Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 11, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. The Web Has Become Extremely Rude

   If you cannot behave, go offline

2. Like Clickfraud Spamnil (Swapnil Bhartiya) But for Hate Mongering: What Twitter Has Become

   If you still waste time in Social Control Media, consider changing course

3. EPO People Power - Part II - Talking About Corruption

   European media must "grow a pair" and start writing about EPO corruption

4. Circular Funding

   Passing around capital that does not exist (for PR's sake, but there are ramifications)

5. Y Combinator (YC) Funds Scams, Run by Scammers

   Including Scam Altman

6. EPO People Power - Part I - Identifying Corruption

   The EPO, at this stage, is a boat full of holes

   New

7. Slopfarms Parrot Any Number That GAFAM Throws at Them, Even Totally Fictional Figures That Merit Fact-Checking

   fake from Microsoft

8. Microsoft Lunduke Tailors His 'Content' for 4Chan

   The latest from Lunduke "Journal"

9. Richard Stallman Was Also Right About Microsoft GitHub (It's Becoming a Botfarm)

   trashing the platform

10. Democracy and Buzzwords

    and hype

11. Five Years in Gemini Protocol

    One might say we escaped to Geminispace 2 years before the deluge of slop on the Web

12. Keeping Up the Pressure on EPO Management

    We want to thank our European readers who contacted their representatives

13. For New PCs and for Old (or Retro) PCs the Increased Cost of System Memory Benefits GNU/Linux and BSDs

    GNU/Linux does not have this problem or barely has this problem

14. Gemini Links 10/12/2025: "Thousand Mile Journey" and The Art Of Chilling

    Links for the day

15. Moving Away From Content Management Systems (CMSs) and Flocking to Static Site Generators (SSGs)

    The SSG 'hype' is not based on marketing but a simple reality

16. IBM is Laying Off Workers in India (While Spending a Fortune Buying a Company for Buzzwords, a Box-Ticking Exercise)

    So what is the overall strategy?

17. Just a Little Slop About "Linux"

    Slop about Linux isn't that common anymore

18. Links 10/12/2025: McDonald’s Latest Slop Gaffe (After Dumping IBM's Slop) and "Scam Altman’s Panic Sweats"

    Links for the day

19. Links 10/12/2025: Ransomware (Windows TCO) Has Crippled Economies, Slop (Fake) "Videos Have Flooded Social (Control) Media"

    Links for the day

20. IBM Has Become a "Plantation"

    IBM is basically being destroyed for some cash at this point

21. It's Not Too Late to Send an E-mail to Your European Representative Regarding European Patent Office Abuses

    If you live in Europe and have not done so already, please contact your national delegates, whose job is (at least on paper) to represent you

22. Almost a Thousand EPO Workers Have Voted for Industrial Action

    Mandate given to SUEPO for action plan to stop the salary erosion of EPO staff

23. Why So Many Software Projects Are Quitting Microsoft and GitHub

    Be more like LibreWolf. Move away from Microsoft and GitHub.

24. Many of the Attacks on Us Apparently Boil Down to Jealousy

    Envy is a negative trait that leads people to self harm

25. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

26. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 09, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, December 09, 2025

27. Valuing One's Work by the Effort or Budget Taken to Undermine It

    As long as what we publish is factual, nothing prevents its publication

28. IBM Says It Buys Another Company for "AI", So Why Does IBM Fire Its Own "AI" Experts?

    As people rightly point out, this has nothing to do with "AI"

29. The Boundaries of Criticism

    The harder the EPO will push back, the better the job we must have done

30. New EPO Series: Mafia Culture, Mobbing, Nepotism, and Illegal Drugs

    The series shall start later today

31. Richard Stallman Was Right About "AI"

    "Considering Stallman worked in the MIT AI lab in the era of symbolic AI, and has written GCC (an optimizing compiler is a kind of symbolic reasoner imo), I think he has a deeper understanding of the question than most famous people in tech."

32. With 3 Weeks Left (Sans Extensions) the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Already Raised About Half of the Money Set as Fund-Raising Goal

    “Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it.” — Richard Stallman

33. Gemini Links 10/12/2025: Cranberry Juice and Gramophones

    Links for the day

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