Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 24, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Un-cancelled the Best People, Just in Time for the Big 4-0

   Mr. Oliva should have been there all along (since 2019)

2. Most "Modern" Technology Makes You Slower and Dumber

   Because proprietary software makes you worse off

3. "What Comes After Free Software?" Wrongly Insinuates We've Reached the Goal (Prison is Not the Goal)

   The oil tycoons use similar tactics against environmentalists, giving them fake "wins"

4. Making More Work Space

   I learned the hard way that less is more in circumstances where more means distraction

5. MAHA is a Lie, Public Officials Never Valued Citizens' Health (They Still Value Private Businesses, Their Sponsors)

   Reject demagogues

   New

6. Gemini Links 24/09/2025: Gemlogs and Politics

   Links for the day

7. Links 23/09/2025: Japan Limits Uses of Skinnerboxes ('Smartphones') With Toxic "Apps", Fentanylware (TikTok) Tapped by "MAGAts"

   Links for the day

8. Brett Wilson LLP Has Just Been Sued (by Their Own Clients!)

   Vladimir and Alla Yanpolsky sued Brett Wilson LLP in BL-2025-001167 at the end of last week

9. The Complaint About Brett Wilson LLP - Part II - UK SLAPPs for Americans, SLAPPs for Profit

   Brett Wilson LLP has a track record of this kind

10. Mayday: Optus emergency calling crisis

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

11. Links 23/09/2025: Massive Data Breach, Slop Versus Productivity, and Vista 11 Update Breaks Things Again

    Links for the day

12. Code of Censorship

    Extortion is peace

13. Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has a New Press Kit for the Weekend After Next Weekend (40th Anniversary)

    miles better than social [sic] media [sic] quips, moderated by narcissists and oil tycoons.

14. Microsoft Had Two Waves of Mass Layoffs This Month (That We Know of) and It'll Get Worse for Microsoft Soon

    Will the axe fall again by month's end?

15. Gemini Links 23/09/2025: Happy Equinox, Photronic Arts, and Perception Cognition

    Links for the day

16. Lessons We've Learned After 17 Years of American Hosting

    GAFAM is "all-in" with the "Trump agenda"

17. Back to Normal Now, We Plan to Do More In-Depth Series (or Multi-part Stories)

    Articles (or series thereof) that contain philosophy are important to us

18. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

19. IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 22, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, September 22, 2025

20. Microsoft Media is Panicking Amid Mass Layoffs Every Month, H-1B Fees, and "Seattle’s Tech Scene in Trouble"

    In "late stage Microsoft", copyleft becomes proprietary

21. The Next Wave of IBM/Red Hat Layoffs Being Discussed Already

    Red Hat is sort of disappearing the way Tivoli did

22. New Techrights Turns 2

    Today starts the third year of the SSG-based Techrights

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