Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 11, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Our Lawsuits Against the 'Cancel Mob' (Ringleaders) Helped Reduce Anti-Free Software Online Abuse

   That's not to say that lawsuits are the best way to handle terrible people. But that can help.

2. The Two Lies Microsoft is Telling in "the News" This Week (to Distract From Layoffs and Decreased Interest in Slop/Chaff)

   Microsoft is run by liars and frauds who SLAPP critics

3. Tux Machines Already Destroyed SLAPPs

   Attacks on the mere publication of GNU/Linux news won't be tolerated

4. Always Check Your Inputs

   Garbage in, garbage out. Or wrong assumptions, wrong corollary.

   New

5. Tomorrow is the Last Day of the Fund-Raising Campaign of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)

   They will probably extend the date, as usual

6. Fixing Patents in Europe, Little by Little (by Transparency and Reporting of Suppressed Facts)

   Tomorrow and throughout the weekend we shall focus some more on the EPO

7. PCLinuxOS is Available for Download Again

   PCLinuxOS is important to us also because its founder, back then the partner of Susan, helped create Tux Machines more than 21 years ago

8. Links 10/07/2025: Microsoft E-mail 'Services' Collapse Again, "Yet Another Strava Privacy Leak"

   Links for the day

9. Gemini Links 10/07/2025: Automating Git Repo Updates and Small Web 'Zine'

   Links for the day

10. GNU/Linux Leftovers

    mostly Linux stuff

11. Audiocasts/Shows: Going Linux, FLOSS Weekly, and RHEL Clones

    3 new picks

12. We Are Already Fighting - With Considerable Success - SLAPPs in the UK

    we intend to tell the full story

13. Bullies With Pens and Papers (or Apple Macs With Templates)

    Not all barristers are evil, but there are perhaps "rotten apples"

14. Slopwatch: webpronews.com, linuxsecurity.com, linuxjournal.com

    a pile of trash disguised as 'articles'

15. Links 10/07/2025: Linda Yaccarino Divorces MElonazi Site, Wildfires Hit Syria

    Links for the day

16. The History and the Policy of the EPO's Stance on Breastfeeding (Corporate Monopolies Versus Babies' Health)

    "The Case for Introducing a Breastfeeding Policy at the EPO"

17. Gemini Links 10/07/2025: Inventing Chords and "Nightmare Boss"

    Links for the day

18. Igor Ljubuncic Once Again Shows That for Technical Reasons Wayland Still Sucks, Performs Considerably Worse Than What Existed for Decades

    That is aside from compatibility factors and other crucial factors

19. Links 10/07/2025: "Apple Vs The Law" and Twitter Became Full Nazi Bar

    Links for the day

20. Unable to Find Anyone to Work as Their Media Lawyer, Brett Wilson LLP Will Continue Losing Female Staff

    What sort of sick person would wish to join Brett Wilson LLP to carry this baton?

21. Microsoft-Sponsored Propaganda Site Has Removed False 'Hit Piece' About Dr. Stallman (With Fake and Misrepresented Imagery) But Only After 4 Years

    So they only removed that page some time around 2025, i.e. about 4 years after it had been published

22. Dan Neidle Said That Tax Evasion Facilitator Mr Zahawi (Working to Silence Bloggers Through Brett Wilson LLP) Targeted Not Only Him (But The Others Kept Quiet)

    "Mr Neidle said after repelling Mr Zahawi he was contacted by bloggers and tweeters who had received similar threats. They deleted their work “and in most cases never commented publicly on anything again”."

23. SLAPP Funding Transparency Urgently Needed in the UK and Elsewhere (in Practice, Not Just in Theory)

    Writing about crime - including Microsoft crime - is not a crime

24. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

25. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 09, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, July 09, 2025

26. Elodie Bergot Still Doing Illegal Things at the EPO, Based on the Local Staff Committee Munich

    They keep taking away from the staff while compelling the staff to do illegal things

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