Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 16, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Links 15/02/2026: Slop, Politics, and Gemini

   Links for the day

2. Small is Beautiful (in Cascading Style Sheets/Inheritance Rules)

   If done correctly, pages can take a tenth of a second to fully load

3. Microsoft Has Fallen to New Lows in Hong Kong This Year

   That Windows "market share" falls there is perhaps expected

4. Free Software Foundation (FSF) Raised About 1.5 Million Dollars This Winter, Almost 50% More Than in All of 2024 Combined

   Verbal advocacy goes a long way

5. Spread the Word About EPO Strikes and Patent Injustices in Europe

   Corruption in Europe is a real thing

6. The Register MS is Promoting Slop, Promotion Connected to Microsoft (Trying to Replace Judges With Microsoft)

   marketing spun as "science"

7. He Did Not Have Enough Souls

   A lot of the subjects we cover here no other site dares touch

8. When It Comes tom Rust, Keep All the Eyes on the Ball (Technical and Legal Perils, Sustainability Questions)

   It's not about security or politics

9. "Mix Vale" is a Slopfarm

   3 "articles" about "ubuntu"

10. Links 15/02/2026: Roy Medvedev Dead at 100, Rise of "YouTube Politicians"

    Links for the day

11. Links 15/02/2026: How Alexey Navalny Was Executed by Putin, Erdogan Helping Iran

    Links for the day

12. IBM Fedora Keeps Promoting Slop, Red Hat Has Been Turned Into Chaff and Trash to Help IBM's Stock (With "AI" Storytelling)

    Red Hat's Fedora is an old brand (20+ years). It no longer stands for what it meant to people in the Fedora Core days (I was a Fedora user back then).

13. What IBM Said About 2026 Layoffs and What's Happening in Practice

    t'll leave IBM at the very bottom, in due course (customers will notice something profound has changed)

14. Gemini Links 15/02/2026: "Already Midway February" and Loadbars Remembered

    Links for the day

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, February 14, 2026

    IRC logs for Saturday, February 14, 2026

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