Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 09, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. This is the Man Who's Attacking Linus Torvalds et al in "a Disease" (Social Control Media)

   One thing that Richard M. Stallman and Torvalds can agree on is that Social Control Media should be avoided

2. Unlike GAFAM, Free Software Serves You, It Does Not Serve Governments and MElons (Overlapping Forces)

   Tired of oligarchy controlling your life through gadgets and "apps"?

3. When It Comes to Social Control Media, Linus Torvalds is Channeling Techrights

   GAFAM workers know exactly who to aim at

4. New EPO Paper: Promoting (Rewarding) People Who Grant Many Illegal European Patents to Make More Money (at Europeans' Expense) While Patent Courts in the EU Are Themselves Illegal

   now the coup is sort of complete and even the "courts" are part of the corruption

5. Slopwatch: Carnival of LLM Slop and FUD Spewed by Bots, Pasted in by MaKenna Hensley and Day

   Welcome to the Web in 2025. Articles about "Linux", "Security", and the Web (e.g. "Firefox") are fake.

   New

6. Links 08/02/2025: UK Back Doors and Religious Fundamentalists in Positions of Higher Power

   Links for the day

7. Today's IBM (Red Hat) Isn't the Company That Fought a Microsoft-Sponsored SCO in Court

   IBM is nowadays in a state of rapid disintegration

8. When You Simply Rebrand Almost Everything as "Hey Hi" ("AI"), "Hey Hi Workloads", "Hey Hi Datacentres" and Whatnot

   The "growth" has been a growing lie for years if not decades

9. Microsoft Windows Falls to 12% in Myanmar

   Remember that Microsoft is virtually 0% in mobile

10. Gemini Links 08/02/2025: "Thought Leaders" and Returns to Gemini Protocol

    Links for the day

11. Links 08/02/2025: MElon Coup, Mass Layoffs at Facebook, and PlayStation Network Down

    Links for the day

12. On Wars Against Founders

    We need to insist that founders remain

13. Links 08/02/2025: News Corp Admits Traffic Declines, Wildlife Trafficking Tackled

    Links for the day

14. Gemini Links 08/02/2025: Lamp and Notions

    Links for the day

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. IRC Proceedings: Friday, February 07, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, February 07, 2025

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