Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 26, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Engadget Has Become a Spam Site, Google Needs to Derank If Not Delist It (It's Even Worse Than CNET)

   their news feed is basically a spam feed

   New

2. Links 25/03/2024: Apple Woes in China (and in the US, Too)

   Links for the day

3. Gemini Links 25/03/2024: Microsofter Alleges "Misinformation" and Kålsupare Explained

   Links for the day

4. Frans Pop & Debian harassment: death by a thousand emails

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

5. Only two people thanked Frans Pop before his death

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

6. Links 25/03/2024: Nature During Human Lockdowns, China Coast Guard Attacks Boats Outside Its Border

   Links for the day

7. The Fall of Freenode Soon Turns 3, NDAs Will Expire and the Fall Continues (About 20% Decrease This Month)

   With NDA dates about to be reached (expiry) there will be interesting stories to hear and tell

8. "Community" Has Become a Dirty Words at IBM's Red Hat (Like 'Commie')

   "community" was mentioned a handful of times in the front page

9. Links 25/03/2024: Response to Terror Attack in Russia (137+ Dead) and UK Banking Sector Turns to Cannabis

   Links for the day

10. Playing With Customers' Patience to Discourage Inquiry

    perhaps the goal in these situations is to frustrate people

11. [Meme] EPO (European Patent Office): A Class Act

    attack on workers and their families

12. Belated Happy Birthday to SoylentNews and Let's Hope SoylentNews Continues to Grow

    Happy anniversary, we guess... (the "official" one may come later)

13. databreaches.net Admits It Lost Data (the Site Lost Pages) After Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack, Now It's Blocked Behind Proprietary Riddles and Walls of Clownflare

    To be clear, databreaches.net did not lie. It just wasn't aware of the issue.

14. Gemini Links 25/03/2024: Winds of Change and NixOS Asahi on MBP

    Links for the day

15. Why Techrights Attracts Sabotage Attempts From Many Serial Abusers (or People Looking to Discredit the Site)

    We have good reasons to believe more people search for information about Windows alternatives, and not just in Vietnam

16. Did Charles Plessy and I predict the death of Lucy Wayland?

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

17. Dealing With Anti-Black Racism and Antisemitism in IRC (It Comes From People Who Intentionally Seed It There to Discredit and Provoke the Site's Community)

    harassment comes from people who misuse "disability" status to justify their abuse

18. [Meme] EPO Education and Childcare 'Reform'

    EPO: You don't need no education

19. SUEPO The Hague Sends Open Letter to the EPO's 'F***ing' President (Campinos) About Impending Litigation

    letter signed by Isabelle Brandt

20. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 24, 2024

    IRC logs for Sunday, March 24, 2024

21. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

22. Debian & Open Source volunteer suicides: who pays compensation?

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

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    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.