Techrights /2023/08/
08/01 Fine August in Techrights
08/01 Codes of Conduct Ruin Free Software Projects
08/01 Gemini Links 01/08/2023: Gitea on Void and Unleashing Your Inner Mapper (OSM)
08/01 Links 01/08/2023: GNU/Hurd Strikes Back
08/01 IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 31, 2023
08/01 Linus Torvalds Proposes Tossing Out Microsoft TPM Garbage Out of Linux
08/01 Leftover Links 01/08/2023: Twitter de-Xâed, Microsoft Blasted for Epic Breach
08/01 Gemini Links 01/08/2023: ClockworkPi and Splitting the Web
08/02 âCanonical Works Closely with Microsoftâ
08/02 Leftover Links 02/08/2023: Microsoft Covering Up Azure Breach
08/02 Links 02/08/2023: New Versions of Arti and FreeCAD Released
08/02 Links 02/08/2023: GNU C Library 2.38, Microsoftâs Collapse in Servers Continues
08/02 Links 02/08/2023: GNU Spotlight and More Microsoft Breaches
08/02 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 01, 2023
08/02 Mozilla Firefox 115.1 and 116 Released With Two Microsoft Windows-Only Security Issues Plugged
08/02 Gemini Links 02/08/2023: Mostly Personal Gemlogs
08/03 Gemini Links 03/08/2023: Illusionary Democracy and All Things Illegal
08/03 Links 03/08/2023: LibreOffice 7.6 RC2 and Azure Breached
08/03 Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein: the Media/PR Decoy Revisited
08/03 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 02, 2023
08/03 Leftover Links 03/08/2023: Tor Browser 12.5.2 and LF Misportrayed as âLinuxâ
08/03 Links 03/08/2023: Asahi Linux and Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 6 Plans
08/03 2 Months Ago IBM Said OpenSource.com Would be Back
08/03 Europe Needs More Patent Whistleblowers Like Martin Wilming
08/03 Gemini Links 03/08/2023: Switching to AwesomeWM
08/04 Gemini Links 04/08/2023: Gemini Client Preferences and FreeBSD Minimum Desktop Guide
08/04 Operation Mole â Part I â The Person Working to Kill GNU and to Kill Linux From the Inside
08/04 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 03, 2023
08/04 Links 04/08/2023: KDE Neon Experimental and GNU/Linux Grows Again on Laptops/Desktops
08/04 In the State of Washington Microsoft is Doing a âStaff Bloodbathâ
08/04 Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) From Google Causes Widespread Backlash
08/04 [Meme] Split Personality
08/04 Leftover Links 04/08/2023: 10 Years of Letâs Encrypt, UEFI Security Chaos Again
08/05 Recommendation of The Cyber Show
08/05 Links 05/08/2023: GNU/Linux at Record Usage
08/05 Links 05/08/2023: Godot 4.0.4 and Rust 1.71.1
08/05 Gemini Links 05/08/2023: The Guppy Protocol and Generating Calendar Events From E-mails
08/05 Leftover Links 05/08/2023: Hospitals Vandalised by Microsoft Windows En Masse
08/05 IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 04, 2023
08/05 Leftover Links 05/08/2023: Rust Holes and More Layoffs
08/05 Gemini Links 05/08/2023: DSN Note, Social Spaces
08/05 Why UEFI is an Attack on Security and on Computing in General
08/06 Links 06/08/2023: Bram Moolenaar Passes Away, Bootlin Toolchains 2023.08
08/06 GAFAM Trouble and Destruction of Their Own Products/Services
08/06 Links 06/08/2023: Games, GNOME, and IBM History With GNU/Linux
08/06 Leftover Links 06/08/2023: Indiaâs Laptop and Tablet Import Ban Postponed
08/06 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 05, 2023
08/06 Gemini Links 05/08/2023: New SIM and a Goodbye
08/06 Microsoft-Funded Attacks on Free Software Under the Guise of âOpen Sourceâ
08/07 Links 07/08/2023: A Weekâs Catchup and New Releases
08/07 Links 07/08/2023: LinuxSchools Server 14.0.1, DietPi 8.20
08/07 Gemini Still Growing? No WEI!
