (Yet More Name-calling, Trolling and Shaming of Volunteers)
08/19 Links 19/08/2023: New Wine, Linux-Hostile ‘Linus Tech Tips’ Collapsing
08/19 Gemini Links 19/08/2023: Missing Physical Buttons on Electronics
08/19 Links 19/08/2023: Openwashing Backlash and More Preloaded GNU/Linux
08/19 The Rise and Fall of ‘Open’AI
08/20 Techrights is Doing Far Better Than a Code of Conduct
08/20 [Meme] You Cannot Nourish Yourself With Cocaine, DrAxe Matt
08/20 Links 20/08/2023: Ethernet Switch Based on Milk-V (Based on Free Chip Design)
08/20 Gemini Links 20/08/2023: Free Pens, Gemini Clients via SOCKS5 (e.g. TOR)
08/20 IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 18, 2023
08/20 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 19, 2023
08/20 Gemini Links 20/08/2023: Letting Go of Computers and Dark Mode/Light Mode
08/20 Links 20/08/2023: Budgie 10.8 Desktop and Linux 6.5 RC7
08/20 RIP, Reddit
08/20 The ‘Influencer’ Era is Over, Embrace Alternatives to Social Control Media and the Web
08/20 Rianne Schestowitz: Matthew J. Garrett Shifting From ‘Adopt a Code of Conduct’ to ‘Gas the Jews’
08/21 Microsoft-Funded MIT Site (Also Connected to Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Gates) Wages Another Attack With a Quasi-Hit Piece (Overtly Revisionist Fluff) on Richard Stallman
08/21 Leftover Links 21/08/2023: Education Crisis and Demise of Robotaxis
08/21 I Managed to Make Fallout 4 Work in openSUSE Leap.
08/21 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 20, 2023
08/21 Links 21/08/2023: Bodhi Linux 7.0 Released and LibreOffice 7.6
08/21 Mozilla Firefox Loses 16 Million More Active Monthly Users Between August 15 2022-2023
08/21 No, I’m Not in Mastodon or in the Fediverse. It’s Fake.
08/21 [Meme] Poor-Shaming by Matthew J Garrett Won’t End Well
08/21 Mozilla Finishes Sabotaging SeaMonkey. Highlights From IRC and SeaMonkey Meeting Minutes.
08/21 Stochastic Parrots vs Intelligence
08/21 Why Tor Isn’t Safe
08/21 Gemini Links 21/08/2023: Trust Model Online and Gemini Radio
08/21 Will Wayland Even Survive the Collapse of IBM? X11 Likely Will.
08/22 Leftover Links 22/08/2023: Another COVID-19 Resurgence
08/22 Links 22/08/2023: Microsoft Kills Off Yet Another Product; Bridging IIO and Input in Linux
08/22 [Meme] DrAxe: Grooming Myself for Berkeley With Help From Isis
08/22 Gemini Links 22/08/2023: GitHub Turning Nastier, Google Domains Migration
08/22 IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 21, 2023
08/22 Links 22/08/2023: John Warnock Dies
08/22 Operation Mole — Part IV — Does Matthew J. Garrett’s Antisemitism Tell Us Anything About His Motivation in Trying to Cancel Richard Stallman?
08/22 Matthew J Garrett is Irrelevant But Still Dangerous to Himself and Those Around Him
08/22 Non-Interaction With Google Search. Why Your Next Search Engine Should Be SearXNG.
08/22 Gemini Links 22/08/2023: Public Transport Protest and Palm PDA Collections
08/22 Links 22/08/2023: siduction Linux Release and News Catchup
08/22 Gemini Links 22/08/2023: Pokes and Terminal Metronome
08/22 Managing NoScript Whitelists and Some Tor Browser Observations
08/22 The Tor Project’s Leadership Has Changed. It’s Now Run by People Who Misuse Tor to Commit Crimes and Cover Up Crimes.
08/22 Widespread Adoption of Wayland Would Mostly Benefit IBM, Which Has Become Increasingly Hostile Towards Software Freedom
08/22 foobar2000 on Wine, Wayland, and GNOME Equals Trouble
08/23 Microsoft Fired 50 Humans at MSN News and Turned It Over to a Chatbot, Which Posted an Article Saying “Visit the Food Bank Hungry.”
