Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 20, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsoft Has "Made the Customer the Product."

   it's very likely this comment was made by a Microsoft employee

2. IBM's CEO Has Become a Stochastic Buzzword-Generating Machine

   The current CEO is extremely unpopular

3. Chicago Transit Authority Has Dumped Twitter (X), As Did Many Others Without Announcing It (Due to Fear of Right-Wing Mobs)

   If you don't have an account in Gab, then you probably should not have one in "X", either

4. How-To Geek Sort of Supersedes MakeUseOf (MUO) for GNU/Linux Coverage

   some writers from MakeUseOf (MUO) have been migrated to a sister publication

   New

5. Gemini Links 19/02/2025: FreeDOS abd Botfloods

   Links for the day

6. GNU/Linux and Android Trump Microsoft in Saudi Arabia, Bing Down Since the LLM Hype/Hysteria Began

   Microsoft leaves a lot of money on the table

7. The Interplay Between Free Software and Journalism Based on Truths, Suppressed Facts

   Honest people can be transparent. Dishonest, rogue people rely on a lack of it.

8. FSF Talk: "Free Software Teaching Materials" by Dr. Miriam Bastian

   Software Freedom is rooted in philosophy but it's about technical solutions

9. New Year's Resolutions Scoreboard

   The goal is to improve clarity, accessibility, speed, and accuracy

10. Sites Reporting Crimes and Getting Harassed for Reporting Crimes

    you cannot just ignore those who constantly seek to harass

11. Links 19/02/2025: Science, Hardware, and Digital Restrictions (DRM) Striking Again at eBooks

    Links for the day

12. Zizian, transgender, Google & Debian open source extremist cult phenomena

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

13. Links 19/02/2025: The Forgotten USB Competitor and Pope's Bilateral Pneumonia

    Links for the day

14. Gemini Links 19/02/2025: AuraRepo and Offpunk

    Links for the day

15. Slopwatch: Wayne Williams is Making Up for His Workers' Slop Party, LinuxSecurity.com Still Publishes Fake Articles

    We must identify and call out the culprits

16. “Open Source” Really Does Miss the Point, We Can Do Better Than That

    We need to reject groups of people who promote Microsoft GitHub (proprietary) and call that "Open Source"

17. Links 19/02/2025: Organisations Quitting Social Control Media, Windows TCO Illustrated Some More

    Links for the day

18. The Free Software Foundation is More Financially Independent From Large Corporations Right Now

    Money that comes with strings attached to it is always problematic

19. The Free Software Foundation's Position on IBM Taking Red Hat Enterprise Linux 'Private' is Articulated Almost 2 Years Late

    The Free Software Foundation finally spoke out about this issue

20. Techrights Publication Topics

    One thing we'd like to do more of is Software Freedom advocacy

21. Springtime Layoffs at IBM (2025) and Statement From IBM European Works Council

    It's about cost-cutting, even if such cuts doom the company

22. Microsoft Paying People Who Harass and SLAPP Techrights, Demanding Censorship

    At this point the money trail leads directly to Microsoft

23. It's Not Even Hidden Anymore: Microsoft is Passing Bribes for Media to Publish Puff Pieces About Itself

    GeekWire is paid by Microsoft to publish many puff pieces (even outright lies) about Microsoft

24. Dr. Andy Farnell on a Death to Efficiency and Cash

    Cash is not the same as "digital cash", which isn't even remotely the same

25. Links 19/02/2025: Political Roundup and Halifax Wants to Dump Twitter ("X")

    Links for the day

26. Gemini Links 18/02/2025: Beginning Meditation, Poison as Praxis, and Blogging

    Links for the day

27. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

28. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 18, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, February 18, 2025

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