Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 15, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. 'India Today' is a Slopfarm, Sometimes 'Covering' "Linux" With Slop Images

   New example of pure BS

2. Rumours of IBM Layoffs Again, This Time Marketing

   It's "bad marketing" to talk about layoffs

3. Slopwatch: linuxsecurity.com and hamradio.my (in Planet Ubuntu) Are at It Again With LLM Slop About "Linux"

   LLM slop does not save time

4. Bluewashing Ends DEI at IBM and at Red Hat (HR or Hiring Become Gender- and Race-Neutral)

   All that "whitelist is racist" stuff is likely a thing of the past

   New

5. Gemini Links 14/03/2025: Grizzy Bear and Prime Beats

   Links for the day

6. Links 14/03/2025: ProPublica Admitting That It Uses Slop (Foolish Move), RIP Mark Klein

   Links for the day

7. Windows is Fast Becoming Insignificant to Zimbabweans

   based on this survey, less than 1 in 6 Web requests may originate from Windows

8. The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): The OSI Does Not Speak For You, OSI Staff Speaks for GAFAM/Microsoft (the Paymasters)

   they speak for proprietary software companies, but they wear "open" on their sleeve

9. Microsoft Money Used for Abuse of Women and Against Journalism in Support of Women (the Victims)

   "Never interrupt your opponent while he is in the middle of making a mistake."

10. Links 14/03/2025: Chinese Tensions With Australia, Putin Turns Down Ceasefire

    Links for the day

11. Gemini Links 14/03/2025: Löjl and Docker Context Stuff

    Links for the day

12. Links 14/03/2025: Scam Currencies in the US and Oligarchs (Including GAFAM) Controlling All the Major Policies

    Links for the day

13. Antisemitic Attacks on Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS) in Wikipedia This Week

    Did the man strike a nerve or what?

14. Links 13/03/2025: Intel Rotates Figurehead and South Korea Imports Karen People From Myanmar

    Links for the day

15. Meanwhile at Microsoft Canonical...

    Promoting proprietary surveillance by a company that actively attacks Linux in a lot of ways

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 13, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, March 13, 2025

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