Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 27, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. From Strangling Women to SLAPPing Journalists (Microsoft in a Nutshell)

   We won't ever capitulate to Microsofters who strangle women

2. The Short Lifecycle of Twitter Outrage

   The upside is that the "tempo" of social control media is so fast (to cause addiction or "engagement" as the pushers put it) that the persistence of lies in social control media is rather poor

3. Microsoft Devoured the Open Source Initiative (OSI), Now It's Just a Chain of Blunders

   The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is against openness

4. Chronological Index of Techrights

   The index was created after Alex Oliva expressed interest

5. The Free Software Foundation's Fund-raising Efforts Continue Unabated (and With Positive Results)

   Perhaps the cherry on the cake is that Microsoft influence agents now try to attack the people who run the FSF, for merely have the 'wrong' views on political affairs

6. Slopwatch: Another Offending 'Linux' Site Found (Fake Articles About "Linux"), Postgres/PostgreSQL/PSQL Targeted by FUD from LLMs

   It's all slop, as one can suspect

   New

7. Always Doing This Site for Principles, Not Money

   Pro bono

8. IBM employee from Zurich, Switzerland arrested, jailed for tunnel mistake that may have arisen due to sign colours

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

9. Links 26/02/2025: Microsoft's "AI Value" Bubble is Blowing Up, Starbucks in Trouble as Well

   Links for the day

10. Rumour About IBM Layoffs in the UK

    That was 2 hours ago

11. Links 26/02/2025: Science, Hardware, and Politics

    Links for the day

12. Timeline of Microsoft's 2025 Crisis and Growing Panic

    Microsoft already had 3 waves of layoffs this year (not even 2 months have passed)

13. IBM Consulting: Layoffs Already in Progress

    "What are the Deep Blue Thought Leaders World becoming? A rubbish heap?"

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 25, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, February 25, 2025

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