Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 21, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Rejecting 'Snoop-Phones' and Turning "Old" Phones (or Tablets) Into Freedom-Respecting Appliances

   Paul Fernhout (pdfernhout.net) wrote back to Akira Urushibatathis this past weekend

2. Apple is the Company of Dictators and Worse

   Apple is just another greedy corporation in search of sweatshops and even pedophiles (especially the high-profile ones)

3. Counting Unhatched Eggs Is Not Counting Chickens

   Everything here will persist as normal

4. The "Infinite Bread"

   The biblical story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 has software parallels

5. In Many Cases and in Many Different Ways, Technology Became Less Durable and Less Reliable Over Time

   The "modern" things are more complex. And complexity is a foe or reliability and repair-ability.

6. Microsoft's LinkedIn is Losing Money, Traffic, and Hope; Now It Wants to Sell Its Users' Lifeblood (and Data)

   Let this be a reminder of what social control media really is about

   New

7. Google News is Now Promoting a Parasitic Slopfarm Called "findarticles.com", Where Plagiarism of "Linux" Articles is Rampant

   Does Google even care about the slop epidemic? Google itself is a vendor of slop now (and it calls it "Gemini")

8. Gemini Links 20/10/2025: Pumpkin Carving, "Hey Hi", and Other Buzzwords

   Links for the day

9. Slopwatch: Google News Promoting Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD)

   What is the value of Google News if so many results in it are fake 'articles?

10. Our Uptime This Year Was Better Than AWS (Also a Lot Cheaper)

    We never used "the cloud"

11. Amazon Web Shenanigans

    An ongoing, experimental endeavour

12. Death of Elias Diem: FSFE mailing list archives hidden

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

13. Links 20/10/2025: Louvre Museum Reveals Weakness, About 7 Million Protest US Turning Into Oligarchy/Monarchy

    Links for the day

14. They Should Have Listened to Techrights Over a Month Earlier (Xubuntu Site Compromised)

    we reported this issue about 40 days earlier and nobody did anything about it

15. Richard Stallman to Give Another Talk Today in Bavaria (Bavarian Academy of Science)

    Tomorrow at 6 PM he speaks in Munich

16. Barry Kauler Explains That Puppy Linux and EasyOS Exclude Systemd to Keep Things Simple

    Barry Kauler's Puppy Linux is in the community's hands. He now focuses on EasyOS and more.

17. Half a Year After Brian Fagioli Got Kicked Out of BetaNews for Slop He's Still Doing LLM Slop and Slop Images Targeting 'Linux' (Plagiarising Original Works)

    If the Web gets polluted or flooded by slopfarms such as these, and Slashdot then sends traffic so these slopfarms (Slashdot probably doesn't do this intentionally), then real writers with real knowledge of GNU/Linux will lose the spark for publishing

18. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

19. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 19, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, October 19, 2025

20. Campaign of FUD Against Framework Laptops and GNU/Linux (Using Microsoft's Attack on Linux, 'Secure Boot')

    Ritual Defamation Cult has turned its attention over to Framework

21. Microsoft Lunduke: Freedom of Speech Means Spreading What I Have to Say and Banning People I Disagree With

    4Chan is one he aims for and he is siccing 4Chan trolls at people he doesn't like

22. Liberation From 'The Feed'

    They rank things based on the editor's choice/ideology (he or she knows the sponsors, hence the masters)

23. Microsoft's Killing of Vista 10 Seems to Have Resulted in More Articles About GNU/Linux (But Also FUD)

    We not only saw a rise in traffic, we also saw a remarkable rise in the number of articles

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