Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 09, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Getting the European Court of Justice to Annul the Illegal and Unconstitutional Unified Patent Kangaroo Court (UPC)

   We're still working on it

2. They Tell Us Slop Replaces Workers, But the Reality Is, US Debt Has Surged 2,300 Billion Dollars in Six Months (the Economy is Collapsing)

   Oligarchy already entertains the option of running away to (or colonising) some other planet without pitchforks and "unwashed masses"

   New

3. Expensive errors: Forbes Gold price, $44 billion Bitcoin given away by Bithumb, South Korea

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

4. Links 08/02/2026: Microsoft OSI (Openwashing Lobby) in Europe, Raised Against Social Control Media Provocateurs in EU

   Links for the day

5. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) Lobbies for Microsoft in the EU, Promoting Proprietary Lock-in

   OSI pushing and selling Microsoft and GitHub. OSI is Microsoft front group.

6. Finland's Dependence on GAFAM (US) Needs to be Lessened, EU Must Follow This Path

   It's unwise to make one's entire national infrastructure (computer systems) dependent on a regime which compares its black citizens to monkeys and assassinates nonviolent dissenters

7. Links 08/02/2026: Microsoft GitHub as Burden on Developers and "The Chomsky Epstein Files"

   Links for the day

8. Gemini Links 08/02/2026: "Doing Not Much Tweaking" and "Reclaiming Digital Agency"

   Links for the day

9. Forbes: BitCoin, Cryptocurrency pages removed from investment database, links stop working

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

10. Bitcoin warning followed immediately by network outage

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

11. Money Funneled to Protection of Software Freedom, But Nothing Really Lost

    Crossposted from personal site

12. Mozilla Firefox Sinks to Just 1.5% in the United States

    According to analytics.usa.gov

13. We're Still Fast

    The site is even faster than the BBC's despite being on shoestring budget with only a small technical team

14. Gemini Protocol is Not a Waste of Time of Effort

    We see more and more GNU/Linux- or BSD-focused bloggers turning to Gemini

15. Our Gemini Protocol Support Turns 5 Today

    today is a rare anniversary for us

16. In Today's World, One Must be Tough and Principled to Get Ahead Morally

    But not financially (sellouts)

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, February 07, 2026

    IRC logs for Saturday, February 07, 2026

19. The Right Wing in the United States Does Not Support Free Speech, It Supports Its Own Speech

    Free speech is often opposed by those who also oppose Free software

20. IRC is a Lot Better Than Social Control Media (They're Not the Same at All)

    A good social analogy for IRC is, there are many buildings with a party in each building

21. Microsoft 'Open' 'AI' is 'Dead Meat'

    Or 0xDEADBEEF as some geeks might call it

22. When Identifying "Low Performers" and "PIPs" Aren't About Improving Performance But Reinforcing a Clique in Your Company/Organisation

    It's very troubling to see once-respectable brands like IBM and institutions like the EPO resorting to this

23. Slop and Flop (IBM), Slopfarms and Hybrids (Linuxiac)

    Did Bobby Borisov assume he would never get caught?

24. Crowdfunding vs Bitcoins: donations are better investment than digital tulip mania

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

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