Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 06, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Some Cola Formulas Aren't Secret, But the Barrier is the Branding

   That's the power of the channel/distribution, marketing, and brand recognition (accomplished through endless marketing)

2. Tesla's Debt More Than Doubled in 2 Years and the Company Will Operate in the Red (at a Loss) Quite Soon

   If your first-quarter net income is $409 million and you borrow billions from banks, plus interest to pay on those loans, then you're not far from returning to losses

   New

3. Openwashing Slop... Using Slop!

   So get ready for "open" "hey hi" with its proprietary models to engage in openwashing, helped by serial sloppers who use the LLMs to produce fake 'articles'.

4. On "Tragedy of the Commons in the Production of Digital Artifacts"

   There's a better way to do things. None of that should involve GAFAM.

5. Gemini Links 05/08/2025: Opel Zoo near Frankfurt and Alhena 5.2.5

   Links for the day

6. The Inflammatory Influence of Social Control Media Giants

   CPC's ByteDance says it's cool

7. Microsoft v Planet Earth

   Is Microsoft profitable?

8. IRC Turns 37

   Internet Relay Chat (short: IRC), which started in 1988, turns 37 this month

9. Shortly After a Microsofter Took Over The Register as Editor in Chief Microsoft Tim (Tim Anderson) is Back and It's Still Microsoft Propaganda, Sometimes Funded by Microsoft

   Notice his focus

10. Stricter Enforcement of Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act is Sorely Needed

    Who's keeping track anyway?

11. Calling Plagiarism "Intelligence" is Pure Genius, Brilliance!

    One thing to "like" (or dislike) about LLMs is how they're falsely marketed using various buzzwords

12. Geminispace Promises Simplicity But Also Provides a "bunch of forums that get flood-filled by agitation against the very essence of Gemini itself"

    claims of stagnation in Geminispace started because of a person who spent a long time agitating against GNU/Linux as well

13. Zimbabweans Aren't Into Windows or Microsoft

    This cannot be good news for GAFAM

14. Microsoft's Washington Layoffs Aren't Everything, They're Definitely Not Happening in Just One State in the US

    Washington is just more strict with WARN notices

15. Gemini Links 05/08/2025: Lagrange v1.18.6, No Stagnation in Geminispace, and Fake Coding (Slop)

    Links for the day

16. The Register's Editor in Chief (Who Left for Google) Told Me "AI" Was a Bubble, But Now The Register Gets Paid to Participate in Inflating This Bubble

    A lot of the online media is a scam

17. Introducing Mission:Libre and FreeXR (and BreakXR)

    efforts that accompany the foundations put there by the Free Software Foundation in 1985

18. Slopwatch: WebProNews, LinuxSecurity, and Some Success Stories

    Google News still has a slopfarm issue

19. Links 05/08/2025: Hey Hi (AI) Passing Fads and GAFAM "Embracing the Military"

    Links for the day

20. Links 05/08/2025: Samsung and Microsoft Layoffs

    Links for the day

21. Rumours of Mass Layoffs at Red Hat Next Week (August 11th, 2025)

    The eleventh means next Monday

22. IBM is Shutting Down (Piecewise)

    IBM is basically being liquidated

23. The Debian Language Police Department (PD)

    "there has never been complaints about anyone that was offended by this -off package"

24. When The Register MS Says "Linux Backdoor" It Actually Talks About Malware

    The leading story in The Register US/MS this morning is Microsoft

25. Microsoft Windows Fell to 19% "Market Share" in Montenegro

    Microsoft must be well aware of this trend

26. Why We Also Include Gopher Links in Our Gemini (Protocol) Links

    There are still many people who use Gopher to relay their messages (like blog posts). They're mostly technical people.

27. Shouting is an Indication of a Lack of Convincing Argument

    Beware what they are attempting to distract from

28. Mongolia: Microsoft Windows at All-Time Low

    in 2009 when Windows was at 99.45% in Mongolia the company was "worth" less than 200 billion dollars

29. About a Quarter of Today's "linux" News in Google News Came From One Domain and It's a Slopfarm

    Not kidding!

30. Gemini Links 05/08/2025: Zombie Threat and Switching to NixOS

    Links for the day

31. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

32. IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 04, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, August 04, 2025

33. ChatGPT in Trouble

    Watch out for the newer buzzwords

34. The Register MS Links to the Wrong statCounter Page

    They link to older data

35. Dr. Andy Farnell Explains How Google Turned From "Librarian" Into "Oracle", Telling Us What to Think Instead of Where to Look

    Google was always a lousy librarian

36. Microsoft Layoffs Continue in August 2025

    If Microsoft is doing so well, how come about 10 rounds of layoffs in about 7 months in 2025?

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