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Today in Techrights
Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 08, 2024
Updated This Past Day
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They Used to Say Avoid Nginx (or NGINX) Because It's Russian. Now You Can Say Avoid It Because It's Microsoft.
Thankfully we quit using NGINX when we shut down our HTTP proxy for Gemini
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Peter Eckersley and 'Afterlife'
It's better to look after one's health at present than to pursue all sorts of perceived 'insurance' policies
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Instead of Telegram People Should Use Free Software (Telegram Was Always Unsafe for Use)
"Modern" so-called 'smart' 'phones' are compromised at the OS level or baseband side
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Techrights is a Demonstrably Popular Site, Reporting Suppressed Facts. Those Vouching for Its 'Unpopularity' Express a Desire Rather Than a Condition or a Fact.
Our 100% source protection record will hold up
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Terms of Service (TOS) Under Scrutiny - Part XIV - Zoom the Beast
breakdown of the Zoom TOS and corresponding privacy statement
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FSFE: Donate to Us to Co-Fund With Microsoft the Unpaid Underage Labour, YH4F
Latest from FSFE
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Links 07/09/2024: China's Financial "Bond" to Africa and Attempts to Postpone Trump Criminal Cases
Links for the day
New
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Gemini Links 07/09/2024: Self Hosting (Not "CLOUD") and Site Reliability Engineering
Links for the day
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The Arrest of Pavel Durov is Changing Telegram
Remember that Telegram's founder, who is also French, cannot leave France until he satisfies those who detained him
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The Growth of GNU/Linux is Now a Mainstream Topic With Widespread Awareness
We can do less counting (of baskets and eggs) and more advocacy
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The Free Software Movement Must Not Assume That Truth and Science Always Win
Sometimes the bad people and the liars get ahead
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John Pilger's Site Relaunches, Wikileaks' Site Has Not Been Updated in Years
We have long hoped that, more so after the release of Assange, Wikileaks will have some kind of "relaunch" or recovery
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Rage in the Propaganda Machine
There has never been a better time to quit social control media
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Certificate Authorities (CAs) Are Serving the Authorities, Not You
The centralised CAs "model" is not working
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A Terms of Service (TOS) Notion of "Consent"
We're well past the true notion of real consent
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Links 07/09/2024: Qualcomm May Buy Parts of Intel, YouTube Deletes Channels for the US Government
Links for the day
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No, Mastodon is Not Growing, Social Control Media is Generally Waning
Our sister site pulled the plug on the whole thing over a year ago, seeing it was mostly a source of online abuse
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A Loss for Fake Security, a Win for Net Autonomy
Crucifixion of domains has been ramping up this past week; it's a cautionary signal
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Links 07/09/2024: UK Police Raid Journalist's Home, Epoch Times Setbacks, and Karma
Links for the day
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Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
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IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 06, 2024
IRC logs for Friday, September 06, 2024
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linuxsecurity.com is Still Spamming the Web
This is not harmless to Linux and it definitely merits a shun
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Gemini Links 07/09/2024: Freedom in Bareness, Reactions in Addictive Social Control Media
Links for the dayThe corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text. Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):Span from 2024-09-01 to 2024-09-071393 /n/2024/09/03/Microsoft_Lost_the_Search.shtml 1116 /n/2024/09/03/Microsoft_is_Aiming_to_Kill_Both_Mono_and_WINE_in_One_Fell_Swoo.shtml 988 /n/2024/09/06/Why_We_Are_Suing_Matthew_J_Garrett_for_Harassment_and_Why_It_s_.shtml 953 /n/2024/09/01/Still_Waiting_for_Microsoft_to_be_Fined_Punished_Sanctioned_for.shtml 903 /n/2024/09/06/Linux_Foundation_Technical_Advisory_Board_Has_Election_But_Goog.shtml 899 /n/2024/09/03/Pay_Careful_Attention_to_How_Canonical_is_Promoting_Ubuntu.shtml 869 /n/2024/09/02/As_New_Month_Commences_GNU_Linux_Blasts_Through_4_96_a_0_44_Inc.shtml 768 /n/2024/09/01/Update_on_IBM_Layoffs_Wave.shtml 764 /n/2024/09/04/Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Board_Still_a_Happy_Family.shtml 731 /n/2024/09/01/A_Beautiful_Year_for_GNU_Linux_But_We_Must_Fight_On.shtml