The Debian Social Contract says "We won't hide problems" but it turns out the social contract is not honoured. What we have ...

Counter Shows "WIntel" Chasing a Dying Market. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 05, 2025. Fewer than 20% of Web-connected devices in Africa are still desktops/laptops: Microso ...

LLM slop is a parasite. It lessens the incentive for people to do any real journalism or for companies to pay people to do so. Some former news sites have become slopfarms, but they aren't telling ...

A lot of people wrongly assume that because some people got very rich inside Microsoft, thae that means Microsoft itself is a big pile of cash. It's not. It's a pile of debt; speculative models try to ...

Last year we momentarily saw it at 16% and 18%. Now it's about 17%: Looking at browser statistics in Ireland (statCounter is Irish), Microsoft is in trouble: When/if Windows market share goes down, so ...

Microsoft pays publishers to spread the illusion that the only viable option for developers and non-developers is "drugs" like Visual Studio and Microsoft Office, respectively Including attempts to ...

Beware false headlines and fake text from cybersecuritynews.com and gbhackers.com. Those sites with their false headlines are being spread around by Google News. They often spread anti-Linux messages, ...

Alright, so the good news is that BetaNews is at last, belatedly perhaps, recognising that LLM slop is risky to its reputation and hence its ability to attract real writers and advertisers. So it ...

The Mozilla Thunderbird 135 open-source email, calendar, news, chat, and contactbook client was released today alongside the ...

Dr. Stallman will be speaking in Europe next week. Yesterday he spoke at NITK Surathkal (Surathkal, India). Someone who goes by the name "cruxbruh" uploaded some photos from the talk only 5 hours ago.

For Japan to adopt "free software" would mean better defenses against enemies across the sea. For instance, there are lots of reports of Russian, Chinese, and North Korean advanced persistent threats ...

"Microsoft, the world’s most valuable company, declared a profit of $4.5 billion in 1998; when the cost of options awarded ...