Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 09, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

1. Linux Foundation is a Mediator for Microsoft et al, Not for Small Companies That Support Rather Than Attack the GPL

   Many people still wrongly assume that because it is called "Linux Foundation", then it is pro-Linux and represents the same mindset

2. This Past Friday, Confirming What We Said All Along About Brett Wilson LLP: It's Shrinking, Has Considerable Debt, Loss of Net Assets Despite the Microsoft SLAPP Money

   The documents only became publicly available less than 2 days ago

3. There Was Always Too Much 'Crazy Stuff' Going on Around Freenode

   What many IRC users lost sight of

4. Exposing Crime is Not a Crime (It Never Was)

   In the eyes of rich and powerful people, those who speak about their crimes are the "criminals"

   New

5. Links 08/06/2025: Tiananmen Carnage Censorship Persists, North Korean Goes Offline

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Links 08/06/2025: Love as an Ethnographic Method and Monitorix Gemini-Frontend v0.1

   Links for the day

7. Links 08/06/2025: Exposure of More GAFAM Surveillance and Social Security Records Compromised

   Links for the day

8. Some of the Many Reasons We Sued Microsofters for Harassment

   perpetrators of harassment

9. For 20 Years Many People Were Sharecropping for Canonical's Oligarch, Now He's Deleting All Their Contributions

   "Ubuntu has erased instead of archiving the trove of material at Ubuntu Forums"

10. GNU/Linux Distros Abandoning Microsoft GitHub

    Will curl be next to leave Microsoft GitHub?

11. Expect More XBox Mass Layoffs Soon If the Rumours Are True

    From a Microsoft media operative

12. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

13. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 07, 2025

    IRC logs for Saturday, June 07, 2025

14. Europe Needs to Move Away From GAFAM; The Sooner, the Better

    Europe - not just the EU - must abandon GAFAM as soon as possible

15. The Issue Isn't GNOME's Promotion of Diversity But GNOME Corruption, Abuse, Censorship, and Worse

    So-called "Conservative" (republican, pro-Trump, bigoted) people want you to think the problem with GNOME is politics

16. When the News Sources Become Scarce and Increasingly Full of Polluted/Contaminated 'Content' (With LLM Slop and Slop Images)

    Integrity matters

17. "Linux" Sites That Spew Out LLM Slop

    We're lacking enough material for another "Slopwatch"

18. Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part V: Breaking the Law, Just Like EPO

    We'll hopefully cover some of the pertinent details later this year

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