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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 09, 2024

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[Video] The World Would be Better Off After Social Control Media 'Addiction' and LLMs Hype

=> ↺ [Video] The World Would be Better Off After Social Control Media 'Addiction' and LLMs Hype

Can we just abandon that false notion that modernity (or novelty) implies greater good? It does not.

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[Meme] Some Uber-Propaganda Right There in Media That Takes Bribes From the Companies It 'Covers'

=> ↺ [Meme] Some Uber-Propaganda Right There in Media That Takes Bribes From the Companies It 'Covers'

Losing over 45 billion dollars and being deep in debt

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[Video] Openwashing of GAFAM and Large Language Models (LLMs) With OSI as a Key Culprit (Enabler, Collaborator, Facilitator)

=> ↺ [Video] Openwashing of GAFAM and Large Language Models (LLMs) With OSI as a Key Culprit (Enabler, Collaborator, Facilitator)

deeply corrupt OSI

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This August It Seems Like Vista 11's Share is Going Down While GNU/Linux is Up Sharply (at Its Expense)

=> ↺ This August It Seems Like Vista 11's Share is Going Down While GNU/Linux is Up Sharply (at Its Expense)

Are people deleting Vista 11 and replacing that with GNU/Linux?

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[Meme] The Infantilisation of IBM, Once a Computing Giant With Computer Science Veterans

=> ↺ [Meme] The Infantilisation of IBM, Once a Computing Giant With Computer Science Veterans

Gimmicks are not meant to work better

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Cops Scouring Social Control Media Looking for Who to Arrest

=> ↺ Cops Scouring Social Control Media Looking for Who to Arrest

This isn't just happening in the UK

New

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This Month All South American Nations Except Two Estimated to Have More Android Than Windows

=> ↺ This Month All South American Nations Except Two Estimated to Have More Android Than Windows

Operating System Market Share South America

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Links 08/08/2024: COVID-19 Revisionism and Automattic's Latest Spyware

=> ↺ Links 08/08/2024: COVID-19 Revisionism and Automattic's Latest Spyware

Links for the day

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Links 08/08/2024: Businesses and Man Pages

=> ↺ Links 08/08/2024: Businesses and Man Pages

Links for the day

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Attacking "Linux" Using Microsoft Chatbots (Guardian Digital, Inc as SEO Spamfarm of FUD)

=> ↺ Attacking "Linux" Using Microsoft Chatbots (Guardian Digital, Inc as SEO Spamfarm of FUD)

That explains a lot

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Using Chatbot to 'Write' Articles About Chatbots in a "Linux" Site (Brittany Day at linuxsecurity.com Again)

=> ↺ Using Chatbot to 'Write' Articles About Chatbots in a "Linux" Site (Brittany Day at linuxsecurity.com Again)

Calling out the slop again

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Links 08/08/2024: Stocks Still Falling, "Paranoia on Parade"

=> ↺ Links 08/08/2024: Stocks Still Falling, "Paranoia on Parade"

Links for the day

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Gemini Links 08/08/2024: Slack and Grace, Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria

=> ↺ Gemini Links 08/08/2024: Slack and Grace, Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria

Links for the day

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Looks Like GNU/Linux is Growing a Lot in Somalia This Year

=> ↺ Looks Like GNU/Linux is Growing a Lot in Somalia This Year

there is nobody "too stupid" (racist insult, too) to adopt GNU/Linux, unlike Windows

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Let's Encrypt (Outsourced Encryption) in Geminispace Has Collapsed to Just 2.5% of the Whole (It Used to be About 12%), Capsules Choose to Self-Sign Instead

=> ↺ Let's Encrypt (Outsourced Encryption) in Geminispace Has Collapsed to Just 2.5% of the Whole (It Used to be About 12%), Capsules Choose to Self-Sign Instead

Encryption in Gemini does not mandate outsourcing; more capsules "get" it and quit outsourcing the certificate management to the monopolists' and GPL violators' front group, Linux Foundation

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[Meme] When Social Control Media Giants Become Like Cross-national Governments That Police Everybody's Speech

=> ↺ [Meme] When Social Control Media Giants Become Like Cross-national Governments That Police Everybody's Speech

With "X", an Anglophobic Musk and the "Royal" family in Saudi Arabia exercise control over most British politicians (e.g. what they can and cannot say, whether they can go "viral" etc.)

