09.18.09
Gemini version available ♊︎Software Freedom Day 2009 Starts Now in Asia
Summary: Software Freedom Day teaser from Japan
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The World Wide Web is a Cesspit of Misinformation. Let's Do Something About It.
It would be nice to make the Web a safer space for information and accuracy (actual facts) rather than a “Safe Space” for oversensitive companies and powerful people who cannot tolerate criticism; The Web needs to become more like today's Gemini, free of corporate influence and all other forms of covert nuisance
Ryan Farmer: I’m Back After WordPress.com Deleted My Blog Over the Weekend
Reprinted with permission from Ryan
Civil Liberties Threatened Online and Offline
A “society of sheeple” (a term used by Richard Stallman last week in his speech) is being “herded” online and offline; the video covers examples both online and offline, the latter being absence of ATMs or lack of properly-functioning ATMs (a growing problem lately, at least where I live)
Techrights Develops Free Software to Separate the Wheat From the Chaff
In order to separate the wheat from the chaff we’ve been working on simple, modular tools that process news and help curate the Web, basically removing the noise to squeeze out the signal
Links 26/03/2023: MidnightBSD 3.0 and FreeBSD 13.2 RC4
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IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 25, 2023
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Links 26/03/2023: More TikTok Bans
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Links 25/03/2023: Gordon Moore (of Moore's Law) is Dead
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Links 25/03/2023: Decade of Docker, Azure Broken Again
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[Meme] Money Deducted in Payslips, But Nothing in Pensions
Sirius ‘Open Source’ has stolen money from staff (in secret)
IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 24, 2023
IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 24, 2023
The Corporate Media is Not Reporting Large-Scale Microsoft Layoffs (Too Busy With Chaffbot Puff Pieces), Leaks Required to Prove That More Layoffs Are Happening
Just as we noted days ago, there are yet more Microsoft layoffs, but the mainstream media gets bribed to go “gaga” over vapourware and chaffbots (making chaff like “Bill Gates Says” pieces) instead of reporting actual news about Microsoft
Sirius 'Open Source' Pensiongate: Time to Issue a Warrant of Arrest and Extradite the Fake 'Founder' of Sirius
Sirius ‘Open Source’ is collapsing, but that does not mean that it can dodge accountability for crimes (e.g. money that it silently stole from its staff since at least 12 years ago)
Links 24/03/2023: Microsoft's Fall on the Web and Many New Videos
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IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 23, 2023
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Links 24/03/2023: Social Control Media Bans Advancing
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Links 24/03/2023: GNU Grep 3.10 and Microsoft Accenture in a Freefall
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Links 23/03/2023: RSS Guard 4.3.3 and OpenBSD Webzine
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Experiencing 15 Years of LibrePlanet Celebration Firsthand as a Volunteer: 2023 - Charting the Course
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[Meme] Grabinski the Opportunity
Reports of European Patents being invalidated (judges do not tolerate fake patents) have become so common that a kangaroo court becomes a matter of urgency for the EPO‘s Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos; will the EU and the EPO’s Administrative Council go along with it, helping to cover up more than a decade of profound corruption?
Union Syndicale Fédérale Cautions the EPO's Administrative Council About Initiating an Illegal Kangaroo Court System for Patents (UPC) While EPO Breaks Laws and Sponsors the Ukraine Invasion
Union Syndicale Fédérale (USF) is once again speaking out in support of the staff union of Europe's second-largest institution, which lacks oversight and governance because of profound corruption and regulatory capture
Investigation Underway: Sirius 'Open Source' Embezzled/Stole Money, Robbed Its Own Staff
In light of new developments and some progress in an investigation of Sirius ‘Open Source’ (for fraud!) we take stock of where things stand
[Meme] Sirius 'Open Source' Pensions: Schemes or Scams? Giving a Bad Name to Open Source...
What Sirius ‘Open Source’ did to its staff is rightly treated as a criminal matter; we know who the perpetrators are
Sirius 'Open Source' Under Investigation for Pension Fraud, Several Pension Providers Examine the Facts
2 pension providers are looking into Sirius ‘Open Source’, a company that defrauded its own staff; stay tuned as there’s lots more to come. Is this good representation for “Open Source”? From a company that had many high-profile clients in the public sector?
Links 23/03/2023: Sparky 2023.03 Special Editions and SUSE Changes CEO (Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen)
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Links 23/03/2023: Linux 6.2.8 and XWayland 23.1.0
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IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, March 22, 2023
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Apple 'Porn' Filter
Guest post by Ryan Farmer: Apple and US State Governments Developing System to Require People to Report Themselves for Watching Porn.
3.5 Years Later Gemini Protocol and Geminispace Are Still 100% Community-Controlled
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Windows Falls to 16% Market Share in India (It was 97% in 2009), Microsoft Layoffs Reach India Too
This month’s picture from the world’s most populous nation does not look good for Microsoft (it looks good for GNU/Linux); anonymous rumour mills online say that Microsoft isn’t moving to India but is actually firing staff based in India, so it’s a case of shrinking, not offshoring. When even low-paid (much lower salaries) staff is discarded it means things are very gloomy.
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