Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 31, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Jean-Slop Van Damme and the Art of Bull

   New

   - Code

   it's saving neither time nor money

2. Reality Check About IBM's Louis Grestner, Slopfarms Say He Was IBM CEO for 30 Years!

   It is "hallucinating" (lying)

3. Debt as the New Currency?

   Rich people get richer because they take money from the rest of us, if not directly then by compelling us (collectively) to borrow money at a national level, then "invest" in them

4. EPO People Power - Part XIX - "Berenguer Has Known of Campinos' Substance Abuse First Hand For a Long Time"

   "You rightfully claimed that Berenguer is Campinos' protegee"

   New

5. Gemini Links 30/12/2025: FreeBSD, Gemlogs, and Xobaque

   Links for the day

6. Get Ready for Gigantic XBox Layoffs at Microsoft (Much Bigger Than in 2025)

   he unionisation drive is a sign workers already expect this

7. Concern Trolls: Stop Criticising Poor Gerstner Because Now He's Dead. Reality Check: Gerstner Has Found a Trick for Dodging Tax on His Hundreds of Millions in Wealth.

   Maybe even billions in wealth

8. Samoa: GNU/Linux and ChromeOS Rose to Around 11%

   based on Web access data from Samoa

9. DnD: Debian and Drugs

   There will soon be some interesting new information about Debian

10. A Conundrum of Privacy/Surveillance: Will You Give Them a Stool Sample to "Feel Humane"?

    What if skinnerboxes in South Korea also required that people provide urine and stool samples?

11. Nope, There's No Twitter "Successor"

    There's a lot of horrible abuse going on in social control media

12. A Calm Year in IRC is a Good Year for IRC

    Next year IRC will turn 38 (in August) and in 2028 it'll turn 40, just like the FSF did a couple of months ago

13. Slopfarms Covering Up for "Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella" After a Terrible Performance and a Terrible Year at Microsoft

    How to cause many to resign/retire, hence not be counted as "layoffs"

14. IBM Was Never Saved, It Has Been a Downhill Journey for Decades Already

    Gerstner wasn't a tech person but a fiscal butcher

15. Some GNU Joiners in Geminispace

    Jose E. Marchesi (known for GNU poke and a bunch of other things) adopted Gemini Protocol

16. IBM Seems to be Doing to HashiCorp What It Did to Red Hat (Many Key People Leaving)

    "Today marks my last day at HashiCorp, wrapping up an incredibly rewarding 5-year journey"

17. State of the Slop, Day 364

    How does Phoronix feel about Google promoting slopfarms that 'rewrite' its stories and slap slop images on top?

18. Links 30/12/2025: "Durian Tsunami" and "Unneeded Surgeries"

    Links for the day

19. Links 30/12/2025: Social Control Media Detox, Rage Against Slop Wasting People's Productive Capacities

    Links for the day

20. Gemini Links 30/12/2025: Quitting Coffee, Apartment by the Beach, and Strange Retail Ethics

    Links for the day

21. Nintendo and Sony Outsold Microsoft XBox by 15:1!

    The mass layoffs indicate Microsoft is aware of this

22. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

23. IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 29, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, December 29, 2025

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