Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 28, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Rhino Linux Can (and Perhaps Should) Promote Alternatives to Microsoft Instead of Preloading Microsoft

   Deeper down inside Rhino Linux there's a problem

2. Slashdot is Once Again Publishing Lies and Revisionism for Bill Gates, Citing Microsoft's MSN to Rewrite History and Distract From the Jeffrey Epstein Crimes

   Of course this also distracts

3. Too Big, Will Fail (How Linux Grew Way Too Fat)

   Linux has very extensive hardware support, but that comes at a cost

4. Richard Stallman Gives Keynote Address in a Few Hours

   Richard Stallman's personal site was updated to give more details

5. IBM Layoffs in 2025: Rumours Say Even Managers Will Get the Axe, Some Via Loopholes Like PIP and/or RTO (Preparations Already Underway)

   Where does IBM's money go?

6. FOSDEM Talks Are Vanishing

   They no longer seem to be taking money from Microsoft and/or its tentacles

   New

7. Links 27/01/2025: Lukashenko's Sham Elections, TikTok for Insurrection Loyalist (Larry Ellison)?

   Links for the day

8. Gemini Links 27/01/2025: IndieWeb Musings and Devlog

   Links for the day

9. IBM Layoffs in "Co-location Mandate" Clothing

   It's possible that later this week, around the time of the so-called 'results', many layoffs would be announced

10. Microsoft-Funded IDG Seems to be 'Googlebombing' the Term Free Software to Promote Proprietary Spyware Too

    Microsoft advocated along with other proprietary things

11. Videos and Photos of Richard Stallman's (RMS) Keynote Address in India Earlier Today

    He probably told the target audience (India) a thing or two about the role of proprietary software in colonialism

12. GAFAM Hates - Except in a Worryingly Parasitic Way - GNU/Linux and Its Freedoms (or Its Users)

    Let the story from DistroWatch serve as a reminder that the era of Social Control Media is over

13. Links 27/01/2025: Social Control Media Explores Propaganda for Racism as a Business Model, China’s Tibet Dam Criticised

    Links for the day

14. Microsoft Relegated by Manchester United

    No Microsoft

15. Gemini Links 27/01/2025: Mental Locomotion, Gemini Protocol Bots From China, and Domain-Specific Languages

    Links for the day

16. Microsoft Still Hires Journalists to Reward Them (Belated Payment) for Microsoft Propaganda

    The PR/lying pipeline

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 26, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, January 26, 2025

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