Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 16, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 13 Out of 200: Abuse of Process to Make False Accusations of UKGDPR Violations

   familiar barrister and same lawyers

2. What Puts the Brakes on GNU/Linux Adoption on Laptops and Desktops is Monopoly Control (or Monoculture) Over the Distros

   Distros that adopt systemd are controlled by IBM and GAFAM

   New

3. Links 15/03/2026: WB Games Montréal Undergoes Layoffs, "Swiss Reject Cuts to Public Broadcasting"

   Links for the day

4. Gemini Links 15/03/2026: Messages in Bottles and Audio Streaming in Lagrange for Android

   Links for the day

5. Thrown Under the Microsoft Bus

   Microsoft wants disposable contractors

6. Quitting IBM and "Rumors of an Upcoming RA [Mass Layoffs] in April 2026"

   Blue layoffs or "RAs" were confirmed upfront by the CFO

7. GNU/Linux Distro Builders Barely Paid Enough to Pay Basic Bills, Chief of "Linux" Foundation (Not Even Using Linux!) Increases His Own Salary by Over 50% in 5 Years

   Salaries or compensation correlate with the ability to exploit people, not to create things

8. The "Zero-Sum" Fallacy

   Fallacies like "zero-sum" - especially in the context of foreign affairs including war - are utterly ruinous

9. A Happy Birthday to Richard Stallman

   Richard Stallman will turn 73

10. Jürgen Habermas is Dead, But the Politicised, Inherently Corrupt, Corporatised Court for Patents That He Inspired Is Not

    In the news throughout the weekend

11. Mountains of Abuses of Process by Brett Wilson LLP on Behalf of Americans and Sometimes at the Expense of British Taxpayers

    a virtual "limited liability"

12. linuxteck.com FUD by LLM Slop, ubuntupit.com Passes the Slop Baton

    Unless they get back to doing long-form authentic articles, as opposed to slop, no good will come out of it

13. Links 15/03/2026: New Shortages, Lynx Populations Depletion

    Links for the day

14. Sruthi Chandran & Debian Diversity, Favoritism, Hidden Conflicts of Interest

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

15. software in the public domain

    Reprinted with permission from Alex Oliva

16. Links 15/03/2026: Slop "Bubble Driving Interest in Chip Alternatives" and Wildlife Erosion Reported

    Links for the day

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 14, 2026

    IRC logs for Saturday, March 14, 2026

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