Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 17, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. 'Open'AI Looks Like a Company Headed Towards Bankruptcy, Not IPO, Losses Grew Almost Tenfold in a Year (Yes, it's Just a Bubble Facilitated by Artificial Hype)

   This isn't going to end well, especially not for Microsoft

2. Later on Elon Musk Wonders Why Large Nations Block His Pet 'Social Control Media' (Incitement/Radicalisation) Platform...

   This isn't a question of "censorship" because there's a call to kill

   New

3. Apple is Canceling Products, Services, Even Lays Off Staff in Large Numbers Every Few Months

   Apple cancelling some more things

4. Microsoft: Layoffs Are Growth

   Orwell would have loved this newspeak

5. Links 16/09/2024: Verizon Layoffs, 'Tram Driver Olympics', and Anniversary of Mahsa Amini's Death

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Links 16/09/2024: ROOPHLOCH and MyGemini.Space

   Links for the day

7. Invidious Instances Explain What Google/YouTube (Alphabet/Pentagon) Did To Them This Past Week

   They're unambiguous about this

8. Dr. Richard M. Stallman (RMS) on How to Make People Care About Free Software and Why Prohibiting Proprietary Software Would Not Work

   "maybe a similar general approach could work with non-Free software as a way of discouraging it from being a successful business."

9. Please Quit Uploading Event Talks (Especially of Free Software) to YouTube

   This is enshittification

10. Links 16/09/2024: Shrinking Economy, Climate Issues, Soaring Energy Costs

    Links for the day

11. 'Former' Microsofter Jason Perlow Left Linux Foundation

    The "communication" people from the Linux Foundation are basically scammers

12. MyGem Launched to Make Adoption of Gemini Protocol (With Gemini Hosting) a Lot Easier

    a new week and also a new capsule

13. Disregard for History is Disregard for (Computer) Science

    They're killing the real entrepreneurs and innovators

14. Dr. Richard M. Stallman (RMS) on His Hobbies and Health

    Answering a question from the audience in Germany

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 15, 2024

    IRC logs for Sunday, September 15, 2024

17. Gemini Links 16/09/2024: billsmugs.com Becomes rainywhile.net, Zaurus on Internet

    Links for the day

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