Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 08, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Has Almost Gone Down to Zero, Nearly Totally Extinct in Geminispace, the Few Capsules Still Using It Are Spam/Dead/Stagnant

   This represents another decrease for Let's Encrypt; the last decrease was last week

2. Trying to Silence Techrights Was a Huge Mistake

   Peter Thiel attacked a publisher for asserting, correctly, that he was gay. Now everyone knows it.

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3. Gemini Links 07/09/2025: Scanner, Slop, and Chadobear

   Links for the day

4. The UEFI 9/11 is 3 Days Away

   Nobody denies that bad things will happen

5. Google Versus Journalism

   Google played a big role in the demise of news sites

6. Gemini Links 07/09/2025: Advertising, Decentralized Archival, and Outsourcing to Bezos

   Links for the day

7. Not Much Left in News Cycles

   To be very clear, this does not describe "Linux" anything; it's true in just about every facet of news, except the paid-for fake "journalism" about "hey hi" (sites getting paid explicitly to maintain or rekindle hype)

8. Throwing Away "Old" Computers (Mozilla and Other Climate Deniers)

   Mozilla is not leftist

9. The UEFI 9/11 - Part VIII - Denial of Service and Selling Us WSL (Windows) Instead of "Risky" (Prone by Breakage by Microsoft) GNU/Linux

   Restricted Boot (so-called 'SecureBoot') does not improve security. It is nothing but trouble. It's meant to trouble non-Windows users. In dual-boot setups, SecureBoot is a recipe for disaster because Microsoft keeps erasing or tampering with the boot sector, to paraphrase an associate

10. Slop is Extremely Rare in Geminispace, Slop Images Are Unheard Of (Despite Images Being Supported)

    As long as Geminispace grows in terms of domains it's safe to predict the protocol will still be used in 2029 and hence Geminispace will turn 10

11. Links 07/09/2025: Robodebt Class Action, Fines, and Copyright Settlement

    Links for the day

12. Links 07/09/2025: Yle Impersonated in Social Control Media, Boat-Attacking Orcas, Midjourney Sued Again

    Links for the day

13. Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, Linux Journal, and the Serial Slopper

    Google won't tackle the issue because Google participates not only in relaying slop but also in generating lots of it

14. Links 07/09/2025: Google Fines in EU and "Your Internet Access Is at Risk"

    Links for the day

15. Gemini Links 07/09/2025: Little Brother and Corporate Theatre

    Links for the day

16. Links 07/09/2025: More Harms of Slop and Anthropic's Nightmare Scenario (Huge Legal Liabilities for Slop)

    Links for the day

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, September 06, 2025

    IRC logs for Saturday, September 06, 2025

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