Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 13, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Slopfarms Slopping Away at "Linux" and Spreading Microsoft Misinformation

   Slopfarms don't comprehend this as they lack actual comprehension, they're just parrots

2. GitHub the Company Has, in Effect, Just Died (Time to Look for Alternatives)

   To Microsoft, what's left of GitHub after dismantling/folding it is some "training set" (people's code, without permission to "train" i.e. misuse under the guise of "GenAI" plagiarism)

3. Linux Foundation Says "Housekeeping", "Hung", "Normal", "Native Feature/Support" and "Girl/Girls" Are Offensive Words

   Bombing people is OK, just use the right "terms"

4. It Looks More Like Microsoft GitHub Layoffs

   GitHub is just losing loads of money

   New

5. GitHub Will End Up like XBox and Skype

   It is not likely that the XBox franchise will survive the next 5 years

6. Stones Thrown in Glass Houses

   Projecting? You bet!

7. As Europe Gets Increasingly Serious About Software Freedom and Digital Sovereignty It Needs to Enforce a Ban on Software Patents ASAP

   many councils in Europe move to Free software and US policy/companies cannot be trusted

8. Windows 12 in Bahrain (Microsoft "Market Share" Down to 12%, an All-Time Low)

   They really ought to get away from Windows even faster

9. The Web Needs 'Pest Control' When It Comes to LLM Slopfarms

   The goal is to discourage more sites becoming slopfarms

10. Microsoft Can Now Stop Reporting the GitHub Layoffs (Even When They Happen)

    GitHub's original staff will see the true cost of becoming "b0rged" - something that Microsoft earned a bad reputation for

11. How to Get Very Bad or Even Malicious Code Into Linux? Write it in a Language That Linus Torvalds and Most Other Linux Developers Don't Understand.

    One point nobody brings up is, what if code gets committed while evading audits and scrutiny?

12. Links 12/08/2025: Wikipedia Fails at UK High Court, Perlmutter Still Fights to Squash the Slop Lobby

    Links for the day

13. Gemini Links 12/08/2025: Field Recording and Digital Legacy

    Links for the day

14. Links 12/08/2025: WinRAR Zero-Day, SonicWall Does More Harm Than Good

    Links for the day

15. Links 12/08/2025: More Sabotage of Underwater Cable Ahead of Russian Alaska Summit

    Links for the day

16. Richard Stallman Will Not Miss Microsoft GitHub, It Was Only Good at Harvesting a Lot of Code for Plagiarism-as-a-Service

    investors are apparently willing to lose money for buzzwords

17. Links 12/08/2025: Science, Hardware, and Ukraine Excluded From Negotiations About Its Future

    Links for the day

18. Gemini Links 12/08/2025: Meditation, OpenStreetMap, Smolweb, and More

    Links for the day

19. Google News is Dying: Most of Its Top Stories Now Are LLM Slop With Slop Images (i.e. 100% Fake 'Content')

    Google News has been drowning in this sort of stuff for quite some time

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 11, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, August 11, 2025

22. Our Predictions Were Right: GitHub Dying as Losses Pile Up (as a Company It Cannot Continue to Exist, It's Not 'Free Hosting')

    GitHub always lost money

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