Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 05, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsoft and Windows Have Many Back Doors, But LLM Slop Keep Claiming That Linux Has "Backdoor"

   It's another example of LLM slop as FUD amplifier, via slopfarms as well

   New

2. In Many Countries Vista 11 Adoption Stalled or Became Negative

   Not just because people move to GNU/Linux

3. Microsofters' Lawyers Are Name-calling and Insulting Microsoft Critics, Even Their Spouses

   How not to win arguments

4. Flagging or Tagging Slop That We Find Online

   Right now we use ImageMagick

5. Links 04/08/2025: Very Bad Weather and Travel Restrictions in China

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Links 04/08/2025: Misiamisia and Mobile Linux

   Links for the day

7. Microsoft's Stock is Like a Religion, Microsoft Goes Into 'Hiding' (From Shareholders)

   like a religious person or devout believer, the media just parrot anything Microsoft says

8. Links 04/08/2025: 80 Years Since Last Nuclear War, IPv6 in China

   Links for the day

9. Groklaw Static Site Relaunches With New Theme, But Many Pages and All the Comments Are Missing

   We suppose that's still a lot better than the site being offline, as it was for several months

10. "For Five decades; For freedoms; For all users" (Original EMACS Turns 50 Next Year)

    Linus Benedict Torvalds was only 6 when EMACS started

11. In Spain, Microsoft's Search Engine Market Share Fell to 2%

    16 years have passed since Bing was introduced

12. Protecting GNU/Linux-Centric Journalism From Serial Sloppers

    Unoriginal slop is taking away traffic from the people who did all the real work

13. It Looks Like Managers at Oracle Now Use LLM Slop to Write Blog Posts

    Did he cheat by prompting LLMs for mindless text "filler"?

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 03, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, August 03, 2025

16. Gemini Links 04/08/2025: Qubes OS and Curious crypto case of certificates (CCCC)

    Links for the day

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