Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 13, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. EPO Staff Representatives Say It Has Gotten Very Hard to Get Promoted (Forget About Getting Rewarded for Hard Work)

   This has long been a problem

2. Occupational Health, Safety and Ergonomics Committee (LOHSEC) at the European Patent Office (EPO)

   nobody in EPO management ever gets punished for crimes, no matter how severe

3. Microsoft is Actually Quite Worthless, Its Valuation is Based on Lies and Consistently Defrauding Shareholders

   Microsoft's future is not what Wall Street "tells" us

4. The Final Demise of Social Control Media May be Upon Us (It Ought to be Collectively Abandoned for Society's Sake)

   If it keeps going down, prospects of a turnaround or rebound are slim

5. The Latest NDAA Amendment Can (or Should) Allow the United States to Remove Microsoft Even Faster From Its Infrastructure (Which Routinely Gets Cracked Completely by Russia and China, Thanks to Microsoft)

   It's time to move!

   New

6. Links 12/07/2024: EU/China Tensions and Ukraine War Updates

   Links for the day

7. EPO Staff Reps: "Until now, Mr Campinos is still leaving the appellants in the dark about the exact content of the opinion of the Appeals Committee on the EPO salary adjustment procedure."

   Campinos chooses to lawyer up rather than listen up

8. [Meme] That Time EPO Workers Were Panicking Because the Elevators Kept Getting Stuck

   Many people forgot that

9. [Video] Julian Assange's Brother Gabriel Shipton on How the Convoy to the Airport Was Arranged, Being at the Beach With Julian Assange After Release (He's Doing Well), and How Taylor Swift Has 'Helped' Julian

   At the airport he was greeted by many press crews, but they were not there for him. They were there because of Taylor Swift.

10. [Meme] Financial Disinformation From Chatbots Controlled by the Manipulator (Rigger)

    ChatGPT, the media is starting to say you're all hype...

11. Links 12/07/2024: Nations That Already Ban TikTok and Russia's 'Shadow War' Online

    Links for the day

12. Gemini Links 12/07/2024: Changing and the WIPO Lunacy

    Links for the day

13. Let's Encrypt Continues to Collapse in Geminispace and That's Good News for Free Speech (Among Other Things)

    due to the way modern Web browsers work, many sites have no option but to use Let's Encrypt or pay for some other CA to issue some worthless-but-glorified bytes

14. Microsoft Falls Below 20% in Montenegro - Plunging to All-Time Low

    sharp drop

15. [Meme] The Free Speech Absolutist From Apartheid South Africa

    What will it take for all sensible people to quit X/Twitter?

16. Linux is Displacing Microsoft and Replacing Windows in Germany (Android Surge and New Highs for ChromeOS+GNU/Linux in Germany)

    Germany is upgrading to GNU/Linux, not to latest Windows

17. Reorganising for Better Efficiency and More Publication (Original Material)

    XBox "journalism" these days is mostly slop (chatbot spew disguised as news), so studying this matter isn't easy

18. Software Freedom is Still the FSF

    At the moment the best advocacy group for Software Freedom is the FSF

19. Links 12/07/2024: XBox in Trouble, Crackdowns in UAE

    Links for the day

20. Gemini Links 12/07/2024: Make Tea Not War, Considering Guix

    Links for the day

21. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

22. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 11, 2024

    IRC logs for Thursday, July 11, 2024

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