Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 15, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. EPO Staff Can Go Listen to Richard Stallman Next Week in Munich (Technical University of Munich, Rudolf-Diesel Hörsaal (MW2001) on Campus Garching at 18:00)

   "The talk is open to the public and attendance is free. Registration is not required."

2. At IBM, Relocation Means Layoffs (Downsizing)

   Silent or 'invisible' layoffs?

3. Richard Stallman (RMS) Announced His Talk Less Than 24 Hours Before It Took Place and Still Filled Up the Auditorium at Sapienza Università di Roma

   Photos from yesterday evening [...] It looks like it was a very successful event

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4. Many Developers Have Many Political Views, They'll Never Agree on Everything

   It's an effort to divide and destroy, not build

5. Gemini Links 14/10/2025: An Opportunity to Consider GNU/Linux and Another Simple IRC Client

   Links for the day

6. Slopwatch: UbuntuPIT, LinuxSecurity, Google News, and the Serial Slopper Brian Fagioli

   Nothing of merit here, just more slop

7. Links 14/10/2025: Lack of Trust in Slop and "Retirement Challenges"

   Links for the day

8. Rhonda D'Vine, Gerfried Fuchs, Pronouns & Debian pregnancy cluster

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

9. Central Staff Committee of the European Patent Office (EPO) Warns That EPO Management is Robbing or Manipulating Pension Funds Again

   Faking "growth" is just about as bad as forgery

10. Probably a Lot Worse Than LLM Slop: GNOME Tying Itself to Divisive Politics, Even Where It's Clearly Not Relevant

    Something has gone terribly wrong in GNOME

11. Links 14/10/2025: Microsoft OneDrive Scanning Faces in Photos (Without Asking First), "OpenAI Says It Will Move to Allow Smut"

    Links for the day

12. They Generally Don't Like Scholars, as They're Less Compelled or Pressured to Repeat What Corporations and Oligarchs Say

    People who loathe scholars have an agenda in mind that, unlike that of reasonable people, revolves around controlling people

13. Belated New Article About Last Thursday's Lecture by Richard Stallman in Helsinki, Finland

    there are good reasons to pay with cash, not limited to privacy

14. Attacking Richard Stallman Has Become 'Career Suicide'

    If you're going to viciously attack somebody, make sure your arguments are rock-solid

15. Microsoft's Failing XBox Business Has Turned Games Into Funerals

    How does it feel to depend on Microsoft?

16. Yesterday's "Distinguished Lecture" by Richard Stallman Possibly Attended by Close to 1,000 People

    The capacity of the place is about 900

17. Slop Poisons Everything

    Imagine wanting to find what Torvalds has just said or what has just been released

18. Taking Software Freedom 'Mainstream'

    interest in Software Freedom must have grown

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 13, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, October 13, 2025

21. Gemini Links 14/10/2025: Ada Lovelace Day, Sony CLIE PEG-TG50 Review, Why to Avoid Network Solutions

    Links for the day

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