Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 20, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Gemini Links 19/04/2025: Contingencies, GTD, and Old Computers

   Links for the day

2. Links 19/04/2025: Economic Races, Charm Offensives, and USB-C Rants

   Links for the day

3. Links 19/04/2025: "Infantilization at Big Tech" and LLM Slop Abused in Defiance of Workplace Rules/Policies

   Links for the day

4. Gemini Links 19/04/2025: Palm Addiction and Real Experts

   Links for the day

5. Egypt is Controlled by Google, Not Microsoft

   Moving from Microsoft to Google is not the answer

6. Microsofters Say They Cannot Find a Job (That They Want) Because of Techrights, But Techrights Merely Reported on Their Behaviour

   Quit pointing the finger at people who are recipients of abuse or merely mention the abuse

7. Free Software and Standards - Not Marketing Blitz - Needed Amid Growing Severity of Dependency on Hostile Suppliers (or Another Country's Sovereignty)

   ZenDiS can be described as the "Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration"

8. When It Comes to the Web, Google is Evil and It Destroys the Web's Integrity With LLM Slop

   Even academia, which is meant to keep standards high, is being lured into LLM slop

9. Over at Tux Machines...

   GNU/Linux news for the past day

10. IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 18, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, April 18, 2025

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