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Welcome to the current iteration of Techrights, online since 2006 with a major infrastructural upgrade in late 2022. Here you will find our latest posts. In addition to HTTP/HTTPS here, Techrights is also available via Gemini and IPFS editions, though the IPFS service is on hiatus for the foreseeable future. Just the other year, Techrights upgraded from a heavy content management system to a much lighter and lower maintenance static site generator which produces both HTML for the WWW and GemText for the Gemini space. The site is mostly prose, but there are also quite a few topical videos in the Techrights archive. A complete, chronological index of current and past articles is also available, from the latest to the oldest.

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Recent Techrights' Posts

Another Talk by Richard Stallman Tomorrow, This Time in Bengaluru: This means that in January 2025 he is giving at least 5 public talks
Rhino Linux Can (and Perhaps Should) Promote Alternatives to Microsoft Instead of Preloading Microsoft: Deeper down inside Rhino Linux there's a problem
Slashdot is Once Again Publishing Lies and Revisionism for Bill Gates, Citing Microsoft's MSN to Rewrite History and Distract From the Jeffrey Epstein Crimes: Of course this also distracts
Too Big, Will Fail (How Linux Grew Way Too Fat): Linux has very extensive hardware support, but that comes at a cost
Richard Stallman Gives Keynote Address in a Few Hours: Richard Stallman's personal site was updated to give more details
The GNU Manifesto Turns 40 in a Few Weeks: The FSF turns 40 later this year, too
Continued Support and Momentum at the Free Software Foundation (FSF): "This helps protect our community."
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 27, 2025: IRC logs for Monday, January 27, 2025
Links 27/01/2025: Lukashenko's Sham Elections, TikTok for Insurrection Loyalist (Larry Ellison)?: Links for the day
Gemini Links 27/01/2025: IndieWeb Musings and Devlog: Links for the day
IBM Layoffs in "Co-location Mandate" Clothing: It's possible that later this week, around the time of the so-called 'results', many layoffs would be announced
Microsoft-Funded IDG Seems to be 'Googlebombing' the Term Free Software to Promote Proprietary Spyware Too: Microsoft advocated along with other proprietary things
Videos and Photos of Richard Stallman's (RMS) Keynote Address in India Earlier Today: He probably told the target audience (India) a thing or two about the role of proprietary software in colonialism
GAFAM Hates - Except in a Worryingly Parasitic Way - GNU/Linux and Its Freedoms (or Its Users): Let the story from DistroWatch serve as a reminder that the era of Social Control Media is over
Links 27/01/2025: Social Control Media Explores Propaganda for Racism as a Business Model, China’s Tibet Dam Criticised: Links for the day
Microsoft Relegated by Manchester United: No Microsoft
IBM Layoffs in 2025: Rumours Say Even Managers Will Get the Axe, Some Via Loopholes Like PIP and/or RTO (Preparations Already Underway): Where does IBM's money go?
FOSDEM Talks Are Vanishing: They no longer seem to be taking money from Microsoft and/or its tentacles
Gemini Links 27/01/2025: Mental Locomotion, Gemini Protocol Bots From China, and Domain-Specific Languages: Links for the day
Microsoft Still Hires Journalists to Reward Them (Belated Payment) for Microsoft Propaganda: The PR/lying pipeline
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 26, 2025: IRC logs for Sunday, January 26, 2025
Links 26/01/2025: Privacy Breaches and Growing Nationalism: Links for the day
The UK's Press Gazette Has No Credibility Anymore, It Celebrates Plagiarism and Cheap Misinformation (This Ruins Linux Sites Too): They encourage a form of plagiarism and that even ruins "Linux" sites
Journalistic Malpractice Helps Bill Gates Cover Up His Marriage Collapsing Because of His Very Deep Ties to Jeffrey Epstein (and It's Melinda Who Dumped Him, Divorce Proceedings Started by Her in 2019): you can alter narratives and perceptions worldwide
The Linux Foundation's Certificate Authority (CA) Let's Encrypt Hits New Lows in Geminispace: 13 known capsules still use it
How "Open Source" Became Microsoft (But It's Actually Proprietary, OSI is an Openwashing Front Group Now): They're still trying to rewrite history, but it's harder when Richard Stallman (RMS) is alive
Links 26/01/2025: Chatbot Woes and UnitedHealth Data Breach (Windows TCO): Links for the day
Gemini Links 26/01/2025: The Postman and More: Links for the day
Links 26/01/2025: Fentanylware (TikTok) Turns to Hype/Pyramid Scheme, Insurers Failed to Comply With Federal Law: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 25, 2025: IRC logs for Saturday, January 25, 2025