Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 29, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. In IBM, PIPs and RAs (Layoffs) Have Become Almost the Same Thing, Workers 'Expire' With Age (Seniority, Experience) and Empathy is Punishable by Termination

   IBM does seem like a dead company

2. "Social Dialogue" With the Man Who Never Faced Real Competition at the European Patent Office (EPO), He Buys the Voters and Eliminates Rivals

   Will the "Pretender" write back?

3. Greenwashing Corruption With a "Chief Sustainability Officer", Who Infamously Defended Battisetelli's Crimes at the EPO and Petitioned for Him

   She was rewarded for conspiring against EPO staff, as usual

4. What I Explained to Police About Blackmail and Death Threats via Burner Accounts (a Practice Which Generally Constitutes a Crime)

   Today I've communicated several times with police

5. Improving the Static Site Generator

   Our system has fixes triaged

   New

6. At Microsoft, PIPs Are Sometimes Known as "LITE" (a Silent Layoffs Legal Hack or a Shrewd Workaround to Skirt WARN Act)

   Zero "layoffs" to report

7. Gemini Links 28/07/2026: “Strategies Against Algorithms” and DIYers

   Links for the day

8. Digital Restrictions (DRM) and Microsoft: What Kills XBox Will Kill Windows Next

   Microsoft wrongly and very arrogantly assumed that users would tolerate everything it throws their way

9. GNU/Linux in Afghanistan Reaches 7%

   For many years it was stuck at less than 1%

10. Links 28/07/2026: "People’s Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online" and SpaceX Stock Crashes Like Its Products

    Links for the day

11. UK tech sector missing from democratic process

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

12. How Not to Cover Elections (Democracy Relies on Reliable, Complete Information)

    Misinformed voters are a recipe for disaster

13. Microsoft E.E.E. (and "Bait and Switch") Going Exactly According to Plan

    That is what they are trying to tell us and the companies that employ us

14. IBM: An Old Company That Hates Old People

    Remember that's coming to Red Hat workers in 2 months

15. Strict Policy on Violence and Violent Language

    This matter is now being escalated to law firms

16. Avoiding Discrimination Against People With Disabilities

    work underway to improve the system which runs the sites

17. Links 28/07/2026: XBox DRM Doomed Everyone (Cannot Play Anything), Slop (Ponzi Scheme) Being Pinkwashed Now

    Links for the day

18. Gemini Links 28/07/2026: Ethics, GIMP Script-Fu, SMTP Versus Gemini, and Proposal for Better TOFU

    Links for the day

19. To a Sociopath, Ethical People Are Bad People. Don't Fall for It.

    If you put sociopaths on a pedestal, the pedestal will break

20. Diversity in Debian

    bringing up the topic is the real problem, diversity itself is a taboo subject

21. GNU/Linux in Brazil. The B in BRIC(S).

    the "market share" is assessed to be around 5%

22. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

23. IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 27, 2026

    IRC logs for Monday, July 27, 2026

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