Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 06, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Links 05/03/2025: Prioritising Science, Patents Squashed

   Links for the day

2. New Short Clip of Richard Stallman's Thoughts on the "Hey Hi" (AI) Hype, Courtesy of Manuel Cuda News

   about 6 hrs ago

3. What Microsoft and GitHub Really, Really, REALLY Do Not Want You to See or Know About

   They're trying to misuse law in a completely different continent or to allege that reporting important facts is in breach of privacy law

4. Just Because Common Currencies (Including the US Dollar) Are Considered Uncertain Doesn't Mean People Should Adopt Volatile Multi-Level (Pyramid) Schemes

   the scammers are trying to "go mainstream"

   New

5. Gemini Links 05/03/2025: News Processing, Misbehaving, and Git

   Links for the day

6. GNU/Linux Cracking Past the 4% Barrier in Hungary

   There are still quite a few very famous developers and Free software projects from Hungary

7. Meanwhile in the Matrix Room #dei:fedoraproject.org

   Remember that IBM does a lot of perception manipulation

8. Rumour About Red Hat Layoffs Yesterday

   Can somebody from Red Hat or someone who knows someone there (impacted or not) confirm that there are layoffs this week at Red Hat?

9. What is fixated behavior? Stalker or just a fan of Emma Raducanu?

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

10. In Iran, GNU/Linux Reaches New Highs, According to statCounter

    Does that make sense? In light of geopolitics? Probably.

11. Always Safety First

    We have some reasons to suspect that one of several parties (possibly not in the UK but having connections here), having suffered major and very expensive setbacks, may look to harm the messenger one way or another

12. Links 05/03/2025: Starbucks Debt Soars and CFO Changed, Apple Pretends to Value Privacy, "Cloudflare Blocking Privacy Focused Users From Accessing Third-Party Websites"

    Links for the day

13. Canonical's Latest Love Letter to Microsoft (Ubuntu Promoting Proprietary Spyware With Back Doors)

    Typical Canonical, promoting Microsoft (and sometimes Windows) instead of competing against them

14. GNU/Linux Climbs to Record Levels in Switzerland. Can the EU, Norway, the UK, and Switzerland Divorce GAFAM?

    Germany openly speaks about becoming independent from the US. How about Switzerland?

15. Gemini Links 05/03/2025: Living in Interesting Times, Font, and Social Control Media with Gos v1.0.0

    Links for the day

16. Use RSS Readers Instead of Social Control Media

    RSS readers were designed to save time. Social Control Media was designed to waste time.

17. The 'Windows Era' Already Came to an End

    Microsoft said to shareholders everything would be alright because of "clown computing" and then "hey hi"

18. The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): Microsoft Committing the Largest GPL Violation in Human History, Then OSI Covering That Up on Microsoft's Payroll

    LLMs don't make GPL violations any more noble or acceptable; it's not hard to see what OSI was paid by Microsoft for

19. Social Control Media as a Rapid Race to the Bottom - Part II - Think Before You Talk

    The 'socmed' nonsense does not exist in our home

20. Links 04/03/2025: Hardware, Health, Data Breaches, Politics

    Links for the day

21. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

22. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 04, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, March 04, 2025

