Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 28, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. IBM CEO and CFO Make It Hotter in the Kitchen

   Who's gonna leave the kitchen while they cook the books?

2. Jim Zemlin's 'Linux' Foundation is the Real Link Between Linux and Pedophilia

   It's about the deeds, not the words

3. Greenland Needs to Disconnect From United States Tech to Protect Its Independence

   The more Greenland protects itself from Social Control Media, the more robust or resilient it'll be to regime change

4. Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) on Slop and Breach of Confidentiality

   They should absolutely not ignore this

   New

5. Links 27/02/2026: Block Cuts 40% of Its Workforce While Blaming Ponzi Scheme, Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros.

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Links 27/02/2026: Unlearning Literacy (Slop) and Firefox as Slop-ware

   Links for the day

7. It Looks Like Linux Chief Linus Torvalds Made a Good Call Regarding Kent 'Slop' Overstreet

   Having never met or even chatted to Overstreet, I'm not in a position to judge him

8. Links 27/02/2026: Slop Incompatible With Nuclear Codes, Chinese Slop "Chatbots Censor Themselves"

   Links for the day

9. Please Report the European Patent Office (EPO) to Europol for Cocaine Abuse and Tampering With Witnesses and Media to Hide This Cocaine Abuse

   there are already police reports connected to the matter

10. Like a Mafia: Kris De Neef and Nellie Simon, Who Help Campinos Cover Up Cocainegate at the EPO (Substance Abuse at the Highest Office), Are Bullying EPO Whistleblowers

    They're all in this together [...] At this point, undoubtedly, the EPO is run like an organised crime operation. Nothing more, nothing less.

11. pulltheplug.uk Says the Internet Harms Us, Will March in London Tomorrow

    Maybe the site is down due to high access demand

12. EPO Management Trying to Hide Cocainegate, Silence/Discredit Whistleblowers, and Probably in a Panic Due to the Strikes

    At the moment, Johannes' mates are receiving over 100,000 euros as a reward for doing illegal drugs

13. The GNU Manifesto Turns 41 in March (Next Week)

    And RMS turns 73 next month

14. The Sister Site is Still Improving the Static Site Generator (SSG) We Use in Techrights

    We have a common mission and every week we make measurable advancements

15. Techrights is 100% Disconnected From Cheeto's America, the Problem is Hired Guns in London Helping Violent Americans Attack Us Domestically

    Not a new problem, not limited to us

16. Open Source Endowment (OSE) Looking to Raise Money for Free Software, But It's Hard to Know who Runs the Open Source Endowment Foundation

    Their Web site does not (easily) show who the Board of Directors includes

17. Apple Doesn't Want Anybody to Ask What Happened to Vision Pro

    They lost a lot of money

18. If You Want More Verifiable (Auditable) Security, Use GNU Linux-Libre

    GNU/Linux will never be 100% secure

19. Microsoft XBox Can't Stop Talking About Slop

    Will we see more "prepared" (under embargo) Microsoft propaganda released simultaneously at 9PM tonight?

20. Rust Will Not Inherit the Earth, It Barely Deserves a Place on the Planet

    Rust - like Haskell and many other short-lived fetishes - will come and go

21. Truth Versus Fiction: IBM's Collapse Due to Money Crunch, Not Slop Disguised as Code

    core issue is financial

22. Almost 5,000 Known Gemini Capsules

    It is now just 98 short of 5k

23. Priceless leaks found in crowdfunding campaign

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

24. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

25. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, February 26, 2026

    IRC logs for Thursday, February 26, 2026

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