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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 05, 2024

LWN on Python, Debian, and Kernel
Not the Traffic We Wanted
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Updated This Past Day

[Meme] Microsoft's LinkedIn and GitHub: Fakes, Misinformation, and Plagiarism

↺ [Meme] Microsoft's LinkedIn and GitHub: Fakes, Misinformation, and Plagiarism

it's like a "trip" and a trap

New

Central African Republic (CAR): Windows Becoming Extinct

↺ Central African Republic (CAR): Windows Becoming Extinct

Call it a CARnage

And We're Back to the EPO... Software Patents Flooding a Deeply Crooked System, Piggybacking Buzzwords Like "Hey Hi" (AI)

↺ And We're Back to the EPO... Software Patents Flooding a Deeply Crooked System, Piggybacking Buzzwords Like "Hey Hi" (AI)

"The Süddeutsche Zeitung of 12 August 2024 contains a detailed article highlighting the fact that companies from Asia and the USA are filing many more patent applications in the field of artificial intelligence than European companies."

Links 04/09/2024: Colleges Without Deadlines, Android 15

↺ Links 04/09/2024: Colleges Without Deadlines, Android 15

Links for the day

Gemini Links 04/09/2024: Sweden’s Fossil Fuel Helpers and Updated Version of Literata

↺ Gemini Links 04/09/2024: Sweden’s Fossil Fuel Helpers and Updated Version of Literata

Links for the day

Links 04/09/2024: Section 230 TikTok Ruling and "How Telegram Became a Sanctuary for Domestic Terrorists"

↺ Links 04/09/2024: Section 230 TikTok Ruling and "How Telegram Became a Sanctuary for Domestic Terrorists"

Links for the day

Windows Falls From 99% to 5% in Cameroon

↺ Windows Falls From 99% to 5% in Cameroon

Notice the shift away from desktops/laptops

[Meme] Sorry, No Sorry

↺ [Meme] Sorry, No Sorry

Microsoft disconnected from reality? Or just pushing Windows?

Microsoft Windows Dives to 10% in Angola (It Used to be 98%)

↺ Microsoft Windows Dives to 10% in Angola (It Used to be 98%)

4 months ago it was 12%

Free Software Foundation (FSF) Board: Still a Happy Family

↺ Free Software Foundation (FSF) Board: Still a Happy Family

Oliva and Bénassy are the ones who are not in the Board of Directors but are voting members

Let's Encrypt and Other Certificate Authorities (CAs) Are Not About Security and Privacy

↺ Let's Encrypt and Other Certificate Authorities (CAs) Are Not About Security and Privacy

"Encrypt" like "crypto" 'coins', i.e. a misnomer or misdirection

Viet Nam: GNU/Linux Rises to 7% (Desktops/Laptops), Windows Falls to 7% (Overall)

↺ Viet Nam: GNU/Linux Rises to 7% (Desktops/Laptops), Windows Falls to 7% (Overall)

This is how statCounter sees it

How-To Geek Changed Ownership a Year Ago, Now It Covers GNU/Linux Quite a Lot

↺ How-To Geek Changed Ownership a Year Ago, Now It Covers GNU/Linux Quite a Lot

let's examine closely

Sign of Going Mainstream and Growing Interest in GNU/Linux

↺ Sign of Going Mainstream and Growing Interest in GNU/Linux

About a month ago a sister site of MakeUseOf, How-To Geek, picked the baton and started covering GNU/Linux at least once a day

Over at Tux Machines...

↺ Over at Tux Machines...

GNU/Linux news for the past day

IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 03, 2024

↺ IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 03, 2024

IRC logs for Tuesday, September 03, 2024

[Meme] Arnold Explains the Future of Microsoft Windows to a Bot

↺ [Meme] Arnold Explains the Future of Microsoft Windows to a Bot

full sensor forensics/surveillance on all user activity under the guise of 'AI'

More IBM Layoffs (Just Days After 1,000+ Laid Off in China)

↺ More IBM Layoffs (Just Days After 1,000+ Laid Off in China)

Some people at IBM get fired just for their skin colour

Terms of Service (TOS) Under Scrutiny - Part XII - Microsoft's LinkedIn Grants Itself Licence for Plagiarism, Distortion of Facts

↺ Terms of Service (TOS) Under Scrutiny - Part XII - Microsoft's LinkedIn Grants Itself Licence for Plagiarism, Distortion of Facts

Bruce Perens mentions LinkedIn TOS

October Surprise Becomes September Surprise (Windows Will Get Banned in Many Places)

↺ October Surprise Becomes September Surprise (Windows Will Get Banned in Many Places)

The "AI" bubble is already poppingThe corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text. Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):Span from 2024-08-29 to 2024-09-041083 /n/2024/08/31/The_Only_Article_in_Linux_com_This_Month_Was_Not_an_Article_But.shtml 1059 /n/2024/09/03/Microsoft_is_Aiming_to_Kill_Both_Mono_and_WINE_in_One_Fell_Swoo.shtml 934 /n/2024/09/01/Still_Waiting_for_Microsoft_to_be_Fined_Punished_Sanctioned_for.shtml 840 /n/2024/09/02/As_New_Month_Commences_GNU_Linux_Blasts_Through_4_96_a_0_44_Inc.shtml 837 /n/2024/09/03/Pay_Careful_Attention_to_How_Canonical_is_Promoting_Ubuntu.shtml 823 /n/2024/09/03/Microsoft_Lost_the_Search.shtml 808 /n/2024/08/31/We_Turn_Out_to_Have_Been_Right_About_Rust.shtml 726 /n/2024/09/01/Update_on_IBM_Layoffs_Wave.shtml 708 /n/2024/09/01/A_Beautiful_Year_for_GNU_Linux_But_We_Must_Fight_On.shtml

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