08/07 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 06, 2023
08/07 Linux Foundation Leadership Team: Technical Advisory Board Now Google-Microsoft Majority
08/07 Two Microsoft Moles No Longer at ZDNet: Mary Jo Foley and Liam Tung
08/07 [Meme] Axe-murdering for Fun and Profit
08/07 Links 07/08/2023: Linux 6.5 RC5 and New Issue of PCLinuxOS Magazine Released
08/07 [Meme] Missing Out: Sexual Favours
08/07 [Meme] Homophobia Disguised as âSocial Justice Warriorâ
08/07 Russian Twist: Linux (Android) Overtaking Windows in Russia This Month
08/07 Gemini Links 07/08/2023: Thinkpad T60 With Hyperbola Linux, Guppyâs Use of UDP
08/07 Links 07/08/2023: RPoD, Thoughts on Guppy Protocol
08/07 Gemini Links 07/08/2023: Working With Elpher
08/08 Googleâs YouTube Anti-Adblock Attacks Brave Again; More Thoughts on WEI
08/08 Gemini Links 08/08/2023: Apache Pekko and Retro
08/08 Links 08/08/2023: Incus and PineTab-V
08/08 IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 07, 2023
08/08 Links 08/08/2023: Linux 6.4.9 is Out, Microsoft Breach Causes More Backlash
08/08 Links 08/08/2023: Rhino Linux 2023.1 Release
08/08 Links 08/08/2023: Gemini Radio and UDP Criticism
08/09 ChatGPTâs Decline is Continuing and New Studies Show That It Sucks (Pure Hype)
08/09 Links 09/08/2023: New NVIDIA Driver and GNU/Linux Market Growth
08/09 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 08, 2023
08/09 Gemini Links 09/08/2023: Joy of Creative Effort
08/09 Canonical Already Behaving Like Microsoft Subsidiary (But No Takeover/Acquisition Announced)
08/09 Microsoft is Breached Thoroughly and Widely, But the Mainstream Media Hardly Talks About That
08/09 Gemini Links 09/08/2023: Risk of Proprietary Web Apps
08/10 Gemini Links 10/08/2023: TERM Tweaking, Blocking the Ad Block Blockers
08/10 Links 10/08/2023: Citus 12.0 and Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS Released
08/10 Leftover Links 10/08/2023: CNET is Burning Past Journalism
08/10 A Debian Developerâs View of Matthew J Garrett
08/10 Fedora Audio Broken like itâs 2008. (Pipewire)
08/10 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 09, 2023
08/10 The Worldâs Mass Migration to GNU/Linux is Already Happening
08/10 [Meme] The Man Lies, the Shirt Lies As Well
08/10 IBM/Red Hat Fedora: Community Of Moderator-Led Harassment. (Very Family-Oriented.)
08/10 Linux Foundation Fails to Heed the Warning About Microsoft
08/10 Gemini Links 10/08/2023: Self-Hosted Web and Gemini, Why Stay With Gemini
08/11 Another Campaign of Mass Defamation by Matthew J Garrett
08/11 Canonical in Official Ubuntu Blog: Use Microsoftâs Proprietary Spyware
08/11 Good Software Doesnât Change Very Much
08/11 Rianne Schestowitz: Hate Crimes by Matthew J. Garrett (mjg59) Committed Against Me Online
08/11 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 10, 2023
08/11 Matrix.org Mess. IRC Bridges Down, Again.
