Techrights

07/02 Almost a Week Later Invidious Instances Still Down, Broken, or Shouting Out for Help Because Google/YouTube Lawyers and Other Staff Wage a War on Free Software

07/02 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 01, 2023

07/02 Leftover Links 02/07/2023: Security and Politics

07/02 Links 02/07/2023: Skrooge 2.30.0 and MiniDebConf Brasília 2023 Report

07/02 Links 02/07/2023: Switching From Windows to Ubuntu, IBM’s Red Bait Promotes Outsourcing

07/02 Twitter is Effectively Dead and Offline to People Without an Account in Twitter

07/02 The Web is Shrinking, But GNU/Linux is Now at Highest Web Share We’ve Ever Seen on the Client Side

07/02 An Outbreak of GNU/Linux (‘Proper’, Freedom-respecting, Not Android or ChromeOS) in Africa

07/03 Leftover Links 03/07/2023: Dumb Phones and CISA Updates

07/03 Putin’s Russia Compared to Smith’s Microsoft

07/03 Facebook Contributed to Death of Online Journalism and What’s Left Online Isn’t Covering Real Facebook Scandals

07/03 Gurdeep Pall Knows What’s Coming (to Microsoft)

07/03 What Will be Left After Neil Left IP Kat? More Lobbying for Illegal Agenda Such as Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court (UPC)?

07/03 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, July 02, 2023

07/03 Links 03/07/2023: Kirigami Addons 0.9.0 and Proxmox Backup Server 3.0

07/03 Reading News on the Web Without Curation and Cruft-Reducing Tools Will Become Harder

07/03 Gemini Links 03/07/2023: Go Start a Blog and RIP, World Wide Web

07/03 Gemini Links 03/07/2023: Self-Hosting Git and Enabling HTTP/3 (QUIC) on nginx

07/03 Consider Twitter’s Humongous Debt (Insolvency Likely Impending) When Assessing the Decision Not to Pay Severance, Rent, and Hosting Bills

07/04 Microsoft’s Bing Falls to Lowest Share in 2 Years Despite Chatbot Hype and Amid Bing Layoffs, Executives’ Departure

07/04 EPO Isolates Workers, EPO Workers Speak Out About Their Experiences

07/04 The Corporate ‘Cancel Culture’ Industry — Part III: Non-Technical People Trying to Ruin the Lives of the Geeks

07/04 [Meme] The New European Patent Office: Patent Examiners Without Desks

07/04 Gemini Links 04/07/2023: Happy Independence Day and GemText Tweaks

07/04 IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 03, 2023

07/04 [Meme] A Gross Misallocation of Capital

07/04 New Rumour: Microsoft’s Next Big Round of Layoffs Starts Next Week

07/04 False quote (but widely spread and misattributed): “I freed a thousand slaves; I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves”

07/04 New developments at Opensource.com 4 weeks later: NOTHING.

07/04 Leftover Links 04/07/2023: Trouble at Microsoft, Openwashing From Canonical

07/04 Links 04/07/2023: Perl 5.38 and Plasma 6 ISOs of KDE neon

07/04 Links 04/07/2023: Kodi 20.2 and Glance at Steam Deck KDE

07/04 This Coming Friday ILOAT Will Rule on the New Career System (NO-Career System) of the EPO

07/05 BTT (Bringing Teams Together) Loathed by Staff of the EPO

07/05 [Meme] EPO Reforming Itself to Death (of the European Patent Convention)

07/05 [Meme] Racing Towards Minimum Wage

07/05 Links 05/07/2023: Tellico 3.5.1 and Firefox 115

07/05 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 04, 2023

07/05 Judging by What Happened to the European Patent Office (EPO) Workplace This Year, As Before, EPO Management Might be Intentionally Vandalising the Workplace

07/05 European Patent Office is Struggling With Recruitment (Maddening Corruption Turns Out to Lead to That)

07/05 The Corporate ‘Cancel Culture’ Industry — Part IV: Hit Pieces and Public Shaming as Bargaining Cards

07/05 Links 05/07/2023: pgAdmin 4 v7.4 and Kiwi TCMS 12.5

07/05 Links 05/07/2023: Twitter Death Spiral, CLAs Cautioned Against

07/06 A Month After Empty Promises Perhaps — Just Maybe! — IBM (Red Bait) Can Ask the COMMUNITY to Bring Back OpenSource.com

07/06 Links 06/07/2023: Linux 6.4.2 and Canonical’s Power Grab

07/06 Turns Out Microsoft Chatbots Are, Indeed, a Passing Fad (Userbase Down Sharply)

07/06 CC Used to Mean Creative Commons, Now the Linux Foundation et al Associate CC With DRM and Spying (Chaos Computer Club Also at Risk)

07/06 [Meme] It’s Dead, Jim (or Dying Very Fast, Even Being Murdered)

07/06 The European Patent Office, EPO, Has a Deep Crisis That Bribes Cannot Fully Hide

07/06 The European Patent Office (EPO) is Being Crushed to Pieces and EPO Staff Isn’t Gullible Enough or Sufficiently Blind to That

07/06 Gemini Links 06/07/2023: Fire Retardants and lp0 on fire

07/06 The Corporate ‘Cancel Culture’ Industry — Part V: Hit Piece Gone Wrong?

