Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 06, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Nat Friedman Had Left Microsoft GitHub Exactly One Week Before Matthew Garrett Sent His First SLAPP (Which Was an Empty Threat, He Was Abusing the Legal System of Another Continent to Terrorise Critics Who Had Just Unearthed Major Microsoft Scandals)

   And it was likely talked about by his lawyers around the exact same time Nat Friedman was packing up

   New

2. Pushing Microsoft's Proprietary Trash/Trap as "Open" and "Linux" (Windows is 'Linux' Now?)

   Maybe it's time to just stop saying "FOSS". The people who use that term are promoting Microsoft.

3. Slopwatch: Comparing Linux to Vermin, Attacking BSD With LLM Slop, and Helping Microsoft Demonise Linux/OpenBSD/SSH Over Weak User Passwords

   Microsoft must be laughing its arse off, seeing how a bunch of Serial Sloppers (no skills, no comprehension, no integrity, no creativity) and slopfarms use Microsoft LLM to flood the Web with anti-Linux FUD

4. Links 05/06/2025: US Poised for Another $2.4 Trillion to Debt, Cops Want GAFAM Kill Switches

   Links for the day

5. Links 05/06/2025: First US Spacewalk 60 Years Ago, GNU Octave 10.2.0 is Out

   Links for the day

6. Scandinavia Saying Goodbye to Microsoft

   The Danes have had enough of Microsoft

7. GNU/Linux Measured at 6% in Bangladesh, According to statCounter

   Windows isn't growing, it's going away

8. Gemini Links 05/06/2025: Loop Earplugs Review and ANS Forth

   Links for the day

9. Armenian Adoption of GNU/Linux

   Russian influence in Armenian must be worrying to Microsoft

10. Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part II: Turning a Once-Respected Patent Office Into a Circus and Laughing Stock

    It's not legal, but administrators who don't care about the law and don't fear the law would just go ahead and turn things to junk

11. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

12. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, June 04, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, June 04, 2025

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