Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 14, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. In Switzerland, GNU/Linux Reaches Record Highs, But What About the Corruption?

   Pocock is a disappointed citizen of Switzerland

2. At BetaNews, "Most Commented Story" Is Not a Story But LLM Slop! (Readers Talking to Bots)

   They make fake stories with provocative headlines and then boast that these get many comments

3. [Meme] Swiss Lawyers/Attorneys Who Fake Qualifications and Rob People

   Switzerland mostly guards its reputation by censorship of media

4. Just How Slow Has the News Industry Become?

   We're drowning in garbage from fake publishers

   New

5. Gemini Links 13/11/2024: Magic of Walking and Lest We Forget

   Links for the day

6. Links 13/11/2024: USPTO Director Kathi Vidal ('Former' Microsoft Rep) Resigning, Censorship After Car Ramming Attack in China

   Links for the day

7. Microsoft: Layoffs, Outsourcing, and R.T.O. as Cover for Mass Layoffs Without Severance Pay

   Microsoft had mass layoffs pretty much every month this year

8. [Meme] The Addicted Lolicon Throwing Stones

   "They've found my RMS attack site"

9. Jonathan Carter & Debian betrayed Joel Espy Klecker

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

10. Links 13/11/2024: Red Tape War and Programming Experiences

    Links for the day

11. Links 13/11/2024: "Make Your Laptop Last FOREVER" With GNU/Linux, 23andMe Mass Layoffs, Intel 'Resignations' Layoffs Loophole

    Links for the day

12. More Than 3 Years After Vista 11's Release More Chinese Computer Users Still Use Vista 7 (Than "11")

    it was "officially" released October 5, 2021

13. Things That Still Work OK (But We're Being Shamed for Using)

    Using old stuff is nothing to be shamed of (or afraid to do)

14. Free Software is About Collaboration

    WordPress limits it

15. Even the Managing Editor of BetaNews is Doing Slop and Spam

    A Fish Rots From The Head Down

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 12, 2024

    IRC logs for Tuesday, November 12, 2024

18. PERA Bill in US Senate Strives to Crush Caselaw, Making Patents on Mathematics and Algorithms 'Great Again'

    Follow the money

19. BetaNews is Beta-Testing the Site as LLM Slop With Microsoft Propaganda Thrown In

    Many of the people there are Microsoft boosters and they use slop as "filler" (for marketing)

20. Evolution of euthanasia & WIPO UDRP similarities exposed by W. Scott Blackmer

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

21. Gemini Links 13/11/2024: Phasing Out 3G, Brian Kernighan Books, Tcl/Tk, Time to Ditch x86

    Links for the day

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