Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 05, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. You Know Microsoft's "Value" is 100% Fictional When in One Single "Trading" Day in Wall Street It Loses THREE TIMES More in "Value" Than It Was 'Worth' in 2009

   Microsoft does not behave like a company riding trillions but like a company that struggles with payroll

2. Better Outcomes When Facing the Discomfort of Conflict

   Don't take the easy way out when the "hard way" is the right way and it can result in positive revelations

3. Leaving the United States 3 Years Ago Was the Best Decision We Made

   A lot of stuff is being consolidated

4. BillBC (BBC) Covered Up Pedophilia, Now It's Covering Up for Its Sponsor Bill Gates by Reprinting His Lies, Which His Own Wife Disputes

   Is Bill Gates having orgies (group sex)?

   New

5. Links 04/02/2026: Extreme Malice in Microsoft's Visual Studio Code on GNU/Linux, More Hey Hi (AI) Chaos

   Links for the day

6. Sexism & GNOME: shaming men, hiding women, Sonny Piers update

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

7. Gemini Links 04/02/2026: Humanity and Animality, systemd (Controlled by Amutable, a Proxy of Microsoft) Moves on to "Extinguish" Phase

   Links for the day

8. Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Used to be Widely Used in Geminispace, Now It's Down to Just 0.2% of the Whole

   Let's Encrypt is not your friend

9. What IBM Does Is Clearly Illegal in the US: Tying Severance Packages to NDAs (Non-Disparagement Agreement/Clause)

   The NDAs make things worse; they keep people isolated and silent

10. Microsoft's Giant Snowball of Layoffs and PIPs (in 2026)

    They would delay until March or April if they wanted to, but then we can expect numbers exceeding 10,000 layoffs (Microsoft always low-balls the real figure/s)

11. Mozilla Turned Firefox Into Shovelware, Adding 'Kill Switch' for Slop Still Means Mozilla is Participating in a Pyramid Scheme, Plagiarism, Grifting

    Mozilla is still a slop pusher

12. Links 04/02/2026: "Laws of Succession" and Microsoft's VS Code as Code-Stealing Malware

    Links for the day

13. Phoronix Swims With the Real Trolls, People Who Fancy Proprietary Software and Back Doors

    If Larabel begins to actively participate in provocation with the "Microsoft GitHub fans club", what does this tell us about Phoronix?

14. They Know Microsoft Layoffs Are About to Hit Them Hard

    The gaming division at Microsoft is a complete catastrophe, lots of money (debt) down the drain [...] Buying Activision was all about misleading shareholders or hiding the deep trouble/problems XBox was having

15. Red Hat is Not a Linux Company, It's IBM's Ponzi Scheme Enabler

    Had we still been stuck in 2021, perhaps IBM would plaster "NFT" or "metaverse" all over RedHat.com

16. Keep Grinding

    "Don't let the bastards grind you down"

17. Mobbing at the European Patent Office (EPO) - Part III - Who's Going to Pay for the EPO's Corruption? (Aside From European Citizens)

    Some people inside the EPO reached out to us

18. "Investors Are Concerned About an AI Bubble" (That GAFAM and IBM Ride)

    A few decades from now IBM will only be remembered in the same sense many so-called 'AI' companies will be remembered

19. EPO Staff Union: "Very High Strike Participation on Friday 30 January", Another Strike Starts 19 Days From Now

    EPO management in a bit of a panic

20. Censorship/Free Speech and Social Control Media

    It's important to have a grasp of how contemporary censorship works and how to tackle it

21. Google News as Slop Booster

    this is what Google links to

22. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

23. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 03, 2026

    IRC logs for Tuesday, February 03, 2026

24. Gemini Links 04/02/2026: "Raspberry Pi Relaxes the Rules for Its RP2040 Hacking Challenge" and "Long Web Society"

    Links for the day

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