Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 12, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Slopwatch: A Cause for Hope, the Hype is Dying

   For about a month we showed that becoming a slopfarm - for several weeks - resulted in utter failure and ruin for BetaNews

2. The EFF Sided With the Team That Strangles Women and Tells Women to Kill Themselves

   They say that apathy and inaction are a form of a "stance"

3. Exemplary List of Things That Are Not Artificial Intelligence or Even Intelligence

   The "age of AI" or "era of AI" or "AI revolution" mostly boils down to rebranding, just like "the cloud"

4. GitHub Copilot Can Cause the Bankruptcy of GitHub to Come Sooner and GitHub to be Shut Down Just Like Skype

   Some publicly available information suggests that even for each paid subscriber for plagiarism (LLM 'coding') GitHub Copilot still loses more money than it makes

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5. Microsoft - Like IBM - Does the "Relocation" Tricks (Start Over Elsewhere, Then Get Sacked by Microsoft)

   It is a "low blow" or a "dick move"

6. After the Free Software Foundation's Campaign to Raise Money Let's See Campaigns to Finish Off Microsoft (Vista 11, GitHub etc.)

   Microsoft is in effect collapsing

7. Your Publications Have No Major Impact Unless or Until You "Get Some Heat"

   we're on the right track

8. Links 11/07/2025: Censorship Worsening, 3D Printing Success Stories, UK and France Unite Around Nukes

   Links for the day

9. Gemini Links 11/07/2025: Zorin OS and Scriptonite Updates

   Links for the day

10. Links 11/07/2025: Hardware, Russia, and China

    Links for the day

11. Links 11/07/2025: Intel Collapsing and Microsoft Resorts to Bribery to Push Slop Via Obligatory Education

    Links for the day

12. "Nat [Friedman] and [the Serial Strangler From Microsoft] Were Always Exceptionally Close," Says Former Housemate and Colleague

    Now Alex (hiding behind another name when that suits him) not only attacks women but also people who merely report what he did to women

13. New Letter From the European Patent Office Explains How the Office Plots to Grant Many Illegal Patents, a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of 'Growth'

    Open letter to Mr Rowan (VP1) and Mr Aledo Lopez (COO)

14. Abuse of Process

    5RB is employing people who help violent men

15. What Microsoft's Nat Friedman and Microsoft Lunduke Have in Common

    "Get in da car; No time to explain, loser"

16. Microsoft and IBM Don't Have Much of a Future (They Mostly Pretend at This Point)

    IBM and Microsoft are in some ways alike but in many ways different

17. It's Not Just Twitter (or X.com) That's Dying, Microsoft's Equivalent is Dying Also

    Unable to find a business model

18. Wayland is Bad for the Planet

    If you use Wayland, it'll take you longer to accomplish tasks and you will consume more energy (or battery life)

19. Legitimising Those Who Sabotage You

    Microsoft is a very malicious company

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 10, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, July 10, 2025

22. On Microsoft Layoffs

    we might be looking at about 60,000 Microsoft layoffs since 2023

23. EPO Management Already Breaks Its Own Promise (Lie) on "Bringing Teams Together"

    This gut-punching move happened just 2 days ago

24. Gemini Links 11/07/2025: Occupation of 2025 and "Old Man Yells At Soundcloud"

    Links for the day

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