Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 04, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. GNU/Linux Usage Rising Among Gamers, But "Hardware Survey Data Not Available."

   Not anymore, not for now anyway

2. Quantum Quantum Quantum Quantum (Pump, Then Dump)

   What has IBM become?

3. KDE Has Long Used Dragons, and Dragons Come From Hatched Eggs

   That Microsoft Lunduke tries to paint this as some "trans agenda" thing says a lot about Microsoft Lunduke and his COVID-19-damaged brain

4. IBM Announces 5 Billion Dollars "Invested" in "AI", in "Security", and 10 Billion Dollars for "Quantum", But IBM Does Not Have This Kind of Money (It's Fake News to Manipulate the Share Price)

   IBM has fast-growing debt and liabilities, it does not intend to invest this kind of money, it's a smokescreen and false promises timed to alleviate the sagging share price (52-week low)

5. Have a "Lifetime" Without Microsoft

   The online rage over this is still ongoing

   New

6. Jumping Up and Down on the Shoulders of Giants, Never Talking About What Bill Gates Did

   We're back to 2019

7. Despite LLM Slop or Chatbots, Our Traffic Has Doubled Since We Moved Everything to the UK (in 2023)

   The demise of news sites was not what we thought it would be

8. Software Developers Attacked by Plagiarism Engines Because These Developers Can Teach People How to Exercise Control, Not Outsource to Monopolies of Slop and Back Doors

   "Universities should be telling industry what is to be done next, not the other way about. Present education policy has the tail wagging the dog."

9. Communicating With Freedom - Part I - Developing “Quibble” and Improving GNU LibreJS in the Process

   In the next part we shall examine where things currently stand

10. Quantum Computers Are "All the Rage" (35 Years Ago, What IBM Promises This Year is What People Promised When the CEO Was in His 20s)

    "Quantum" hype is high on the agenda

11. How IBM Removes 15% of Its Staff Without Even Checking Performance of Staff (or Calling That "Layoffs")

    Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) as veiled RAs

12. Links 03/06/2026: Mobile Systems, Openwashing, and New Antenna

    Links for the day

13. Canonical as Reseller of Back Doors in "Ubuntu" Clothing

    Microsoft is the antithesis of security and autonomy

14. Romania Used to be Windows Stronghold, But That's No Longer the Case

    Windows was once upon a time so ubiquitous that institutions didn't bother supporting anything except it

15. When Science and Religion Are on the Same Side, United Against Slop Pushers

    The "Mathematics Pope" (sometimes known as "Pope Pi") brought together science and religion, united against technofascists who are mostly college drop-outs who abhor women

16. Links 03/06/2026: "In Turkey, Criticizing a Corporation Can Land You in Jail" and "Court Bans X Account of Turkey's Oldest Newspaper"

    Links for the day

17. Web Censorship Benefits the Corrupt and the Criminal

    More so when corrupt politicians are in charge

18. Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine Undoing Censorship of Corporate Wrongdoing

    That won't go away anymore

19. "For Entertainment Purposes Only" But Everyone Must Adopt It for Work and Governance, Say Anti-Scientific Technocrats

    "The present mentality around "AI" is like driving to the gym to use a treadmill - it's walking for people who hate fresh air and beautiful changing scenery."

20. Gemini Links 03/06/2026: Ian Murdock's Ex-wife Footprint in Debian and Alhena 5.6.1 Released

    Links for the day

21. Irish Company statCounter Recognises It Overestimated Microsoft Windows' Market Share in Ireland

    it seems like the Irish people are gradually moving away from Windows

22. Corporate Media Participates in the Lie That Mass Layoffs at GitLab and Loss of Geographic Footprint in More Than a Third of Countries is "AI" and Thus "Success Story"

    There's no way to spin this as positive news

23. Slop Prompting is Not a Coding Skill and Slop Deserves Shunning

    Red Hat is hypocritically shunning the very same thing it keeps promoting

24. IBM colleagues "handed out a PIP and then right after the end date they are gone"

    Some go into early 'retirement' to save face

25. SLAPP Censorship - Part 96 Out of 200: When You Receive Death Threats From Anonymous Sockpuppets/Burner Accounts Connected to People Who Strangle Women and Tell Women to Kill Themselves

    Women are not objects and my wife ought not be mentioned in "threats to kill" (how cops have described this)

26. European Patent Office (EPO) Series: A Tale of Two Antónios - Introducing the Other António

    António Costa

27. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

28. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 02, 2026

    IRC logs for Tuesday, June 02, 2026

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