Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 09, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Links 08/05/2025: Mass Layoffs at Google Again, India/Pakistan Tensions Continue to Grow, New Pope (US) Selected

   Links for the day

2. "Victory Day" - Part I: That is the Day Microsofters Who Assault Women Pay for Their Actions in Foreign Land (Using "Guns for Hire" Who Attack Their Own Country for American Dollars)

   Adding a friend from Microsoft to the docket didn't help

3. Gemini Links 08/05/2025: Practical Gemini Use Case, Shutdown of the Blanket Fort Webring

   Links for the day

4. Links 08/05/2025: "Slop Presidency", US Government Defunds Public Broadcasting

   Links for the day

5. Lasse Fister, Organiser of Libre Graphics Meeting, Points Out the Code of Conduct is Likely Violated by the Same People Who Promote Codes of Conduct (and Then Bully Him Into Cancelling a Keynote)

   I am starting to see Lasse Fister as another victim

6. LLM Slop Attacks Not Only Sites of Free Software Projects But Also Bug Reporting Systems (Time-wasting, in Effect "DDoS")

   Microsoft, the leading purveyor and promoter of slop, is a cancer

7. The Richard Stallman (RMS) "European Tour" Carries on In Spite of the Nuremberg Incident

   Some people spoke about how they saw yesterday's talk

8. Over at Tux Machines...

   GNU/Linux news for the past day

9. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, May 07, 2025

   IRC logs for Wednesday, May 07, 2025

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