Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 01, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Open Source Initiative (OSI) Privacy Fiasco in Detail: The OSI Does Not Respect Anybody's Privacy

   The surveillance mafia that bans dissent or key people (even co-founders) with dissenting views

   New

2. Links 31/03/2025: China Tensions, Bombs Falling in Myanmar After Earthquake

   Links for the day

3. Gemini Links 31/03/2025: Falling Out of Love With Tech, Sunsetting openSNP

   Links for the day

4. R.T.O. at IBM in Texas and Atlanta (State of Georgia) Expected as "Soft Layoffs" Catalyst This Coming Year

   It also sounds like more IBM layoffs are in the making

5. Law Firms Can Also Lose Their Licence for Clearly Misusing It

   The bottom line is, never made the false assumption that because you can pile up SLAPPs in a docket you will not suffer from bad reputation or even get disbarred

6. Link between institutional abuse, Swiss jurists, Debianism and FSFE

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

7. LLM Slop Piggybacking News About GNU/Linux and Distorting It

   new examples

8. Links 31/03/2025: Press and Democracy Under Further Attacks in the US, Attitudes Towards Slop Sour

   Links for the day

9. Gemini Links 31/03/2025: More X-Filesposting and Dreaming in Emacs

   Links for the day

10. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

11. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 30, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, March 30, 2025

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