08/23 Gemini Links 23/08/2023: On Gemini and ‘Degrowth’
08/23 By Month’s End Lupa Will Quite Likely See 3,500 Unique Gemini Capsules in Geminispace
08/23 Leftover Links 23/08/2023: India Attempt to Make History on the Moon
08/23 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 22, 2023
08/23 Links 23/08/2023: Kali Linux 2023.3
08/23 Gemini Links 23/08/2023: Tripod and Angelfire as the Last Bastions of the Old Web
08/23 Links 23/08/2023: Slackware Live ISO Refresh
08/24 Gemini Links 24/08/2023: Another Social Place In Geminispace
08/24 Links 24/08/2023: More Gaming-Focused Distros of GNU/Linux (Bazzite)
08/24 Big Blue Blues: How IBM is Betraying Red Hat Staff and the Rest of Us
08/24 Leftover Links 24/08/2023: CMA Continues Blocking a Microsoft Takeover
08/24 Office 365 and Google Docs Are Not the Solution to IBM Deleting LibreOffice From Red Hat and Fedora
08/24 Politicians Should Not Use Social Control Media to Communicate to the Public and the Public Should Get News From News Sites
08/24 Mozilla Bricking Firefox ESR Deliberately. This Code Breaks Tor Browser Too.
08/24 Gemini Links 24/08/2023: gmid 2.0 Alpha
08/24 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 23, 2023
08/24 Links 24/08/2023: KDE Gear 23.08 and Ctrl IQ (CIQ) Lawsuit
08/24 Almost 4 Months After IBM (Red Hat) Sacked Red Hat’s Open Source People the Site Open Source dot Com Remains Dead
08/24 What Is the Point of the Servo Rendering Engine?
08/24 IBM Lotus Symphony “Donation” Revisited After LibreOffice Debacle
08/24 The Need to Get Rid of ‘Secure’ (Restricted) Boot Once and for All; It Should Never Have Been Permitted in the First Place and It’s Not Secure
08/25 Please Don’t Publish in the Microsoft Store: It Hurts You, the Users, and Only Benefits Microsoft
08/25 YouTube, Reddit, and Other Nasty Sites Sabotage LibRedirect. “Small Web” Stuff. Real Communities Don’t Need “Managers”.
08/25 Firefox 116.0.1, 116.0.2, 116.0.3 Nuisance Update Summary.
08/25 Leftover Links 25/08/2023: Focus Shifts to Russia
08/25 Bypass “Less Secure Apps” in GMail With SeaMonkey Mail Using IMAP.
08/25 Gemini Links 25/08/2023: Old Computer Challenge Tools, Internet Appliance
08/25 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 24, 2023
08/25 IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 25, 2023
08/25 IBM Has Moved Away From Standards and Freedom, Red Hat’s Leadership Has Changed, So Users Should Probably Move Away From Red Hat
08/25 The World Wide Web is Proprietary and Mozilla Contributes to That
08/25 Mirroring Blog Posts In Gemini. Problems With WordPress.com.
08/25 Links 25/08/2023: Linux the Kernel Turns 32 and Rust 1.72.0
08/25 Links 25/08/2023: The Internet of Things Podcast Comes to an End
08/25 “The New Software Is Full Of Bugs…They’ll Be Upgrading For Years.” How IBM Red Hat Keeps Customers On The Hook. Bruce Perens Endorses Devuan.
08/25 TrackerControl Continues Being Useful With TextNow. Windows 98 Flashbacks.
08/25 Intel Helps Microsoft Kill Windows 10, Push Software People Don’t Want, and Fight the Reverse Upgrade Treadmill
08/26 ChaffBot Spew Gaslighting the Impoverished Masses
08/26 Malware-Addled Chrome Web Store to “Warn About Malware”
08/26 Bytedance/TikTok is a Threat to Freedom, Including Free Speech
08/26 Links 26/08/2023: OpenTF’s Fork of Terraform
08/26 Paywalls, Copyrights, and Google WEI in the ‘New Normal’
08/26 Sane People Don’t Write Homepages Like These
08/26 Links 26/08/2023: Libinput 1.24.0 and Canonical’s Snap Woes
08/26 Leftover Links 26/08/2023: Software Patents Threat as Sylabs ‘IP’ Abused Against Rocky Linux
08/26 Gemini Links 26/08/2023: Politics and Benchmarking
08/26 The Latest “Monthly Deterioration” of Microsoft’s Vista 11 and Blue Screens For “Unsupported Processor”
08/26 The Next Ugly Phase May be Web Censorship Built Into the Web Browser (Under the Guise of Safety From Alleged ‘Misinformation’ and Supposedly ‘Illegal’ Things)
08/26 How Secure Boot Could Have Ruined My First Linux Experience And Why IBM Is Making Things Worse.
08/26 Techrights is Still Growing
08/26 When You Install or Use WordPress and Drupal They Will Control You. If You Use Something Much Simpler and Lighter, You’ll be in Charge.
08/26 The ‘Modern’ Web and Fake Authorities
08/26 Gemini Links 26/08/2023: Game Showcase of Black Mesa and Two Years on Gemini
08/27 Monkey’s Audio Codec Becomes Free Software
08/27 The American Media’s Gaslighting Continues
08/27 Rianne Schestowitz: Matthew J. Garrett Busted. He Has Been Using Vile Sockpuppets to Attack Techrights for a Year.
