Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 30, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Before the OSI Was Bribed and Hijacked by Microsoft via GitHub and Compromised Management...

   The OSI isn't even remotely "woke"

2. The OSI Has Been Silent for Over 3 Weeks, It Has a Severe Trust Issue After Promoting Microsoft and Proprietary GitHub

   OSI took a lot of money from Microsoft to become a Microsoft lobbyist

3. Bribery is OK If You Work for Microsoft (No Punishment Expected)

   It's very troubling and a symptom of a broken society/system when particular laws or rules are applied and enforced against some people but not against others

4. Someone Should Remind Microsoft Lunduke That Microsoft Hires Many Sexual Criminals and Pedophiles as Well

   Microsoft Lunduke on an "expedition" to find one or more perverts, then generalise to everyone in the "community"

5. Cash Machines (ATMs) Make Mistakes and They're Proprietary Software

   Correcting mistakes is a colossal challenge

6. Yes, Microsoft is the Problem

   "I am no MS shill."

7. Another Failed Use Case for Chatbots (LLM): Legal Advice and Analysis

   They're just some self-discrediting toy that costs way too much to operate

   New

8. Gemini Links 29/07/2025: Wayland Unfit for Use and LLM Slop Faking One's Language Skills With Robot Communications

   Links for the day

9. Nailing the "Hey Hi" (AI) Hype Bubble

   So-called "hey hi" as they define it now is all about large companies or regimes remotely controlling the processes running on your machine and even your very own behaviour on your machine, which is in effect no longer your machine but some remotely controlled apparatus

10. "Four decades; Four freedoms; For all users" Now as a T-shirt

    That's shown along the sidebar

11. Links 29/07/2025: Bad Climate and "Fair Software Licensing" Blasts Microsoft

    Links for the day

12. Links 29/07/2025: Data Brokers Gone Wrong/Rogue and "Copyright Thicket"

    Links for the day

13. Slopwatch: Linuxconfig.org, Linuxsecurity.com, Fagioli, The Register

    Today's "Slopwatch" isn't the first article about LLM slop

14. We Cover Topics Other Sites Are Too Afraid to Cover (Even When They Know the Facts)

    It's not that they doubt the truth, they just realise there may be consequences for talking about it

15. They Try to Tell Us the Free Software Foundation Inc is Dying, But Its Revenue Doubled Since the Dot-Com Bubble Burst

    Being in "Activism" is never easy; but it does positive things for society

16. It's About the Cost of Workers, Not the Fictional Skills Shortage (That Does Not Exist, the Media Spreads False and Sometimes Self-Fulfilling Narratives)

    This issue isn't limited to computing, some dub it "globalism"

17. Links 29/07/2025: More Pushbacks Against Slop and More Praises of Tom Lehrer

    Links for the day

18. Gemini Links 29/07/2025: Purple Yarrow and Understanding Op Amps

    Links for the day

19. This Monday WebProNews Absolutely Flooded the Web With Fake (LLM Slop) 'Articles' About "Linux", Google News Promoted Them as Legitimate

    All of the following are fake articles attributed to pseudonyms or authors that don't exist; the images are also slop. Why does Google promote these?

20. Linuxiac is Not a Slopfarm, But at Least Some of Its Articles Are Machine-Generated Fakes

    what we said about it was correct

21. Expect More Microsoft Layoffs

    "Are more job cuts coming?"

22. Microsoft Behaving Like It's Running Out of Money to Pay Salaries

    Does that seem like the behaviour expected from a company which claims it is "worth" trillions?

23. LWN Downtime Due to Linode, Not LLM Bots

    "I’ve received an email letting me know that there is a potential for data loss."

24. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

25. IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 28, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, July 28, 2025

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