Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 27, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Gemini Links 26/05/2025: Intangible Stuff and Slop Issues

   Links for the day

   New

2. The Openwashing Shills Initiative (OSI) - Part I: Complaints to IRS or USDOJ Needed

   If enough people do it, this will be more effective, more so if people who are based in the US do it

3. Open Source Initiative (OSI) Lobbying and the OSI's Status at Stake

   At the end we plan to summarise all the issues in one very long article

4. Breaking Into Other People's Devices Without Authorisation Isn't "Funny" or "Research"

   “Chaos was the law of nature; order was the dream of man.”

5. The Issue Isn't the Internet, the Issue is How People Are Taught to Use or Misuse It

   The Web is circling down the drain. The Internet is not.

6. A Healed Reputation of a Movement's Leader and His Robust Message

   The more aggressively you push against resistors, the more credibility they will gain

7. Links 26/05/2025: Deletions from Microsoft's GitHub, Telegram Blocked in Vietnam

   Links for the day

8. Linux Released Last Night and There's Already LLM Slop With Slop Images

   BetaNoise does not seem to mind this anymore

9. Links 26/05/2025: Walmart Layoffs and DRM Dumpster Fire ('Old' Fire TV Devices Lose Netflix Access)

   Links for the day

10. Gemini Links 26/05/2025: USB Camera Viewer and Fantasy Life

    Links for the day

11. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

12. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 25, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, May 25, 2025

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