Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 10, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Computers as a Heat Source

   suppose you have over a dozen activated monitors in a room or two

2. When They Insist That Getting Rid of Paper Receipts and Paper Trail of All Kinds is Better (Manchester City Council and the "Smart" or "App" Mindset)

   just classic greenwashing

   New

3. Using Microsoft Chatbot to Generate Microsoft FUD Against SSH/OpenSSH

   It's from the "prime suspect"

4. Free Software Cannot Rely on Politicians, They Don't Even Care About Software, They Only or Mostly Care About Money

   There's no simple solution to this situation short of revolutionising the political system

5. No, There's No "Age Of AI" or "Era Of AI" or "AI Revolution" or "AI Arms Race", It's Just a Dying Tech Industry Looking to Prop Up Its Valuation Using Hype and False Marketing of Mostly Dysfunctional Tools

   Please, enough with this nonsense

6. [Meme] Just a Draft, Nothing Professional Like GNU

   the FSF is ~40,000 dollars short of its goal

7. Draft About Drafts

   The static site generator (SSG) is improving

8. Gemini Links 09/01/2025: Domain Changes, Dirty Links, and OpenWRT

   Links for the day

9. Links 09/01/2025: X-Book (Facebook) Follows the MElon (Musk) Model and X Comes Under EU Investigation for Inciting

   Links for the day

10. [Meme] Microsoft's Scam Altman, Bigger Scammer Than 'Crypto' 'Currency' 'Exchanges'

    More pollution, too

11. Interest in Microsoft Waning, Company Deep in Debt and Mass Layoffs Implemented Every Month Since 2023

    As fewer people still use Windows (over time many move to Android or whatever) that site, microsoft.com, will likely languish some more

12. Microsoft Says Scale of Layoffs in January 2025 is Several Thousands

    Microsoft is the first of GAFAM to announce layoffs in 2025

13. Microsoft Windows Continues to Sink in India

    The consistent and almost linear decrease will continue because Microsoft has nothing in store other than vapourware and mass layoffs

14. statCounter Has Outdated and Unfit-for-Purpose User-Agent Parsers

    poor recognition or parsing or classification of User-Agent strings

15. [Meme] GAFAM Buying Shares in NYSE:EFF

    To the ordinary person, today's EFF isn't a go-to protector, it's just meant to look like one

16. Sometimes the EFF Prefers to Talk About Sex, Not Tech (or Unnecessarily Conflate the Two Things)

    The old name (or brand) remains; the goals? Not so much...

17. Beta'News' Still a Spamfarm Run by Bots

    It's a source of Web pollution

18. Links 09/01/2025: Software Patents Squashed, Meta Becomes "MAGA" Booster

    Links for the day

19. Gemini Links 09/01/2025: Chants of Sennaar and Security Theater

    Links for the day

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 08, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, January 08, 2025

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