Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 12, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Articles About "Linux" That Are Actually Promotions of Microsoft Windows

   The solution is to leave Windows, not get something "like Linux" or "similar to Linux"

2. Local Occupational Health, Safety and Ergonomics Committee (LOHSEC) in The Hague: Staff Representation Surprised at "Recent Changes in the Staffing of OHS Occupational Health Services (OHS)"

   Once upon a time the Office offered to-notch services to all staff

3. IBM Exits Continue This Week

   Some people talk about it anonymously, naming their role/position/unit, number of years (or band) etc.

4. Rust Keeps Breaking Ubuntu in All Sorts of Extraordinary Ways (and All Distros Based on Ubuntu Will Break Also)

   The FSF's stance on this is unclear

5. With Net Income of One Billion Dollars Tesla Claims It Can Pay a Fake Founder (Who Paid for This Lie) 1,000 Billions

   What does this tell us about Wall Street?

6. The 'Politics' of Operating Systems (or Exclusion for Inclusion's Sake)

   This whole 'wrongthink' policing is getting out of hand

   New

7. Gemini Links 11/11/2025: Kentucky, Bluesky, and Slop

   Links for the day

8. The European Patent Office (EPO) is Still Hiding From Scandals

   "No answers from VP1 to our letters to two Directors"

9. Like the Serial Strangler From Microsoft, Donald Trump is Out of Time and Has Jurisdiction Issues in the UK

   The court system or the courts of a nations are meant to serve the nation and its media, not media lawyers or litigation profiteers

10. Slopwatch: Many Fake Articles About "Linux" on Monday and Today

    A lot of the Web is pure garbage. A lot of 'articles' are 100% fake.

11. Richard Stallman to be First Speaker at Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress 5 Days From Now, FSF Looking to Raise $400,000 by Year's End

    the 40+ years-old FSF, which Dr. Stallman created to help promote Software Freedom and support GNU, is starting a new fund-raising campaign

12. Links 11/11/2025: Misinformation/Disinformation in Twitter/X and BBC in Trouble

    Links for the day

13. Links 11/11/2025: Slop Ruins Music, Facebook "to Discontinue Like and Comment Buttons on Third-Party Websites"

    Links for the day

14. The Voice of Microsoft

    Marketing disguised as a science

15. "MIT Technology Review Insights" is the Selling of Ponzi Schemes for Sponsors (MIT Lacks Integrity)

    Just like IBM, they're chaining buzzwords now

16. Boot-locking Laptops and Desktops After Falsely Marketing That As 'Security' and Not Obligatory

    If anyone can confirm this to us

17. GNU/Linux Cannot Buy Fake Journalism and It Won't Bribe Large Publishers

    Free software developers don't purchase "sponsored" placements and that will never change

18. Static Site Generators (SSGs) Save You Lots of Money and Problems

    We've basically reduced the environmental/carbon footprint of the site by a factor of ~100 (2 orders of magnitude)

19. IBM Does Not Care About Families, Communities, and Even Its Own Workers

    Red Hat isn't a family and to believe that it is would be the makeup of cults

20. Too Much of Today's Web is Fake, Not Just Fake News

    We'll continue to advocate for adoption of Gemini Protocol

21. Simulating a Downtime Tomorrow Night

    It is expected that network redundancy will make this maintenance invisible to us, but IRC hangups or general slowness are still a possibility

22. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

23. IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 10, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, November 10, 2025

24. Links 11/11/2025: Conflicts and Politics From National Broadcasters

    Links for the day

25. Gemini Links 11/11/2025: Poetry and Electronics Studies

    Links for the day

26. Apple's Debt Grew by About 16 Billion Dollars This Past Year, "Disappointing iPhone Sales" Reported

    People who buy Apple's goods based on some false notion that Apple is "cool" or ethical or "underdog" (late 90s) aren't just living in the past; they're fools

27. Turning Down Proprietary Software is About Making Society Better

    We should not be tempted to shame people for merely trying to keep programmers honest and human rights-respecting

28. Debian GNU/Linux Became the Most Popular (Most Distros Are Based on It) Owing to Richard Stallman

    New presentation

29. The Internet is Becoming Dead or a Zombie

    The Internet is becoming like a giant botfarm

30. A Day for Poppies

    This site will run as usual today. We continue our fight for Software Freedom.

31. "Modern" Doesn't Mean Better, It Typically Just Means Newer

    RMS demonised as someone who rejects "modern society" ("rejecting modern society") by a site that uses slop extensively

32. The Cocaine Patent Office - Part IV: European Patent Office to Come Under Media and Political Scrutiny

    We'll persist until we get some answers

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