    ---

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2025-02-27 to 2025-03-05

    2763	/about.shtml
    2578	/n/2025/03/03/The_UEFI_hype_and_Microsoft_s_lies.shtml
    1788	/n/2025/03/04/FSF_Amicus_Brief_Aspose_PDF_for_NET_24_2_0_OOXML_docx_and_Micro.shtml
    1279	/n/2025/03/04/Transcript_of_Richard_Stallman_s_Interview_With_Manuel_Cuda_New.shtml
    1018	/index.shtml
    876	/n/2025/03/04/The_Fall_of_the_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_An_Introduction.shtml
    867	/irc.shtml
    755	/n/2025/03/04/Microsoft_s_Entryism_as_Mortal_Risk_Danger_The_Example_of_the_O.shtml
    656	/n/2025/02/17/Links_17_02_2025_Blogroll_Conundrum_Research_Scientists_Under_S.shtml
    628	/browse/latest.shtml
    607	/n/2025/03/04/Luxembourg_GNU_Linux_at_8_Based_on_Estimates.shtml
    555	/n/2025/02/26/Microsoft_Devoured_the_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Now_It_s_Just.shtml
    542	/n/2025/03/03/Doing_Free_Software_for_a_Living_in_an_Era_or_a_Time_of_Abundan.shtml
    513	/n/2025/03/03/In_Central_African_Republic_Windows_Has_Pretty_Much_Fallen_to_Z.shtml
    511	/n/2025/03/04/Thorsten_Glaser_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_resignations_due_to_.shtml
    490	/n/2025/03/04/New_Interview_With_Richard_Stallman_in_Italy_Manuel_Cuda_News.shtml
    488	/n/2025/03/04/Paraguay_GNU_Linux_Surging_to_New_Usage_Levels_7_According_to_s.shtml
    475	/n/2025/03/04/Chad_All_Time_Lows_for_Windows_According_to_statCounter.shtml
    471	/n/2025/03/03/3_Out_of_4_in_Cuba_Use_Linux_to_Access_the_Web.shtml
    463	/n/2025/03/04/If_They_Try_to_Censor_You_on_Some_Topic_Then_You_Should_Cover_T.shtml
    461	/n/2025/02/28/Links_28_02_2025_Domestic_Violence_Fatalities_Escalations_Again.shtml
    460	/n/2025/02/28/Skype_is_Dead_Microsoft_Shuts_It_Down_in_a_Few_Months_for_Good.shtml
    452	/n/2025/03/05/The_Windows_Era_Already_Came_to_an_End.shtml
    450	/n/2025/03/03/Links_03_03_2025_Monetisation_Myth_and_Microsoft_s_LLMs_Helping.shtml
    449	/n/2025/03/03/New_Series_A_Deep_Dive_Into_the_Severe_Corruption_of_the_Open_S.shtml
    448	/n/2025/02/27/Links_27_02_2025_Microsoft_Trying_Ads_as_Sales_Fall_Preserving_.shtml
    441	/n/2025/02/19/Springtime_Layoffs_at_IBM_2025_and_Statement_From_IBM_European_.shtml
    435	/n/2025/02/27/Civil_Society_Should_Demand_Removal_of_People_Who_Sought_Remova.shtml
    428	/browse/index.shtml
    422	/n/2025/02/28/Gemini_Links_28_02_2025_offpunk_Lagrange_and_More.shtml
    410	/n/2025/03/02/Links_02_03_2025_Microsoft_Outlook_Goes_Offline_Foreign_Owned_S.shtml
    405	/n/2025/03/01/Another_Day_and_Another_LLM_Slopfest_From_Madame_Day_at_the_Slo.shtml
    403	/n/2025/03/03/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    401	/n/2025/03/04/Microsoft_is_losing_across_all_sectors.shtml
    397	/n/2025/02/27/Links_27_02_2025_Google_Clown_Computing_Layoffs_and_Slack_Goes_.shtml
    395	/n/2025/03/03/The_New_Series_About_the_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_and_the_Mic.shtml
    393	/n/2025/03/01/Links_01_03_2025_Scam_Altman_s_Latest_Excuse_Google_Price_Hikes.shtml
    389	/n/2025/03/02/According_to_statCounter_Windows_Falls_Off_a_Cliff_in_Maharlika.shtml
    381	/n/2025/03/03/After_Fund_raising_Campaign_the_Free_Software_Foundation_Still_.shtml
    380	/n/2025/02/26/The_Free_Software_Foundation_s_Fund_raising_Efforts_Continue_Un.shtml
    373	/n/2025/03/03/Links_02_03_2025_Day_Off_POWER9_Console_Challenge.shtml
    366	/n/2025/03/03/Links_03_03_2025_Mass_Layoffs_in_IBM_China_Intel_Still_in_Troub.shtml
    363	/n/2025/03/01/As_Prices_Soar_and_Services_Shut_Down_Even_YouTube_Starts_Deman.shtml
    355	/n/2025/02/28/Links_28_02_2025_Mass_Layoffs_at_Autodesk_Employee_Burnout_and_.shtml
    352	/n/2025/03/01/Links_01_03_2025_GB_News_Loses_Over_100_Million_Pounds_Zelensky.shtml
    352	/n/2025/03/03/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_March_02_2025.shtml
    351	/n/2025/03/04/The_Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Belatedly_Comments_on_Case_Tha.shtml
    351	/n/2025/03/02/Microsoft_Windows_Falls_to_All_Time_Low_in_Thailand.shtml
    350	/n/2025/03/02/Windows_Used_by_Only_One_in_Six_Asians_to_Access_the_Web_Accord.shtml
    349	/n/2025/03/04/Crossbow_tragedy_bigger_than_Kyle_Clifford_social_media_culture.shtml
    347	/n/2025/03/01/Getting_Serial_Sloppers_to_Knock_the_Habit_of_Plagiarism_by_LLM.shtml
    344	/n/2025/03/04/Links_04_03_2025_Microsoft_Korea_Game_Industry_Association_Work.shtml
    342	/n/2025/02/28/Video_Full_Video_of_Richard_Stallman_s_Talk_Earlier_This_Month_.shtml
    341	/n/2025/02/28/IBM_is_Trading_Employees_for_Revenue_Acquired_by_Buying_Compani.shtml
    341	/n/2025/03/03/Microsoft_Windows_Down_to_8_5_in_South_Africa.shtml
    340	/n/2025/03/01/Links_01_03_2025_Squashing_Software_Patents_USPTO_Facing_Additi.shtml
    338	/n/2025/03/04/Links_04_03_2025_Universities_Are_Under_Attack_Windows_Attracts.shtml
    336	/n/2025/03/04/Social_Control_Media_as_a_Rapid_Race_to_the_Bottom_Part_I_That_.shtml
    335	/n/2025/03/04/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    333	/n/2025/02/28/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    332	/n/2025/02/27/Zurich_CEO_suicide_Martin_Senn_proximity_to_Adrian_and_Diana_vo.shtml
    331	/n/2025/03/04/Slopwatch_linuxsecurity_com_and_Other_Linux_Sites_With_LLM_Slop.shtml
    327	/n/2025/02/27/Debian_CentOS_RHEL_source_code_demise_now_linked_accelerated_af.shtml
    327	/n/2025/03/01/Justice_Will_Find_Its_Way_at_the_End.shtml
    327	/n/2025/02/28/It_Has_Been_Over_a_Year_Since_Takedown_Demands_From_Brett_Wilso.shtml