08/27 Links 27/08/2023: Linux 6.1.48 and Haruna 0.12.0
08/27 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 26, 2023
08/27 Leftover Links 27/08/2023: Windows TCO Stories and Linux Foundation ‘Masters’
08/27 Linux in a Commodore 64 Emulator and More Operating System Thoughts
08/27 New York Times Debt Propaganda
08/27 Vivek Ramaswamy Represents the Rodrigo Duterte-ing of America
08/27 Gemini Links 27/08/2023: OpenBSD Philosophy and Project Gemini Documentation Expanded
08/27 Rejecting Social Control Media and Oppressive Systems, Matrix.org the Latest in Social Media Death Spiral
08/27 [Meme] Matthew J. Garrett Was Teaching in Berkeley, Not Committing Abuses Online
08/27 Operation Mole — Part V — The Fall of a Man is a Woman (Matthew J Garrett Foolishly Unmasks Himself, Tying Himself to Crimes)
08/27 Microsoft’s Vista 11 Will Respect Your Default Web Browser in the EU, but Not Elsewhere: It’s All About the Ads
08/28 Gemini Links 28/08/2023: Sometimes Everything Goes Wrong and Brute Forcing Cheat Codes
08/28 Oligarchs’ Quest to Erase Information and Rewrite History Starts by Burning Digital Libraries
08/28 In the Month of August GNU/Linux Continued Growing on Desktops/Laptops
08/28 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 27, 2023
08/28 Links 28/08/2023: Linux 6.5
08/28 Links 28/08/2023: Microsoft Collapsing in Web Servers and Mozilla Firefox 117 Released
08/28 Gemini Links 28/08/2023: Manipulating PDFs and Synapse Room Cleaner
08/28 The Downfall of Microsoft (and Also the World Wide Web’s)
08/28 White Tech Oligarchs, Including Bill Gates, Load Up on Farm Land Near Military Bases and Fuel Anti-Chinese Sentiment Through Oligarch-Owned News Channels/Sites
08/29 [Meme] The Axe-Wielding Puppetmaster
08/29 Leftover Links 29/08/2023: Fukushima Uproar in China
08/29 Gemini Links 29/08/2023: Keeping Infrastructure Free
08/29 Rianne Schestowitz: The Underworld of Brandon/Britney Lozza, the Online Bulldog of Matthew J. Garrett
08/29 “Internet Villain” Mozilla. Can Enough Really Be Said?
08/29 [Meme] Dr. Axe Intimidating IRC Networks, Sites and Groups That Criticise Microsoft
08/29 IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 28, 2023
08/29 Links 29/08/2023: Kdenlive 23.08.0 and UbuntuDDE 23.04
08/29 Mozilla Fully Corrupted and Assault on the Internet Archive While America Crumbles
08/29 Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer?
08/29 Links 29/08/2023: antiX-23 and Revisiting the PinePhone
08/29 Operation Mole — Part VI — The Same Criminals Who Have Abused Techrights Also Admit Doing This to Richard Stallman and the FSF (Even Right Now); There Are Connections to Microsoft, Too
08/30 Gemini Links 30/08/2023: Spincare Vinyl Cleaner and Back in a TUI World
08/30 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 29, 2023
08/30 [Meme] Brute With an Axe Making Tacit Threats (and Fails to Understand the Rule of Law, As Usual)
08/30 Links 30/08/2023: Calamares Releases and Portfolio 1.0.0
08/30 Gemini Links 30/08/2023: 90′s Kids Trackball and Sleuthing an Old Phone
08/30 Links 30/08/2023: New Firefox, Chrome Woes (Sync is Spyware)
08/30 Leftover Links 30/08/2023: RIP, Ueda San
08/30 Microsoft Blames Windows 11 “Unsupported Processor” Error Screens on Hardware Makers; Interferes With Full Screen Apps Demanding You Use Edge
08/30 Intel and AMD Power Management is a Stinking Mess as Intel Makes Death Rattles
08/30 Xenophobia and Misinformation in New York Times
08/31 Productive Month and Good Riddance to Online Thugs
08/31 Operation Mole — Part VII — From ‘Be Nice!’ to Threats of Violence
08/31 [Meme] Axe-Wielding Microsoft Catspaw
08/31 Libera.Chat Became Far Smaller After the Collapse of Matrix.org, But the Number of Distinct IRC Networks is Growing
08/31 Gemini Links 31/08/2023: Gemini Specs Progressing
08/31 Microsoft Windows Desktop Operating System Market Share in Nigeria: Down From 99% to 47% in 13 Years
08/31 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 30, 2023
08/31 Links 31/08/2023: MidnightBSD 3.1.0 and Coreboot 4.21 Released
08/31 When a Modern Raspberry Pi is No Longer Enough as a Gemini Server
08/31 Gemini Links 31/08/2023: Launch of the smolweb.org Web Site
08/31 Links 31/08/2023: WordPress 6.3.1, DNF5 Delayed

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