Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 15, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. XBox is Rapidly Turned Into a Slopfarm by Microsoft

   Slop isn't about efficiency and saving money

2. Reboots Should Never be Necessary

   "BUT WHAT ABOUT SECURITY!!"

3. Microsoft's Halloween Documents and systemd, Wayland, Etc.

   Maybe one day Wayland will be widespread. Or maybe not.

4. Changing One's Name Won't Change One's Past

   People who have earned a bad reputation are not magically "entitled" to reset

5. People Who Assault Women Are Not Victims of "Distress"

   It seems like an American tradition. In a country with almost 50 presidents, not even one was a female.

6. Adoption of Gemini Protocol Still Growing

   Gemini Protocol is being obscured by the media - it doesn't help that Google 'hijacked' the word "Gemini" - but people still manage to find out about it, download a client, and use it

   New

7. Coming Soon: Another OSI Scandal, This One Implicating Molly de Blanc

   OSI has been fairly quiet lately

8. Outreachy & Debian pregnancy cluster, Meike Reichle evidence

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

9. Again, "Lunduke is Actually Sending His Audience to Attack People"

   Microsoft Lunduke is not trying to "protect" Linux

10. One of the Most Hilarious Things About the Microsoft SLAPPs

    It's so ridiculous

11. Financial Support for the Free Software Foundation or the GNU Project

    The FSF has extended until Friday its fund-raising campaign

12. Illegally Hiding (or Demanding Secrecy Around) Illegal Requests or Attempts at Extortion

    unlawful communications like threats

13. Gemini Links 14/07/2025: BOFH Archive, Updating Old Palm PDAS, and Nginx vs Slop Bots

    Links for the day

14. Ubuntu is Becoming GAFAM-Like

    What does that say about Canonical and Ubuntu?

15. Slopfarms Which Take Real Articles About GNU/Linux and Turn Them Into Copycats Which Are False

    Even before the LLM hype those were quite common

16. The Firm That Picks on Techrights is Accustomed to Working With Criminals

    Techrights never did anything illegal. So why is it being picked on by people who work with criminals?

17. Microsoft Said the Mass Layoffs Were for "Investment" in "AI", But It's Also Laying Off the "AI" and "Copilot" Staff

    Months ago we showed many so-called "AI" people were getting the boot and this time it's the same

18. DryDeadFish is Dead, Long Live DryDeadFish

    We kept checking, hoping it can recover from some temporary technical issue

19. For Quite Some Time Already Microsoft Attracts Crackpots, Scams, and More

    Occasionally we talk about the situation at IBM as there are many parallels

20. Links 14/07/2025: Chatbots Broken Again, McHire LLM Shows Limits of the Hype

    Links for the day

21. Slashdot Media Turned Linux Journal Into a Slopfarm and Now Slashdot Actively Promotes Anti-Linux Slopfarms

    Yes, "no-nonsense" apparently means actual nonsense

22. Links 14/07/2025: Arresting Photographers, Threats to Revoke US Citizenship Over Criticism

    Links for the day

23. More EPO Leaks on the Way

    We hope that Mr. Rowan will actually try to refute what we say and show, not merely point the finger at the messengers

24. Decommodification is a Corporate Strategy Against Communities

    systemd is led by Microsoft and hosted by Microsoft

25. copyleft.org 'Hijacked' by the People Who Attack the Person Who Created Copyleft

    So far there's nothing "tasteless" in copyleft.org, but that can change at any time in the future

26. Asking People to Take Down Articles and Videos Only Makes These More Popular and "Viral"

    If you do something bad, one of the worst things you can possibly do it try to silence those who speak about it

27. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

28. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, July 13, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, July 13, 2025

29. Two-Thirds Towards FSF Goal, Richard Stallman to Give Talks in Europe

    There are 67 left before reaching the target

30. Brett Wilson LLP "Takes it Personal" (Character Assassination, Not Professionalism). Everybody Can See That.

    On behalf of violent men

31. Gemini Links 14/07/2025: Politicised Tech and "Leaving GitHub"

    Links for the day

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