Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 27, 2023

Updated This Past Day

1. Despite Budget Cuts Microsoft is Still Infiltrating Linux Events (Herding People Back to Windows, .NET, and User-Hostile Proprietary Spyware)

   Follow the money and ask SCaLE how much Microsoft paid

2. The Bots Are Ruining the World Wide Web

   More and more sites will shut down unless this issue is brought under control

   New

3. Microsoft Does Not Want You to See This

   The trends are undeniable and are even visible if one takes public transport or visits a library

4. 40 Years of GNU: The Continent of the Savannah Reduced Its Share of Windows to 16%

   Let's hope that by the time GNU turns 50 Microsoft's debt and layoffs crisis (circling down the drain) defangs it to the point where it's just another Unisys

5. What "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL" Documents From Microsoft Teach Us About Its Plan for GitHub and Various Similar Incursions

   Microsoft openly admits not caring about but just using developers

6. [Meme] Sponsoring With Kindness

   Microsoft: 'Linux is a cancer'; 'I use Linux'

7. Computers Becoming 'Smart' and 'Modern' (and Car Analogies)

   Money down the drain...

8. Links 27/10/2023: Facebook Shrinks by a Lot, Yet More Microsoft Layoffs

   Links for the day

9. Valve Shows What DRM Does and What It Means to be Using Microsoft Windows

   Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer

10. Google Search is Not Search Anymore

    Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer

11. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 26, 2023

    IRC logs for Thursday, October 26, 2023

12. Small and Simpler (Not WordPress)

    WordPress in particular has become very large

13. Microsoft's Debt Grew by Over $5,500,000,000 This Past Quarter (3 Months) and of Course the Microsoft-Sponsored Media Did Not Tell You That

    Not hard to see why Microsoft's Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) has left, as did many others

14. Microsoft's Non-Disparagement Agreements/Clauses: Can't See, Hear, or Speak

    Isn't a bribe to keep people quiet about crime quite a serious crime in its own right?

15. Microsoft's Chief Marketing Officer is Leaving (Must Be Getting Too Hard to Keep Track of All the Lies)

    they try to sprinkle some more "AI" on this crisis

16. Devoting Time to Writing About What Free Software-Hostile Militants Did to Me and My Family (Because They Target Others Similarly and This Abuse Needs to Come to an End)

    If we can help show what those people do and how they do it, we can lessen the damage to (or number of) other victims

17. Things That People Who Attack Techrights Write and Then Delete (Because They Describe and Do Illegal Things)

    still targeted by a bunch of criminals, who are doing the same to Prof. Moglen

18. Marketing Placements Instead of News (Even in 'Linux' Sites/Blogs)

    It's a waste of readers' time and site space