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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 29, 2023

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[Video] The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Needs More Guts, More Public Statements in Support of Its Core Tenets

=> ↺ [Video] The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Needs More Guts, More Public Statements in Support of Its Core Tenets

transition back into something more 'gutsy'

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10 Years Ago (2013-10-31) We Said We'd Leave WordPress and We Finally Did It (After a Decade with LTS Versions, Whose Support Ended Months Ago)

=> ↺ 10 Years Ago (2013-10-31) We Said We'd Leave WordPress and We Finally Did It (After a Decade with LTS Versions, Whose Support Ended Months Ago)

Looking back, we are very gratified about the move

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Our Second Month in Our Virtual Private Server

=> ↺ Our Second Month in Our Virtual Private Server

We're fully aware that the news is "slowing down"

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Microsoft Has Lost in Palestine

=> ↺ Microsoft Has Lost in Palestine

This firm relies on data that is derived from counting Web users

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[Meme] Coming Up Next: How Free Software-Hostile Militants Are Fabricating Stories About Free Software Campaigners, Using Fictional Characters and Made Up Allegations

=> ↺ [Meme] Coming Up Next: How Free Software-Hostile Militants Are Fabricating Stories About Free Software Campaigners, Using Fictional Characters and Made Up Allegations

Coming soon...

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Further Interesting Developments in the Story of the Serial Strangler, Alex Graveley, Who Made the Microsoft GPL Violation (and Plagiarism) Machine, GitHub Copilot

=> ↺ Further Interesting Developments in the Story of the Serial Strangler, Alex Graveley, Who Made the Microsoft GPL Violation (and Plagiarism) Machine, GitHub Copilot

Will he and Friedman ever be held accountable for what they did? $9 billion in damages is quite a lot.

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Microsoft Adding Bugs to Chrome, Calling It 'Edge'

=> ↺ Microsoft Adding Bugs to Chrome, Calling It 'Edge'

Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer

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The Latest Web Server Survey From Netcraft Shows Microsoft's Continued Demise

=> ↺ The Latest Web Server Survey From Netcraft Shows Microsoft's Continued Demise

Apache "gained 19.6 million sites (+8.51%)" and nginx "gained 49,104 web-facing computers (+1.01%)."

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Google and Mozilla Are Herding Web Users Like a Bunch of Sheep to be 'Monetised'

=> ↺ Google and Mozilla Are Herding Web Users Like a Bunch of Sheep to be 'Monetised'

The Web isn't open anymore. It hasn't been for years.

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Dima Krasner's Guppy Protocol Specification Has an Implementation in Python Now

=> ↺ Dima Krasner's Guppy Protocol Specification Has an Implementation in Python Now

However rudimentary, protocols' prototypes count too

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They Always Justify Monopoly and Monoculture Using 'Security' (Because "Anything But Us is Unsafe!")

=> ↺ They Always Justify Monopoly and Monoculture Using 'Security' (Because "Anything But Us is Unsafe!")

This has nothing to do with security. It is about domination.

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Links 29/10/2023: Long COVID, Matthew Perry Dies

=> ↺ Links 29/10/2023: Long COVID, Matthew Perry Dies

Links for the day

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Links 28/10/2023: Microsoft Down Further in Web Servers

=> ↺ Links 28/10/2023: Microsoft Down Further in Web Servers

Links for the day

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'Public' Surveys and 'Independent' Polls, Brought to You by Jeffrey Esptein's Close Ally Bill Gates

=> ↺ 'Public' Surveys and 'Independent' Polls, Brought to You by Jeffrey Esptein's Close Ally Bill Gates

Don't worry, it's still totally objective!

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Rejecting Terms Designed to Confuse and Bias People's Perception

=> ↺ Rejecting Terms Designed to Confuse and Bias People's Perception

the term "cloud computing" or "the cloud" ought not even be mentioned

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IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 28, 2023

=> ↺ IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 28, 2023

IRC logs for Saturday, October 28, 2023

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[Video] Recent Addition of New Videos and Plans to Cover Site News Only About Once a Week

=> ↺ [Video] Recent Addition of New Videos and Plans to Cover Site News Only About Once a Week

Our anniversary is now just over a week away

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Links 28/10/2023: Guppy Protocol Specification v0.3.2, Creative Commons Besieged

=> ↺ Links 28/10/2023: Guppy Protocol Specification v0.3.2, Creative Commons Besieged

Links for the day

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For Better or For Worse, Richard Stallman Does Not View Growing Software Complexity as an Impediment to Freedom

=> ↺ For Better or For Worse, Richard Stallman Does Not View Growing Software Complexity as an Impediment to Freedom

When it comes to highly complex software like a "modern" (proprietary-leaning) Web browser or systemd, Dr. Stallman does not view the problem as new or particularly troublesome

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[Video] Richard Stallman (RMS) on Free Software in Singularity

=> ↺ [Video] Richard Stallman (RMS) on Free Software in Singularity

it is audio only

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Links 28/10/2023: Clown Computing, Brain on Zoom, Google's Bought Monopoly

=> ↺ Links 28/10/2023: Clown Computing, Brain on Zoom, Google's Bought Monopoly

Links for the day

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Microsoft Defrauding the Taxpayers, IRS Took Decades to Do Something About It

=> ↺ Microsoft Defrauding the Taxpayers, IRS Took Decades to Do Something About It

Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer

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Links 28/10/2023: Right to Repair Comments on Apple

=> ↺ Links 28/10/2023: Right to Repair Comments on Apple

Links for the day

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Over at Tux Machines...

=> ↺ Over at Tux Machines...

2 days' GNU/Linux news

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IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 27, 2023

=> ↺ IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 27, 2023

IRC logs for Friday, October 27, 2023

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Canonical Selling and Upselling Microsoft, Calling NSA Surveillance 'Confidential'

=> ↺ Canonical Selling and Upselling Microsoft, Calling NSA Surveillance 'Confidential'

Typical Mark Shuttleworth at it again, selling Microsoft for profit instead of competing with the company.

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[Video] Richard M. Stallman at Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis (HCPP) This Month

=> ↺ [Video] Richard M. Stallman at Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis (HCPP) This Month

RMS sounds very clear (some prior talks of his had unfortunate microphone/mask 'malfunctions') and his mind works immaculately

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