Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 04, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Datamation, Where I Used to Publish Articles, Appears to Have Been Sold to TechnologyAdvice Only to Become a Slopfarm

   I'd prefer to not associate with that site anymore

   New

2. How Software Patents Were Viewed or Their General Status Changed Over Time

   A rough summary

3. We Are Turning 19 in One Month, FSF Turns 40 in 3 Hours (CET)

   For our anniversary next month we still have no concrete plans

4. Patent Docs (or PatentDocs) Learned the Wrong Lessons From the Death of TypePad

   Had they gone ahead with an SSG, they'd become a lot more future-proof

5. USPTO Patent Bubble Already Imploding, After Decades of Artificial Inflation, Entire Offices Close for Good

   we can deduce that financial pressures (lack of "demand" for monopolies) play a role

6. TikTok is Not Harmless (Being CheeTok in the US Will Advance Orange Agenda)

   Social control media isn't "fun and games"; it's a digital weapon that lets hostile groups or nations infiltrate others, then turn them against themselves

7. Andy Farnell and Helen Plews Explain What "Modern" Tech Does to Old People

   Imposing terrible tech "religion" on people is not helping them

8. Tomorrow the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Turns 40 and Its Web Site is Still Slow Due to DDoS by LLM Slop Bots

   For an advocacy group, uptime is important (for its message to remain accessible)

9. Slopwatch: Google News as a Firehose of LLM Slop About "Linux"

   Google News is really bad

10. Links 03/10/2025: "NPR’s Economics Lessons Come With Neoliberal Spin" and Canada Post at Risk

    Links for the day

11. Gemini Links 03/10/2025: Panic Attacks and Food Adulteration

    Links for the day

12. Links 03/10/2025: Lawyers Caught Using LLM Slop Explain Why They Did It, LibreSSL 4.1.1 and 4.0.1 Released

    Links for the day

13. FSF Board Grew 50% Since Last Year, Has New President, Turns 40 in Two Days

    It's a good move for the FSF and - by extension - for software freedom

14. Links 03/10/2025: Conflicts, Death of TypePad, and TikTok/CheeTok Gives a Boost to Far Right Groups in Europe

    Links for the day

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 02, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, October 02, 2025

