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Techrights /2023/09/


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09/01 Corporate Disruption Tactics and More

09/01 Debian 12 KDE Deployment: A Better Experience on My Laptops

09/01 Big Gains This Past Summer for GNU/Linux in Indonesia

09/01 Google Shows Why it Has Too Much Power Over the Web By Dropping JPEG-XL Support

09/01 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 31, 2023


09/01 Links 01/09/2023: LibReSSL 3.8.1 and sslh 2.0 Released

09/01 Linux Foundation® (and Linux.com) as Perception Management

09/01 Another Microsoft-Controlled ‘Global Conversation’ About “Open Source AI”, Courtesy of the Openwashing Initiative, OSI

09/01 One Month After June is September and Still Waiting…

09/01 Leftover Links 01/09/2023: University of Michigan Pays Massive Price for Using Microsoft



09/01 Gemini Links 02/09/2023: Unhealthy Technology and No Longer Streaming

09/01 Gemini Links 01/09/2023: LXD 5.17 and Wget2 2.1

09/02 Chrome OS + GNU/Linux Reach 7% Market Share in September 2023

09/02 Andy, Helen and Ed (Cyber|Show) Explain What the UK ‘Online Safety Bill’ Actually Does

09/02 In Asia, Almost 60% of the Total World Population, GNU/Linux Climbs to 6%, Windows Majority Becomes Rare


09/02 Leftover Links 02/09/2023: Bad USPTO Policies

09/02 Reasons Why Debian 12 KDE Should Not Default to Wayland

09/02 Gemini Links 02/09/2023: Fediverse and Feeds

09/02 Gemini Links 02/09/2023: Fediverse Issues and Back to Agate

09/02 GNU/Linux ‘Proper’ (Not Chrome OS) Surges to 4% in Africa, 7% in Nigeria (by Far the Largest Population)



09/02 IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 01, 2023

09/02 Azure Stagnating, Partners Have Layoffs

09/02 I Installed Microsoft Edge for Linux So You Wouldn’t Have to and Alan Pope is Basically Using ‘MSN Explorer with Chromium’

09/02 Links 02/09/2023: Release of Linux From Scratch and Nitrux 3.0 is Out

09/02 Links 02/09/2023: PostgreSQL 16 RC1 Released


09/02 Links 02/09/2023: POWER, KDE, Copyrights

09/02 Mastodon: A Community So Vile They Even Eat Their Own. More Thoughts On Reddit.

09/02 Lenovo Profits Down 66% in Q1 on 24% Lower Revenue, Vista 11 Hasn’t Picked Up Net Users Since April

09/03 Where in Africa Windows Still Has Majority Market Share

09/03 As Microsoft Collapses, Their Cottage Industry Based on Windows Problems Dies Off. Malwarebytes Fires 100.



09/03 The Collapse of ChatGPT (and Microsoft’s Bing), Plus More Layoffs

09/03 Brave Browser Installation and Setup on Debian 12

09/03 Gemini Links 03/09/2023: geminiprotocol.net is Coming

09/03 Links 03/09/2023: GNOME 45 Work and Debian Fatigue

09/03 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, September 02, 2023


09/03 Links 03/09/2023: Pardus 23.0 and Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 5 1.00

09/03 Links 03/09/2023: RPi Images for Debian and Perl News

09/03 Gemini Links 03/09/2023: Synthember and Strengthening the Small Net

09/03 Leftover Links 03/09/2023: WordPad Dies, TikTok Promotes Harm to Children

09/03 Wall Street Journal “Article” About “Expiring Chromebooks” is Highly Misleading. Put Them in Developer Mode and Run Anything!



09/04 Microsoft: Buy Microsoft

09/04 IBM/Red Hat: You Cannot Criticise IBM/Red Hat and Their Decisions

09/04 Microsoft’s Windows Vista 11 Has Failed. Be Wary and Careful of Media Distractions From That Failure.

