Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 10, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Brett Wilson LLP Sent Over 5 Kilograms (or Over 12 Pounds) of Legal Papers! Because Writing About Microsoft Abuses is 'Illegal'.

   How do you guys sleep at night? On a big pile of Microsoft money?

2. Extremism as a Weapon Against GNU/Linux (Microsoft Lunduke)

   He ought to know the Halloween Documents. Wasn't he a Microsoft employee when these came out?

   New

3. Gemini Links 09/07/2025: Extreme Testing and Golang Documentation in Geminispace

   Links for the day

4. Vice President of the European Patent Office (EPO) Complains That Techrights Gives Visibility to Legal and Technical Issues at the EPO

   "Follow-up on enquiries relating to Dir. 1218 and 1001"

5. Slopwatch: linuxsecurity.com and Various Slopfarms That Lie About "Linux" and Are Promoted by Google News

   Google does not seem interested in tackling this problem

6. Links 09/07/2025: War Updates and Microsoft Moving to India to Cut Costs

   Links for the day

7. GNU/Linux Was Always a 'Movement' of Inclusion of Tolerance

   Even the licences themselves remove access barriers

8. Links 09/07/2025: "Subprime AI Crisis" and "OpenAI May Be in Major Trouble Financially"

   Links for the day

9. Huge Piles of Legal Papers ('Paper DDoS') Do Not Impress Judges and Regulators

   they just make judges and regulators even more suspicious of the eagerness to resort to 'paper DDoS'

10. Lunduke Isn't Even Hiding His Anti-Linux Agenda (From "Linux Sucks" to "Linux is Pedophiles")

    just trying to make a lot of trouble

11. Some People Use Computers to Get Actual Work Done

    Tolerance and inclusion must extend to acceptance that some people don't agree with you, might never agree with you, and imposing what allegedly works for you on them is unreasonable

12. Example of "Old" Things That Still Work

    The notion that something being "old" implies it must be discarded is typically advanced by those looking to sell more of something

13. Some Scheduled Maintenance Later Today

    Typically the most vulnerable service during short interruptions is IRC

14. Computers Are Just a Tool

    People don't get married because they love weddings, folks don't join the army because they love war, and most drivers don't drive to work because they love cars

15. Apple Way Past Its Prime

    Apple deserves a decline

16. The FSF's SysOps Team Recovered From Serious Hardware Issue Within Hours

    About half a day ago I noticed that all/most GNU/FSF sites were not reachable and thus reached out to a contact for any details

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 08, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, July 08, 2025

19. Slopwatch: Turning Bugs Into FUD About "Linux", Getting Basic Facts Wrong

    all the screenshots are of fake articles; we don't want to link to any

20. Technical Reasons, Not Politics: With Wayland "it feels a lot like Linux from 20-25 years ago, which is horrendously frustrating, because it feels like we wasted one or two decades of progress and stability"

    Lately, quite a few benchmarks were published to show Wayland compares poorly compared to what we had

21. PCLinuxOS Recovering From Fire

    It looks like a nightmare scenario, where even backups onsite get destroyed

22. Links 09/07/2025: More Heatwaves, Officials Culled in Russia

    Links for the day

23. Gemini Links 09/07/2025: XScreensaver and Resurrection

    Links for the day

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