Links 05/02/2008: Interviews, Vista Failures, Linux Phones and OSS Growth
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-02-05 17:24:35 UTC
- Modified: 2008-02-05 17:30:16 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- The Microsofters Have Just Shared Privileged Trial Data With Microsoft
- There are serious ramifications for liability accountability as Microsoft salaries sponsor these SLAPPs
- Trolls With LLM Slop Are Disrupting Communications About Mass Layoffs at IBM
- LLM slop to drown out the signal
- [Video] IBM Shakes Hands of Prince Mohammed bin Salman
- handshake of loyalty
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- Inviting the Founder of GNU/Linux to Events (It Only Costs His Travel Expenses) and Recalling the True Origins
- It's reassuring to see belated recognition
- Slopwatch: Microsoft's Anti-Linux Propaganda and Cover-up, Slopfarms Clogging Up Google News
- slop-tracking activities that observe googlebombing of "Linux"
- AstroTurfing by IBM in thelayoff.com is Highly Risky (and Likely Outsourced)
- Microsoft did this in Reddit (and got caught), so why won't IBM too?
- Links 17/05/2025: Stabber of Salman Rushdie Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
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- Gemini Links 17/05/2025: Happier on Gemini and Manipulating Reddit
- Links for the day
- ComEd and Microsoft: A Mess of Spaghetti Held Together By Circus Clowns
- Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 16, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, May 16, 2025
- Links 16/05/2025: Microsoft Sacks Pregnant Women, People Fired on Their Birthday; Adobe Censorship Failing
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 16/05/2025: "Repairing Our Way out of Commodity Fetishism" and Pre-librebooted Computers
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- The SLAPPs From Microsofters Distract From Serious Copyright Infringement by Microsoft and Apparent Business Crimes
- Aside from other issues, such as strangling women
- Enshittification is Everywhere: You Pay More, the Services Get Worse
- "Enshittification" is a term coined by an online friend; I increasingly use this term to describe what's happening even outside the realm of technology (which it was adopted to describe)
- Microsoft Reduces Office Space Ahead of More Waves of Mass Layoffs
- "The Gerstnerisation of Microsoft"
- Anti-Linux FUD Produced by Microsoft LLMs to Blame "Linux" for Microsoft's Own Failures
- We call out some of the worst culprits
- Gemini Links 16/05/2025: Hoking GPS, Grabovac, and Tanana
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 15, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, May 15, 2025
- Microsoft WARN Notices Proliferate in the United States
- From what we've seen, this wave was more than 3% (a lot more) and the next wave/s will be even bigger (possible as imminent as weeks from now), based on insider leaks
- Links 15/05/2025: Google Betrays Publishers Again, Openwashing by Sysdig
- Links for the day
- Richard Stallman Still Respected by Many in the Libre Graphics Community
- Richard Stallman and Professor Moglen never harmed anyone
- If You Read Techrights, Then You Probably Want to Read Tux Machines as Well
- That site is more active than this one
- Gemini Links 15/05/2025: Forced Music in Publicly Accessible Space and ~silv is Online
- Links for the day
- Links 15/05/2025: KOSA Censorship (USA Becomes More Like KSA) and More National Cuts
- Links for the day
- Bing Might Shut Down - Just Like Skype Did - Some Time in the Coming Months/Years (Parts of It Already Shut Down)
- they try to bring the losses under control
- Your Real Ally Would Not Defend the Company of SLAPP and Strangling of Women
- who's left to tell us what's true?
- Breakdown of Microsoft Layoffs Shows It's About Cost, Not Performance or Hype (Like "AI")
- MSN (Microsoft) reposted this with some unnecessary spin
- The Lawyers Working for the Serial Strangler From Microsoft on SLAPPing Techrights Have Apparently Lost Their Voice
- the moment we mentioned that their media lawyer is leaving they went all quiet in social control media
- At IBM, Relocation Can be a Trick or a Trap (IBM Gets Rid of Staff Under the Guise of "Relo")
- IBM is not being honest with employees
- Microsoft Rumours: This Week's Scale of Layoffs "Higher Than Reported" and More Coming Soon ("A Lot More Severe" Than May's)
- The "3%" figure is false
- Slopwatch: Sloppy Brian, Brittany Slop, and General Observations
- Creative people don't need slop; there's just nothing good about it, slop appeals to lazy people careless about quality
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- Beyond Mass Layoffs at Microsoft: Entire Units Shut Down for Good
- And it's far from over
- Links 15/05/2025: Crikvenica, Analog Computer, and Slop 'Hallucinations'
- Links for the day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, May 14, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, May 14, 2025
