[Meme] Pressuring Staff Into Contract-Signing as Part of a Longstanding Pattern
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2023-01-21 05:31:36 UTC
- Modified: 2023-01-21 05:31:36 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
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- From his public pages (this is not secret)
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- It contributes a lot to misinformation and it encourages plagiarism
- USA Not a Place for Free Speech
- In America, as in the US, the attacks seem more enhanced or advanced these days
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- Gemini Links 17/09/2025: Flashing LineageOS and ROOPHLOCH
- Links for the day
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- the OSI isn't even the real guardian of the term "Open Source"
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- what's all this concern about memory safety?
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- "Hey hi" chaff or chaff about "hey hi" cannot eternally distract from the difficulties inside the company
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- And not retiring
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- When it comes to security - Microsoft strives for the very opposite
- Another Competition Crime of Microsoft, Long Facilitated and Advocated by a Bad Actor, Who is Funded by a Third Party to Commit Extortion Against People Who Have Correctly and Repeatedly Warned About It for Over 13 Year
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- Over at Tux Machines...
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- Gemini Links 17/09/2025: Reclaiming Things in a Digital Age and Moon Phases in CGI
- Links for the day
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- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 16/09/2025: Command-line Options in POSIX Shell and Introducing Acre 0.9
- Links for the day
- Microsoft 'Secure' Boot Versus Dual Boot With GNU/Linux
- they're meant to assume everything is OK
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- Links for the day
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- Why was this page issued and published only hours ago?
- Microsoft Lunduke: I Spread Hate and Then I Receive Hate
- Cry us a river, Microsoft Lunduke
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- They tell us X is "dead" and we must all be herded into Wayland ASAP
- "Disable Secure Boot and Fast Boot. Wipe and Start Over."
- At least they didn't say, buy a new computer...
- The Oracle Ponzi Scheme
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- The New Head of OSI is an "Hey Hi" (AI) Obsessed Person
- when Bryant says "AI" that doesn't mean AI
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- At this stage, any person who still says "enable Secure Boot" is misguided or persuaded by companies that sell rootkits
- Slopwatch: Serial Sloppers and Slopfarms Still Infesting Google News (Fake 'Articles' About "Linux" Spreading FUD)
- searching for "Linux" today yields a lot of FUD
- "Governments, local authorities, schools and hospitals can lead by example by procuring only Free Software"
- Crossposted from Tux Machines
- Cindy Cohn Leaving the Electronic Frontier Foundation While Its Co-founder John Gilmore, Whom She Apparently Helped Oust, Will Celebrate 40 Years of the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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- The Reach of Techrights Has Broadened
- We nowadays cover a broader range of issues
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- Watch what it's like for people who wish to use BSDs
- Some Very Large IRC Networks Are Growing
- IRC will turn 38 next year
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 15, 2025
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- Links 16/09/2025: Autumn Party, RPG Planet, and Optical ROOPHLOCH
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- Contrary to what some pessimists try to claim
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- They also mention MOK
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- Use something like BigBlueButton, Jami, Ring, and Jitsi instead
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- 'Secure Boot' wasn't meant to even exist in the first place
- Stefano Maffulli, Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative, Resigns or Gets Removed (We'll Continue Covering OSI Scandals)
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- what Andy recently called "solutionism"
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- Does anyone still believe that "Secure Boot" has anything at all to do with security?
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- I have enormous respect for Jonathan and everything he has done
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- Wanting an audience is never a good excuse for compromising one's values and principles
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- Over at Tux Machines...
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