Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 26, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. "A single witness shall not rise up against a person regarding any wrongdoing or any sin that he commits; on the testimony of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed." (Deuteronomy 19-21)

   The spouse of Garrett repeatedly points out that Garrett can barely code or can only do so very poorly

2. Rust People Sabotage Stability for the Sake of a Falsely-Promised 'Security'

   Set aside severe performance issues, poor handling of "edge cases", general bugs, lack of compatibility, and even crashes

3. Huge Strike at the European Patent Office (EPO) This Coming Friday (May 1st)

   International Worker’s day

4. Internet Trolls Likely Trying to Distract From the Demise of IBM, Problems With Red Hat

   there seems to be trolling online aimed at suppressing discussion

5. Debian Upgrade Coming Up (Soon)

   Yesterday we contacted the datacentre staff about it

6. Getting Aggressive Suggestive of Loss - Part III - Threats From Burner Accounts Formally Treated as a Crime

   Countries that cannot preserve freedom from self-censorship are countries where free press ultimately cannot prevail

   New

7. SLAPP Censorship - Part 57 Out of 200: 5RB and Brett Wilson LLP Made the Garrett and Graveley Particulars of Claims a Lot Like Photocopies!

   They seem very much irritated that I speak about this

8. Links 25/04/2026: Nokia Wins Embargo in Kangaroo Court Where Judges Are Salaried Nokia Staff (UPC), Allison Pearson Defamation Case (UK) Succeeds, Smokey Robinson and "Puff Daddy" (US) Fail

   Links for the day

9. Gemini Links 25/04/2026: Weekly Echoes, Gemtext Tables, and Using Offpunk

   Links for the day

10. Corporate Media Did Not Specify What Microsoft Means by "Buyouts" (Layoffs), It May Be Hardly Different From Severance

    Time will tell, but investigative journalism hardly exists anymore, so we won't hold our breath

11. The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part V - "Diversity" and "Inclusion" at EPO Means Sleeping With Sister of "Cocaine Communication Manager" and Making Them Millionaires

    Remember that top applicants or key stakeholders of the EPO are already complaining about a lack of quality

12. Links 25/04/2026: Fake GAFAM Valuations (Gripping the Market Based on False Accounting), "Evidence Isn't Just for Research", and "Putin Defends Mobile Internet Outages"

    Links for the day

13. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

14. IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 24, 2026

    IRC logs for Friday, April 24, 2026

15. Gemini Links 25/04/2026: 3.4k+ Capsules, Microsoft Layoffs, Call for Nuclear Disarmament, "Internet is Sad and Lonely"

    Links for the day

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