Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 23, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. "Major [IBM] Reductions Will Take Place Soon in Rochester MN"

   Maybe that's just the latest office gossip

   New

2. British Web Developers Can Probably Ignore Firefox Users (Based on US Standards)

   Mozilla has managed to piss off enough people

3. On the 'Digital Gulag' of 'Secure Boot' and Microsoft Disguising Its Attacks on Users as "Security"

   Dr. Andy Farnell has this new article

4. Slopfarms Can Only Survive in Google News, Which is Still Promoting Them

   Google News promoted only 3 slopfarms today

5. Gemini Links 22/12/2025: Films, Creativity vs. Consumption, Slop in YouTube

   Links for the day

6. Microsoft XBox Losing Money, Layoffs and Studio Shutdowns (As Well as Price Hikes) Not the Solution

   Microsoft does not quite talk about profits

7. Links 22/12/2025: Data Breaches, deterioration in Politics, and Geminispace

   Links for the day

8. Links 22/12/2025: North Korean Applicants Target GAFAM (Amazon), ‘Orwellian Climate of Fear’ of CPC (Even Outside China)

   Links for the day

9. More IBM Layoffs in India

   It's not as simple as "laid off to be replaced by an Indian"

10. GAFAM Deeply Connected to Jeffrey Epstein, Richard Stallman (RMS) in No Way Connected to Jeffrey Epstein

    people who hoarded all the capital get to decide what people think and say

11. Linus Torvalds Has a Birthday This Coming Weekend, Thankfully He Still Controls His Main Project

    GNU and Linux should remain under their control as long as they live

12. Mozilla is Getting Attention for All the Wrong Reasons, Take a Look at LibreWolf

    Just last week Mozilla added a new top-level manager who (as usual) came from a "tech giant"

13. When Conformism Means Capitulation and Defeat

    In an age of injustices like these, we all have some kind of moral obligation not to be conformist.

14. Text is Still King

    But the so-called 'industry' insists that we should download 10 MB of objects from multiple domains... even just to read 5-10 paragraphs of text

15. Links 22/12/2025: Facebook "Testing $14.99 Monthly Subscription Fee to Post Links" and "Middle East Petrostates as American Media Owners"

    Links for the day

16. Beyond the World Wide Web (WWW)

    We continue to treat Gemini Protocol as a first-class citizen

17. Serbia: GNU/Linux Rises, Windows Down to All-Time Lows

    According to statCounter

18. "Wrestling With Pigs"

    "Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it."

19. Productive Year and Better Access to Techrights' Archives Going Back to 2006

    we've long needed and wanted native, local, independent search facilities

20. Linux Abandoned by Linux Foundation

    It speaks for Microsoft and for so-called 'AI' companies

21. Microsoft Has Practically Given Up on XBox Already

    Expect many XBox related layoffs when 2026 starts (Q1)

22. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

23. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 21, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, December 21, 2025

24. "Today's [Red Hat] is run by a cabal of vultures."

    it seems safe to assume Red Hat too will languish away

25. Microsoft Layoffs in 2026 Can be Bigger Than 2025 Microsoft Layoffs (30,000+ Workers Laid Off)

    "Is there going to be any reorg or Microsoft layoffs?"

26. Gemini Links 21/12/2025: Solstice, Chaos of CSS, and Program Interpreter Fun

    Links for the day

27. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Represents People, Not Corporations

    FSF isn't in the "business" of appeasing oligarchs

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