Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 23, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. What Scares Them the Most is Independent News Sites That They Cannot Control and Censor

   Wikileaks was a good example of this

2. If You Don't Control Your Online Platform, Then Someone Else is Controlling You

   be (or become) independent

3. The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Has a Policy on Racism and Sexism

   In then future we'll show the misogyny and racial slurs

4. Links 22/09/2025: Murdochs Might Join Fentanylware (TikTok) 'Investors' (Masters), United Kingdom Recognises Palestinian Statehood

   Links for the day

5. The 50-Pound Note Experiment and the "War on Cash"

   Britain is actually seeing a rebound in cash payments, and it's not a temporary phenomenon

   New

6. Oracle Started This Year With Slop. Then It Stopped.

   Passing fads are like this

7. Distros That Run on PCs Made 20 Years Ago and Don't Use Systemd

   Betas for now

8. The Complaint About Brett Wilson LLP - Part I - Abusing British Women on Behalf of American Men Who Abuse American Women

   Transparency is important to us, so we've decided to make this series

9. Slopwatch: Google News and the Evident Slopfarm Infestation

   This is what people get about Linux when they query Google for Linux

10. Gemini Links 22/09/2025: Esperanto Music History and Apps For Android

    Links for the day

11. Links 22/09/2025: More American 'Censorship' (Retaliation for Journalism), Cheeto "Might Be Losing His Race Against Time"

    Links for the day

12. The Blob Slop

    Give me more words, give me some text

13. Slopwatch: Blaming the Victims for Microsoft's Failures and Plagiarising Phoronix

    That's what Google has been reduced to: slop and slopfarms

14. Links 22/09/2025: Breaches, Windows TCO, and Arrests

    Links for the day

15. Gemini Links 22/09/2025: Rabbit Hole and DeGoogling Fairphone

    Links for the day

16. Links 22/09/2025: Russian War Planes Invade NATO Airspace While Dihydroxyacetone Man Escalates Attack on Free Speech Because of Critics

    Links for the day

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 21, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, September 21, 2025

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