07/06 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 05, 2023

07/06 The Mass Layoffs Are Smart and Intelligent, Says Microsoft

07/06 Gemini Links 06/07/2023: Economic Fascism and Leaving the ‘Social’ Web

07/06 Mozilla Waters Down Its Vision of The Internet

07/06 GNU/Linux at 7% in Turkey, Windows All-Time Low in India

07/06 Microsoft’s Gaming Business is Dying After Decades of Bitter Losses

07/07 How We’ve Leveraged RSS Feeds to Curate News and Research/Survey News Sites for Articles

07/07 Links 07/07/2023: KDE Gear 23.04.3 and EasyOS 5.4.6

07/07 What Facebook’s Founder Said About Facebook’s Users (Language Warning, Mark Zuckerberg’s Own Words)

07/07 Gemini Links 07/07/2023: False Flag Ops Coming and Email Blocked Again

07/07 Links 07/07/2023: GCC 10.5 Released

07/07 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 06, 2023

07/07 [Meme] Microsoft Executives Likely Departing in Connection With Impending Layoffs

07/07 Links 07/07/2023: More Twitter Problems, Fedora Criticised Too

07/07 Gemini Links 07/07/2023: ’80s Style and Old Computer Challenge V3

07/07 Social Control Media is Bad and the Solution is to Reject All of It

07/07 The Corporate ‘Cancel Culture’ Industry — Part VI: Examples of GNU and Linux Luminaries Targeted by Mobs

07/07 10 Years in Yemen: From Windows Monopoly to Windows ‘Niche’

07/08 The Corporate ‘Cancel Culture’ Industry — Part VII: Abusing Online Communities and Networks, Then Using One’s Own Abuse to Justify a Code of Censorship (CoC)

07/08 Microsoft Presidents Keep Resigning Just Days Ahead of Rumoured Mass Layoffs (Another Huge Wave, Maybe End of Month, Maybe Next Week)

07/08 [Meme] Banning Everyone (Under False Pretenses) Until No Community is Left

07/08 British Police and the British Government Cover Up Crimes Committed by Sirius Open Source Against Employees Who Worked on Government Computer Systems (Including Web Sites)

07/08 Reporting Police Inaction (Regarding Fraud Connected to the British Government) to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) or Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC)

07/08 Links 08/07/2023: KDE Frameworks 5.108.0, Executives Deserting Microsoft

07/08 Microsoft Rumour Mill: Expecting the “Expensive” Staff to Be Removed, Maybe

07/08 [Meme] Washing Their Hands

07/08 9 Weeks Since Last OpenSource.com Article, But Don’t Worry, IBM Says It’ll be Back Any Day Now

07/08 IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 07, 2023

07/08 [Meme] They Just Want to Eat Crisps All Day Long

07/08 Microsoft July 2023 Layoffs: What We Know So Far

07/08 Upcoming Series: Recruitment Crisis at Sirius and Lying to Applicants

07/08 Links 08/07/2023: Solus 4.4 Out, StackRot (CVSS Score: 7.8) Still Hyped by Microsofters

07/08 UK Home Office, Former Client of Sirius ‘Open Source’, Shows Just How High the Fraud Scandals Go

07/09 37,000 Blog Posts, IRC Treat, and Positive Reader Feedback

07/09 [Meme] Warming Up With Excuses for Mass Layoffs at Microsoft?

07/09 Techrights Was Right About Microsoft’s Chatbots Hype

07/09 Canonical and IBM Are Turning Ubuntu and Fedora Into Microsoft Windows, Time to Adopt Real Community Distros

07/09 Links 09/07/2023: GNOME Web Canary is Back

07/09 [Meme] IBM and Canonical Respecting Your Freedom

07/09 Microsoft Panic as GNU/Linux Market Share in the United States is Rising Well Above 3% (or 7% If One Counts ChromeOS)

07/09 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 08, 2023

07/09 Surge in Microsoft Traffic Suggests There’s Hearsay — Maybe Panic — About the July 2023 Layoffs

07/09 Microsoft ‘Research’ (PR and Marketing) Already Preparing Us for Layoffs Excuse?

