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11/01 Links 1/11/2021: GNU Linux-Libre 5.15 and Audacity 3.1

11/01 Power Without Countervailing Power in Patent Law

11/01 Recycling Enablers of the EPO Regime and Bribing Them (or Rewarding Them) Years Later

11/01 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part IXXX: The EPOnian Micro-States – Monaco and Malta

11/01 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 31, 2021


11/01 Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part IV — Mr. MobileCoin: From Mono to Plagiarism… and to Unprecedented GPL Violations at GitHub (Microsoft)

11/01 IP Kat Was Declawed by Battistelli’s Threats and Sanctions and Now It’s Collapsing

11/01 [Meme] [Teaser] San Marino Grape Stomp

11/01 [Meme] Microsoft: Always Blame the Victim (Failing That, Blame the Governments of Other Nations)

11/01 [Meme] In 2022 We’re Back to 2014



11/02 EPO Management Will Exploit the Pandemic to Crush Patent Examiners Like It Crushed the Rule of Law (and Judges)

11/02 Links 2/11/2021: Fedora Linux 35 Released and Solanum 3

11/02 Links 2/11/2021: Makulu Droid New ISO and Firefox 94.0/Firefox ESR 91.3.0

11/02 Links 2/11/2021: FuguIta 7.0 and MPV 0.34

11/02 IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 01, 2021


11/02 San Marino: From “Libertas” to a Battistelli and Kongstad Chinchilla

11/02 [Meme] Bilateral Battistelli

11/02 [Meme] Workplace of the Future

11/02 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXX: San Marino and the Perfidious Betrayal of Liberty

11/02 [Meme] Sun King Against the Law



11/02 Bright Future for Alternatives to the World Wide Web

11/03 Working From Home When the Rich and Powerful Corporations (or Governments) Make All the Important Decisions and Rules

11/03 Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Important Update (GitHub CEO “Resigns”… or Pushed Out)

11/03 [Teaser] Microsoft GitHub: Miguel de Icaza’s “HOLY SHIT”

11/03 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 02, 2021


11/03 Links 3/11/2021: Knative 1.0 and More

11/03 Links 4/11/2021: LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.1, KDE November App Update, and and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Beta

11/03 [Meme] GitHub’s CEO Exits GitHub and You Should Too

11/04 The Beginning of the End of the GitHub Near-Monopoly and Its Demise to CodePlex Status (a Slow-Motion Train Wreck)

11/04 Links 4/11/2021: LibreOffice 7.1.7 and Mesa 21.3 RC4 Released



11/04 Links 4/11/2021: Voyager Linux 21.10 and FSF Against Software Patents

11/05 More Videos on Our 16th Year

11/05 Links 5/11/2021: Alpha of Wayland 1.20 and Beta 3 of FreeBSD 12.3

11/05 Gemini Protocol is Very Useful for Escaping Misinformation, Targeted (Spying) Ads, and Spam

11/05 Gemini Protocol Does Not Need to Be Extended to Support Multimedia (It Already Supports Audio/Video as External/System-Level Objects)


11/05 Linux Isn’t Loved by Microsoft, It is Being Googlebombed by Microsoft

11/05 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 04, 2021

11/05 Links 5/11/2021: LibreOffice 7.3 Alpha 1 and “Red Hat Forced to Hire Cheaper”

11/05 Links 5/11/2021: LXQt 1.0.0 and GNOME 41.1

11/05 EFF Has Been Hijacked, and Just Like Mozilla and the Linux Foundation It Doesn’t Fight for What It Was Originally Made to Achieve



11/05 The Web is Still Getting Obese and and Very Hostile, But NetSurf Makes Things a Little More Acceptable

11/05 Celebrating 15 Years of a Perfect Record Protecting Our Sources

11/06 When ‘Smart’ is Dumb and Being Supposedly ‘Dumb’ is Likely Smarter (in Order to Get Real Work Done)

11/06 Links 6/11/2021: Godot 3.4 Release, Steam Linux Beta Turns 9

11/06 [Meme] IBM ‘Soup Nazi’


11/06 IRC Proceedings: Friday, November 05, 2021

11/06 Mastodon Has Turned Free Software Into a Mechanism by Which to Exercise Unjust Power Over Users

11/06 Reading Concise IRC Logs of Techrights in (Almost) Real Time From the Command Line

11/06 Must be Terrifying to Microsoft: After the Release of Vista 11 the Market Share of Windows Still Goes Down

