Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 26, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Frequent Flyers of the 'Lolita Express' (Where Screwing Underage Girls is Big Business)

   In the words of Bill's wife and mother of his 3 children

2. How "Open Source" Became Microsoft (But It's Actually Proprietary, OSI is an Openwashing Front Group Now)

   They're still trying to rewrite history, but it's harder when Richard Stallman (RMS) is alive

3. Microsoft-Sponsored Inauguration as a Reminder to Boycott Microsoft

   If you do not support what's happening politically right now in the US, then stop giving money (or anything else) to Microsoft

4. Fund-Raising for Initiative Introducing Teens to Free Software Instead of Junk Like Bytedance's TikTok

   A crowdfunding campaign coming soon

5. The Fall of Corporate Media Controlled by Oligarchs Who Boost (or Are Compelled to Boost) Reckless Lies About the Poor While Normalising Rich People's Crimes

   No wonder they have layoffs

   New

6. Gemini Links 25/01/2025: Plaintext Weblog Posts and Software Development

   Links for the day

7. More Details Emerge About Upcoming Long-Rumoured Layoffs at IBM

   Without leadership there's no coordination

8. Links 25/01/2025: Microsoft Chaffbot Offline and Advocacy/Dissent in China Muzzled

   Links for the day

9. Bringing Down or Taking Down an Innocent Man is Difficult

   One positive thing about all this is that we've come to witness (and meticulously document) how social control media works for the mob

10. Plagiarism at LinuxSecurity.com, Piggybacking Other People's Hard Work and Googlebombing "Linux"

    They are googlebombing Google, and worse yet, they leverage bots to do this

11. Gemini Links 25/01/2025: Pictographs, Non-voters, and Frustrations

    Links for the day

12. Links 25/01/2025: Microsoft Already Shutting Down Its UK "Experience Centre", "AI Deal" Linked to Atrocities

    Links for the day

13. Red Hat is Required to Promote Microsoft's Proprietary Stuff and Even Produce Puff Pieces (Mindless Fluff) About It

    Notice the aspect of bribed "media" or "news" or "press coverage" (pay-to-say)

14. The Limits of Freedom

    This is generally not a new problem

15. IBM Layoffs (or Replacement With Low-Cost Labourers) Far Greater Than Reported by IBM

    they serve to confirm what we've long said not only in relation to IBM but also Microsoft

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 24, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, January 24, 2025

    ---

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2025-01-19 to 2025-01-25

    1389	/n/2025/01/19/Total_Lock_down_Ambitions_Part_IV_The_Latest_Examples_and_the_P.shtml
    1349	/n/2025/01/23/BetaNews_Plagiarising_Work_in_the_Linux_Space.shtml
    667	/browse/latest.shtml
    605	/n/2025/01/19/Richard_Stallman_Unveils_His_January_20_Talk_in_Montpellier_Fra.shtml
    592	/n/2025/01/18/FOSDEM_is_Called_FOSDEM_Because_of_Richard_Stallman_RMS.shtml
    538	/browse/index.shtml