07/09 China is Moving Away From Microsoft Windows (as Promised Years Ago)

07/09 Linux Mint Was Right About Snaps and It Should Make LMDE the Default (Better Yet, Base It on Devuan)

07/09 Gemini Links 09/07/2023: Hard to Trust Red Hat Now

07/09 Gemini Links 09/07/2023: Mutt and Updated Thoughts on Gemini

07/10 According to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Web Site of Washington State, in January 2023 Only 878 Workers Were Declared Redundant, Now It’s About 3,000 Already (in This One State Alone)

07/10 Boycott TikTok

07/10 The Corporate ‘Cancel Culture’ Industry — Part VIII: In Conclusion

07/10 [Meme] EPO Manager’s War Against the Law

07/10 ‘Hacker’ ‘News’: You’re ‘Flagged’… for Insulting Canonical and IBM With Inconvenient Facts

07/10 Graph of IBM’s Debt Helps Shed Light on the Red Hat Squeeze

07/10 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, July 09, 2023

07/10 CONFIRMED: Microsoft Mass Layoffs Starting Today (July 2023 Layoffs Confirmed by the Company) (Updatedx3)

07/10 Latest Microsoft Layoffs International and Broad, Many Thousands Affected (Not Even Counting Contractors and Temps)

07/10 Links 09/07/2023: GNU/Linux Client Side Usage Growing, Linux 6.5 Release Candidate Out

07/10 Gemini Links 10/07/2023: Out-smarted by a ‘Smart’ Amazon TV and Making Keyboard Cables

07/10 [Meme] Equality at Sirius Open Source

07/10 New Report: Many Microsoft Employees Are Nowadays Fake Workers, Contractors Instead of Real Staff (Not Even Counted as Layoffs After Their Disposal)

07/10 Gemini Links 10/07/2023: More on Old Computer Challenge

07/10 Links 10/07/2023: Wayland on OpenBSD and Slackware 15 as Daily Driver

07/10 Staying Productive in the Face of Corporate or Military-Grade Trolling (Maybe Even Doxing)

07/10 The European Patent Office’s War of Disinformation Against Patent Examiners (and Mindless Promotion of Microsoft Vapourware)

07/10 YouTube is Becoming Television (With DRM) and Creators Just ‘Get in the Way’

07/11 IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 10, 2023

07/11 Gemini Links 11/07/2023: Old Computer Challenge and Mastodon Blog Comments Automation

07/11 Leftover Links 11/07/2023: Media Already Lies About the Scale of Microsoft’s Latest Wave of Layoffs

07/11 Leftover Links 11/07/2023: More on Microsoft Layoffs Today (Ireland Also)

07/11 [Meme] Getting a Promotion at Microsoft

07/11 Links 11/07/2023: Mint Release Soon

07/11 Links 11/07/2023: Neil McGovern Problems Again

07/11 Links 11/07/2023: SUSE’s RHEL Fork and “Oracle Linux” Takes on RHEL Too

07/11 Gemini Links 11/07/2023: ‘Getting into Flash’ and Waning World Wide Web

07/11 WHERE ARE THE JOURNALISTS?

07/11 In YouTube, Google May Have Defrauded Advertisers (Cheated to the Tune of Billions of Dollars Per Year)

07/12 Leftover Links 12/07/2023: Windows TCO Tales and Many Attacks on Freedom of the Press

07/12 Gemini Links 12/07/2023: Weight Tracker for Palm OS Release and Better Gemini Searching

07/12 City of London Police and GLA (London Municipality) Don’t Care About Crimes Committed Against GLA Workers in Central London

07/12 [Meme] GLA (London Municipality) Discovers Its Own IT People Were Defrauded

07/12 Gemini Links 12/07/2023: IM Nostalgia and Goodbye Manjaro, Hello Debian

07/12 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 11, 2023

07/12 Press Coverage About Microsoft’s New Wave of Layoffs Improving Somewhat (Plus, Microsoft Layoffs in California Now Confirmed)

07/12 Microsoft Lipstick on the July 2023 Round of Layoffs

07/12 [Meme] Microsoft Party Parrots

07/12 Microsoft Has Bought the District Courts, Too (the Case or the Example of Jacqueline Scott Corley)

07/12 Microsoft’s July 2023 Layoffs Have Spread to Europe

07/12 Links 12/07/2023: PipeWire 0.3.74 and Mozilla Thunderbird 115

07/12 Canonical Markets Outsourcing to Microsoft (NSA PRISM and Beyond) as “Security”

07/12 Another Microsoft President Jumps Ship (Rick Wagner)

07/12 Microsoft’s Mass Layoffs This Week Are Impacting People in Many US States, in Canada, and in Europe (Not That the Media Talks About It)

07/12 How Twitter (Quite Likely Both the Company and the Platform) Died in June/July 2023

