Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 13, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. BetaNews, Inc. Became a Spam Operation/Web Site, LLM Spew (Slop) for SEO Disguised as "Articles"

   Published 5 minutes ago by Brian Fagioli...

2. WordPress is for the 'Old Web'; the New Web Necessitates Static Pages

   There are purely practical reasons to move away from WordPress and the likes of it

3. Biggest Debt Leap in Years, More Than Half a Trillion Dollars in Just One Month

   We remind people (almost every year) that it's also "buynothingday"

4. Golden Dawn(ald) and What GAFAM Means to Liberal Techies

   In one single screenshot

5. It's Morbid to Talk About Living People as If They're Dead

   What happens to LLM slop when Brian Fagioli dies?

   New

6. Links 12/11/2024: A Lot of Censorship and SWNS at 50

   Links for the day

7. Gemini Links 12/11/2024: Invidious Down and YouTube Addiction

   Links for the day

8. Links 12/11/2024: Hey Hi (AI) Failures and COP29 Fakers

   Links for the day

9. Latest Rumours of Red Hat Layoffs

   Rumours or gossip is how almost everything starts

10. Windows Falling to All-Time Lows and Microsoft Has Nothing to Replace It With

    It's mostly Android (Linux) replacing Windows

11. Cybershow Has a New 81-Minute Episode on Digital Sovereignty and International Cyber-Relations

    it is a high-quality show

12. Activism in the Digital Realm Can Never (and Must Never) Rely on GAFAM

    This simply means that tech activists must completely abandon any hopes of finding allies in Google or IBM or whatever...

13. IBM CEO Says Donald Trump as President-Elect is Good for IBM in New Interview With CNBC

    most unprincipled CEO ever?

14. GNU/Linux Up to 6.1% in Finland (Almost 9% If One Counts ChromeOS Too)

    Home of Linux (the kernel)

15. BetaNews Has Become a SPAM/Slop Factory, Brian Fagioli Publishes Fake 'Articles'

    everything is now suspect in BetaNews

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 11, 2024

    IRC logs for Monday, November 11, 2024

18. Free Software and Love of Nature

    It's not a coincidence that many Free software activists are also lovers of nature

19. Silicon Valley and GAFAM Were Never Liberal

    spineless CEOs and founders aren't against Trump

20. Windows and 'The Desktop' Floundering

    Microsoft should be extremely worried

21. WordPress is Bad for the Planet (Even If Many Still Use It)

    the costs nobody wishes to talk about

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