08/11 Links 11/08/2023: OpenSSH 9.4 Released, PostgreSQL 15.4 and PostgreSQL 16 Beta 3
08/11 Gemini Links 11/08/2023: First Wavers and Unplugging the Ebike
08/11 Leftover Links 11/08/2023: More Microsoft Breaches and Windows TCO Stories
08/12 Techrights: Best Viewed in Gemini
08/12 Gemini Links 12/08/2023: Moving to Emacs and Discovering the PSP in 2023
08/12 Links 12/08/2023: Microsoft Under Fire for Massive Breach, Fedora Has Staff Shortage
08/12 Links 12/08/2023: Firefox 116 on POWER, FSF Board Candidate Discussions in Second Round
08/12 IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 11, 2023
08/12 Leftover Links 12/08/2023: More Microsoft Security Breaches
08/12 Summerâs Update on Geminiâs Growth and Our Presence in Geminispace
08/12 Conde Nasty Rolls Out Updated Reddit and Breaks SeaMonkey Rendering
08/12 [Meme] Smugly Serving Monopolies
08/12 Gemini Links 12/08/2023: TUI and IBM/Lenovo
08/13 Links 13/08/2023: KDE Development Report, Debianâs Abuse Culture
08/13 Gemini Links 13/08/2023: Browsing Gemini with Lynx
08/13 Discussion About The Cyber Show, New Programme by Helen Plews, Andy Farnell, and Edward Nevard
08/13 The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Needs to Find Its Gutsy Attitude Again
08/13 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 12, 2023
08/13 Gemini Links 12/08/2023: Using the Librem 5 and Late Stage Music Player
08/13 Links Leftover 13/08/2023: Microsoft Cortanaâs Death
08/13 [Meme] If RHEL Becomes More Like Proprietary UNIX, Forking Will Follow
08/13 Taking It Easy at the âHQâ of Techrights
08/13 Links 13/08/2023: New Linux RC, Window Maker Live 0.95.9-0, and Many Strike Actions
08/14 I Found a Two Year Old BtrFS Programs Bug in openSUSE; Still Better Than Fedora/RHEL
08/14 Corporations Decide What You Can and Cannot Say (or Whoâs Permitted to Even Speak)
08/14 Gemini Links 14/08/2023: Movie Showcase and Digital Detox
08/14 [Meme] The Computer Generated Hype (So-called G.A.I.) is Dying Away
08/14 McDonalds Visit Disaster, Courtesy of IBM and Apps
08/14 Links 14/08/2023: IPFire Release and Loads of HowTos
08/14 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 13, 2023
08/14 IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 14, 2023
08/14 Links 15/08/2023: KDE Announces Wallpaper Competition and Linux 0.01 Analysed
08/14 Gemini Links 14/08/2023: Refurbishing Bikes and Why MorphOS is Gorgeous
08/14 Links 14/08/2023: GNU/Linuxâs Firefox Problem and MX Linux Reviewed
08/14 [Meme] Obey Your Master, Obey IBM
08/14 The World Wide Web Crisis
08/14 Windows Overthrown in Niger, Down to 8% market Share (It Used to be 99%)
08/15 Gemini Links 15/08/2023: UTF-8 and Newsboat Over SSH RSS
08/15 IBMâs Debt is Rapidly Growing (Despite Many Cuts)
08/15 [Meme] IBM Has Rejoined the Likes of Microsoft (IâżM and M$)
08/15 IBM is Killing Fedora (While It is Promoting Microsoftâs Proprietary Junk)
08/15 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 13, 2023
08/15 Links Leftover 15/08/2023: More Windows Breaches and Legal Problems for Internet Archive
08/15 My Favourite Part About Not Using GNOME Anymore: No More GNOME Software
08/15 Leftover Links 15/08/2023: Chinese Sanctions, OpenAI Bankrupcy Expected by 2024
08/15 Links 15/08/2023: Devuan 5.0.0 and OpenMandriva Lx 23.08
08/15 Free Software Contributions and Real Threats
08/16 Back On Libera Chat, But Banned From Fedora
08/16 [Meme] First They Came for CentOS (in 2020), But I Said Nothing Because I Didnât Use CentOS
08/16 Links 16/08/2023: Kubernetes 1.28 and Debian Turns 30
08/16 [Meme] Painfully Funny But Partly True (About Fedora)
08/16 Links 16/08/2023: First Contact With an Antenna, Benâs Gemcast Has New Episode
08/16 Links 16/08/2023: HashiCorp Goes Proprietary
08/16 IBM Lied. âOne Monthâ is Now 2.5 Months and Still CountingâŚ
08/16 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 15, 2023
08/16 Gemini Links 17/08/2023: Old Phone Morning Project
08/16 Did IBM Just Nuke Fedoraâs Mailing Lists?
