This Month in India, World's Largest Population, Android (Linux) and GNU/Linux Continue Replacing Windows
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-10-24 14:08:24 UTC
- Modified: 2022-10-24 14:08:24 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Report About February Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (Third Wave of Microsoft Layoffs in 2025) Comes Back From the Dead
- Yesterday we wrote about an article in CRN (reporting Microsoft layoffs) being removed without any reasons specified
- Links 21/02/2025: Myanmar Scam Centre and Disruptions at USPTO
- Links for the day
- gbhackers.com is Not Hackers, It's LLM Slop Outputs (Fake 'Articles') That Attack 'True Hackers'
- A site called linuxsecurity.com keeps doing this and now we see the slopfarm gbhackers.com doing the same
- linuxsecurity.com Continues to Spread Lies or Machine-Generated FUD (Microsoft LLMs Likely the Source) About OpenSSH and Linux
- this LLM problem is global
- People Who Came From Microsoft Demanding Removal of Articles About Them, About Microsoft, and About Microsoft GitHub is "Generous" (According to Them)
- Imagine choosing a law firm that borrows money in the same year just to avoid overdraft in the bank!
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- Hype Watch: Weeks After Microsoft Disappointed Investors With "Hey Hi" It's Trying Some "Quantum" Hype (Adding Impractical Vapourware to Accompany This Hype and Even LLM Slop in 'News' Clothing)
- Remember "metaverse"? What happened to media hype about "blockchain" and "IoT"?
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, February 20, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, February 20, 2025
- Gemini Links 20/02/2025: Law of Warming and Cooling, Health, and Devlog
- Links for the day
- Links 20/02/2025: Microsoft Infosys Layoffs and IRS Layoffs (Good News for Rich Tax Evaders)
- Links for the day
- IBM Layoffs in Europe Already Happening or Underway (UK and Spain). They Try Not to Call These "Layoffs".
- "CIO" in particular was repeatedly mentioned lately, as was Consulting
- Possibly a Third Round of Mass Layoffs at Microsoft in 2025 ("Cloud Solution Architects, Customer Roles"), Report Removed or Censored
- This is literally the top story for "microsoft layoffs" right now
- Instead of 'DoS Protection' Cloudflare is Allegedly Conducting 'DoS Attacks' on Users of Browsers Other Than Firefox and GAFAM's DRM Sandboxes (Chrome, Safari and Others)
- If you value the Web, you will avoid Cloudflare
- Mixing Real With Fake in One 'Article' (by "Director of Content, Help Net Security")
- From what we can gather, he got machines to generate some slop for him
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 19, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, February 19, 2025
- Gemini Links 19/02/2025: FreeDOS abd Botfloods
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Has "Made the Customer the Product."
- it's very likely this comment was made by a Microsoft employee
- GNU/Linux and Android Trump Microsoft in Saudi Arabia, Bing Down Since the LLM Hype/Hysteria Began
- Microsoft leaves a lot of money on the table
- The Interplay Between Free Software and Journalism Based on Truths, Suppressed Facts
- Honest people can be transparent. Dishonest, rogue people rely on a lack of it.
- FSF Talk: "Free Software Teaching Materials" by Dr. Miriam Bastian
- Software Freedom is rooted in philosophy but it's about technical solutions
- IBM's CEO Has Become a Stochastic Buzzword-Generating Machine
- The current CEO is extremely unpopular
- Chicago Transit Authority Has Dumped Twitter (X), As Did Many Others Without Announcing It (Due to Fear of Right-Wing Mobs)
- If you don't have an account in Gab, then you probably should not have one in "X", either
- How-To Geek Sort of Supersedes MakeUseOf (MUO) for GNU/Linux Coverage
- some writers from MakeUseOf (MUO) have been migrated to a sister publication
- New Year's Resolutions Scoreboard
- The goal is to improve clarity, accessibility, speed, and accuracy
- Sites Reporting Crimes and Getting Harassed for Reporting Crimes
- you cannot just ignore those who constantly seek to harass
- Links 19/02/2025: Science, Hardware, and Digital Restrictions (DRM) Striking Again at eBooks
- Links for the day
- Zizian, transgender, Google & Debian open source extremist cult phenomena
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Links 19/02/2025: The Forgotten USB Competitor and Pope's Bilateral Pneumonia
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 19/02/2025: AuraRepo and Offpunk
- Links for the day
- Slopwatch: Wayne Williams is Making Up for His Workers' Slop Party, LinuxSecurity.com Still Publishes Fake Articles
- We must identify and call out the culprits
- “Open Source” Really Does Miss the Point, We Can Do Better Than That
- We need to reject groups of people who promote Microsoft GitHub (proprietary) and call that "Open Source"
- Red Hat's Bluewashing to be Further Completed This Year
- Do not wait for some announcement from redhat.com - it's already covered by IBM
- Links 19/02/2025: Organisations Quitting Social Control Media, Windows TCO Illustrated Some More
- Links for the day
- The Free Software Foundation is More Financially Independent From Large Corporations Right Now
- Money that comes with strings attached to it is always problematic
- The Free Software Foundation's Position on IBM Taking Red Hat Enterprise Linux 'Private' is Articulated Almost 2 Years Late
- The Free Software Foundation finally spoke out about this issue
- Techrights Publication Topics
- One thing we'd like to do more of is Software Freedom advocacy
- Springtime Layoffs at IBM (2025) and Statement From IBM European Works Council
- It's about cost-cutting, even if such cuts doom the company
- Microsoft Paying People Who Harass and SLAPP Techrights, Demanding Censorship
- At this point the money trail leads directly to Microsoft
- It's Not Even Hidden Anymore: Microsoft is Passing Bribes for Media to Publish Puff Pieces About Itself
- GeekWire is paid by Microsoft to publish many puff pieces (even outright lies) about Microsoft
- Dr. Andy Farnell on a Death to Efficiency and Cash
- Cash is not the same as "digital cash", which isn't even remotely the same
- Links 19/02/2025: Political Roundup and Halifax Wants to Dump Twitter ("X")
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 18/02/2025: Beginning Meditation, Poison as Praxis, and Blogging
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 18, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, February 18, 2025
