Techrights — Change Control and What Will Come After Git (If …
WEB22 hours ago · Wall Street is a perverse force in the technology market, incentivising the most harmful (and mostly useless) things. Change Control and What Will Come After Git (If That's Still Possible at All) It would be wrong to believe (at least misguided) Git can be a "standard" skill 30 or 50 years from now. On the Web, HTTPS Has Actually Become a ...
Techrights — Welcome to the New Techrights
WEBWelcome to Techrights. Welcome to the current iteration of Techrights, online since 2006 with a major infrastructural upgrade in late 2022.Here you will find our latest posts. In addition to HTTP/HTTPS here, Techrights is also available via Gemini and IPFS editions, though the IPFS service is on hiatus for the foreseeable future. Just the other year, Techrights upgraded from a heavy content ...
Almost Half the Web Users Connecting to Your Site Are Using Linux
WEB22 hours ago · Almost Half the Web Users Connecting to Your Site Are Using Linux. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 07, 2024. As noted yesterday, GNU/Linux had reached another new record this month.When measured in the context of all form factors (sans servers or supercomputers), almost 1 in 2 Web-connected devices runs Android and about 2% run "proper" GNU/Linux (all-time high of 1.7%).
Techrights — On the Web, HTTPS Has Actually Become a Privacy …
WEB22 hours ago · THE Linux Foundation's Certificate Authority continues its rapid decline in Geminispace. It's one heck of a fall. To quote Lupa today: "This page presents some statistics on the current state of the Gemini space. It has been updated on 2024-10-07 03:04:00Z. [...] 2587 (89.7 %) capsules are self ...
Techrights — One Step Closer to the End of Microsoft's XBox
WEB3 days ago · One Step Closer to the End of Microsoft's XBox. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 04, 2024. XBox has long been in trouble, but this time it seems fatal. XBox sales are down over 50% in the past year. That's according to Microsoft, so maybe the real (complete) numbers are even worse than this. Now …
Techrights — Plans for the Site's 19th Year
WEB5 days ago · Plans for the Site's 19th Year. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 02, 2024. A single month from now begins our 19 th year as a site and next summer will be the start of our 18 th year as an IRC community, which continues to expand.Back in 2014 we focused a lot of our efforts, resources etc. on covering EPO scandals.
Asking Ourselves What Topics to Strategically Focus on
WEBFrom 9 to 5 to 996 and 24/7 In terms of labour rights, the West has moonwalked back to Medieval standards Chatting to People Without Possessing a 'Smart' Phone
Terms of Service (TOS) Under Scrutiny - Part IV - Techrights
WEBAug 26, 2024 · YESTERDAY we published Part III - Terms-of-service Labeling, Design, and Readability Act. There will be a lot more about that later (real-world examples). Because first we move on to "Consumer Review Fairness Act", which was recently explained in a presentation (very recently!), as follows ...
The War on Free Software Reporters - Part I - Techrights
WEBMay 31, 2024 · The War on Free Software Reporters - Part I - Why Techrights Cannot be Censored (and Won't be Censored) posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 31, 2024,
Techrights — Focus on the Concepts, Not the Brands
WEBOct 31, 2023 · Society needs to move towards transparency, sharing, collaboration and cooperation, not monopolisation, consolidation of power, and price-fixing cartels (mostly "validated" by patents). Remember not to focus too much on the brands. If we keep focusing on brands, then people will just "hop" from one …