Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 05, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Search @ Techrights: Almost There Now (Maybe an Anniversary Gift)

   Just to be very clear, search would not be unprecedented at Techrights

2. At IBM, Layoffs Start at 1AM (at Night)

   not a single English-speaking site covers the news about the layoffs

3. Envy Makes People Do Self-Harming Things (and Harm to Others)

   Online communities that can be deemed successful are built around trust, mutual respect, and collective accomplishment

4. What Julian Darley Wrote About the Stallman Talk Regarding "AI" in Oxford (2025)

   From LinkedIn (Microsoft)

5. "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." -Galileo Galilei

   This site is educational

6. Many People Have Said That They "Leave" IBM in Recent Days (Ahead of Mass Layoffs)

   So the real extent of layoffs is greater than what's publicly stated (there are silent layoffs) [...] Whatever IBM says about the scope, scale, or magnitude of the "RAs", it doesn't tell the full story

7. Techrights Will Contact German Media About the EPO's Substance Abuse

   This scandal won't "go to waste"

   New

8. Richard Stallman's 2005 Article on Why Patents on Software Should be Denied

   If patent law had been applied to novels in the 1880s, great books would not have been written. If the EU applies it to software, every computer user will be restricted, says Richard Stallman

9. "Last Day" at IBM and Red Hat as "Stealth Layoffs" (They Force People to Pretend It's Wilful)

   So the real extent of the layoffs is being kept 'undercover'

10. Slopwatch: The WebProNews Slopfarm and the Serial Slopper

    The Web is ill

11. Links 04/11/2025: Tensions Around Belarus Grow, Turkey’s Hype-inflation Continues

    Links for the day

12. Corporate Media That Fails to Report Cocaine at EPO is Totally Failing to Report Mass Layoffs at IBM

    How come nobody anywhere writes about this week's RAs?

13. Links 04/11/2025: Google Cloud Account Engages in Censorship of the Innocent, arXiv Spammed by LLM Slop

    Links for the day

14. EPO Cocaine Chronicles: Our Aim Will be to Ensure This Becomes a Mainstream Media Topic, Not a Suppressed Scandal (Which the German State Deems Embarrassing and Detrimental to Its Pan-European Patent Franchise)

    At the EPO, and perhaps in German media as well, people "fall upwards" (they get rewarded for bad things)

15. Static Site Generators (SSGs) Made Techrights Better, Faster, Easier to Manage

    Consider adopting SSGs if you still use a CMS such as WordPress

16. But he Was Born in Manchester! (Origin Stories)

    Borussia Dortmund does not exist!

17. GNU/Linux is American, Not Finnish

    It started in Boston, not in Helsinki

18. 'Hacker' 'News' Makes Dumb Assertions Against Smart People

    A logical fallacy

19. We Turned Down Every Settlement Offer Because Truths Aren't Determined in Bank Accounts

    Without free press, there won't be free society

20. Why I'm Always Proud of the Site I've Devoted My Life to

    As a graffiti around the corner from our home says, "be a better person"

21. Standing Up or Standing for What's True But Inconvenient

    Bad actors need to be called out

22. Media Coverage Regarding IBM is Vapourware and LLM Slop

    With slop images, too

23. statCounter Says GNU/Linux Rose to 4% in the Russian Federation

    Adoption of Vista 11 has been embarrassingly weak

24. Corruption is Not a Joke

    we'll try to limit our use of humour to avoid misunderstandings or misinterpretations

25. The Slopfarm WebProNews is Overwhelming "linux" Results in Google News

    Google News is slop

26. The Fall of IBM: What Happened?

    Just like the EPO continues riding some old reputation acquired in the 1970s IBM relies on old myths like, "nobody gets fired for buying IBM."

27. IBM's CEO Already Has the Excuse for the Latest Wave of Mass Layoffs

    Only days ago the CEO told a bunch of nonsense

28. Links 04/11/2025: Conflicts, Politics, and IPv6 at Home

    Links for the day

29. Gemini Links 04/11/2025: Entering WiFi Passwords and Programming Rambles

    Links for the day

30. Arch Linux Seems Like the New Debian

    Arch users (btw!) are growing in relative and absolute share

31. Analytics From US Government Affirm a Trend: Microsoft's "Market Share" in Search is Falling

    the data set is large

32. Holding Institutions Such as the EPO Accountable Through Public Information

    Speaking truth to power is never easy

33. EPO Staff Losing Holidays, as Usual, as the Office Increases Profits by Illegally Granting Invalid Patents While Reducing Salaries

    How much more can the staff endure and generally tolerate?

34. Free Software Does Not Always Speak for Itself, It Needs Advocates

    Legal matters that relate to sharing of code will be discussed

35. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

36. IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 03, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, November 03, 2025

37. The Register MS Continues Looking for Money in Promotion of the "AI" Ponzi Scheme

    That The Register MS participates in this deceit rather than tackle/debunk it says a lot about The Register MS

38. IBM Layoffs in "Software", This Likely Impacts Red Hat as Well

    Many people say "software" people are impacted

39. Escaping Proprietary Software, Not Just Escaping Microsoft

    To take control of your life adopt GNU/Linux

40. A Lot of Fake News About Microsoft Headcount (Also: Microsoft's Debt Rose by About 24 Billion Dollars in Past 12 Months)

    If you see some headline about Microsoft's CEO making claims about hirings, look away

41. Techrights Turns 19 in Three Days

    It would be nice to meet for a chat

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