Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 08, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Layoffs and Shutdowns at IBM, Not Just Microsoft

   Same as Microsoft

2. With Workers Back From a Holiday Weekend, Microsoft Layoffs Carry on, More Waves to Come

   Now it's Monday and people are bad to work, even some journalists

3. You Need Not Wave a Rainbow Flag This Month to Basically Oppose Arseholes Looking to Disrupt and Divide the Community

   Don't fall for it

4. What Miguel de Icaza and Microsoft Lunduke Have in Common

   Similar aims, different methods

5. The 'Corporate Neckbeard' is Not the "Good Guy"

   Works for IBM

6. Microsoft's Nat Friedman Became Unemployed the Same Time the SLAPPs Against Techrights Started Coming From His Friends (Weeks After We Had Exposed Scandals About Him and the Serial Strangler, His Best Friend, Who Got Arrested a Few Days Later)

   Nat Friedman is not "Investor, entrepreneur"

7. Weeding Out Extremism in Our Community

   To me it seems like Microsoft Lunduke is rapidly becoming like a "hate preacher" who operates online, breeding an extremist ideology or trying to soften its image

8. Censorship Versus Fact-Checking and Quality Control

   It's not censorship but a matter of quality control

   New

9. The FSF's (Free Software Foundation, Inc.) 2025 Summer Fundraiser Already Past Halfway Line

   This is where GNU/Linux actually started

10. Mozilla Had No Good Reason to Outsource Firefox Development to Microsoft

    What does Mozilla plan to do when GitHub shuts down?

11. Mozilla Firefox Did Not Die, It Got Killed

    To me it'll always look like Mozilla got killed by its sponsors, especially Google, which had a conflict of interest as a sponsor

12. Dalai Lama Succession as Evidence That Determined, Motivated People Can Reach Their Nineties

    And we need to quit talking about their death all the time

13. Dan Neidle, Whom Brett Wilson LLP SLAPPed (on Behalf of Corrupt Rich Tax Evaders), Still Fighting the Good Fight

    Neidle fights for the poor people

14. Wayland Should Start by Dumping Its Very Ugly Logo

    Wayland wins the "ugliest logo" award every year

15. Stop Focusing on Hair Colours, Focus on Corporate Agenda

    If someone commits a crime, it does not matter if his or her hair was mostly white or there was no hair or a wig or whatever

16. Links 07/07/2025: Science, Conflicts, and a Fictional K-pop Group

    Links for the day

17. Gemini Links 07/07/2025: Being a Luddite and Announcement of Gotify

    Links for the day

18. Links 07/07/2025: XBox Effectively 'Dead', DMCA Subpoena Versus Registrar

    Links for the day

19. The Nasty Smear (and Stereotype) of "Neckbeard" or "Greybeard" is Ageism

    This is the sort of stuff they might try to volley at critics of Wayland

20. Why Many of Us Use X Server and Will Continue to Use It For Many Years to Come

    Don't make this about politics

21. Brett Wilson LLP Uses Threats to Demand Changes to Pages or Removal of Pages Without Even Revealing Which Staff Member Does That (Sometimes People From Another Firm!)

    This has been in the public for years

22. Dan Neidle Said "It Really Then Became a Job of Tormenting" Lawyers Like Brett Wilson LLP (Who Threatened Him for Exposing Crimes, Just Like They Threatened My Wife a Few Months Later)

    he and his wife decided to take on the evil people and their evil lawyers

23. Large Language Models (LLMs) Externalise Their Cost to the Free Software Foundation (FSF)

    "The forty-sixth Free Software Bulletin is now available online!"

24. Reinforcing the Allegations Some More, Bryan Lunduke Digs His Own Grave

    In his latest episodes he merely repeats his own lies, which I debunked using evidence right from his own mouth

25. Global Warming and Free Software as a Force of Mitigation

    we'll need to think about Software Freedom, not just brands like "Linux"

26. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

27. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, July 06, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, July 06, 2025

28. Gemini Links 07/07/2025: BaseLibre Numerical System and TUI Rant

    Links for the day

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