07/13 Gemini Links 13/07/2023: Old Computer Challenge and Back to USENET

07/13 Linux.com Has Been Outsourced to a Private Company (Linux Foundation (LF) Contractor) and It’s Recycling the Domain for Non-Linux Purposes

07/13 Linux Foundation Has Not Left Much of Linux.com Except Marketing Plugs for the Linux Foundation’s Customers (Not Even Linux)

07/13 IRC in 2023: Fewer Online Users, But Not Fewer Networks

07/13 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 12, 2023

07/13 Links 12/07/2023: Microsoft Layoffs in California This Week and KPhotoAlbum 5.11.0 Released

07/13 On the GNU/Linux ‘Popularity Contest’

07/13 Twitter Will Go Offline for Good. Then What?

07/13 Turbulent Week at Microsoft, Starting Monday, and There’s Lots More to Come This Summer

07/13 Links 13/07/2023: Wireshark 4.0.7 and BeagleV-Ahead

07/14 Latest Wave of Microsoft Layoffs Has Come to Canada (But Nobody in the Canadian Media Has Even Mentioned It!)

07/14 Canonical, a Former Sirius ‘Open Source’ Client, is Likely Becoming More Like Sirius (Key People Leaving, Too)

07/14 DistroTube (Derek Taylor): ChromeOS and GNU/Linux at 7.2%

07/14 Gemini Links 14/07/2023: David Graeber on Debt, Scanners in Qubes OS

07/14 Links 14/07/2023: Gentoo Rewrites, NATO Updates

07/14 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 13, 2023

07/14 Microsoft’s XBox is Imploding, Many Top Roles Vacated Amid Layoff Waves (Lots of XBox Staff Laid Off This Year)

07/14 Links 14/07/2023: Linux Mint 21.2 “Victoria” and Microsoft Blames ‘China’ for Microsoft Issues

07/14 Leftover Links 14/07/2023: Microsoft in Trouble With the FTC Again, This Time Over ‘Open’ ‘AI’

07/14 Geminispace: More People, More Capsules, and Another Search Engine

07/14 Gemini Links 14/07/2023: Retro and Comebacks

07/14 Links 14/07/2023: Godot Engine Needs Help, AlmaLinux Diverging From RHEL, Rust 1.71.0 is Out

07/14 UEFI ‘Security’ is Totally Hopeless, Even a Paradox

07/14 Hollywood’s Writers Are Under Attack and Techies Should Pay Attention

07/15 Links 15/07/2023: LabPlot 2.10.1 and Akademy 2023

07/15 Linux in India: Almost 80% of the Market

07/15 TikTok Still Encouraging and Rewarding Deadly Behaviour, But Beware the Straw Men

07/15 Leftover Links 15/07/2023: Diffoscope 244 and Istio Patched

07/15 FSFE: We Take Lots of Money From Google, But Let’s Talk About the World After YouTube

07/15 Gemini Links 15/07/2023: Gemkerkerkruip (New Game for Gemini) and Immutable Linux Systems

07/15 IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 14, 2023

07/15 Gemini Links 15/07/2023: Jekyll-Gemini and Generators and Extensive FAQ Update

07/15 Microsoft RHEL

07/15 Links 15/07/2023: MX Linux 23 RC and OpenCV 4.8.0

07/16 Links 16/07/2023: Climate Issues Dominate

07/16 Gemini Links 16/07/2023: Old PCs and Another Cool Capsule Of The Week

07/16 Greater London Authority’s Web Site and Security Lapses, Not Just Human Errors

07/16 This Isn’t the First Time the Site of Greater London Authority Improperly Set Permissions

07/16 Greece and Norway: Where GNU/Linux is Measured at Over 10% in Desktops/Laptops

07/16 I Worked on Computer Systems of Greater London Authority for 9 Years. Here’s Why Further Security Breaches Are Likely.

07/16 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 15, 2023

07/16 Microsoft and IBM Almost Mandated at the Core of ‘Modern’ GNU/Linux

07/16 [Meme] Nobody in London Municipality Can Figure Out Why the Mayor’s Web Page is Broken

07/16 [Meme] Love Me Tenderlessly

07/16 Links 16/07/2023: Void Linux Has New Images, pfSense CE 2.7.0 Released

07/16 Gemini Links 16/07/2023: Rosy Crow 1.3.0 Released

07/16 Shedding Light on Proxima Systems, the Linux Foundation’s $2.5 Million Contractor

07/17 EPO’s Patent Invalidity and Low Patent Quality Issues Get the Attention of Christian Wichard (Deputy Director General at Germany’s Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection)

07/17 More Red Flags in Proxima Systems

07/17 Tough Times for Invidious and Odysee (LBRY Protocol)

