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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 08, 2024
Updated This Past Day
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Microsofters' War on Linux Takes New Forms, Pentagon Nowadays Controls Linux in More Ways
Remember what happened to OpenBSD when DARPA learned of its Pentagon-unfriendly stance
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Only 75 Known Gemini Capsules Still Use Let's Encrypt (More Than 9 Out of 10 Self-Sign)
Some former HTTP/S sites go offline and move to Gemini
New
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Microsoft Tying Together Its Proxies to Promote Proprietary Software and the GitHub Prison
It does more harm than good
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Links 07/08/2024: Surveillance and Doxxing in Venezuelan, Plan to Invalidate UK Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023
Links for the day
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Reminder: When You Rely on Third-Party Card and Payment Processors (and Realise You're a Slave of a Ruthless System)
When you expose war crimes, corruption, and other serious crimes while the powerful whom you are exposing control the financial institutions (or system)
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Links 07/08/2024: Logitech's Horrifying Digital Restrictions (DRM) Fantasy and "Hey Hi" Bubble Already Bursting
Links for the day
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Gemini Links 07/08/2024: Old Computer Challenge and Salix is on Gemini
Links for the day
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Thoughts On 'SLUBStick' (Not a Severe Bug, Helps Distract From Lawsuits Against Microsoft Over Clownstrike Fiasco)
Clownstrike-gate showed Windows TCO of about 10 billion dollars (just for this one incident, not counting suffering to airline passengers and many dead patients, denied access to healthcare)
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Dell Embracing the "Hey Hi" Revolution to Win the "Hey Hi" Arms Race, It's Not Laying Off Anybody!
Dell... generated by L.L.M.
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Dell Wants Us to Think That Its Layoffs (12,500 People) Are Due to LLMs and Other Crock, the Media Repeats This Lie Unscrutinised
Sweatshops and reselling (Windows PCs) isn't a viable model
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Microsoft Windows Falls From 100% to 25% in Morocco, GNU/Linux and ChromeOS Now Exceed 4% on Desktops/Laptops
About 90% of these are "proper" GNU/Linux users, not Google's "spyware on top of GNU/Linux" (Chrome)OS
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"If it is not logic, it's magic. If it is not magic, it is female logic."
Someone can easily overthink this quote
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IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Turns 36, It's Older Than the World Wide Web
IRC is still alive and kicking
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Slashdot Media and Linux Journal: Missing Pages, Allegedly
Doc Searls has begun reproducing his own articles
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Probably the First Major GNU/Linux Distro to Adopt Gemini and Have an Official Gemini Capsule
Welcome to Gemini, Salix! Earning much respect among the 'Geminists' or 'the small Internet'
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Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
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IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 06, 2024
IRC logs for Tuesday, August 06, 2024The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text. Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):Span from 2024-08-01 to 2024-08-072504 /n/2024/08/04/In_Europe_Even_Yandex_is_Closing_in_on_Microsoft.shtml 2000/about.shtml 1141/index.shtml 1034/irc.shtml 918 /n/2024/08/05/Contrary_to_What_Shallow_News_Sites_Said_Canonical_s_Profits_an.shtml 854 /n/2024/08/04/The_Negative_Impact_of_DEI_on_Salaries_at_IBM_and_Fedora.shtml 792 /n/2024/08/03/LinuxSecurity_Site_Breaks_Down_Many_Fake_Articles_Not_Accessibl.shtml 651/txt/index.shtml?q=user/register 554 /n/2024/08/07/Microsoft_Windows_Falls_From_100_to_25_in_Morocco_GNU_Linux_and.shtml