Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 01, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Frans Pop suicide and Ubuntu grievances

   Reprinted with permission from disguised.work

   New

2. Federal News Network is Corrupt, It Runs Propaganda Pieces for Microsoft

   Federal News Network used to be OK some years ago

   New

3. [Meme] Sometimes Torvalds and RMS Agree on Things

   hype around chatbots

4. [Video] Linus Torvalds on 'Hilarious' AI Hype: "I Hate the Hype" and "I Don't Want to be Part of the Hype", "You Need to Be a Bit Cynical About This Whole Hype Cycle"

   Linus Torvalds on LLMs

5. Colin Watson, Steve McIntyre & Debian, Ubuntu cover-up mission after Frans Pop suicide

   Reprinted with permission from disguised.work

6. Links 30/04/2024: Wireless Carriers Selling Customer Location Data, Facebook Posts Causing Trouble

   Links for the day

7. Links 30/04/2024: More Google Layoffs (Wide-Ranging)

   Links for the day

8. Fresh Rumours of Impending Mass Layoffs at IBM Red Hat

   "IBM filed a W.A.R.N with the state of North Carolina. That only means one thing."

9. Mark Shuttleworth's (MS's) Canonical is Promoting Microsoft This Week (Surveillance Slanted as 'Confidential')

   Who runs Canonical these days? Why does Canonical help sell Windows?

10. What Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical Can to Remedy the Damage Done to Frans Pop's Family

    Mr. Shuttleworth and Canonical as a company can at the very least apologise for putting undue pressure

11. Amnesty International & Debian Day suicides comparison

    Reprinted with permission from disguised.work

12. [Meme] A Way to Get No Real Work Done

    Walter White looking at phone: Your changes could not be saved to device

13. Modern Measures of 'Productivity' Boil Down to Time Wasting and Misguided Measurements/Yardsticks

    People are forgetting the value of nature and other human beings

14. Countries That Beat the United States at RSF's World Press Freedom Index (After US Plunged Some More)

    The United States (US) was 17 when these rankings started in 2002

15. Record Productivity and Preserving People's Past on the Net

    We're very productive these days, partly owing to online news slowing down (less time spent on curating Daily Links)

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 29, 2024

    IRC logs for Monday, April 29, 2024

18. Links 30/04/2024: Malaysian and Russian Governments Crack Down on Journalists

    Links for the day

19. Frans Pop Debian Day suicide, Ubuntu, Google and the DEP-5 machine-readable copyright file

    Reprinted with permission from disguised.work

20. Axel Beckert (ETH Zurich), the mentality of sexual violence on campus

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

21. [Meme] Russian Reversal

    Mark Shuttleworth: In Soviet Russia's spacecraft... Man exploits peasants

22. Frans Pop & Debian suicide denial

    Reprinted with permission from disguised.work

23. Hard Evidence Reinforces Suspicion That Mark Shuttleworth May Have Worked Volunteers to Death

    Today we start re-publishing articles that contain unaltered E-mails

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