07/17 GDPR, Greater London Authority’s Web Site (or GLA IT in General), and Data Breaches

07/17 For the First Time, Linux Crosses 40% Market Share in France (Well, GNU/Linux and Android)

07/17 Gemini Links 17/07/2023: Art and Home Lab

07/17 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, July 16, 2023

07/17 Linux Foundation Probably Reads Techrights Closely

07/17 Links 17/07/2023: Linux 6.5 RC2

07/17 Microsoft Layoffs Still Ongoing, This Wave Did Not End

07/17 [Meme] When Obeying Laws Means Making Less Money

07/17 Gemini Links 17/07/2023: Slackware Linux Turns 30, Old Computer Challenge 2023 Recap

07/17 Links 17/07/2023: Slackware Linux Turns 30, SparkyLinux 2023.07

07/17 [Meme] Truth is Not Tolerated in This Industry (Because Truth “Doesn’t Look Good”)

07/18 Links 18/07/2023: Akademy 2023 Videos and Debian Brainwashing

07/18 [Meme] German Efficiency

07/18 It Might Be Too Late for the German Government to Fix the EPO (It Had a Lot to Do With This Current Mess)

07/18 IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 17, 2023

07/18 Links 18/07/2023: Meson 1.2 and More Microsoft Layoffs, Amazon Layoffs

07/18 Techrights Was Right: Microsoft Fired More Than 4 Times What the Media Said Last Week

07/18 2 Weeks Later and the City of London Police Took No Action Against Fraudsters Who Defrauded Their Staff (People Who Had Worked on Computer Systems of the Met’s Overlords)

07/18 Links 18/07/2023: Free Speech and Tech Illiteracy

07/18 The Argument for UEFI Restricted Boot is Dead

07/18 Understanding How the Linux Foundation Really Operates (Looking Beyond the Name and Marketing)

07/19 Links 19/07/2023: Vanilla 4.0, Cython 3.0.0, and VirtualBox 7.0.10

07/19 Data Breach in GLA (Greater London Authority, London Municipality) Not Reported, Formality and Forms Insufficient If Rules Not Followed

07/19 Links 19/07/2023: EasyOS 5.4.8 and a Call to Financially Support the Future of PCLinuxOS

07/19 Bringing Teams Together (BTT) at the European Patent Office Loathed by the Staff, Based on Internal Survey

07/19 [Meme] Meanwhile in Greater London Authority (London Municipality)

07/19 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 18, 2023

07/19 Microsoft Whistleblowers Needed for the Public to Know the Full Extent of This Year’s Layoffs, Plus ‘Temps’/’Permatemps’ and Contractors (Probably Tens of Thousands Made Redundant)

07/19 Links 19/07/2023: Bubble 6.0 Released, Posting from Haiku OS

07/19 Leftover Links 19/07/2023: Smartphone Sales Plunge Again

07/19 Gemini Links 19/07/2023: Torture in Fiction, GNU/Linux is Usable

07/19 [Meme] Which Team? A Team of Crooks?

07/20 A Colossal Collapse for Microsoft in Nigeria: From 99% to Just 8%

07/20 In Africa’s Second-Largest Population GNU/Linux (on Laptops/Desktops, Not Counting Android) is Now at Over 10% Market Share, Based on statCounter

07/20 Microsoft Must be Losing Many Clients in the ‘Clown Computing’ After Breaches and Many Security Incidents

07/20 Gemini Links 20/07/2023: Cuttlefish and Antenna

07/20 Microsoft Windows in Egypt: From 99% to Less than 9% (Loss of 90% Market Share Since 2010)

07/20 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 19, 2023

07/20 Jon Miller, Halcyon Chief and Microsoft Gold Partner, Makes It Abundantly Obvious Microsoft Hates GNU/Linux

07/20 Links 20/07/2023: LibreOffice 7.5.5 and curl 8.2.0

07/20 Misinformation: The Media is Already Turning Over 1,000 Additional Microsoft Layoffs Into Just 1,000

07/20 Links 20/07/2023: Phone Sales Down, Microsoft Still Trying to Distract From Breach

07/20 Windows Ruining Firefox for GNU/Linux Users

07/20 Links 20/07/2023: MySQL 8.1 and WordPress 6.3 Release Candidate 1

07/21 Gemini Links 21/07/2023: Gemtexter 2.1.0 Released, Birth and Death of the Yesterweb

07/21 Links 21/07/2023: OpenSSH 9.3p2 and Game of Trees 0.91 Released

07/21 Links 21/07/2023: GStreamer 1.22.5 and ArcticFox 42.1 Released

07/21 How Tux Machines, With 154.3K Tweets, Fared Under the Musk Era Before Quitting

