Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 20, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Richard Stallman Back at the "Rudolf-Diesel" Hörsal "MW 2001" in About 40 Hours

   He spoke there before; there's a very high seating capacity there

2. US Government: 6.1% of Site Visitors Use GNU/Linux

   GNU/Linux has a considerable share and it is growing

3. Why the FSF No Longer Recommends Debian, as Explained by Richard Stallman This Month

   some weeks ago

   New

4. Today (a Day Before Richard Stallman Talk at TUM) There's a Patent Propaganda Event at TUM

   Perhaps an opportunity for Dr. Stallman to rebut this "invention to patent" nonsense/fantasy (conflating monopolies with innovation)

5. OpenSource or "Open Source" as a Brand is Dying, Let's Get Back to Talking About Software Freedom

   Those of us who actually want to reform the industry and put users in control of their systems/devices will recognise that "Open Source" was selling a lie or got-co-opted by liars

6. 19 Years in Numbers: Techrights' Anniversary Countdown and Retrospective

   In 2019 we began improving our workflows and, accordingly/predictably, we became a lot more productive

7. Slop Turns People Off (LLMs Lack Intelligence, They're Just Plagiarism Powerhouses That Fail to Deliver Any Real, Measurable Value)

   "More" (or "MOAR") isn't always better

8. IBM Red Hat Has Re-calibrated or Adjusted to Bubble Economics, False Promises, and Slop/Plagiarism

   This won't end well

9. Fake Numbers, Fake Claims, Fake Economy, and Media Grifters That Prop Up Fraud

   Grifters like The Register MS won't be looked upon kindly after the bubble implodes

10. For Some, the GNU Web Site is Not Accessible This Week

    They seem to have gone into some kind of lock-down mode

11. Symptoms of Upcoming Microsoft Layoffs in XBox

    A crashing franchise

12. Psychiatrist confession: Germanwings crash & Debian toxic culture recognized before suicides

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

13. Gemini Links 19/10/2025: Scentjacking 101, Slop Hype Boosters, and Steam Next Fest

    Links for the day

14. Slopwatch: The Serial Slopper, LinuxSecurity, and Google News

    Let's hope slopfarms die as soon as possible

15. Links 19/10/2025: Cambodia Scam Centres, Slop Hurting Wikipedia Traffic

    Links for the day

16. As Economies Crumble Free as in Beer Will Matter, Not Just Free as in Freedom/Libre (Libertad)

    French regions choosing to embrace Software Freedom

17. 25 Years Ago, an Explanation of How Reducing Free Software to 'Apps' Would Interfere With Freedom Goals

    there's nothing unreasonable about it

18. A List of 63 Known Gemini Clients (Software to Browse Geminispace Content With Gemini Protocol)

    Not counting browser plugins for Web browsers

19. Gemini Links 19/10/2025: "Firma Odin Is Transforming" and Bot Attacks While "AFK"

    Links for the day

20. LLM Slop Could Not Rise to Prominence Without Media Complicity and Artificial Hype

    Inane garbage disguised as "journalism"

21. All the Latest Half Dozen Articles by Mehedi Hasan (UbuntuPIT) Only Admit at the End That He's Using LLM Slop

    Disclosure is OK, but the practice of using slop is not

22. The 'Modern' Web of Fake Security and Easy Censorship of Whole Domains

    Each year it gets worse

23. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

24. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 18, 2025

    IRC logs for Saturday, October 18, 2025

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