Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 25, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. SLAPP Censorship - Part 22 Out of 200: When You Complain People Impersonate You in IRC (But You Yourself Impersonate People in IRC and Lock Them Out of Their IRC Handles)

   We'll cover this with direct evidence some time soon

2. The Empty Suits of IBM Managers (NIH or "Nothing Invented Here")

   IBM's management adopted the business model of parasites

3. Dr. Stallman’s Work Will Never be Considered 'Mainstream' Because He Rejects and Works Against the So-called 'Mainstream'

   Try to be more like Stallman

4. EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part IX - Cocaine Addicts in Charge of the EPO Attacking Families of EPO Staff

   Things like being high-profile and being a serious drug addict aren't opposites

   New

5. Gemini Links 24/03/2026: Junk Drawer Time Capsule and Building Outside Alire

   Links for the day

6. Not Much LLM Slop About "Linux" Lately, It Only Ever Comes From the Same Few Sites

   As long as only few such sites use LLM slop we can skip and avoid them

7. Links 24/03/2026: "Epic Lays Off Over 1000 Employees" and US in Financial Trouble According to the Fed

   Links for the day

8. The "Media" Does Not Only 'Miss' Mass Layoffs

   "The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it"

9. 2012: 'Secure' (Microsoft-Controlled) Boot Has Not (Yet) Been Made Obligatory. 2026: systemd Has Not Implemented Age Verification

   should we stop calling "nazi" everyone we don't agree with?

10. More Threats (Including Physical Threats) Against Us Are a Dumb Move

    It's like a "hit list" (targets list) and I shall keep the police duly informed

11. New Example of Pentagon in "Feminist" Clothing Inside Fake News of Publishers Paid to Promote Outsourcing to US ("Clown Computing") and American Slop

    Google now pays money to promote Google as a friend of women

12. Hating Techrights is a Career

    but is it good for civil society?

13. The New Layoffs: 'Silent Layoffs', 'Secret Layoffs', 'Quiet Layoffs', 'Passive Layoffs' 'Stealth Layoffs', and Unannounced Layoffs Disguised as Return-to-Office (RTO Mandates)

    The US needs to revisit and fix the WARN Act

14. What Feminism in Science Means (Codes of Conduct Don't Tackle the Real Issues)

    Universality matters, more so in a project or community that's said to build the "universal operating system" (Debian)

15. SLAPP Censorship - Part 21 Out of 200: It's About Behaviour Online, Not How Much Money From Shadowy Third Parties Gets Spent on Lawyers and Two Barristers

    75+ KG of legal papers, 2 cases, 2 barristers (one hiding in the metadata) and maybe two law firms (also hiding in the metadata) against two modest people in Manchester seems disproportionate and vindicative

16. Links 24/03/2026: "Airports on ICE" and "Have You Paid Your “Intuit Tax”?"

    Links for the day

17. Gemini Links 24/03/2026: Slop Interview and Why Slop Makes Lousy Code

    Links for the day

18. Richard Stallman to Give Public Talk This Thursday at the University of Bologna (Italy)

    Hardly the first time he speaks in Bologna

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 23, 2026

    IRC logs for Monday, March 23, 2026

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