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Welcome to the current iteration of Techrights, online since 2006 with a major infrastructural upgrade in late 2022. Here you will find our latest posts. In addition to HTTP/HTTPS here, Techrights is also available via Gemini and IPFS editions, though the IPFS service is on hiatus for the foreseeable future. Just the other year, Techrights upgraded from a heavy content management system to a much lighter and lower maintenance static site generator which produces both HTML for the WWW and GemText for the Gemini space. The site is mostly prose, but there are also quite a few topical videos in the Techrights archive. A complete, chronological index of current and past articles is also available, from the latest to the oldest.

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Recent Techrights' Posts

Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part IV
By Dr. Andy Farnell
 
Linus Torvalds 'Articles' That Turn Out to be Slop
Stuff such as this ruins the Web and lessens the incentive to write original articles
Links 22/10/2024: Ukraine Updates, China's Economic Difficulties
Links for the day
Microsoft Waters Down Articles About Its Corruption in the UK
Surely Microsoft or its "moles" in the UK government contacted the press to change the article
Links 22/10/2024: Vote-Buying, Election Disinformation, and Banning Fake Online Reviews
Links for the day
New Richard Stallman Episode at Digital Minds Podcast
Digital Minds: Exploring the Minds Shaping the IT and Gaming Worlds
Links 22/10/2024: RTO as Mass Resignation Precursor, UK Social Control Media Law
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 21, 2024
IRC logs for Monday, October 21, 2024
Gemini Links 22/10/2024: Chokepoint Capitalism, Retro Workshop, and More
Links for the day
5,000 Gemini Capsules Next Year?
Assuming this current pace persists, perhaps 2025 will be the year 5,000 is exceeded
Gemini Links 21/10/2024: Reading Books, The Power to Appoint Managing Agents, and Permacomputing
Links for the day
Links 21/10/2024: Baidu CEO Says "Hey Hi" (AI) Bubble Will Burst, Elon Musk Promotes Corporate Fascism
Links for the day
[Meme] Your Role in Centralised Certificate Authorities
GAFAM and circle of trust
Let's Encrypt Below 20 Capsules in Geminispace (Gemini Protocol)
On the Web, Let's Encrypt became vast; but not in Gemini Protocol, which mandates encryption but not outsourcing
The Most Expensive Coffee in the World
Surely this "product" is aimed at a large company like Microsoft
Automattic: We Need a CoC to Protect Automattic From Outside Scrutiny
The spiral slide of free speech
[Meme] The Three Stages of Cancel Culture
Do not compromise, negotiate or budge with people whose insincerity is so profound
Lionel Dricot Celebrates His 20 Years of GNU/Linux Life (in Gemini Protocol and HTTP)
Dricot mostly published in French, but his English language articles are good
OSI is Microsoft and SFC is Selling Pixels (or Pixelspace) for $5,000-$30,000
For several years SFC also took Microsoft money for conferences
Gamification of Blog Comments is Like Social Control Media
The problem is that Hackaday seems overly obsessed with so-called "engagement"
Word of Praise for Growing Recognition That Social Control Media Causes Health Problems (But It's Not Just 'TikTok' or "China")
Fentanylware ('TikTok') is just harvesting brains (spying) and brainwashing them
Diana von Bidder (EVP, Basel) and Debian suicide cluster
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Free Software is Not a Religion (Maybe Just a Satire of One)
Free Software was never like a religion; it was started by atheists and it's still led by them
[Meme] Being Accused of the Very Same Thing You're Consistently Against
there is no documentation of RMS ever engaging in "sexual violence"
There Have Been Many Waves of Layoffs at Microsoft's LinkedIn (the State of the Job Market Cannot Help), Site Traffic Steadily Going Down
LinkedIn is just another example of the social control media passing fad (compare to Twitter)
Richard Stallman is Going to Peru to Deliver Many Talks
That's up to (potentially) 7 and the talks will be in Spanish
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 20, 2024
IRC logs for Sunday, October 20, 2024
The State of Invidious
For now, thankfully, we still have a way of using YouTube by proxy, via inv.nadeko.net
Swiss harassment judgment, paw behavior against black cats and Debian gossip
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Gemini Links 21/10/2024: SPFBO and Flight of the Scions, Software Freedom, and Solar-powered Web sites
Links for the day
Links 20/10/2024: Addiction Crisis, North Koreans v Ukraine, and Patents v Western Digital
Links for the day
Gemini Links 20/10/2024: Ósanwë Launched and Selfhosting Debated
Links for the day
Links 20/10/2024: Social Control Media Data Harvested for Harm
Links for the day
[Meme] Conducting Smear Campaigns That Bypass or Distract From the Real Issues at Hand
Beware the change of topics (typically to women, sex, smell etc.)
Nazi research into Jewish smell, Hitler's love of dogs and the SVP in Switzerland
Reprinted with permission
Hardware Shortages If 'Hot' Conflict Spreads to Korea, Japan, China, and Taiwan
except many "supply chain" shortages
Hate Crimes and Cybercrimes
Not agreeing with us on software issues is one thing; that does not justify committing crimes against us
A Classic Example of Concern Trolling
Embrace reason
[Meme] Chipzilla's Arrogance (False Assumption That the Customer Will Accept Every Customer-Hostile Addition)
"Maybe you can remove the M.E.? Please?"
More Love, Less Greed
The Free software movement is inherently about sharing
Links 20/10/2024: Melodic Design, Qubes OS, and Bloated Web
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 19, 2024
IRC logs for Saturday, October 19, 2024