Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 08, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. For the First Time in a Month OSI's "OpenSource.org" Blogs and It's Basically a Microsoft Blog Post (Microsoft Controls OSI)

   For the first time in a month OSI writes something and it is Microsoft propaganda composed by a Microsoft-salaried operative

2. Microsoft, Already Borrowing 3 Billion Dollars a Month, is Trying to Cause Many People to Resign

   MSN (i.e. Microsoft) and others openly admit it

3. They Want Activists to Just Barely Walk and Eat, Not Do Activism Anymore

   It's sort of like the ending of '1984'

4. Non-Free JavaScript Programs in Banks Aren't Even the Biggest Problem

   Technology was supposed to make life easier; in practice, however, for most of us the opposite effect can be observed

5. IBM is Obliterating Fedora

   "Fedora releases were shipping with an increasing number of bugs on launch day even while I was using it for a several year stretch."

   New

6. Links 07/08/2025: US Punishes India Instead of Russia, Attacks Law Firms to Prevent Scrutiny

   Links for the day

7. Read Us in Geminispace as Well

   it's definitely a lot simpler than using a Web browser

8. Once a Site About BSD and GNU/Linux, and After Months of Silence, LinuxBSDos.com Comes Back Only as a Slopfarm

   very frustrating

9. Links 07/08/2025: Hardware Wars, Mass Recall of Colgate Total Clean Mint, More Microsoft Holes Found

   Links for the day

10. Gemini Links 07/08/2025: "Right To Manage" and LoRa Analysis

    Links for the day

11. GAFAM 'Says' is Front Page "News"

    The point of journalism is to check and assess facts, not parrot what people and companies merely claim

12. Links 07/08/2025: Apple Makes False Promises, More Trouble for Microsoft

    Links for the day

13. OSS Didn't Always Mean Open Source Software

    "oligarchs all the way down"

14. The Register MS Does More Microsoft Sez or GitHub Sez (Says) Pieces

    60 minutes ago

15. Quit Perpetuating the Narrative of Gemini Protocol 'Dying' (It's False)

    The "whisper campaign" against Gemini Protocol

16. Criticising Social Control Media in Social Control Media

    Many people are quitting Social Control Media (fewer of them announce this in public)

17. Slopfarms Are Typically Fake News

    Slopfarms typically relay falsehoods

18. Gemini Links 06/08/2025: Replacing a Pocket Watch and Buying in Bulk

    Links for the day

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 06, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, August 06, 2025

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