Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 21, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Did Microsoft 'Buy' Red Hat Without Paying for It? Does It Tell Canonical What to Do Now?

   This is what Linus Torvalds once dubbed a "dick-sucking" competition or contest (alluding to Red Hat's promotion of UEFI 'secure boot')

2. [Meme] Many Old Gemini Capsules Go Offline, But So Do Entire Web Sites

   Problems cannot be addressed and resolved if merely talking about these problems isn't allowed

   New

3. Gemini Links 20/11/2024: Game Recommendations, Schizo Language

   Links for the day

4. Growing Older and Signs of the Site's Maturity

   The EPO material remains our top priority

5. Links 20/11/2024: Politics, Toolkits, and Gemini Journals

   Links for the day

6. Links 20/11/2024: 'The Open Source Definition' and Further Escalations in Ukraine/Russia Battles

   Links for the day

7. Links 20/11/2024: Standing Desks, Broken Cables, and Journalists Attacked Some More

   Links for the day

8. Links 20/11/2024: Debt Issues and Fentanylware (TikTok) Ban

   Links for the day

9. Jérémy Bobbio (Lunar), Magna Carta and Debian Freedoms: RIP

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

10. Jérémy Bobbio (Lunar) & Debian: from Frans Pop to Euthanasia

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

11. This Article About "AI-Powered" is Itself LLM-Generated Junk

    Trying to meet quotas by making fake 'articles' that are - in effect - based on plagiarism?

12. Recognizing invalid legal judgments: rogue Debianists sought to deceive one of Europe's most neglected regions, Midlands-North-West

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

13. Google-funded group distributed invalid Swiss judgment to deceive Midlands-North-West

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

14. Gemini Links 20/11/2024: BeagleBone Black and Suicide Rates in Switzerland

    Links for the day

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 19, 2024

    IRC logs for Tuesday, November 19, 2024

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