09/04 Linus Torvalds is Paid 32,502 Dollars a Week, He Said Microsoft Was Too Focused on Money

09/04 Techrights Has Archived 30,000 New Gemini URLs/Pages Since Last Spring, Now We See How Many Get Captured Per Day (Over Time)


09/04 System76 Gives ‘Secure’ Boot the Boot

09/04 In North America, GNU/Linux Already Flirts With 10% Market Share (Desktops/Laptops)

09/04 Immutable Operating Systems Do Not Really Enhance Security

09/04 Gemini Links 04/09/2023: Web Environment Integrity Rant and Inbox Zero in Hindsight

09/04 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 03, 2023



09/04 Links 04/09/2023: Distro Watch Examines Debian GNU/Hurd 2023 and LibreArts Weekly is Ready

09/04 Links 04/09/2023: fwupd 1.9.5 and Linux Lite 6.6

09/04 Links 04/09/2023: Qubes OS 4.2.0 RC3 and Xubuntu Development Update

09/04 Gemini Links 04/09/2023: Vacation Canceled by COVID-19, Thoughts on Gemini in Cosmos

09/04 Leftover Links 04/09/2023: Microsoft Layoffs and Twitter Shot in the Foot


09/04 Censorship and Surveillance in the United States’ Internet

09/04 Gemini Links 04/09/2023: Feed Subscriptions on ‘Small Net’, Why BBS

09/05 It’s Autumn Already!

09/05 Using Free Software, Preferably Locally-Hosted, to Control and Secure Communications

09/05 Gemini Links 05/09/2023: End of Wordpad



09/05 IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 04, 2023

09/05 Links 05/09/2023: Starfield on GNU/Linux and Mageia 9

09/05 Back on the Saddle, Still Readjusting (New Microphone, New Setup)

09/05 OpenIndiana Hipster Frustrations. (Revisiting Solaris, Non-Linux Systems, CentOS Stream)

09/05 The Tor Network Becomes Less of a Nuisance to Us (After Complaints of Misuse Connected to Tor Staff)


09/05 With UEFI, TPM, Pluton Etc. Microsoft and Intel/AMD Trashed an Entire Generation of Computers, Made Security a Lot Worse in Order to Curtail GNU/Linux and BSD Adoption

09/05 [Meme] Package Management on Windows

09/05 Yuzu Nintendo Switch Emulator for Linux is on Flathub. Debian 12 with ZRam Helps Keep the System Running Smoothly.

09/06 Links 06/09/2023: Istio 1.19.0 and Arti 1.1.8

09/06 Links 06/09/2023: Manjaro 23 Released and Changes in Zenwalk



09/06 [Meme] Axe-Wielding Microsoft Trolls Impersonating Free Software People Across IRC Networks

09/06 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 05, 2023

09/06 Gemini Links 06/09/2023: Reddit’s New Tracking URLs and Iterating On Fractals

09/06 Leftover Links 06/09/2023: University of Michigan Admits It Got Cracked (Microsoft TCO)

09/06 [Meme] 3 Months


09/06 Microsoft and Its Proxies Are in a Freefall

09/06 Gemini Links 06/09/2023: Recommendation Algorithms, IPv6 Adoption

09/06 Principal Threat to Security is Microsoft Windows and Proprietary Software

09/06 A Blueprint for Digital, Online Oppression (and Threat to Software Freedom Everywhere)

09/06 Red Hat Under IBM is Lying to Us, It’s Not Trustworthy Anymore



09/06 Gemini Links 06/09/2023: Vanity .onion Address and Trying Gemini

09/07 [Meme] A Director and a Wife

09/07 Why Microsoft is Trying to Force People to Use Edge in Windows: Edge Has Minuscule Market Share and It’s Not Improving

09/07 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 06, 2023

09/07 Links 07/09/2023: LibreOffice 7.5.6 and Plans for LibrePlanet 2024 Have Begun


09/07 Leftover Links 07/09/2023: Microsoft Admits Azure Got Cracked

09/07 [Meme] Microsoft Rallying the Mentally Sick

09/07 Rianne Schestowitz: Poetry for Microsoft Lunatics on the Run

09/07 OpenAI Bankruptcy by Year’s End? Earlier Today Similarweb Released August Figures, Showing That Microsoft’s Chatbot Hype Was in Vain and Usage Continues Falling for Several Consecutive Months.

09/07 Removing Input Method Editors from Debian 12: Memory Bloat and How IBM Fedora Is (Not) Coping. More Yuzu Emulator Observations.



