Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 28, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Netcraft's New Web Server Survey Shows Microsoft Down in Every Category

   That Microsoft is still visible in

2. Slopwatch: Anti-Linux Garbage and Fake 'Articles' About GNU and Linux, Courtesy of Serial Sloppers and Slopfarms

   Today there is a frustrating amount of FUD online that wasn't published by humans but instead generated by LLMs

   New

3. What the LLM Scrapers Are Doing to Tux Machines

   So far today it looks like we'll have served about 1.5 million requests at midnight. That's more than 50,000 per hour or 1,000 per minute.

4. Links 27/02/2025: Google Clown Computing Layoffs and Slack Goes Down as Usual

   Links for the day

5. Links 27/02/2025: The Engagement Rehab and Another New Zine

   Links for the day

6. Links 27/02/2025: Microsoft Trying Ads as Sales Fall, Preserving Data From Social Control Media a Real Problem

   Links for the day

7. Hiding Crimes Against Women (i.e. Reputation Laundering) by Misusing Inapplicable Privacy Laws From Another Continent

   As it turns out, "privacy" does not cover hiding illegal activities and if public information exists to prove these illegal activities, then it's perfectly OK to share it

8. Zurich CEO suicide, Martin Senn proximity to Adrian and Diana von Bidder-Senn, Debian

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

9. Debian, CentOS, RHEL source code demise now linked, accelerated after invalid trademark judgment

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

10. Civil Society Should Demand Removal of People Who Sought Removal of Richard Stallman

    Perhaps it's noteworthy that the FSF is now being attacked (again)

11. RTO for You, But Not for Me: How IBM's Managers Try to Disguise Layoffs as "Resignations" or "Retirements"

    What ever happened to corporate ethics?

12. Links 27/02/2025: Conflict Updates, Hacks Caught Red-Handed Misusing Licence to Exercise Law to Submit LLM Slop to Courts

    Links for the day

13. Gemini Links 27/02/2025: Fuzzy Frontiers and New Arrivals at Geminispace

    Links for the day

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 26, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, February 26, 2025

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