Techrights /2023/05/
05/01 Links 01/05/2023: MenuLibre 2.3.1 and GnuCash 5.1
05/01 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 30, 2023
05/01 Links 01/05/2023: Mayday Mayday
05/01 [Meme] Plunder With âStyleâ
05/01 Links 01/05/2023: Peropesis 2.1 and EasyOS 5.2.3
05/01 Dear Phoronix, AdBlocking is Not the Enemy (and Itâs a Matter of Security)
05/01 Holding Criminals Accountable â Part III â Why Police Action is the Only Option Now
05/01 Suitable Online Bank(rupt)ing
05/01 The World Wide Web at 30: Time to Gradually Retire It and Embrace Something Else
05/02 Holding Criminals Accountable â Part III â Why Police Action is the Only Option Now
05/02 Microsoftâs Mass Layoffs Are Killing Many Microsoft Peripherals and Flagship Products
05/02 IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 01, 2023
05/02 Links 02/05/2023: Many More Layoffs and Failing Banks
05/03 Gemini Links 03/05/2023: Our First Gemini-Only Batch
05/03 Links 03/05/2023: KDE ISO Image Writer 1.0.0 and Flatseal 2.0 Released
05/03 Gemini Protocol Promoted to First-Class Citizen in Techrights Daily Links
05/03 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 02, 2023
05/03 Microsoft Windows in BRICS Laptops/Desktops: Monopoly Bricked?
05/03 Links 03/05/2023: New Fedora 38 ISOs, U.S. Solicitor General Meddling for Software Patents
05/03 Gemini Links 03/05/2023: Second Batch (Still Experimental)
05/03 Gemini Links 03/05/2023: Scepticism of âthe State of Modern Computingâ
05/03 Links 03/05/2023: More Predictions of Xbox Demise/Doom and More Dirty Tricks From Microsoft
05/04 Links 04/05/2023: Amazon Lays Off 27,000, Musk Pulls an Andrew Lee (Hijacking Handles)
05/04 Bing is Dying and Chatbots Wonât Save Bing
05/04 Gemini Links 04/05/2023: IDEs Reviewed, Chatbots Debunked
05/04 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, May 03, 2023
05/04 Gemini Links 04/05/2023: IKEA Maze and Lawsuits Over Negative Reviews
05/04 Newer is Not Always Better (the Case of Automobiles)
05/04 Links 04/05/2023: OpenWrt 22.03.5 and OSMCâs May Update
05/04 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Covers Software Patents Again
05/05 [Meme] Mr. Kink, Where Did You All Hide the Stolen Money?
05/05 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 04, 2023
05/05 Microsoftâs Total Debt (Current and Longterm) is About 80 Billion Dollars
05/05 Links 05/05/2023: New EasyOS Released, OSI and Linux Foundation Fronting for Microsoft
05/05 Links 05/05/2023: Plasma Mobile Updates, Speculations About Molly de Blanc
05/05 [Meme] Royally Screwed by the System
05/05 Stallman (RMS) Support Site Adds RSS Feed and More Words of Support for RMS
05/05 Gemini Links 05/05/2023: Standing To Code and More
05/05 Gemini Links 04/05/2023: New Arrivals and When Not to Use the Newest âFrameworksâ
05/06 What Weâve Heard Since December: The Biggest Microsoft Layoffs Will be Starting This Summer
05/06 Gemini Links 06/05/2023: Personal Posts and an Extended Downtime
05/06 IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 05, 2023
05/06 Links 06/05/2023: Microsoft Executive Admits Losing the Console Wars
05/06 Links 06/05/2023: Proton 8.0-2 and Much More
05/06 Gemini Links 06/05/2023: Serving Gemini in Dart
05/06 Sony Won the Console Wars a Long Time Ago
05/07 Do Not Call Free Software âOpen Sourceâ Because It Misleads People and Harms Freedom
05/07 Looking Back at the First Week of Gemini Daily Links (as Standalone Posts)
05/07 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 06, 2023
05/07 Reporting That Embarrasses Powerful People Online is at Risk (Politicians Are at It Again)
05/07 Free Software is Against Tyranny, Itâs for Societal Justice (Lessening Abuse of Power)
05/07 Links 07/05/2023: GNOME 44 in Arch Repos and Ubuntu 23.10 Daily Build
05/07 Links 07/05/2023: Many New Videos and Perl News
05/08 Itâs Certainly Beginning to Seem Like Red Hat (IBM) Fired Writers and/or Editors
05/08 Links 08/05/2023: FEX 2305 Tagged, Twitter Waning
05/08 Gemini Links 08/05/2023: New Joiners and Social Control Media Fatigue
