Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 23, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Free Software Foundation's Miriam Bastian: We Surpassed Our Year-end Goal of $400,000 USD Thanks to You!

   Miriam Bastian: We surpassed our year-end goal of $400,000 USD!

2. Red Hat Offers DRM, TPM, and Backed Doored 'Confidential' Containers (CoCo) for Microsoft (Proprietary Spyware)

   No kidding!

   New

3. Links 22/01/2025: Jeju Air Blame-Shifting (Talk to the Wall), Copyright Maximalism Rebounds

   Links for the day

4. [Meme] The 'Garbage in, Garbage Out' Patent Office

   "law of the buzzword"

5. Clueless and Nontechnical EPO Management Uses the 'Great Scam' (Hey Hi Hype) to Justify Automation Where It's Both Detrimental and Illegal

   The EPC has been practically set aflame; thus, the EPO has no legitimacy or reason to exist anymore

6. Links 22/01/2025: Democratising Tech Initiative and "Bye Bye Meta"

   Links for the day

7. The Japanese translation of the term "free software"

   by Akira Urushibata

8. Links 22/01/2025: "The AI Bubble Is Bursting" and Microsoft's Scam Altman is Already Looking for De Facto Bailout From the Insurrectionist

   Links for the day

9. Dr. Andy Farnell's Latest Article About Software Freedom and Richard Stallman

   why Dr. Stallman is being picked on

10. Geminispace (Gemini Protocol) Offers an Escape From Social Control Networks Owned by Oligarchs and Governments

    Gemini capsules that promote fascism and retreat to feudalism are rare and scarce

11. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Formally Added an Outreach and Communications Coordinator

    Maybe the addition happened last year (we mentioned it in passing), but now it's in the "rota"

12. Electronic Frontier Foundation: Fighting 'for the Poor and Powerless' While Taking Home $336,000 in Annual Salary

    nowadays works for or serves not the interests of the masses

13. Of Note: The Misguided, Infiltrated, Weakened Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Now Operating at a Loss of Over a Million Dollars

    Worst since the COVID-19 lockdowns

14. [Meme] Omit Microsoft When It's a Scandal or a Breach, Whereupon It Becomes Just an 'IT Company'

    Microsoft is like a cult. Members of this cult promote the opposite of security, expecting to be financially rewarded for it.

15. Calling Out Windows (TCO) is Apparently Impermissible in Some News Sites

    The online news sites are failing us (and corporate sponsors play a role)

16. Richard Stallman's Remarks on His Pain

    Published two days ago

17. Focusing on the Issues

    we'll do our best to find the news and not talk about "Mr. T"

18. Only About 3.6% of Web Users in Pakistan Use Vista 11, According to statCounter

    It's not hard to see why so far in 2025 Microsoft has already had several waves of mass layoffs - more than any other company

19. Rumour: In IBM, Impending "25% Reduction in Finance Roles"

    25% to be laid off?

20. [Meme] Fake Articles From linuxsecurity.com (Just Googlebombing "Linux" With LLM Slop)

    Google should really just entirely delist that site

21. RedHat.com Written by Microsoft Staff, Promoting Microsoft' Proprietary Software That Does Not Even Run on Linux!

    This is RedHat.com this week...

22. Links 22/01/2025: Mass Layoffs at Stripe, Microsoft's Illegal Accounting Practices Under Scrutiny

    Links for the day

23. Fake 'Article' by Brittany Day (Guardian Digital, Inc) About Linux Mint 22.1 'Xia'

    Apparently they've convinced themselves that this is OK

24. Red Hat Dumps "Inclusive Language", Puts "Master" In Official Communications and Headlines

    Red Hat: you CANNOT say "master" (because it is racist). Also Red Hat: we put in it our headlines.

25. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

26. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 21, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, January 21, 2025

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