Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 24, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Another Site Bites the Dust: "Open Source For You" Becoming a Slopfarm (LLM Slop)

   What a shame. Another dead site.

2. Microsoft 'Studies' Again? Leon Musolff is Writing Papers With Microsoft.

   Even if one can see/find a link to "the study" (in the Bezos-controlled publication), most people won't look any further and just take everything at face value.

   New

3. Open Source Initiative (OSI) Promoting Microsoft and Proprietary Software Using Microsoft Operatives

   Because nothing says "Open Source" like GPL violations facilitated by Microsoft

4. Links 23/04/2025: Crackdowns on Dissent, Palin Loses Libel Retrial Against New York Times

   Links for the day

5. Links 23/04/2025: Hard Times and Digital Amnesia

   Links for the day

6. The GNU/Linux Site Formerly Known as "linoxide.com" is Back... as an LLM Slopfarm!

   Better for linoxide.com to go offline than to do this

7. Get Rid of Back Doors, Don't Obsess Over Bounties and Other Corporate PR Stunts (or Needless Reboot Rituals)

   Security as a term has mostly lost its meaning due to repeated misuse for many years

8. Richard Stallman to Speak in Oxford University Exactly a Day From Now

   outsourced to GAFAM

9. Links 23/04/2025: "Hiding Corruption" and "The Cost of Defunding Harvard"

   Links for the day

10. statCounter Helps Visualise Just How Deep in Trouble Microsoft is (Especially in Africa)

    Microsoft sabotaged efforts to connect Africans and equip them with GNU/Linux laptops

11. The Register is Using Linux-Hostile Clickbait in Articles of Linux Proponents

    Don't be a "whore" to advertisers, team El Reg

12. Microsoft Windows in Cyprus Lacking a Future

    Most people access the Web there from mobile

13. Matrix Has a Severe Problem With Illegal Images

    If Matrix cannot get the CP problem under control, many projects and people will dump Matrix

14. Never Try to Justify Strangulation of Women (Not in the US and Not in the UK)

    Joint post by Mrs. Rianne Schestowitz and Dr. Roy Schestowitz

15. Links 23/04/2025: Tesla Profits Plunge 71%, Intel Ready to Lay Off 20% of Staff, Microsoft and IBM Layoffs

    Links for the day

16. Microsoft's Most Profound Issue is That People Moved to 'Mobile' and "App Stores" (Microsoft's Presence There is Negligible)

    Expect a wild ride for Microsoft this year

17. Google News is Amplifying FUD and Lies About Linux (and OpenSSH/SSH) by Promoting Slopfarms With Machine-Generated FUD and Slop Images

    Google should know better

18. Gemini Links 23/04/2025: Librarians, Anubis, and Refactoring a Gemini Capsule

    Links for the day

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 22, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, April 22, 2025

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