Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 29, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Even Microsoft (MSN) Covers Richard Stallman's Public Talk in Milan 2 Days Ago

   He spoke in Spanish earlier this month (Alicante)

2. Very High Attendance Level at Richard Stallman's Talk Shows People Can Relate to His Message

   Smear campaigns have their limits

   New

3. Links 28/05/2025: 'Emulation Layers' (Measurements and Linguistics), Libraries, and Discomfort

   Links for the day

4. Links 28/05/2025: More Arrests for Bitcoin-Connected Torture and Prosecutions for Dieselgate-Linked Executives

   Links for the day

5. Gemini Links 28/05/2025: Techo-authoritarianism With Slop Plagiarism and "No Online June" (Going Offline)

   Links for the day

6. Links 28/05/2025: GitHub MCP Exploited and MathWorks Discovers Huge Windows TCO

   Links for the day

7. Microsofters Were Scheming to Take Over This Entire Web Site (in Their Own Words!)

   Money gets spent censoring/deplatforming people who speak about real issues; no money gets spent actually tackling those underlying issues

8. Gemini Links 28/05/2025: Celsius-Fahrenheit, Endless Scrolling/Infinite Scrolling, and Trapping LLM Slop Bots

   Links for the day

9. Bicycles for the Minds and the Story Harrison Bergeron

   "The goal of having people in charge of the tools they use and that the tools should amplify ability" has long been abandoned

10. Prison gate backdrop to baptism by Fr Sean O'Connell, St Paul's, Coburg

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

11. More Photos From This Week's Milan Talk by Richard Stallman

    The posts are in Italian, not English

12. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

13. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 27, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, May 27, 2025

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