Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 22, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Gemini Links 21/08/2025: The Attraction of Back Alleys, Initramfs, and BSD ISPs

   Links for the day

   New

2. The Culture of Overnight Coding

   An industry-wise push-back is needed

3. Windows Down to New Lows in Guinea Bissau and Many Countries Around It

   If Android is accounted for, Windows is down to about 10%

4. Gemini Links 21/08/2025: Modern Dating, Debian 13, and Apache

   Links for the day

5. Microsoft Has Had About 10 Waves of Mass Layoffs So Far This Year (Not Two as Mainstream Media and Slopfarms Endlessly Claim)

   Notice how the MSM (Mainstream Media) never mentions the debt of Microsoft. It is a conscious, deliberate decision.

6. Slopwatch: Sites Gone Rogue, Google Promoting Lies, and DDoS Attacks by Plagiarism Giants

   Charlatans and frauds engage in a war against artistic industries, mislabeling plagiarism as "AI"

7. Links 21/08/2025: Covid Cases on the Rise, "Social Media Trolls", Russia's Attacks Intensify

   Links for the day

8. Links 21/08/2025: Stephanie Shirley Dies and "Groklaw Domain Hijacked?"

   Links for the day

9. Search in 2025 (Age of DDoS Attacks Under the Guise of "AI" "Innovation")

   One common concern when things go "live" is that any random bot out there can execute queries, pumping up RAM and CPU usage, as happened when we used MediaWiki and WordPress

10. Using Slop for Images Does Not Make Your Site Look Advanced or Witty, It Just Makes Your Whole Work Look Like Presumed Plagiarism

    Lazy slobs and Serial Sloppers use the guise/excuse of "AI" to plagiarise and spam the Web

11. Financing of the "Hey Hi" (AI) Bubble by Those Who Profit From Planetary Destruction (Global Warming)

    It's about personal gain, too

12. Richard Stallman Will Speak in Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress

    it's good to see that the FSF pays considerable respect to it founder, who is moreover invited to speak at events

13. (At Least) Second Wave of Mass Layoffs in Microsoft This Month

    This is not the first time this month that Microsoft has mass layoffs

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 20, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, August 20, 2025

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