Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 22, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Social Control Media Relies on Advertisers, So It'll Always Be Hostile Towards Free Software

   Sales, sales, sales

2. Fragmentation of Data

   Life is too short to "hoard" data

   New

3. LLM Bots vs Techrights

   Slows things down a bit

4. New Publication Sheds Lights on Abuse of Workers at the European Patent Office (EPO)

   Put in simple terms, they're killing the Office, harming remaining staff, try to hire rubber-stampers

5. Links 21/07/2025: Hardware, Health, and Imperialism

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Links 21/07/2025: "When Buying Isn't Owning" and "CMS Special Edition"

   Links for the day

7. Links 21/07/2025: Indie Web and Toxic Politics

   Links for the day

8. [Meme] Microsoft Lawyers Throwing Stones in Glass Houses

   threatened me with bankruptcy

9. Google "AI Overview" is Not AI and Not Overview

   do not be misled; what Google does isn't smart, it's just ripping off the sites it already crawled for as long as 27 years

10. Making the Case to Dump Microsoft and GAFAM for National and Digital Sovereignty

    "Sovereignty is difficult"

11. The Tactics of the Opposition (Microsoft Lunduke): Associate With K00ks, Throw in Vaccines to Muddy the Water

    Who stands to gain from this?

12. Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO) and Largest Patent Monopoly Office Needs More Transparency, Not Less Transparency

    In the EPO, what good are elections when one candidate literally bribes all the voters?

13. How Not to Report News About Microsoft

    This pattern of misreporting is so widespread that it's hard to believe it's not intentional

14. Computer Science is Under Attack, They Want Everyone to be a Consumer

    If people can no longer acquire Computer Science education and real Computer Science experience, they will not know how to control their own digital destiny or emancipate the very same universities that now control the syllabus and instead of teaching Computer Science encourage the outsourcing of systems

15. The Best Tools Are the Simplest Tools

    There's a hidden message here about the merits of sticking with X

16. Ofcom Online Safety Group Speaks of Protecting Women Online, Will Brett Wilson LLP Ever Listen?

    They've essentially became like the Taliban's "burka police"

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, July 20, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, July 20, 2025

19. In Defence of "Spinning Rust"

    Just because something is "old" (or older) doesn't mean it ought to become extinct

20. Using Free Software to Prepare Legal Documents

    LibreOffice is openly complaining about OOXML as an obstacle

21. Tech and Technology Are Not the Same Anymore

    "Are you into tech, Sir?"

22. Our Articles About SLAPPs Receive Recognition and Interest

    This week we shall continue writing about the 3 lawsuits we filed

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