Looks Like GNU/Linux and Free Software Folks Are Exiting Twitter Fast
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2023-01-04 10:33:56 UTC
- Modified: 2023-01-04 11:20:33 UTC
Twitter is doing just fine!
Summary: In spite of posting more tweets, all the statistics are down, perhaps a symptom of many people leaving Twitter in the wake of last month's big Twitter scandals (Tux Machines is followed by the sorts of people who are likely to have moved to Mastodon)
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Report About February Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (Third Wave of Microsoft Layoffs in 2025) Comes Back From the Dead
- Yesterday we wrote about an article in CRN (reporting Microsoft layoffs) being removed without any reasons specified
- Links 21/02/2025: Myanmar Scam Centre and Disruptions at USPTO
- Links for the day
- gbhackers.com is Not Hackers, It's LLM Slop Outputs (Fake 'Articles') That Attack 'True Hackers'
- A site called linuxsecurity.com keeps doing this and now we see the slopfarm gbhackers.com doing the same
- linuxsecurity.com Continues to Spread Lies or Machine-Generated FUD (Microsoft LLMs Likely the Source) About OpenSSH and Linux
- this LLM problem is global
- People Who Came From Microsoft Demanding Removal of Articles About Them, About Microsoft, and About Microsoft GitHub is "Generous" (According to Them)
- Imagine choosing a law firm that borrows money in the same year just to avoid overdraft in the bank!
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- Hype Watch: Weeks After Microsoft Disappointed Investors With "Hey Hi" It's Trying Some "Quantum" Hype (Adding Impractical Vapourware to Accompany This Hype and Even LLM Slop in 'News' Clothing)
- Remember "metaverse"? What happened to media hype about "blockchain" and "IoT"?
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, February 20, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, February 20, 2025
- Gemini Links 20/02/2025: Law of Warming and Cooling, Health, and Devlog
- Links for the day
- Links 20/02/2025: Microsoft Infosys Layoffs and IRS Layoffs (Good News for Rich Tax Evaders)
- Links for the day
- IBM Layoffs in Europe Already Happening or Underway (UK and Spain). They Try Not to Call These "Layoffs".
- "CIO" in particular was repeatedly mentioned lately, as was Consulting
- Possibly a Third Round of Mass Layoffs at Microsoft in 2025 ("Cloud Solution Architects, Customer Roles"), Report Removed or Censored
- This is literally the top story for "microsoft layoffs" right now
- Instead of 'DoS Protection' Cloudflare is Allegedly Conducting 'DoS Attacks' on Users of Browsers Other Than Firefox and GAFAM's DRM Sandboxes (Chrome, Safari and Others)
- If you value the Web, you will avoid Cloudflare
- Mixing Real With Fake in One 'Article' (by "Director of Content, Help Net Security")
- From what we can gather, he got machines to generate some slop for him
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 19, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, February 19, 2025
- Gemini Links 19/02/2025: FreeDOS abd Botfloods
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Has "Made the Customer the Product."
- it's very likely this comment was made by a Microsoft employee
- GNU/Linux and Android Trump Microsoft in Saudi Arabia, Bing Down Since the LLM Hype/Hysteria Began
- Microsoft leaves a lot of money on the table
- The Interplay Between Free Software and Journalism Based on Truths, Suppressed Facts
- Honest people can be transparent. Dishonest, rogue people rely on a lack of it.
- FSF Talk: "Free Software Teaching Materials" by Dr. Miriam Bastian
- Software Freedom is rooted in philosophy but it's about technical solutions
- IBM's CEO Has Become a Stochastic Buzzword-Generating Machine
- The current CEO is extremely unpopular
- Chicago Transit Authority Has Dumped Twitter (X), As Did Many Others Without Announcing It (Due to Fear of Right-Wing Mobs)
- If you don't have an account in Gab, then you probably should not have one in "X", either
- How-To Geek Sort of Supersedes MakeUseOf (MUO) for GNU/Linux Coverage
- some writers from MakeUseOf (MUO) have been migrated to a sister publication
- New Year's Resolutions Scoreboard
- The goal is to improve clarity, accessibility, speed, and accuracy
- Sites Reporting Crimes and Getting Harassed for Reporting Crimes
- you cannot just ignore those who constantly seek to harass
- Links 19/02/2025: Science, Hardware, and Digital Restrictions (DRM) Striking Again at eBooks
- Links for the day
- Zizian, transgender, Google & Debian open source extremist cult phenomena
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Links 19/02/2025: The Forgotten USB Competitor and Pope's Bilateral Pneumonia
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 19/02/2025: AuraRepo and Offpunk
- Links for the day
- Slopwatch: Wayne Williams is Making Up for His Workers' Slop Party, LinuxSecurity.com Still Publishes Fake Articles
- We must identify and call out the culprits
- “Open Source” Really Does Miss the Point, We Can Do Better Than That
- We need to reject groups of people who promote Microsoft GitHub (proprietary) and call that "Open Source"
- Red Hat's Bluewashing to be Further Completed This Year
- Do not wait for some announcement from redhat.com - it's already covered by IBM
- Links 19/02/2025: Organisations Quitting Social Control Media, Windows TCO Illustrated Some More
- Links for the day
- The Free Software Foundation is More Financially Independent From Large Corporations Right Now
- Money that comes with strings attached to it is always problematic
- The Free Software Foundation's Position on IBM Taking Red Hat Enterprise Linux 'Private' is Articulated Almost 2 Years Late
- The Free Software Foundation finally spoke out about this issue
- Techrights Publication Topics
- One thing we'd like to do more of is Software Freedom advocacy
- Springtime Layoffs at IBM (2025) and Statement From IBM European Works Council
- It's about cost-cutting, even if such cuts doom the company
- Microsoft Paying People Who Harass and SLAPP Techrights, Demanding Censorship
- At this point the money trail leads directly to Microsoft
- It's Not Even Hidden Anymore: Microsoft is Passing Bribes for Media to Publish Puff Pieces About Itself
- GeekWire is paid by Microsoft to publish many puff pieces (even outright lies) about Microsoft
- Dr. Andy Farnell on a Death to Efficiency and Cash
- Cash is not the same as "digital cash", which isn't even remotely the same
- Links 19/02/2025: Political Roundup and Halifax Wants to Dump Twitter ("X")
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 18/02/2025: Beginning Meditation, Poison as Praxis, and Blogging
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 18, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, February 18, 2025
