How does it perform financially? Good luck finding out. In early 2023 a lot of Bing staff got laid off (this was criminally under-reported) and Microsoft just deemed it "hey hi", i.e. part of the ...

In Geminispace the management of certificates is not centralised ( unlike the Web). This site (capsule) and its sister site (capsule) are serving about 90,000 Gemini pages per day. The 'Gemini sites' ...

Lina Khan Knows Whatever Microsoft Touches Will Die. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 04, 2025. Just like Skype (as recently as m ...

People hated reading books, too, that was for eggheads and nerds. So boring. And even watching TV was boring. Even after they made 500 channels the meme was “500 channels and nothing good on”. So ...

Today the FSF turns 40 and here are 10 things one can do to help us all combat software patents: Write a program that helps bypass some software patent, i.e. a patent on algorithm, then release it as ...

We've not linked much/often to statCounter lately; its data is "all over the place", so it's no longer clear what it is showing and what one is meant to deduce. Since the majority of Web traffic is ...

The FSF marks its fortieth birthday today and over at Boston the time has come (morning time). There are quips and there are micro-updates. Their list of 40 links begins with software patents: ...

This is a little too cryptic to keep abreast of, but it seems like proprietary software delivered by repositories that ought not be trusted (some are controlled by Microsoft and the NSA) did something ...

Slopwatch: Fake Articles About LibreOffice in Austria and Wine 10.16. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 04, 2025. Today's Slopwatch is very short because we simply didn't find much ...

Poul Henning Kamp (better known to many by his initials, phk) is a Danish UNIX pro, whose experience in the domain predates modern "Linux" and is more BSD-centric. However, phk very frequently talks ...

Red Hat used to present itself as working for a community. It ran sites to that effect. As an integral part of IBM, Red Hat works for the likes of Microsoft. This has become increasingly visible. Red ...

The FSF has a new president and 9 Board members. Last year it had only 6. The FSF is run by credible people and as far as we ...