[Meme] Cool Strongmen of a “High-Tech Hub” in Minsk
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-05-02 15:52:00 UTC
- Modified: 2022-05-02 15:52:00 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Slopwatch: Anti-Linux Garbage and Fake 'Articles' About GNU and Linux, Courtesy of Serial Sloppers and Slopfarms
- Today there is a frustrating amount of FUD online that wasn't published by humans but instead generated by LLMs
- From Strangling Women to SLAPPing Journalists (Microsoft in a Nutshell)
- We won't ever capitulate to Microsofters who strangle women
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- Netcraft's New Web Server Survey Shows Microsoft Down in Every Category
- That Microsoft is still visible in
- Links 27/02/2025: Google Clown Computing Layoffs and Slack Goes Down as Usual
- Links for the day
- Links 27/02/2025: The Engagement Rehab and Another New Zine
- Links for the day
- Links 27/02/2025: Microsoft Trying Ads as Sales Fall, Preserving Data From Social Control Media a Real Problem
- Links for the day
- Hiding Crimes Against Women (i.e. Reputation Laundering) by Misusing Inapplicable Privacy Laws From Another Continent
- As it turns out, "privacy" does not cover hiding illegal activities and if public information exists to prove these illegal activities, then it's perfectly OK to share it
- Zurich CEO suicide, Martin Senn proximity to Adrian and Diana von Bidder-Senn, Debian
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Debian, CentOS, RHEL source code demise now linked, accelerated after invalid trademark judgment
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Civil Society Should Demand Removal of People Who Sought Removal of Richard Stallman
- Perhaps it's noteworthy that the FSF is now being attacked (again)
- RTO for You, But Not for Me: How IBM's Managers Try to Disguise Layoffs as "Resignations" or "Retirements"
- What ever happened to corporate ethics?
- Links 27/02/2025: Conflict Updates, Hacks Caught Red-Handed Misusing Licence to Exercise Law to Submit LLM Slop to Courts
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 27/02/2025: Fuzzy Frontiers and New Arrivals at Geminispace
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- Always Doing This Site for Principles, Not Money
- Pro bono
- The Short Lifecycle of Twitter Outrage
- The upside is that the "tempo" of social control media is so fast (to cause addiction or "engagement" as the pushers put it) that the persistence of lies in social control media is rather poor
- Microsoft Devoured the Open Source Initiative (OSI), Now It's Just a Chain of Blunders
- The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is against openness
- Chronological Index of Techrights
- The index was created after Alex Oliva expressed interest
- IBM employee from Zurich, Switzerland arrested, jailed for tunnel mistake that may have arisen due to sign colours
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- The Free Software Foundation's Fund-raising Efforts Continue Unabated (and With Positive Results)
- Perhaps the cherry on the cake is that Microsoft influence agents now try to attack the people who run the FSF, for merely have the 'wrong' views on political affairs
- Links 26/02/2025: Microsoft's "AI Value" Bubble is Blowing Up, Starbucks in Trouble as Well
- Links for the day
- Rumour About IBM Layoffs in the UK
- That was 2 hours ago
- Links 26/02/2025: Science, Hardware, and Politics
- Links for the day
- Timeline of Microsoft's 2025 Crisis and Growing Panic
- Microsoft already had 3 waves of layoffs this year (not even 2 months have passed)
- Slopwatch: Another Offending 'Linux' Site Found (Fake Articles About "Linux"), Postgres/PostgreSQL/PSQL Targeted by FUD from LLMs
- It's all slop, as one can suspect
- IBM Consulting: Layoffs Already in Progress
- "What are the Deep Blue Thought Leaders World becoming? A rubbish heap?"
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- Links 25/02/2025: US Backs BRICS at UN, Ukraine's Defence Enters 4th Year
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 25/02/2025: Marginalia and LOWWIRE
- Links for the day
- Credit Suisse collapse obfuscated Parreaux, Thiébaud & Partners scandal
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- New Richard Stallman Interview Published by Free University of Bozen-Bolzano a Day After His Talk There
- We're not seeing any difficult or controversial questions
- The Musk Slipped, Countries Need Digital Independence
- What's happening in Germany this month might result in quicker adoption of Free software
- Government Sites That Use Centralised CAs Are Still Remotely Controlled by MElon and GAFAM at the Oval Office
- Even governments outside the US
- Eternal Vigilance
- I too received more death threats than I can recall over the years
- Spanish Version of the Free Software Foundation's Book "Introduction to the Command Line"
- The "GNU Press Shop [is] temporarily closed"
- Dr. Andy Farnell Publishes Second Part of Series About Freedom Fighters (It Started With Richard Stallman)
- A few minutes ago Dr. Farnell published the second part
- Things That Were Presumed Public Enemy #1 (or Foremost Threat)
- The world's most powerful military is now governed by clowns who don't know what the heck they're doing
- Microsoft is Admitting That It Has No Viable Business Model, Starting to Experiment
- Microsoft's proprietary spyware with ads cannot really compete with Calligra and LibreOffice
- Asking Journalists to Pay for Merely Reporting Violent Abuse Against Women (and Telling Them to Kill Themselves)
- As regular readers are likely aware by now, for material we published years ago some likely broke man without a proper job (except in a company made up or invented by him) wants money
- Bluewashing: IBM Replaces Red Hat With IBM (Bobby Leibrock) at the Top
- Based on his education, Bobby is just some suit; he thinks of money, not tech
- Links 25/02/2025: Mass Layoffs at Starbucks, Kaspersky Banned on Australian Government Systems
- Links for the day
- Links 25/02/2025: Strawberry Lemonade, Introducing Fiss, and YouTube Acting Aggressive
- Links for the day
- UK: Twitter Falls to Lowest Traffic Levels in 5 Years (Start of Lockdowns), Down From More Than 37% to Only 6.5%
- Months ago Twitter (aka "X") was blasted by the British government for inciting right-wing violence
- Judgment translated to English in FINMA & Debian trademark fiasco
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- The Brigading (in Social Control Media) Did Not Silence the Creator of GNU/Linux
- there are no impending talks at the moment
- Confirmed: IBM Layoffs Will Strike Consulting Quite Hard
- the flagging of staff is a way to signal to them it's time to go or get the boot
- Sami Tikkanen Explains What Happened to Computer Science Education in Finland and Elsewhere
- The 'broligarchs', a collective which typically created anything of their own, do not want the general population to possess skills that let it be anything other than passive consumers
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 24, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, February 24, 2025
