Bonum Certa Men Certa

Stories We Sometimes Omit From or Demote in Daily Links

Daily Links in Techrights are over a decade old; they're a 'noise filter'

What they tell us about proprietary ('commercial') software; What happens when you actually use it and find bugs, back doors etc.



Summary: Criteria for inclusion in Daily Links are accuracy and relevance; occasionally we also include falsehoods together with self-evident debunkings, but sometimes that's just too much to bear (toxic media agenda does not help, either)

WE don't generally believe in omission or censorship (we abhor gagging), even if that's part of quality control or fact-checking. Sometimes we add editorial remarks ("Ed") to our daily news picks, but sometimes the number of false reports is just too large to exhaustively rebut with just a hasty comment. Recently, for instance, a Microsoft employee spread FUD about Linux. That FUD was then carried on by the publisher where Microsoft Peter had worked (up until his arrest for pedophilia) and we then saw 10 more similar articles (at least 10). What all these articles bar one neglected to say is that the bug was incredibly hard to exploit and almost nobody enabled the mode which rendered it practical (peer to peer). Never mind what vendor-specific nature it had as well...



"Search the news for "open source" and sometimes you may find that as much as 80% of the results are just openwashing dross if not promotion of proprietary software vendors."Let's face it; some media is almost literally in the business of attacking Linux and creating a stigma about FOSS in general. Obviously it never even mentions "GNU".

So how to best tackle such FUD? Writing a detailed rebuttal sometimes results in more traffic for the FUD peddlers, hence we've included no links here (readers can search "linux wifi" news if they're very curious). Perhaps the key lesson here is that scepticism of the media and its motives is much needed and it's no secret that some publishers want us to constantly worry about FOSS security bugs (if not licensing) because that helps distract from deliberate back doors (and draconian EULAs). Techrights has fought FUD and misinformation for many years, but at the same time it's important to be selective because rebuttals can give visibility to lies that would otherwise go 'under the radar', so to speak... and that's one of the downsides of our "Openwashing Reports" (they cite lots of openwashing propaganda pieces to highlight what's wrong with these).

Nowadays when one searches for "Linux" news one receives more negative reports than positive ones and Microsoft often turns up among the results (painting Windows as "Linux" or promoting some Microsoft stuff by piggybacking the "Linux" brand). Search the news for "open source" and sometimes you may find that as much as 80% of the results are just openwashing dross if not promotion of proprietary software vendors. Those who have tried this over the past year will know what we mean (no need to reproduce).

Recent Techrights' Posts

In defence of JD Vance, death of Pope Francis
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Three Years in Prison for Disney Employee’s ‘Menu Hacking’: The Economic Fallout of Digital Menus
Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
Approaching 10,000 Articles/Pages Since Going Static
Trying to silence or derail the site was always a dumb strategy
Microsoft is Shedding Off Loads of Staff and That Can be Dangerous Too
Working for Microsoft is a choice; nobody forces you to do it
Richard Stallman and the Unix Philosophy
When asked about systemd people must remember that RMS speaks as an active Board member of the FSF and also the founder of the FSF
Get Rid of Back Doors, Don't Obsess Over Bounties and Other Corporate PR Stunts (or Needless Reboot Rituals)
Security as a term has mostly lost its meaning due to repeated misuse for many years
Serial Sloppers Are Killing the Web (They Probably Don't Care, Either)
Slop is a disease on the Web
IBM's Debt Ballooned by 8.5 Billion Dollars in Just 3 Months!
Hallmark of a company in a state of disarray, trying to spend its way out of trouble
 
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 25, 2025
IRC logs for Friday, April 25, 2025
Links 25/04/2025: Slop Fatigue and Patent Judges Flocking to Fake, Unconstitutional and Illegal Kangaroo Court (UPC, Captured 'Justice')
Links for the day
Gemini Links 25/04/2025: Night Manager and Devuan in Hosting
Links for the day
Windows Falls to New Lows in Nicaragua, Now Below a Quarter (It Used to be Almost 100%)
Another all-time low for Windows
The Cost (to Linux) of LLM Slop
Slop 'artists' like Fagioli are far from harmless
Links 25/04/2025: Ubisoft Spyware, Hegseth Fails at Tech on Every Level
Links for the day
Gemini Links 25/04/2025: Food Forest Update and Facebook Destroying the Net
Links for the day
Streaming Apps Are “Investor Fraud” That Kills the Planet
Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
Things Get Increasingly Nasty at Microsoft Ahead of the Fake Results and May's Mass Layoffs Wave
They try to get people to 'resign' so that they won't count as layoffs and the company's 'wellbeing' will seem better
Big Trouble in GNOME
even GNOME people admit the CoC went wrong
Slopping the Trough: Disney Plus Loses Billions and the Decline of Physical Media in America
Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 24, 2025
IRC logs for Thursday, April 24, 2025
Links 24/04/2025: GAFAM Problems and No Peace (or Ceasefire) in Sight
Links for the day
Slopfarms on the Web Almost Always Generate Anti-Linux FUD When They Produce "Linux" Output
Welcome to the dying Web
Richard Stallman's Oxford Talk Has Just Ended, Here Are Some Photos
he might hop over to another European country
Gemini Links 24/04/2025: Birthday and Good Work of Academia in Esotericism
Links for the day
Links 24/04/2025: EU fines Apple and Facebook, Another Microsoft GitHub Security Blunder
Links for the day
New Article Explains How the GPL Came About and WordPress Having Copyleft Obligations
Having been involved in the WordPress development community since almost the beginning, I know why it chose the GPL and how it restricts abuse by Automattic
IBM Gained Almost 6 Billion Dollars in "Goodwill" Value in Just 3 Months, According to IBM
Congrats to the management!
In Belarus, Yandex is Now Measured as 50 Times More 'Popular' (by Usage) Than Microsoft
Yandex continues to gain, whereas Bing cannot even register at 1%. Last month it was registered or measured at a measly 0.65%.
IBM Cannot Lie to Shareholders Anymore
"I would not be surprised if we see a layoff every quarter this year."
Dr Richard Stallman (RMS) Gives Talk in Oxford University in 4 Hours
If you live nearby, go there (it's free as in gratis)
Using a Law Firm's Licence to Exercise Politics Through Frivolous SLAPPs and Nastygrams (to Silence People, Remove Pages, Demand Fake or Forced 'Apologies')
Things must be getting really bad when lawyers act for raving antisemites
We're Working to Make Full-Site Search Available
This site has over 1,000 'wiki' pages, many thousands of documents, several thousands of videos, and about 50,000 blog posts or articles. We need to make them easier to find/navigate.
Links 24/04/2025: IBM Loses Many Contracts, Intel to Lay Off Over 20% (Not Counting Those Who Leave 'Voluntarily')
Links for the day
Richard Stallman Can Explain to Oxford Artificial Intelligence Society Why LLM Slop is Not Artificial Intelligence and Why It Hurts Society
another 'crop' of LLM slop that damages GNU/Linux and facts
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 23, 2025
IRC logs for Wednesday, April 23, 2025