07/21 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 20, 2023

07/21 [Meme] Elon Musk: My Paywalls Are Killing My Site’s Traffic

07/21 Gemini Links 21/07/2023: Offline-first and Oversharing

07/21 SUSE: Leave OpenSUSE, Move to Microsoft

07/21 Richard Stallman on Incorrect (But Viral) Quotation

07/21 Spamnil’s TFiR (Swapnil Bhartiya’s Site, Formerly Muktware): SPAM, Clickfraud, and Plagiarism

07/21 Twitter.com is Back Behind ‘Paywalls’ (or Walled Gardens Rather, Zero-Cost for Now), Social Control Media as a Whole is Perishing

07/22 Windows Down From 98% to 4% in Just Over a Decade at the Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Africa’s Fourth Largest Population

07/22 DRM Spreading Like a Cancer, But It’s Not Too Late to Push Back and Stop It

07/22 The EFF’s Pivot to Authoritarianism and GAFAM

07/22 IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 21, 2023

07/22 Links 22/07/2023: Kdenlive 23.04.3 and Wine 8.13 Released

07/22 Links 22/07/2023: Mesa 23.1.4 and More Red Hat Rumours About Layoffs

07/22 Leftover Links 22/07/2023: Shocking Details Emerge of Microsoft’s ‘Clown Computing’ Breach

07/22 Microsoft Employees Feel Like the CEO’s Purpose is to Replace Them With Cheaper Workers on a Work Visa (Blind Obedience Assured, No Unions)

07/22 Gemini Links 22/07/2023: Duelin’ Boots and Oddmuse Issues

07/22 The Rumours About Another Round of Layoffs at Red Hat

07/22 Wall Street Rallying is a Debt Rally (US Taxpayers Subsidising a Systematic Passage of Wealth)

07/22 Twitter is a Scourge to Elon Musk, Twitter is Worthless

07/23 Links 23/07/2023: Debian 12.1 Coming

07/23 How GNU/Linux (or Just Linux) Stacks Up Against Microsoft in Africa

07/23 X, Now With Extra DeSantis

07/23 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 22, 2023

07/23 Linux.com in 2003 Versus Linux.com in 2023

07/23 Links 23/07/2023: Microsoft 360 Breach is Universal After All

07/23 Gemini Links 23/07/2023: Publically Accessible GNUnet Hostlist and New Arrivals

07/23 Threads is For ‘Dumb Fucks’. Ask Mark Zuckerberg.

07/23 Twitter’s ‘Joseon’ Moment (Freenode/Andrew Lee Modus Operandi)

07/24 Australian Mainstream Media Condemns Microsoft for Firing a Lot of Workers (About 10% of Staff in Australia) While Giving Billions to the CEO

07/24 Links 24/07/2023: Debian 12.1 and Neptune 8.0

07/24 About Two-Thirds of the World’s Surface Now Android (or Linux) Dominated

07/24 ‘Open’ at Microsoft (Not Really): Microsoft Refuses to Tell the Mainstream Media in Australia How Many People Are Laid Off (Possibly Over 10% of All Staff Already Laid Off This Year Alone)

07/24 Gemini Links 24/07/2023: Goodbyes to the Web

07/24 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, July 23, 2023

07/24 [Meme] Toothless Geneva

07/24 Another Round of Microsoft Mass Layoffs About to Begin (Maybe Fifth of the Year, Unrelated to the 10,000 Sum Which is False, Very Outdated, and Misleading)

07/24 Debunking the Myth of Microsoft Layoffs Being Limited to Those Announced in January: The Case of California

07/24 Microsoft Layoffs Figures Omit Cuts in Its Communications, Bribery, Lies and Spin Department (Waggener Edstrom)

07/24 European Patent Office: Staff Motivation (and Hope) Dies Last

07/24 Desktop/Laptop Operating System Market Share in Australia: GNU/Linux Nearly Doubles in 3 Years

07/24 Financial Crimes at Sirius ‘Open Source’: You Can Run (to Bill Gates in Washington), But You Can’t Hide

07/24 Links 24/07/2023: Sparky 2023.07 Special Editions

07/24 X11/X.org Can Probably Sue Elon Musk

07/24 Gemini Links 24/07/2023: Checking out FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE and X.com is Stupid

07/24 Mass Layoffs at Microsoft’s PR Department (Waggener Edstrom) and Agencies That Bribe Bloggers and Journalists on Microsoft’s Behalf (to Act as a Proxy, Distance the Liability)

07/25 Even Microsoft Boosters Admit Azure is in Trouble (Layoffs Every Year Since 2020)

07/25 The Debt of Clownflare (Cloudflare Inc.) More Than Trebled Since the Lock-downs and the Company is Unable to Make Money

07/25 Derek Taylor: Richard Stallman is Right to Be Angry About ‘Linux’

07/25 [Meme] Waggener Edstrom: GREAT PERFORMANCE, Microsoft!!!

