Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 23, 2023

1. Is It a Trap?

   Red Hat hired a person who did not know the FOSS world but is now promoted to top of the Fedora 'community'

2. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 22, 2023

   IRC logs for Sunday, October 22, 2023

3. Mozilla and Firefox Are Intentionally Failing to Stand for the Open Web

   Platitudes and lies about "privacy" and other false promises won't fool enough gullible Web users

4. Gaming Pundit Asserts That Microsoft in Charge of Activision/Blizzard Will Mean Lots More Layoffs

   Microsoft not only froze the salaries of workers (amid massive inflation, so it is effectively a round of pay cuts)

5. Sharing is Caring

   Debt is a burden

6. Techrights' Winter of Change

   we're gratified to have "modernised" everything by removing unnecessary bloat

7. Links 23/10/2023: Layoffs at PlayStation's Visual Arts, More Strike Actions

   Links for the day

8. Financial Compensation of Microsoft Executives Fell by About a Quarter Despite Fast-Rising Inflation

   This does not sound like a company that's doing as well as it claims

9. Writing for Techrights

   The material isn't the work of one person but an international team of contributors

10. The Right to Repair is Crucial Outside Computing As Well

    Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer

11. Microsoft and the Art of Sleight of Hand Distraction Amid Mass Layoffs

    Microsoft had loads of layoffs last week

12. GitLab's Losses Nearly Doubled in 3 Years, Do You Want Your Project to Rely on This Company?

    GitLab is not "evil"; but there are better options out there

13. Microsoft is Lying About Adoption Rates of Vista 11, Which Are Historic Lows

    Microsoft is very well aware that it's lying

14. [Meme] Hatchet Job Gone Very, Very Wrong

    Flinging lots of crap (or axes) at the wall

15. Martin Goetz Was Not a Good Person, He Was a Shameless, Unapologetic Booster of Patents That Destroyed and Still Ruin the Software Sector Billions Rely on

    Just because he's dead doesn't mean there is an obligation to say nice (but false) things about him

16. Links 22/10/2023: Global Encryption Day

    Links for the day

17. Links 22/10/2023: Open Data Merits and Lots More Censorship, Attacks on the Media

    Links for the day

18. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 21, 2023

    IRC logs for Saturday, October 21, 2023

19. Tech.LGBT Removes Shadow Ban on George Takei, Who is Gay, Blocks Gay Man for Asking Why Takei Was Shadowbanned

    Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer

20. You Cannot Patch/Secure/Protect Your GNU/Linux System Because Microsoft Blocks the Patching Via 'Secure' Boot

    Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer

21. The Asian and African Elephant in the Room

    In some sense, Linux is already vastly bigger than Windows

22. Old But as Relevant as Ever: Committee on the ECHELON Interception System Warned Against Adoption and Use of Proprietary Software

    That was exactly 2 months before the more famous "9/11"

23. Links 21/10/2023: Fakecoin Prosecutions and Growing Tensions Near China

    Links for the day

24. Why Google News is Perishing: Failing to Include Thousands of Active News Sites That Cover GNU/Linux

    A lack of source diversity can doom Google News

25. IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 20, 2023

    IRC logs for Friday, October 20, 2023

26. Mastodon 'Freedom': Tech.LGBT Bans Gay Progressive, a Victim of American Internment Camps

    Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer