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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 09, 2024

Games: Humble Bundle, Blood On The Thames, and More
Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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"Many Applications Labelled as "Cybersecurity" and Given a Veneer of Legitimacy Are Really "Weaponised" and Abusive Code"

↺ "Many Applications Labelled as "Cybersecurity" and Given a Veneer of Legitimacy Are Really "Weaponised" and Abusive Code"

New from Dr. Andy Farnell

New

Plagiarism by Bots: Guardian Digital, Inc (linuxsecurity.com) Still Creates Fake Articles About "Linux"

↺ Plagiarism by Bots: Guardian Digital, Inc (linuxsecurity.com) Still Creates Fake Articles About "Linux"

100% fake

[Teaser] [Meme] New Ways to Impoverish Patent Examiners (Entrusted to Block Unjust Monopolies or Monopoly Applications)

↺ [Teaser] [Meme] New Ways to Impoverish Patent Examiners (Entrusted to Block Unjust Monopolies or Monopoly Applications)

Coming tomorrow!

Apple Tax funds: railways, defective concrete blocks in Ireland's North and West

↺ Apple Tax funds: railways, defective concrete blocks in Ireland's North and West

Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

Daniel Pocock, Nomination for Ireland, Dublin Bay South, General Election 2024

↺ Daniel Pocock, Nomination for Ireland, Dublin Bay South, General Election 2024

Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

Links 08/11/2024: TikTok Bans and Clownflare Issues/Perils

↺ Links 08/11/2024: TikTok Bans and Clownflare Issues/Perils

Links for the day

Gemini Links 08/11/2024: RPS, O.D.I.N., and RSS in Yahoo News

↺ Gemini Links 08/11/2024: RPS, O.D.I.N., and RSS in Yahoo News

Links for the day

Donald Trump as Censor in Chief Can Now Leverage Censorship Companies and Fake Protection Disguised as 'Security'

↺ Donald Trump as Censor in Chief Can Now Leverage Censorship Companies and Fake Protection Disguised as 'Security'

Centralised CAs were trouble all along

Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part VI

↺ Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part VI

By Dr. Andy Farnell

A Death of a News Industry

↺ A Death of a News Industry

A theme we explored thrice today

Deciphering Centralised CAs and Why Their Demise Should be a Goal

↺ Deciphering Centralised CAs and Why Their Demise Should be a Goal

Encryption in transmission is good; but who controls the key exchange and certification/authentication/validation?

Links 08/11/2024: Strikes, Recessions, and Slowdowns

↺ Links 08/11/2024: Strikes, Recessions, and Slowdowns

Links for the day

[Teaster] [Meme] New Ways of Wrecking (NWoW)

↺ [Teaster] [Meme] New Ways of Wrecking (NWoW)

The EPO

Gateway for News and Blogs

↺ Gateway for News and Blogs

In the long run, this site and its sister site (less overlap between them now) should hopefully become a popular destination for people who look for information, not chaff

Going Even Faster

↺ Going Even Faster

We hope the site will be faster soon

Psychopaths Who Reaffirm Our Work's Value

↺ Psychopaths Who Reaffirm Our Work's Value

Psychopaths and sociopaths lack empathy, so they're willing to go very far and stoop as low as they deem necessary

[Meme] How Low Can You Go at the European Patent Office?

↺ [Meme] How Low Can You Go at the European Patent Office?

Not just in terms of patent quality

More Cuts/End to Benefits for EPO Workers (Europe's Working Conditions Incompatible With the European Patent Convention)

↺ More Cuts/End to Benefits for EPO Workers (Europe's Working Conditions Incompatible With the European Patent Convention)

"The Office is now reviving it but plans to introduce new cuts on benefits"

Over at Tux Machines...

↺ Over at Tux Machines...

GNU/Linux news for the past day

IRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 07, 2024

↺ IRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 07, 2024

IRC logs for Thursday, November 07, 2024

Security Advisory: Debian falls for social engineering hacks

↺ Security Advisory: Debian falls for social engineering hacks

Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

Gemini Links 08/11/2024: US Election, RetroChallenge 2024, and More

↺ Gemini Links 08/11/2024: US Election, RetroChallenge 2024, and More

Links for the dayThe corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text. Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):Span from 2024-11-02 to 2024-11-081687 /n/2024/11/04/GNU_Linux_Users_Are_Not_Cheaters.shtml 1402 /n/2024/11/07/Microsoft_Connected_Publishers_Want_Us_to_Think_That_Linux_is_S.shtml 1234 /n/2024/11/04/Shout_out_to_Christine_From_FOSSForce.shtml 805 /n/2024/11/02/GNU_Linux_Usage_Surveys_Up_to_6_8_With_ChromeOS_Based_on_StatCo.shtml 790 /n/2024/11/04/Saving_the_Planet_With_Honesty_Transparency_and_Sharing_Not_Onl.shtml 761 /n/2024/11/06/Mass_Layoffs_at_Mozilla_Announced_During_US_Elections.shtml 725 /n/2024/10/25/Links_25_10_2024_Erosion_of_Trust_Online_and_Disability_Rights.shtml 684 /n/2024/11/04/Apple_s_MacOS_Shows_Us_the_Vision_of_Computing_That_GAFAM_Has_f.shtml 673 /n/2024/11/02/Python_Software_Foundation_is_Cancel_Culture_Rehomed.shtml 659 /n/2024/10/31/SCO_Darl_McBride_Dead_at_Age_64.shtml 643 /n/2024/11/05/Halloween_All_Saints_Day_Swiss_citizenship.shtml 631/n/2024/11/06/Would_You_Trust_a_Liar.shtml 545 /n/2024/11/05/Links_05_11_2024_Criminal_Referrals_Regarding_Patent_Trolls_and.shtml 545/n/2024/11/03/Streisand_Effect_at_IBM.shtml 525/n/2024/11/02/The_Luddite_Complex.shtml 520 /n/2024/11/04/Active_as_in_One_URL_One_Emoji_and_4_Words_in_One_Week.shtml 517 /n/2024/11/03/Free_Software_Licence_Compliance_is_About_Security_Too.shtml 503/n/2024/11/05/Oppose_the_Fascist.shtml 503 /n/2024/11/03/Wall_Street_Has_Demoted_Intel_Seeing_There_May_be_No_Future_to_.shtml

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