Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 22, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. [Meme] Plagiarism Does Not Eliminate Jobs by Replacing Humans, It Replaces Human Knowledge With False Cruft

   We need to boycott sites that fake their output

2. [Meme] Doing Dog's Job (Not God's Job)

   The FSF did not advertise the talk by RMS (its founder), who spoke in France almost exactly 23 hours ago

3. [Meme] Free Software and Socially-Engineered Groupthink (to Serve Big Sponsors Like Google and Microsoft)

   They do this to RMS all the time

   New

4. Gemini Links 21/01/2025: Media Provocations and Nazis Not Tolerated

   Links for the day

5. Slopwatch: BetaNews Plagiarism and LLM Slop by UNIXMen

   "state-of-the-art" plagiarism

6. What Fedora, OpenSUSE, and Debian Elections Teach Us About the State of Weak (or Fake) Communities

   They show a total lack of trust in these communities

7. Links 21/01/2025: Mass Layoffs in "Security" at Microsoft (Despite Microsoft Promising It Would Improve After Many Megabreaches), Skype is Dead (Quietly)

   Links for the day

8. Alternate Version of Daniel Pocock's 2024 Talk, "Technology in European Parliament Election Campaign"

   There's loud ovation at the end of the talk

9. Gemini Links 21/01/2025: London Library, Kobo Sage, and Beyerdynamic DT 48 E

   Links for the day

10. The January 20 Public Talk by Richard Stallman (Around Midday ET), Livestream 'Assassinated' by Google's YouTube

    our guess is that the 'cancel mob' sabotaged it, possibly by making a lot of false reports to YouTube

11. [Video] Daniel Pocock's Public Talk About Free Software Politics, Social Engineering, Debian Deaths and Suicides, Coercion and Exploitation of Women

    took many months to get

12. BetaNews Cannot Survive If Its Fake Articles Are Just SPAM for Companies Like AOHi and Aren't Even Composed by Humans

    This is what domains or former "news" sites do when they die and look very desperately for "another way"

13. Pocock shot in the face, shot in the back, shot on Hitler's birthday saving France, Belgium and FOSDEM

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

14. Dr Richard Stallman in Montpellier, Robert Edward Ernest Pocock in France

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 20, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, January 20, 2025

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