Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 20, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Richard Stallman 'Unveils' His January 20 Talk in Montpellier, France

   It's free (gratis)

2. Links 19/01/2025: Gaza Ceasefire and PR Stunt by Fentanylware (TikTok), Faking It by "Going Dark" to Incite American Addicts (Users)

   Links for the day

3. They Won't Buy Vista 11 PCs or "Hey Hi" Copilot+++++++ PCs of Microsoft (With TPM)

   Windows at 8%

4. No Time Left for President Biden to Pardon Julian Assange

   At least they tried

5. Total Lock-down Ambitions - Part IV - The Latest Examples and the Perils (in Summary)

   For further reading take a look at Musial's nice outline

6. Video: University in Peru Honours Richard Stallman

   Tomorrow, January 20, Richard Stallman speaks in France

   New

7. [Meme] Hardware RAID and Hardware Raid

   We're expecting attacks on the press in Trump's second term (no need to impress anyone for another election cycle) to be far worse than the first

8. What's Running on the Laptops

   12 months have passed

9. [Meme] 404, Not Found

   Kuhn: I'd like to interject for a moment, we made an alliance with the Microsoft-dominated LF to outsource projects to Microsoft GitHub and rich people gave us money to do this

10. Links 19/01/2025: TikTok (Fentanylware) Now Banned in the US, Convicted Felon Talks to Fentanylware CEO and Pooh-Tin About Undoing the Ban Despite the Supreme Court Unanimously Upholding It

    Links for the day

11. FTC Realises Microsoft Buying Fake 'Clients' to Fake "Revenue" (Microsoft 'Buying' Services and Products From Itself!)

    Ponzi scheme

12. Total Lock-down Ambitions - Part III - The Web Browser as DRM Pusher

    A lot of "streaming" stuff is DRM

13. IBM Termination Story and Information From Microsoft About Mass Layoffs

    In 2 weeks of 2025 Microsoft already had 2 waves of layoffs

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 18, 2025

    IRC logs for Saturday, January 18, 2025

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