Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 07, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. IBM Has Not Been Good for IBM's Red Hat (Which Microsoft Also Attempted to Buy)

   GAFAM or GIAFAM are not a force for good

2. All Set for Tomorrow

   Techrights waves

3. Rust's "Memory Safety" Talking Point Ought to be Discarded in Light of Fil-C

   new memory-safe C/C++ compiler

   New

4. Mailing lists vs Discourse forums: open source communities or commodities?

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

5. Links 06/11/2025: "Component Abuse Challenge", Google Play Store Deemed Too Monopolistic

   Links for the day

6. Microsoft and Microsoft GitHub (and Rust @ Microsoft GitHub) the Future of Ubuntu, They Want the Same for Debian

   Ubuntu is not the place to find freedom

7. Richard Stallman Was Right About LLM-based Chatbots

   the passing fad, LLM-based chatbots

8. Taking Back Control Over Technology We Purchase (Study, Modify, Enhance, and More)

   "The war on general-purpose computing continues

9. Links 06/11/2025: EFF Wants New Executive Director, Microsoft's Azure Falls Over Again

   Links for the day

10. The Corporate Media Carries on With Patently Phony and Misleading Narrative About IBM's Mass Layoffs

    Instead of rightly alleging business failure or commercial (leadership's) weakness it is offloading blame to some mindless buzzwords

11. IBM Isn't Hiring Based on Age Groups. It Still Hires Based on Salary Expectations.

    It is not about the skills available, it's about the expected cost of labour

12. Estimating the Scale of IBM's Mass Layoffs This Week

    there is no denying that the IBM layoffs are vast

13. Telling Our Story as Victims of Online Abuse

    This post will not mention any names

14. Claim That EPO Quotas Brought Corruption and Mischief to Europe's Second-Largest Institution

    Nowadays corruption is the norm at the EPO and there is even rampant substance abuse among the people who run the Office

15. Claim That IBM Has Another 8 Days to Lay Off 'Expensive' Staff

    The consensus in comments we see is, IBM is a terrible place to work in, treatment of its workers is appalling, it's utterly foolish to relocate in an effort to retain a job at IBM, and it's foolish to join the company in the first place

16. Science Demands Facts, Not Dogma

    Saying that restricted hardware is not secure hardware should be common sense

17. Site Anniversary is Tomorrow

    The celebrations might delay our EPO series somewhat

18. Launching Techrights Search

    New search interface and locally hosted back end

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 05, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, November 05, 2025

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