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Garrett is Calling Everything He Doesn’t Like “Nazi” (or Similar)

Unless it’s humour, which is how he excuses this (and at the same time endorsing violence).

Earlier this month: Calling People “Nazis”

In the feeble mind of Garrett, everything that he does not agree with is instantaneously labeled something truly awful. He seems to not understand that when he does so he may be defaming people, in effect associating them with banned expressions/activities. Some of them respond to that today:

Nvidia developer, Matthew Garrett, suggesting that some *unnamed* Linux distribution, which has recently taken in millions, is associated with “White Supremacy”.

Their opinion, not mine.

Despite being facetious and tongue-in-cheek (and rude by default), he makes it sound like 1) he needs a million bucks and 2) he’s looking for a job now.

Matthew J Garrett Put secure-boot and shim in Linux and It’s Breaking Systems Again

Crossposted from Techrights

Fake security is already breaking systems running GNU/Linux

Ubuntu secure boot

More complexity means more problems. Newer code means more bugs (e.g. Rust rewrites).

Fake security means catastrophe for no actual gain/s.

As noted by several sites [1, 2], linking to a bug report, kneeling to Microsoft came at a high cost:

enhanced-secure-boot

TPM? Who asked for TPM in Linux? GAFAM? But who am I to even mention the principal culprits? I have degrees in computing, not in genetics.

Linus Torvalds Again Complains That LLM Slop (That Nobody Audits) Overwhelms the Linux Kernel

Pig Sitting Down

I could not help but notice the wordings of Torvalds, as uttered in writing this past Sunday. This is not the first time he expresses (apprehensively, his boss is the Linux Foundation, bribed by the slop industry) concerns about Linux slipping out of developers’ control only to become a bloated pig that few people understand.

Linux is becoming orphaned, devalued and diluted by GAFAM slop.

I am a Linux advocate, not slop advocate.

statCounter Confused?

This makes no sense.

Desktop Operating System Market Share Worldwide

Great! So statCounter altered what it is measuring and thus, overnight, it puts Windows like 10-15% higher than days ago. Maybe it’s time to rely on Clownflare’s data more. At least it’s more consistent over time.

Or maybe… wait a few more days for statCounter to sort out the data and make things more consistent.

statCounter Figures Today

Coming out shortly.

Today the new statistics from statCounter should come out. Maybe hours from now. I am very interested in them. I am eager to see if there’s an upward trend in GNU/Linux usage as seen by the data they collect.

We’re going through an important transitionary period.

Trying linux.org IRC Network

irc.linux.org

Growth of IRC space was noted earlier today in Techrights and I’ve joined the IRC network of linux.org.

Unlike the site linux.com, this one has nothing to do with the Linux Foundation and years ago in IRC I spoke to the person who ran linux.org.

The address for the network is irc.linux.org with default port numbers.

September Data and GNU/Linux

“Summer of the Linux desktop”

Growth of GNU/Linux has accelerated this summer and tomorrow at around 10AM statCounter will produce more evidence of that.

I plan to stay home around that time to check the latest data. I also to examine trends in Cloudflare Rader.

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