Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 01, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Richard Stallman About to Give More Talks in Europe, Some Confirmed Already

   In Göteborg

2. Justice for Wildlife

   animals cannot speak to humans who hate animals

3. GNU Was Right 42+ Years Ago

   Since then the abusive, user-hostile technology has spread like mushrooms

4. Almost Half of the FSFE's Money (the Fake 'FSF', Misusing the Brand) Comes From Vodafone

   That money always comes with strings, even if they're invisible to most of us

   New

5. Gemini Links 30/09/2025: Motorcycling in Central Oregon, Protocol Styles and the Flag of Sark

   Links for the day

6. Links 30/09/2025: Death Sentences, Internet Censorship, and Internet Shutdowns

   Links for the day

7. Gemini Links 30/09/2025: Social Control Media and ROOPHLOCH

   Links for the day

8. Links 30/09/2025: CERN in "Have I Been Pwned" and More Windows TCO Blunders

   Links for the day

9. Microsoft Canonical is Selling Mass Surveillance and Back Doors as "Security for Ubuntu"

   If you are looking for a GNU/Linux distro to use, just remember that Microsoft has Ubuntu in the bag

10. Cowboys Gonna Be Cowboys (on the Internet, They're Not a New Problem)

    Boys will be boys

11. Cowboys of the "Left" and Cowboys of the "Right"

    Don't believe the lie that this is some "leftist" thing

12. When Codes of Conduct Serve to Protect Criminals From Much-Deserved Scrutiny

    CoCs are typically unfit for purpose because enforcement lacks context and suitable understanding of the full background (the "full story")

13. It Took the Open Source Initiative (OSI) 4+ Years to Address the 'Data Breach' or Data Protection Violation Reported to the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) in March 2025

    We may never know the dialogue or its nature

14. Even Microsoft's Biggest Boosters (and Media Operatives) Are Turning Against Microsoft

    Expect many more layoffs before the fake "results" next month

15. Old Isn't Always Inadequate

    How many gadgets manufactured today (in 2025) will still work in 2075?

16. The Monkey Business of Rust People

    Compatibility won't matter

17. Microsoft Lunduke Spreads Deliberate Lies to Incite Online Mobs

    Has he lost his reading comprehension skills?

18. Our 19th Birthday (in Just Over 5 Weeks From Now)

    We meanwhile have ongoing, solid plans to cover patent-related issues when the FSF turns 40

19. British GNU/Linux Distro FydeOS Tops DistroWatch

    That seems like a decent site and decent effort to keep an eye on

20. We'll Soon Have 75,000 GemText Pages

    avoid many perils of today's Web

21. Google Used Free Software to Build a Monopoly. Now Google Kicks Free Software to the Curb

    The "G" in "Google" does not stand for GNU. It never did. It's just another greedy company.

22. Gemini Links 30/09/2025: Retro Hardware, Federated Fragmentation, and Nex Server Written in C

    Links for the day

23. 4 More Days Till "4 decades, 4 freedoms, 4 all users"

    We are now just 4 days away from the rare anniversary

24. Two Months After Merging to Hide GitHub Losses Microsoft is Doing It Again (This Time Windows)

    Merging those two together is not a sign of strength but a tightening of budget

25. Speculations About the Next Large Wave of IBM/Red Hat Layoffs

    the mass layoffs are likely to happen on week 3 or 4 in October

26. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

27. IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 29, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, September 29, 2025

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