Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 04, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. They Tell Us That "Cloud Storage" is Safe and Robust to Incidents Like Fires

   Do you have backups? Where are they and who controls them?

2. Online Safety Act Tries to Accomplish the Impossible

   All I can say is, "good luck with that!"

   New

3. "Allowing SDL to default to Wayland caused a number of customer issues so keep the default at X11 for now"

   2025 is another year of Wayland ambitions. It's also a year of self-fulfilling prophecies.

4. In The United Kingdom (UK), Microsoft Search (Bing) Falls to All-Time Low

   Grow? What grow??? It's collapsing.

5. GNU/Linux Reaches 5% in Oman

   Some GNU/Linux distros are made in Oman

6. Google's "AI Mode" is a Pathetic Joke Prematurely Introduced in the UK (Like "Bard", Which Sank the Company's Shares)

   what Google "thinks" about PCLinuxOS

7. What the Free Software Foundation Started Four Decades Ago is Becoming Mainstream

   "Four decades; Four freedoms; For all users"

8. Doing a Better Job at Labelling Slop Images

   we'll label screenshots that contain slop, typically with red-coloured text overlay

9. Social Control Media is Out of Style

   What's your excuse for wasting time on (or in) it?

10. Maldives: GNU/Linux at All-Time High, Windows at New Lows

    data from statCounter shows a reassuring trend

11. Efficiency is Good, So Why Won't Governments Cull LLM Companies Using Stronger, Stringent Policies?

    Like every bubble that ever existed, including some recent ones, an end will come

12. The Defunct Site LinuxConfig Has Published a Fake Article About Richard Stallman Using LLM Slop, Which Stallman Calls "Bullshit Generator"

    Worse yet, it is writing using a "Bullshit Generator" (the term used by Stallman) about Stallman's health

13. Microsoft Windows Falls to All-Time Lows in Morocco and Algeria

    About 70% or even less

14. StopGenAI in the Cyber Show (C|S)

    covering a theme that we too covered a lot lately

15. Gemini Links 03/08/2025: Once-a-Decade Couch Shopping and Blessings in Disguise

    Links for the day

16. Links 03/08/2025: Political Catch-up, Global Warming, and Hunger

    Links for the day

17. Brittany Day Entered LLM Slop Into LinuxSecurity.com and Something Hilarious Happened: The Site is "Exploited"

    The brainless, effortless copypasta of "slop artists" shows its limits

18. Links 03/08/2025: Microsoft Exchange 0-day Exploited and Avoidable Nuclear Escalation

    Links for the day

19. Definitely Not a Ponzi Scheme

    Bitcoin v Microsoft

20. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a Billionaires' Lobby

    Billionaires that control tech companies

21. Microsoft Borrows 3 Billion Dollars Per Month, a Company Truly Worth Trillions Would Not Do This

    if Windows (and Office) "market share" fell from about 90% to barely 30%, how come Microsoft is now "valued" at 20 times more?

22. It's Even Worse Than Microsoft Lunduke Puts It; GNOME is SLAPPing Journalists

    In our experience, GNOME is so malicious - some elements of it in particular - that it would launch multiple simultaneous SLAPP campaigns not only against journalists but also their spouses

23. GNU/Linux Adoption Reaches All-Time Highs in Chile, statCounter Indicates

    This month marks 4 years since Vista 11 came out (as a fake "leak") and some surveys still measure its adoption at less than 40%

24. Slop Will Not Change the World

    Some of us grow up sooner and leave that nonsense behind (or altogether avoid/skip it)

25. Gemini Links 03/08/2025: Nostalgia and TOFU

    Links for the day

26. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

27. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 02, 2025

    IRC logs for Saturday, August 02, 2025

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