Links 13/03/2008: Firefox 3 Praised; Yahoo Makes Escape Attempts
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-03-13 09:33:51 UTC
- Modified: 2008-03-13 09:33:51 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- In IBM, PIPs and RAs (Layoffs) Have Become Almost the Same Thing, Workers 'Expire' With Age (Seniority, Experience) and Empathy is Punishable by Termination
- IBM does seem like a dead company
- "Social Dialogue" With the Man Who Never Faced Real Competition at the European Patent Office (EPO), He Buys the Voters and Eliminates Rivals
- Will the "Pretender" write back?
- Greenwashing Corruption With a "Chief Sustainability Officer", Who Infamously Defended Battisetelli's Crimes at the EPO and Petitioned for Him
- She was rewarded for conspiring against EPO staff, as usual
- What I Explained to Police About Blackmail and Death Threats via Burner Accounts (a Practice Which Generally Constitutes a Crime)
- Today I've communicated several times with police
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- Comments on Today's Judgment
- It hopefully helps clarify what actually happened
- Microsoft Has Fallen to #3 in Singapore
- There are many technically talented people in Singapore or overseas workers who lodge in Singapore
- Thank You, Andy
- Burnham and "Tech Rights"
- Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Inaction and Incompetence - Part II - 77 Messages Sent, Did Not Even Investigate or Examine Any of the Actual Evidence (British Taxpayers' Money Wasted)
- SRA has become known (even notorious) for inaction
- Inevitable Politics
- In technology, provided the work you do has growing impact (we served almost 2 million requests yesterday), things will inevitably become more political - whether you like it or not does not matter
- Not Only "Loonies Take on Farage"
- pretending that the opposition to the right wing is "Loonies"
- Brigading Against Women - Part I - Bypassing the Legal System by Threatening Companies in Another Continent
- In the next part we'll begin to connect Lozza's online activities (and court activities) to those of Garrett
- IBM is Trying to Turn Debt (Borrowed Money) Into Fake Growth and It'll Worsen Matters
- they put in their balance sheets a fake "growth" in something that does not even exist
- Microsoft Relies on Misleading Narrative of Studios Going 'Independent'; in Reality There Are Mass Layoffs in Them
- This is not a good narrative for Microsoft
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 28, 2026
- IRC logs for Tuesday, July 28, 2026
- Gemini Links 29/07/2026: Arosa, Tired Tuesday, and Constellation Browser
- Links for the day
- At Microsoft, PIPs Are Sometimes Known as "LITE" (a Silent Layoffs Legal Hack or a Shrewd Workaround to Skirt WARN Act)
- Zero "layoffs" to report
- Gemini Links 28/07/2026: “Strategies Against Algorithms” and DIYers
- Links for the day
- Digital Restrictions (DRM) and Microsoft: What Kills XBox Will Kill Windows Next
- Microsoft wrongly and very arrogantly assumed that users would tolerate everything it throws their way
- GNU/Linux in Afghanistan Reaches 7%
- For many years it was stuck at less than 1%
- Links 28/07/2026: "People’s Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online" and SpaceX Stock Crashes Like Its Products
- Links for the day
- UK tech sector missing from democratic process
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- How Not to Cover Elections (Democracy Relies on Reliable, Complete Information)
- Misinformed voters are a recipe for disaster
- Microsoft E.E.E. (and "Bait and Switch") Going Exactly According to Plan
- That is what they are trying to tell us and the companies that employ us
- IBM: An Old Company That Hates Old People
- Remember that's coming to Red Hat workers in 2 months
- Strict Policy on Violence and Violent Language
- This matter is now being escalated to law firms
- Avoiding Discrimination Against People With Disabilities
- work underway to improve the system which runs the sites
- Links 28/07/2026: XBox DRM Doomed Everyone (Cannot Play Anything), Slop (Ponzi Scheme) Being Pinkwashed Now
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 28/07/2026: Ethics, GIMP Script-Fu, SMTP Versus Gemini, and Proposal for Better TOFU
- Links for the day
- To a Sociopath, Ethical People Are Bad People. Don't Fall for It.
