Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 19, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. UKIP TV (GBNoise) Covers Challengers to UKIP Nigel, Daniel Pocock Mentioned

   Way to get noticed

2. This Bubble is Bursting, Piecewise

   It's nice to see Wall Street getting some reality checks

3. Can We Finally All Agree That UEFI 'Secure Boot' is a Sham That Harms Security and Gives Microsoft Remote Control Over All PCs and Servers (Even Those That Don't Run Any Microsoft Software)?

   Cui bono?

   New

4. Links 18/07/2026: Chinese State Media Depicting Neighbours as Monkeys, US "Stocks Sink on Anxiety About Tech and Hey Hi (AI) Spending"

   Links for the day

5. Gemini Links 18/07/2026: "Business Idiots Everywhere", "The Siren Song of DePIN", and Entering Geminispace

   Links for the day

6. GNU/Linux in Lithuanian Desktops/Laptops Climbs to 8%, the Global Average

   For its own national security it would be wise to abandon Windows

7. It's Not About XBox, Microsoft is Already Firing Hundreds of People Who Do "Security [sic] Engineering" [sic]

   The official reason/excuse/lie told is something about slop, but no sane person would buy it (not even insiders who are impacted)

8. Bolivian People Adopt GNU/Linux (They Have a Domestic Distro Too, PluriOS)

   Notice Windows falling to an all-time low

9. No Technical People Write About UK Parliamentary Elections

   Almost none of them work in the media, which seems to favour parrots, slop, or parrots that use slop

10. "But Stallman is Scaring Away Women..."

    Such dishonest projections (projection tactics) needs to be called out and refuted

11. First Female Debian Project Leader (DPL) Affirms Low Profile and Inferior Status of Women in GAFAM

    3 months ago Sruthi Chandran was elected as Debian Project Leader (DPL) for a period of 12 months

12. After 5 Years Vista 11 Still Adopted Less Than Its Predecessor (Orphaned, End of Life Since Last Year)

    Notice Windows going down to 40%

13. We Don't Depend on Google (or Search Engines in General)

    there's a lesson here and it extends beyond sites

14. Only "Torvaldos" (Linus Torvalds) Can Use the F-Word, CoC Does Not Apply to the Enforcer, and Richard Stallman Punished for Using the Other F-Word ("Freedom")

    "Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off"

15. Explaining the Culture of Bulletin Board-Style Chat

    Only desperate detractors would try to present something (cherry-picked) from IRC as some sort of official statement for Techrights

16. Independent, But Not Fringe

    "Daniel Pocock is an Independent Candidate."

17. In Free Software, Nobody Gets Fired

    Way to own one's code and project

18. PIP-Styled Mass Layoffs Allegedly Coming to Microsoft by 12 August 2026

    Microsoft has been doing "silent layoffs" (PIPs and more) for quite some time

19. Daniel Pocock's Candidacy (Election of Member of Parliament) Mentioned in BBC and Over a Dozen News Sites Since Yesterday

    Funnily enough, albeit not surprisingly, the same people who attack Pocock also attack us

20. Links 18/07/2026: Spotify Uses Slop Song Descriptions, "San Francisco Demands Removal of Nudify Apps"

    Links for the day

21. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

22. IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 17, 2026

    IRC logs for Friday, July 17, 2026

23. Gemini Links 18/07/2026: A Manifesto by The Dissident, Shokz Headphones, and Gemini Tinylog Reader (GTL)

    Links for the day

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