Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 27, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. What's Very Vexing to GAFAM, EPO and Others Is That It's Incredibly Hard to Censor Us (and Nobody Ever Successfully Did That Before)

   resist, do not capitulate

2. Receiving SLAPPs and Collecting Them Like Trophies (the SLAPPs Always Fail)

   People who file lawsuits bring even more attention to themselves (or to embarrassing statements about them)

3. Year of GNU/Linux on the Laptop?

   It's not happening only in Lenovo

4. What People Must Understand About the Open Source Initiative (OSI)

   some facts about the Open Source Initiative (OSI)

5. More Copyright Lawsuits Against LLM Slop Providers and Suppliers of LLM Slopfarms Would Benefit Society

   It's not just bad for the Web and for society; it's also legally dangerous

6. In defence of JD Vance, death of Pope Francis

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

7. Three Years in Prison for Disney Employee’s ‘Menu Hacking’: The Economic Fallout of Digital Menus

   Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer

   New

8. Microsoft Isn't on the Map in USSR

   To them, it's either Google or Yandex

9. In Central America Windows Became a Small Force

   These are countries where Windows used to have well over 95% of the "market"

10. Site May be Even Faster Now

    It basically takes less than a tenth of a second to serve the page

11. Many of the Scandals Are Interconnected (Overlapping People and Corporations)

    We're only getting started

12. Links 26/04/2025: General Assassinated in the Town of Balashikha, US Promoting Seafloor Mining

    Links for the day

13. Links 26/04/2025: Facebook Layoffs Again, Remembering What's Real, and Say No to Mass Surveillance

    Links for the day

14. Links 26/04/2025: NOAA Budget Cuts and "Dog Days Ahead"

    Links for the day

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 25, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, April 25, 2025

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