[Meme] Asking the Newsman for Information
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-02-14 10:16:09 UTC
- Modified: 2022-02-14 10:16:09 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- When Abusive Law Firms (Working for Microsofters Against Us) Assert That Someone Writing in Social Media About Himself is Confidential Information
- There was no reason to throw "GDPR" into 2 SLAPPs; they know it, but the goal was to increase the cost of a Defence and lessen the incentive to challenge the SLAPPs
- Throwing Money at Lawyers Can't Stop Us (It Never Did)
- Even just trying to censor things can result in the opposite of the desired outcome
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- Links 15/06/2025: Windows TCO, Openwashing, and Wars
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 15/06/2025: "AI Fatigue and Crappiness"
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Attack Dogs Against Watchdogs and Guard Dogs in Software
- Last year Microsofters hired attack dogs or "guns for hire"
- Slop Cannot Replace Domain Expertise
- All this "AI" hype (it's not even intelligence, it's all a misnomer, as many of us have insisted all along) will fizzle and be written off as a failed experiment
- IBM's Fresh 'PIPs' (Action Before Layoffs)
- At times like these, even once-reputable employers resort to PIPs and other procedures/tricks for denial of workers' rights
- Microsoft is a Problem Not Just for Denmark
- Every country should consider what Denmark is doing, why Denmark is doing it, and then do the same
- The Slopfarms' Self Detonation
- If more sites like BetaNews go under, then maybe we can still salvage some of the Web
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 14, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, June 14, 2025
- Links 14/06/2025: FDA Changes Priorities, Cassette Data Storage From The 1970s
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 14/06/2025: Steam Next Fest and Thoughts on Gemini
- Links for the day
- Site/Datacentre Maintenance Next Week
- speed things up
- Bulgaria: GNU/Linux Near 10%
- The Bulgarian market seems to be changing
- I Never Spoke to BetaNews. But BetaNews Wants to Ensure I Never Will, Either.
- Sometimes just the reluctance to talk about it can say a great deal
- Online Search or Large Search Engines Aren't Working Anymore
- business models that directly compete with interests of Web users
- Holidays and Breaks
- I've hardly taken any long breaks since I got married
- Danish OpenDocument Freedom
- "year of Linux"
- Links 14/06/2025: Wars and L.A. Distortion Effect
- Links for the day
- BetaNews Has More or Less Died After Experiments With LLM Slop, Is Linuxsecurity Next?
- It doesn't seem like BetaNews knows what it's doing, let alone what it talks about
- Gemini Links 14/06/2025: Historic Ada Design and GeminiSpace.Club to Expire
- Links for the day
- Links 14/06/2025: India Plane Crash and Middle-Eastern War
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 13, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, June 13, 2025
- Gemini Links 13/06/2025: (Not)virtues and Project Yeet Broadband
- Links for the day
- Links 13/06/2025: Journalists Targeted by Cracking, China-Japan and Israel-Iran Tensions Grow
- Links for the day
- Links 13/06/2025: US Reduces Nonessential Staff at Baghdad Embassy Ahead of Strikes in Iran, Invasion of California Debated
- Links for the day
- X11 is Free Software
- Whether you agree (e.g. on politics) with the person/s forking it doesn't matter
- The More Time Passes, the Better Our Advice on Social Control Media Seems
- At the end of the day, any platform you do not control yourself is working for someone else
- Twitter (X) is Dying, Now It's Just Like a Mafia-Type Operation of the Man Who Does Nazi Salutes in Public
- a form of extortion
- UK High Court Blasts Brett Wilson LLP for Misusing "GDPR" After Failed Efforts to Censor Critics Using 'Libel' Claims
- No wonder this firm is rapidly shrinking
- Recent Blunders in Microsoft GitHub (e.g. Slop-Generated Bug Reports or GPL Violations 'as a Service') Taking Their Toll?
- Put bluntly, if you still use Microsoft GitHub, then you're slave to Microsoft
- American Imperialism and Microsoft Plagiarism
- Techrights will therefore do what Microsoft does not want it to do: it'll write even more about Microsoft
- When They Have Nothing Left to Help Advance Abusive Litigation for Microsoft People... Other Than Throwing ~500 Pages of Someone Else's Work Into a PDF
- Microsoft is having a very tough year
- The Price of Exposing Corruption in Poland (and Elsewhere)
- It's easier to participate in corruption than to merely do the right thing and oppose it
- Slopwatch and Yet More Holes in 'Secure Boot' (as Usual!), Promoted Inside Linux by the Man We Are Suing
- Today's Slopwatch will be short
- Gemini Links 13/06/2025: People You've Left Behind, Life Update and OS Changes
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 12, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, June 12, 2025
