Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 03, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Gemini Links 02/04/2025: Books and Cold Tea

   Links for the day

2. Links 02/04/2025: More Layoffs, Nokia Again Takes Advantage of Illegal and Unconstitutional Patent Court With Nokia Staff as 'Judges'

   Links for the day

3. Links 02/04/2025: Seizures and Returns to Windows of 24 Years Ago

   Links for the day

4. LLM Slop Helps Obscure and Distort News About Layoffs (IBM, GAFAM)

   It's hard to find accurate information

5. Links 02/04/2025: Microsoft Developers Are Threatening to Go on Strike, World Backup Day Noted

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Protocol Has Growing Appeal (the Web Got Too Bloated and Full of LLM Slop)

   For any "data plan" with bandwidth limits or "tiers" it would be cheaper to use/browse Geminispace

7. The Web Can Survive LLM Slop, But Only If We Collectively Shun and Discourage Serial Sloppers

   Doing nothing ought not be a possibility

8. Amid Secret Shut-downs and Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (4 Waves of Layoffs in 3 Months of 2025) Some Microsoft Staff Expected to Go On Strike

   workers going on strike

9. Gemini Links 02/04/2025: No more on Mastodon and Gemini Mention Script in Go

   Links for the day

10. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

11. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 01, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, April 01, 2025

12. My Motion Disbarring or “Striking Off” Brett Wilson LLP for Enabling Violent Americans Who Try to Crush Microsoft Critics in the United Kingdom by Multiple SLAPPs

    "Guns for hire" (for Microsoft people who received Microsoft salaries)

13. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Hijacked Again by Patent Litigation Industry, as President Cheeto Prioritises Aggressors

    The "mafia" has taken over the "industry" and the Federal system (justice and constitutions trampled upon)

14. Ubuntu Slop and FUD Manufactured With LLMs and Funded (by Oneself) 'Studies'

    Slop and FUD are ruining the Web

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