Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 30, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Google: Your Only Option is Google YouTube (Coming Soon: Mandatory DRM and Attestation?)

   Digital Restrictions (DRM) to follow? Only for "approved" (attestation) browsers?

2. The Munich-Based EPO is Still Using a Platform That Promotes the Far Right and Rehabilitates Nazism

   Active Twitter account

3. How the EPO Pressures Staff Into Minting More Monopolies (Patents), Even Illegal Ones That Harm Europe and Ultimately Dismantle the Rule of Law

   insights into the pressure examiners are under

4. LLM Slop Machines Are Not a Win for "Open Source" and If They Get Cheaper, It's Even Worse

   If some program that claims to be "Open Source" pollutes the Web with fake articles (Microsoft SPAM and fake "Linux" articles), whose win is it?

5. Richard Stallman Speech in Bengaluru, "Silicon Valley of India"

   62 years have passed since his "young nerd" days and he's still at it

6. More Illegal Patents at the EPO, Legality of Granted European Patents No Longer Matters to the Office

   breaking the law for profit

7. Sharing is Caring (But Advocating Copyleft Makes You a "Target")

   GPLv3 does not close all the loopholes which the "Affero" helps close

   New

8. Mastodon Was Always Biased (Just Like Twitter After Abandoning Chronological and Neutral Timelines in Order to Become More Like Facebook)

   So bury-brigading and click-farming control what people see

9. Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Falls to Only 0.4% of the Total in Geminispace

   Geminispace does not need to outsource trust

10. Links 29/01/2025: Dismantling Public Health in the US, Air Busan Plane Up in Flames (South Korea's Air Disasters Streak)

    Links for the day

11. Announcements and Administrivia

    This week we're going out for two days in a row to celebrate an achievement that's very respectable

12. Gemini Links 29/01/2025: Japan, GTD, and More

    Links for the day

13. Sir, Yes, Sir. The Life of EPO Patent Examiners.

    If working for the EPO makes it harder to sleep at night, take action

14. Links 29/01/2025: Data Privacy Day and Growing Tensions in Europe

    Links for the day

15. Nazi Twitter (aka "X") Became a Troll Site That Lets People Buy a Blue Tick While Its Boss Actively Promotes Neonazi Politicians

    the intellectual level of people who infest the Web through "Twitter" or "X"

16. This is Why They're So Afraid of Richard Stallman (He Tells People the Correct History)

    Then they post about it to Microsoft's LinkedIn

17. Claim: Facebook Deletes Posts of IBM Red Hat Critics

    As always, follow the money (advertisers)

18. Links 29/01/2025: Climate Crisis and "It’s time for the Xbox to fade away" (Microsoft Lose)

    Links for the day

19. Links 29/01/2025: Buying Groceries During a Trade War, Political 'Retro'

    Links for the day

20. Network Improvements Tomorrow

    "Network maintenance" down in London

21. Articles About Free Speech at Facebook

    'Facebook vs Linux' story is now receiving a lot more media coverage

22. We Were Right About stallmansupport.org Making an Error by Joining Social Control Media. mastodon.social Suspends stallmansupport.org.

    From what we can guess, accounts can be banned by some oversensitive admin or a mob of users ("bury brigades")

23. "Latest Technology News" in BetaNews Still LLM Slop and SPAM Composed by LLMs (It's Basically a Spamfarm Disguised as a News Site)

    Only a fool would visit BetaNews in search of actual news

24. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

25. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 28, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, January 28, 2025

26. The EPO's Corruption, If It Remains Untackled, Helps the Far Right and Enemies of European Unity/Solidarity

    Do not negotiate with evil

27. The Web, Including Wikipedia, Gets Filled With Lies About Bill Gates, Added by Bill Gates and His PR Team

    Of course Wikipedia is funded by Gates

28. Facebook Banning Linux Sites (or People Who Link to Linux Sites) is Another Symptom of the Web's Demise

    The state of media on the Web is really bad; Social Control Media amplifies the badness, as Facebook serves to show

29. Gemini Links 29/01/2025: Neovim Telescope and Writing Less

    Links for the day

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