Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 11, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. The 'Culture Wars' in Free Software Have Gone Out of Control

   Social control media amplifies such utterly infantile discourse

2. 10 Out of 10: RMS Attracts Massive Audience in Göteborg, Sweden (All Seats Occupied, Some People Standing)

   a 55-second clip of his talk

3. The Lawsuit by Clients of Brett Wilson LLP Against Brett Wilson LLP is Officially On, It is Progressing, The 'Experts' Pick Outside Law Firms (RPC and Mills & Reeve) to Spare Them From Litigants in Person

   So it is probably quite potent

4. Slopwatch: Plagiarism and "Linux" Articles by Bots

   Sites that do this won't survive; many of them rely on slop services (suppliers) that will cease to exist after the bubble bursts

   New

5. Geminispace is Very Large

   The word continues to spread and the number of participants grows

6. Teaser: To Compensate for the Fact Our Clients Are Terrible Human Beings Who Strangle Women (While on Microsoft's Payroll) and We Get Paid by Mystery Parties We Bombard You and Your Wife With Almost 10 Kilograms of Legal Papers

   If you can't win an argument, then drown the other side with papers?

7. Another Wave of Microsoft Layoffs, This Time During National Day Holiday

   This time it's China again

8. Staying Happy in Times of Crackdowns on Civil Society

   Optimism in this sort of "new reality" or "new normal" seems like something for the irrational person

9. "Nobel" Exploited Posthumously for "AI" Hype, Now They Do the Same With "Quantum"

   ere have been many jokes about "Nobel" for peace (often granted to pro-war people) and a fake one for "Economics" (establishment propaganda)

10. Distinguished Lecture by Richard Stallman This Coming Monday in Rome

    After "Free software, Crucial for Freedom in a Digital World"

11. Links 10/10/2025: Putin Admits Russia Downed Azerbaijan Airlines Jet, More New Heat Records

    Links for the day

12. Noteworthy Claim That IBM is Firing a Lot of Lawyers This Week (RAs in the Legal Department)

    A lot of what they do is patent 'trolling' or lawyering up against their own staff (e.g. HR disputes)

13. Links 10/10/2025: US Judge Bars Attacks by ICE On Journalists and Protesters; “We Took The Freedom of Speech Away” Says the President

    Links for the day

14. Slopwatch: Serial Sloppers, Google News Gifting Slopfarms, and Fake News/Plagiarism About "Linux"

    Google itself is a slop pusher these days

15. Qualcomm, the New Owner of Arduino, Blasted for Its Software Patents Tax on 'Smartphones'

    A lot of Qualcomm's patents are on software. We wrote about this in prior years.

16. XBox Layoffs Rumours, Downtime, and Criticism From XBox Co-Founder

    "everyone is ditching the xbox."

17. Links 10/10/2025: Honoring The Legacy Of Robert Murray-Smith, Many Articles on the Hey Hi (AI) Bubble

    Links for the day

18. Gemini Links 09/10/2025: October Gothic and Reading Middle Earth Role Playing; C and Ada

    Links for the day

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 09, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, October 09, 2025

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