Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 30, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Our Desktops Are Not Your Experiments, X is Not an Experiment

   Breaking what already worked

2. Microsoft's Big Lies Regarding This Week's Mass Layoffs Have Already Begun (and They're Already Being Spread by Slopfarms)

   Microsoft is the "market leader" in slop

3. They Made Technology Scary and Taught Us That It's Innocent, Friendly, Even "Social"

   Rejection of all this "apps" and "gadgets" and "Smart" (whatever that means!) status quo isn't a rejection of society

   New

4. Summer Plans in Techrights and Elsewhere

   massive layoffs at Microsoft

5. Explaining the Full Story of SLAPPs From Microsoft Staff

   For every action there is a reaction, for every attack there will be proportionate consequences

6. The Openwashing Shills Initiative (OSI) - Part III: IRS and Status of OSI

   "They lied to the US IRS and there’s a paper trail"

7. IBM Red Hat's Dogmatic Fanaticism Under a Thin Veil of "Modernism"

   IBM now has the audacity to paint people who don't agree as "nazis"

8. Microsoft's Share in Guatemala Fell From 97% to 14%

   Eventually Microsoft will get stuck in a loop of layoffs, layoffs, and more layoffs

9. The Media is Under Attacks Partly Because There's Little Other (Remaining) Press to Speak in Its Defence

   The biggest danger here is that when there's very little press or no "opposition media" left it becomes even easier to crush critics because there aren't many people left to speak about the matter

10. If Your Web Site is Run by Bots, Eventually Nobody Will 'Read' It Except Bots (People Don't Want to Read Slop)

    Eventually people learn from mistakes

11. Links 29/06/2025: Microsoft Releases False/Fake Benchmarks, "Google Wants You to Watch Ads or Take Surveys to Read Articles"

    Links for the day

12. Links 29/06/2025: Data Breaches and Online Censorship

    Links for the day

13. Gemini Links 29/06/2025: "The Price Of Eggs" and Gemini 3D Tic Tac Toe

    Links for the day

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 28, 2025

    IRC logs for Saturday, June 28, 2025

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