Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 18, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. 99.99% Uptime in First Half of 2025

   Since January there was only one noticeable outage

2. When People Call a Best/Close Friend of Bill Gates a "Serial Rapist"

   Good thing that the Linux Foundation keeps the "Linux" trademark ("Linux Mark") clean

3. Microsoft Bankruptcy in Russia, Shutdown in Pakistan, What Next?

   It seems possible that in 2025 alone Microsoft will have laid off over 50,000 workers

4. What Matters More Than "Market Share"

   The goal is freedom, not "market share"

5. UK Media Under Threat: Cannot Report on Data Breach, Cannot Report on Microsoft Staff Strangling Women

   The story of super injunction (in the British media this week, years late)

   New

6. Gemini Links 17/07/2025: "Goodreads for Gemini" and Defence of "The Small Web"

   Links for the day

7. Links 17/07/2025: Anger and Morale Issues at Microsoft, Wars and Conflicts Get Digital

   Links for the day

8. CALEA / CALEA2 is the Real Problem, Not Chinese Operatives Exploiting CALEA / CALEA2 (as Any Other Nation Can)

   CALEA / CALEA2 is more of a front door than a back door

9. Nils Torvalds and Anna "Mikke" Torvalds (née Törnqvis) Hopefully Use GNU/Linux by Now

   "Torvalds Family Uses Windows, Not Linus’ Linux"

10. Attack of the Slopfarms

    FUD-amplifying bots with slop images, slop text (LLM slop)

11. Not My Problem, I Don't Care

    Context/inspiration: Martin Niemöller

12. Honest Journalism About the European Patent Office Ceased to Exist After SLAPPs and Bribes to the Media

    The EPO is basically a Mafia

13. Life Became Simpler When I Stopped Driving and I Don't Miss Driving When I See "Modern" Cars

    Gee, wonder why car sales have plummeted...

14. Why I Believe Brett Wilson LLP and Its Microsoft Clients Are All Toast

    So far our legal strategy has worked perfectly

15. EPO Jobs Are Very Toxic and Bad for One's Health

    Health first, not monopolies

16. Response to Ryo Suwito Regarding the Four Freedoms

    the point of life isn't to make more money

17. Microsoft's Morale Circling Down the Drain

    Or gutter, toilet etc.

18. Tech Used to be Fun. To Many of Us It's Still Fun.

    You can just watch it from afar and make fun of it all

19. Links 17/07/2025: "Blog Identity Crisis" and Openwashing by Nvidia

    Links for the day

20. Greffiers and the US Attorney of the Serial Strangler From Microsoft

    The lawsuit can help expose extensive corruption in the American court system as well

21. The People Who Promoted systemd in Debian Also Promote Wayland

    This is not politics

22. Victims of the Serial Strangler From Microsoft, Alex Balabhadra Graveley, Wanted to Sue Him But Lacked the Funds (He Attacked Their Finances)

    Having spoken to victims of the Serial Strangler From Microsoft

23. Links 17/07/2025: Science, Hardware, and Censorship

    Links for the day

24. Gemini Links 17/07/2025: Staying in the "Small Web" and Back on ICQ

    Links for the day

25. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

26. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 16, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, July 16, 2025

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