08/17 We Donât Do Political Wings, We Focus on Tech Issues
08/17 In Numbers: Fedora is Becoming Orphaned (Exodus), Many Packages Lack Essential Maintainers
08/17 Gemini Links 17/08/2023: The Velocity of Credit and Gemini Participation
08/17 How to Buy Your Keynote Speech From the Linux Foundation (the Case of Microsoft)
08/17 IBM: Red Hatâs Free Software? No. Microsoftâs Proprietary Spyware? YES!
08/17 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 16, 2023
08/17 Gemini Links 17/08/2023: The Laws of Robotics and Dependencies
08/17 Links 17/08/2023: Blender 3.6.2 and GNOME 45 Core Apps Update
08/17 [Meme] Packaging Liberates?
08/17 Links 17/08/2023: OBS Studio 30.0, UK Government Suffers Microsoft Breach
08/17 Sirius âOpen Sourceâ and Progress on Police Investigation
08/17 The Twitter/X Walled Gardens Are Back. Way to Give the Platform Yet Another Death Blow.
08/17 WordPress.com Breaks In SeaMonkey Again. What Are âOpen Standardsâ Anyway?
08/18 Gemini Links 18/08/2023: Calm Day in Geminispace
08/18 Gemini Links 18/08/2023: Role-Playing Tips and Gemini Radio
08/18 Rianne Schestowitz: A Womanâs View of a Dangerous Person, âDr. Axeâ Matthew J. Garrett
08/18 Leftover Links 18/08/2023: IBM Working for Microsoft
08/18 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 17, 2023
08/18 [Meme] Dr. Axe, Securing Linux for Microsoft
08/18 The Matthew J Garrett Muppet Show (or Countless IRC Sockpuppets)
08/18 What âOpenâAI and ChatGPT Did to a Software Developer
08/18 In Spite of âChatGPTâ Hype, Microsoft Falls Well Below 1% in Russia (for Search)
08/18 Links 18/08/2023: KDE Frameworks 5.109.0 and SUSE Gone Private
08/18 Links 18/08/2023: Russia Chooses Linux for Domestic Smartphones, WordPress at 20 Years
08/19 Linus Torvalds Explains How Linux Started and Took Off
08/19 Links 19/08/2023: New Wine, Linux-Hostile âLinus Tech Tipsâ Collapsing
08/19 Gemini Links 19/08/2023: Missing Physical Buttons on Electronics
08/19 Links 19/08/2023: Openwashing Backlash and More Preloaded GNU/Linux
08/19 The Rise and Fall of âOpenâAI
08/20 Techrights is Doing Far Better Than a Code of Conduct
08/20 [Meme] You Cannot Nourish Yourself With Cocaine, DrAxe Matt
08/20 Links 20/08/2023: Ethernet Switch Based on Milk-V (Based on Free Chip Design)
08/20 Gemini Links 20/08/2023: Free Pens, Gemini Clients via SOCKS5 (e.g. TOR)
08/20 IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 18, 2023
08/20 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 19, 2023
08/20 Gemini Links 20/08/2023: Letting Go of Computers and Dark Mode/Light Mode
08/20 Links 20/08/2023: Budgie 10.8 Desktop and Linux 6.5 RC7
08/20 The âInfluencerâ Era is Over, Embrace Alternatives to Social Control Media and the Web
08/21 Leftover Links 21/08/2023: Education Crisis and Demise of Robotaxis
08/21 I Managed to Make Fallout 4 Work in openSUSE Leap.
08/21 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 20, 2023
08/21 Links 21/08/2023: Bodhi Linux 7.0 Released and LibreOffice 7.6
08/21 Mozilla Firefox Loses 16 Million More Active Monthly Users Between August 15 2022-2023
08/21 No, Iâm Not in Mastodon or in the Fediverse. Itâs Fake.
