Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 13, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Gemini Links 12/01/2025: No Country For Old Men, Burned Homes, and "Planet P is Clean"

   Links for the day

2. Slopwatch: Brittany Day and Brian Fagioli Are Still at It, Googlebombing "Linux" With LLM Slop (Taking Away Traffic From the Articles They're Plagiarising)

   Some more sites that used to cover GNU/Linux have turned into slopfarms

3. [Meme] Being High on Drugs Isn't Happiness (Likewise, Being a "Star" in Social Control Media is Temporary)

   Many entities - or people - will regret telling everybody "follow me on Twitter"

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4. Bots Covering Debian Releases

   It would be quite safe to guess that chatbots were at least partly leveraged for that text

5. Links 12/01/2025: Microsoft Admits It's Laying Off Staff Only Where Staff is "Expensive" (Race to the Bottom)

   Links for the day

6. [Meme] They Say That RMS Says the "F" Word (Freedom) Too Much...

   About 32.7k US dollars are now left for the FSF to raise (in 6 days)

7. Links 12/01/2025: More Sanctions Against Russia, SCOTUS Signals Fentanylware (TikTok) Ban Will Stay

   Links for the day

8. [Meme] A Jihad Against Servers the User Controls

   We need to strive for and work towards greater control by users over "their" servers

9. Microsoft Azure-Only Bugs in "Linux" Can "Compromise the System."

   From ubuntu.com and linux.org a few days ago

10. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

11. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 11, 2025

    IRC logs for Saturday, January 11, 2025

12. Gemini Links 12/01/2025: DHL Express Does Not Deliver, Oddmuse Update

    Links for the day

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