Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 11, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. If Matthias Kirschner Loves Free Software, He'll Change the Name of the Microsoft-Sponsored Organisation He Governs (in Order to Avoid Confusion)

   The FSF-EEE does not really like Software Freedom, it just loves money (including Microsoft's)

2. EPO's Local Occupational Health, Safety and Ergonomics Committee (LOHSEC) in The Hague: Workers Are Getting Sicker, Conditions in Which to Assess Patent Applications Deteriorate

   "According to the Office statistics the total number of days of absence has gone up from 12.4 to 13.1 total number of sick days per Full Time Equivalent (FTE) from 2023 to 2024."

3. The Standard Needs to Improve Its Standards for Fact-Checking, Aaron Swartz Had Nothing to Do With Reddit and He Detested the Company That Created It

   The Web is already bad enough as it is

4. New Paper From the EPO Highlights Large-Scale Discrimination at the Office, Where People Are Rewarded for Granting More and More Illegal Patents

   Even the Kremlin is probably more competent than this

   New

5. Scheduled Maintenance Tomorrow and on Valentines

   If the site (or Gemini capsule) is offline for a bit, the maintenance windows are likely the root cause

6. Soylent News Lessens the Scope of Discussion Due to Persistent Trolling and Online Abuse

   if they make it a lot harder for new people to participate, then they limit the "general appeal" and reach

7. When the Livestream of Richard Stallman is Apparently Bury-Brigaded Offline You Finally Learn to Avoid Google/YouTube for Streaming

   Please, people, stop uploading to Google/YouTube

8. Links 10/02/2025: Ban on D.E.I. Language, Listeria Risk/Outbreak

   Links for the day

9. Links 10/02/2025: Announcing "Stringless" and Mental Health Improvement

   Links for the day

10. Links 10/02/2025: Facebook Mass Layoffs, "Meta" Did What Aaron Swartz Had Done But to the Tune of 81.7 Terabytes

    Links for the day

11. Microsoft Tarnishing the Brand of Arch

    Of course Arch can do whatever it wants, but being associated with Microsoft is a badge of shame

12. The Ultimate and Inevitable Fall of OpenAI (Even Brave is 'Bigger' Now)

    "When you advertise at the Super Bowl, you’ve reached just about every consumer in America. It’s the last stop. If you’re not profitable yet, you never will be."

13. Adding Slop to Your Blog Only Makes One Assume All the Text is LLM Slop

    Simon Coter from Oracle has turned to slop

14. Macao is Leaving Microsoft Behind

    Windows is falling to new all-time lows

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 09, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, February 09, 2025

17. Microsoft's WSL (LSW) Shows That It Can Never Love Linux, Only Windows

    that's just how Microsoft rolls

18. Activism in Times of War and a Coup

    'Linux' Foundation works for fascism

19. What the Silencing of Neatnik Tells Us About Linus Torvalds Inside a Microsoft-Dominated 'Linux' Foundation

    Is Linus Torvalds free to express his mind as he wishes about every topic, even just any technical topic?

20. Windows Down to 11.35% in Senegal, as Measured by statCounter

    Another all-time low (Windows was at 99% in 2009)

21. "Latest Technology News" in BetaNews is LLM Slop Promoting OOXML and Proprietary Software at the Expense of LibreOffice and OpenDocument Format (ODF)

    Remember that "open-source" and Open Source aren't the same; the former is fake

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