09/07 Operation Mole — Part VIII — Even Libera.Chat Has Gotten Sick of the Illegal Behaviour of ‘Team Axe’ (Microsoft Boosters K-Lined Last Night)

09/07 A Weakly-Worded Message From Perpetrator of Pension Fraud at Sirius ‘Open Source’

09/07 Gemini Links 07/09/2023: The Hope Pushers and Rust Sucking

09/07 Twitter/X Usage Down Sharply This Year, According to statCounter (From 12.4% to 8.1% in Just 8 Months)

09/08 Links 07/09/2023: DebConf23 and Akademy 2024 Plans


09/08 Record Traffic and 6 Months of Uptime for Our Gemini Capsule

09/08 Links 08/09/2023: CircuitPython 8.2.5 and PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.8.2

09/08 Why You Should Not Use Microsoft Office 365

09/08 Links 08/09/2023: Release of Francis 1.0, EnterpriseDB Chooses GNU General Public License v3 for Component

09/08 IBM Gaslighting While Breaking the GNU/Linux Desktop Experience



09/08 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 07, 2023

09/08 Gemini Links 08/09/2023: Apple Stuff and Migrating to Neovim

09/08 OpenAI and Microsoft Can Die Together

09/08 Google Chrome Enables More Spyware; Calls It “Ad Privacy Feature”

09/08 Leftover Links 08/09/2023: Security and War on Encryption


09/09 Links 09/09/2023: GNU Boot 0.1 RC1 and Diffoscope 250 Released

09/09 More Work on Debian 12, UEFI is Trash Part 3: Fixing a Lenovo Restart “Bug”

09/09 The Media Does an Intentionally Bad Job Covering Microsoft and Bill Gates Scandals (Follow the Money)

09/09 Gemini Links 09/09/2023: Project Gemini Now at geminiprotocol.net

09/09 IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 08, 2023



09/09 Ubuntu TPM Disk Encryption Requires Snaps

09/09 Links 09/09/2023: Google Antitrust Case and Windows TCO Stories

09/10 Links 10/09/2023: FreeBSD 14.0 Beta and Calamares Qt6

09/10 Sirius ‘Open Source’: The Tale of a Company That Loses All the Staff and Cannot Recruit Staff

09/10 Gemini Links 10/09/2023: E-mail Addresses and Docker Progress


09/10 [Meme] ‘DrAxe’ Targeting People Inside Sirius Open Source

09/10 The “Intellectual Property” Stage of Capitalism and How It Relates to Free Software

09/10 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, September 09, 2023

09/10 Links 10/09/2023: KDE Frameworks 5.110, WordPress.com Stats on DMCA Takedown Notices

09/10 Microsoft’s Many Waves of Mass Layoffs Have Caused Major Downtimes, Very Slow Recovery



09/10 Links 10/09/2023: Mostly World News, Some GNU/Linux Catchup and HowTos

09/10 [Meme] Sirius ‘Open Source’, a Sick Company

09/10 Gemini Links 10/09/2023: Announcemenf of the Smol Earth Compendium

09/11 Gemini Links 11/09/2023: segfault.net, AuraGem Relaunch

09/11 Gemini Links 11/09/2023: Extreme Weather and Distributed Sites Over Git


09/11 History of How GNU Came About 40 Years Ago (and Key Events Leading Up to It)

09/11 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 10, 2023

09/11 Under the Linux Foundation, Which is Controlled by GNU/Linux-Hostile Companies, Linux.com is Just Linux Foundation Marketing Spew and Double-Postings (Dupes, Again, and No Actual Content)

09/11 [Meme] Cookie Monsta With Lobsta in the Dumpsta

09/11 [Meme] DrAxe and DrKnife: Utterly Deranged Minds of Gulagboy and Britney



09/11 Microsoft Layoffs Already Causing Massive and Very Long Downtimes (Over a Day Long!), ChatGPT Usage Has Fallen for at Least 3 Months in a Row, Microsoft Share in Devices Fell From 1.13% to Just 0.75% in 3 Months (Surface Duo Officially Dead Too)

09/11 New Video Wrongly Calls Richard Stallman a Professor at MIT (GNU Was Announced 40 Years Ago in September)