11/06 Links 6/11/2021: Wine 6.21 Released and Google Chrome Could Break Ad Blockers



11/07 Links 7/11/2021: qBittorrent 4.3.9, Chimera Linux, and Much More

11/07 Opinion: The GPL and Politics

11/07 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 06, 2021

11/07 Life Before Techrights

11/07 Links 7/11/2021: More Desktop Environments and Big Patent Catch-up


11/07 15 Years Saying the Unsayable (Taboo Subjects, Suppressed Information, and Unpopular or Inconvenient Truths)

11/07 Year 16

11/08 Historically Important Literature, Leaks, and Texts in Gemini Space

11/08 Reminder: Techrights is at gemini://gemini.techrights.org

11/08 Any Ongoing Participation in GitHub Helps Microsoft Attack Free Software



11/08 Links 8/11/2021: Guile-CV 0.3.0, Intel DRM Chaos

11/08 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 07, 2021

11/08 Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part V — Why Nat Friedman is Leaving GitHub

11/08 Links 8/11/2021: LXD 4.20 and Kdenlive 21.08.3

11/08 Corporate Troll Matthew “GAFAM” Garrett Complains About Computer Devices Called “Master/Slave” While Using Slave Labor


11/08 [Meme] Friedman Isn’t Leaving GitHub, He Got Fired

11/08 Meanwhile, at Mozilla, You Have to Sign Into Microsoft to Use BugZilla…

11/08 Links 8/11/2021: Raspberry Pi OS Updated, EasyOS 3.1.9 and Maui 2.1.0 Released

11/08 There’s Virtually No More Journalism on the Subject of Software Patents (or Patents in General)

11/09 IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 08, 2021



11/09 Linux Foundation Has Become Even Worse Than Climate Science Deniers

11/09 Links 10/11/2021: KDE Plasma 5.23.3 and Ncurses 6.3

11/09 Links 9/11/2021: Tor Browser 11.0 and Tales of Grace Hopper

11/10 If You Don’t Control Your PC, Military-Connected Companies Control Your PC and It’s Not Even (Truly) Yours

11/10 What It’s Like to Work With Eight Monitors on the Cheap (Less Than $1,000 in Total)


11/10 Firefox ESR 91 Creating Massive Headache for Debian 11 (GNU/Linux)

11/10 Visualised: 2021 Growth of Gemini Space (by Balázs Botond)

11/10 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 09, 2021

11/10 Links 10/11/2021: Release of RHEL 8.5, Valve Delays Steam Deck, Sailfish OS 4.3 Released

11/10 Links x/11/2021: Release of Samba 4.15.2, 4.14.10, 4.13.14; TDE Reviewed



11/11 Mozilla Allows Facebook to Sabotage Messenger Live Video in Firefox for Three Years, Then Takes a Swipe at Me for Calling Them Out

11/11 Techrights Now (as of This Week) Has Over 38,000 Pages in the Gemini Capsule

11/11 Links 11/11/2021: Homage to Ken Starks, New Sparky Linux, Go Turns 12

11/11 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 10, 2021

11/11 Links 11/11/2021: Mesa 21.3 RC5 Release


11/11 Halloween Documents in Gemini Space

11/11 Mozilla Firefox in the Windows Store is an Unnecessary Distraction

11/12 Links 12/11/2021: AlmaLinux 8.5 and Alpine 3.14.3

11/12 EPO Dictatorship Coming Home to Roost

11/12 Links 12/11/2021: PipeWire 0.3.40 and FreeBSD 12.3 RC1



11/12 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 11, 2021

11/12 Microsoft Updates Windows 11 to Stop People From Escaping Edge with EdgeDeflector

11/12 Archiving Web Sites to Ensure They Last Decades, Not Years, Outliving or Outlasting Various Disruptive Events

11/12 [Meme] Need New Hardware to Work for EPO

11/12 The Central Staff Committee of the EPO Has Just Alleged That EPO Management Discarded All Input From Staff Representatives While Monetising the Pandemic


11/12 [Meme] Vista 11 Failed Spectacularly

11/12 Microsoft Would Need a Lot of Corrupt Public Officials to Go Along With Windows 11 SE, for Schools, Since All it Adds is $100 Per Student Laptop

11/13 IRC Proceedings: Friday, November 12, 2021

11/13 Links 14/11/2021: Lakka 3.6 and Kalendar 0.2

11/13 Links 13/11/2021: Septor 2021.5 and KDE Frameworks 5.88



11/13 Studying EPO and Patent Affairs Through RSS Feeds and Organising the Collected Information

