Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 27, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. EPO Examiners Point Out to the Heads of Delegations in the Administrative Council of the EPO That the "AI Policy" of the Office is Illegal

   "the Central Staff Committee (CSC) asks the Administrative Council to exert its supervisory role and instruct EPO management to enter into genuine dialogue with the staff representation on the AI Policy, to revise the “Leverage AI” target of 90% AI-automated classification in the SP2028 and to put in place the measures supported by staff in the resolution."

2. French Cities Dumping Microsoft Because They Recognise Software Freedom, Open Standards, GNU/Linux Autonomy

   We hope that more French cities - maybe Paris - will follow Lyon.

3. LWN is a Voice of GAFAM (Through Linux Foundation, Their Front Group or Occupying Force Inside Linux)

   remember who the chief editor works for and who sponsors many of the articles

4. EPO Squeezing the Staff - Part II - Office Breaks Rules, Ignores Courts, Defies Justice

   False promises everywhere

5. IBM - Like Microsoft - is a Dying Company and Perishing Brand ("AI" is a Lie and Decoy)

   "Arvind is cutting costs (layoffs, PIPs, forced RTO, etc...) like crazy. IBM offices are closing all over the place in the US."

6. "Code of Conduct" Invoked When Fedora and Red Hat Users (Since the 1990s) Don't Want to Use Wayland

   That is IBM "DEI"

7. Microsoft Layoffs Next Week: About 10% to be Laid Off in Microsoft Gaming (2 Days Before Independence Day), About 20%+ of XBox Staff

   Microsoft is rapidly collapsing

   New

8. Keeping Things Accessible

   Gemini Protocol seems to be growing

9. Technical People Need Technical Lawyers

   Technical Litigants in Person (LIPs) have many real and concrete advantages

10. 10,000+ Articles in About 20 Months (and How We Got Here)

    More bloat does not beget efficiency and "bells and whistles" tend to have a hidden cost

11. Links 26/06/2025: Illegal Kangaroo Court (UPC) Failing Scandinavia, K-Pop Agencies Abuse People

    Links for the day

12. Gemini Links 26/06/2025: AuraGem Twitch Proxy is Back and UI Sluggishness

    Links for the day

13. Links 26/06/2025: Noise Pollution Considered High in Europe, Mass Layoffs Next Week in Microsoft Confirmed, Very Large in Scale and Scope

    Links for the day

14. No, I Don't Want Your Latest XYZ, ThankYouVeryMuch...

    Wayland is finally ready?

15. China Keeps Breaking Into Microsoft Systems, So for True Sovereignty, Nations Wary of China Need to Dump Microsoft

    Looking at data from Taiwan (not China) and Maharlika (not Philippines, the king is dead and Spain is out), there are encouraging signs

16. Linux Journal Wants Ads on Its LLM Slop or Ads as 'Articles'

    it's basically another BetaNews

17. How to Kill a Monopoly

    in 10 simple steps

18. Mozambique: GNU/Linux Rose From 0.5% Last Year to 3% This Year

    what (or how) statCounter is measuring

19. Next Month Marks 11 Years Since Our In-Depth EPO Coverage

    The same is happening to Microsoft right now

20. Free Software Foundation (FSF) Campaigns Against Vista 11, Adds 4 New Associate Members Per Day

    If more people understood the underlying principles, more of them would flock to Free software overnight

21. Canonical Seems to Have Culled Some Sources of LLM Slop From Planet Ubuntu

    It's like "junk food", it's not information

22. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

23. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, June 25, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, June 25, 2025

24. On "Weak Claims"

    For the record, they sent me unjustified threats, repeatedly tried injunctions (censorship)

25. EPO Squeezing the Staff - Part I - Burnout and Family Health

    more exceptional circumstances

26. This Month's Mail (MX) Server Survey Shows Microsoft at 0.20% "Market Share"

    We need to remind people that desktops and laptops decline (in proportion to other client devices) and at the "back end" GNU/Linux is already dominant and has long been dominant

27. Links 26/06/2025: Filespooler Guide and Learning to Code

    Links for the day

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