Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 19, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. [Meme] 9AM Meeting at Brett Wilson LLP

   Brett Wilson LLP in space

   New

2. Links 18/07/2025: Peace With PKK and Connie Francis Dies

   Links for the day

3. Gemini Links 18/07/2025: Alhena 5.1.8 and Bornhack 2025

   Links for the day

4. How to Top Up a "Limited Liability" With Even More Limitations (Dodging Accountability in the UK)

   Some people call it a "shell game". Sometimes it's done for tax evasion purposes.

5. Free Software Foundation, Inc. (FSF) Inches Towards 75% of Fund-Raising Target

   Will the cutoff date be extended again?

6. Gemini Space (or Geminispace) Grows, But Usage of Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Drops Further

   Ideally, all Gemini capsules should use self-signed certificates

7. Links 18/07/2025: More Microsoft Layoffs in Activision, The New Stack (Sponsored by Microsoft) Complains About Openwashing

   Links for the day

8. Gemini Links 18/07/2025: OCC25 Gnus for Reading Usenet and RSS Feeds, Small Web Updates

   Links for the day

9. Listing as Staff People Who Left the Company More Than Six Years Earlier

   There are apparently no laws against that

10. Brian Fagioli Shovels Up LLM Slop (Plagiarism) Onto Slashdot, Then Uses Slashdot for Affirmation or as Badge of Honour

    Notice how some of his latest slop is presented ("as featured on Slashdot")

11. Social Control Media Productivity

    Snapping photos of the bone

12. The Law Firm SLAPPing Us For the Microsofters Lost 72% of Its Tangible Assets in the Past Year, According to Its Own Reports

    That might help explain why they're willing to tolerate serial stranglers from Microsoft as clients

13. Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity.com Slopfarm and Slopfarms Propped Up by Google News

    "As LLM slop is foisted onto the WWW in place of knowledge and real content, it now gets ingested and processed by other LLMs, creating a sort of ouroboros of crap."

14. Links 18/07/2025: Weather Events and Health Hazards

    Links for the day

15. Microsoft's All-Time Low in Finland

    Microsoft is in a freefall

16. Security: Shane Wegner & Debian statement of incompetence

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 17, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, July 17, 2025

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