11/13 Sugar-Coating Microsoft’s Crimes

11/13 [Meme] Team UPC Could Use a Lesson in Geography

11/13 Unified Patent Court Committee Refuses Access to Secret Draft Declaration to Bypass National Parliaments, Brexit, and the Vienna Convention

11/14 Days After Microsoft Killed EdgeDeflector, a New Utility to Stop Edge From Loading Emerges


11/14 Microsoft Tries Pushing/Imposing Their Office Suite on Edge Users (4% of the Web) in the Context Menu

11/14 Links 14/11/2021: EasyOS 3.1.10 and Catch-up With Patent News

11/14 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 13, 2021

11/14 Links 14/11/2021: On ‘KDE World Domination’ and DRM Backlash

11/14 Links 15/11/2021: Linux 5.16 RC1 Released



11/15 Links 15/11/2021: Kdenlive 21.12 Beta and Extra Aggression by Microsoft

11/15 Video: Installing LibreWolf in GNU/Linux Using LibreWolf’s Flatpak Package

11/15 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 14, 2021

11/15 Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part VI — The Media Has Mischaracterised Nat Friedman’s Departure (Effective Now)

11/15 Microsoft Announces That It Will Soon Break Every Method to Avoid Accidentally Loading Edge


11/15 Guest Article: Michael Larabel at Phoronix is Getting Desperate With the Daily Spam

11/15 [Teaser] Don’t Worry, Miguel, the Press Will Never Find Out… (About Nat Friedman)

11/15 Links 15/11/2021: Reviving Old PCs, Red Hat Software Collections 3.8

11/15 Pushing Back Towards ‘Libre’ (Freedom), Partly as an Act of Defiance/Resistance Against a World Wide Web Which Gravitates Towards Endless Spying and DRM

11/16 EdgeDeflectorGate is Turning Into a Major Scandal for Microsoft



11/16 Free Software and Privacy Aren’t for Extremists; Those Who Take Them Away Exercise Extremism and Totalitarian Control in the Name of “Protecting Us”

11/16 IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 15, 2021

11/16 Microphone Visualisation/Spectrograms for GNU/Linux (Real-Time Status for Audio Input)

11/16 Links 16/11/2021: New Fedora 35 (F35) Builds and Red Hat Satellite 6.10

11/16 Brave Browser is Not a Platform for Extremists. The Southern Poverty Law Center is Way Off Base.


11/16 Links 16/11/2021: Stratis 3.0.0 Released, New EndeavourOS ISO Imminent

11/16 This Aged Very Poorly: Unified Patent Court (UPC) “Should Enter Into Force in 2014.”

11/16 Links 16/11/2021: Rocky Linux 8.5 and Tor Browser 11.0.1

11/17 Links 17/11/2021: Brave Does Digital Currencies, Cockpit 257 Released

11/17 Debian Expulsion Lies and Blackmail



11/17 [Meme] Edge’s Edgy Security

11/17 Totally Legit Gemini Search (TLGS), a Search Provider Just Announced for Gemini Space, Will Help Move More of Us Off the World Wide Web

11/17 Video: Getting Off the Web and Away From Mozilla Firefox

11/17 Check Your Inputs (Including Microphone) to Avoid Disaster

11/17 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 16, 2021


11/17 Bruce Schneier: Microsoft Edge is Apparently a Password Stealer Too, Even on GNU/Linux

11/17 Links 18/11/2021: Oracle Linux 8.5 and Firebird 3.0.8

11/17 Links 17/11/2021: Proxmox VE 7.1, Qubes OS 4.1 RC2, Microsoft Stealing People’s Passwords

11/18 A Look at Gemini Protocol and Specification (Latest Update 4 Days Ago)

11/18 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 17, 2021



11/18 Links 18/11/2021: Latte Dock 0.10.4 and $5,000 DIY Raspberry Pi Server

11/18 After Creating the Compatibility Nightmare, Microsoft Calls for Preserving Older Games

11/18 Links 18/11/2021: Schleswig-Holstein (German State) Moving to GNU/Linux, pgAdmin 4 Version 6.2 is Out

11/18 Why We’ve Been Writing More About Software Freedom Lately

11/19 32,000 Blog Posts


11/19 Links 19/11/2021: Arcan 0.6.1 and FreeBSD 12.3 RC2

11/19 For the Second Month in a Row, Almost Half a Million Page Requests Over Gemini Protocol (gemini://)

