Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 18, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. The Register MS Has Begun Using Slop Images

   It's not clear when it started; but it's definitely getting worse [...] Worst of all are 'articles' about slop that are themselves slop

2. When It Comes to Technology, Mozilla and Firefox Are Illiberal

   Last month in Planet Debian we saw one more person explaining to everyone how to "turn off" DRM in Firefox and hide the pop-up/s

   New

3. Working Whilst Away From Home

   Decades ago being away meant all sorts of problems associated with workflows and connectivity

4. The Next Version of Windows Will Always be the Best (for Microsoft)

   It's worse and slower over time

5. "End of the Smartphone Era" According to Jeffrey Epstein's Key Enabler

   They call it "sour grapes"

6. Microsoft's Windows in Gabon: Still Moving Down

   What is this Unknown? Who knows...

7. Links 17/08/2025: Strike Downs Air Canada, Postmortems of Putin's Red Carpet Summit

   Links for the day

8. Links 17/08/2025: Slow Tools and Enshittification of YouTube

   Links for the day

9. Links 17/08/2025: "The Performance of Power" and "My Undesirable Friends"

   Links for the day

10. Growing Our Reach

    Our goal was never "hits"

11. The Russian Vision of Technology

    Russia's surveillance is very extensive

12. Sooner or Later Almost Everyone Will Know "AI" is Just a Go-To, Misused, Misapplied, and Grossly Overused Term of Liars and Con Jobs Who Ride a Ponzi Scheme

    At the expense of people gullible enough to "invest" in this or take salaries/bonuses in the form of "stock" (tied to a Ponzi scheme)

13. Reddit Funded by Microsoft

    Reddit is merely a filter and we knows who controls that filter (using money)

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 16, 2025

    IRC logs for Saturday, August 16, 2025

16. The Open Source Initiative Has Many Scandals, We'll Try to Summarise Them All

    Open Source Initiative (OSI) hates facts

17. Open Source Initiative (OSI), Wikipedia, Molly De Blanc, and Censorship/Reputation Laundering

    OSI is like SPLC. The old name remains, the mission changed

18. Gemini Links 17/08/2025: Misunderstanding "Geminiverse" and Let's Encrypt

    Links for the day

19. Links 17/08/2025: Breaches, Layoffs, and Scams

    Links for the day

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