Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 13, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Macho Patent Office

   At the EPO there's always room for women in top roles

2. Gemini Links 12/02/2025: "Bream Gives Me Hiccups", Making Chinese Tea, and More

   Links for the day

3. This is Why Codeberg Issues an Apology Today

   This response was clear and relatively swift

4. Destruction and Distortion of Information, Including Facts About Linux (Bonus: This is Destroying the Planet)

   All that LLMs have going for them is hype, and moreover media that intentionally misrepresents them and their supposed capabilities

5. Google Seems to Have Just Killed All Instances of Invidious

   YouTube is rapidly becoming just "another Neflix"

   New

6. Links 12/02/2025: Crytek Layoffs, Security Holes, and Giving Ukraine to Russia

   Links for the day

7. Relaying GAFAM Talking Points and Lies Using GAFAM LLMs, or Slop Pasted in by Brittany Day

   linuxsecurity.com is relaying slop, i.e. misinformation

8. Photos From This Evening's Talk by Dr. Richard Stallman in Torino, Maybe a Video Soon

   The talk that Dr. Richard Stallman gave today (a few hours ago) was recorded and streamed

9. IlSoftware.it Covers Richard Stallman's Visit to Give Talks in Italy

   The publication is in Italian, the talk was in English

10. EPO Staff Representatives Confront the President Who Says 'F

    New

    king' in Front of Female Workers Over Measurable Discrimination Against Female Colleagues

    Central Staff Committee versus Lukashenko's sponsor

11. The Register Studies (to Affirm) Reports of IBM Layoffs "at the Finance and Operations business unit"

    something about that specific unit

12. Links 12/02/2025: SSL FUD, DEI Phase-out, Felonies Committed by MElon (Data Breaches)

    Links for the day

13. Italian Media Covers Richard Stallman's English Talk Ahead of Tonight's Public Appearance

    article in La Stampa

14. Microsoft Skype in a Freefall: About 20% Decrease in Site Traffic in 3 Months (Amid Microsoft Phasing Out Credits)

    Microsoft axing more services/features may mean that now they scrape the bottom of the barrel and Skype will simply die, discontinuing service (like ICQ) in a matter of years

15. Gemini Links 12/02/2025: Depression, Gabbro, WikiTok, and More

    Links for the day

16. Links 12/02/2025: Health, Security, and Monopolies

    Links for the day

17. Gemini Protocol is Increasingly Important to the Net

    Gemini Protocol will turn 6 this summer

18. Former EPO Manager Warns That the Illegal 'Court' for "Unitary Patents" Enables “Law Shopping”

    Daniel X. Thomas opposed the very existence of the UPC, which any honest person could recognise was both illegal and unconstitutional

19. Like GAFAM, the EPO is Passing the Financial Pains to Staff

    the EPO is operating illegally at this point

20. Morale at Microsoft Ruined by the Company Labelling Thousands of Workers 'Low Performers', Sacking Them on the Spot and Denying Them Basic Benefits

    people laid off as "low performers" go to social control media to bemoan the label

21. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

22. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 11, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, February 11, 2025

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