05/08 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 07, 2023
05/08 Over 100 New Layoffs in Microsoft Portugal
05/08 Techrights Turns 16.5 Years Old and for the First Time I Can Devote 100% of My Time to It
05/08 Links 08/05/2023: Linux 6.4 RC1 Out the Gate, Yocto Project Reaches 4.2
05/08 Gemini Links 08/05/2023: YouTube Ads, Self-Hosting, and More
05/09 Links 09/05/2023: Alpine Linux 3.18 and Freespire 9.5
05/09 Links 09/05/2023: Firefox 113 and War Reporting Awards
05/09 Links 09/05/2023: Geminiâs Killer App
05/09 Links 08/05/2023: Many More Intel and Microsoft Layoffs
05/09 IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 08, 2023
05/09 Gemini Links 09/05/2023: LLMs for Censorship and C++20
05/09 Links 09/05/2023: KDE Plasma 5.27.5, More Microsoft Layoffs
05/09 Gemini Links 09/05/2023: Personal Stuff and Proportional Coding
05/09 Gemini Links 08/05/2023: Recalling Tradewars, Suckless Window Manager, and More
05/10 Links 10/05/2023: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and More
05/10 Links 10/05/2023: WordPress Turns 20 and GCC 12.3 Released
05/10 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 09, 2023
05/10 Gemini Links 10/05/2023: More on Gemini Killer App
05/10 Gemini Links 10/05/2023: Gopher Sites and Proportional Fonts
05/10 Links 10/05/2023: SparkyLinux 6.7 and Julia 1.9
05/10 The Microsoft Initiative (OSI) Against Free Software, an Initiative Funded by Microsoft
05/10 Gemini Links 10/05/2023: tmux in Chromebookâs âTerminalâ and More
05/11 Links 11/05/2023: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AlmaLinux 9.2
05/11 [Meme] Smokescreens and Secrecy for Corporate Obfuscation While Your Colleagues Disappear
05/11 Gemini Links 11/05/2023: Years of Gopher in Hindsight and Dev Nullification
05/11 EPO Abuses âData Protectionâ to Hide Its Own Abuses
05/11 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, May 10, 2023
05/11 Links 11/05/2023: LibreOffice 7.4.7 and GNOME Core Apps Update
05/12 Links 12/05/2023: More Microsoft Layoffs, Apple Antitrust Risk
05/12 Links 12/05/2023: PostgreSQL 15.3 and Escuelas Linux 8.2
05/12 [Meme] Some People Are Above the Law
05/12 Links 12/05/2023: Godot 4.1 Dev 2, Google Promoting Vapourware and Hype
05/12 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 11, 2023
05/12 The Person Who Looks After the Core Infrastructure of Sirius Open Source Has Left the Company
05/12 Gemini Links 12/05/2023: Nokia and IDEs
05/12 Ukraine: Windows Down, GNU/Linux Up (and the Machine Guns Run Steam Deck, With KDE Apparently)
05/13 Links 13/05/2023: Twitter Now Run by Advertising Person
05/13 Links 13/05/2023: Plasma Sprint 2023 and EasyOS 5.3
05/13 IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 12, 2023
05/13 Gemini Links 13/05/2023: âEcofascistsâ and Mushroom Cultivation
05/13 Links 13/05/2023: Ruby 3.3.0 Preview1, Wine 8.8, and Kdenlive 23.04
05/14 Gemini Links 14/05/2023: Linux âDerpeningâ
05/14 Europeâs Second-Largest Institution (the EPO) is Sabotaging Itself by Repelling Staff
05/14 Links 14/05/2023: Fedora and Firefox 113 on POWER/POWER9OpenPOWER
05/14 Links 14/05/2023: GNU Shepherd 0.10.0 and GNU poke 3.2
05/14 Links 14/05/2023: IBM Has Cut Into Fedora, Not Just OpenSource.com; Turkish Election Today
05/14 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 13, 2023
05/14 Immense Abuse, Sabotage and Vandalism in IRC Each Time We Mention Microsoft Crises
05/14 Geminispace.org Goes Live (New Gemini Protocol Site)
05/14 Gemini Links 14/05/2023: Computers of the 80s, Proportional Coding Fonts, and More
05/14 The EPO, Europeâs Largest Patent Office, Becomes Even More Secretive
05/14 The European Commission and European Patent Office
05/15 New Video: History of GNU, Which Turns 40 This Year
05/15 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 14, 2023
05/15 Links 15/05/2023: Linux 6.4 RC2 and KeePassXC 2.7.5
05/15 IBM Has Killed OpenSource.com, Rejecting the Open Source Way
05/15 Links 15/05/2023: More Red Hat Refugees Spotted
05/15 Gemini Links 15/05/2023: Introducing Rosy Crow