09/11 Gemini Links 11/09/2023: RICO Charges Against Protestors in Atlanta, NYC’s Airbnb Problem

09/11 Links 11/09/2023: Catchup With Important News, Including Privacy Matters

09/11 At ZDNet, SJVN Apparently Assigned to Cover Microsoft and Proprietary Stuff, Not Linux


09/11 When GNU/Linux Professionals Discover What Sirius ‘Open Source’ Has Really Become

09/11 Links 11/09/2023: Zenwalk Current 2023 and Kodi “Omega” Alpha 3

09/12 IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 11, 2023

09/12 Links 12/09/2023: KDE Plasma 5.27.8

09/12 GNU/Linux Market Share Has Doubled Since Last Summer, According to Survey (in Vietnam, 2 Out of 3 Clients Now Use Linux)



09/12 Gemini Links 12/09/2023: On Human Rights and One Year Without Windows

09/12 Leftover Links 12/09/2023: OSI Continues Attacking the OSI’s Mission and Open Source Definition on Microsoft’s Money

09/12 Links 12/09/2023: pgexporter 0.4 Released, Microsoft Covering Up Massive Breach

09/12 The Death of Comedy, Corporations Offer Jobs to Silence Critics and Shut Down Opposition, and “Power Tool Product Activation”

09/12 Vietnam’s and Other Nations’ Adoption of GNU/Linux in an Age of Rotting Financial Systems and Corporate Administrations


09/13 Leftover Links 13/09/2023: Digital Restrictions (DRM) in Cars and Browsers

09/13 HP Stream Laptops at Walmart and Reality of Microsoft Windows Bloat

09/13 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 12, 2023

09/13 Links 13/09/2023: More Google Layoffs and Istio 1.18.3

09/13 A Supposedly Privacy-Loving Mozilla Keeps Slurping Up ‘Talent’ From the Zuckerberg Espionage Hive (Propelled Directly Into Executive-Level Management)



09/13 Gemini Links 13/09/2023: Walmart Locks Wipes, Oracle Cloud Burns Users

09/13 Links 13/09/2023: Unifont 15.1.01 and Quality Assurance Tool for Guix

09/13 Gemini Links 13/09/2023: Zine Fest and Ageing

09/14 Apple Re-Releasing the Same Products Every Year

09/14 Judge in Google Case Doesn’t Know if Firefox is a Browser or Search Engine


09/14 Clown Computing is a Joke and Guess Who Has the Last Laugh

09/14 Gemini Links 14/09/2023: Distrohopping to Fedora Silverblue and When GemText Can Become Worse Than Plain Text

09/14 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 13, 2023

09/14 Links 14/09/2023: KDE Gear 23.08.1, pg_ivm 1.7, and EasyOS 5.5.1

09/14 Microsoft is Stacking a Closed Door Panel in Washington (Commissioned by a Microsoft-Sponsored Senator), Pushing Its Products Using Buzzwords and Getting More Bailouts From the US Government, i.e. From Taxpayers



09/14 Mozilla is GAFAM, Just Look at Who Runs the Company

09/14 Links 14/09/2023: Sparky 7.1 and Curl 8.3.0

09/14 The Web Browser We Lost (Not Just the Web We Lost)

09/14 Gemini Links 14/09/2023: Learning LaTeX and Using Slackware

09/14 Leftover Links 14/09/2023: Galina Timchenko Learns Why Not to Use Mobile Phones


09/15 [Meme] We’re Far From Done Writing About Free Software-Hostile Militants Who Attacked Techrights in IRC (and Beyond) for Years

09/15 Leftover Links 15/09/2023: More Harm by Windows and TikTok

09/15 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 14, 2023

09/15 Linux Foundation Newsletter for September 2023 is Out: Linux (Kernel) Hardly Even Mentioned, As Usual

09/15 ‘Linux’ Foundation: Made on Apple Mac With Proprietary Software (As Always)



09/15 IBM’s (Red Hat’s) LVFS in Action on Non-IBM Systems

09/15 Leftover Links 15/09/2023: Microsoft in Trouble Over Teams Video App (Antitrust)

09/15 Open Source Initiative to Help Microsoft Attack Copyright-based Copyleft (Under the False Guise of ‘Hey Hi’)

09/15 Links 15/09/2023: PostgreSQL 16 Released and Krita 5.2 Release Candidate

09/15 Removing Mozilla’s Firefox and Installing LibreWolf and/or Brave, Instead


09/15 Links 15/09/2023: RIP, Abraham Raji (Debian)

09/15 Gemini Links 15/09/2023: More Terminal Emulator Hipsters

09/15 Gemini Links 15/09/2023: Unity Uproar and Upcoming Gemini Projects

09/16 [Meme] Axe or Boomerang?