11/19 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 18, 2021

11/19 EPO: We Support Women and Gay People, But We Also Support People Who Behead Them (in the Interest of Patent Profits)

11/19 Techrights is for Whistleblowers and Suppressed Information Which Other Sites Refuse (or Are Afraid/Shy) to Publish



11/19 [Meme] Patent Searches and Examinations Without Colleagues to Help (and Line Managers You Cannot See)

11/19 Links 19/11/2021: Ubuntu Touch OTA-20, Wine 6.22, and PureOS 10 Released

11/19 New Ways of Working for António Campinos, Even From One’s Own Home During a Crisis

11/20 They Rebrand GNU/Linux as ‘Azure’ to Make It Sound Like Microsoft is Suddenly Relevant in HPC

11/20 Links 20/11/2021: Blender 2.93.6 and Lots of Politics


11/20 Number of Known Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Networks Grew About 10% Since Freenode’s Collapse, Number of Simultaneous Users Globally Around a Third of a Million

11/20 IRC Proceedings: Friday, November 19, 2021

11/20 Microsoft-Captured USPTO Doubles the Fines for Patent Applicants That Don’t Use Microsoft

11/20 Tor Browser Launcher on Debian is Broken and SPLC Censorship Regime Hates Tor and FOSS, Boosts Bill Gates

11/20 Links 20/11/2021: Unity Desktop’s ‘Renaissance’, Whisker Menu 2.7.0, and Wine 7.0 Code Freeze



11/21 Today It’s That Coveted 1,800 Milestone for Gemini Space and It’s Possible We’ll Have Over 2,000 Known (Indexed) Capsules by Year’s End!

11/21 Links 21/11/2021: Gluster 10, Lots About Patents

11/21 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 20, 2021

11/21 Links 21/11/2021: Q4OS 4.7 Gemini and Second Linux RC

11/21 [Meme] They Send Linus Torvalds to Therapists While Microsoft Pays Their Full Salary


11/22 Links 22/11/2021: Claws Mail 4 Enters Debian and Catch-up With Legal Matters

11/22 Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part VII — Nat Friedman, as GitHub CEO, Had a Plan of Defrauding Microsoft Shareholders

11/22 Links 22/11/2021: EasyOS Dunfell 3.1.11, Microsoft ‘Extends’ Mesa for Windows

11/22 EPO Staff Engagement Survey Predates the Pandemic and Provides False Assumptions for EPO Policies or Policy-Setting

11/22 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 21, 2021



11/22 Microsoft’s GitHub is Hugely Toxic and It Censors Critics of Corporations or People Sceptical of Those in Power

11/22 [Teaser] Nat Friedman and Alex Graveley “Best Friends”

11/23 IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 22, 2021

11/23 Links 23/11/2021: Libreboot 20211122, Deepin Linux 20.3, Amazon Linux 2022, and Mabox Linux 21.11 Released

11/23 Links 23/11/2021: New GNU Parallel and Memories of David H. Adler (Perl, Raku)


11/23 Microsoft-Led Misinformation Campaign About Germany and Munich Reminds Us That Microsoft Hates and Actively Undermines GNU/Linux Adoption

11/23 Links 24/11/2021: Rust Crisis and Team UPC Still Faking ‘Progress’

11/23 In Light of Fast-Accelerating Deterioration — Sometimes Weaponisation — Getting Off the World Wide Web (to the Extent Feasible) Makes You Saner and Less Susceptible to Manipulation, Lies

11/23 Black Friday SPAM on the World Wide Web: A Reminder That the Web is a Dying Platform, Languishing Due to Marketing and Misinformation

11/24 Links 24/11/2021: Alpine Linux 3.15 and Endless OS 4.0 Released



11/24 3.5 Years Later the ‘Master’ of Fedora is Still Microsoft and IBM Cannot Be Bothered to Alter Git Branch Names (Refuting or Ignoring Its Very Own Directive About Supposedly Racially-Insensitive Terms)

11/24 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 23, 2021

11/24 [Meme] Jimmy Zemlin Loves Microsoft

11/24 Links 24/11/2021: PHP Foundation and Flatpak Criticisms

11/24 Changing the Arrangement While News is a Bit Slow(er)


11/25 IBM as Master of Hypocrisy

11/25 Links 25/11/2021: PHP 8.1.0 Released and Linux 5.15.5

11/25 Links 25/11/2021: LibreOffice 7.2.3 and Mesa 21.2.6 Released

11/25 Links 25/11/2021: Proton 6.3-8 and Linux Mint Compared to Ubuntu

11/25 Windows Vista Service Pack 11 (Vista 11) Has Failed to Curb the Growth of GNU/Linux



