Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 06, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. “Twibel” Actions Against Comedians (and Why It's a Truly Low Blow)

   they try to make up in quantities for a lack of merit or quality

2. Rewriting Things in Rust

   How far would you go?

   New

3. Linux Foundation Apparently Flirting With Slop (Marketing by LLM-Generated SPAM)

   The Web is in a really bad state!

4. COVID-19 Sped Up Site Improvements in Techrights

   A few months later we created our very own IRC network

5. Gemini Links 05/07/2025: Negative Questions and 'Touching Grass' (Going Outside)

   Links for the day

6. Links 05/07/2025: Dalai Lama Succession as 90th Birthday Approaches, 40 deg C in China

   Links for the day

7. Links 05/07/2025: Hungary and US Defecting to Russia, "Google's Hotseat Hypocrisy"

   Links for the day

8. Gemini Links 05/07/2025: 4th of July 2025 and "Zig Roadmap 2026"

   Links for the day

9. How to Combat the Exploitation and Abuse by Microsoft GitHub

   Not to mention corruption and crimes against women

10. Bryan Lunduke is Actually Sending His Audience to Attack People

    "[Lunduke] is actually sending his audience to attack people."

11. Even The Right Wing is Rejecting Bryan Lunduke

    no wonder he became so irrelevant and marginal

12. Microsoft's MSN Helps Microsoft Spread Lies About the Layoffs' Scale (Well Over 25,000 People Laid Off This Year)

    There seem to be monopolies on lies and on truth

13. The Death of X Has Been Greatly Exaggerated (by Compromised Media)

    X.Org Server is alive and well

14. In 2025 Everything is "AI". Remember Blockchains?

    Talk about what companies and things (services, products, software) actually do, not the labels they use

15. Julian Assange Has Been Free for a Year

    Julian Assange and I disagreed on some things

16. Monopolies and Scalping

    Monopolies gravitate towards price hikes

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 04, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, July 04, 2025

19. Microsoft's August Layoffs Wave: "August is Confirmed for Additional Performance Based Cuts"

    "August is confirmed for additional performance based cuts from the recent connects along with additional organizational cuts."

20. What Microsoft Reputation Laundering (With a Weaponised Law Degree) Looks Like in a Foreign Continent

    You would expect this in uncivilised and primitive countries

21. Slopwatch: LLMs 'Write' Fake or Distorted 'News' About "Linux"

    LLM slop disguised as news

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