Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 30, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Windows is an Unnatural Disaster, It is Also Avoidable

   there's a wide window of opportunity opening

2. Killing the News With Spam and Slop Benefits Those Whose Desire is an Uninformed Population

   adoption of Free software depends indirectly on political activities/activism

3. Open Source Initiative (OSI) Privacy Fiasco in Detail: An Introduction

   Perhaps tomorrow or perhaps next week we'll share more information about what happened and what was reported to the California Privacy Protection Agency

   New

4. Judges Would Never Rule for Men Who Strangle Women or Against Women Who Merely Wrote Articles About Abuse They Had Received From Men

   We don't intend to do "trial by media", so we won't be disclosing claims and defences until it's over

5. Gemini Links 29/03/2025: Less YouTube and More Station

   Links for the day

6. In Some Countries, Such as Thailand, Firefox is Already Measured at Less Than 2% (One Day Firefox Will Get Blocked, Not Only Lack Support)

   Web consolidation around Chrom-isms will doom the Web as we know it

7. Links 29/03/2025: Trademarks Battles, Fires Destroy More Than 3,000 South Korean Homes

   Links for the day

8. Links 29/03/2025: More Crackdowns on Science, "Hey Hi" Slopping is Flopping

   Links for the day

9. Costa Rica Almost Bankrupt Because of Microsoft

   the incidents in Costa Rica are Windows incidents

10. Gemini Links 29/03/2025: Art of Looking, Wireguard, EMacs

    Links for the day

11. Links 29/03/2025: Attacks on Social Security and War Updates

    Links for the day

12. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

13. IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 28, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, March 28, 2025

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