Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 19, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. BetaNews Appears to Have Fired All Of Its Staff

   Even serial sloppers

   New

2. Gemini Links 18/06/2025: Magit and Farming

   Links for the day

3. Slopwatch: BetaNews is Now a Slopfarm (Like Linuxsecurity) and Google News is Overwhelmed by Slopfarms

   The Web is bad

4. Links 18/06/2025: SCOTUS Decision on Fentanylware (TikTok) Still Ignored, 4.5-Day Work Weeks

   Links for the day

5. Links 17/06/2025: Windows TCO and G7 Rifts

   Links for the day

6. The Right to Know and the Freedom to Report on Crime (at the Higher Echelons)

   I'd like to do the same thing for the next 20 years

7. After the Web Becomes Slopped to Death

   A lot of people are rightly fed up with the "modern" Web

8. Microsoft's Windows is a Niche Operating System in Africa

   African nations aren't a large contributor to Microsoft's income, but if many African nations move away from Windows, then the monopoly is at risk

9. Like Most Social Control Media, Microsoft LinkedIn is Collapsing

   One reason for Microsoft acquisitions is debt-loading, i.e. offloading and burying its debt

10. Microsoft is Losing Its Richest Clients

    Unlike some very poor countries, Germany and the EU are a considerable source of income to Microsoft

11. Proprietary Means Not Secure

    Proprietary software tends to rely on secrecy, not good design

12. Slop in 'AI' Clothing is a Passing Fad, We'll Get Past It (Like Blockchain Before That)

    Many people cheat in exams using slop and there are professionals that try using slop as a "shortcut"

13. GNOME Does Not Campaign Against Microsoft, KDE Does

    It's good to see that KDE is still active in promotion of Free software - a term that it uses

14. Slopwatch: BetaNews, Linuxsecurity, and Other Prolific Slopfarms

    name and shame the sites that establish such proliferation of slop

15. Gemini Links 18/06/2025: Birch Lake and Loon Pond

    Links for the day

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 17, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, June 17, 2025

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