Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 09, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Richard Stallman Gives Talk in 20 Hours at Ostschweizer Fachhochschule Campus in Rapperswil-Jona

   The talk is in English

   New

2. Hard to Replace 'Human Touch'

   The reason many people insist on using GNU

3. The Slop Companies Gamble at Our Economy's Expense and They Know It's a Losing Bet (So It's a de Facto Robbery)

   The crash of this bubble isn't just inevitable, it's already happening and receding sporadically because of false announcements about money that does not actually exist (to "buy time")

4. Suppressing Speech by Blackmail, the Iran Story

   When Debian wanted to stage a seemingly legitimate election it needed to have more than one candidate running; so eventually the female partner of a geek rose to the challenge (had no coding skills at all, no technical history in Debian) and lost to the "incumbent German"

5. Too Focused on Buzzwords the Media is Paid to Saturate the Collective Mind With

   Just because companies do really bad things in the digital realm does not imply "AI" or follow from "AI"

6. Discrimination and Prejudice Against Female Journalists

   we can shame people who attack a reporter on the grounds of gender

7. An American War on GNU/Linux, Software Freedom, and British Investigative, Science-Based Reporting - Part II - Trying to Put People in Prison for Committing the Act of Journalism

   This is abuse of process

8. Attack on Copyright and Copyleft by Code Conversion Is Nothing New, It Predates Slop (Code Produced by LLMs) by Several Decades

   Even back in the 90s many people converted programs from one language to another. That could invalidate copyleft (and copyright), which already existed

9. Almost a Slopless Weekend for "Linux"

   Let's hope slop will come to an end or sites will cease linking to slop

10. Insiders Explain Why IBM is Dying and the Inherent Culture Problem

    There are many ways to shave this IBM cat

11. Links 08/03/2026: Microsoft Lost $400 Million on "Project Blackbird" and Half the States Sue Over Illegal Tariffs

    Links for the day

12. Links 08/03/2026: Cisco Holes Again and "Blatant Problem With OpenAI That Endangers Kids"

    Links for the day

13. Activism/Journalism in Our Blood

    one must fight for one's principles

14. Gemini Protocol in Its Prime

    What's particularly neat about Gemini Protocol is that it's fast and cheap

15. Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 6 Out of 200: Intentionally Misnaming Women, People Who Offered to Testify That They Too Had Been Subjected to Similar Abuse

    Today it is International Women's Day

16. Even Fedora Leadership Cannot Figure Out the Microsoft Kill Switch/Back Door, 'Secure' Boot

    It does not actually enhance security

17. Bruce Perens: Richard Stallman "Has Achieved His Goal"

    Stallman's next talk is tomorrow

18. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

19. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 07, 2026

    IRC logs for Saturday, March 07, 2026

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