Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 26, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Purchasing Concert Tickets in 2025 in Manchester: The "Modern" Experience

   I recently spent a couple of days here testing the "terrain" in order to better understand how large public venues, for concerts rather than sporting events like football, currently "work"

2. Lovers and Haters

   Always beware hate preachers and demagogues (or how they frame issues or whose fault they distract from)

   New

3. Links 25/09/2025: More European Airports Shut Down Due to What Seems Like Russian Drones

   Links for the day

4. Gemini Links 25/09/2025: Amiga Revived and Hackers (UTF-8)

   Links for the day

5. Links 25/09/2025: French Unions Want Another Strike, Super Typhoon Ragasa Kills Many

   Links for the day

6. Microsoft 'Secure Boot' and Shim as Barrier or Obstacle to New GNU/Linux Users Trying to Escape Microsoft

   Just as intended all along

7. Focusing on What People Have in Common Instead of Killing and Cancelling One Another

   Men and women of both "wings" stand to gain a lot by working together on common interests

8. 'Cancel Culture' Isn't About Enforcing Ethics (and It's Done by People on the Right, Not "The Leftists")

   Smarter folks would leave social control media

9. Russia's Attack on Europe (and NATO) Will Worsen Censorship and Corruption in Europe

   Can we still debate issues that predate the invasion of Crimea?

10. Lawyers Should Permanently Lose Their Licence (and Worse) for Using Chatbots in Legal Work

    They not only waste people's money and time. They pollute the literature with falsehoods. They commit perjury. [...] Brett Wilson LLP sent the Judge nearly 1,000 pages of material (mostly mine, copied without proper permission) shortly before a short Hearing, which lasted less than an hour

11. GAFAM and MATA (Mythical, Metaphor) as Explained by analognowhere.com

    They're instruments of suppression that sponsor the oppressor

12. We've Already Mentioned Who Nowadays Funds Garrett's SLAPP Against Us (Not Garrett), Let's Examine Who Sponsored His Litigation Partner (Other Than Microsoft Salaries There's a Buddy of Bill Gates)

    it's alleged that the Serial Strangler from Microsoft got money from him

13. Florian Müller: Using Software Patents to Attack Software Developers, Agitate Against Patent Reform

    He also promotes attacks on the German Constitution and laws

14. Reliance on Typepad Seems to Have Doomed the Voice of Software Patents and Patent Maximalists in PatentDocs

    Follow the money

15. UEFI 'Secure Boot' is Potential Mayhem to the Environment (Older and Leaner Distros Stop Working)

    creating new problems, disguised as "solutions" to problems that do not exist

16. Sometimes 'Cancel Culture' Backfires Badly

    There's no such thing as "too much" coverage

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 24, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, September 24, 2025

19. Links 25/09/2025: Jimmy Kimmel Returns to Air (With Limitations) and London Stansted Airport Latest to Have Incident (Fire)

    Links for the day

20. Slopwatch: Fake Articles, SPAM With Slop, and Google News Directs People to Read Slopfarms

    why does Google News insist on still linking to prolific slopfarms?

21. Gemini Links 25/09/2025: New Game for Gemini Protocol, Eleven, and Network Solutions Woes

    Links for the day

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