A consortium of the major Internet companies — including Google, Twitter, and Facebook — held an emergency meeting on Monday afternoon to discuss the fate of Edward Johnson.
Johnson, the first “Arch-using, Vegan, Steam Deck owning, Rust programmer”, was facing a potential complete banning from the entire Internet.
Dill v. IBM -- one of multiple cases against IBM for racial discrimination and Woke DEl policies - is moving toward trial.
The IBM / Red Hat Leaks: What we've learned so far:
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5515346/the-ibm-red-hat-leaks-what-weve-learned-so-far
Founder says they are shutting down because, "Trump has focused on criminalizing immigrants and trans people," & the "fascist coup in the U.S."
Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators.
It's a fascinatingly annoying cycle. And there's only one viable way out of it.
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Those in power with openSUSE make it clear they will not allow me anywhere near anything related to the openSUSE project. Ever. For any reason.
Well, that settles that, then! Guess I won't be contributing to openSUSE! 🤣
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The following data was derived from the 2025 Tech Industry Demographic Survey, which included over 12,000 respondents -- from across companies and organizations throughout the Tech Industry -- surveyed during February of 2025.
Ready to have your mind blown?
According to those surveyed:
Those who took the survey were presented with 6 common (but debunked) computer history myths... and were asked to select the myths which they believed to be true and factual historical statements.
Here is the breakdown of how many believed in each myth.
One rather fascinating piece of data: Those percentages held steady for nearly every demographic group within the survey.
For example:
Roughly 12% of respondents who prefer Linux, believe macOS is based on Linux. The same was true of Windows users, C / C++ programmers, and those who perfer the Firefox Web Browser... no matter what sub-group was looked at... that number stayed roughly steady (around 12%).
The one outlier appeared when I looked at how many myths a person says they believe in... grouped by generic political leanings (Left, Centrist, or Right Leaning).
Notice that the percentage of respondents who "Believe at least one myth" or "Believes 4+ myths" stays roughly consistent (with only mild variances) across all three political groupings.
But, if you look at the "Believes 3+ myths" data, there is an 8% spike among those who identify as "Left Leaning".
While all surveyed were likely to believe at least one myth, "Left Leaning" respondents were slightly more likely to believe up to 3 myths (of the 6 presented).
For those curious, here are the 6 myths included in the survey (with links to debunk each of them).
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