Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 16, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. What Ruben Amorim and Stefano Maffulli Have in Common

   Censors Wikipedia and Social Control Media

2. Microsoft Won't Cooperate in Trying to Tackle EPO Corruption (Microsoft Profits From This Corruption)

   Use something like BigBlueButton, Jami, Ring, and Jitsi instead

3. We Are Sad to Hear the Story of Jonathan Riddell, Champion of KDE and GNU/Linux on Desktops/Laptops

   I have enormous respect for Jonathan and everything he has done

   New

4. Geminispace Growing at Pace of Over 10% Per Year

   Contrary to what some pessimists try to claim

5. Linux Mint Forums Today: Disable 'Secure Boot', It Doesn't Improve Security, It's Just a Microsoft Obstacle to GNU/Linux Users

   They also mention MOK

6. Solved Less Than an Hour Ago: Trying to Escape Windows, 'Secure Boot' Gets in the Way

   'Secure Boot' wasn't meant to even exist in the first place

7. Stefano Maffulli, Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative, Resigns or Gets Removed (We'll Continue Covering OSI Scandals)

   A dozen mentions of "AI", not much about "Open Source"

8. Andy Has Just Nailed It (Regarding Complexity and Failure, a la UEFI)

   The users no longer own or control what they buy

9. Compatibility Support Module (CSM) Versus GNU/Linux Simplicity

   what Andy recently called "solutionism"

10. Links 15/09/2025: "Postal Traffic to US Down by Over 80%" and 'Smart' Spinozacampus Laundry Room Goes AWOL

    Links for the day

11. Gemini Links 15/09/2025: Dungeon Hustle and Deleting Oneself From the Net

    Links for the day

12. Breach of EPO's Duty of Care or Cigna Reimbursement Issues

    This is the sort of thing that motivated Luigi Mangione to assassinate a CEO

13. Ask Ubuntu About "Secure Boot" Violation and Laptops That Don't Boot GNU/Linux

    Does anyone still believe that "Secure Boot" has anything at all to do with security?

14. Talking About the Problem vs Talking to the Problem

    Wanting an audience is never a good excuse for compromising one's values and principles

15. Focusing on Patents

    The reason we cover the EPO so much is that it's close to home

16. "Secure Boot Violation": The 'Joys' of Fake Security Gone Wrong

    Not everyone reboots every day

17. Links 15/09/2025: Russia Invades Romanian Airspace, Penske Media Sues Google Over LLM Slop

    Links for the day

18. Links 15/09/2025: Bitcoin ATMs Scam and "Conservative Cryptography" (Backdoors Fantasies)

    Links for the day

19. EPO Imitates Microsoft: "Three Days or More Per Week" Inside the Office to Get a Desk to Work on; "the Office Breaches Its Promise Towards Staff and Acts in Breach of Its Duty of Care"

    The EPO serves no actual function in Europe

20. Links 15/09/2025: Political Affairs, Censorship, and Copyrights

    Links for the day

21. Gemini Links 15/09/2025: Music Genres, Invisible Networks, and Akademy 2025

    Links for the day

22. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

23. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 14, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, September 14, 2025

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