Yogthos
@yogthos@social.marxist.network  ·  activity timestamp 22 hours ago

Linux has surpassed 5% desktop market share in the US (5.03% in June 2025), per StatCounter, driven by privacy concerns, rising costs of Windows/macOS, and user-friendly distros like Ubuntu. Community celebrates amid gaming and enterprise boosts, though challenges like software gaps persist; analysts eye 7% by 2027.

https://www.webpronews.com/linux-breaks-5-desktop-share-in-u-s-signaling-open-source-surge-against-windows-and-macos/

#linux #technology
Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

On 14h July (though it was already the 15th here), some of my monitoring jails started throwing errors. Not all of them, though. On the same host, an Uptime Kuma instance was showing a ton of servers down, while LibreNMS wasn't displaying any issues. After investigating, I discovered why. The jail running LibreNMS was using local_unbound (integrated into FreeBSD), while the other, perhaps for speed, was using Cloudflare's DNS.

DNS is like email, the Fediverse, and other similar services: they work better and make us freer when they're decentralized.

Let's go back to decentralizing the internet. Its very existence, as we've known it, depends on it.

#BeFree#Decentralization#SysAdmin#IT#Technology#Internet#Networking
Metin Seven 🎨
@metin@graphics.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Interesting read…

𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙜𝙡𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙮𝙤𝙪 (𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝘿𝙪𝙘𝙠𝘿𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙂𝙤)

https://www.simpleanalytics.com/blog/google-is-tracking-you-even-when-you-use-duck-duck-go

#google #tracking#privacy #InfoSec #security#tech #technology#BigTech#BigBrother
Yogthos
@yogthos@social.marxist.network  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Since it struck Iran on June 13, the Israeli Government Advertising Agency has paid for tens of millions of advertisements on YouTube alone. In clear breach of Google’s policies, these ads justify and lionize the attack as a necessary defense of Western civilization, and claim that Israel is carrying out “one of the largest humanitarian missions in the world” in Gaza.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-europe-youtube-ad-campaign/290163/

#google #technology

activity timestamp 3 days ago

Vermaden’s Valuable News: A Monday Must-Read

Mondays are always tough, I think that’s true for everyone. But one thing that makes me happy it’s Monday is the consistent arrival of the “Valuable News” from Slawomir Wojciech Wojtczak – or simply Vermaden – @vermaden – as we know him. His newsletter covers the world of *BSD and Unix, technology in general, and offers a look at articles (both old and new) about the world and life in general.

Vermaden has been publishing his weekly newsletter for many years, and it’s a go-to […]

Mondays are always tough, I think that’s true for everyone. But one thing that makes me happy it’s Monday is the consistent arrival of the “Valuable News” from Slawomir Wojciech Wojtczak – or simply Vermaden – @vermaden – as we know him. His newsletter covers the world of *BSD and Unix, technology in general, and offers a look at articles (both old and new) about the world and life in general.

Vermaden has been publishing his weekly newsletter for many years, and it’s a go-to resource for many. I can only thank him, on my behalf and, I imagine, on behalf of the entire community.

Here’s the link to this week’s edition, 14 July 2025.
Beardy Star Stuff
@dennyhenke@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Like a lot of nerds I've always had a "Uses/My set-up" page on my site. I'm embarrassed that it hadn't occurred to me that I should also have the opposite. I've set up a "Boycotts" page where I've documented the details of the companies, products and in some cases, categories of products, that I avoid or refuse to buy because they cause harm to my fellow humans and planetary ecosystems.

Ethics should play a role in what we use.
#democracy #ethics #climate #technology
https://beardystarstuff.net/boycott.html