Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 08, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. All the Latest 'Articles' in This Fake 'News' Site Are SPAM, LLM Slop, or Both (to Googlebomb CES)

   These people destroy the Web

2. LLMs Destroy the Web Not Just by Filling It With Cruft and Chaff (Slop)

   It'll destroy many sites or increase the cost of running them

3. Who Says Microsoft Is Actually Succeeding as a Business? (It's Faking a Lot)

   Microsoft has been cooking the books for a long time

4. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Turns 40 This Year, Now It Shows Possible Logos for the Special Event That Celebrates Sharing

   FSF's options in a nutshell

5. President Biden Has Less Than a Fortnight Left to Pardon Julian Assange (Donald Trump's Regime Plotted to Assassinate Assange)

   Don't try to lecture/explain/preach to people that exposing corruption, resisting corruption, and merely covering corruption is "bad" because crime "is everywhere"

   New

6. Microsoft Has a Google Problem (and GNU/Linux Problem) in Sweden

   Sweden likes Chromebooks, Web access data suggests

7. Less Than a Tenth of a Second

   Look ma, static pages!

8. [Meme] The LLM Salesperson

   LLMs are net liability (loss)

9. Links 06/01/2025: 10 Years Since Terrorism Against Satire in France

   Links for the day

10. Gemini Links 07/01/2025: Praise of E-mail and App Store 'Invention'

    Links for the day

11. [Meme] Removing Correct Information

    publish what's true

12. From 92% to Less Than 25%: How Microsoft Lost Norway (and Still Loses What's Left)

    just like in most countries

13. Matt Birchler: "This is why it’s important for people to own their presence on the web, especially when it comes to government agencies that need to communicate with people."

    hours ago

14. Microsoft Continues to Attack Users' Choice

    We're being herded into uniformity

15. Diversity of Views, Diversity of Sources

    We want diversity, not monopoly

16. With 10 Days Left the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Looks to Raise Just Over $50,000 More

    More than 10 days in Boston (eastern coast)

17. In Europe, Russia's Yandex About to Become Bigger Than Microsoft's Bing, Google Search Estimated to Have Grown Since the LLM Hype Began

    Remember that Bing had many layoffs in the past 2 years, the corporate media barely reported on those

18. The Google Exodus That Wasn't

    Search engines exist to serve their masters, not their users

19. Google (Blogger) is Already Disintegrating and It's a Reminder of the Great Dangers of Outsourcing Blogs to Companies (Including Automattic or WordPress.com)

    Plus, Phoronix admits that using PHP - and not static pages - causes the Web site to be DDOSed, sort of

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 06, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, January 06, 2025

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