Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 18, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. EPO General Consultative Committee (GCC) Agenda: Reduction of Staff's Salaries (Compared to Inflation)

   knocking salaries down some more

2. What's 4Chan and Why It's So Problematic

   Incels and losers converge around online echo chambers

3. Python is Attempting an Outreach to African-Americans, Microsoft Lunduke Has a Problem With That

   Did he manage to brainwash himself into this ideology wherein bigotry is in fact tolerance, inclusion, equity?

4. IBM is Googlebombing Its Way Out of Trouble and Criticism

   IBM is a dying giant

5. After Denial (of the Issues) Comes Censorship

   Every critic of the status quo is "racist" and every criticism is "racism"

6. Intel, Facing Mass Layoffs (Including Many Key Engineers Who Work on Linux Kernel), is Pushing for Slop Inside Linux

   replacing proper, well-tested code (and documentation thereof) with slop

7. More People Want to Quit Windows (Vista 10 is "End of Life"), Restricted Boot (UEFI) Makes That Harder

   It's widely agreed (a consensus) that Restricted Boot is a bad thing for GNU/Linux

   New

8. Spanish Focus Coming Soon and Maturity of Site Search

   We'll soon be focusing on Spain

9. Slopwatch: LLM Slopfarms Seem to be Slowing Down Somewhat

   LLM addiction is a very unhealthy addiction

10. The "Nazi Bars"

    We don't condone or condemn the label "Nazi Bar"

11. Thailand: Windows Down Sharply, Microsoft Loses Share to GNU/Linux

    the Thai economy is strategic and relatively important in the region

12. Gaming Journalist and Guru Jason Schreier Says Microsoft is Indeed Behaving Like It Exits the Console Market

    Remember that many shops no longer sell or stock XBox

13. Links 17/11/2025: ‘Agentic OS’ Backlash and Facebook ('Meta') Loses Yann Le Cun

    Links for the day

14. Gemini Links 17/11/2025: Technology's Harm in Schools, 3D Printer Blurb

    Links for the day

15. Coming Soon: EPO Trip in Spain

    António Campinos being 'Marcosed'

16. Links 17/11/2025: "You Don't Need Animations" and Blocking Copyright-Infringing Sites Inevitably Goes Wrong

    Links for the day

17. The Register MS: Slop is "FOMO" (Fear of Missing Out), FOMO is Funding Us

    even former management (Editor in Chief of The Register MS) admitted to me it was aware of this issue

18. Difficult to Win Arguments When the Simple Facts Are Not on One's Side

    Starting arguments over things when you know the facts (unlike money!) aren't on your side is a dumb move that can only ever result in severe loss of credibility

19. Tribalism Injures Projects

    In Free software communities, there are many species and "breeds". Some developers are happy to work with everyone else based upon technical merit

20. No, There is Nothing Impressive About Slop Plagiarism-Enabled, Computer-Generated Images in Your Web Site...

    When people use slop they do not broadcast an embrace of innovation; they merely signal they're lazy, unethical, and unscrupulous

21. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

22. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 16, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, November 16, 2025

23. IRCNow Helped Techrights

    If you want to gain more independence or "sovereignty" over your communications and need help setting things up (no prior experience setting up/configuring IRC), go to IRCNow

24. How We Managed to Make IRC Inclusive and Free Speech-Tolerant Without Banning People

    People in IRC seldom agree on everything, more so if politics are aired and especially in the wrong context/s

25. UEFI 'Restricted Boot' Will Usher in Rootkits Into Linux

    Those of us who understand and value what it means to truly own our devices should definitely be alarmed by these trends

26. Plan for European Patent Office (EPO) Coverage This Month, Next Month, and Next Year

    How much longer can European politicians ignore all this corruption?

27. Germany-Based Focus Online is Apparently Covering Up Cocaine Use at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the European Patent Office

    More contact details for the German press - Focus online

28. opensource.net Dead Since Middle of Summer, opensource.org (OSI) Still Leaderless

    At the moment the brand "Open Source" is misused so heavily that we have considered adding a new category to our Daily Links, focusing a lot less on "Open" and more on software freedom as a concept

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