Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 25, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. [Video] Richard Stallman's Talk in Sweden, Attended by Nearly 700 People, is Now Online

   The Web page is in Swedish, but the talk is in English

2. Coping With the Site Going More Mainstream

   Fame is no laughing matter

3. 21 Pages in Less Than 7 Hours is No Joking Matter

   We've become a lot more effective and efficient

   New

4. The Serial Slopper Starts Up - or Restarts - His Plagiarism Machine (LLMs)

   Serial Sloppers like these don't belong in news sites. That's why he got sacked by BetaNews.

5. Links 24/10/2025: Esperanto Music History, Anxiety, and New Portals

   Links for the day

6. Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity.com, Linux Journal, and Pet Slopfarms of Google News

   Why does Google News still advance these fake sites to the top of search results?

7. Links 24/10/2025: Inequality Grows, Billion-Dollar Scam Center Industry

   Links for the day

8. Links 24/10/2025: "Independent Media in Cambodia is Collapsing" and Serious F5 Breach

   Links for the day

9. They Never 'Put Down' Corporations

   There are "pests" that are traded in Wall Street

10. Correct Information is a Valued Asset in the Age of Slopfarms and Public Relations (PR) or Spin

    Publishing suppressed facts is never easy

11. The Register MS Continues to Bag Money to Promote a Ponzi Scheme, Even Money From China

    Today in the front page

12. analytics.usa.gov: The Only Supported Version of Windows (This Past Week) is Only Used by About 13.9% of People in the US, the Home Base of Windows

    Even Vista 7 is still used more

13. Rust is Very Secure

    If only Rust itself is secure

14. Who Will be Held Accountable for Breaking Ubuntu by Imposing Rust on Otherwise-Functional Programs, in Effect Replacing GNU With Proprietary Microsoft (GitHub)?

    they're practical people who merely point out that a bunch of buffoons not only ruin Ubuntu but also every future distro based on Ubuntu

15. Generation Chaff - Phase VIII: In Summary

    Like "Science" with a capital "S", what we see here commercial interests usurping everything

16. Generation Chaff - Phase VII: Curtailing Alternative Media

    There was always an obligation - a collective duty of sorts - to uphold independent journalism

17. Generation Chaff - Phase VI: Centralisation of Information (X, Cheetok/Fentanylware)

    Would you trust information when controlled by such people?

18. Generation Chaff - Phase V: Censorship of Dissent (Painted as Harassment or Terrorism)

    Censorship is all around us now

19. Generation Chaff - Phase IV: Apps Only Few Companies Decide On

    Tools are being collectively confiscated, under the premise or false prospect of "security"

20. Generation Chaff - Phase III: Slop and Plagiarism

    A lot of the current so-called 'economy' is built upon false valuations

21. Generation Chaff - Phase II: "Cloud", Blockchains and Other Hype

    For those of us who turned down those propositions there was a struggle; we needed to justify not having skinnerboxes or "social" accounts in some site run by a private company

22. Generation Chaff - Phase I: Social Control Media

    IRC predates the Web

23. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

24. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 23, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, October 23, 2025

25. More Clues Shed on Collapse of Microsoft XBox

    XBox is basically circling down the drain as Microsoft implements 2-3 waves of layoffs each month

26. 'Vibe Coding' Doesn't Work

    In a lot of ways, so-called 'Vibe Coding' is already considered vapourware or a passing fad promoted in the media by managers who try to justify mass layoffs, especially ridding companies of "very expensive" software engineers

27. Links 24/10/2025: Microsoft's Killing of XBox Connected to Revenue/Profit Problems, "How Elon Musk Ruined Twitter"

    Links for the day

28. Gemini Links 24/10/2025: 86,400 Seconds and "Society's Task"

    Links for the day

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