08/21 [Meme] Poor-Shaming by Matthew J Garrett Wonât End Well
08/21 Mozilla Finishes Sabotaging SeaMonkey. Highlights From IRC and SeaMonkey Meeting Minutes.
08/21 Stochastic Parrots vs Intelligence
08/21 Gemini Links 21/08/2023: Trust Model Online and Gemini Radio
08/21 Will Wayland Even Survive the Collapse of IBM? X11 Likely Will.
08/22 Leftover Links 22/08/2023: Another COVID-19 Resurgence
08/22 Links 22/08/2023: Microsoft Kills Off Yet Another Product; Bridging IIO and Input in Linux
08/22 [Meme] DrAxe: Grooming Myself for Berkeley With Help From Isis
08/22 Gemini Links 22/08/2023: GitHub Turning Nastier, Google Domains Migration
08/22 IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 21, 2023
08/22 Links 22/08/2023: John Warnock Dies
08/22 Matthew J Garrett is Irrelevant But Still Dangerous to Himself and Those Around Him
08/22 Non-Interaction With Google Search. Why Your Next Search Engine Should Be SearXNG.
08/22 Gemini Links 22/08/2023: Public Transport Protest and Palm PDA Collections
08/22 Links 22/08/2023: siduction Linux Release and News Catchup
08/22 Gemini Links 22/08/2023: Pokes and Terminal Metronome
08/22 Managing NoScript Whitelists and Some Tor Browser Observations
08/22 foobar2000 on Wine, Wayland, and GNOME Equals Trouble
08/23 Gemini Links 23/08/2023: On Gemini and âDegrowthâ
08/23 By Monthâs End Lupa Will Quite Likely See 3,500 Unique Gemini Capsules in Geminispace
08/23 Leftover Links 23/08/2023: India Attempt to Make History on the Moon
08/23 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 22, 2023
08/23 Links 23/08/2023: Kali Linux 2023.3
08/23 Gemini Links 23/08/2023: Tripod and Angelfire as the Last Bastions of the Old Web
08/23 Links 23/08/2023: Slackware Live ISO Refresh
08/24 Gemini Links 24/08/2023: Another Social Place In Geminispace
08/24 Links 24/08/2023: More Gaming-Focused Distros of GNU/Linux (Bazzite)
08/24 Big Blue Blues: How IBM is Betraying Red Hat Staff and the Rest of Us
08/24 Leftover Links 24/08/2023: CMA Continues Blocking a Microsoft Takeover
08/24 Mozilla Bricking Firefox ESR Deliberately. This Code Breaks Tor Browser Too.
08/24 Gemini Links 24/08/2023: gmid 2.0 Alpha
08/24 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 23, 2023
08/24 Links 24/08/2023: KDE Gear 23.08 and Ctrl IQ (CIQ) Lawsuit
08/24 What Is the Point of the Servo Rendering Engine?
08/24 IBM Lotus Symphony âDonationâ Revisited After LibreOffice Debacle
08/25 Firefox 116.0.1, 116.0.2, 116.0.3 Nuisance Update Summary.
08/25 Leftover Links 25/08/2023: Focus Shifts to Russia
08/25 Bypass âLess Secure Appsâ in GMail With SeaMonkey Mail Using IMAP.
08/25 Gemini Links 25/08/2023: Old Computer Challenge Tools, Internet Appliance
08/25 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 24, 2023
08/25 IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 25, 2023
08/25 The World Wide Web is Proprietary and Mozilla Contributes to That
08/25 Mirroring Blog Posts In Gemini. Problems With WordPress.com.
08/25 Links 25/08/2023: Linux the Kernel Turns 32 and Rust 1.72.0
08/25 Links 25/08/2023: The Internet of Things Podcast Comes to an End
08/25 TrackerControl Continues Being Useful With TextNow. Windows 98 Flashbacks.
