Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 07, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Two Risks to Companies: The Microsoft Culture and the Microsoft Tools

   Novell was killed by a form of "social engineering" by Microsoft

2. It's Hard to Trust People Who Worked - Not Only Those Who Still Work - at Microsoft

   Bryan Lunduke is just what people would call an "arsehole of a person"

3. Links 06/07/2025: Climate Change and "The Right to Criticise"

   Links for the day

   New

4. [Video] "Copyleft Isn't a Bug."

   "Copyleft isn’t a bug. It’s a feature. GNU GPL forced the world to treat code like a public good."

5. Being in Social Control Media Means Exposing Oneself to Heckling

   Richard Stallman does not (either himself or directly) post to any social control media

6. Links 06/07/2025: Airlines Perils, Scams, and Breaches

   Links for the day

7. For the Second Time, Bryan Lunduke From Microsoft is Siccing Racist Trolls and Vandals at Me

   You're only reinforcing the point we made yesterday

8. Links 06/07/2025: End to End Encryption at Risk, Reuters Twitter ("X") Account Withheld in India

   Links for the day

9. Gemini Links 06/07/2025: Tinylog and Certification Rotation

   Links for the day

10. PCLinuxOS Sites Coming Back, Gradually

    let's just be patient

11. Social Control Media, Even If Based on Free Software, Still Has Many Problems

    a distraction from what actually mattered and still matters

12. IBM is Not Your Master

    IBM makes friends with people who exclude the majority of the population: women

13. Help Fund the Free Software Foundation (FSF)

    If you have some dollars to spare, go support the FSF

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 05, 2025

    IRC logs for Saturday, July 05, 2025

16. A Short History of Attacks on Techrights (and Boycott Novell Before That)

    good opportunity to tell again the story of several (not all) attempts to silence us

17. The Mainstream Media Took 4 Days to Realise Microsoft Shut Down Its Operations in Pakistan and Fired Everybody

    We estimate that Microsoft has had about 29,000 layoffs since January

18. Leadership in Free Software

    Don't let IBM lead. It's a terrible flag bearer.

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