Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 05, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Our Case is a Very Easy Win, the SLAPPs From Microsofters Were a Grave Error, and Censoring Information Won't Work (It'll Only Ever Backfire)

   Censoring is what people do when they lose the argument

   New

2. Slopwatch: Mindless Slop Pieces, Fake Images and Text, Linux FUD on the Cheap

   spewed out by Microsoft-controlled LLMs

3. Links 04/06/2025: Workers' Strikes, Sudan Exodus

   Links for the day

4. Links 04/06/2025: Linux Foundation PR Spam and Lee Jae-myung Wins Election

   Links for the day

5. Gemini Links 04/06/2025: Future Leaders of the World and Platforming Jordan Peterson

   Links for the day

6. Links 04/06/2025: WSL Backfiring on Microsoft and "Disney, Microsoft Announce Massive Layoffs"

   Links for the day

7. Say the Truth, the Rest Will Follow

   There's no guarantee that writing the truth will result in an audience (or readership), but over time - in the long run - people generally gravitate towards what they know or feel to be crude truth, not just what's comforting (albeit false or self-deluding, usually groupthink dictated from above)

8. How to Expose High-Level Corruption Without Getting in (Too Much) Trouble

   Democracy depends on free press and freedom of the press depends on being able to safely publish (and keep available) material that bad people don't want to be known to anybody

9. In-Depth EPO Coverage at Techrights Turns Eleven

   11 years is a very long time

10. Windows Measured Below 10% in Afghanistan, GNU/Linux Gaining a Lot

    about 80% are Android (Linux) users, compared to only about 10% for Windows

11. Poland's Political Predicament and Social Control Media

    Democracy and fake "tech" don't mix well; the latter tends to interfere with the former and that's why we get more "Putins" out there

12. EPO: Taking Away From the Staff to Give More to the Rich

    The Central Staff Committee (CSC) wrote to EPO staff earlier this week

13. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

14. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 03, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, June 03, 2025

15. Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part I: It's a Lot Like the EPO

    we can commence a series soon

16. Gemini Links 04/06/2025: Inescapable Questions and Quitting All "Oligarch Tech"

    Links for the day

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