Techrights1m
UAE: GNU/Linux and Android at Record Levels, Windows at New Lows and Falling Below Apple
Windows has been falling to laughable levels in dozens of countries. In almost 40 countries Windows is now measured somewhere below 10%. Now consider United Arab Emirates (UAE). We wrote about it 3 ...
Techrights11m
Windows Has Fallen to All-Time Lows in Switzerland Since GNU Celebrated 40th Anniversary (GNU’s 40th Birthday in Biel, Switzerland)
We've only just noticed that Windows sank to new lows in Switzerland, based on statCounter: It has been heading down for ...
Opinion
Techrights11hOpinion
One Person's Take on Jef Spaleta, the New Fedora Project Leader
One Person's Take on Jef Spaleta, the New Fedora Project Leader. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 06, 2025, updated Apr 06, 2025. Some days ago IBM announced that another man had ...
Techrights12h
LLM Slop Has Virtually Killed unixmen.com and Many Other Sites
A couple of months ago we complained that unixmen.com had become a slopfarm and weeks later it pretty much died (as we had expected). unixmen.com just followed the typical lifecycle and today we can ...
Techrights21hOpinion
Taking a Moral Stand Against Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) and the Worst Offenders/Facilitators
For context, this firm emerged as a specialising in censoring publishers. Nowadays it loses a lot of staff (maybe a quarter ...
Techrights1d
In Qatar GNU/Linux Rose From Under 1% to Over 4% in Two Years (or Over 5% If Counting ChromeOS)
And Bing fell sharply to 2%. There are many countries around the world ( yesterday we mentioned Japan) where GNU/Linux took off in a big way in recent years. One of those countries is Qatar. Judging ...
Techrights1d
LLM Scrapers Are a Nuisance, But They're Also a Reminder It's Time to Make Your Site Static
One preventive measure then is changing the architecture of one's site or other services. Make them more robust to surges; ...
Techrights1d
France: Apple and Microsoft Down, GNU/Linux Up to New Record Levels
France and Germany are the latest economies in the EU and the GNU/Linux trends there have been encouraging this past year [ 1, 2 ]. We've only just noticed that this month in France GNU/Linux is ...
Techrights1d
Open Source Initiative (OSI) Privacy Fiasco in Detail: What Was Reported to the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA)
A month ago the the Open Source Initiative (OSI) was reported to the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA). Now would be an OK time to examine the complaint and its nature, without focusing on ...
Opinion
Techrights1dOpinion
The State of EPO Staff's Health in Rijswijk or The Hague
The Local Staff Committee The Hague (LSCTH) has disseminated a new publication about wellbeing of the European Patent Office's (EPO) staff under the autocrat António Campinos, who compels the staff to ...
Techrights1dOpinion
Techrights Will Spend the Next Few Years Writing a Lot About Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs)
There's already ample documentation of similar cases, including some information from two months ago (regulators failing to ...
Opinion
Techrights1dOpinion
NVIDIA Corp Lost 36% of Its "Value" Since Cheeto Inauguration, But "Gen Hey Hi" (GenAI) is Totally Not a Bubble
NVIDIA Corp was riding a wave of mindless hype and was thus willing to invest in the hype, delaying rather than preventing the inevitable. All those GPUs that "flooded the market" will soon lose a lot ...