05/15 Links 15/05/2023: TĂźrkiye Runoff Foreseen in Presidential Election
05/15 Almost Nobody Reporting What IBM is Doing to the Free Software Community
05/15 Gemini Links 15/05/2023: Ex Over Ed, Yak Shaving
05/15 Itâs Time to Leave YouTube (Itâll Only Get a Lot Worse)
05/16 Coming Soon: 10 Screens, More Peripherals
05/16 Links 16/05/2023: Archâs Git Migration
05/16 Gemini Links 16/05/2023: Centralisation Concerns and New smolZINE
05/16 [Meme] Only the Very Best Judges
05/16 IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 15, 2023
05/16 Analysing Whoâs Left at Sirius âOpen Sourceâ
05/16 Links 16/05/2023: Sourceware in SFC
05/17 Links 17/05/2023: Team UPC Tries Another Illegal Manoeuvre
05/17 Gemini Links 17/05/2023: Contact Juggling and âDebt Ceiling Bullshitâ
05/17 Links 17/05/2023: New Tails and Debian Installer Bookworm RC 3
05/17 âLINUXâ or âUNIXâ Sites That Promote Windows Products? Follow the MoneyâŚ
05/17 Gemini Links 17/05/2023: Several Gemini-Related News
05/17 Confirmed: IBM is Shutting Down Sites of Red Hat (Staff Writers Discarded)
05/17 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 16, 2023
05/17 The World Wide Web, and Even Some âLINUXâ or âUNIXâ Sites, Become Spamfarms
05/17 Links 17/05/2023: Vice Media is Dead
05/18 Gemini Links 18/05/2023: Distributed Sites Over Git
05/18 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, May 17, 2023
05/18 Links 18/05/2023: Weston 12.0.0 and IRPF-Livre 2023
05/18 Links 18/05/2023: Util-linux 2.39 and Lutris 0.5.13
05/18 Links 18/05/2023: Mozilla âInvestsâ in âAppsâ and âGigâ âWorkersâ
05/18 [Meme] Charlieâs Angels Have Probably Left Sirius
05/18 World Wide Web Crushed and We Know Whose Fault That Might be
05/19 10 Years Ago Edward Snowden Did the Right Thing
05/19 Canadian Desktops and Laptops: Windows 61.7%, GNU/Linux 5.5%
05/19 Links 19/05/2023: AlmaLinux 8.8 and GNU Health in Afghanistan
05/19 Links 19/05/2023: Newer Laptops With GNU/Linux Preinstalled
05/19 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 18, 2023
05/19 Good Morning Britain Host Martin Lewis: âAction Fraud is Pointlessâ
05/19 Action Fraud: Nobody to Speak to
05/19 OSI Running Microsoft Ads (and Promoting Proprietary GitHub) Under the Guise of âWebinarâ
05/19 Links 19/05/2023: New Beta of deepin Linux and PipeWire 0.3.71
05/19 [Meme] A Racket in âOpen Sourceâ Clothing
05/19 Sirius Open Source Reported to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for Tax Fraud
05/19 Gemini Links 19/05/2023: Unclouding and Gemini Missing Good CMSes
05/20 Gemini Links 20/05/2023: Ascension Day and Closed Registration for flounder.online (Small Web)
05/20 Links 20/05/2023: CodeWeavers Without Jeremy White
05/20 Links 20/05/2023: GStreamer 1.22.3, LibreOffice Looks to Attract New Contributors
05/20 Links 20/05/2023: IPFire 2.27 â Core Update 175
05/20 IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 19, 2023
05/20 London Police Chief Publicly Admits the System is Failing Victims
05/20 Gemini Links 20/05/2023: The Other Wiki and More
05/21 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 20, 2023
05/21 Links 21/05/2023: Unifont 15.0.02 and KDE Plasma 6 Plans
05/21 Gemini Links 21/05/2023: ScummVM and Lagrange 1.16
05/21 Links 21/05/2023: WordPress 6.2.2 and ESPClicker
05/22 On Anniversaries and Milestones
05/22 Gemini Links 22/05/2023: Bubble Debated a Week Later
05/22 Comments on the European Patent Officeâs Strategic Plan to Survive Another 5 Years
05/22 [Meme] Captain AntĂłnioâs Strategic Plan SP2028
05/22 IBM Versus GNU/Linux Community (Including Fedora)
05/22 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 21, 2023
05/22 Microsoft Punditsâ Predictions Versus Reality
05/22 Microsoft Layoffs Still Ongoing This Week in Nuance Communications
05/22 Links 22/05/2023: Qt 6 in KDE Neon Unstable, GNU Parallel 20230522, and More Microsoft Layoffs
05/22 Holding Criminals Accountable â Part VIII â Lots More to Come After Police Inaction
05/22 Gemini Links 22/05/2023: Smolver Security Hole Fixed
05/22 Links 22/05/2023: SoylentNews Site to Shut Down and New Releases of Pgpool-II Now Available
