Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 16, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Linuxiac May Have Reverted Back to LLM Slop (Updated Same Day)

   Is he back off the wagon?

2. Links 15/01/2026: Internet Blackouts, Jackboots Society in US

   Links for the day

3. GAFAM is a National and International Threat to Everybody

   GAFAM is just a tentacle in service of imperialism

4. Don't Cry for Gaslighting Media in a Country Which Loathes the Press

   my wife and I received threats for merely writing about Americans

   New

5. Links 15/01/2026: Starlink Weaponised for Regime Change (by Man Who Boasted About Annexing South American Countries for Tesla's Mining), Corruption in Switzerland Uncovered by JuristGate

   Links for the day

6. GAFAM and IBM Layoffs Outline

   a lot of the layoffs happen in secrecy and involve convincing people to resign, retire, relocate etc.

7. Coming Soon: Impact With EPO Cocainegate

   Will Campinos survive 2026?

8. The Creator of Git Probably Doesn't Know How to Install and Deploy Git

   Nobody disputes this: Mr. Torvalds created Git

9. Slop is a Liability

   Slopfarms too will become extinct because people aren't interested in them

10. EPO People Power - Part XXXVI - In Conclusion and Taking Things Up Another Notch

    They often say that the law won't deter or stop criminals because it's hard to enforce laws against people who reject the law

11. Running Techrights is Fun, Rewarding, and Gratifying

    In Geminispace we are already quite dominant

12. Red Hat is Connected to the Military, Its Chief Comes From Military Family (From Both Sides)

    The founder of Red Hat's parent company literally saluted Hitler himself (yes, a Nazi salute)

13. Red Hat (IBM) is Driving Away Remaining Fedora Users

    I've not used Fedora since Moonshine

14. Robert X. Cringely Has Already Explained IBM's Bullying Culture (Towards Its Own Staff)

    IBM is a fairly nasty company

15. Proton Mail compromise, Hannah Natanson (Washington Post) police raid & Debian

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 14, 2026

    IRC logs for Wednesday, January 14, 2026

18. Gemini Links 15/01/2026: "Ode to elinks", envs.net Pubnix and Downtime at geminiprotocol.net

    Links for the day

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