Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 22, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Google News is Rewarding Slopfarms, Not Journalism

   Don't read junk from chatbots

2. Richard Stallman, Whose Site is Trusted by Greater Manchester, Has Come to the United Kingdom

   He doesn't suck up to the Crown, so he'll never be "knighted"

3. On Desktops/Laptops in Singapore Does a Fifth of Users Run GNU/Linux?

   Probably not, but it's growing fast there

4. Links 21/04/2025: Fake Ceasefire and Software Patents (Fake Patents) Thrown Out

   Links for the day

5. 4 Years Ago Freenode Crumbled From Within

   there are still hundreds of thousands of users online at any given time

6. Microsoft Has Tainted GNOME, Which Has Key People Acting as a SLAPP Front Against Techrights (Trying to Censor the Site by Extortion and Many Threats)

   One common denominator (other than Microsoft salaries) is GNOME, which was led by an actual professional crank until she quit so suddenly months ago

7. Homeland of Linux Kernel Turning to GNU/Linux?

   Adoption of Vista 11 has been relatively low

   New

8. Gemini Links 21/04/2025: Remembering Pope Francis, Crystal Simulation

   Links for the day

9. Doing Microsoft's Job. On IBM's Payroll.

   today's Red Hat cannot recognise threats even after a head-on collision

10. Teaching GAFAM in Schools is Like Teaching Children to Smoke Tobacco

    So suggests an FSF presentation

11. Companies With Fake Values and a Fake Economic/Financial State (Phony Valuations)

    It'll all go up in smoke, eventually

12. Links 21/04/2025: Microsoft LLM Slop (Plagiarism) Going Out of Control, CT Scans' Cancer Problems Was Underrated

    Links for the day

13. GNOME Has a Long History (Over a Decade) Misusing the Code of Conduct (CoC) to Censor (Cull) Legitimate Technical Criticism

    This has nothing to do with manners, it's about control (by cover-up)

14. According to StatCounter, This is What Linux Adoption Looks Like (Based on Web Requests Visible to StatCounter)

    How much worse will it get for Microsoft?

15. Gemini Capsules Still Outsourcing to Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Now Measured at Less Than 10 (or Less Than 0.3%)

    In Geminispace, Let's Encrypt is not commonly used

16. Twisting Microsoft's Failure (Transmitting Malware) as "SSH Backdoors" and a Linux Problem

    Somehow we almost always find that those FUD pieces about "Linux" are based on obvious falsehoods

17. Vista 11 Has Burned OEMs and Some Move to GNU/Linux

    When people can finally avoid Windows (there's no reason to attach it to new PCs) there will be a lot more GNU/Linux users out there

18. Remember That Microsoft Mass Layoffs Are Imminent Because Its 'Empire' is Falling Apart

    European politicians take a long, hard look a Free software

19. Richard Stallman in the UK This Week, Scheduled to Give Two Public Talks (London and Oxford)

    Those talks do not cover the same topics

20. Gemini Links 21/04/2025: April, Autism, and ASN

    Links for the day

21. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

22. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 20, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, April 20, 2025

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