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Microsoft in Africa: From 98% to Less Than 10% in Just 16 Years
In South Africa Apple's iOS is now "bigger" than Windows and Android (Linux) commands about two-thirds of "the market": ...
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Almost as If MElon Reads Techrights
When Web sites process tens of millions of requests per month it's no longer possible to know who reads them (with small blogs it's possible to identity some friends, family etc.) and so when they ...
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Soylent News Lessens the Scope of Discussion Due to Persistent Trolling and Online Abuse
Sites like Soylent News generally exist for a dialogue, they do not produce a lot of original stories. So if they make it a ...
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BetaNews is Still Publishing LLM Slop/SPAM About "Linux"
Roy Schestowitz on Feb 11, 2025, updated Feb 11, 2025. Bots (LLMs) do not "write articles". They spew out words ...
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IBM Layoff Rumours, Large-Scale Implementations Weeks Ahead (in March 2025)
Hours ago: "Heard from a few ppl in CIO to relocate or take a 3 month package. And so the wheels keep spinning on RTO! Ugh!" ...
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When the Livestream of Richard Stallman is Apparently Bury-Brigaded Offline You Finally Learn to Avoid Google/YouTube for Streaming
Please, people, stop uploading to Google/YouTube. It is not free hosting. It's a liability and a risk to the uploaders. Alphabet, which serves the MElon junta, becomes one's boss and master. It ...
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If Matthias Kirschner Loves Free Software, He'll Change the Name of the Microsoft-Sponsored Organisation He Governs (in Order to Avoid Confusion)
LESS than a month ago Dr. Stallman, who had founded Free software, said in France ( full talk) that there was still a conflict or disagreement between the so-called 'FSFE' (we call it FSF-EEE ...
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New Paper From the EPO Highlights Large-Scale Discrimination at the Office, Where People Are Rewarded for Granting More and More Illegal Patents
"No good deed goes unpunished" at the EPO. The European Patent Organisation (and European Patent Office) is basically operating in vacuum and disguises law-breaking with some chaff about diversity and ...
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The Standard Needs to Improve Its Standards for Fact-Checking, Aaron Swartz Had Nothing to Do With Reddit and He Detested the Company That Created It
We've already said it many times before: Reddit and the malicious company (Conde Nast) that controls it (and works for Microsoft) lie about Swartz, trying to posthumously squeeze his corpse for some ...
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Scheduled Maintenance Tomorrow and on Valentines
It has been nearly 3 months since the last server reboot and quite a few months since the latest persistent network outage, so IRC has had no interruption (downtimes impact IRC more/worse than any ...
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"Latest Technology News" in BetaNews is LLM Slop Promoting OOXML and Proprietary Software at the Expense of LibreOffice and OpenDocument Format (ODF)
From what we can gather, based on online tools, some articles about ONLYOFFICE 8.3 seem to be getting the 'BetaNews treatment', which is aping using LLM slop: This is also "Latest Technology News", ...
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Windows Down to 11.35% in Senegal, as Measured by statCounter
LAST year we saw Windows falling to new lows in Senegal, as measured by one surveyor. Well, the same one now sees it even lower (at 11.35%). Is Linus Torvalds free to express his mind as he wishes ...