Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 02, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsoft Uses LLM Slop to Defraud (or Rob) Shareholders

   Microsoft is basically defrauding its shareholders by LLM slop

2. The "Davos Effect": Tarnishing the Reputation of Places Not by Overtourism But by Oligarch Infestation

   The last Venice needs is an affiliation with Venetian oligarchs

   New

3. Links 01/07/2025: "Independence Day in Taiwan", Bounties on Software Patents

   Links for the day

4. What Happens When Your Law Firm is Preoccupied With Harassing and Trying to Extort a Humble Couple in Manchester, Even on Behalf of Violent Microsoft Staff From Another Continent

   It's good to see that law firms which operate in bad faith are perishing

5. Lawyer X, Law Firm X and Elon Musk's X: scandals linked by Old Xaverian

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

6. Gemini Links 01/07/2025: Distraction-Free Writing and Hytale Mismanagement

   Links for the day

7. Links 01/07/2025: "Beauty of Blogging" and "Etiquette of Collapse"

   Links for the day

8. The Web is a Dead End

   We need to adopt alternatives

9. When Words Lose Their Intended Meaning

   examples of words that, at least in the technical spheres, don't mean what they sound like

10. People Who Disagree With You on Technical Matters May or May Not Agree With You on Political Things (But Usually They Do)

    What bothers me a great deal is seeing left-leaning people accusing other left-leaning people of being "nazis"

11. "Too Much Choice" and "Too Many Programming Languages"

    What IBM and its apologists aim for was attempted in the 1930s and it failed

12. Microsoft Lost 400,000,000 Windows Users, According to Microsoft

    more people adopt smaller computers and many people replace Windows with GNU/Linux, as they don't really need a new computer

13. Half a Year Gone, What's to Come Next

    In the second half of 2025 we expect to be done with the Microsoft SLAPPs

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 30, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, June 30, 2025

16. People at the Very Top of Microsoft Know How Bad Things Really Are

    There's no product that can replace the former profitability of Windows licensing and stuff that went on top of Windows

17. Gemini Links 01/07/2025: Mid Year and a Tour of Old Languages

    Links for the day

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