Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 13, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. The Same People Who Attacked Richard Stallman (RMS) Are Attacking Daniel Pocock to Discourage People From Listening to His Information

   Pocock is being demonised for the same reasons and by the same people who attack RMS

2. The Way Things Are Going, They May Soon Stop Saying "Web Address" and Instead Say "Chrome Address"

   The Web isn't built or based around open Web standards anymore. It's centered around user-agent.

3. Microsoft as a Golden Cage

   "I was laid off by Microsoft and can't find a job. I'm weeks away from giving up my apartment and moving across the country to live with family."

4. Weekend Discussion About How IBM's Bluewashing of Red Hat Will Cause "Enshittification" for Users

   "I worked at a software company that was acquired by IBM so I knew it was game over for RedHat the day they were acquired"

5. Brett Wilson LLP Getting Sued by Its Very Own Clients, a Legal Story That Has Made the Mainstream News (Law360)

   Law360 or Law.com are about as mainstream as one can get in that "sector" (litigation 'industry')

6. Lucas Nussbaum & Debian pregnancy cluster

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

   New

7. Your Typical Anti-Richard Stallman (RMS) Cancellist

   "About the RMS cancellation"

8. Richard Stallman (RMS) Has Announced His Talk in Rome Less Than 20 Hours in Advance (and on a Sunday)

   Why did he wait until the night before?

9. GNU Tools Cauldron Event in Portugal: Videos Now Available via Invidious

   Go have a look

10. Slopwatch: GNU/Linux Sites That Became Slopfarms and Spamfarms

    The Web is a mess and "Linux" or "Ubuntu" sites became part of the problem

11. Richard Stallman's Talk 25 Hours Away, Aula Magna Palazzo del Rettorato (CU001), Sapienza Università di Roma (Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5)

    The talk is 25 hours away and we see some QR code for it

12. Gemini Links 12/10/2025: Watches, the Depression of 2026, Gamboling with Odds

    Links for the day

13. Links 12/10/2025: 'False' DMCA Claims and Slop Facing Perils Again (the Hype Wears Off)

    Links for the day

14. Microsoft Has Just Lost Privacy Case in Austria and Its Latest Moves Make a Complete Ban Seem Imperative

    Microsoft is not a software company, it's a spying agency that uses software to collect data

15. The Register MS: Microsoft is the Security Expert, Not the Prime Culprit, So Buy More Microsoft

    This front page feature is devoid of any actual substance, it's just Microsoft copypasta

16. Paris 'Love Nest' & Debian Outreachy: from Lycée Lakanal to ENS Cachan, Cr@ns, nepotism

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

17. Stefano Zacchiroli (Zack) & Debian pregnancy cluster

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

18. Gemini Links 12/10/2025: "Palm Computering", Further Exploration of Slide Rules, and Key Takeaways from The Well-Grounded Rubyist

    Links for the day

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 11, 2025

    IRC logs for Saturday, October 11, 2025

21. Tomorrow: Founder of the Free Software Foundation and of GNU/Linux, Richard Stallman, Speaks in Roma (Rome), Italy at 4PM

    GNU/Linux is more important than ever in this dystopian world

22. Microsoft and Apple Are Rare Topics in Geminispace

    in Geminispace it's rather safe to assume everyone is into BSD, GNU/Linux, and sometimes retro

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