Today in Techrights
Updated This Past Day
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Computers as a Heat Source
suppose you have over a dozen activated monitors in a room or two
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When They Insist That Getting Rid of Paper Receipts and Paper Trail of All Kinds is Better (Manchester City Council and the "Smart" or "App" Mindset)
just classic greenwashing
New
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Using Microsoft Chatbot to Generate Microsoft FUD Against SSH/OpenSSH
It's from the "prime suspect"
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Free Software Cannot Rely on Politicians, They Don't Even Care About Software, They Only or Mostly Care About Money
There's no simple solution to this situation short of revolutionising the political system
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No, There's No "Age Of AI" or "Era Of AI" or "AI Revolution" or "AI Arms Race", It's Just a Dying Tech Industry Looking to Prop Up Its Valuation Using Hype and False Marketing of Mostly Dysfunctional Tools
Please, enough with this nonsense
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[Meme] Just a Draft, Nothing Professional Like GNU
the FSF is ~40,000 dollars short of its goal
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Draft About Drafts
The static site generator (SSG) is improving
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Gemini Links 09/01/2025: Domain Changes, Dirty Links, and OpenWRT
Links for the day
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Links 09/01/2025: X-Book (Facebook) Follows the MElon (Musk) Model and X Comes Under EU Investigation for Inciting
Links for the day
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[Meme] Microsoft's Scam Altman, Bigger Scammer Than 'Crypto' 'Currency' 'Exchanges'
More pollution, too
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Interest in Microsoft Waning, Company Deep in Debt and Mass Layoffs Implemented Every Month Since 2023
As fewer people still use Windows (over time many move to Android or whatever) that site, microsoft.com, will likely languish some more
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Microsoft Says Scale of Layoffs in January 2025 is Several Thousands
Microsoft is the first of GAFAM to announce layoffs in 2025
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Microsoft Windows Continues to Sink in India
The consistent and almost linear decrease will continue because Microsoft has nothing in store other than vapourware and mass layoffs
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statCounter Has Outdated and Unfit-for-Purpose User-Agent Parsers
poor recognition or parsing or classification of User-Agent strings
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[Meme] GAFAM Buying Shares in NYSE:EFF
To the ordinary person, today's EFF isn't a go-to protector, it's just meant to look like one
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Sometimes the EFF Prefers to Talk About Sex, Not Tech (or Unnecessarily Conflate the Two Things)
The old name (or brand) remains; the goals? Not so much...
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Beta'News' Still a Spamfarm Run by Bots
It's a source of Web pollution
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Links 09/01/2025: Software Patents Squashed, Meta Becomes "MAGA" Booster
Links for the day
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Gemini Links 09/01/2025: Chants of Sennaar and Security Theater
Links for the day
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Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
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IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 08, 2025
IRC logs for Wednesday, January 08, 2025
The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):