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Microsoft's Ponzi Enabler OpenAI Perishes, Traffic Takes Another Significant Tumble (Again), Down About 78% in Just 3 Months!

=> ↺ Microsoft's Ponzi Enabler OpenAI Perishes, Traffic Takes Another Significant Tumble (Again), Down About 78% in Just 3 Months!

The bubble is bursting

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Months After Africa Became 100% Android Majority Asia is Almost the Same

=> ↺ Months After Africa Became 100% Android Majority Asia is Almost the Same

The main exceptions are Japan and Russia (more Windows than Android)

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Oman in 2024: GNU/Linux Growing From 1.4% to 3.54%, Windows Falling From 83% to 66%

=> ↺ Oman in 2024: GNU/Linux Growing From 1.4% to 3.54%, Windows Falling From 83% to 66%

In 2024 alone GNU/Linux has already gained more than 2%

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[Meme] No Program Source or Source Data... But Other Than That, It's "Open"

=> ↺ [Meme] No Program Source or Source Data... But Other Than That, It's "Open"

Open... for business

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[Meme] The Goals Changed Somewhere Along the Way

=> ↺ [Meme] The Goals Changed Somewhere Along the Way

Twitter as a weapon

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Disinformation Sites Would Not Stand a Chance Without Social Control Media, Which Fueled Them

=> ↺ Disinformation Sites Would Not Stand a Chance Without Social Control Media, Which Fueled Them

They're doing an "Arab spring" on a country they don't care for and try to undermine

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Links 08/08/2024: Spotify Shrinking and Nvidia Cheating

=> ↺ Links 08/08/2024: Spotify Shrinking and Nvidia Cheating

Links for the day

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[Video] Microsofters at IBM and Cultural Changes That Doom IBM's Future

=> ↺ [Video] Microsofters at IBM and Cultural Changes That Doom IBM's Future

Red Hat even hired many managers from Microsoft, sometimes despite them having no background in technology!

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Over at Tux Machines...

=> ↺ Over at Tux Machines...

GNU/Linux news for the past day

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IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 07, 2024

=> ↺ IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 07, 2024

IRC logs for Wednesday, August 07, 2024

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[Meme] UK Government Belatedly Recognises the Role Social Control Media Plays in Violent Unrest

=> ↺ [Meme] UK Government Belatedly Recognises the Role Social Control Media Plays in Violent Unrest

Video coming soon...

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statCounter Sees Over 4 Out of 5 Web Requests Coming From Android, About 1 in 30 Comes from Windows

=> ↺ statCounter Sees Over 4 Out of 5 Web Requests Coming From Android, About 1 in 30 Comes from Windows

Are Microsoft shareholders aware of trends like these?

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[Video] Debian With More Money: What Canonical, Under Microsoft and GAFAM Control, Has Turned Into

=> ↺ [Video] Debian With More Money: What Canonical, Under Microsoft and GAFAM Control, Has Turned Into

We decided to revisit the subject later this week, based on further input on the matter

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Gemini Links 08/08/2024: Comparisons on Intel CPUs and Comprehensive NNCP Guide

=> ↺ Gemini Links 08/08/2024: Comparisons on Intel CPUs and Comprehensive NNCP Guide

Links for the dayThe corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text. Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):Span from 2024-08-02 to 2024-08-082642 /n/2024/08/04/In_Europe_Even_Yandex_is_Closing_in_on_Microsoft.shtml 2372/about.shtml 1296/txt/index.shtml?q=user/register 946 /n/2024/08/05/Contrary_to_What_Shallow_News_Sites_Said_Canonical_s_Profits_an.shtml 869 /n/2024/08/04/The_Negative_Impact_of_DEI_on_Salaries_at_IBM_and_Fedora.shtml

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