Tux Machines
Today in Techrights
Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 06, 2024
Updated This Past Day
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The Internet is Failing to Protect Democratic Processes and Human Knowledge
Amplifying lies, rewarding plagiarists
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Links 05/11/2024: Criminal Referrals Regarding Patent Trolls and Disinformation About the Election Process (Already)
Links for the day
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Disinformation About Election Outcomes Even Before Any Election Outcomes (or Election/Voting!)
seeding doubt about election outcomes
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Against Outsourcing of Sites and E-mail
Software Freedom is great, but it is not enough if you let someone else do it 'for you'
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Drew DeVault: People Talking About My Attack Site (Against the Founder of GNU/Linux) is "Spam"
"Spam on sr.ht mailing lists"
New
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Birthday Tomorrow
Many cakes and drinks are ready; we're one day away now
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Gemini Links 05/11/2024: 'App' Needed for Parking, NNCP, Gomphotherium
Links for the day
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How Voting Does Not Work
You cannot vote from an "app"
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Links 05/11/2024: Bluesky and Enshittification, Pugad Baboy, and Lots of Disinformation Flooding the Web
Links for the day
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[Meme] Sweaty Under the Belly
"OK, my critics are 'spam'"
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Microsoft Bribing Canonical (to Stop Competing) and Bribing Users to Shun the Competition
Canonical is worth shunning
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[Meme] The 2024 'Info Bros'
And prehistoric googling
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Computers Getting Worse (for the User) Over Time
This is like Windows-ism coming to "Linux" through the hardware
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[Meme] How NOT to Vote
Another form of (mostly-unspoken-of) election interference
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An LLM Inside a 'Search' Engine Means That Companies Tell You What They Want, Not What Web Pages to Visit
The future of 'googling' things might be as unreliable as using Social Control Media as a source of information
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Google's Debt Has Increased and 'Cash on Hand' Fell by 22.27% This Past Year
These are the numbers that the corporate media intentionally leaves out
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Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
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IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 04, 2024
IRC logs for Monday, November 04, 2024
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There's a Reason Why Techrights is Turning 18 and Tux Machines Will Turn 20.5 Next Month
I started advocating GNU/Linux when I was a teenager
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"Oppose the Fascist"
what the founder of GNU/Linux said
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Techrights Has a Long History of Fighting to Expose 'Team Mono' or Microsofters Inside GNOME
Never downplay the malice of Microsoft and its operatives
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Halloween, All Saints Day & Swiss citizenship
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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Gemini Links 05/11/2024: Halloween Over, Intention and Implementation, Bookmark Syncing
Links for the dayThe corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text. Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):Span from 2024-10-30 to 2024-11-051532 /n/2024/11/04/GNU_Linux_Users_Are_Not_Cheaters.shtml 1172 /n/2024/11/04/Shout_out_to_Christine_From_FOSSForce.shtml 976 /n/2024/10/31/SCO_Darl_McBride_Dead_at_Age_64.shtml 798 /n/2024/11/02/GNU_Linux_Usage_Surveys_Up_to_6_8_With_ChromeOS_Based_on_StatCo.shtml 788 /n/2024/10/30/Links_30_10_2024_TSMC_Concerns_and_North_Koreans_in_Ukraine_War.shtml 663 /n/2024/11/02/Python_Software_Foundation_is_Cancel_Culture_Rehomed.shtml 627 /n/2024/11/04/Apple_s_MacOS_Shows_Us_the_Vision_of_Computing_That_GAFAM_Has_f.shtml 574 /n/2024/11/01/Technology_rights_or_responsibilities_Part_V.shtml 574 /n/2024/10/29/Linux_Fork_or_Community_Fork_of_Linux_in_Russia.shtml 556 /n/2024/10/30/The_Role_of_Publishers_on_the_World_Wide_Web_and_Gemini_Protoco.shtml 542/n/2024/10/30/All_Systems_Operational.shtml 539 /n/2024/10/30/More_Than_a_Week_Has_Passed_DeVault_Has_Declined_to_Deny_Seriou.shtml 528 /n/2024/11/01/Links_01_11_2024_Few_Things_Are_Cheaper_Than_This_Antenna_and_N.shtml 526 /n/2024/10/30/Volkswagen_Cheated_Us_and_Created_Cars_We_Didn_t_Ask_For.shtml 521/n/2024/11/02/The_Luddite_Complex.shtml 511 /n/2024/10/30/Links_30_10_2024_Extreme_Surveillance_in_Schools_More_Openwashi.shtml 509/n/2024/10/31/Facebook_is_for_Zombies.shtml