Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 25, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Car Companies Fail Because They Don't Manufacture What Costumers Actually Want

   They try to impose their dumb vision on purchasers

2. Links 24/07/2026: Mass Layoffs at Patreon, Netflix Deemed Bad for People's Brains

   Links for the day

3. Google Spreads Misinformation, Google's Slop Makes Stuff Up and Calls That "Intelligence"

   Google very well understands (and even publicly admits so, albeit only for legal reasons) that the slop does not work

4. US is Insolvent, GAFAM is Buying Time by Hiding (Not Disclosing) Its True Debt Which Explains Never-ending Layoffs (Unrelated to Slop or "Efficiency Drives")

   Five Tech Giants are Hiding $1.65tn in AI Debt, Using the Trick that Toppled Enron

5. PIP Apocalypse (PIPocalypse) at IBM, CEO Promotes Vapouware (Lying to Shareholders)

   Companies get to shrink while lying about it to the public, even to shareholders

   New

6. Gemini Links 24/07/2026: Animal Friendship, Squirrels, and Lagrange

   Links for the day

7. Links 24/07/2026: IOC Drops Russia Ban, New Internationalist Raises Money

   Links for the day

8. Poor Piece From Valnet: Microsoft Keeps Sabotaging GNU/Linux, So You Should Quit Using GNU/Linux

   Really awful take

9. We Need More Encryption, Not Less of It

   Use Free software and use encryption to ensure sources are fully protected

10. At 3PM on a Friday The Register MS Collects Some 'Pyramid Scheme' Money From Communist China (ZTE)

    This won't age well for The Register MS

11. What Freedom Does Not Mean

    Tell Warren Buffett to go skiing; he'll soon understand how much freedom he truly has

12. Linuxiac is Plagiarism

    We won't link to it, we're done [...] If you wish to support journalism about GNU/Linux, do not visit or link to slop

13. Verizon is Over 200 Billion Dollars in Debt (US Telecoms Collapsing, Wrapping Up the Failure in "Hey Hi" Clothing)

    They will tell us this is "innovation", not a failure, and that only "Luddites" would oppose this

14. You've Been Conned If You Ever Believed That MElon (MUSK, Elon) Was a Trillionaire

    Connected to corrupt officials

15. The People Who Tried to 'Cancel' (or Deplatform/Censor) Daniel Pocock Are Annoyed That He's Mentioned in Dozens of Press Articles

    If Pocock's words did not matter, there would not be such a huge effort to silence him

16. Cybershow Explains Why Only Sociopaths Gravitate Towards Leadership Position in 'Tech'

    The general thesis is a familiar one

17. Give Me Your "Dumbest" (Devices)

    Why can't people accept that a "modern "smart" "phone" isn't necessary to check the time (overkill) and playing social control media "on the go" is far from necessary?

18. Speeding Up 'Down Under': Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania...

    As things stand, the best we can do is let people retrieve pages within less than 0.1 seconds since a request is received

19. Google's Debt Trebled in Only 9 Months and It's Not Even the Full Picture (There's Secret Debt, Too)

    No wonder there are so many layoffs and workers try to unionise

20. Microsoft Layoffs in India

    it's about cost-cutting

21. Deregulation is Blowing Up the Economy, Which Has Become a Multi-Level Scheme or Pyramid Scheme

    Why did only Japanese media call out the BS; is that so hard to figure out and properly report on?

22. Daniel Pocock Proves Wikipedia is for Rich People or People Who Work for Very Rich People (the True Owners of Wikipedia)

    It's for billionaires and their faithful boot lickers

23. GNOME: Your Personal Opinions Must Overlap GAFAM's (Otherwise Those Opinions Are Impermissible)

    Get well soon, GNOME

24. Making Excuses for Stressful, Unrewarding, and Immoral Jobs

    excuses for difficult and/or barely-rewarding jobs. [...] People in tech must not be evaluated (or have their "worth" assessed) based on remuneration

25. Almost 5 Years Without Social Control Media ('Mind Prison')

    Life is too short to be stuck inside a skinnerbox

26. Linux Must be About People (Humans), Not Bribery From Slop Companies Trillions of Dollars in Debt and in Pursuit of Positive Press

    We've lost Williams

27. John Dvorak Understood That "MSM" Was a Vehicle of Censorship

    Independent publishing, which obviates the need to censor (influenced by existing advertisers or lookout for prospective advertisers), is the only credibly thing out there

28. To Understand Why Linus Torvalds Became a Boot-Licking Booster of Slop Look at Another Operative of 'Linux' Foundation, the "Mentor" of Clickfraud SPAMnil (According to SPAMnil Himself)

    it seems like SJVN does not give a full disclosure

29. Blaming "Computers" Instead of Blaming Microsoft

    Blaming Microsoft is "hate"

30. "Online We Are All Refugees" and Slop Pushers Are the Oppressors

    They basically resort to nationalism and racism to distract from their commercial failure and fraud (pyramid scheme)

31. GNU/Linux Soaring in Antigua And Barbuda

    GNU/Linux is internationally approaching 8%

32. Calling Out the Worst Culprits in "Linux" Slop (Slopfarms That Manipulate Information and Engage in Plagiarism)

    Once they're gone (offline), the slopfarms cannot carry on for much longer

33. Defying Discrimination

    Rianne's birthday is exactly a month away

34. Dan Williams Represented Real Diversity in Linux

    Williams probably understood based on personal experience what it was like to be marginalised and discriminated against

35. The First Point About Software Freedom is, You Must Understand What It Really Means (Not "Open Source")

    Forty Three Years of Commitment to Software Freedom [...] Educating people about what Software Freedom actually means

36. Gemini Links 24/07/2026: Recovering From Broken Shoulders, Loss of Passion, and "True Hacker Versus Growth Hacker"

    Links for the day

37. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

38. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 23, 2026

    IRC logs for Thursday, July 23, 2026

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