Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 25, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Punching People Doesn't Work

   It makes nobody any safer

2. This is How Microsoft's XBox and Entire Consoles (If Not Gaming) Ventures Will Ultimately Die

   Ensure you can blame "Tariffs" (politics)? If not "hey hi", the fashionable go-to excuse when businesses fail?

3. Cloudflare Gives Us All Another Reason to Boycott Cloudflare

   If Cloudflare wants to use its vast surveillance network (which is what it does as a CDN) to foist paywalls and maybe something worse (like DRM on top), then Cloudflare should be more widely rejected as a company

4. Someone Expiring Certificates on the Day of the 9/11 Attacks is Not Someone I Would Want Controlling My PC (or Deciding What's Authorised for Booting)

   "social justice warriors"

   New

5. Look Ma, No "Cloud"

   So far this year we've had an almost perfect uptime

6. Links 24/09/2025: Autism Blame-Shifting and Typhoon Ragasa Enters China

   Links for the day

7. Buying From Oneself is Not Business Success

   This isn't at all a joking matter even if you already laugh at the whole thing because your pension, savings etc. are tied to this scam at some level

8. What They Really Hate David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) for

   Nothing to do with code

9. Smart People Won't Buy 'Smart' Cars

   Imagine trying to sell someone a house (proper home) while insisting that it'll need to be demolished 5 or 10 years later, then rebuilt again from scratch on the same vacant lot

10. The Relationship Between IBM Red Hat and Microsoft, Visualised

    This metaphor goes a long way (projects, collaborations, and outsourcing

11. The Complaint About Brett Wilson LLP - Part III - Spying on Reporters' Families, Chaining Cases for Microsoft Employees Who Demand Censorship of Facts (Even Politely Expressed)

    the time seems right to wrap up this introductory series

12. Links 24/09/2025: "NASA Moving Out of Entire Buildings as It's Gutted" and Purge of Online Critics (Opposing Fascism Becomes Unlawful)

    Links for the day

13. Science is Under Attack

    Oligarchy prefers a dumbed-down population

14. The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Has Reportedly Failed People With Wrong Advice

    At the moment the SRA has a PR blunder

15. The Man Suing Brett Wilson LLP and Gervase de Wilde (5RB)

    Now he's probably using the (almost) 200,000 pounds he's supposed to receive to sue Brett Wilson LLP and former colleagues/partners

16. More Microsoft-Red Hat Cross-Pollination as the Company Loses a Managing Director

    some people move from Microsoft to Red Hat and some do the opposite

17. Slopwatch: A World Wide Web That's Rotting for Companies That Won't Even Exist in a Few Years

    some of the junk Google News is promoting

18. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

19. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 23, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, September 23, 2025

20. Links 24/09/2025: Qt Creator 18 Beta, Microsoft Cannot Bail Out "ChatGPT" Anymore, China and US Intensify Censorship

    Links for the day

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