Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 06, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. EFF Celebrates Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office as "Digital Inclusion", Mocks GNU/Linux-Based ChromeOS

   Yet another example/evidence that EFF has become a rotten pile of junk

   New

2. [Meme] How to Keep Granting Hundreds of Thousands of Fake Patents (Without Upsetting Anybody in Politics and Media)

   This is very Kremlin-like

3. EPO Examiners to Adopt Resolution Condemning EPO Management for Breaking the Law in Order to Grant Many Illegal Software Patents

   Europe's second-largest institution (EPO) is a law-breaking institution hiding behind the veil of "law"

4. [Meme] Sup, Nazi?

   "Come back, one year"

5. Calling "Nazi" and "Right Wing" Everyone Who Does Not Agree With You (Even Leftists Whose Views on Some Issues Slightly Differ From Yours)

   Oil money has become exceptionally notorious for takeover of online platforms and institutions/NGOs (using them to incite society inwards, not upwards)

6. EFF Losing the Plot

   Like the Linux Foundation and OSI, the EFF has succumbed to corporate influence and is derailing itself (along with its original mission)

7. Links 05/10/2024: Patents Being Squashed, EFF Insists on Children's Access to Porn

   Links for the day

8. Gemini Links 05/10/2024: Multitudinous Agreeable Futures and Misfin Mail

   Links for the day

9. Links 05/10/2024: Amazon Culling 14,000 Managers, About 160 People Resign From Automattic

   Links for the day

10. Microsoft Moles in Nerdearla, Openwashing and Whitewashing Microsoft With Its Latest Ponzi Scheme and Storytelling

    Also GPL violations en masse

11. The Danger of Outsourcing Your Platform to Social Control Media and Getting "Information" There

    Stella is probably not aware of what she has just done

12. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

13. IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 04, 2024

    IRC logs for Friday, October 04, 2024

14. Links 05/10/2024: Shift to ARM, Microsoft XBox Crisis

    Links for the day

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