- If you put sociopaths on a pedestal, the pedestal will break
- Improving the Static Site Generator
- Our system has fixes triaged
- Diversity in Debian
- bringing up the topic is the real problem, diversity itself is a taboo subject
- GNU/Linux in Brazil. The B in BRIC(S).
- the "market share" is assessed to be around 5%
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 27, 2026
- IRC logs for Monday, July 27, 2026
- Hate Consumes the Haters
- If you hate someone (or something) and you're willing to do anything for "hate rituals", then at the end the emotion will outweigh reason and it'll backfire, surely
- GNU/Linux Rises Some More Internationally, statCounter Now Estimates Its Usage on Desktops/Laptops at 7.7%
- significant growth for GNU/Linux in Japan, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and Cambodia
- IBMers on PIPs and the Age (or Cost) Factor
- People in their 50s seem to be targeted as they are considered "expensive"
- Sad State of Troll-Feeding British Media (Establishment Channels Promoting Total Idiots)
- Breeding ignorance means people will assume they have a choice between two pieces of trash: "Nige" or a literal trash can
- Links 27/07/2026: Sleepless Japan PM Takaichi Becomes Unpopular and Data Centre Magnate Confiscate Land Without Consent
- Links for the day
- A Few Hours Ago The Register MS Published an 'Article' With "AI" 32 Times in It, Including First Word in Headline and Summary. It Was Paid SPAM "Sponsored by Hammerspace".
- The lost media is engaging in self-harm
- Microsoft is Down
- This relates in a timely fashion to what we published yesterday
- In Techrights, Gemini and HTTP/HTML Are Very Different
- Those were never equivalents or mirrors, those are two things that are inherently different and are maintained by different teams
- Gemini Links 27/07/2026: Gemified Internet RFCs, “Junk DNA” Is Commented-Out Code, and More
- Links for the day
- The Techrights Gemini Capsule Was Never a Mirror
- Techrights has long taken accessibility quite seriously
- Americans Are Not Our Masters
- If you are subjected to online abuse, don't give up
- Daniel Pocock Campaigns Around "Safety of Children Online" and "Cybersecurity"
- There seems to be a growing 'coalition' in the UK based around important issues which impact the entire planet
- XBox the Console is Practically Finished (Unofficially), Even the Streaming ("Live") or DRM Service is Dead
- XBox has never been closer to profitability
- Many CEOs Are Just Glorified Scammers With Suits and Ties
- Economies cannot function when few people abuse them for self-enrichment
- After statCounter Figures Out Many "Unknowns" Were in Fact GNU/Linux the "Market Share" Estimate in China More Than Doubles
- Japan is the same for similar reasons
- peppe8o - a Site About Raspberry Pi, Arduino and Electronics - Has Turned Into a Slopfarm
- We won't be linking to it anymore
- Feeding 'the Children'
- Maybe some time soon we'll do a fund-raiser to help feed the birds
- Japan: GNU/Linux Crosses the 5% Threshold, Two Years Ago It Was Only 1%
- Now it's at over 5%
- We Need More Transparency
- Our heads of state are very much aware of and concerned about SLAPPs and censorship
- "The War on Children" Explained by The Cyber Show
- Consumer protection and the war on children
- EPO Cocainegate and Current EPO/EU Series to Carry on for Months to Come
- Another week has begun
- When IBM "Managers Have to Mark 15% of Their Teams as Low Performers" a PIP Means Likely Layoffs (Disguised as a Performance Issue)
- "IBM is a Law firm with an I/T department."
- Links 27/07/2026: Chatbots Lead to Suicides, Social Control Media Intentionally Designed for Addiction
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, July 26, 2026
- IRC logs for Sunday, July 26, 2026
