Links 07/03/2008: Lots of New GNU/Linux Products; *buntus @ Alpha 6
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-03-07 16:39:22 UTC
- Modified: 2008-03-07 16:39:22 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Quality Comes First (Techrights Search)
- It's generally working already, but we wish to polish it some more
- Techrights Party Countdown
- Late next week we'll be holding a party near our home
- European Parliament and Council Directive on Privacy is Vanishing
- "edited / censored some time more recently"
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 28, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, October 28, 2025
- Slopwatch: The March of Slopfarms, From UbuntuPIT to Linux Journal and to Various Fake Sites Still Promoted by Google News
- It's so worrying to see what the Web has become
- Links 29/10/2025: CISA, Ukraine, and Amazon Problems
- Links for the day
- [Teaser] The EPO's Spokesperson, a Cocaine User, Fancies Young Women
- How's that for "optics" in the EU and Europe's second-largest institution?
- How Will António Campinos Respond to the EPO's 'Cocainegate'?
- That's the same thing we saw and still see when the press deals with enablers and partners of Jeffrey Epstein
- Join Us Now and Share the News - Part IV: There Cannot be Free Software Without Free Press and Free Information
- One day, one can hope, more people will recognise that for Software Freedom we need free press and free thinkers
- Join Us Now and Share the News - Part III: Principled Stance Is Never Cheap
- Protecting the truth and insisting that the general public is made aware of things that really happened isn't cheap
- Join Us Now and Share the News - Part II: Because Scarcity of Accurate Information Breeds Collective Ignorance
- we too will strive to share information that's aggressively suppressed
- Gemini Links 28/10/2025: More New Arrivals at Geminispace, xkcd on "Document Forgery"
- Links for the day
- Join Us Now and Share the News - Part I: Defence of the Truth
- This year we make a very strong, firm statement for truth, even if that means explaining our work to the top media judge in the country
- Links 28/10/2025: Meta and Fentanylware (CheeTok) Age-Restricted Down Under, "Britain Needs China’s Money"
- Links for the day
- Links 28/10/2025: Mass Layoffs at Amazon and Charter to Cut 1,200 Jobs
- Links for the day
- The Cocaine Patent Office - Part II: The Person Who Planted Paid-for Fake News for the European Patent Office (EPO) is a Cocaine User, Friend of António Campinos, Now on Record as Having Been Arrested
- Background: High-level manager at the European Patent Office caught in public with cocaine, arrested
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 27, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, October 27, 2025
- Google News Drowning in Slop (and Slopfarms That Hijack About Half the Results)
- Google News seems to be drowning in this stuff
- Gemini Links 28/10/2025: "How to Maximize Your Positive Impact" and ASCII Art and Artist Attribution
- Links for the day
- PETA and Activism
- Being staff or volunteer in PETA isn't easy
- Big Blue, Huge Debt
- debt will soar again
- Links 27/10/2025: Mass Surveillance Sold as "AI", People Reluctant to Lose Physical Media
- Links for the day
- Parties and Milestones Again
- we've begun putting up about 40 balloons
- Techrights' 19th Anniversary: Bronze
- Time to go back to preparing for this anniversary
- Our Latest European Patent Office (EPO) Series Will Last Several Weeks, Will Ask the EPO Management and the European Union (EU) Very Difficult Questions
- If nobody loses a job (or jobs) over this, then the EU basically became no better than Colombia or Nicaragua
- Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, UbuntuPIT, Brian Fagioli, and Google News
- We focus on stories that are fake or LLM slop that disguises itself as "news" about Linux
- Links 27/10/2025: Wikipedia Vandalism, Bruce Perens Opens up on Childhood
- Links for the day
- This Site Could Not be Done by LLMs Even If It Wanted to (Because It's Not a Parrot of What Other Sites Say)
- LLMs have no knowledge or deep understanding
- Microsoft is Disloyal Towards Its Most Loyal Employees
- Against its most faithful enablers
- 19 Years, No Censorship
- No factual information is ever going to be removed, more so if it is in the public interest
- We Are Not a Conventional Site, That's Why They Hate (or Love) Us
- Throughout the week this week we'll be focusing on the EPO
- Following the Line of Cocaine All the Way to the Top
- Even a million denials and spin-doctoring won't distract from the core issue
- The Cocaine Patent Office - Part I: António Campinos Brought Corruption and Nepotism to the EPO, Then Came the Cocaine
- High-level manager at the European Patent Office (EPO) caught in public with cocaine, the Office has some answering to do
- Purchasing/Possessing Computers Isn't the Same as Controlling Computers
- Let's strive to put computers back under the control of their users, no matter who purchased these (usually the users)
- Gemini Links 27/10/2025: Alhena 5.4.3 and Fixing Bash
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 26, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, October 26, 2025
- Thankfully We've Made Copies of More Interesting Data From statCounter
- If statCounter (the Web site or the 'webapp') vanished overnight, we'd still have something left of it
- More Silent Layoffs at IBM/Red Hat
- when the media counts such layoffs or presents tallies the numbers are very incomplete