09/16 statCounter: GNU/Linux Rockets Towards 5% in China While Windows Falls to 75% (More Than 10% Decline So Far This year)



09/16 Gemini Links 16/09/2023: Practicing Counting in Chinese and Hashnix Radio

09/16 Links 16/09/2023: IBM and Canonical Pushing Wayland

09/16 IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 15, 2023

09/16 Links 16/09/2023: This Week in KDE and GNOME

09/16 Links 16/09/2023: Libadwaita 1.4 and Wine 8.16


09/16 Fedora 40 Removing Version of WebkitGTK That Many Applications Need and Commentary on HTTP/2 and 3

09/16 Linus Torvalds Explains the GNU GPL to Charlie Rose

09/16 Messing With ZRAM Again Because IBM Software is Barely Possible to Document and Changes if You Do

2023-09-17 Alex Oliva (FSF) on Major Injustice to Richard Stallman

2023-09-17 Links 17/09/2023: The Rehearsal and AuraGem Music Bugfix



2023-09-17 Copyright Plagiarism of XScreenSaver by IBM/Red Hat Employee. A Code Thief Assigns IBM Software Patents.

2023-09-17 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser Isn’t Private

2023-09-17 IBM’s Fedora 40 Dropping X11 as an Option for KDE Users, in Effect Forcing Those Users to Adopt a Broken Wayland

2023-09-17 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, September 16, 2023

2023-09-17 Links 17/09/2023: Kraft 1.1 Released, Nextcloud Taking on Microsoft


2023-09-17 [Meme] Attacking Your Colleagues and Calling Them ‘Rape Apologists’ (They’re Not) Gives You ‘Sadness’ and an ‘Emotional Rollercoaster’

2023-09-17 Operation Mole — Part IX — Hobby or Personal Gain Foreseen (Reward for Attacking Free Software)?

2023-09-17 Another Record Month and an Outlook (Positive Future, Promising Topics to Explore)

2023-09-17 Reddit and the ‘Modern’ Web Are Spying and Profiling (Plus Censorship) Engines

2023-09-17 Leftover Links 17/09/2023: Strikes Persist



2023-09-17 Gemini Links 17/09/2023: PineTime Six Months Later and Sympathy for the Copyright Devil

2023-09-17 Google Tricking Users Into Downloading WebP Images While WebP Format is Legally Hazardous and Also a Hazard for Computer Security

2023-09-18 Links 18/09/2023: Linux 6.6 RC2 and 7 New Distro Releases

2023-09-18 Leftover Links 18/09/2023: A Week’s Catchup, Climate Focus

2023-09-18 Rianne Schestowitz: Dissecting the Minds of the Mobsters


2023-09-18 IBM’s LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service) is a Malicious Remote Backdoor and You Should Turn It Off Now

2023-09-18 Gemini Links 18/09/2023: Systemd Rants and Flatpak integration in Qubes OS

2023-09-18 GNU/Linux Versus Windows Around the World (Sept. 2023)

2023-09-18 Links 18/09/2023: GNUHealth Hospital Management 4.2.2 and Celluloid Video Player 0.26 Released

2023-09-18 10 Years Ago, When GNU Had Almost Turned 30, Richard Stallman Gave This Internet Hall of Fame Induction Speech



2023-09-18 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 17, 2023

2023-09-18 [Meme] Hatchet Job Gone Wrong

2023-09-18 Ring Doorbells Don’t Solve Crime. They Are a Felony to Use.

2023-09-18 Turning WebP Off in SeaMonkey and LibreWolf

2023-09-18 You Know the World Wide Web is Tied to a Particular Web Browser When…


2023-09-18 XWayland Rootfull: For When the Mountain Won’t Come to Muhammad


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