Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 18, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsoft Windows Barely Exists in Haiti Anymore

   This trend in Haiti is a "story in progress"

2. Free Speech Around the World is Curtailed in the Name of "Protecting Us"

   We have spent many years speaking about how to combat this trend

   New

3. Links 17/03/2025: Weather Changing and Connecting Docker to Localhost

   Links for the day

4. The EPO Might Face Critical 'Brain Drain' (Abandonment by the Most Experienced Patent Examiners) This Year

   "a number of colleagues might feel compelled to inform the Administration before the end of May 2025 of their intention to retire as of 1 December 2025."

5. Links 17/03/2025: Forced Labour and Memory on Tenstorrent

   Links for the day

6. Links 17/03/2025: Live Nation’s DOJ Antitrust Battle Carries on, as Does the Demise of the "Hey Hi" Bubble

   Links for the day

7. Links 17/03/2025: "Badly Misled About Covid" and "Gag of America"

   Links for the day

8. The Lie or Half-Truth of Clownflare (or Equivalents) Improving Things

   It may seem "cheap" (temporarily) and "fast", but that's just bait

9. Enshittification of Online Media

   Now more than ever we must fight for independent press

10. War Readiness Means Removing Every Windows Installation and CALEA-Compliant Equipment

    Finland is vulnerable for a whole bunch of reasons

11. Reporting Facts is Not a Privacy Violation

    Techrights has long valued and defended privacy

12. In the Russian Federation (Russia), Microsoft Isn't Even the 1%

    the government builds "homegrown" (not pertinent parts of them) distros with which to replace Microsoft, not just Windows

13. Gemini Links 17/03/2025: "Hack the Planet", Klingnauer Stausee, and Enshittification

    Links for the day

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 16, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, March 16, 2025

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