Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 16, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Alex Oliva, the Potential 'Successor' of RMS, Has a New Web Site

   More freedom for Alex Oliva

2. Azure is Turning 17 This Year, Still Losing Money and Staff

   Hallmark of pyramid schemes, deriving "value" out of things that do not really exist?

3. Richard Stallman on RISC-V and Free Hardware

   Invidious is under attack by Google

4. IDG 'Reviews' of GNU/Linux Now Contain LLM Slop

   It's typically ads or commercials... or sometimes spin disguised as news

5. In Gopher and Gemini Protocol People Abandon Services Based in the United States

   There's no resistance whatsoever

6. Python and Microsoft: Pandas Should Have Known OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Microsoft Excel Are Different and Competing Things

   now we're meant to think that in order to open ODF files we need some functions with "Excel" in their name

7. Not Only Windows, Surface, and "Hey Hi" PCs; Microsoft's Hardware Ventures Are a Dumpster Fire; HoloLens Mixed Reality Hardware Now Axed Altogether and Staff is Miserable

   Microsoft is in a terrible state

8. Links 15/02/2025: University Price Hikes and Copyright Action Against Slop Companies

   Links for the day

   New

9. Links 15/02/2025: Harms to Health, Public Domain, and More

   Links for the day

10. Gemini Links 15/02/2025: On Autistic People, AuraGem Over HTTPS

    Links for the day

11. The Cyber Show (C|S) Speaks of the "Rise of the Nerd Reich."

    This 'Valentine Episode' is quite good

12. Strong Momentum for the Free Software Foundation (FSF) as Winter Approaches Its End in Boston or in the Northern Hemisphere

    FSF's founder, Richard Stallman, gives another talk in Italy in 9 days from now

13. The 'Drunken Plagiarists' Are Harming Journalism About GNU/Linux

    They lessen the incentive to do real journalism abut GNU/Linux

14. Female Nazis and racist Swiss women

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

15. Links 15/02/2025: Erasing of American Science and Tesla SLAPPing Critics

    Links for the day

16. Gemini Links 15/02/2025: Spectacles and "Before Sunset", Moving Domains Out of the US

    Links for the day

17. Microsoft Has Only $17,482 Million Left, "Cash on Hand" Sank 40 Billion Dollars in 2 Years

    Microsoft runs low on money in the bank

18. YouTube Layoffs Mean That YouTube is Still Losing a Lot of Money (Net Income or Profit Almost Definitely Negative)

    In more recent years Google defunded many vloggers

19. Certificate Authority (CA) Let's Encrypt Now Down to TEN (0.3% of the Whole) in Geminispace

    The number of capsules that use Let's Encrypt is, according to Lupa, about to fall to single-digit figures

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Friday, February 14, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, February 14, 2025

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