Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 09, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsoft Starts 2025 Like 2024: Mass Layoffs Every Month!

   It's a company in tailspin

2. Why Government Data on "Job Openings" is Typically a Lie (Perpetrated in Part by Corporations)

   Millions (yes, millions!) of fake "openings" exist in the US alone, based on a survey done last year

   New

3. Gemini Links 08/01/2025: Minimalism and Efficiency With Gemini Protocol and tilde.cafe "May be Shutting Down"

   Links for the day

4. There Used to be an Actual Community in SUSE (OpenSUSE is Dying)

   Volunteers with programming skills don't want to become slaves of Microsoft resellers

5. [Meme] Blindly Trust Rust

   First, you need to get it from a proprietary platform

6. Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) is a Far Bigger Problem Than Some Unintentional Bugs (Not Back Doors) in Software

   What's a "memory safe programing [sic] language"? Rust has holes in itself, never mind programs made using Rust.

7. Amid Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (2025) Executives Flock to Google

   The managers and executives typically know ahead of time what's coming

8. Links 08/01/2025: HMPV Concerns and UK Deaths Soared in 2024

   Links for the day

9. IBMers Question IBM's Decision to Send Money to "Chinese Military Companies" in Spite of US Sanctions

   Some people bring this up now

10. [Meme] Real Money and Fake (Speculative, Fictional) Money

    "Looking for the next $400,000,000,000 in 'investment'"

11. Microsoft LinkedIn Going 'the Way of the Epstein'

    LinkedIn is going downhill

12. Will 2025 Bring Recovery of News Sites or Just More LLM Slop? Probably the Latter.

    The Web is deteriorating. Geminispace does not have LLM trash (yet).

13. Engagement in Microsoft GitHub Falls, Expect More Layoffs and Office Closures

    Maybe it'll become an "open secret" if some rebellious whistleblower contacts us

14. [Meme] Microsoft's January 6th

    Most Microsoft employees want to leave the company

15. Links 08/01/2025: Arrest of Yoon Suk Yeol Still Due, Prime Minister of Canada Stepped Down

    Links for the day

16. Gemini Links 08/01/2025: Why Mastodon Sucks and Fake Code Generated by Scanning Real Code

    Links for the day

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 07, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, January 07, 2025

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