11/25 [Meme] So Desperate That Edge Cannot Even Exceed 4% That They Block Rival Web Browsers

11/26 Improved Workflows: Achievement Unlocked

11/26 Links 26/11/2021: New Complaint About Microsoft Competition Crimes in Europe, EuroLinux 8.5, GhostBSD 21.11.24, and Kiwi TCMS 10.5 Released

11/26 38+ Years of GNU and 19+ Years of FSF Associate Membership

11/26 Gemini as a Platform for Gamers


11/26 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 24, 2021

11/26 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 25, 2021

11/26 Links 26/11/2021: F35 Elections, Whonix 16.0.3.7, OSMC’s November Refresh With Kodi 19.3

11/27 [Meme] Keeping Our Distance From Microsoft

11/27 Links 27/11/2021: Nvidia’s DLSS Hype and Why GNU/Linux Matters



11/27 IRC Proceedings: Friday, November 26, 2021

11/27 Amid Reports of Microsoft’s Competition Crimes in Europe…

11/27 Microsoft Edge Encourages Indebted Americans to Guilt-spend Just in Time for Christmas

11/27 Links 27/11/2021: Tux Paint 0.9.27 and SeaMonkey 1.1.19 in EasyOS

11/27 [Meme] Linus Gabriel Sebastian Takes GNU/Linux for a (Tail)’Spin’


11/27 Is Linus Trolling the GNU/Linux Community?

11/27 GNU/Linux is for Freedom and It’ll Gain Many Users When (or Where) People Understand What Software (or Computing) Freedom Means

11/28 Links 28/11/2021: Laravel 8.73 Released, GitHub Offline for Hours

11/28 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 27, 2021

11/28 Links 29/11/2021: Linux 5.16 RC3 and Lots of Patent Catch-up



11/28 By 2022 0% of ‘News’ Coverage About Patents Will Be Actual Journalism (Patent Litigation Sector Has Hijacked the World Wide Web to Disseminate Self-Promotional Misinformation)

11/28 Trying to Appease Those Who Never Liked Free Software or Those Who Blindly Loved All Patent Monopolies to Begin With

11/29 [Meme] Trying to Appease Provocateurs and Borderline Trolls

11/29 Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part VIII — Mr. Graveley’s Long Career Serving Microsoft’s Agenda (Before Hiring by Microsoft to Work on GitHub’s GPL Violations Machine)

11/29 Links 29/11/2021: NuTyX 21.10.5 and CrossOver 21.1.0


11/29 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 28, 2021

11/29 This Apt Has Super Dumbass Powers. Linus Sebastian and Pop_OS!

11/29 President Biden Wants to Put Microsofter in Charge of the Patent Office, Soon to Penalise Patent Applicants Who Don’t Use Microsoft’s Proprietary Formats

11/29 Centralised Git Hosting Has a Business Model Which is Hostile Towards Developers’ Interests (in Microsoft’s Case, It’s an Attack on Reciprocal Licensing and Persistent Manipulation)

11/29 Links 29/11/2021: FWUPD’s ‘Best Known Configuration’ and Glimpse at OpenZFS 3.0



11/29 Dr. Andy Farnell on Teaching Cybersecurity in an Age of ‘Fake Security’

11/30 A Concise Manifesto For Freedom-Respecting Internet

11/30 Links 30/11/2021: KDE Plasma 5.23.4, 4MLinux 38.0, Long GitHub Downtime, and Microsoft’s CEO Selling Away Shares

11/30 [Meme] EPO Administrative Council Believing EPO-Bribed ‘Media’ (IAM Still Shilling and Lying for Cash)

11/30 IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 29, 2021


11/30 Video: Making the Internet a Better Place for People, Not Megacorporations

11/30 Freenode.net Becomes a ‘Reddit Clone’ and Freenode IRC is Back to Old Configurations After Flushing Down Decades’ Worth of User/Channel Data and Locking/Shutting Out Longtime Users

11/30 Jack Dorsey’s Decision is a Wake-up Call: Social Control Media is Just a Toxic Bubble

11/30 The EPO’s Mythical “Gap” Has Been Found and It’s Bonuses for People Who Use Pure Fiction to Steal From Patent Examiners

11/30 Links 1/12/2021: Tux Paint 0.9.27 and WordPress 5.9 Beta




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