Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 27, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. If You Value Privacy, Follow the Likes of Eben Moglen, Phil Zimmermann, and Richard Stallman, Not Back Doors' Boosters Who Mislabel Themselves as Security Experts

   Signal is not really secure

2. Writer's Block is Not a Problem to Us, Only a Lack of Time

   Or timewasting by aggressive militants who try to silence us [...] People who experience writer's block very often find it depressing (it feels unproductive) and sometimes come to the conclusion that perhaps writing isn't for them

3. March Plans for Techrights

   next month we plan to start the series about how the SRA failed

   New

4. [Video] "New RMS [Richard Stallman] Positive Media" Reaches Millions of Viewers This Week

   Assuming 5+ million people will watch this on the first week, that's good publicity for the Free software movement

5. Another Quiet Slop Day Passes By

   the number of slopfarms we can locate/track is fast decreasing

6. Gemini Links 26/02/2026: Sending a Thesis and Lupa/Onion ("Lupa now lists Gemini .onion addresses")

   Links for the day

7. Links 26/02/2026: Bcachefs Man Bonkers, "Seven Journalists Convicted for Taking Photos at Courtroom"

   Links for the day

8. Links 26/02/2026: "Peak Mental Sharpness" and "The Whole Economy Pays the Amazon Tax"

   Links for the day

9. "Community" Site Deleted by Jeffrey Epstein-Connected 'Linux' Foundation Had Interview Where Eben Moglen Spoke of GPLv3 and of DRM, Back Doors Etc.

   Deleting what happened or what was said two decades ago

10. Richard Stallman (Free Software Foundation) and Eben Moglen (Columbia Law School) Explained 25 Years Ago That Proprietary Software (and Proprietary Firmware) Would Lead to Back Doors

    a fortnight after the 9/11 terror attacks in the US

11. Giving to the Community Versus Taking From the Community (or Worse, Attacking the Community)

    some people bring no contributions, only harm

12. LLM Slop Will Try to 'Rewrite' History of UNIX and GNU/Linux

    We occasionally see slopfarms spreading misinformation about UNIX, GNU, and Linux

13. Where Does the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Stand on Machine-Generated Legal Documents and Copy-pasting One Client's Lawsuit to Start Another (for American Serial Strangler)?

    Now that many law firms cheat (copypasta, paper DOoS, LLM slop, breaches of rules, even defaming the other side) the SRA cannot keep up

14. Of Course Android is Not Free Software

    That Android is not about freedom should not be so shocking

15. Talking About Blackboxes

    Having just reposted a couple of articles from Alex Oliva

16. Microsoft Slop is Already Killing XBox

    Microsoft will fail at alleviating such concerns

17. Two Weeks Have Passed and It Looks Like Conde Nast's Ars Sloppica Sacked "Senior" "AI" "Reporter" Benj Edwards But Did Not Remove All His LLM-Produced 'Articles'

    the editorial standards at Conde Nast's Ars Sloppica are a joke

18. Alex Oliva (GNU Linux-Libre): Stricter is Less Popular

    Reprinted with permission from Alex Oliva

19. Fraud and Crimes at Microsoft

    A lot of these American companies simply cheat and even bribe

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 25, 2026

    IRC logs for Wednesday, February 25, 2026

22. FSF's Alex Oliva on Hardware Black Boxes

    Reprinted with permission from Alex Oliva

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