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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 08, 2024
Updated This Past Day
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The High Cost of Making Scepticism of Proprietary Voting Machines a "Trump" and "Conspiracy Theory" Territory
Time to get back to paper? Or read an old paper?
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Today We Got an Early Birthday Gift
Exciting times
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[Meme] Going Too Far to the Left Can Breed Militant Ideology
Some people can never be appeased because they prefer not to be appeased
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FSF Expressed No Preference Regarding Presidential Candidates (Its Founder Did)
Because he is a principled person, he does not prioritise loyalty to customers or employers (money)
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Who Next on the Linux Foundation's 'Kill List'?
Remember that only about 2% of the "Linux" Foundation's budget goes to Linux
New
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[Meme] Questioning Proprietary Software? Not OK...
A disaster long in the making
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Links 07/11/2024: HTTP/3, Health Research, and Punditry
Links for the day
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Gemini Links 07/11/2024: On Writing Publicly and Record Player Table
Links for the day
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Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Hosted SOSS as Microsoft Propaganda Platform With Microsoft Front Group OSI
They essentially promote what they're attacking under false pretences [...] OSI is deeply corrupt. It's more toxic than arsenic.
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Anti-Linux FUD, Now in LLM Form, Thanks to Brittany Day
They attack Linux with chatbots
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[Meme] When You Discredit People Who Discredit Secret Code
proprietary systems with hundreds of millions of transistors (and hundreds of millions of lines of code)
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Links 07/11/2024: Online Manipulation in Social Control Media, Election Deniers, and More
Links for the day
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Gemini Links 07/11/2024: emacs-guix and File Hoarding
Links for the day
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[Meme] Election Day at the European Patent Office
Less than 60 minutes left to cast your vote
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Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Election Ending Today
In one hour
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[Meme] When the Patent Office Does Illegal Things and Staff Speaks Out
many leaks received today
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Apple's Debt Has Skyrocketed While Gimmicks Like Vision Pro Failed
In Apple's case, the debt is almost double the "Cash on Hand", which isn't even cash
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A President Trump is Excellent News to Microsoft
His racist policies gave lots of contracts to Microsoft
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Links 07/11/2024: Facebook Scams, Journalists on Strike
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: Wednesday, November 06, 2024
IRC logs for Wednesday, November 06, 2024
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Microsoft-Connected Publishers Want Us to Think That Linux is Some Sort of a Virus and a "Backdoor"
"The problem is with windows and the attack vector is via Windows"
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We've Made it to 18! Here's to Another 18!
Going on for another 18 years means until some time at the end of 2042
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Links 07/11/2024: Political Angst and Laptop Issues
Links for the dayThe corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text. Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):Span from 2024-11-01 to 2024-11-071660 /n/2024/11/04/GNU_Linux_Users_Are_Not_Cheaters.shtml 1230 /n/2024/11/04/Shout_out_to_Christine_From_FOSSForce.shtml 1122 /n/2024/11/07/Microsoft_Connected_Publishers_Want_Us_to_Think_That_Linux_is_S.shtml 922 /n/2024/10/31/SCO_Darl_McBride_Dead_at_Age_64.shtml 803 /n/2024/11/02/GNU_Linux_Usage_Surveys_Up_to_6_8_With_ChromeOS_Based_on_StatCo.shtml 761 /n/2024/11/04/Saving_the_Planet_With_Honesty_Transparency_and_Sharing_Not_Onl.shtml 709 /n/2024/11/06/Mass_Layoffs_at_Mozilla_Announced_During_US_Elections.shtml 683 /n/2024/11/04/Apple_s_MacOS_Shows_Us_the_Vision_of_Computing_That_GAFAM_Has_f.shtml 671 /n/2024/11/02/Python_Software_Foundation_is_Cancel_Culture_Rehomed.shtml 626 /n/2024/11/05/Halloween_All_Saints_Day_Swiss_citizenship.shtml 623 /n/2024/10/25/Links_25_10_2024_Erosion_of_Trust_Online_and_Disability_Rights.shtml 581 /n/2024/11/01/Technology_rights_or_responsibilities_Part_V.shtml 542 /n/2024/11/01/Links_01_11_2024_Few_Things_Are_Cheaper_Than_This_Antenna_and_N.shtml 537/n/2024/11/03/Streisand_Effect_at_IBM.shtml 525/n/2024/11/02/The_Luddite_Complex.shtml 518 /n/2024/11/04/Active_as_in_One_URL_One_Emoji_and_4_Words_in_One_Week.shtml 513 /n/2024/11/03/Free_Software_Licence_Compliance_is_About_Security_Too.shtml 500 /n/2024/11/03/Wall_Street_Has_Demoted_Intel_Seeing_There_May_be_No_Future_to_.shtml