Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 10, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. The Goal of Coopetition Assumes You're Friends

   it will never work with Microsoft

2. Seductive Mirage or Allure of Complex, Proprietary Coffee Machines (or Similar White Elephants)

   Software is a lot like those things

3. Hate Mail From Anonymous Cowards

   if this persists, we'll need to escalate

4. Informal Open Letter to the Lawyer of the Microsofters (on Who's Funding the SLAPPs Against Techrights)

   Whenever I ask about the funding they try to change the subject and act all aggressive

5. Microsoft Lunduke is Just Provoking People for Provocation's Sake

   Be forewarned and remember where this guy came from: Microsoft

   New

6. The Register MS (Microsoft) or The Register AI (Slop)?

   What a slopfest!

7. Is Red Hat About to Give the Boot to GNOME People Who Helped Microsoft 'Secure' (Monopolised) Boot?

   It was always a dumb idea to play along with Microsoft's hardware mischief

8. Sales of Windows on PCs (Windows Licences) Go Down

   Microsoft has a big problem in its hands

9. The Hype That Microsoft and The Register MS (Among Others) Promote Helps Stage DDoS Attacks on Free Software Sites

   Microsoft is, to put it bluntly, pure evil

10. Links 09/08/2025: Putin Allegedly to Visit Alaska (Which He Deems Part of Russia), Mike Tyson Sued for Copyright Infringement

    Links for the day

11. Slopwatch: Linux Journal, LinuxSecurity, and Google News With Its Slopfarms of Choice

    SEO spam, made with LLMs

12. Follow the Money: The Register MS Gets Paid to Promote "Hey Hi" Ponzi Scheme/Hype, Some Fake 'Articles' Might Be Composed by LLMs Already

    paid to promote slop

13. Gemini Links 09/08/2025: Rethinking Aliases and Posting on Gopher vs. the Web

    Links for the day

14. Links 09/08/2025: Apollo 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell Dies, Slop Future Bleak

    Links for the day

15. After Shutting Down Studios, Divisions, Applications (e.g. Skype) Microsoft is Also Shutting Down 'Apps'

    Cuts all around as layoffs persist this month, Microsoft tries to get many people to resign, and debt skyrockets

16. Most of Geminispace Can Probably Fit on a CD-ROM or a DVD (the Textual Part)

    If one excludes very large capsules and ones that contain non-textual contenty

17. Eventually UEFI 'Secure Boot' Will be Dropped (Users Will Demand Its Removal and Boycott Its Pushers)

    we expect OEMs will just listen to users

18. The Register MS: We Know Slop is a Bubble and Mindless Hype, But We Get Paid to Participate

    Call out the culprits

19. There Are Probably Over a Million Pages in Geminispace

    there are two many limitations which merit a mention when it comes to assessing magnitude

20. Besieged by Plagiarists Who Play With LLMs and Image Fusions

    We really need to exercise or use our collective voice to oppose Serial Sloppers

21. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

22. IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 08, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, August 08, 2025

23. Gemini Links 09/08/2025: Water Painting and Political Violence

    Links for the day

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