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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 09, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Our Site Search Increases Our Editorial and Informational Independence
    Implementing our search facility is a long-term investment
  2. Corruption is a Reality, It's Not a Dirty or a Strong Word
    Corruption is a topic some newspapers shy away from

    New

  3. Links 08/11/2025: Climate Talk Unfruitful, OldVersion.com Archive Facing Shutdown
    Links for the day
  4. IBM is Eliminating Red Hat Like It Eliminated Tivoli and Eliminated Cognos
    Be wary of IBM
  5. Quitting One's Job Isn't Forbidden, Right?
    it's important to remind people that leaving one's job is perfectly OK
  6. Being Absent/Missing From Social Control Media is Not a Sign of Weakness
    Broadly speaking, social control media is for losers
  7. Empathy Online
    I recently learned from someone that running his Web site might hurt some feelings, even if the writings are truthful
  8. Advocates of GNU/Linux and the Uphill Battles Behind Us
    GNU/Linux felt like "activism" 20 years ago. Now it's mainstream.
  9. Cybersecurity Means Real Security, Not Back Doors
    Standing our ground on technology and cybersecurity is an uncompromisable stance
  10. Links 08/11/2025: Disinformation Crisis, Denmark Recognises Threats Associated With Social Control Media
    Links for the day
  11. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is Besieged for the Times It Does the Right Things
    As that upsets rich people's interests (and they were, at times, sponsors)
  12. Links 08/11/2025: Technical and Financial GAFAM Woes and Arrests of Journalists by Despots
    Links for the day
  13. Like SUSE, IBM Red Hat Seems to be Using LLM Slop to Write Fake (Bot-Generated) Blog Posts
    IBM Red Hat keeps promoting slop
  14. How German Media Covered Cocainegate at The European Patent Office (EPO)
    At some point we'll ask that same press to revisit the issue and this time comment on the EPO connection
  15. Our Launch of Techrights Search Has Been Successful (So Far)
    There are about 50,000 articles indexed there, going 19+ years back
  16. Daniel Pocock Explains Social Engineering in Debian and Other Communities Increasingly Controlled by "Barons"
    Communities are not corporations
  17. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  18. IRC Proceedings: Friday, November 07, 2025
    IRC logs for Friday, November 07, 2025
  19. Rosanna Yuen & GNOME community triple tricked
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  20. Adrian & Diana von Bidder-Senn, Debian: detailed history of a death
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  21. Crypto AG tricked ETH Zurich student internship
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  22. An Old Story of Fraud at the EPO in the Netherlands (and How the Dutch Government Facilitated It)
    We've already mentioned several other scandals where the the Dutch government engaged in fraud and passive corruption
  23. Voicing Concerns About European Patent Office (EPO) in Rijswijk
    The report is dated yesterday
  24. Gemini Links 08/11/2025: KeePassRX and Pluribus
    Links for the day
  25. IBM Layoffs Not Done, Terminations of Staff in India, Brazil, and Mexico Reported
    This hopefully answers questions such as, "do the layoffs only impact US and Canada?"
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

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