Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 19, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. "GNU/Linux" No Longer a Pandora's Box

   Cannot even make or crack a joke... when you have a target painted on your back

2. TV Programmes in Geminispace

   Sort of like teletext except more cross-platform

3. Techrights' Assessment of Red Hat Layoffs in 2025 (Yes, They Happened!)

   In short, Red Hat layoffs did occur this year, but even when they did the media did not mention these (and those would count as "IBM" regardless)

4. The GPU Bubble (GPUs Marketed by Useless Slop)

   "they're selling GPUs for the sake of selling GPUs"

   New

5. We Don't Keep Logs

   Not for any considerable length of time

6. Wall Street Journal is Publishing Puff Pieces About Quantum

   For IBM [...] a lot of articles about "AI" are basically a form of spam

7. Is the Lid Being Shut on Top of LLM Slop?

   It sort of "feels" like slop is becoming passé

8. Celebrating Digital Sovereignty

   Digital Sovereignty is connected very closely to the concept of Software Freedom

9. Your Web Site is Connected to the Net and the Server is Powered On, But Cloudflare Takes It All Down

   Anything outsourced means that yet another party can get things wrong, resulting in problems for everyone else "in the chain"

10. The Register's Latest Slop Spam, Another Paid-for Article to Inflate the Bubble

    Remember when celebrities advertised FTX?

11. Quite a Few Red Hat Layoffs These Days (or Departures)

    Remember that if there are Red Hat Layoffs, they won't be called "Red Hat Layoffs" but instead be "IBM RAs" or some thing to that effect

12. Today is an Excellent Day To Remind People to Dump Clownflare (Cloudflare)

    If people think that Clownflare (Cloudflare) will improve uptime and make access better (it sure makes accessibility far worse), remind them of all the times this clown show goes wrong, taking down with it a lot of the Web

13. Links 18/11/2025: Asbestos Fears, Delays for GAFAM Undersea Cable

    Links for the day

14. Links 18/11/2025: "Bitcoin Showing Signs of Severe Collapse" and CEOs of GAFAM Finally Speak About a Slop Bubble

    Links for the day

15. Apparent Red Hat Layoffs in "AI" (Supposedly a Strategic Area for IBM)

    What is going on there?

16. Gemini Protocol as a Growing Source of Audience (Mostly Technical People)

    Clients for Gemini Protocol are available for almost every platform imaginable

17. EPO Change May be Afoot, Keep Pushing and Hold Those Feet to the Fire

    Backlash is brewing and societal trends reinforce backlash right now

18. Links 18/11/2025: CISA Advisories, Climate, "U.S. Layoffs Surge and Blaming AI is Part of the Smokescreen"

    Links for the day

19. Gemini Links 18/11/2025: "Block Them All", Annex, Signed Commits, and "Cryptography of the Internet"

    Links for the day

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 17, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, November 17, 2025

22. Right Under the Nose of Mainstream Media

    That the media fails to cover the matter mostly speaks volumes about the media

23. Formalities Officers at the EPO Face Uncertain Future, Administration Gets Asked About That

    They're being too polite (perhaps) to people whose agenda is detrimental not just to the EPO but also the EPC

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