Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 30, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. People's Understanding of the History of GNU/Linux is Changing

   RMS is not a radical, he's just clever enough to see and foresee what's going on

2. [Video] Cory Doctorow Explains DMCA: DRM in the Browser (or Webapp) Will "Make It a Felony to Protect Your Privacy While You Use It."

   Pycon US Keynote Speaker Cory Doctorow

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3. Links 29/05/2025: Chinese Cracking Against EU Institutions (Prague), More Assaults on Media and Its Funding Sources

   Links for the day

4. EPO Workers Caution That the Officials Are Still Illegally Trying to Replace Staff With Slop (to Lower Quality and Validity of European Patents)

   Nobody in Europe voted for any of this

5. Links 29/05/2025: US Health Deficit and Malware Disguised as Slop Generator

   Links for the day

6. Links 29/05/2025: Turtle Roadkill, Modern 'Tech' as a Sting

   Links for the day

7. Thanks for All the Fish, Linux Format

   people who once wrote for it (or for other magazines) comment on the importance of this news

8. Links 29/05/2025: YouTube Problem and Giant Privacy Hole in Microsoft OneDrive

   Links for the day

9. United States Courts With Sworn Testimonies Are on Our Side, We'll Present the Same Here

   Chronicling what happened is a moral imperative

10. Serial Sloppers Ruin and Lessen the Incentive to Cover "Linux"

    The Serial Sloppers (SSs) ought to be named and shamed, but almost nobody does this

11. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

12. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, May 28, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, May 28, 2025

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