Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 12, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. How We Process Screenshots of Slop to Suitably Tag Them as Slop

   everything is a single command

   New

2. Links 11/08/2025: Meritless Twitter Suspensions and Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson

   Links for the day

3. Gemini Links 11/08/2025: Upgrading Debian Bookworm and Better Quality PDFs From Gemini Pages

   Links for the day

4. Currys PCWorld Lied a Decade Ago, 10 Years Later It Still Effectively Voids Your Warranty for Installing GNU/Linux Despite It Being Increasingly Mainstream

   Microsoft gatekeepers

5. Team GNOME Has Libeled Me for Nearly 20 Years

   we are not dealing with sane people

6. Experience With Airlines in 'Web Sites' and in 'Apps'

   In a lot of ways, Stallman Was Right about what JavaScript would turn out to be

7. Open Does Not Mean Free

   wiser to ask if some program is freedom-respecting

8. The Register MS Takes Money From Companies Banned by the Biden and Trump Administrations (National Security Risk)

   today's sponsor

9. Sabotaging GNU/Linux PCs (and Users) is Not a 'Joke'

   maybe cruelty is the very objective

10. Links 11/08/2025: Data Breaches, Politics, and Climate

    Links for the day

11. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

12. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 10, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, August 10, 2025

13. Gemini Links 11/08/2025: Tea Caffeine Hot and Super ZZ Zero

    Links for the day

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