Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 05, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Watch the FSF Party Live (via Livestream)

   It's in WebM format, which is widely supported by now

2. Advocacy of Software Freedom Changed, LUGs Became Less Relevant

   The way we see it, support groups like LUGs sort of outlived their usefulness when it became easier to install GNU/Linux

3. Compromised by NVIDIA Proprietary Library

   Meanwhile in Boston there are "[r]oundtable talk with FSF volunteers (both in-person and online)"

   New

4. When Microsoft "Integrates" Something With "AI" It Means It's Losing Money and Is Generally Hopeless

   how did Bing fare after 36 months of LLM slop being hyped up as "replacement" for search?

5. Most Certificates Don't Improve Security, They Mostly Increase Downtime (for No Good Reason)

   The 'Gemini sites' (capsules) are a growing force

6. The statCounter Site Has Data Integrity Problems

   Maybe we'll get back to statCounter when its data becomes more "stable" again

7. 10 Ways to Combat Software Patents

   software patents are loathed also by proprietary software developers

8. "Just a Little Bit of Meat..."

   Free software "absolutism" is not a radical stance, more so if the only "radical" belief the user possesses is that he or she must be in control of his or her software, and by extension his or her computer

9. Red Hat is Ignoring the Free Software Community, It's a "Fortune 1000" Vendor

   Red Hat's blog also participates a lot in promoting of Wall Street's latest pump-and-dump "AI" scheme

10. Free Software Foundation Party Has Begun

    We shall be focusing a lot on software patents today

11. Former Head of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Lina Khan Knows Whatever Microsoft Touches Will Die

    Just like Skype (as recently as months ago) [...] When Microsoft grabs things, or when it buys things, it almost never ends well

12. Slopwatch: Fake Articles About LibreOffice in Austria and Wine 10.16

    very short

13. Links 04/10/2025: "attempted Coup" Noted in Facebook, Russia Kills Journalists via Drones

    Links for the day

14. Gemini Links 04/10/2025: Anesthesia and Baudpunk

    Links for the day

15. Links 04/10/2025: "Privacy Harm Is Harm", Criticism Outlawed in US

    Links for the day

16. Garmin Uses Linux for Some of the Garmin Products, Now It's Sued by Strava Using Software Patents

    Software patents should never have been granted in the first place

17. Richard Stallman Will Give a Talk in Sweden in 6 Days

    Dr. Stallman, despite his battle with cancer is still alive and mentally sharp

18. FSF Turns 40

    We'll be focusing on patent-related topics this weekend

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 03, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, October 03, 2025

21. Gemini Links 04/10/2025: Distro Hopping and "Part Time"

    Links for the day

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