Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 10, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Mobbing at the European Patent Office (EPO) - Part V - Strongest Strike Under António Campinos

   SUEPO Munich is also reminding people of the threat of PIPs

2. GNU/Linux May Have Grown to 7% in Equatorial Guinea

   Has there been some kind of mass migration there or is this just noise in the data?

   New

3. Microslop is Slop, Slop is Considered "Quality"

   no wonder Microsoft's stuff breaks down so often

4. thelayoff.com Deletes On-Topic Discussions (Layoffs) While Leaving in Tact Pro-Corporate Trolling Made by LLMs (Slop)

   Who at thelayoff.com deems spam made by LLMs (slop) to be on-topic and unworthy of zapping, whereas actually on-topic and authentic threads get routinely deleted?

5. The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Delusion - Part IV - Machos in Charge of the House (and System), Even If the Faces Are Female (Optics)

   basically a Windows/Microsoft (US) shop

6. Gemini Links 09/02/2026: Great Salt Lake Ecological Observatory and Offpunk 3.0 "A Community is Born" Release

   Links for the day

7. Links 09/02/2026: Mass Plagiarism and Pollution/FakeCoin Company Nvidia Contacted Anna’s Archives, Narges Mohammadi Gets Second Prison Sentence

   Links for the day

8. Links 09/02/2026: Russia Intentionally Killing Civilians, Jimmy Lai Effectively Sentenced for Life for Publishing News

   Links for the day

9. Microsoft Competitions, Addictions, and Popularity Contests Are Not Going to Help Perl, They'll Waste Everybody's Time and Give Microsoft More Control Over Its Competition

   Microsoft does not like Perl

10. A Can of WORMS - Part IV - They Would Even Attack RMS for Criticising Autocrats (Saying This is "Politics")

    Conforming to society's perceived expectations isn't how effective activism can ever be done or was ever done in the recent past

11. Gemini Links 09/02/2026: The Exploration Myth and Making JavaScript Fun

    Links for the day

12. EPO Outrage and Maintaining the Pressure

    A vending machine does not fall over after a first push

13. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

14. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 08, 2026

    IRC logs for Sunday, February 08, 2026

15. "Low Performer" and "Underperformer" as Harmful Misnomers That Damage a Company's Reputation

    Misnomers need to be avoided or called out

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