Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 01, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsoft Staff Explains How Microsoft Swindled Employees and Avoided Paying Out Severance Pay (Microsoft Hasn't Much Money Left in the Bank)

   This is a classic way to avoid paying workers

2. Links 31/01/2025: Mass Layoffs at Amazon and Microsoft, Sweden Again Fails to Protect Critics of Violence

   Links for the day

3. Slopwatch: Fake Articles About "Linux" and More (Latest Roundup Featuring BetaNews, Janus Atienza, and Brittany Day From Guardian Digital, Inc)

   LLM slop season

4. "Not one of us" by Dr. Andy Farnell

   Elon Musk has brought embarrassment to nerds and technologists

5. Gemini Links 31/01/2025: "Bulletin Buble" and "Why Blog?"

   Links for the day

6. Static Site Generators (SSGs) Pay Off: Vastly Faster Sites, Much Smaller Hosting Bills

   success story for SSGs

7. Of Note: Linux Foundation Has Already Let Linux.com Rot for About 4 Months (No Activity)

   there's no campaign aside from marketing spam there

8. Techrights Should be Even Faster Now

   We're now better off

9. Over at Tux Machines...

   GNU/Linux news for the past day

10. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 30, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, January 30, 2025

11. Richard Stallman (RMS) Gave 3 Talks in India in Less Than a Week

    In India this month we've not seen a single negative comment about RMS

12. Indian Data Biases statCounter For or Against "Linux"

    In statCounter, the GNU/Linux increases and decreases are deeply tied to what it does with data collected in India

13. The Corporate Media Pretends That Facebook ("Meta") Has Performed Well, But Its Debt Doubles Every 2 Years Despite Mass Layoffs

    That same media also helps parrot misleading financial claims

14. Microsoft's Debt Surged by More Than 6,000,000,000 Dollars in Just 3 Months

    numbers released hours ago

15. The Sheer Irony of Microsoft Proxy Accusing Others of 'Stealing'

    Wherever DeepSick's data came from, Microsoft (or its proxy) is in no position to issue criticism.

16. The Difference a Decade (and GAFAM Money) Makes

    Credibility cannot be purchased

17. [Meme] The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Critics Because Its Message is Effective

    Applying to others the same standards one is willing to violate?

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