07/25 IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 24, 2023

07/25 Gemini Links 25/07/2023: A Kids’ Wallpaper

07/25 Layoffs Aside, Microsoft Will Have a Worker Retention Crisis (or ‘Voluntary’ Resignations It Won’t Even Count as Layoffs)

07/25 Wall Street Journal 15 Minutes Ago: Microsoft Revenue Does Not Look Good (Amid More Mass Layoffs)

07/25 Links 25/07/2023: Government of Norway Breached Due to Using Microsoft

07/25 Links 25/07/2023: Shotwell 0.32.2 and More Akademy 2023 Reports

07/25 statCounter: Twitter Down From 10.4% When Elon Musk Bought It to 8.7% This Month

07/25 Gemini Links 25/07/2023: No Change Friday, Twitter Getting Worse

07/25 Microsoft Windows Down (Double-Digit Fall), According to Microsoft

07/26 Links 26/07/2023: Biogen Lays Off 1,000, MSFT Shares Collapse After Report

07/26 Links 26/07/2023: More Microsoft Downtimes, CircuitPython 8.2.1 Released

07/26 Even Microsofters Admit Microsoft’s Results Disappoint (But It’s Far Worse Than They Admit)

07/26 Gemini Links 26/07/2023: GemPlace and Gemini Client Survey

07/26 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 25, 2023

07/26 More Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Coinciding With Bad Results (and Microsoft’s Shares Falling)

07/26 Gemini Links 26/07/2023: Returning to Newsgroups

07/26 Gemini Links 26/07/2023: On Writing Documentation and Twitter’s Suicide

07/26 Microsoft Collapse on the Client Side (Windows in a Freefall)

07/26 Links 26/07/2023: More on This Week’s Microsoft Layoffs, WordPress 6.3 Almost Here

07/27 [Meme] The EPO SLAPP Machine, Blackmailing Critics While Donning Diplomatic Immunity

07/27 Twitter is Insolvent. Elon Musk Changes the Business Identity.

07/27 Gemini Links 27/07/2023: Communal Fragmentation, Launching Gaming Sites/Companies in Gemini

07/27 Dražen Petrović (ILOAT): Please Withdraw Your Complaint So I Can Fake ‘Productivity’ (Oh My! The Irony!)

07/27 Gemini Links 27/07/2023: Old Computer Challenge and Dumping Twitter

07/27 Martin Wilming (Hepp Wenger Ryffel AG) Exposes the Sham That is Patent ‘Quality’ at the European Patent Office (EPO)

07/27 [Meme] The Fake ‘Anti-Racist’ Who Lives in a Whites-Only Area

07/27 Our Latest Geminispace Milestone

07/27 Links 27/07/2023: GStreamer 1.20.7 and Much More

07/27 [Meme] ILOAT Cops or ILOAT Judges?

07/27 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 26, 2023

07/27 Microsoft’s Mass Layoffs May Accelerate Even Further Following This Week’s Bad Results (Disregard the Shameless Misreporting in Corporate Media, Controlled by Microsoft Operatives)

07/27 [Meme] When Your Boss is a Criminal Misusing the Brands ‘Free Software’ and ‘Open Source’

07/27 Federation Is Inferior to Self-Hosting and Using RSS Feeds (or Other Syndication Formats)

07/27 Upcoming Series: Matthew J Garrett, the Person Behind the Mask

07/27 Windows Used to Have 100% of the Client Side in Chad. Now It’s 83% Android and 8% Windows.

07/27 Never Work for Known Liars (People Cautioned Me About the CEO of Sirius ‘Open Source’ 17 Years Ago)

07/27 Leftover Links 27/07/2023: Google Pushes “Web Integrity API” (DRM) Into the World Wide Web

07/27 YouTube: Pay Us to Get Your Channel ‘Back’

07/27 Links 27/07/2023: Zorin OS 16.3 Released and Beta of Krita 5.2.0

07/28 [Meme] World Wide Web Defined

07/28 Gemini Links 28/07/2023: ‘Capacitor, Ditching Twitter and Facebook

07/28 The World Wide Web is Turning Into Trash With Computer-Generated Spew in Place of News and DRM Instead of Open Standards

07/28 Links 28/07/2023: Happy SysAdmin Day

07/28 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 27, 2023

07/28 Leaked (Internal) Microsoft Poll: Most Microsoft Employees Want to Leave the Company If They Can Find a Job Elsewhere

07/28 Links 28/07/2023: Leaked Survey/Poll Shows Morale Crisis at Microsoft, Senator Ron Wyden Wants to Hold Microsoft Accountable for Epic Breach

07/28 Gemini Links 28/07/2023: Old Computers and Side Projects of Skyjake

07/28 Sirius ‘Open Source’ Cannot Confirm Signs of Life?

