Caricature of the Day: Presidential Brakes
    
     - Dr. Roy Schestowitz
 
     
      - 2016-06-09 01:55:44 UTC
 
      - Modified: 2016-06-09 01:55:44 UTC
 
     
    
   
   
   
   
  Recent Techrights' Posts
  
 - The Rumour Was True, Mass Layoffs at IBM Today
 
  - How widespread the layoffs are (or how they're disguised, e.g. PIPs) is hard to assess
 
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 - Techrights Turns 19 in Three Days
 
  - It would be nice to meet for a chat
 
 - Akira Urushibata on How Grokipedia Fails to Work
 
  - The Grokipedia article gives the wrong character for the "Ko" on "Koan"
 
 - Links 03/11/2025: Data Breaches, Wars, and Digital Censorship
 
  - Links for the day
 
 - Gemini Links 03/11/2025: Poetry, Old Androids and Small Shells
 
  - Links for the day
 
 - Links 03/11/2025: Internet Anniversary
 
  - Links for the day
 
 - Two Years of Uptime
 
  - Reboots are seldom involuntary
 
 - Richard Stallman is Giving Another Talk in Less Than a Fortnight
 
  - in two weeks' time (13 days from now)
 
 - Windows Falls Below 20% in the UK
 
  - Many people choose to leave Windows altogether
 
 - Microsoft's Search Business Falls to Lowest Point in 2 Years, Based on statCounter
 
  - what can Microsoft sell other than shares in Microsoft?
 
 - Evidence Regarding Layoffs at Red Hat
 
  - Seems like IBM layoffs
 
 - Microsoft: Our "Goodwill" Value Grew More Than Tenfold Since 2011
 
  - Hallmark of pseudo-economics
 
 - GNU/Linux as a Boarding Pass
 
  - being mostly analogue is still feasible
 
 - Links 03/11/2025: Lack of Trust in LLMs and Windows TCO at Jaguar
 
  - Links for the day
 
 - Gemini Links 03/11/2025: Books in October and Change
 
  - Links for the day
 
 - Mozilla Firefox Won't Survive and Many Sites Don't Work With It (Compatibility Abandoned)
 
  - The Web has become monocultural
 
 - Debian is Non-Free
 
  - Devuan might be worth looking into
 
 - Slopwatch: Brian Fagioli and LinuxSecurity
 
  - This is a real problem and most certainly a big problem because when people try to find real information about security and GNU/Linux they instead read "word salads" made by bots
 
 - Four Reasons to Party With Us in Four Days, Celebrating the Four Freedoms
 
  - Today we expect to be back to a more-or-less regular publication pace
 
 - Links 03/11/2025: The "Smartphone Panopticon" and Belarus' Hybrid Attacks on EU Intensify
 
  - Links for the day
 
 - Over at Tux Machines...
 
  - GNU/Linux news for the past day
 
 - IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 02, 2025
 
  - IRC logs for Sunday, November 02, 2025
 
 - Microsoft's Debt Has Skyrocketed by More Than 15 Billion Dollars in 6 Months or 8.2 Billion Dollars in the Past 3 Months Alone
 
  - The corporate media intentionally disregards - or merely turns a blind eye to - such data
 
 - Rumour: IBM Layoffs in Canada Starting Tomorrow
 
  - "RA (IBM's term for layoffs) Coming to Canada this week (Nov 3rd)"
 
 - Debunking False/Misleading Statements Made or Told to the High Court
 
  - People who try to cheat the system by gaslighting judges will end up discrediting themselves
 
 - Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) by LLM Slop
 
  - The Web has become such a sordid mess that this FUD made by bots is what Google News deems to be "the news"
 
 - This Month's Analytics Show Vista 11 Down, GNU/Linux Up
 
  - After pulling the plug on Vista 10 we see losses - not gains - for Vista 11
 
 - Almost Fully Caught Up
 
  - The EPO series will continue very soon, maybe tomorrow or on Tuesday
 
 - Links 02/11/2025: Another Halloween Bust and MAGA Regime Says Public Universities Should No Longer Hire 'Foreign' Employees
 
  - Links for the day
 
 - The Long-Coveted Milestone of 3,200 Active Gemini Capsules
 
  - Despite being away some days last week, about 50,000 Gemini requests were served each day, on average
 
 - Five More Days Till Techrights Party
 
  - We'll have many more batches of Daily Links as we catch up with a 'backlog' of news
 
 - Links 02/11/2025: More Nuclear Escalations and "Anti-Cybercrime Laws Are Being Weaponized to Repress Journalism"
 
  - Links for the day
 
 - Gemini Links 02/11/2025: "The Pragmatic Programmer", Perl New Features and Foostats
 
  - Links for the day
 
 - Over at Tux Machines...
 
  - GNU/Linux news for the past day
 
 - IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 01, 2025
 
  - IRC logs for Saturday, November 01, 2025