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Welcome to the new iteration of Techrights, online since 2006. Here you will find our latest posts. In addition to HTTP/HTTPS here, Techrights is also available via Gemini and IPFS editions. Just recently, Techrights has 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. Recent posts are syndicated and can be tracked via RSS.

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Recent Techrights' Posts

[Meme] One Person, Singular Pronoun: Abusing people into abusing the English language is very poor diplomacy
New Article From Richard Stallman Explains Why He Says He and She for Unknown Person (Not 'They'): "Nowadays I use gender-neutral singular pronouns for a person whose gender I don't know"
Lookout, It's Outlook: Outlook is all about the sharing!
Updated A Month Ago: Richard Stallman on Software Patents as Obstacles to Software Development: very recent update
Is BlueMail a Client of ZDNet Now?: Let's examine what BlueMail does to promote itself
Site Priorities and Upcoming Improvements: pages are served very fast
Ending Software Patents in Recent Years (Software Freedom Fighters MIA): not a resolved issue
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 29, 2023: IRC logs for Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news
Links 30/11/2023: Rushing Patent Cases With Shorter Trial Scheme (STS), Sanctions Not Working: Links for the day
Links 30/11/2023: Google Purging Many Accounts and Content (to Save Money), Finland Fully Seals Border With Russia: Links for the day
The 'Smart' Attack on Power Grid Neutrality (or the Wet Dream of Tiered Pricing for Power, Essentially Punishing Poorer Households for Exercising Freedom Like Richer Households): The dishonest marketing people tell us the age of disservice and discrimination is all about "smart" and "Hey Hi" (AI) as in algorithms akin to traffic-shaping in the context of network neutrality
Links 29/11/2023: VMware Layoffs and Too Many Microsofters Going Inside Google: Links for the day
Just What LINUX.COM Needed After Over a Month of Inactivity: SPAM SPAM SPAM (Linux Brand as a Spamfarm): It's not even about Linux
Microsoft “Discriminated Based on Sexuality”: Relevant, as they love lecturing us on "diversity" and "inclusion"...
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 28, 2023: IRC logs for Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Media Cannot Tell the Difference Between Microsoft and Iran: a platform with back doors
Links 28/11/2023: New Zealand's Big Tobacco Pivot and Google Mass-Deleting Accounts: Links for the day
Justice is Still the Main Goal: The skulduggery seems to implicate not only Microsoft
OpenBSD Says That Even on Linux, Wayland Still Has a Number of Rough Edges (But IBM Wants to Make X Extinct): IBM tries to impose unready software on users
[Teaser] Next Week's Part in the Series About Anti-Free Software Militants: an effort to 'cancel' us and spy on us
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news
Permacomputing: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Professor Eben Moglen on How Social Control Media Metabolises Humans and Constraints Freedom of Thought: Nothing of value would be lost if all these data-harvesting giants (profiling people) vanished overnight
IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 27, 2023: IRC logs for Monday, November 27, 2023
When Microsoft Blocks Your Access to Free Software: "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches." [Chicago Sun-Times]
Techrights Statement on 'Cancel Culture' Going Out of Control: relates to a discussion we had in IRC last night
Stuff People Write About Linux: revisionist pieces
Links 28/11/2023: Rosy Crow 1.4.3 and Google Drive Data Loss: Links for the day