Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 11, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Sloppy Reporting About Slop, or How The Register MS Lowers Its Standards

   Maybe the management isn't even aware of this

2. IBM's Strategy: Cull 'Expensive' Workers, Replace Them With Cheaper Ones

   So far we saw not even one rebuttal or challenge to the claim of Red Hat layoffs scheduled for tomorrow

   New

3. Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, Brian Fagioli, and Other Serial Sloppers

   Maybe Microsoft wants to dub this "Web5"

4. Gemini Links 10/08/2025: Residents Management Company, Automation, and Politics

   Links for the day

5. Links 10/08/2025: AOL Ending Dial-up

   Links for the day

6. Links 10/08/2025: Webrings, “AI Sunglasses” and “AI Eyeglasses”, US Administration Intensifies Attacks on Science and Research

   Links for the day

7. Sometimes Newer is Worse

   We generally need to reject this dumb notion that "old" means bad

8. The Code Used to Make Techrights Fits on a Seventh of a Floppy Disk (or 100KB When Compressed)

   For the sake of comparison I've just downloaded the latest version of WordPress. The ZIP file is 27.2MB in size, or ~27,200KB.

9. What They Tell Young Programmers

   Coding in 2025

10. Simpler is Better When Simple is Enough

    Over-complicating things to "sell" new versions is so 1990s

11. Links 10/08/2025: From Social Control Media to Prison, New Examples of Windows TCO

    Links for the day

12. If You Attack Somebody Too Much You Legitimise and Strengthen That Somebody

    at the end those attacks add up to a "martyr" status

13. The Man Who Helped Microsoft Kill Linux is Trying to Delay Our Lawsuits Against Him

    By conservative estimates, and based on court documents submitted by them, they're prepared to spend over a million dollars on lawyers, fighting against me and my wife

14. Gemini Links 10/08/2025: Gen Con 2025 and Framework Laptop

    Links for the day

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 09, 2025

    IRC logs for Saturday, August 09, 2025

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