TechBytes Episode 89: Chromebooks, Privacy, and Vista 10

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2015-09-03 08:35:06 UTC
Modified: 2015-09-03 08:40:46 UTC

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Summary: An episode which focuses on the rise of Chromebooks, serious issues pertaining to privacy, media bias, and the demise of Windows

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The FSF Ought to Protest Against UEFI 'Secure Boot' (Like It Used To): libreplanet-discuss stuff
GNU/Linux Reaches 6.5% in Canada (Including ChromeOS), Based on statCounter: Not many news sites are left to cover this, let alone advocate for GNU/Linux
The Only Thing the So-called 'Hey Hi Revolution' Gave Microsoft is More Debt: Microsoft bailouts
FUD Alert: 2024 is Not 2011 and Ebury is Not "Linux": We've seen Microsofers (actual Microsoft employees) putting in a lot of effort to shift the heat to Linux
Liberty in Liberia? Windows Falls Below 10% and Below iOS: This is clearly a problem for Microsoft
Techrights Congratulates Raspberry Pi (With Caution and Reservations): Raspberry Pi will "make or break" based on the decisions made in its boardroom
OSI Makes a Killing for Bill Gates and Microsoft (Plagiarism and GPL Violations Whitewashed and Openwashed): meme and more
People Who Defend Richard Stallman's Right to Deliver Talks About His Work Are Subjected to Online Abuse and Censorship: Stallman video removed
GNU/Linux Grows in Denmark, But Much of That is ChromeOS, Which Means No Freedom: Google never designs operating systems with freedom in mind
Links 16/05/2024: Vehicles Lasting Fewer Years, Habitat Fragmentation Concerns: Links for the day
Links 16/05/2024: Orangutans as Political Props, VMware Calls Proprietary 'Free': Links for the day
TechTarget (and Computer Weekly et al): We Target 'Audiences' to Sell Your Products (Using Fake Articles and Surveillance): It is a deeply rogue industry that's killing legitimate journalism by drowning out the signal (real journalism) with sponsored fodder
Links 15/05/2024: XBox Trouble, Slovakia PM Shot 5 Times: Links for the day
Windows in Times of Conflict: In pictures
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, May 15, 2024: IRC logs for Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Gemini Links 15/05/2024: 50 Years of Text Games: Links for the day
Ebury is Not "Linux", That's Just the Media Shifting Attention (Microsoft in the Hot Seat for Total Breach Right Now): Seems like it may be a Trojan
Links 15/05/2024: Growing Tensions Between East and West, Anticlimax in Chatbot Space: Links for the day
[Video] 'Late Stage Capitalism': Microsoft as an Elaborate Ponzi Scheme (Faking 'Demand' While Portraying the Fraud as an Act of Generosity and Demanding Bailouts): Being able to express or explain the facts isn't easy because of the buzzwords
Richard Stallman Talk 'Delayed': "Repousé à une date ultérieur. Du au congé, il n'était pas possible de l'organiser bien dans le temps disponible."
Links 15/05/2024: Toll on Climate Change, Physical Assaults on Politicians: Links for the day
[Meme] Free Society Requires Free Press: The Assange decision is now less than a week away (after several delays and demand for shallow 'assurances')
CyberShow Goes "Live": The CyberShow has a similar worldview (on technology and ethics) to ours
Latest Status of Site Archives (Static Pages): article listings are reaching a near-final form
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 14, 2024: IRC logs for Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
Today's Talk by Richard Stallman Going Ahead as Planned: That talk will be in French
At This Pace (and Rate) It Won't Take Long for Android to Unseat Windows in Russia: Operating System Market Share Russian Federation
[Video] The High Cost of High-Level Tools and High-Level Programming Languages: Windows and Microsoft-style teaching remain a barrier to simple programming
Linux and Linux Foundation Leftovers: Some more Linux news
Africa is Still Android: Operating System Market Share Africa: May 2024
Windows Falls to 10% in Uganda, It Was 94% in 2010: Microsoft fell from market dominance to (soon) single digit (percent-wise).
Grouping Our Archives by Week: No more 'numbers lottery', the clustering is based on dates
[Video] LinuxFest Northwest is Letting GAFAM Take Over (and Why It's Hard to Resist): Microsoft and LinuxFest Northwest
Links 14/05/2024: Bounties on Terrible Patents, China Censors Dissidents Internationally via Attack Dogs: Links for the day
Gemini Links 14/05/2024: Server Failure Swallows rawtext.club: Links for the day
Links 14/05/2024: SoftBank and ARM Chasing Hype, "Why Are You Working?": Links for the day
Links 14/05/2024: Microsoft Edelman Works for Climate Change Deniers, NATO Draws a Cyber Red Line in Tensions With Russia: Links for the day
Feasibility of Self-Hosting is About More Than Speeds: Speed helps, but the Internet (Net) is a global, interconnected system that no single person or company or government fully controls
EPO: Language of Conflict: A letter about this has already been sent
IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 13, 2024: IRC logs for Monday, May 13, 2024
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
Watching Our Videos Before We Write Articles for Them: It has long been possible
Microsoft is Measured at Lower Than Apple in Niger (Of Course Android Dominates): Niger's OS share (as measured by Web sites) is subjected to significant fluctuations because it's not highly connected
Refuting the Ludicrous, Laughable Idea I Don't (or Cannot) Code: I've written code for 30 years
[Meme] "Talk is Cheap. Show Me the Code." - Linus Torvalds: be like Chad
Windows in Chad: Going Extinct: From 100% to 1%?
Doing the Site From Home (What I Always Wanted to Do): Even some of the hosting was done from home (since 2020)

TechBytes Episode 89: Chromebooks, Privacy, and Vista 10

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