Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 20, 2023

1. [Meme] Axe-murdering for Bill and Jeff

   Golden Axe meme

2. Making Community, Part A

   Article by Thomas Grzybowski

3. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 19, 2023

   IRC logs for Thursday, October 19, 2023

4. Nonsense in 'the News' That Makes You Want to Spit Out the Coffee in Laughter

   Imagine the media calling Photoshop holes a Windows issue

5. It Looks Like Gulag Noise ("Google News") is Dying and Legal Issues/New Laws Likely Contributed a Lot to That

   To be very clear, Gulag Noise ("Google News") used to be sort of OK more than a decade ago

6. Growing the Site and the Movement (in the Face of Corporate Takeovers)

   The list of upgrade & migration tasks is becoming shorter

7. Links 19/10/2023: Russia Detains More Journalists, Another Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Over Computer-Generated Nonsense ("AI" Hype)

   Links for the day

8. Links 19/10/2023: Open Document Format (ODF) Adopted by NATO, Twitter No Longer Free to Use

   Links for the day

9. Impending Homepage Change: A Month Has Passed Since Our Upgrade, Time to Redo The Front Page

   Coming Home

10. Google Becoming More Like Apple (User-Hostile Lock-Down, Users' Software of Choice Maligned as 'Sideloading'), Not the Other Way Around

    Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer

11. Links 19/10/2023: Apple Sales Collapse, Wall Street Dips

    Links for the day

12. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 18, 2023

    IRC logs for Wednesday, October 18, 2023

13. Over at Tux Machines...

    About a day's worth

14. Rumour: Microsoft Not Done Eliminating Jobs at LinkedIn

    Call it unsubstantiated or whatever, all that "Hey Hi" (chatbot) vapourware did not pay off. It just cost Microsoft a lot of money in energy, water, and marketing bills.

15. Browsing This Web Site Like It's 2006 Again

    Wayback Machine 'portal'

16. Yo Dawg, I Herd You Like Static

    We roll out our own

17. [Meme] Normal People Do Not Talk of Themselves as a Third Person While Donning Axes

    From the old homepage of a serial harasser

18. Links 18/10/2023: US Tech Worker Laid Off Almost Every Minute, Craig Murray Arrested Again

    Links for the day

19. Riding Buzzwords

    Blockchain all the things!

20. We Can Only Have (Software) Freedom as Long as Viable Choices Remain

    The licence is insufficient, except in theory (or for relatively small programs in less complex/complicated systems)

21. What the Latest Sanctions Against Chinese Imports Will Accomplish in Practice (Almost Nothing)

    They talk of "AI" chips, meaning standard GPUs with some task-optimised accelerators

22. Android and Linux Climbing in France

    Firefox at a relatively high 8%

23. Diplomacy and Communication Strategies Matter to Software Freedom (Who Talks for You?)

    We need to get back to a technology sector that's run by and for geeks, not by suits for shareholders

24. A "Sunset Period" at Microsoft

    We eagerly look forward to the day GNU/Linux is the "default" platform for laptops and desktops, just like in servers

25. Microsoft Shutting Down GitHub and LinkedIn Offices This Year (Despite Return-to-Office Policies) and the Shutdowns Carry on This Month

    This has nothing to do with "remote work" (misnomer); it is about Microsoft losing money.