Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 26, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Links 25/07/2025: NOAA Cuts Endanger Lives, "Europe's Self Inflicted Cloud Crisis"

   Links for the day

2. YouTube is a Spamfarm, Slopfarm, and Clickfarm (a Lot of Numbers There Are Fake)

   Those who don't fake look unpopular and unimportant

   New

3. New US Editor in The Register is 84% Microsoft/Windows Booster

   It'll be worrying if it carries on like this

4. Links 25/07/2025: Slop Blunders and China Has Code of Conduct for Lawmakers in HK

   Links for the day

5. Gemini Links 25/07/2025: Some Books and Babies and Capital

   Links for the day

6. They Try to Lecture Us on Ethics

   They even removed "master" from Microsoft GitHub

7. The Future of the Web is One Rendering Engine or 'Flavours' of Chrome

   The future of the Web does not look bright at all

8. Best Sites Are Not Optimised for Any Browser, They Work Equally Well With All of Them

   Red Hat (IBM) is making rubbish sites

9. We Don't Do JavaScript and Pages Are Small

   Thankfully Gemini Protocol has nothing like JavaScript

10. 'Tech' is Not Technology

    Some people use terms like 'Old Tech'

11. IBM's Debt Rose by Almost 10 Billion Dollars in the Past 6 Months Alone

    The "hey hi" circus is coming to an end

12. Yes, Master

    Gaslighting by actual racists

13. Microsoft Bribes and Buys Politicians to Tell Europe What to Do About Free Software (Which It's Attacking)

    Microsoft: we speak for the thing that we are attacking! Follow the money...

14. Making Backups Quickly and Reliably

    Backups are imperative, more so in an age of uncertainty, unpredictable weather, and worsening standards (quality of products going down while prices go up)

15. Techrights Investigation: Estimating the Point in Time LinuxIac Turned Into LLM Slop (Part of the Time)

    Bobby Borisov got lazy

16. 10th Month, Ten Weeks From Now, at Ten AM

    In Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 24, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, July 24, 2025

19. A Nadella Memo Distracts From Microsoft's Cheapening Of the Workforce

    Right now the "MSM" (mainstream media) is flooded/overwhelmed by garbage pieces that relay lies for Nadella

20. Vanishing Faces of GNU/Linux

    Free software projects do not depend on any one person or company to still exist

21. Microsoft Says It Lost 400 Million Windows Users, Now It's Waiting for GNU/Linux to Stop Booting on 'Old' PCs

    When it comes to Windows, Microsoft is fully aware of the issue and statements it made earlier this summer suggest it lost 400 million Windows users

22. Slopwatch: LinuxTechLab, linuxsecurity.com, LinuxIac, and More

    Also: The Register's Microsoft agenda (new editor)

23. Gemini Links 25/07/2025: Gemtext Aware Titan Editor and Gemini Protocol Comeback

    Links for the day

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