05/22 Links 22/05/2023: GNU Diffutils 3.10 and TCMS 12.3
05/22 Gemini Links 22/05/2023: Titan Uploads and INN
05/23 Gemini Links 23/05/2023: Bubble v2.0
05/23 FFII: German President of the Unified Patent Court Rewrites the Treaty Like a Dictator
05/23 IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 22, 2023
05/23 Gemini Links 23/05/2023: Spending Time in Web3 and Mobile Compatibility
05/23 Links 23/05/2023: Python 3.12.0 Beta and EasyOS Kirkstone 5.3.1
05/23 Links 23/05/2023: Systemd Free Changes
05/24 Links 24/05/2023: Podman Desktop 1.0, BSDCan 2024, and More
05/24 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 23, 2023
05/24 [Meme] When the Patent Office Controls Kangaroo Patent Courts and Judges
05/24 Gemini Links 24/05/2023: Razors, Profit, and More
05/24 SiliconANGLE: Sponsored by Microsoft and Red Hat to Conduct the Marriage Ceremony
05/24 Sirius âOpen Sourceâ, With High-Level Political Clients, Reported to Politicians
05/25 Links 25/05/2023: Istio 1.16.5 and Curl 8.1.1
05/25 Links 25/05/2023: Mesa 23.1.1 and Debian Reunion
05/25 Gemini Links 25/05/2023: On Profit and Desire for Gemini
05/25 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, May 24, 2023
05/25 Links 25/05/2023: IBM as Leading Wayland Pusher
05/26 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 25, 2023
05/26 Gemini Links 26/05/2023: New People in Gemini
05/26 Links 26/05/2023: Qt 6.5.1 and Subsystems in GNUnet
05/26 Links 26/05/2023: Weston 12.0 Highlights and US Debt Limit Panic
05/27 Links 27/05/2023: Plans Made for GNUâs 40th Anniversary
05/27 Links 27/05/2023: Goodbyes to Tina Turner
05/27 HMRC: You Can Click and Type to Report Crime, But No Feedback or Reference Number Given
05/27 IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 26, 2023
05/27 Links 28/05/2023: New Wine and More
05/27 Anonymously Travelling: Still Feasible?
05/27 German Media About Industry Patent Quality Charter (IPQC) and the European Patent Office (EPO)
05/28 Links 28/05/2023: eGates System Collapses, More High TCO Stories (Microsoft Windows)
05/28 Gemini Links 28/05/2023: Itanium Day, GNUnet DHT, and More
05/28 No More Twitter, Mastodon, and Diaspora for Tux Machines (Goodbye to Social Control Media)
05/28 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 27, 2023
05/28 Links 28/05/2023: Linux 6.4 RC4 and MX Linux 23 Beta
05/29 Links 29/05/2023: Videos Catchup and Gemini FUD
05/29 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 28, 2023
05/29 Gemini Links 29/05/2023: GNU/Linux Pains and More
05/29 Gemini Links 29/05/2023: Rosy Crow 1.1.1 and Smolver 1.2.1 Released
05/29 Links 29/05/2023: Snap and PipeWire Plans as Vendor Lock-in
05/29 Links 29/05/2023: Election in Fedora, Unifont 15.0.04
05/30 Gemini Links 30/05/2023: Bubble Version 3.0
05/30 When Jokes Became âRudeâ (or Disingenuously Misinterpreted by the âCancel Mobâ)
05/30 First Speaker in Event for GNU at 40 Called for Resignation/Removal of GNUâs Founder
05/30 Links 30/05/2023: Nitrux 2.8.1 and HypoPG 1.4.0
05/30 IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 29, 2023
05/30 Links 30/05/2023: LibreOffice 7.6 in Review and More Digital Restrictions (DRM) From HP
05/30 MS (Mark Shuttleworth) as a Microsoft Salesperson
05/30 Gemini Links 30/05/2023: Curl Still Missing the Point?
05/30 Links 30/05/2023: Orc 0.4.34 and Another Rust Crisis
05/30 Site Updates and Plans Ahead
05/31 Links 31/05/2023: Inkscapeâs 1.3 Plans and New ARM Cortex-A55-Based Linux Chip
05/31 Links 31/05/2023: Armbian 23.05 Release and Illegal UPC
05/31 Working Conditions at EPO Deteriorate and Staff Inquires About Pension Rights
05/31 Gemini Protocol About to Turn 4 and Itâs Still Growing
05/31 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 30, 2023
05/31 Links 31/05/2023: Librem Server v2, curl 8.1.2, and Kali Linux 2023.2 Release
05/31 Gemini Links 31/05/2023: Personality of Software Engineers
05/31 Gemini Links 31/05/2023: Bayes Filter and Programming Wordle
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