Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 26, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Links 25/03/2025: Clownflare’s Slop and Bounties on Fake Patents

   Links for the day

2. Let Them Eat 'Apps'

   Go Appless

3. Linux Runs Almost Everything, But They Almost Never Tell You This (No Marketing Budget)

   Only about 1% (or at most 2%) of the Linux Foundation's budget goes towards Linux; a lot is routed towards Bill Gates and Microsoft promotion

4. Free Software Community Folks Are Closer Together Than the Cliques and Opportunists Rallying Around "Open Source" (Openwashing, Marketing, Conniving)

   Generally speaking, freedom-loving geeks learn to reject morbid elements and trolls, who end up expelled

5. Growing Poverty Rates in the United States of America (or Elsewhere) Beneficial to GNU/Linux Adoption

   Toxic politics around the world, including the US, may mean weaker economies

6. European Patent Office (EPO) Illegally Turning to Slop Behind Closed Doors, Staff Objects to This Hidden Catastrophe

   Who stands to gain from all this and at whose expense?

7. After US Government Funding Cuts the Centralisation of the Web (Especially Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt) is at Risk

   They try to pull the plug on open protocols with decent encryption available (unless it is outsourced to third parties)

8. When Microsoft Folks Who Literally Strangle Women Try to Strangle Microsoft Critics

   Speaking to Court staff yesterday, they too are shocked about those SLAPPs

9. Martinique: Windows Down to All-Time Low

   we cannot expect Windows to ever recover

   New

10. Links 25/03/2025: Terrace Workbench and Spellcheck in LibreOffice on FreeBSD

    Links for the day

11. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) Might Get 'Forked' Soon

    Someone who read our series has already taken a leading role

12. IBM Layoffs in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2025

    Should Free software people trust such a secretive company?

13. Roku Will 'Lead' Attempts to Abolish the Illegal and Unconstitutional Unified Patent Court (UPC), Which Represents EPO Corruption and Lobbyism Spreading Upwards Inside the EU

    When bribery buys policies and courts, even illegal policies and courts

14. Gemini Links 25/03/2025: Relaxation, Literary "Movements", and Gemini Mentions

    Links for the day

15. Links 25/03/2025: Putin Sends Children to Battle, 23andMe Drowns as People's Highly Personal DNA Data Floats

    Links for the day

16. Anticipated in 2018: Lilie James & Location tracking, Googlists complained

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 24, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, March 24, 2025

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