Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 11, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. LinuxSecurity (Guardian Digital, Inc) Sloppy With Its 'Linux' Slop

   This kind of stuff is killing the World Wide Web and ruins human knowledge

2. Loss of Technical Merit(ocracy)

   "buzzword diplomas"

   New

3. [Meme] Chin-dropping and Jaw-dropping (Considerable Drop in Patent Validity and Quality)

   This drop is very much intentional

4. Gemini Links 10/10/2024: Untruth, SSH, Gopher, and More

   Links for the day

5. Geminispace Beyond 4,100 Capsules

   4,000 was less than 8 weeks ago

6. Links 10/10/2024: TikTok's Legal Problems, WeblogPoMo Challenges

   Links for the day

7. [Meme] European Patent Convention and Vienna Convention Became Only Fictions (Laws and Constitutions Are Now Works of Fiction in Europe)

   A political crisis and blunder

8. Almost a Thousand EPO Staff Protesting to EPO Member States That the Office Illegally Grants Software Patents and Other Invalid European Patents

   "The outcome confirms that the concerns about the EPO’s ability to grant legally sound patents remain"

9. Junk Science

   science is being compromised for business purposes

10. [Meme] Dismantling .io (Stick a Fork, the Hype is Done)

    NVIDIA is an excellent new example of hype driving up fictional "value"

11. UNIX is 55 This Year, It is 6 Years Older Than Microsoft

    It should be noted that the surviving co-creator of UNIX, Ken Thompson, 'moved' to GNU/Linux (Debian) in recent years

12. This Year, for the First Time Since August 2019 (Bill Gates MIT Scandal, Jeffrey Epstein Bribes), libreplanet-discuss Was Inactive an Entire Month

    The MIT injustice remains and recent "libreplanet" events were held in a venue that's not MIT and far less prestigious than MIT (the "Wentworth" imitation)

13. [Meme] Different Ending for Jurassic Park

    UNIX in old movies

14. Evolution of Hype

    Passing fads and rebranding

15. Groklaw Will Hopefully Come Back

    Sites should be able to run for decades with hardly any human role/interaction, but that's not where we are...

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 09, 2024

    IRC logs for Wednesday, October 09, 2024

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