08/26 ChaffBot Spew Gaslighting the Impoverished Masses
08/26 Malware-Addled Chrome Web Store to âWarn About Malwareâ
08/26 Bytedance/TikTok is a Threat to Freedom, Including Free Speech
08/26 Links 26/08/2023: OpenTFâs Fork of Terraform
08/26 Paywalls, Copyrights, and Google WEI in the âNew Normalâ
08/26 Sane People Donât Write Homepages Like These
08/26 Links 26/08/2023: Libinput 1.24.0 and Canonicalâs Snap Woes
08/26 Gemini Links 26/08/2023: Politics and Benchmarking
08/26 Techrights is Still Growing
08/26 The âModernâ Web and Fake Authorities
08/26 Gemini Links 26/08/2023: Game Showcase of Black Mesa and Two Years on Gemini
08/27 Monkeyâs Audio Codec Becomes Free Software
08/27 The American Mediaâs Gaslighting Continues
08/27 Links 27/08/2023: Linux 6.1.48 and Haruna 0.12.0
08/27 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 26, 2023
08/27 Leftover Links 27/08/2023: Windows TCO Stories and Linux Foundation âMastersâ
08/27 Linux in a Commodore 64 Emulator and More Operating System Thoughts
08/27 New York Times Debt Propaganda
08/27 Vivek Ramaswamy Represents the Rodrigo Duterte-ing of America
08/27 Gemini Links 27/08/2023: OpenBSD Philosophy and Project Gemini Documentation Expanded
08/27 [Meme] Matthew J. Garrett Was Teaching in Berkeley, Not Committing Abuses Online
08/28 Gemini Links 28/08/2023: Sometimes Everything Goes Wrong and Brute Forcing Cheat Codes
08/28 In the Month of August GNU/Linux Continued Growing on Desktops/Laptops
08/28 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 27, 2023
08/28 Links 28/08/2023: Linux 6.5
08/28 Links 28/08/2023: Microsoft Collapsing in Web Servers and Mozilla Firefox 117 Released
08/28 Gemini Links 28/08/2023: Manipulating PDFs and Synapse Room Cleaner
08/28 The Downfall of Microsoft (and Also the World Wide Webâs)
08/29 [Meme] The Axe-Wielding Puppetmaster
08/29 Leftover Links 29/08/2023: Fukushima Uproar in China
08/29 Gemini Links 29/08/2023: Keeping Infrastructure Free
08/29 âInternet Villainâ Mozilla. Can Enough Really Be Said?
08/29 [Meme] Dr. Axe Intimidating IRC Networks, Sites and Groups That Criticise Microsoft
08/29 IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 28, 2023
08/29 Links 29/08/2023: Kdenlive 23.08.0 and UbuntuDDE 23.04
08/29 Mozilla Fully Corrupted and Assault on the Internet Archive While America Crumbles
08/29 Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer?
08/29 Links 29/08/2023: antiX-23 and Revisiting the PinePhone
08/30 Gemini Links 30/08/2023: Spincare Vinyl Cleaner and Back in a TUI World
08/30 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 29, 2023
08/30 Links 30/08/2023: Calamares Releases and Portfolio 1.0.0
08/30 Gemini Links 30/08/2023: 90â˛s Kids Trackball and Sleuthing an Old Phone
08/30 Links 30/08/2023: New Firefox, Chrome Woes (Sync is Spyware)
08/30 Leftover Links 30/08/2023: RIP, Ueda San
08/30 Intel and AMD Power Management is a Stinking Mess as Intel Makes Death Rattles
08/30 Xenophobia and Misinformation in New York Times
08/31 Productive Month and Good Riddance to Online Thugs
08/31 Operation Mole â Part VII â From âBe Nice!â to Threats of Violence
08/31 [Meme] Axe-Wielding Microsoft Catspaw
08/31 Gemini Links 31/08/2023: Gemini Specs Progressing
08/31 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 30, 2023
08/31 Links 31/08/2023: MidnightBSD 3.1.0 and Coreboot 4.21 Released
08/31 When a Modern Raspberry Pi is No Longer Enough as a Gemini Server
08/31 Gemini Links 31/08/2023: Launch of the smolweb.org Web Site
08/31 Links 31/08/2023: WordPress 6.3.1, DNF5 Delayed
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