Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 18, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Inviting the Founder of GNU/Linux to Events (It Only Costs His Travel Expenses) and Recalling the True Origins

   It's reassuring to see belated recognition

   New

2. Links 17/05/2025: Microsoft Kills "Surface Laptop Studio" (More Canceled Products/Units), Groups Caution About Harms of Social Control Media

   Links for the day

3. Gemini Links 17/05/2025: Sympathy Algorithm and SSH on Alternative Ports

   Links for the day

4. Slopwatch: Microsoft's Anti-Linux Propaganda and Cover-up, Slopfarms Clogging Up Google News

   slop-tracking activities that observe googlebombing of "Linux"

5. AstroTurfing by IBM in thelayoff.com is Highly Risky (and Likely Outsourced)

   Microsoft did this in Reddit (and got caught), so why won't IBM too?

6. Links 17/05/2025: Stabber of Salman Rushdie Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison

   Links for the day

7. Gemini Links 17/05/2025: Happier on Gemini and Manipulating Reddit

   Links for the day

8. ComEd and Microsoft: A Mess of Spaghetti Held Together By Circus Clowns

   Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer

9. Over at Tux Machines...

   GNU/Linux news for the past day

10. IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 16, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, May 16, 2025

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