07/28 This Month Microsoft Fell Below 1% in Devices (the Company Has Also Just Admitted Its Device Business is Collapsing)

07/28 Android (Linux) Estimated to be on Three-Quarters of Web-Connected Computers in Syria

07/29 Android is Not the Goal (But It Certainly Makes Microsoft and Windows Feeble)

07/29 Links 29/07/2023: More Backlash Against Google’s “Web DRM” (WEI API)

07/29 Gemini Links 29/07/2023: Communications Secretaries and Godwin’s Law

07/29 Gemini Links 29/07/2023: All Software is Made for the First Time, Disk Failure

07/29 [Meme] Fantastic Results, Fantastic Debt and Deficits

07/29 Links 29/07/2023: Thunderbird 115 on Flathub, FSF Blasts “Web Environment Integrity” (DRM)

07/29 FSF: Web Environment Integrity is an All-out Attack on the Free Internet

07/29 IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 28, 2023

07/29 New FSF Video: Workshop on Video Editing with Kdenlive

07/29 Most Microsoft Employees No Longer Want to Work for Microsoft, According to Internal Poll

07/29 With Latest Systemd Release, Version 254, Lennart Microsoft Attacks Linux Diversity (and Thus Survivability)

07/29 Nancy Anthracite on Using Free Software for Electronic Health Records at the US Department of Veterans Affairs

07/29 Microsoft Windows Kills, Staff in Ambulances Cannot Function Due to Apparent Microsoft/Windows Breach (Ortivus)

07/29 Social Control Media as a Bubble: Facebook (Meta) is in Debt Greater Than the Company is Really Worth or Has in the Bank

07/29 GitLab the Company, Just Like GitHub (Now Part of Microsoft, Going Through Several Rounds of Layoffs This Year, Even Office Shutdowns), is Sinking Deep Into Debt and Showing the Risk of Outsourcing

07/30 Gemini Links 30/07/2023: Slow Time and Banking in Germany

07/30 An Informal Handbook for Digital Advocates (or Activists) and Campaigning

07/30 [Meme] Matthew J Garrett Sexually Harassing Women Online

07/30 Gemini Links 30/07/2023: Gemini’s Second Round of FAQ Updates

07/30 Leftover Links 30/07/2023: Cilium 1.14 Released, Grande Communications Loses Copyright Liability Case

07/30 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 29, 2023

07/30 Microsoft’s Server and Hosting Business Going Down the Drain (Losses and Layoffs Every Year)

07/30 WordPress in SeaMonkey, Firefox Troubles in Fedora, “GoogleWeb”, American Decline, and Matthew Garrett “Collaborator” and “Conference Pervert”

07/30 Poorly Redacted Documents From the Court Reveal That Microsoft Has Indeed Defrauded Shareholders About Azure

07/30 [Meme] What Only Hundreds of Thousands in Bribes Bought Microsoft in the Open Source Initiative

07/30 Links 30/07/2023: PCLinuxOS 2023.07 and pgAdmin 4 v7.5 Released

07/30 Links 30/07/2023: AMD-Based FreeBSD Desktop, Rocky Linux Targets Red Hat, PostgreSQL Barman 3.7.0 Released

07/30 [Meme] ‘High’ Security: Matthew J Garrett ‘Coding’ Microsoft’s ‘Secure’ Boot

07/31 Breaking Records as We Approach Our 17th Anniversary

07/31 #400 for July

07/31 [Resurrected] ‘We Are Morons’: A Quick Look at the Win2k Source

07/31 One More Round of Layoffs for July: Sales Arm of Microsoft Lays Off Almost 1,000 More Workers

07/31 Pressing X on X (Twitter Abandoned En Masse)

07/31 Gemini Links 31/07/2023: CLI Raves and Chat Over Gemini

07/31 Links 31/07/2023: EasyOS 5.4.9 and More New Releases

07/31 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, July 30, 2023

07/31 Matthew Garrett Denies Being Sock-Puppet Who Makes Jokes About AIDS, Bestiality, and Necrophilia

07/31 [Meme] Social Justice Warriors Don’t Behave This Way

07/31 Links 31/07/2023: Release of MX Linux 23 “Libretto”

07/31 Gemini Links 31/07/2023: Games and Report on the State of Gopher

07/31 Insolvency: Debt of Sirius ‘Open Source’ Surged by About 20% in One Year (Not Counting Debt in Other Shells), Assets Fell by Nearly Half

07/31 [Meme] Sirius UK and Sirius US Shuffling the Debt, Embezzling Workers (Stealing Workers’ Pensions)

07/31 [Meme] Twitter is Legally or Technically Dead Already

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