Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 21, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Sainsbury's and BBC Just Call It "IT Issue", Even When Medical Data is Leaked Out, Enabling Public Shaming, Blackmail, or Worse

   Always the same generic words

2. Sainsbury's Lies to the Customers to Cover up Likely Microsoft-Connected IT Failure, Then Repeatedly Hangs Up and Pretends It's a Technical Issue

   Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) with Microsoft and Microsoft partners (like TCS) are likely impeding any conversation here

3. The European Patent Office Again Violating Workers' (Labour) Regulations and Likely the European Patent Convention (EPC) Too

   Causing anxiety

   New

4. Links 20/03/2024: 7,500 Unilever Layoffs, Microsoft in Court for Plagiarism in "AI" Clothing

   Links for the day

5. Truly Terrible Security Practices at Microsoft Sainsbury's

   Sainsbury's whistleblowers needed

6. Fuhrerbunker, FSFE-Buro Dusseldorf office closure, Berlin retreat, insurance expenses

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

7. How much does Google pay to destroy a man and his family?

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

8. UN DRR and Public Health England criteria match Debian Suicide Cluster

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

9. Gemini Links 20/03/2024: EVs in the Cold and Vectoric Boogaloo

   Links for the day

10. [Meme] EPO Recruitment in 2024

    Welcome to EPO

11. Google, IBM and Microsoft shared psychotic episode with bipolar Molly de Blanc

    Reprinted with permission from the Free Software Fellowship

12. [Meme] [Teaser] EPO Makes Staff Miserable to Death

    The EPO mentally and physically injured thousands of people

13. Eric Raymond: Armed and Dangerous, Also Alive and Coding

    Last month he released blamecount 1.1

14. [Meme] Here Lies

    Telling lies for a salary of about 20,000 euros per month

15. More EPO Lies and SEO SPAM, Substance Protected Behind a Paywall of the EPO's Propaganda Arm, IAM

    They try to counter hard evidence with a high volume (quantity) of lies

16. Neil McGovern, Molly de Blanc: were they sacked from GNOME?

    Reprinted with permission from the Free Software Fellowship

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 19, 2024

    IRC logs for Tuesday, March 19, 2024

19. Sainsbury's Cannot Be Expected to Meet Service-Level Agreements (SLAs)

    Too busy sucking up to Microsoft

20. GNU/Linux in Montenegro: From 1% to 6% Since the Pandemic Started

    Assuming the data from statCounter is meaningful, this is very interesting as the increases seem steady

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