Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 23, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Who Asked Software in the Public Interest (SPI) for a Refund? ($100,000, Resulting in Losses of $267,201 in 12 Months, Highest-Ever Losses)

   The IRS does not reveal who or what's tied to this refund (or the cause/reason)

2. "Cloud Computing" Was Always a Joke, But This Week Was the Punchline

   Maybe stop following tech trends and fashions

   New

3. Slopwatch: Google News is Promoting Fake 'Articles' About Fake Xubuntu, Fake Articles About Replacing Windows With GNU/Linux

   The quality of the Web deteriorates and unless someone cleans up the mess, real sites will lose an incentive to produce anything

4. When "AI Layoffs" Mean Layoffs Due to the "AI" Bubble Popping

   many people that are laid off by Microsoft claim to be specialists in "AI"

5. Mysterious grant forfeited, $100,000 from Software in the Public Interest accounts 2023

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

6. Evidence: bullying, student union behaviour: Armijn Hemel's FSFE resignation

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

7. Evidence: psychological abuse, stalking, Galia Mancheva, Susanne Eiswirt ignored by FSFE judgment for Matthias Kirschner

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

8. Helping FSFE scam victims and conference organisers

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

9. Nigerian fraud in FSFE constitution

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

10. Worrying and Amusing Stories of "Clown Computing" Gone Awry

    Many of these disasters could be avoided

11. Some Large German Media Covers Richard Stallman's Talks in Germany Earlier This Week

    LLM-based chatbots are just "bullshit generators" (as he has long called them)

12. Links 22/10/2025: Amazon Plans to Replace Workers With Robotics, AWS and Clown Computing in General Ridiculed

    Links for the day

13. Gemini Links 22/10/2025: Niri Completely Changes Multitasking and Overview of Diff-ers

    Links for the day

14. Links 22/10/2025: Study on Misinformation by Slop and Heavily Debt-Sabbled Microsoft OpenAI (ClosedSlop) Uses "Browser" as Gimmick/Distraction

    Links for the day

15. They've Already Spent Close to a Million Dollars on Lawyers and Sent Us About 50 KG of Legal Papers (Sponsored by Mysterious Third Party) to Try to Censor Techrights, Without Success

    They try to overcompensate with sheer volume for a lack of solid, clear arguments (we are the victims here)

16. Trouble in Red Hat/IBM and a Retreat to Ponzi Economics in Search of Wall Street Market Heist

    Would you invest your life savings in this kind of crap?

17. 12 Months Ago the 'Hulk Hogan of UEFI' Officially Went 'Tag-Team'

    We're actually sort of flattered or proud that such despicable people are so desperate to censor us

18. "Cloud Computing" Does Not Mean Safety

    Fault tolerance is related to the notion of software freedom

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 21, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, October 21, 2025

21. The Fall of Windows: From Something to Nothing

    Of course Microsoft will pretend everything is fine and "just trust the hey hi" (AI)

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