Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 27, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Manchester United Dumped Microsoft Because Qualcomm Sort of Did

   The Windows PCs were an utter failure

2. Kazakhstan Doesn't Need GAFAM Datacentres (Spy Hubs)

   Suffice to say, as far as we can gather nothing came out from the empty (false) promises of GAFAM's "data centers in Kazakhstan"

3. Christmas Music Project: Back to When Music Was Music

   now Canonical (or Ubuntu) says we should make available tens of gigabytes of disk space

4. Browsing Techrights With a GUI and 10 Megabytes of RAM Per Tab

   Some people say it's not possible in 2025, maybe in part because they depend on very bloated software

   New

5. Tossing Embarrassing News Under the Christmastime Bus

   This isn't just some coincidence; those are conscious choices

6. Victim-Blaming in Debian

   Verhelst previously did blame-shifting when Debian suicide clusters happened

7. IBM Cuts in Japan, Red Hat is Attached to a Sinking Ship

   IBM, which controls Red Hat, is a rapidly shrinking company

8. Free Software Foundation (FSF) Supported by Unconventional Digital Bartering Communities

   But no strings attached

9. Geminispace: 5,000 Capsules in 2026

   There are 4.8k now

10. Gemini Links 26/12/2025: Careful What You Eat and "My Secret Santa"

    Links for the day

11. The Indigenous Community Versus Corporate AstroTurt and 'Cancel Culture'

    Good people will recognise exactly what's happening here and respond to it tactfully

12. Richard Stallman: Epstein is a Serial Rapist. Bill Epsteingate: Epstein is a Friend.

    Supporting the FSF (or Richard Stallman) is supporting those who asserted Epstein had serially raped women

13. The Paradox of GAFAM: Saying You Protect Women, Appointing Abusers of Women to Run the Company

    older articles

14. Censored by FreeBSD Core Team Secretary, Reinstated After Talking About it in Public

    FreeBSD misfiring a CoC?

15. Links 26/12/2025: Chatbot Toys Terrorising Children, US Undeclared "War on Terror" Unilaterally Extends to Nigeria During Holidays

    Links for the day

16. Links 26/12/2025: French Postal Services Under Russian Attack, U.S. Cheetos Accuse People Who Obstruct Information Warfare by Russia of "Censorship"

    Links for the day

17. Debian's Daniel Kahn Gillmor is Wrong, Signal is No "Gold Standard" (It's Also Promoted by Proponents of Back Doors)

    I'm not too sure why Debian or the ACLU would wish to associate with this

18. Next Year Will be the Year of Quantum, Just Like 2020, 2015, 2010, 2005 and So On

    "Quantum" is the future

19. The Silent Power of Coercion Over Speech

    The important thing is optics

20. So Simple That You Can Touch and Feel It

    In light of recent experiences

21. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Under Attack by Cross-Network Spam Floods

    So far we've been spared (our network has not been targeted at all) [...] Let's hope the spam won't discourage the hundreds of thousands of people worldwide who still use IRC

22. An "AI-Infused" Windows

    Microsoft Windows isn't becoming a worthless pile of garbage by accident

23. Microsoft Laid Off Over 30,000 People This Year, Coders Are "Too Expensive"

    Go get some popcorn. Microsoft "slopware" is about to get real!

24. Critics Have Long Said Microsoft Produces "Slopware", Microsoft Wants to Prove Them Right

    Slop instead of code is a step in the right direction?

25. The Top 8 Innovations of IBM in 2025

    What innovations will come out from IBM in 2026?

26. And as the Year Turns...

    The significance of new years isn't based on geology or astronomy or anything like that

27. Appliances Versus Computers

    Replacing a computer inside an object of some kind or inside an appliance (which nowadays includes "modern" cars) isn't simple and isn't cheap

28. A Dark Side of Europe

    They try hard to silence people who speak about these issues

29. Why People Love Techrights (and Also Loved "Boycott Novell")

    I will continue to publish for many decades to come

30. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

31. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 25, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, December 25, 2025

32. A Tribute to Richard Stallman

    It's about knowledge and sharing

33. Links 26/12/2025: Impermanence, Salt and Thermometer, Freetube

    Links for the day

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