Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 23, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Richard Stallman's Next Public Talk is in Milan, Italy Next Week

   Happy hacking

2. Why We'll Continue Covering EPO Abuses (Other Patent Offices as Well, as the Need Arises) for Many Years to Come

   We're basically becoming Russia

3. These Feet Are Made for Walking

   Humans are apparently so very clever that they decided to form a "progressive" consensus: feet no more

4. OFTC Has Just Culled About a Third of Its Online Users

   It's not the first time they purge or force offline many people/bots

5. Central Staff Committee of the EPO Opposes Abuses Against EPO Staff, Challenging SuccessFactors Stunts

   Europe became institutionally colonised

6. Gemini Links 22/05/2025: "Conspirituality" and Visiting One's Old University

   Links for the day

   New

7. Slopwatch: Slopfarms That 'Hallucinate' (Yield Falsehoods) Cited as Credible Sources and Microsoft Media Gaslighting Everybody

   Part of the problem is, Google News

8. More Media Coverage and Photos From Richard Stallman's Presentation in Liberec (Czech Republic)

   Here are some photos

9. The Microsofter Who Kept Sending Threatening Post and E-mail to My Wife Has Been Spooking Women for at Least Two Decades

   censorship was the ultimate goal

10. Links 22/05/2025: Openwashing, Dumping Microsoft's Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub), and New Climate Disasters

    Links for the day

11. Gemini Links 22/05/2025: Crimson Pro Font and CGI in Bash

    Links for the day

12. IBM Goes to India, Fires People in the United States (Under the Guise of "Relocation" or Similar), Accusation of Bribery in the Company

    LLM slop sites (some are pure slopfarms) from India say the IBM layoffs result in hiring "AI" (the "I" stands for India)

13. Links 22/05/2025: TikTok Laying Off Again, Microsoft-Backed Builder.ai Set for Bankruptcy, Scam Altman Uses 'Funny Money' to 'Buy' (Hire) Company

    Links for the day

14. We Seem to Have Abandoned Science and Replaced Sound Policy With Private Patent Shareholders and College Dropouts Like Bill Espteingate

    Because of what they did there are now many people out there who reject all vaccines

15. The Evolution of Microsoft's War on GNU/Linux

    13 sins

16. My New Desk Arrangement (and More Breaks From the Keyboard)

    all in all yesterday I devoted 4-5 hours to redoing and shuffling stuff

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, May 21, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, May 21, 2025

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