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Today in Techrights
Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 12, 2024
Updated This Past Day
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No, the World Wide Web Isn't Open (and Hasn't Been for Years)
It's proprietary all the way now
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Microsoft Told Us That LLMs Were a Boon for Azure and 'Clown Computing', But the Thousands of Layoffs This Month Prove That It Was a Lie All Along
Azure is collapsing
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Why We Post Statistics About the Usage of Operating Systems Worldwide
We're hoping to see GNU/Linux at over 10% (on desktops/laptops) some time in the coming years
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Tux Machines Was Always a Women-Run Site (the Real Voices of GNU/Linux, Not Political Props in Corporate Events)
Corporate "diversity" is more of a marketing/PR gimmick than real, genuine diversity
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[Meme] Quantity Says Nothing About Worth, Value, or Quality
People will generally gravitate towards things of quality and reputation
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Windows Falls Below 20% in United Arab Emirates This Month
According to statCounter
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"Windows 11's Recall AI, known to take snapshots and recordings of user computers regularly, including key presses, was discovered to store all its information in an unencrypted local folder."
"You can copy the data from another user's "recall" folder as another user."
New
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[Meme] Microsoft Has Enough of Its Own Problems (Layoffs Abundant), It Won't Rescue IBM or Canonical
"It's OK, we're partners"
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Know Your Allies, Know Your Enemies
The answer to censorship attempts is more speech, not less speech
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Debian is Back to Taking Money From Microsoft, the Company That's Attacking Linux From the Inside
If Debian fails to understand what's wrong with it, that's a problem
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Ghana: Windows Down From 97% to Just 15%
The doors are closing on Windows
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Links 11/06/2024: Practice of Retaliatory Layoffs at Microsoft
Links for the day
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Gemini Links 11/06/2024: GMID 2.0.5 and More
Links for the day
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The United States Will Cut Off or Cull Firefox
It is only a matter of time
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[Meme] Firefox Is Not an Alternative to Google, Only to Chrome (and It Has Become Proprietary or OSPS Like Chromium)
The illusion of remaining "choice" on the Web
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The War on Free Software Reporters - Part VII - Groupthink, Censorship Demands, and Ultimatums
There's a lot of groupthink in the Free software community
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Winning Defamation Cases is Incredibly Difficult (for Plaintiffs), Even in the United States and the United Kingdom
SLAPP should always backfire
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In Kuwait, Microsoft's Windows Fell From 97% to Just 15%
According to statCounter
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GNU/Linux in Philippines Climbs to New Levels
This is an all-time high
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Links 11/06/2024: Windows Outcry and Climate News
Links for the day
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Macao: GNU/Linux Desktop/Laptop Operating System Market Share Rising Close to 7%
GNU/Linux Rises to Record High in Macao
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FSF is Now 50% Female, Unlike Red Hat (Which Moaned About Lack of "Diversity" at FSF)
Isn't the hypocrisy just astounding?
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Since COVID-19 Lockdowns Windows Fell From Almost 50% to Just 10% in Loas
According to statCounter
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Microsoft's Windows in Gabon: From 20% 'Market Share' Down to Around 10% in a Few Months
Gabon is not a small country
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Meanwhile at canonical.com
Canonical knows exactly what Ubuntu users want
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[Meme] Microsoft (and the NSA) Will Never Forget
The user trying to permanently disable 'recall'
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Fedora Week of Diversity (FWD) 2024 Outsourced to Proprietary Spyware of GAFAM
Need to use proprietary software to participate
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IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 10, 2024
IRC logs for Monday, June 10, 2024
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Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
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[Meme] Clown Computing is Better For...
Clown: they said clown computing enhances security
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One in a Thousand Voters Chose to Vote Daniel Pocock (as First Preference)
He got about 4 times more votes than what had him win FSFE elections
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Daniel Pocock on Good Performance in His EU Election Campaign: Thanking the voters of Midlands-North-West, Ireland
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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The 'IT Industry' is Already in Ruins
The "powers that be" do not want the "hoi polloi" to possess skills and systems
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Microsoft's Windows is Sliding Away Into Minority Platform Territories, Even in Rich Countries With Affluent Computer Users
We seem to be striking a nerve at Microsoft every time we say this
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Self-Hosting Should be Taught and Embraced, Outsourcing Creates More Problems (or Risks) Than It Solves
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