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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 08, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. People Used to Talk
    If pets can live a measurably happy life without gadgets and "apps", why can't humans?
  2. Rust is Starting to Seem More Like Microsoft-hosted "Digital Maoism", Not a Legitimate Effort to Improve Security
    Maybe this is very innocent, but they seem to have taken a solid, stable program from a high-profile Frenchman and looked for ways to marry it with GitHub, i.e. Microsoft/NSA
  3. Finland, Lithuania, and Latvia Fortify Their Digital Border With GNU/Linux
    This month's data from statCounter is particularly interesting near the Baltic Sea

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  4. The CoC Means the Founder of GNU/Linux Cannot Talk and a 72-Year-Old Man With Cancer is Somehow a "Safety" Risk?
    Those who don't like RMS are not forced to attend his talks
  5. Gemini Links 07/05/2025: A Shopping Spree and Digital Gardening
    Links for the day
  6. Links 07/05/2025: Pegasus Guilty and a Path Towards EU Without Russian Energy
    Links for the day
  7. Outsourcing GNU/Linux to Microsoft GitHub Promoted by Microsoft LLM Slop and Army Officers
    Something doesn't seem right
  8. Weaponisation of For-Profit Dockets - Part III: No More Media Lawsuits From Brett Wilson LLP This Year, One Can Only Guess Why
    People leak a lot of material to Techrights because they know, based on the track record, that the sources will be protected and whatever gets published will stay online, in full, no matter how stubborn an effort (even lawsuits and blackmail) will be sent its way
  9. Gemini Links 07/05/2025: Adopting GrapheneOS, Further Enshittification of Flickr
    Links for the day
  10. Links 07/05/2025: CISA Gutted, Debt-Saddled (Likely Insolvent) 'Open' 'AI' (Proprietary Slop) Faking Its Financial State Again
    Links for the day
  11. The European Patent Office (EPO) Has a Very Profound Corruption Issue, Far More Urgent an Issue Than Pronouns
    a rather long document
  12. Richard Stallman Gives Public Talk at Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic
    "For programs that you could run, and for network services that could do your own computing, under what circumstances is it reasonable to trust them?"
  13. Today We Turn 18.5
    The eighteenth "and a half" anniversary
  14. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  15. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 06, 2025
    IRC logs for Tuesday, May 06, 2025

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