Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 31, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. How Not to Build Software

   code forges that need a Web browser perhaps fill some 'niche' demand

2. GAFAM and "MATA"

   The use of dark humour there hopefully helps illuminate what a lot of "modern" technology became like and how it interacts with human civilisation (to what ends and whose gain)

3. Flying in 2025

   worse than ever before

4. The Slopfarm WebProNews Has Turned Google News Into a Laughing Stock Full of Plagiarism by Slop

   If Google News dies of neglect, that's one thing. It's starting to seem like active neglect by Google is a form of participation.

5. Do What is Moral, as What's Legal Isn't Always Moral

   Do what's objectively moral, no matter the costs and the risks

6. Slopwatch: Google News Assisting Plagiarism and Anti-Linux FUD, Serial Slopper Rips Off Linux-Centric Journalists

   This makes the Web a much worse place and lessens the incentive to do journalism

7. Links 30/08/2025: NVIDIA Fakes Results to Hide a Bubble Already in Implosion Phase, Data Breaches Galore, Important Win for Workers' Union in Canada

   Links for the day

8. In Kazakhstan, Yandex Estimated to be 20 Times Bigger Than Microsoft

   Bing is measured as down this month

9. Shutterstock Not Enough? The Register MS Uses Slop Images in Articles (Seemingly More and More Over Time)

   Cost-saving trajectory amid office shutdown?

10. Gemini Links 30/08/2025: Games, PostmarketOS, and Slop

    Links for the day

11. Links 30/08/2025: Imgur Uproar and Many Ukraine Updates (Mediazona Reports Over 200,000 Russians Died for Putin)

    Links for the day

12. Birds Are Not "Pests and Vermin", Privacy is Not a Crime, and GNU/Linux is Not 'Hacking Platform'

    I could not help but think of Free software analogies

13. The Sites Should Be Very Fast Again

    That issue is now resolved

14. Activists, Including Technical Activists, Need Not Pursue Affirmation

    Techrights doesn't play or participate in a "popularity contest"

15. The UEFI 9/11 - Part III - Chaos is Scheduled to Happen Second Thursday of September (No Matter What the Microsofters Tell You)

    The clock is ticking

    New

16. Government Sites Should Run Free Software

    Not proprietary bloatware with buzzwords

17. LLM Slopfarms Take No Breaks

    When people run sites by bots they don't need to worry about "breaks"

18. GNOME Having a Meltdown Again

    Thanks and farewell to Steven Deobald

19. Gemini Links 30/08/2025: Low Tech and Hunchbin 1.0.6

    Links for the day

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 29, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, August 29, 2025

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