Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 09, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. No, We Don't Want to Go "Viral" (and You Probably Don't, Either)

   "Viral" junk gets forgotten quickly

2. Thinking About Abandoning 'Google News' Altogether Due to Easy Poisoning by LLM Slop

   As long as Google News keeps sending traffic to these leeches, it'll be very hard to justify relying on Google News for anything at all

   New

3. Graveyard of Mastodons: A Vast Number of Inactive Accounts

   More than 80% of users in mastodon.social (the "big one") are no longer active

4. Gemini Links 08/03/2025: Reading Cory Doctorow's 'Little Brother', Abandoning GAFAM Forever

   Links for the day

5. Windows is Being Eradicated

   On the Web, in Africa in particular, user strings or UAs that say "Windows" are becoming more rare

6. For International Women's Rights Day (Today) Staff Representatives at the European Patent Office (EPO) Opened Up on Gender Discrimination at the Office

   Office discrimination against women is widely known; unless you sleep with men in management

7. Links 08/03/2025: International Women's Day, Software Patents Being Squashed

   Links for the day

8. Under the Pen Name "John O'Donnell" (LLM Slop, Not Real Article or Author) LinuxLinks Pushes Spammy Page

   it happened some hours ago.

9. Links 08/03/2025: Tariff Self Harm and Mostly Solved Diseases Making a Comeback

   Links for the day

10. Links 08/03/2025: Climate Change Causing Food Shortages, Selling Off Chrome Still in the Cards

    Links for the day

11. Gemini Links 08/03/2025: Driving in Japan, GrapheneOS, Tariffs Silver Lining

    Links for the day

12. Working Like a Pack of Hyenas, the Microsofters Try Hard to Hide the Truth and Actively Censor Critics

    They even target women

13. The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): Bylaws of the OSI a Shocking Oversight

    That's what the OSI is right now: a salesperson

14. Links 08/03/2025: Microsoft Failures, Further Attacks on Speech in Hong Kong

    Links for the day

15. Gemini Links 08/03/2025: Physical Albums, Analog Computing, Deleting All Social Control Media

    Links for the day

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 07, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, March 07, 2025

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