17. Slopwatch: Linux Journal, Google News, and LinuxSecurity

    They carry on polluting the Web with fake articles

18. Gemini Links 02/10/2025: Kubernetes With FreeBSD and robots.txt

    Links for the day

    ---

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2025-09-27 to 2025-10-03

    7532	/about.shtml
    4672	/n/2025/09/26/Slopwatch_linuxconfig_org_linuxsecurity_com_and_Google_s_Promot.shtml
    4328	/index.shtml
    4325	/irc.shtml
    2612	/n/2025/09/27/Slopwatch_FUD_and_Plagiarism_Working_Against_Linux_Promoted_and.shtml
    2598	/n/2025/09/27/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    2457	/n/2025/09/27/He_Talks_Too_Much_He_Says_Dumb_Things.shtml
    2421	/n/2025/09/27/Like_Nazi_Germany_and_Volkswagen.shtml
    2408	/n/2025/09/27/Microsoft_Sponsored_This_Man_Microsoft_Sponsored_His_Behaviour_.shtml
    2401	/n/2025/09/27/IRC_Proceedings_Friday_September_26_2025.shtml
    2393	/n/2025/09/27/Drew_DeVault_Suggests_CoC_Enhancement_Starts_Trolling_Projects_.shtml
    2356	/n/2025/09/27/Matthew_J_Garrett_Behaved_in_a_Similar_Fashion_to_4Chan_and_Kiw.shtml
    2339	/n/2025/09/28/A_Year_Ago_Only_a_Few_Weeks_After_We_Countersued_the_Hulk_Hogan.shtml
    2321	/n/2025/09/28/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    2318	/n/2025/09/28/If_Only_Someone_Warned_Us_About_This.shtml
    2296	/n/2025/09/28/The_Myths_of_Linux_and_of_Intelligence.shtml
    2286	/n/2025/09/27/Mass_Layoffs_in_Starbucks_and_Society_Loses_Nothing_of_Value.shtml
    2243	/n/2025/09/28/Slopwatch_Ponzi_Schemes_Promoted_by_Media_Companies_Linux_Journ.shtml
    2222	/n/2025/09/28/Links_28_09_2025_Fentanylware_TikTok_Going_Private_the_Dictator.shtml
    2190	/n/2025/09/28/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_September_27_2025.shtml
    2136	/n/2025/09/27/Glimmer_of_Hope_More_People_Realise_and_Come_to_Accept_AI_is_Ju.shtml
    2094	/n/2025/09/26/Gemini_Links_26_09_2025_Slop_in_OpenStreetMap_and_MOPML_My_Own_.shtml
    2094	/n/2025/09/28/Links_28_09_2025_Slop_Does_More_Harm_Newly_Released_Epstein_Est.shtml
    2093	/n/2025/09/27/Repeating_the_Lies_to_Promote_a_Ponzi_Scheme_is_Not_OK_Because_.shtml
    2019	/n/2025/09/28/Links_28_09_2025_Moldova_Elections_LLM_Slop_Failing_Again_to_Ac.shtml
    1996	/n/2025/09/27/Links_27_09_2025_Australia_Might_Ban_Microsoft_GitHub_for_Young.shtml
    1964	/n/2025/09/29/Almost_a_Couple_of_Years_After_Microsoft_Hijacked_the_Name_Sudo.shtml
    1953	/n/2025/09/29/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    1931	/n/2025/09/26/The_E_mail_Protocol_is_for_Text.shtml
    1923	/n/2025/09/26/Reminder_We_re_Unloading_Some_Publications_to_Tux_Machines.shtml
    1913	/n/2025/09/26/Links_26_09_2025_More_Provocations_Against_NATO_by_Russia_Near_.shtml
    1908	/n/2025/09/27/Pieter_Hintjens_on_Codes_of_Misconduct_a_Decade_Ago.shtml
    1901	/n/2025/09/29/Why_the_EPO_Never_Managed_to_Silence_Us_After_Over_a_Decade_of_.shtml
    1882	/n/2025/09/27/Web_Sites_That_Are_Independent_Are_Also_Like_Software_Projects_.shtml
    1879	/n/2025/09/26/Brett_Wilson_LLP_Unwilling_to_Disclose_or_Explain_How_Hulk_Hoga.shtml
    1854	/n/2025/09/27/Next_Step_Find_Out_Who_s_Funding_the_Hulk_Hogan_of_UEFI_to_SLAP.shtml
    1850	/n/2025/09/29/Gemini_Links_29_09_2025_The_Labor_Wars_and_Retro.shtml
    1845	/n/2025/09/29/Slopwatch_Fake_Articles_About_Linux_6_17_and_Microsoft_Meddling.shtml
    1837	/n/2025/09/26/Linux_is_Replacing_Apple.shtml
    1826	/n/2025/09/26/Links_26_09_2025_Digital_Fatigue_and_Slop_Frenzy_Hype_Ruining_W.shtml
    1810	/n/2025/09/29/CMS_Rot.shtml
    1787	/n/2025/09/26/What_Hulk_Hogan_of_UEFI_Could_Learn_From_Jimmy_Kimmel_About_the.shtml
    1782	/n/2025/09/26/We_don_t_have_that_kind_of_relationship_with_Microsoft_The_only.shtml
    1774	/n/2025/09/26/Links_26_09_2025_Hardware_Security_Health_and_Nuclear_Armament.shtml
    1769	/n/2025/09/26/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    1757	/n/2025/09/29/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_September_28_2025.shtml
    1755	/n/2025/09/26/Gemini_Links_26_09_2025_Reading_RSS_Feeds_ROOPHLOCH_202.shtml
    1752	/n/2025/09/29/Stefano_Maffulli_s_Front_Page_Mentions_AI_11_Times.shtml
    1742	/n/2025/09/29/What_is_Roy_and_Rianne_s_Righteously_Royalty_free_RSS_Reader.shtml
    1737	/n/2025/09/29/Does_the_Good_Law_Project_GLP_Know_the_Director_of_Brett_Wilson.shtml
    1736	/n/2025/09/26/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_September_25_2025.shtml
    1731	/n/2025/09/29/It_Feels_Like_Brett_Wilson_LLP_Has_Just_Tacitly_Admitted_That_I.shtml
    1716	/n/2025/09/27/Links_27_09_2025_Squashing_Software_Patents_and_When_Hospitals_.shtml
    1710	/n/2025/09/29/The_Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Turns_40_in_5_Days.shtml
    1654	/n/2025/09/27/GNU_Project_Turns_42.shtml
    1643	/n/2025/09/29/Names_Are_Not_Unique_IDs_and_the_UK_Government_s_Digital_ID_Sys.shtml
    1628	/n/2025/09/28/Links_28_09_2025_Science_Censorship_and_Security_Incidents_Advi.shtml
    1621	/n/2025/09/28/Gemini_Links_28_09_2025_Golem_and_Cybertrucks.shtml
    1590	/n/2025/09/29/Links_29_09_2025_Datacenter_Fires_and_Too_Much_Internet_Use_Is_.shtml
    1572	/n/2025/09/27/Gemini_Links_27_09_2025_Young_Feet_and_Online_Bots.shtml
    1564	/n/2025/09/28/Datacentres_Aren_t_Reliable_for_Backups.shtml
    1497	/n/2025/09/28/Links_28_09_2025_Windows_TCO_Security_Breaches_and_Deutsche_Bah.shtml
    1478	/n/2025/09/30/Two_Months_After_Merging_to_Hide_GitHub_Losses_Microsoft_is_Doi.shtml
    1406	/n/2025/09/29/Links_29_09_2025_Opposition_to_Surveillance_Giant_Google_and_Co.shtml
    1403	/n/2025/09/30/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    1352	/n/2025/09/30/Speculations_About_the_Next_Large_Wave_of_IBM_Red_Hat_Layoffs.shtml
    1302	/n/2025/09/30/Justice_for_Wildlife.shtml
    1302	/n/2025/09/30/IRC_Proceedings_Monday_September_29_2025.shtml
    1236	/n/2025/09/30/Gemini_Links_30_09_2025_Retro_Hardware_Federated_Fragmentation_.shtml
    1191	/n/2025/09/30/Google_Used_Free_Software_to_Build_a_Monopoly_Now_Google_Kicks_.shtml
    1183	/n/2025/09/30/Microsoft_Lunduke_Spreads_Deliberate_Lies_to_Incite_Online_Mobs.shtml
    1165	/n/2025/09/30/Almost_Half_of_the_FSFE_s_Money_the_Fake_FSF_Misusing_the_Brand.shtml