Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 24, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Peter Moon's (Computerworld) Interview With Richard Stallman

   Stallman: If you want freedom don't follow Linus Torvalds

2. At What Point Does Outsourcing Constitute Malpractice?

   Brett Wilson LLP's new staff page is misleading

3. From Do Your Own Research to Do Your Own Search

   The Web is full of garbage; search engines amplify this garbage

   New

4. Law Firm Burgess Mee Does Not Fully Deny Participating in Abusive Litigation for Serial Strangler From Microsoft

   I am not unfamiliar with these tactics

5. The Modus Operandi of Wayland Pushers: Make It Political

   do what I say or you're a nazi...

6. Links 23/06/2025: RFE/RL Contributor Vladyslav Yesypenko Released, Recording Industry Cutbacks

   Links for the day

7. Brett Wilson LLP Solicitors (M): Over 99.9% of Our E-mail is Self-Marketing, We Send You 3.5MB E-mails for Less Than 1KB of Text

   Why would tech people entrust legal matters to such people?

8. United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sailing to GNU/Linux, According to statCounter

   countries in that region will quickly learn the price of neglecting digital sovereignty

9. More People Moving to Geminispace?

   at age 6+ Gemini Protocol seems to have gained some maturity and it seems like more people use it

10. Permutation in LLMs Does, Inevitably, Change Meanings and Therefore LLMs Cannot Properly Rephrase or Summarise Texts

    LLMs lack actual grasp or comprehension of what they spew out

11. Links 23/06/2025: Many Security Breaches, Population Declines

    Links for the day

12. Gemini Links 23/06/2025: "America at the Crossroads" and OpenWRT Surgery

    Links for the day

13. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

14. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 22, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, June 22, 2025

15. Pure Dove

    Different means different, and sometimes those who "deviate" from "the norm" have a point

16. Censorship is a Sign of Weakness Which Invites More Censorship Attempts

    revolutionaries don't succumb to pressure from bullies

17. Why It's Unlikely That LLM Slop Will Dominate the Web in the Long Run

    Slopfarms will eventually perish (they have no actual value) and "survivors" on the Web will be sites that never depended on search engines and social control media

18. GNU/Linux in Argentina Now Measured Near 5%

    Like in central Europe, they must be seeing an increasingly hostile US

19. BetaNews is Fake News, Composed by LLM Slop

    nothing in BetaNews is written by humans anymore

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