Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 10, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Expose Corrupt Insurance Companies, Don't Kill People

   Murder gives them sympathy, makes the raiders seem like the victims

2. [Meme] Write Code, Not Social Control Media

   don't forget to 'like'

3. In Memory of Mike Magee (1949-2024) and Our Best Wishes to The Register, Which He Founded in the 1990s

   Months have passed since Magee died

   New

4. EPO Salaries Reduced: EPO's “Sustainability” Clause "Cuts the Average Overall Adjustment for Staff by –41,8%."

   What does this all mean for staff?

5. Google is Nuking Remaining Invidious Instances Again, Hoping to Force Everyone to Use Proprietary Spyware With DRM

   This issue started a few hours ago

6. Microsoft's Grip on Armenia is Slipping, According to New Data From statCounter

   Notice what happened to Windows - an all-time low

7. [Meme] Sloppy Plagiarism Full of Errors, Lacking Actual Comprehension

   LLMs are not "AI"

8. More LLM Spam/Slop About LLM Spam/Slop

   This is what the Web will become unless we expose those who contribute to the problem

9. Reforming Versus Rebooting Versus Destroying Institutions

   At the moment we strive to expose the truth or shine light on pertinent facts

10. Microsoft's Windows is Pretty Much Dead in Haiti

    Android has eaten Microsoft's lunch, Microsoft can't even eat crow

11. [Teaser] EPO Management Thinks Inflation in Europe is 0.2% Per Annum

    Taming inflation by entirely ignoring it is like wrongly assuming that climate change (caused by human activity) can be overcome by not studying the effect of 8+ billion humans on this finite planet

12. Corporate Media Will Be Discarded and Eventually Die If It Keeps Doing "Bill Gates Sez" (or Similar) Pieces Instead of Journalism

    "Superintelligence" does not even mean anything!

13. This Week We Focus Again on European Patent Office (EPO) Scandals

    Nothing can stop us, not even a party or SLAPP

14. Links 09/12/2024: Health Care Anger and Power Vacuum in Syria

    Links for the day

15. Links 09/12/2024: Burned, Uncertain Future, and Failure

    Links for the day

16. Links 09/12/2024: UnitedHealthcare C.E.O.'s Killer Still Unknown, Syrian Regime Change Completed

    Links for the day

17. Microsoft: Target the Young (Get 'Em While They're Young)

    Then they say Free software advocates are "extremists" and "rude"...

18. As of December 8th (23 Days Remaining), the FSF (Free Software Foundation, Inc.) Already a Third of the Way Toward Ambitious Funding Goal

    FSF's memberships (or donations) drive is going a lot better than we anticipated

19. Why Mike Magee Created and Was Involved in So Many News Sites About Technology

    British legend

20. Tunisia is Android, Windows is Waning There

    Windows was measured below 20% in Tunisia

21. [Meme] Jeff Bezos Working From Home

    "B**** please, publish articles in Washington Post about how working from home sucks"

22. 'Remote' (From Home) Tech Workers Are More Productive for a Lot of Reasons

    The Bezos-owned media should disclose its conflict of interest here

23. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

24. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 08, 2024

    IRC logs for Sunday, December 08, 2024

25. No Wonder Microsoft's LinkedIn and Github Have So Many Layoffs, Permanent Office Closures

    Traffic down, losses, probably never going to profit

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