Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 09, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, UbuntuPIT, and Google News

   We've also just noticed more slop from UbuntuPIT

2. Microsoft Windows is No Longer an Operating System, It's Surveillance Project

   Why is this even legal to preload on PCs outside the US?

3. Qualcomm Arduino Takes Aim at Raspberry Pi

   Qualcomm is a Microsoft partner

   New

4. Slopwatch Appreciated by Real Authors of GNU/Linux Articles

   We do try to keep on top of those things

5. Upgraded R.R.R.R.R.R. Today

   The Web of 2025 is full of garbage, not limited to slopfarms

6. Freedom From Proprietary Prisons

   Forking always an option

7. IBM's Watson Died in 1956, Now Watson Dies Again

   IBM is becoming just a reseller of GAFAM and other stuff

8. Microsoft Says That Constant Mass Layoffs Are Success, the Media Isn't Buying This Microsoft Narrative Anymore

   If people in the media feel an obligation to repeat whatever lies Microsoft tells, what point will there be to the media?

9. Links 08/10/2025: "Mali Puts Free Speech on Trial" And Apple Enforces Dictatorship

   Links for the day

10. Links 08/10/2025: ‘Death to Spotify’ and Law to Ban Loud Commercials on Streaming (Dis)Services

    Links for the day

11. Links 08/10/2025: Real Innovation and Nina.chat is Dead

    Links for the day

12. Links 08/10/2025: Y2K38 Bug is a Vulnerability, Chat Control in Europe a Threat

    Links for the day

13. How and Why Once-Legitimate Sites Turn Into Slopfarms

    Many sites will go offline and many social control networks will shut down once they realise or even openly admit they spend money and time gardening a bunch of bots and slop

14. UbuntuPIT Became a Slopfarm and Gnoppix Tarnishes Its Own Brand With Slop

    It fits all the characteristics of mildly-edited (if at all) slop

15. Slopwatch: Linux Journal and Other Slopfarms

    GAFAM needs to go the way of the dodo

16. Gemini Links 08/10/2025: "Seek Seek Revolution" and Gradient Backgrounds

    Links for the day

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 07, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, October 07, 2025

19. Stagnation of the Economy and What Free Software Can (or Could) Do For It

    If your economic model is based on a pyramid of lies, it won't last very long

20. Social Control Media is Sinking

    it would rightly seem like the era of centralised "social" sites (they're not social, they're about controlling the users) is ending, not overnight but gradually

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