Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 15, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Links 14/01/2025: Vaccination Hesitancy Problems and Kangaroo Courts (UPC)

   Links for the day

2. Gemini Links 14/01/2025: Introduction to GrapheneOS and Small Internet

   Links for the day

3. Dr. Miriam Bastian From the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Gives a Talk in a Couple of Weeks at FOSDEM (Brussels, Belgium)

   It's good to see people from all around the world and with very different backgrounds united around digital philosophy

4. Andy Farnell on Eating Your Own Dog Food

   focuses on security but goes beyond that

5. EPO Uses the Misnomer "AI" to Attack Software Developers in Europe

   The EPO is nowadays a huge pile of crimes

6. The European Patent Office’s (EPO) Communication on "Reform" is "Incomplete and Misleading," Says the Central Staff Committee at the EPO

   This puts Europe at risk and makes it more vulnerable

7. [Meme] How to Lose Social Life (While Pretending to Still Have It)

   Talk to people, not to microphones

8. Android (or AOSP) is More Free Than iOS, Both in Practice (as OEM Bundles) Both Are User-Hostile

   In a perfect world, people would choose and deploy software that is entirely made up of reciprocally-licensed bits

9. Neuroscience of Consciousness Paper: Why Social Control Media and Proprietary Spyware Harm Your Health

   "Software Freedom turns out to be good for your health"

10. Access to the Source Code of the Programs You're Using Matters (Even If You're Not a Coder and Cannot Fix Bugs)

    Companies like Microsoft tell us that full access to all the code isn't important

11. Guardian Digital (linuxsecurity.com) Publishes Fake Articles About Linux and About (for) 'Linux' Foundation Openwashing

    Brittany Day is at it again

12. Links 14/01/2025: LA Crisis and EU, UK Respond to "X.com" Threat From South African Oligarch

    Links for the day

13. "AI Music" is Not Music and It's Hardly "AI" Either

    Synthetic garbage is a solution in search of a problem

14. Webspam in BetaNews

    Not only is it marketing SPAM

15. [Meme] 13 Years a Slave of Microsoft

    Might makes right?

16. Gemini Links 14/01/2025: The Gemtext Print Hurdle and New Game: Fill!

    Links for the day

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 13, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, January 13, 2025

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