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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 08, 2026

Basketball net and rim

Updated This Past Day

Updates:

  1. Legal Attacks on Techrights Have Made Techrights More Popular and More Widely Read
    The misogynists will have plenty of work to do this summer
  2. SLAPP Censorship - Part 142 Out of 200: GemText is Not a Webpage, Gemini Protocol is Not the Web, and Capsules Are Not Websites
    our intention to appeal (escalate to the Court of Appeal)
  3. What We Said About Red Hat's Fate Under IBM Turned Out to be Right on the Money (That IBM Lacks)
    There are no layoffs at IBM
  4. At Clacton by-election Hustings Event Daniel Pocock Says "Social [Control] Media Has Contributed to Some of the Anti Social Behaviour."
    No doubt many problems in society are caused or at least amplified/accentuated by this horrible phenomenon

New:

  1. IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 07, 2026
    IRC logs for Friday, August 07, 2026
  2. Microsoft Uses Slop to Find Defects and Then Uses Slop to Replace Code, What Could Go Wrong?
    Botspam is the problem, it's not a constructive approach in any shape or form
  3. analytics.usa.gov: GNU/Linux Up Some More This Week
    Days ago it said 6.4%, now it's up to 6.8%
  4. RA-pocalypse: IBM Tells Workers "Taking a Hike" is Their "Next Step" ('Voluntary' Layoffs), Now It Prepares to Sack Lots of Contractors
    There definitely is something going on
  5. Kai Stephens (Barkley Walsh) & British Democrats in Clacton by-election hustings
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  6. Daniel Pocock 'Punching' Nazis in the UK
    The so-called "cult" of so-called "Debianism" was left with nothing but massive legal bills
  7. Microsoft: Our August 2026 Layoffs Are Not Layoffs Because... Reasons
    That's like IBM making "spin-offs", then pretending that no layoffs are happening
  8. Links 07/08/2026: UMG and Anthropic in Trouble Over Copyright Infringements Sold as "Training" (Slop)
    Links for the day
  9. Links 07/08/2026: "BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat", Software Patents on Drones
    Links for the day
  10. IRC Networks Show No Signs of Going Away, IRC Enters Its 39th Year
    That IRC daemons are still actively developed and patched in summer of 2026 (over 38 years after IRC was born) says a lot about IRC's importance
  11. Social [Control] Media Needs to Die
    I am a bit shocked to recall that I wasted a lot of time on it
  12. Some Malware is Legal Because It's Made and Distributed by Politically-Connected GAFAM
    In reality, the security non-experts 'championed' (and salaried) by GAFAM are anti-security people who advocate back doors
  13. The GNU/Linux Anniversary is Next Month, Not This Month
    It'll turn 43
  14. IBM Insiders Explain Why IBM is in Very Serious Trouble
    Will IBM last long enough for any "quantum" deliverables to become a reality?
  15. The Register MS Took Money From Broadcom to Publish Fake 'News' With "AI" Mentioned 35 Times
    not legitimate or authentic journalism.
  16. GNU/Linux Approaching 20% in Georgia (the Country)
    Usage of GNU/Linux was near 0%, as measured by statCounter, several years ago
  17. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  18. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 06, 2026
    IRC logs for Thursday, August 06, 2026
  19. Gemini Links 07/08/2026: Radio Amateurism, Summer Updates, and Programming "Taste"
    Links for the day

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564 /n/2026/08/04/Ableism_in_the_Free_Software_Movement_Typically_Comes_From_GAFA.shtml
555 /n/2026/08/01/Links_01_08_2026_New_York_Times_Trying_to_Inflate_the_Slop_Pyra.shtml
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551 /n/2026/08/03/Not_Hard_to_Guess_Who_Will_Pay_for_IBM_s_Collapse_Due_to_False_.shtml
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