Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 21, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Deja vu: Hitler's Birthday, Andreas Tille elected Debian Project Leader again

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

2. Microsoft's 'Lawsuit Diplomacy' (SLAPPs Riding UK Libel Law and Piggybacking UK GDPR, Inapplicable!) Will Only Give a Worse Image to Microsofters (and Microsoft), Give Exposure to Even More Suppressed Facts and Scandals

   Microsoft came to dominate some sectors because of (or owing to) crimes; Microsoft won't just go away without some more crimes.

3. Five (or Three) Years Without Social Control Media

   Glyn Moody quit X (Twitter)

   New

4. Links 20/04/2025: Partly Assorted Scientific and Political Leftovers

   Links for the day

5. Links 20/04/2025: Many Data Breaches and Growing Censorship Wave

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Links 20/04/2025: Canadian Elections and "Use the Best Tools You Have for the Current Environment"

   Links for the day

7. Links 20/04/2025: Bleeding Constitution and ChatGPT Infuriates Users Some More

   Links for the day

8. Chinese OEMs (and World's Largest) Pave a Path Out of Microsoft Windows

   So Microsoft now values (or prices) Vista 11 at just $140?

9. Gemini Links 20/04/2025: Contradictions of Mark Carney and Blog Questions Challenge

   Links for the day

10. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

11. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 19, 2025

    IRC logs for Saturday, April 19, 2025

12. Electronics in People's Bedrooms

    Modern technology not only blurred the gap between "functions" of rooms

13. Why GNU/Linux is Growing

    There's growing interest in GNU/Linux right now because people do not fancy buying a new PC just to 'upgrade' (more spying) Windows

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