Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 31, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. SUEPO Central Made a Strike (or Striking) Success

   Europe has more than enough qualified patent officials

2. Wikipedia - Funded by Slop-pushing Companies and 'Broligarchs' - Gave Benefit of the Doubt to Slop, Then Regretted It

   Wikipedia sucks. Without slop it'll suck a little less.

   New

3. IBM Layoffs and Their Expected Scope in April 2026

   Such layoffs impact not only IBM "proper"

4. SLAPP Censorship - Part 28 Out of 200: Facing Consequences for Impersonation and Worse

   It's not "funny". It is moreover libellous.

5. Links 30/03/2026: South Korea Next to Curb Social Control Media Addiction and Manipulation, Notorious Patents in the US Challenged

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Links 30/03/2026: Going Back to Wrist Watches and Why LLMs in Programming Suck

   Links for the day

7. Did IBM Pay thestreet.com for Puff Pieces? (Like It Did With Forbes)

   If so, there is no disclosure

8. Payoffs of Lifelong Commitments

   "The Lifelong Activist"

9. Links 30/03/2026: "We Can’t Income-Tax Ultra-Elites"; "The Pirate Bay’s Oldest Torrent Turned 22"

   Links for the day

10. Today, Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO) Goes on Strike That Can Last Until 2027. Nobody in the Media Covers This!

    "We stand with the protesters"

11. When the Cost (or Time) of Maintenance Exceeds the Value

    In recent years it seems like more people learn to remove things from their lives, not add more things

12. Passage of Wealth Upwards, Blaming the Victims

    Tim Sweeney's net worth is 5.1 billion USD according to Forbes

13. More Media Needs to Tell the Public Slop is a Giant Bubble, It Should Stop Taking "Sponsorship" Money to Inflate This Bubble

    If enough of (what's left of) the media changes its tune and quits being a parrot of GAFAM, then we can debate slop like grown-ups

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 29, 2026

    IRC logs for Sunday, March 29, 2026

16. Trying to Hide One's Abuses by Imposing Silence on Critics ("My Profile Was Private")

    With enough daylight, sooner or later everyone knows you are a vampire

17. Fedora Badges System Shows the Demise of Fedora Under IBM

    IBM isn't good at keeping what it buys

18. IBM is Sunsetting Red Hat, It Only Uses the Brand and the Shell

    IBM buys or spins off companies as containers for "toxic assets" and debt

19. Cisco Systems is a Still Weak Spot With Bug Doors

    nothing to offer except storytelling

20. EPO Strike Begins Today and It's the Longest One Yet (Can Last a Year)

    Where's the media?

