Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 26, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Why Techrights Cannot be Vilified (and Instead It Gets SLAPPed Repeatedly by Microsoft People)

   Attack dogs are all "bark"; because they have no actual "bite"

2. Links 25/06/2025: Elon Musk’s Lawyers Caught Lying, WhatsApp Faces More Bans

   Links for the day

3. Wayland Pushers Lose the Argument, Use LLM Slop and Chatbots to Make Up Arguments for IBM

   Another new low and low blow

4. What is "MATA"?

   Think of it as GAFAM or "Meta"

5. WebProNews is a Slopfarm

   Please avoid linking to WebProNews

   New

6. The 'Case' of the Serial Strangler From Microsoft is a Lot of Copypasta (Maybe Also LLM Slop) From the Matthew Garrett 'Case'

   5RB deserves to know and the matter shall be properly reported in due course (when the time is right)

7. Austrian GNU/Linux Usage Up to About 5% as More of Europe Abandons Microsoft

   Since inauguration day the Austrian people have adopted more and more of GNU/Linux

8. Why the "Wayland People" and "Rust People" Will Lose Hearts and Minds (Same Reasons)

   Wayland pushers are fast becoming like "Rust People"

9. 5,600 Pages/Articles Per Year

   So far this year we've kept all the promises

10. BetaNews Beginning to Show What Its True Goals Are

    The 'new' BetaNews won't be about journalism. It's trying to sell things.

11. Microsoft Has Lost "The War"

    We'll soon see the 9th or 10th wave of Microsoft layoffs in 2025 alone

12. Slopwatch: A Wreck and a Dreck, "Flooding the Zone With Dreck" or Flooding the Web With Junk

    "Slopwatch" continues today because we have many new examples

13. Links 25/06/2025: Thwarting More Software Patents, Overlap Grows Between EPO Corruption and Illegal Kangaroo Patent Courts in EU

    Links for the day

14. Brian Fagioli Created Another Slopfarm Targeting "Linux" After BetaNews Became a Slopfarm of Phantom Accounts and Pseudonyms

    Mr. Fagioli even had slop about a dead Torvalds (hypothetical) as clickbait

15. Wayland is Perfect, Nobody Can Escape Its Perfection! (Or Not)

    Do not form on opinion on Wayland based on politics

16. Moral Duty for "Linux Sites" to Speak Out Against LLM Slop

    My wife has long complained about "Linux bloggers" keeping quiet and thus passive about a growing problem: slop

17. In Recent Hours Google News Promoted at Least 3 Slopfarms That Relayed Linux Foundation Propaganda Made by Bots or LLM "Bullshit Generators" (as Dr. Stallman Dubbed Them)

    Google is circling down the drain and Google News too is hopeless

18. Linux Journal is a Slopfarm, It's Experimenting With LLM 'Authors'

    Is Slashdot next?

19. Microsoft LinkedIn is Dying and Many More Layoffs Are on the Way

    LinkedIn is just a failed acquisition of Microsoft. It causes losses and debt.

20. Gemini Links 25/06/2025: Combinatorial Music and Self Hosting

    Links for the day

21. Richard Stallman Coming Back to Europe This Autumn to Give More Talks

    His last talk in Europe attracted about 400-450 people

22. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

23. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 24, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, June 24, 2025

24. Social Control Media, Technology & Catholicism: Synod on Synodality review and feedback

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

25. How Many More Women Will Managers at Microsoft Strangle and Tell to Kill Themselves (or Try to Kill)?

    The world needs to know what happened

26. The New BetaNews: 7 New 'Articles', All of Them LLM Slop

    BetaNews is basically defunct. Nobody writes there anymore.

27. Another "Told You So!": XBox Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (Many Recent Reports Were Chaff and Spin), Many Other Divisions Affected

    With mass layoffs at Microsoft the world would be much better

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