Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 28, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Linus Torvalds Blasts Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) for Attempting to 'Protect' Linux

   Like it 'protects' women

2. New Record for GNU/Linux in Australia (at Microsoft's Expense)

   Windows is at an all-time low, GNU/Linux... all-time high

3. Fighting Over Whose Pockets Are Deeper (or Who Borrows More Money)

   When processes favour those who are more wealthy (or more willing to go into infinite debt or steal money of other people) those processes match the attributes of lawfare rather than law

4. Starting a Book With a Flawed Premise or Weak Hypothesis

   To me, Schneier is a sort of "RMS of sec"

5. Microsoft's Mass Layoffs (30,000+ in 2025) Not About "AI", Just Business Failure

   "AI" is replacing... the old excuses for mass layoffs

6. EPO People Power - Part XVI - Berenguer Does Not Speak German, So What Did He Tell German Police That Busted Him?

   based in Germany and does not speak the language

7. Challenges for EPO Insiders to Try to Tackle in 2026

   Nothing will get solved as long as the circus that runs this show tries to keep the circus going

   New

8. Once Again, GAFAM Deletes All Your Data, Only Corrects This After Millions of People Lead an Uproar Online ("Richard Stallman Warned Us About This")

   No lessons learned, eh?

9. You Know Your Critics Are Jealous and Have Inferiority Complex When...

   One day we'll write about all this in great depth

10. "But Corruption is Everywhere"

    "We'll always have Polio..."

11. Days Without Slop About "Linux"

    It's time to move on

12. Links 27/12/2025: Canada Post Strike Called Off, Debate About Europeans "Working Over Christmas"

    Links for the day

13. Gemini Links 27/12/2025: Household Appliances and Flight Fright

    Links for the day

14. Links 27/12/2025: US Cracking Down on Whistleblowers, Expanding Bombardment Campaigns Worldwide

    Links for the day

15. Resuming EPO Coverage Today, Can António Campinos 'Survive' Cocainegate?

    We said we'd continue in the weekend

16. Links 27/12/2025: More Attacks on Media (Meduza Co-founder Sentenced to Prison in Absentia), "What Owning Music Means To Me"

    Links for the day

17. Gemini Links 27/12/2025: geminiprotocol.net Downtime and Capsular Gemlog Manager

    Links for the day

18. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

19. IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 26, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, December 26, 2025

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