21. Gemini Links 30/03/2026: Approaching April and Arvelie Calendar

    Links for the day

    ---

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2026-03-24 to 2026-03-30

    4034	/about.shtml
    2109	/n/2026/03/20/Confluent_Insiders_IBM_Laid_Over_Over_800_at_Confluent_Not_Just.shtml
    1491	/index.shtml
    1124	/irc.shtml
    899	/n/2026/03/25/IBM_Americas_President_Ayman_Antoun_Comes_to_OpenText_Weeks_Ahe.shtml
    855	/n/2026/03/27/Media_Says_Microsoft_Hiring_Freezes_But_There_Are_Already_Micro.shtml
    837	/n/2026/03/27/Slides_From_the_Presentation_Discussing_EPO_Strikes_Until_End_o.shtml
    797	/browse/latest.shtml
    780	/n/2026/03/27/Gemini_Links_27_03_2026_Being_Busy_and_Posting_Again.shtml
    752	/n/2026/03/27/Last_Night_The_Register_MS_Published_a_Fake_Article_It_Mentione.shtml
    728	/n/2026/03/29/People_Discuss_Rumours_of_Mass_Layoffs_at_IBM_Becoming_Public_i.shtml
    716	/n/2026/03/24/The_New_Layoffs_Silent_Layoffs_Secret_Layoffs_Quiet_Layoffs_Pas.shtml
    671	/n/2026/03/28/Gemini_Links_28_03_2026_Echo_Delay_and_0x0_st.shtml
    653	/n/2026/03/25/Gnome_Foundation_Inc_is_in_Trouble.shtml
    650	/n/2026/03/25/Links_25_03_2026_Nations_Return_to_Russian_Oil_and_Burning_Wood.shtml
    641	/n/2026/03/27/Perpetual_Strikes_to_Begin_at_European_Patent_Office_EPO_Large_.shtml
    632	/n/2026/03/24/EPO_Cocaine_Communication_Manager_Part_IX_Cocaine_Addicts_in_Ch.shtml
    630	/n/2026/03/26/EPO_Union_Decides_to_Continue_Industrial_Actions_Next_Strike_in.shtml
    611	/n/2026/03/24/Links_24_03_2026_Airports_on_ICE_and_Have_You_Paid_Your_Intuit_.shtml
    609	/n/2026/03/25/This_Morning_The_Register_MS_Published_Slop_Promotion_With_the_.shtml
    607	/n/2026/03/26/Links_26_03_2026_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Closes_101.shtml
    606	/n/2026/03/25/Links_25_03_2026_Airports_Further_Militarised_Slopification_and.shtml
    606	/n/2026/03/26/Microsoft_Lost_31_Of_Its_Alleged_Value_in_Five_Months_Then_It_G.shtml
    603	/n/2026/03/26/Where_and_How_to_Spot_LLM_Slop.shtml
    598	/browse/index.shtml
    587	/n/2026/03/28/Links_28_03_2026_Microsoft_s_LinkedIn_a_National_Security_Risk_.shtml
    577	/n/2026/03/26/IBM_Pushes_Workers_Out_It_Does_Not_Count_Them_as_Layoffs.shtml
    573	/n/2026/03/26/IBM_is_Increasing_Its_Temporary_and_Part_time_Headcount_While_N.shtml
    570	/n/2026/03/25/EPO_s_Current_Industrial_Actions_Are_Likely_to_Intensify_Furthe.shtml
    568	/n/2026/03/24/2012_Secure_Microsoft_Controlled_Boot_Has_Not_Yet_Been_Made_Obl.shtml
    565	/n/2026/03/24/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    564	/n/2026/03/26/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    556	/n/2026/03/27/Microsoft_Experiencing_Leadership_Exodus.shtml
    556	/n/2026/03/28/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_26_Out_of_200_Asking_for_Documents_and_In.shtml
    555	/n/2026/03/25/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    552	/n/2026/03/26/Hard_to_Find_a_Job_After_Working_for_Microsoft_Back_Doors_Giant.shtml
    542	/n/2026/03/24/Dr_Stallman_s_Work_Will_Never_be_Considered_Mainstream_Because_.shtml
    540	/n/2026/03/24/Richard_Stallman_to_Give_Public_Talk_This_Thursday_at_the_Unive.shtml
    540	/n/2026/03/24/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_22_Out_of_200_When_You_Complain_People_Im.shtml
    537	/n/2026/03/25/GAFAM_Mozilla_Removes_Theora_Support_Now_GNU_Needs_to_Re_encode.shtml
    535	/n/2026/03/26/Back_to_Normalcy.shtml
    535	/n/2026/03/28/Links_28_03_2026_More_Worldwide_Bans_on_Social_Control_Media_Ha.shtml
    531	/n/2026/03/27/Mozilla_Was_Ruined_Like_Sirius_Open_Source_Was_Ruined_From_the_.shtml
    528	/n/2026/03/26/Official_New_Figures_Show_That_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_.shtml
    526	/n/2026/03/26/Public_Talk_by_Richard_Stallman_in_Half_a_Day_at_the_Engineerin.shtml
    522	/n/2026/03/26/Altering_Perceived_Reality_to_Make_It_Seem_Like_Microsoft_is_Th.shtml
    518	/n/2026/03/27/GNU_Linux_Distros_Should_Reject_Age_Verification_and_Uphold_Sof.shtml
    518	/n/2026/03/27/President_Not_Cocaine_Campinos_Notified_of_Historic_EPO_Strikes.shtml
    517	/n/2026/03/26/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_24_Out_of_200_The_Failed_Effort_by_Brett_.shtml
    515	/n/2026/03/27/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    515	/n/2026/03/23/Slop_Means_False_New_Article_by_Cybershow.shtml
    514	/n/2026/03/24/Hating_Techrights_is_a_Career.shtml
    514	/n/2026/03/25/Fedora_Maintainer_ship_Using_Slop_Mistakes_Would_Make_Fedora_Le.shtml
    513	/n/2026/03/27/Ubuntu_Started_as_Free_With_ShipIt_Now_It_Becomes_Payware_That_.shtml
    512	/n/2026/03/27/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_25_Out_of_200_That_Time_Matthew_J_Garrett.shtml
    509	/n/2026/03/29/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml