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2016-09-09 Links 9/9/2016: IBM's New Servers, SUSE Eaten by HPE
2018-03-10 IAM Only Ever Seems Happy When There's Patent Aggression and Patent Trolls
2018-05-21 In Apple v Samsung Patents That Should Never Have Been Granted May Result in a Billion Dollars in 'Damages'
2018-05-27 Techrights at 24,000
2018-06-14 Links 13/6/2018: Cockpit 170, Plasma 5.13, Krita 4.0.4
2018-06-30 Team UPC's Radicals, Firms Like Bristows LLP, Have Decided That It's Time to Change Constitutions to Accommodate Clearly Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
2018-09-17 Links 17/9/2018: Torvalds Takes a Break, SQLite 3.25.0 Released
2019-01-10 The Emptiness of the Linux Foundation's Commitment to Linux and Its True Openness... to Corporate Cash (in Exchange for Influence)
2019-02-17 Don't Use Cloudflare Because You Impose This on People Who Least Want It
2019-06-16 Stuffed/Stacked Panels Sent Back Packing After One-Sided Patent Hearings That Will Convince Nobody, Just Preach to the Choir
2019-06-30 The FSF Has Become Too Passive to Tackle Some Emergent and Growing Threats
2019-07-07 Links 7/7/2019: 4MLinux 29.1 and Debian 10 Buster Released
2019-07-09 Why Social Control Media is a Threat to (Software) Freedom
2019-07-13 Consultation About Direction and Future Focus for Techrights
2019-07-14 Links 14/7/2019: Linux 5.2.1, Unreal Engine 4.23 Preview, Linux Mint 19.2 Beta
2019-07-21 Tweets Are Not Journalism But Succinct Unverified Hearsay; Time to Treat Them Accordingly
2019-07-25 RSS Feeds of Sites Techrights Routinely Linked to in Recent Years
2019-07-28 SUSE Said It Was Becoming Independent But Instead It Became Like an 'Asset' of SAP ('German Microsoft'), Which is Hostile Towards Free Software
2019-08-15 Links Are Not Endorsements
2019-08-17 Why Techrights Doesn't Do Social Control Media
2019-08-25 Thirteen Years of Techrights This Year
2019-08-26 Covering What Other Sites Fail to Cover or Do Not Want to Cover
2019-09-19 Buying the Voices of 'Linux' People to Repeat Microsoft's Talking Points While Removing Our Icons and Leaders (Calling Them Sexist)
2019-10-07 The Free Software Foundation's Mission Could Use Outside Help
2019-10-18 Guest Article: Techies Should Not Dictate the Free Software Movement
2019-10-21 GNU/Linux is Bigger Than Ever (Used More Than Ever Before), But Communication Means and Brands Have Changed
2019-10-26 Guest Post: Social Justice Warriors Are Like Policemen With Guns on the Street
2019-11-10 The Linux Foundation Brought as Keynote Speakers People Vastly Worse Than Those Whom It Now 'Cancels' for Purely Political Reasons
2019-11-12 EPO and EU: People Behind the Faces
2019-11-18 Links 18/11/2019: Last Linux RC, OSMC Updated
2019-11-20 EPO Geared Towards Financial Exploitation of Europe Instead of Serving Europe
2019-11-21 Justice Peter Huber Speaking to a Front Group of Team UPC May Compromise the Integrity of the FCC and Its Outcomes
2019-11-23 German Constitutional Court Attempts to Distance Itself From Prof. Huber’s 'Interview' With Team UPC
2019-11-24 Prof. Moglen on Privacy and Social Control Media
2019-11-25 Purism Librem 5 Orders Take Too Long (No Delivery) as Biggest Fans Grow Impatient
2019-12-05 Links 5/12/2019: qBittorrent 4.2.0, Expensive Librem 5 and OpenBSD Bugs
2019-12-12 We Support GNU and the FSF But Remain Sceptical and Occasionally Worry About an RMS-less FSF
2019-12-25 Thierry Breton: Why He Matters to EPO Affairs (and a Lot More in Europe If Not the World, Not Just in France)
2019-12-29 How Techrights is Run
2019-12-31 With Byfield at the Wheel FOSSForce is a Force Against Richard Stallman (and What GNU Stands for)
2020-01-02 Social Control Media is Bad for Freedom and Its Net Benefit -- If Any Exists -- is Only Traffic, Not Information
2020-01-02 All Technology Designed (Deliberately) to be Addictive or Give a False Perception of Social Life/Proximity/Importance is Toxic
2020-01-02 Starting 2020 With 20 Posts in 24 Hours
2020-01-09 Unitary Patent (UPC) Has Just Been Shot Again, But Team UPC is Unlikely to Talk About It
2020-01-21 The Internet is an Appalling Medium for News and It Has Only Gotten Worse
2020-01-28 Don't Let the Collapse of News Companies Be the Collapse of Information (or Ascent of Misinformation)
2020-02-14 The Uselessness of Social Control Media and Why We Need RSS Feeds' Resurgence More Than Ever
2020-02-15 Microsoft Views 'Open Source' as a Zero-Cost Heist Opportunity (Making Proprietary Software/Spyware Using Other People's Free Labour)
2020-02-19 EPO and Other Patent Updates Over RSS
2020-02-25 Growing Acceptance That There's No Future to the UPC System and the Unitary Patent
2020-03-02 Free Speech Isn't Violence and Richard Stallman Isn't an Offender (Nor Are His Supporters)
2020-03-08 IAM Works (Lies) for Corrupt EPO Management and for Team UPC, Now Behind Paywalls (Possibly to Limit Critics' Access, Lowering Scrutiny and Fact-Checking)
2020-03-25 Targeted Attack Leveraging FSF Servers
2020-04-02 OIN in 2020 Resembles Linux Foundation in 2020 (Corporate Front Group Piggybacking the Linux Brand)
2020-04-07 The Media Paints Bill Gates as the Man Who Will Save the World While Seattle's Police Department Obstructs Access to Documents About Pedophilia Arrest at His Home
2020-04-11 Migration to New Environment Completed
2020-04-14 Tidying Things Up and Modernising the Site
2020-04-30 Platinum (Top) Sponsors of Copyleft Conf Are Companies That Attack Copyleft's Father, Richard Stallman
2020-05-04 Social Control Media: Naming the Author Who Smeared Wikileaks (Using a Past Identity) is 'Hateful Conduct' (Updatedx3)
2020-05-09 When People Realise Food and Medicine Exceed in Importance (Essentiality) Luxury and Travel Expenditure They Will Come to Accept Free Software as Basic Commodity
2020-05-11 Number of Techrights Posts Per Month (2006-2020)
2020-05-14 Links 14/5/2020: Django 3.1 Alpha, Python 3.8 and GNU/Linux is Back in Munich
2020-05-19 Links 19/5/2020: OpenBSD 6.7, Endless OS 3.8.1
2020-05-20 Even If Google Deserves Government Scrutiny Over Abuses Against Privacy (and Beyond) We Must Not Discount Microsoft's Role
2020-05-29 If You Want to Support and Follow Us 'Properly', Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is Most Reliable and Robust to Censorship
2020-05-29 Microsoft-Connected CloudGuru Doesn't Care About GNU/Linux and Now It's Gradually Killing the BSD/Linux-Centric Jupiter Broadcasting (Bought by Linux Academy)
2020-06-02 Techrights Can Figure Out Source Protection/Anonymisation Whilst Operating Very Transparently
2020-06-07 Status Update: DDoS, Traffic, Interns
2020-06-08 Social Control Media: Where 'Cancel Culture' Thrives
2020-06-09 Going Write-Only in Twitter (One Step Away From Deleting Twitter)
2020-06-09 Software Development Isn't Social (Control) Media
2020-06-09 How Ad Hominem Attacks Work
2020-06-09 Links 9/6/2020: Plasma 5.19 and GNU/Linux “on Desktop is Taking a Sudden Leap Forward”
2020-06-14 The Internet or the Web as a Platform for News is Dying (If Not Already Dead)
2020-06-14 BBC Turned From Public Broadcaster Into Bill Gates-Funded Propaganda Machine and... a Crank/Troll-Feeding Machine
2020-06-17 One Week After Twitter Being 'Abandoned' the Sole Regret is Not Doing That a Lot Sooner
2020-06-19 Techrights is Growing and the Goal is Still Accuracy
2020-06-20 Addiction as Big Pharma/Drug Mentality in the Realm of Software
2020-06-21 Detecting and Undoing/Reversing Censorship of Microsoft Critics at Reddit
2020-06-26 Just Because We Dislike and Distrust Many Who Profit From COVID-19 Doesn't Mean It's a 'Hoax' (Opportunism Does Not Imply a Crisis Being Faked or Manufactured)
2020-06-30 Feeling Vindicated About the Harms of Social Control Media Being Widely Recognised
2020-07-01 Social Control Media Will Not Exist One Day
2020-07-04 Fourth of July in the United Kingdom and the United States
2020-07-08 (Software) Freedom is Elusive Without the Ability to Concentrate
2020-07-09 Social Control Media is About Social Control and If It Doesn't Ban You It'll Shut Down Everyone's Account (One Day)
2020-07-10 Racism in Technology (and Who Typically Lectures Us About the Subject)
2020-07-11 Free (as in Freedom) Software + Social Control Media ≠ Free Speech
2020-07-15 Twitter in 2020 is Where Information Comes to Die or to be Corrupted
2020-07-16 The Web is Drying Up, Journalism is Coming to an End
2020-07-18 Introduction to Techrights IRC
2020-07-22 Fifth Round of Microsoft Layoffs in Less Than 2 Months: Another Thousand Job Cuts (6% of LinkedIn Workforce)
2020-07-24 How Social Control Media Works: The Case of Twitter, Visualised and Annotated
2020-07-25 Many Things to Feel Thankful for in the GNU/Linux and Free Software Community
2020-07-25 It's Possible to be Antiracist and Proponent of Free Speech at the Same Time
2020-07-28 The Internet in 2020 is Really Bad for Free Speech
2020-07-29 The Internet and General-Purpose Technology Will Never Improve (But Only Get Worse Over Time) Unless People Stick to Principles, Take a Smarter Stance
2020-08-04 We Don't Really Know How Many People Died With (or From) COVID-19 and How Many Will Die After Home Recovery or Release From Hospital
2020-08-07 Site Upgrades Likely Coming Soon
2020-08-09 Techrights is Not Against Microsoft
2020-08-11 You Just Know Somebody is in a State of Retreat When the Strategy Becomes to Discredit One's Critics (or Collectively Paint Them All as Wrong/Crazy)
2020-08-14 Reporting Facts is Never a Crime (It Must Not Become That Way)
2020-08-15 Techrights is Still Growing, Not Only Publishing in Higher Volume/Frequencies
2020-08-16 Everything is Becoming Slow When Users Aren't the Top Priority
2020-08-28 [Meme] Microsoft's Concern Trolling: Can't Do Git Because E-mail is 'Hard'
2020-09-01 Promoting Free Software and Free Communications on Social Control Media Networks
2020-09-06 Social Control Media Ought Not Influence Election Outcomes (But It Does, Oftentimes Based on Misinformation, No Quality Control)
2020-09-11 Passing New Laws to Criminalise Those Looking to Hold Criminals Accountable (or Striving to Inform the Public)
2020-10-03 Twitter Undoubtedly Works for Fascists; We're Glad Techrights Never Participated in Twitter
2020-10-04 Corporate Bullies Disguised as Well-Meaning Activists, Equipped With Libel and Social Control Media Accounts
2020-10-04 On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Dog Until You Bark
2020-10-09 Bill Gates Deposition: Reminding Ourselves of Microsoft's Overt Monopoly Abuse and Antitrust Violations When Politicians and Media Distract From Both
2020-10-10 Milestone: Almost a Terabyte in a Single Week
2020-10-11 Conspiracy Theories Have Successfully Distracted From Perfectly Legitimate and Real Scandals of Bill Gates in India, the Fertile Ground for Unethical Mass Experimentation on Humans
2020-10-12 Reducing Resistance to Unjust Oligarchy and State Violence by Removing Words, Limiting Free Expression of Perfectly Valid Ideas and Facts
2020-10-15 Tech is Hard, But Being Agnostic and Uncaring is Even Harder
2020-10-17 The Sad Story of Mozilla Keeps Getting Sadder Because Mozilla's Managers Abandoned Users and Chose Companies as Their Clients
2020-10-19 When the Software -- and by Extension Hardware and Network -- Controls the User...
2020-10-23 TechRadar is an Irresponsible Clickbait and Misinformation Site Disguised as 'News'
2020-10-23 It's Going to be a Long, Long Winter
2020-10-28 Taking Our Efforts to the Next Level in an Increasingly Proprietary and Hostile Web
2020-10-28 In a State of Flux Due to Maintenance and Improvements
2020-11-01 Going 'Minimalist' and Getting Back to Basics (With Persistent Lock-Down Policies Offering Luxury of Time)
2020-11-01 Monopolies Cannot and Will Not Respect Your Privacy (It's an Anathema to Them)
2020-11-04 2020 Election -- Like 2016 Election -- Serves to Show Social Control Media is Disinformation Machine, a Growing Threat to Democracies
2020-11-06 Growing Centralisation Means More Spying and Censorship
2020-11-17 Regaining Control Over Infrastructure With Decentralisation and Trusted Encryption
2020-11-27 A Free Speech Deficit Harms Software Freedom
2020-11-27 Guarding Your Privacy With E2EE: Primer
2020-12-05 Twitter Will Abandon Older Systems/Geeks on December 15th and Fediverse Rots Away (Pleroma.site and Pleroma.fr Shut Down Without Notice)
2020-12-15 Thanks for All the Fish and Goodbye, Twitter
2020-12-16 Video: Twitter is Just Social Control Media
2020-12-26 The World Wide Web (or Worldwide Empire): Optimised for Social Control Media
2021-01-03 2020 as Another Terrible Year for News Sites and Plenty of Other Bad News
2021-01-04 Julian Assange's Extradition DENIED by British Court (Updated)
2021-01-20 Recent Techrights Articles About President Joe Biden
2021-01-24 Social Control Media is a Passing Fad, We Should All Go Back to Blogging and Subscribing to RSS Feeds
2021-01-25 Important Issues Not Entertained in the Community, Especially Critics of the Status Quo
2021-01-26 Why You Should Give Falkon (the Web Browser) a Chance on GNU/Linux, BSD, or Windows
2021-01-28 Twitter is Hiding Techrights and Partly Shadowbans Yours Truly
2021-01-29 Fediverse Bans/Deplatforms Users Whose Views Are Deemed 'Edgy' and When They Set Up Their Own Instances Those Too Get Blocked
2021-01-30 Corporations Aren't Communities and Communities Controlled by Corporations Are Fake Communities
2021-01-30 There's No Lack of Money, There's Organised Looting
2021-01-31 The Decentralised Web/Internet is Constantly Under Attack and We Must Talk About That
2021-02-04 Twitter: We Suspend Your Account For Quoting the Media About Bill Gates
2021-02-04 Quitting Social Control Media or Becoming Inactive/Passive in All of It
2021-02-06 Twitter Has Just Suspended the President of FFII for Naming Bill Gates Patent Profiteering and Factual Information About Twitter Censorship (Updated)
2021-02-06 Turn to RSS Feeds (and Local/Native RSS Readers) to Regain Control of the World Wide Web
2021-02-06 Bypassing Censorship to Publish Exclusive and Suppressed (But Fact-Checked) Stories
2021-02-07 Read Techrights Every Day Without a Web Browser, Using a Cron Job
2021-02-09 Judge Sites By What They Say, Not Who Reads or Links to Them
2021-02-10 Raspberry Pied in the Face -- Part V: Raspberry Bye? The Lost of Trust is Pervasive and the (Un)Official Response Unhelpful
2021-02-12 What Microsoft Did to the Raspberry Pi Foundation is Part of a Broader Anti-GNU/Linux Strategy
2021-02-14 Free Software Makes Life Easier, Not Harder
2021-02-14 How We Efficiently Manage the 'Techrights HQ'
2021-02-15 Cancel Canonical?
2021-02-17 Twitter Controls Society on Behalf of Corporations and Oligarchs (Social Control Media Was All Along Just That)
2021-02-17 Leaving Outsourced Communication Platforms Behind
2021-02-21 Microsoft Inside -- Part I: Don't Get Close to Microsoft, It's Not a Love Story
2021-02-24 Self-Host Your Videos, Take Full Advantage of HTML5 and Video Attributes
2021-02-25 If Wikipedia is Controlled by Corporations and Mobs, It Needs to Be 'Cancelled'
2021-02-25 Eventually, or Hopefully, Many People Will Come Back to What the Web Used to Be (Or Web Alternatives More Like the 'Old' Web)
2021-02-27 SCO's Darl McBride is Finished (Bankruptcy)
2021-02-27 The Internet After Social Control Media (and Maybe After the World Wide Web Too)
2021-03-04 Free Software Calling
2021-03-05 Techrights in Australia (IPFS and Gemini)
2021-03-17 The Corporate Linux Foundation is Now Using the 'Code of Conduct' Aggressively and Excessively to Censor People Using Bots, Not Human Assessment
2021-03-21 Twitter and Hacker News Are Sensitive (Updated)
2021-03-27 A Factual Timeline of Attempts to Pressure the FSF Into Submission (Not to Promote Real Community and Freedom)
2021-03-29 A South American Perspective on Misframing the Debate about Free Software and Critics of Bill Gates
2021-03-31 Noise and Misinformation Benefit Crooks
2021-04-01 RMS Petition at 5,000+ and Techrights at 30,000+ Posts
2021-04-09 News Sites That Talk About Patents Have Become Shameless Self-Promotion 'Plugs' by Law Firms (and Sometimes Outright 'Spam' for Litigation)
2021-04-11 Gemini Gateways for IPFS
2021-04-16 The EFF Attacks Software Freedom and Promotes Fake Privacy Linked to Microsoft
2021-04-17 Links 17/4/2021: Linux 5.13 in Sight, Holland Warming up to Free Software
2021-04-23 Let's Bring Back RSS (RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication)
2021-04-24 Why RSS Feeds Are Far Better Than Social Control Media and So-called 'News' Portals
2021-04-24 RSS Feeds Make Reading Fun Again, Mostly Distraction- and Provocation-Free
2021-04-24 [Meme] Guilty!
2021-04-25 Getting Reliable and Multi-Sourced News Summaries in RSS Readers With Multitude of Feeds
2021-04-29 Defending Concepts, Defending Free Speech, Defending Society From Oppression
2021-04-30 Sticking It to YouTube (Google, Alphabet) by Self-Hosting Videos and Making Galleries
2021-05-01 TechBytes Coming Back Shortly
2021-05-08 Pro-Software Freedom Advocates and Free/Libre Software Supporters Face Barriers Due to Domination of Communication Channels (Beyond the Media)
2021-05-09 Gemini and Techrights: Still Growing in Gemini Space and Always Supporting/Loving the Protocol
2021-05-20 The Panic Over Freenode Isn't Justified and Its Reaction Mostly Disproportionate
2021-06-03 Official Policy/Statement on IRC
2021-06-04 Logging IRC From Self-Hosted and From Third Party (But Very Large) IRC Networks
2021-06-18 Virtual Injustice -- Part 10: Vapid and Superficial Coverage in the 'IP' Blogosphere
2021-07-02 HP Products Are Faulty and They Try to Censor Evidence of the Defects
2021-07-04 Links 4/7/2021: Raspberry Digital Signage 16.0 and Lots About Patents
2021-07-05 Do Not Settle on Just One Internet Protocol and Supplier
2021-07-05 Liberation Sentry, Not 'Open Source' (Openwashing)
2021-07-11 Chronicles of the Defunct Patent Office/Legal System in Europe
2021-07-12 Proprietary Software on the Road to Nowhere
2021-07-23 The Next One Thousand Blog Posts and the 15th Anniversary of Techrights
2021-07-27 Getting News and Updates Over Gemini (in General and for Techrights)
2021-07-28 The One Reason I Cannot Get 'Google News' (or Google) Completely Out of My Life
2021-08-24 For Resistance to Censorship (e.g. Evidence of Corruption and War Crimes) Get Off 'the Cloud'
2021-09-02 Links 2/9/2021: KDE Gear 21.08.1 and Docker Upselling
2021-09-12 Links 12/9/2021: Atari VCS, KDE Slimbook, and Elecrow CrowPi 2 Reviewed
2021-09-14 Twitter -- Like Google's YouTube -- is 'Hiding' Tweets From People Who Follow You
2021-09-20 Microsoft and the EPO: A History of Threats and Suppression Against the Free Press
2021-09-22 Socially- or Corporate- or Centrally-Controlled Surveillance, Censorship and Throttling is Not Media
2021-09-24 NPR and PBS, Both Funded by Bill Gates, Try to Save Him
2021-10-21 How Oppressive Governments and Web Monopolists Might Try to Discourage Adoption of Internet Protocols Like Gemini
2021-10-21 Gemini Protocol and Gemini Space Are Not a Niche; for Techrights, Gemini Means Half a Million Page Requests a Month
2021-10-28 Becoming Robust to Censorship is a Technical Challenge for Web Sites That Publish Suppressed Information and Supportive Material
2021-11-05 Gemini Protocol is Very Useful for Escaping Misinformation, Targeted (Spying) Ads, and Spam
2021-11-06 When 'Smart' is Dumb and Being Supposedly 'Dumb' is Likely Smarter (in Order to Get Real Work Done)
2021-11-07 Life Before Techrights
2021-11-16 Brave Browser is Not a Platform for Extremists. The Southern Poverty Law Center is Way Off Base.
2021-11-22 Microsoft's GitHub is Hugely Toxic and It Censors Critics of Corporations or People Sceptical of Those in Power
2021-11-23 Black Friday SPAM on the World Wide Web: A Reminder That the Web is a Dying Platform, Languishing Due to Marketing and Misinformation
2021-11-23 In Light of Fast-Accelerating Deterioration -- Sometimes Weaponisation -- Getting Off the World Wide Web (to the Extent Feasible) Makes You Saner and Less Susceptible to Manipulation, Lies
2021-11-30 Jack Dorsey's Decision is a Wake-up Call: Social Control Media is Just a Toxic Bubble
2021-11-30 Freenode.net Becomes a 'Reddit Clone' and Freenode IRC is Back to Old Configurations After Flushing Down Decades' Worth of User/Channel Data and Locking/Shutting Out Longtime Users
2021-12-17 The Free Software Foundation's Code of Ethics Protects It From Infiltration and Skulduggery
2021-12-23 The Internet is Getting Rid of Microsoft, But We're Still Not Getting Back Our Autonomy/Freedom (It's a Paradigm Issue, Not a Brand Issue)
2021-12-30 Criticising Microsoft and the OSI is “COVID-19 Misinformation”
2021-12-30 Social Control Media is Out of Control, Now It Censors Microsoft Critics Using Straw Man Arguments and False Pretexts
2021-12-30 [Meme] OSI Has Choked Itself to Death (by Surrendering to Its Worst Enemy)
2021-12-30 “It is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something, When His Salary Depends on His Not Understanding It” (Upton Sinclair)
2021-12-30 In the Latest OSI Tax Filing (From the IRS), Filed 13 Months Ago, Only 4% of the Revenue Comes From Members (People, Not Corporations) and $252,702 Goes to Microsoft Projects (Propping Up Proprietary Software Monopoly)
2022-01-01 2021 Was a Fantastic Year for Gemini, 2022 Might be the Same
2022-01-03 Stop Cheering/Calling for Social Control Media Censorship, Quit Getting 'Information' From It Instead
2022-01-06 Time for a Twitter Boycott?
2022-01-10 How Twitter Helps Perpetrators of Sexual Violence
2022-01-10 Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XIV — Gaslighting Victims of Sexual Abuse and Violence
2022-01-15 Blogging and Microblogging in Geminispace With Gemini Protocol
2022-01-17 Links 17/1/2022: digiKam 7.5.0 and GhostBSD 22.01.12 Released
2022-01-21 The Future of Techrights
2022-01-22 Peak Code — Part II: Lost Source
2022-02-01 How We Serve Video Without Outsourcing and Without the Web (to Some Extent)
2022-02-03 When Blogs Become Marketing and Benchmarks Become Product Promotions
2022-02-08 Gemini Space Growing Tenfold in 2 Years Seems Possible and That's Good News for the Planet and for Mental Health
2022-02-10 Social Control Media is a Bubble and JoinDiaspora Might be the Next Casualty
2022-02-14 When It Comes to Patents, Lies Have Become the 'Norm'
2022-02-14 No Need for a Diaspora Away From JoinDiaspora, as the Pod Looks Like It'll Survive After All
2022-02-16 YouTube is Becoming Mostly SPAM
2022-02-17 Getting Accurate News on the Internet is Hard; From the Web It's Even Harder
2022-02-20 There Was Never 'Web 2.0', So There Cannot be 'Web 3' and the Future of the Web Doesn't Look Good
2022-02-23 SPAM is Ruining the World Wide Web and We Need to Talk About That
2022-02-24 The End of JoinDiaspora. Thanks for All the Fish...
2022-02-24 We Need to Start Self-Hosting Wherever and Whenever Possible
2022-02-28 Free Software at Times of War (Versus Microsoft Graft)
2022-03-01 Twitter Profits From Conflict
2022-03-02 Reducing the Webspam by Moving Away From Social Control Media and Adopting Gemini Where Possible
2022-03-02 Reviewing Gifts and Coverage of News About Companies That Supply These Gifts
2022-03-03 News Roundups (Daily Links) Improved, Other Site-Related News of Interest
2022-03-04 Today is the Last Goodbye to Social Control Media
2022-03-04 Quite Likely My Last Tweet (Almost My Millionth Tweet, With a Rounding Error)
2022-03-05 Quitting Social Control Media: The Day After
2022-03-07 [Meme] When the Web User is a Corporation (Using the Visitors) and Computers Don't Serve Their Buyers
2022-03-07 The Patent Distortion: How So-called 'News' Sites About Patents Perished, and Refusal to Honestly Cover the News Played a Role in Their Demise
2022-03-09 The Internet is Breaking and We Need Contingencies
2022-03-11 The Mind Works Better With All Social Control Media Turned Off
2022-03-20 Life After Social Control Media: A Fortnight Later
2022-03-21 Twitter: We're Actually a News Site, Follow These 'Tweets' and Twits
2022-03-21 Social Control Media Double Standards: Killing is OK (If It's Profitable to the Platform Owner)
2022-03-23 On the Internet, Outsourcing Was All Along a Bubble
2022-03-26 Canonical is Becoming Softer (Pro-Microsoft and Against Free Speech)
2022-03-28 The Latest 'Engagement' Spam From Twitter (ICYMI SPAM): Putting Junk in the Notifications Area, Too
2022-03-29 Techrights Has Some Solid Plans, But Preparations Are Underway
2022-03-31 As Twitter Activity Decreases (Twitter Channels the Remaining Traffic Into Fewer Accounts for 'Engagement''), Notifications Transition Into ICYMI Mode (SPAM)
2022-04-01 Ángel García Menéndez on Social Control Media
2022-04-02 Where E-Mail, IRC and USENET (Even Social Control Media) Fail at Communications
2022-04-02 Being Nice to Each Other and Avoidance of Miscommunication
2022-04-03 Matthew Wise Explains Why Social Control Media is Bad and We Need to Revert Back to Private, Self-Hosted Blogging
2022-04-03 The Patent Distortion: The Media Has Failed Us, Patent Extremism Has Replaced It
2022-04-05 Linux Foundation Should Remove Linux From Its Name
2022-04-06 Thoughts on Quitting Social Control Media, One Month Later...
2022-04-06 Waiting for the Boat to Sink or Disembarking Early
2022-04-06 [Meme] It's All Connected (and Wired)
2022-04-16 Twitter is Not as Important as the Media Wants Us to Believe
2022-04-20 A Pandemic of Webspam and Fake News About GNU/Linux
2022-04-25 Google's YouTube is Not Free Video Hosting
2022-05-01 Don't Become or Remain a Slave of Elon Musk (Social Control Media is Still a Bubble)
2022-05-10 Peak AMD
2022-05-10 The Web and Social Control Media (Including YouTube and Blogs Like Phoronix) Increasingly Bought and Paid for
2022-05-16 Archiving Latest Posts in Geminispace (Like a Dated Web Directory But for Gemini)
2022-05-19 A Libera.Chat Anniversary and Happy Birthday (Maybe the Last) to 'Leenode'
2022-05-20 Outsourcing Sites to Social Control Media is an Outdated Mindset in 2022
2022-05-27 Visual Proof That Twitter Very Likely Faked Its Magnitude the Moment Musk et al (KSA, Ellison and so on) Wanted to Buy
2022-05-28 The Popularity of the World Wide Web is Partly Faked (Bots and Scams, Especially in Social Control Media)
2022-06-03 A Sincere, Non-Revisionist History of Techrights
2022-06-05 Readjusting for the Coming Decade
2022-06-12 With Google News (as RSS Feeds) Out of My Life I'm Finally 100% Google-Free
2022-06-13 Why Google Has Become a Social Control Media Company (and Should be Treated as Such)
2022-06-18 Life Without Google: A Week Later
2022-06-18 Wikipedia is No Longer Trustworthy on Matters of Commerce and Politics (Because of Financial Motives and Power Incentives)
2022-07-03 The World Wide Web is Not Growing, Gemini Does
2022-07-04 Gemini is Becoming Increasingly Interconnected and Adopts More Modern Encryption Protocols
2022-07-06 YouTube Videos Over Gemini
2022-07-10 Links 10/07/2022: QCoro 0.6.0 and Voice 0.0.6 for GNOME 43
2022-07-14 Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a Microsoft Front Group, Still Defending GPL Violations on Microsoft's Payroll
2022-07-28 Twitter is Dying, Based on Its Own Numbers (Which It Can Barely Fake Anymore, for Fear of Getting Caught by Elon Musk and His Lawyers)
2022-08-08 Techrights in the Next Ten Years
2022-08-13 Techrights Site Migration to Alpine Linux Has Already Started
2022-08-13 How We Envision Information Flow on the Internet (and Offline)
2022-08-16 Links 16/08/2022: Proton 7.0-4 Steam Play and Ubuntu Touch on Fairphone 4
2022-08-26 Not Just Twitter: YouTube is Failing, Flailing, and Tolerating Clickfraud (Bot Activity) in Order to Fake Its Size (Audience Magnitude)
2022-08-26 Traffic in Social Control Media is Fake, Based on Whistleblowers Too
2022-09-09 The World Wide Web is Not (or No Longer) a Censorship Circumvention Mechanism for Controversial Literature and Authors
2022-09-12 Links 12/09/2022: LF Does Openwashing for Facebook/GitHub (Microsoft) and GNU/Linux Outperforms Vista 11
2022-09-26 Microsoft LinkedIn “Experimented” on Over 20 Million People Over Five Years and May Have Stopped Some of Them From Getting a Job
2022-09-26 Media Censorship is Spreading and Infesting the World Wide Web
2022-09-28 Free Speech is Becoming as Scarce as Independent Journalism (Even at the FSF)
2022-10-09 Social Control Media Heading Towards Extinction
2022-10-09 The Promise of Data (and Accounts') Portability in Federated Networks Like Fediverse and Diaspora is Still Unfulfilled
2022-10-09 [Meme] There is No Such Thing as Social Control Media; It's Not Social, It's Not Media, It's Just Other People's Computers (Servers)
2022-10-12 Reddit and Other Social Control Media Exist to Deceive and Censor
2022-10-12 Links 12/10/2022: GNU Health is Fourteen, Mesa 22.2.1, and GStreamer 1.20.4
2022-10-15 'Linux' Foundation Games Social Control Media Sites to Defraud Clients
2022-10-27 It's Naive to Believe Foreign For-Profit Corporations Will Guard Democracy Online
2022-10-27 Critics of Voting Machines (Proprietary With Back Doors) Aren't Nazis
2022-10-27 Elon Musk is Buying a Dying Train Wreck Tomorrow (Twitter)
2022-10-29 There Has Never Been a Better Time to Quit Twitter
2022-11-02 More Technical People Recognise the Importance of Being Offline Sometimes (and the Covert Dangers of Technology)
2022-11-07 Don't Move From Twitter and Facebook to Something Similar -- Even If Free/Decentralised/Federated -- When You Can Just Dump All Social Control Media (Altogether)
2022-11-08 Twitter's Elon Musk Imitates Freenode's Andrew Lee
2022-11-10 Facebook is Dying. Part II.
2022-11-11 Our Sixteenth Anniversary
2022-11-11 Links 11/11/2022: Twitter Bankruptcy Possible
2022-11-11 2023 Should be the Year You've Lived Without Social Control Media (Any of It!)
2022-11-13 The Twitter Exodus
2022-11-14 I Was Already Banned From Mastodon.social After Three Days for Insulting the Chinese Communist Government and Talking About Bill Gates
2022-11-17 Social Control Media is Dying, Long Live Gemini
2022-11-21 Reddit is a Corporate Clique of Censorship and Perception Manipulation
2022-11-21 TikTok is Singled Out for Nationalistic Reasons, All Social Control Media is Toxic
2022-11-26 Unitary Patent Lobbying: Stacked UPC Panel With 250 People in Attendance Spun as “3000 Viewers Followed the Conference” (a Lie)
2022-11-28 Blogs Are Better and Gemlogs (Blogs Over Gemini) May be Best
2022-12-01 Twitter: Not a Platform for Activism But for AstroTurfing and Manipulation by States and Plutocracy
2022-12-01 Condé Nast (Owner of Reddit and Many Other Microsoft-Funded Sites) Promoting Software Patents
2022-12-03 10 Good Things That Happened in 2022
2022-12-17 Links 17/12/2022: PeerTube Version 5
2022-12-25 Twitter's Potential Change on Suicide Prevention Policy Distracts From the Suicide of Twitter Itself
2022-12-31 “Successful Bankruptcy”: Management Running the Company... Into the Ground
2023-01-01 2022 in Gemini: More Code, New Planet/s, Many Videos, and Nice Utilities
2023-01-31 60 Days of Articles About Sirius 'Open Source' and the Long Road Ahead
2023-02-28 Links 28/02/2023: qBittorrent 4.5.2 and Godot 4.0 RC 6
2023-03-20 Great Things Brewing
2023-03-23 Links 23/03/2023: Linux 6.2.8 and XWayland 23.1.0
2023-03-24 Links 24/03/2023: Social Control Media Bans Advancing
2023-03-26 Links 26/03/2023: More TikTok Bans
2023-03-27 The World Wide Web is a Cesspit of Misinformation. Let's Do Something About It.
2023-04-02 Why Techrights Condones Fentanylware (TikTok) Ban and Suggests Extending Bans to Supposedly 'Good' Fentanyl
2023-04-06 Leave Twitter Now
2023-04-08 The Sensitive Ukraine Documents Weren't Grabbed From Social Control Media, Just Leaked There (Microsoft Azure, Windows, and/or Rogue Insider Most Probable Factor to Blame)
2023-04-21 Twitter Up in Flames (Like a Flaming Rocket)
2023-05-02 The World Wide Web at 30: Time to Gradually Retire It and Embrace Something Else
2023-05-04 Newer is Not Always Better (the Case of Automobiles)
2023-05-07 Reporting That Embarrasses Powerful People Online is at Risk (Politicians Are at It Again)
2023-05-08 Twitter is Only About 10% of Social Control Media (Far Less Than Most People Imagine) and That's Decreasing Over Time
2023-05-08 Gemini Links 08/05/2023: New Joiners and Social Control Media Fatigue
2023-05-09 LibreOffice: Pay Us to be Quoted, Be Promoted in Social Control Media, and Get a Keynote Speech Slot
2023-05-15 Links 15/05/2023: Linux 6.4 RC2 and KeePassXC 2.7.5
2023-05-16 It's Time to Leave YouTube (It'll Only Get a Lot Worse)
2023-05-17 Links 17/05/2023: New Tails and Debian Installer Bookworm RC 3
2023-05-19 Links 18/05/2023: Weston 12.0.0 and IRPF-Livre 2023
2023-05-24 RSS Feeds (or XML/Atom) Are Far Better Than Social Control Media, Doing It With CLI and Text Editors Works Best for Us
2023-05-26 Links 26/05/2023: Qt 6.5.1 and Subsystems in GNUnet
2023-05-27 Social Control Media Needs to be Purged and We Need to Convince Others to Quit It Too (to Protect Ourselves as Individuals and as a Society)
2023-05-28 No More Twitter, Mastodon, and Diaspora for Tux Machines (Goodbye to Social Control Media)
2023-06-01 Tux Machines Closing the Door on Twitter Because Twitter is Dead (for a Lot of People)
2023-06-08 The Need to Evolve on the Internet
2023-06-09 What Will Happen After All Major News Sites Die Isn't Pretty
2023-06-12 New Series: Why People Everywhere Should Quit YouTube
2023-06-14 Why You Should Quit YouTube - Part 5: The Real Enemy Has Become Sanity of Users
2023-06-14 Why You Should Quit YouTube - Part 6: The 'Audiences' as the Enemies of YouTube
2023-06-15 Why You Should Quit YouTube - Part 8: YouTube, Google, and Alphabet as the West's Political Opportunists and Enemies of Public Health
2023-06-16 Why You Should Quit YouTube - Part 9: Name Your Poison
2023-06-17 [Meme] Their Power is Your Wasted Time
2023-06-17 TikTok is a Chinese Weapon Controlled by a Dangerous Company (ByteDance) and We Must Treat It Like a Chinese Weapon for Our Own Sake
2023-06-17 When We Don't Have Independent Media COVID-19, Nord Stream Etc. Become the 'Next JFK' (a Mishmash of Theories, No Definitive Answers)
2023-06-18 Facebook/Fakebook in the Mass Layoffs Era: Fakes, Misinformation, and Global Outages
2023-06-18 Techrights Statement on Paths Ahead in the Era of News Drought and Widely-Waning Web
2023-06-18 There is No Such Thing as 'Cryptocurrency' and Please Stop Referring to It as Cryptocurrency
2023-06-19 Buying the News and Gutting the News: How Information Online is Increasingly Controlled by the Few, for the Few
2023-06-20 Code of Conduct: Still Falsely Advertised by Online Bullies and Serial Defamers Who Rely on Corporate Enforcers for Gate-keeping
2023-06-24 Social Control Media is Going Away Gradually and People Need to Return to Self-Hosting, Blogs, RSS, Truly Independently News Sites
2023-06-27 Things Looking Grim for Media Online and Even for Social Control Media
2023-06-27 Free Software Communities Make Red Bait (IBM), Google, Microsoft (GAFAM) and Others Obsolete, But They're Fighting Back Viciously and Mercilessly
2023-06-29 Free Software Foundation (FSF) Added Dr. Miriam Bastian as Program Manager to Its Staff Page Some Time Last Month
2023-06-29 Some People Who Signed a Defamatory Petition Demanding the Removal of Richard Stallman (From the FSF and Everything Else) Have Remorse
2023-07-01 2023 Will Be Remembered as the Year Social Control Media Was Dying
2023-07-01 Links 01/07/2023: More Woes for Social Control Media
2023-07-02 ByteDance is a National and International Threat, TikTok is Just a 'Command and Control' Front End
2023-07-03 Twitter is Effectively Dead and Offline to People Without an Account in Twitter
2023-07-03 Facebook Contributed to Death of Online Journalism and What's Left Online Isn't Covering Real Facebook Scandals
2023-07-06 Mozilla Waters Down Its Vision of The Internet
2023-07-07 Social Control Media is Bad and the Solution is to Reject All of It
2023-07-10 The Corporate ‘Cancel Culture’ Industry — Part VIII: In Conclusion
2023-07-10 Boycott TikTok
2023-07-12 How Twitter (Quite Likely Both the Company and the Platform) Died in June/July 2023
2023-07-14 IRC in 2023: Fewer Online Users, But Not Fewer Networks
2023-07-15 TikTok Still Encouraging and Rewarding Deadly Behaviour, But Beware the Straw Men
2023-07-21 Twitter.com is Back Behind 'Paywalls' (or Walled Gardens Rather, Zero-Cost for Now), Social Control Media as a Whole is Perishing
2023-07-24 Threads is For 'Dumb Fucks'. Ask Mark Zuckerberg.
2023-07-25 statCounter: Twitter Down From 10.4% When Elon Musk Bought It to 8.7% This Month
2023-07-27 Federation Is Inferior to Self-Hosting and Using RSS Feeds (or Other Syndication Formats)
2023-07-29 GitLab the Company, Just Like GitHub (Now Part of Microsoft, Going Through Several Rounds of Layoffs This Year, Even Office Shutdowns), is Sinking Deep Into Debt and Showing the Risk of Outsourcing
2023-07-29 Social Control Media as a Bubble: Facebook (Meta) is in Debt Greater Than the Company is Really Worth or Has in the Bank
2023-07-30 An Informal Handbook for Digital Advocates (or Activists) and Campaigning
2023-07-31 Pressing X on X (Twitter Abandoned En Masse)
2023-08-04 Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) From Google Causes Widespread Backlash
2023-08-16 Links 16/08/2023: Kubernetes 1.28 and Debian Turns 30
2023-08-20 The 'Influencer' Era is Over, Embrace Alternatives to Social Control Media and the Web
2023-08-21 No, I'm Not in Mastodon or in the Fediverse. It's Fake.
2023-08-25 Politicians Should Not Use Social Control Media to Communicate to the Public and the Public Should Get News From News Sites
2023-08-27 Bytedance/TikTok is a Threat to Freedom, Including Free Speech
2023-08-27 Rejecting Social Control Media and Oppressive Systems, Matrix.org the Latest in Social Media Death Spiral
2023-08-31 Operation Mole — Part VII — From 'Be Nice!' to Threats of Violence
2023-08-31 Libera.Chat Became Far Smaller After the Collapse of Matrix.org, But the Number of Distinct IRC Networks is Growing
2023-09-04 Links 04/09/2023: fwupd 1.9.5 and Linux Lite 6.6
2023-09-05 Using Free Software, Preferably Locally-Hosted, to Control and Secure Communications
2023-09-08 Twitter/X Usage Down Sharply This Year, According to statCounter (From 12.4% to 8.1% in Just 8 Months)
2023-09-15 The Web Browser We Lost (Not Just the Web We Lost)
2023-09-15 Mozilla is GAFAM, Just Look at Who Runs the Company
2023-09-17 Operation Mole — Part IX — Hobby or Personal Gain Foreseen (Reward for Attacking Free Software)?
2023-09-24 The New Techrights Will be Much Faster
2023-09-26 The World Wide Web is Being Confiscated From Us (Like Syndication Was Withdrawn About a Decade Ago) and We Need to Fight Back
2023-09-26 Twitter: From Walled Gardens to Paywalls and/or Amplifiers of Fascism
2023-09-26 Good Teachers Would Tell Kids to Quit Social Control Media Rather Than Participate in It (Teaching Means Education, Not Misinformation)
2023-09-26 Real Life Should be Offline, Not Online, and It Requires Free Software
2023-09-26 Mozilla Promotes the Closed Web and Proprietary Webapps That Are Security and Privacy Hazards
2023-09-29 Mobile Phones Aren't Your Friend or a Gateway to Truly Social Life
2023-09-30 A Society That Fails Journalists Does Not Deserve Journalism
2023-09-30 Social Control Media Has No Future, It Was Always Doomed to Fail (Also Promoted Based on Lies)
2023-09-30 Quitting 'Clown Computing' and GAFAM is Only the Start
2023-09-30 Over at Tux Machines...
2023-10-05 opensource.com/opensource.net Hiding How Dead They Truly Are After Mass Layoffs at IBM/Red Hat
2023-10-07 The Site Has Gotten Faster, Also in the Publication Sense
2023-10-09 Links 09/10/2023: Catching Up With the Past Week
2023-10-11 Sites That Lack RSS Feeds in 2023 Render Themselves Obsolete, a Niche
2023-10-11 A Year After Elon Muscovite Bought (Destroyed) Twitter
2023-10-12 Windows Works for Moscow (When Russia's Enemies Use It)
2023-10-13 When All They Have Left is Ad Hominem Attacks...
2023-10-13 Links 13/10/2023: Tackling Nomophobia, Disinformation in Social Control Media Proliferates
2023-10-14 Don't Wrestle With a Pig in the Mud
2023-10-15 The Hype of 'Generative Hey Hi' (G.A.I.) is Over, It Won't Replace the Dying Media
2023-10-16 Linux Today Left Twitter (X) 2 Months Ago, 14 Years After It Had Joined
2023-10-16 Reddit is a Linux-Hostile Censorship and FUD Machine
2023-10-17 Over at Tux Machines...
2023-10-17 Links 17/10/2023: AMD Violating Supply Contract, Microsoft's Latest Sponsored Spin on the Mass Layoffs
2023-10-19 It Looks Like Gulag Noise ("Google News") is Dying and Legal Issues/New Laws Likely Contributed a Lot to That
2023-10-20 Elon Musk is Killing the Bird With a Paywall, Not Just Walled Gardens
2023-10-20 The World After Google News
2023-10-21 Is It a Trap?
2023-10-24 Links 24/10/2023: Many Layoffs Again and Rejections of 'Smart' Phones or Social Control Media
2023-10-24 Nothing That Free Software Activists Ever Do or Say Will Satisfy Those Looking to 'Kill' (or 'Cancel') Them
2023-10-25 [Video] Focusing on Sites, Not Third Parties (Such as Social Control Media)
2023-10-29 [Video] The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Needs More Guts, More Public Statements in Support of Its Core Tenets
2023-10-29 Links 29/10/2023: Long COVID, Matthew Perry Dies
2023-10-30 Free Software-Hostile Militants Created Fictional and Defamatory Blogs About Me. It Turns Out They Wrote About Themselves, Projecting Their Own Abusive Behaviour.
2023-10-30 Google is Failing Millions of People Who Wish to Know More About GNU/Linux
2023-10-30 Links 30/10/2023: Hardware Sanctions Failing, Apple May Face Import Bans
2023-10-31 Links 31/10/2023: TikTok Scrutiny and More Censorship
2023-10-31 Links 31/10/2023: Twitter Imploding, Guppy Protocol Specification 0.4
2023-11-01 Links 1/11/2023: Copyright CG Case, Nokia Aggressive Again With Software Patents (Even in Kangaroo Courts)
2023-11-01 Links 01/11/2023: Bungie Layoffs and Mindless Promotion of Illegal Kangaroo Court (Unified Patent 'Court')
2023-11-03 Links 03/11/2023: Another Big Round of Layoffs, Australian Banks Offline
2023-11-04 Links 04/11/2023: Many More Layoffs, Attacks on the Press
2023-11-07 Links 07/11/2023: Privacy Crackdowns and Journalists' Deaths
2023-11-08 Demoralising Workers
2023-11-08 Links 08/11/2023: Lots More Censorship and Collaboration Initiative Regarding Software Patent Monopolies Inside Standards
2023-11-09 Links 09/11/2023: Kubernetes Stuff and Nature Tricked Into Publishing Superconductor Paper/Hoax
2023-11-10 Links 10/11/2023: Google's Secret Payment Deal with Spotify, Another Call to Set Assange Free
2023-11-13 Links 13/11/2023: Tuberculosis Crisis and Sportwashing Again
2023-11-14 Microsoft and Google Won't Save Online (on the Web) News, They Will Squash It While Self-Detonating
2023-11-14 Erosion of RSS Feeds a Part of the 'Commercialisation' (as in Commercial, Proprietary, DRM-Saddled) of the Web
2023-11-15 Links 15/11/2023: Social Control Media Facing More Lawsuits, GAFAM Has Another Round of Layoffs
2023-11-16 Links 16/11/2023: Microsoft Unbans Radical Sites, Biden Meets Winnie the Pooh
2023-11-17 Links 17/11/2023: Diplomacy With China and More Fentanylware (TikTok) Bans
2023-11-17 Links 17/11/2023: Health and Privacy Issues, IBM Pulling Out of Twitter/X
2023-11-18 Links 18/11/2023: Amazon Alexa Layoffs, Arguments Over Hong Kong and Taiwan
2023-11-19 Links 19/11/2023: More Trouble in Microsoft's 'Open'AI and Amazon's Listening Devices
2023-11-21 Links 21/11/2023: 'Open' 'AI' Collapsing (as We Predicted All Along) While Argentina Moves to the Far Right
2023-11-22 Links 22/11/2023: Strikes and Deterioration in Health
2023-11-23 Links 23/11/2023: Binance Trouble and More EPO Patents Thrown Out
2023-11-24 Links 24/11/2023: ‘Apps’, Ceasefire, and More Russia Aggression at Finnish Border
2023-11-24 Links 24/11/2023: UPC Worries and Paid Propaganda, China Experiences Respiratory Illness Spike
2023-11-25 "Buy Nothing Day" Was Yesterday. Today... Download BSDs and GNU/Linux Day (No Need to Buy).
2023-11-26 When the So-called 'Cancel Culture' Sees Everything in Free Software Through the Scopes of 'Sex' (Because It Cannot Argue on Technical or Legal Grounds)
2023-11-27 What News Industry???
2023-11-27 Still Growing, Still Getting Faster
2023-11-28 Professor Eben Moglen on How Social Control Media Metabolises Humans and Constrains Freedom of Thought
2023-11-28 Links 28/11/2023: New Zealand's Big Tobacco Pivot and Google Mass-Deleting Accounts
2023-11-29 Links 29/11/2023: VMware Layoffs and Too Many Microsofters Going Inside Google
2023-11-29 The 'Smart' Attack on Power Grid Neutrality (or the Wet Dream of Tiered Pricing for Power, Essentially Punishing Poorer Households for Exercising Freedom Like Richer Households)
2023-11-30 Links 30/11/2023: Google Purging Many Accounts and Content (to Save Money), Finland Fully Seals Border With Russia
2023-12-01 It's Cheaper to Pay Bribes (and Produce Press Releases) Than to Pay Fines (After Lots of Negative Publicity)
2023-12-01 Links 01/12/2023: Facebook Infested With Malicious Campaigns by Imposters, ACLU Gives Advice on Doxxing and Online Harassment
2023-12-04 Links 04/12/2023: COVID-19 Data Misused Again, Anti-Consumerism Activism
2023-12-04 Forging IRC Logs and Impersonating Professors: the Lengths to Which Anti-Free Software Militants Would Go
2023-12-04 Reddit (Condé Nast), Which Has Another Round of Layoffs This Month, Incited People Against GNU/Linux Users (Divide and Rule, It's 2003 All Over Again!)
2023-12-04 [Meme] Social Control Media Giants Shaping Debates on BSDs and GNU/Linux
2023-12-05 Eben Moglen on Encryption and Anonymity
2023-12-05 There's Nothing "Funny" About Attacking Free Speech and Software Freedom
2023-12-06 Links 06/12/2023: Many More December Layoffs
2023-12-06 Links 06/12/2023: Bitcoin Rebound, China Downgraded by American Firm, Yahoo! Layoffs Again
2023-12-08 Links 08/12/2023: Tidal and Simplilearn Layoffs
2023-12-09 Links 09/12/2023: Many 'Open'AI Employees Strongly Dislike Microsoft, Many Impending Strikes
2023-12-09 The EFF Should Know Better, But It Is Promoting Mass Surveillance by Facebook (an Endorsement of Lies)
2023-12-09 Links 09/12/2023: Dictator's Nomination in Russia
2023-12-10 Links 10/12/2023: Inflation Woes, Tensions With China
2023-12-10 Links 10/12/2023: Second Belmarsh Tribunal For Assange, EU Legislates for Buzzwords
2023-12-11 Links 11/12/2023: Climate News and Chatbots as Plagiarism
2023-12-11 Misogynists Versus Techrights
2023-12-12 Improving Site Navigation and Discovery
2023-12-12 Links 12/12/2023: Google Loses Major Case, Twitter (X) Invites Back Hate Preachers
2023-12-13 We Need to Encourage Society to Reject Modern Skinnerboxes (Made for Humans)
2023-12-13 Eben Moglen Correctly Predicted the Demise of Social Control Media and How It Would Happen
2023-12-14 Links 14/12/2023: Growing Tensions in the Far East and More Crackdowns on Dissent
2023-12-14 Eben Moglen in 2012: “Facebook Will Not Have Success for 10 More Years.”
2023-12-15 Links 15/12/2023: Train DRM and Finland's Russia-route Trains Re-purposed for Domestic Use
2023-12-15 Links 15/12/2023: Strikes Over Layoffs and Kangaroo Courts for Patent Monopolies in the EU
2023-12-16 Science is Offensive (Should We Just 'Get Used to It'?)
2023-12-16 Links 16/12/2023: Britain Investigates Harms by Social Control Media, Data Dragnet Warrants Illuminated
2023-12-16 [Meme] Win-Win for Mark Zuckerberg (Fediverse, Pleroma, Mastodon Finally 'Monetised')
2023-12-19 Links 19/12/2023: Kim's ICBM Adventure and Jimmy Lai's Bogus Trial (Persecution)
2023-12-19 Links 19/12/2023: Earthquakes and Internet Archive Woes
2023-12-19 Germany's Corruption Problem Curtails Adoption of GNU/Linux and Free Software
2023-12-20 December's 'Top' Posts (by Views)
2023-12-20 'Soft Layoffs' at Microsoft
2023-12-20 Only Fools Take Media (or Web) Advice From Social Control Media Moguls or From GAFAMonopolies
2023-12-20 [Meme] Mark Zuckerberg: They "trust me". "Dumb fucks."
2023-12-21 Links 21/12/2023: NASA Streams Cat Video and More Software Patents Invalidated
2023-12-21 Social Control Media is About Faking (Self) Importance, With Companies Preying on Insecurities and Profiting From Fake Popularity
2023-12-21 Tesla and Electric Vehicles (EVs) Are the Proprietary Software of the Automobile World
2023-12-22 Links 22/12/2023: Stephen Thaler Defeated Again (Patent Case), Kangaroo Court (UPC) Reviewed by Rogue Party
2023-12-22 Links 22/12/2023: PlayStation Layoffs Rumour, European Train Strikes
2023-12-23 All "Modern" Web Browsers Are OSPS (Proprietary in 'Open' Clothing)
2023-12-24 Links 24/12/2023: Kangaroo Court Update and a Merry Christmas
2023-12-26 Techrights Statement on Abuse Against the Site and Families of People Who Run It
2023-12-27 Taking Stock of an Exceptionally Strong Year
2023-12-29 Links 29/12/2023: Arrests of Dissents and Software Patent Problems
2023-12-30 Links 30/12/2023: 40% Surge in Tech Layoffs and Russian Weapons Over Poland
2024-01-03 Links 03/01/2024: High Inflation Again, Fentanylware (TikTok) Again Caught Biasing for Disinformation
2024-01-04 Links 04/01/2024: COVID-19 Resurgence and Patent Spam
2024-01-05 Links 05/01/2024: Russia's Help From North Korea and Return of COVID-19 Alerts
2024-01-07 We're Still Open to Comments, But Use IRC, Not Social Control Media
2024-01-08 opensource.com Remains Dead a Year Later and Our Assessment of opensource.net Has Aged Well, Too (Maybe Better to Focus on Software Freedom, Open-Source Became Synonymous With Proprietary Openwashing and Microsoft Bribes for the OSI Sealed the Deal/Death)
2024-01-08 Links 08/01/2024: Tensions in Taiwan and Ryan Lau (News Anchor in HK) Kills Himself
2024-01-10 Links 10/01/2024: A Shadow and Fear Over Taiwan's Election, Bubble 8.0 is Out
2024-01-11 Links 11/01/2024: Software Patents Challenged and Growing Tensions in East Asia (Election in Taiwan)
2024-01-12 Links 12/01/2024: More Mass Layoffs and Misinformation in Taiwan
2024-01-13 Links 13/01/2024: Fentanylware (TikTok) Flagged as National Threat, Tensions in East Asia Grow (Election)
2024-01-14 Links 14/01/2024: Conflict in Yemen, Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE) Try to Worsen Patent Law Again
2024-01-17 Links 17/01/2024: Reverse-Engineering PCBs and DRM Hooked to Satellites (John Deere)
2024-01-17 Links 17/01/2024: New COVID-19 Strains, China Stressed Over Taiwan
2024-01-18 Links 18/01/2024: Microsoft's Xbox Sales Collapse, Big YouTube Layoffs
2024-01-20 Tracking the Demise of 'Linux' News Sites (and of News Sites in General)
2024-01-21 Links 21/01/2024: Microsoft Breach Still Spun as "Russia" Something
2024-01-22 Links 22/01/2024: Microsoft's Chatbot Openly Promotes Fascism, Getty Images Latest to Call for Action
2024-01-22 Freenode 3 Years After the IRC Network's Collapse
2024-01-24 Links 24/01/2024: Natural Disasters and COVID-19 Rebounds
2024-01-24 Links 24/01/2024: SAP Disguising 8,000 Likely Layoffs as "Hey Hi"
2024-01-25 Links 25/01/2024: Concerns About Future of Xbox
2024-01-26 Links 26/01/2024: Right of Publicity Crises in "X", Intel Collapses
2024-01-31 Links 31/01/2024: PayPal Fires 2,500 Employees and Microsoft Layoffs at WoW Developer Impact Story Teams
2024-02-01 Links 01/02/2024: Social Control Media Under Regulatory Fire, Universal and Taylor Swift Quitting Fentanylware (TikTok)
2024-02-02 Links 02/02/2024: Okta and Zoom Layoffs, Software Patents From the EPO Thrown Out Again
2024-02-03 Links 03/02/2024: Unified Patents Killing More Software Patents, Google Cache Phased Out
2024-02-04 Techrights Will Never Surrender to Censors Who Resort to Blackmail and Violence
2024-02-05 Links 05/02/2024: More Mass Layoffs This Monday, Free Speech Under Growing Pressures in Asia
2024-02-06 Mastodon/Fediverse is Not a Reliable Communication Protocol or Tool, It Heavily Uses Blocklists Just Like E-mail in Recent Years
2024-02-06 [Meme] Your Value as a Coder is Not Defined by Microsoft Corporation (It's Only Illusions and 'Gamification' a la Social Control Media)
2024-02-07 Links 07/02/2024: Voice Synthesis Causing More Problems
2024-02-08 Who's Behind the Past Few Years' Campaigns of Character Assassination Anyway?
2024-02-09 Links 09/02/2024: Buzzwords, Hype, and Layoffs Still Dominate
2024-02-10 Reddit Has Not Been Important for Nearly a Decade and Now, Amid Mass Layoffs, Conde Nast Wants to Offload It
2024-02-10 Links 10/02/2024: Cisco Next With Mass Layoffs, Computer-Generated Fakes a Growing Problem
2024-02-10 Links 10/02/2024: Massive Increase in Power Bills and Farmers' Debt
2024-02-12 Links 12/02/2024: 'Cousins Are Disappearing' and Billionaires-Owned Media Gaslights/Misleads the Public About Layoffs' Cause
2024-02-13 Anecdotal Signs That Social Control Media (as a Concept) is Waning and Losing Popularity
2024-02-14 Links 14/02/2024: Orwellian Spying and State Violence as the 'New Normal'
2024-02-15 Links 15/02/2024: Rushing to Unionise Amid Mass Layoffs at Microsoft, High-Level Blizzard Departures
2024-02-16 Links 16/02/2024: Further Strikes and War Updates
2024-02-16 Links 16/02/2024: Misinformation and Climate Issues Persisting
2024-02-17 Links 17/02/2024: More Microsoft Layoffs (Lips Tightened), Many Tributes to Alexey Navalny
2024-02-19 Links 19/02/2024: Microsoft Reportedly Set to Cut Even More Jobs, Air Strikes in Yemen Continue
2024-02-21 Links 21/02/2024: Microsoft Sued for Monopolistic Policies, More Layoffs Planned for Next Month
2024-02-21 Links 21/02/2024: China Working on West-less Tech Future, More Bounties on Patent Troll Leigh M. Rothschild (Which IBM et al Failed to Dismantle at the Root)
2024-02-23 Links 23/02/2024: 227 Microsoft Layoffs Noted in Santa Clara and Disaster in Rivian
2024-02-24 Links 24/02/2024: EA Planning Layoffs and 'Liquor Regulators Are Seeking Revenge on Bars That Broke Pandemic Rules'
2024-02-25 Links 25/02/2024: New Rants About 'Hey Hi' Hype and JavaScript Bloat
2024-02-27 Google Fired Many Employees Working on Google News (Which Had Deteriorated and Became Gulag Noise, Littered and Gamed by Blogspam, Plagiarism, and Chatbot/Translator-Generated Spew), Now Comes the Likely 'Phase-out'
2024-02-27 The Ongoing Evolutionary Process of News-Reading (or News-Finding) on the World Wide Web
2024-02-27 Links 27/02/2024: PlayStation Layoffs and More Oppressive New Laws for Hong Kong
2024-02-28 Over at Tux Machines...
2024-02-28 Links 28/02/2024: Microsoft the Plagiarist is Projecting, Food Sector Adopts Surge Pricing
2024-02-28 Gemini Links 28/02/2024: Social Control Media Notifications and Gemini Protocol Extended
2024-02-28 Links 28/02/2024: Many War Updates and Censorship
2024-02-29 Links 29/02/2024: Layoffs at Apple, Expedia, and Electronic Arts
2024-03-01 Links 01/03/2024: Misuse of Surveillance Against UK-Based Journalism, EPO Conflict Now in the Media
2024-03-01 Links 01/03/2024: Navalny Funeral and Media Under Attack
2024-03-01 Links 01/03/2024: Many More Layoffs, "Funerals" for Software Patents in the US
2024-03-02 Wikipedia Demotes CNET Due to Chatbot-Generated Spew as 'Articles'; It Should Do the Same to ZDNet (Also Red Ventures, Also Microsoft Propaganda)
2024-03-02 Links 02/03/2024: Actual Journalists Under Attack, More Software Patents Being Challenged
2024-03-03 Links 03/03/2024: Depression in Hong Kong, Sex 'Apps' and STIs
2024-03-06 Links 06/03/2024: Mass Layoffs at IBM and Apple Fines
2024-03-06 Links 06/03/2024: Facebook Broken, Touchscreens Cost Lives
2024-03-07 Links 07/03/2024: A Long Tail of Stories
2024-03-08 Links 08/03/2024: TikTok Skinnerboxes Under Review Again, Last Month's Layoffs Break Records
2024-03-09 Links 09/03/2024: China and Japan Offer Grants to TSMC
2024-03-10 Links 10/03/2024: Getting Closer to Fentanylware (TikTok) Ban or Sale
2024-03-11 Links 11/03/2024: TikTok Bans May be Imminent, Social Control Media's Harms Increasingly Recognised
2024-03-12 Over at Tux Machines...
2024-03-12 Links 12/03/2024: More Strikes Ahead, Software Patents of IBM Debunked
2024-03-13 Links 13/03/2024: Chatbots Failing Quite Badly, TikTok in Trouble (US)
2024-03-14 Links 14/03/2024: Fentanylware/TikTok Ban Passed (US), Navalny Aide Attacked With Hammer
2024-03-14 Links 14/03/2024: Lots of TikTok Trouble, Putin Signals Conflict Beyond Ukraine
2024-03-15 The Demise of Bytedance/TikTok Would Do Good for Free Speech Online and Offline
2024-03-15 Links 15/03/2024: Attacks on Freedom of the Press and China Mobilises TikTok Addicts
2024-03-17 Links 17/03/2024: Abuses Against Human Rights, Tesla Settlement (and Crash)
2024-03-17 Links 17/03/2024: Microsoft Windows Shoves Ads Into Third-Party Software, More Countries Explore TikTok Ban
2024-03-18 Links 18/03/2024: Putin Cements Power
2024-03-19 Gemini Links 19/03/2024: A Society That Lost Focus and Abandoning Social Control Media
2024-03-19 Links 19/03/2024: Synthetic Objects Being Labeled as Fakes, Water Scarcity Spreads
2024-03-19 Gemini Links 20/03/2024:Dumping Social Control Media, Trading Oddities
2024-03-19 Links 20/03/2024: Internet Safety Discussed, Software Patents Invalidated Again
2024-03-21 Links 21/03/2024: Censorship and Repression in HK Accelerated, Next Steps for Fentanylware (TikTok) Ban
2024-03-21 The World Wide Web is Ill and RSS Feeds Cannot Cure the Illness, They're Merely Like 'Maintenance Drugs'
2024-03-22 Links 22/03/2024: Industrial Actions in World's Happiest Country, Google in Trouble Over Copyrights
2024-03-22 This Coming Year We Need Accurate Information About Sockpuppet Armies That Defame People Online
2024-03-23 Links 23/03/2024: Inflation Increases (Again) and Growing Debt in Finland
2024-03-24 With Reddit Working for Wall Street, Even More Than Before, Time to Contribute to Readers-Supported Sites Instead (E.g. SoylentNews)
2024-03-24 Getting More Done (With a Lot Less)
2024-03-25 Why Techrights Attracts Sabotage Attempts From Many Serial Abusers (or People Looking to Discredit the Site)
2024-03-25 Links 25/03/2024: Response to Terror Attack in Russia (137+ Dead) and UK Banking Sector Turns to Cannabis
2024-03-26 Links 26/03/2024: Inflation Problems, Strikes in Finland
2024-03-27 Sainsbury's: Let Them Eat Yoghurts (and Microsoft Downtimes When They Need Proper Food)
2024-03-27 Links 27/03/2024: BBC Resorts to CG Cruft, Akamai Blocking Blunders in Piracy Shield
2024-03-27 Links 27/03/2024: Ericsson and Tencent Layoffs
2024-03-28 Links 28/03/2024: Sega, Nintendo, and Bell Layoffs
2024-03-29 SoylentNews Grows Up, Registers as a Business, Site Traffic Reportedly Grows
2024-03-30 Links 30/03/2024: Google and Microsoft Replace Staff With H1-Bs, Google Apparently Kills All of Invidious Again
2024-03-31 [Meme] You Need to Scroll Down a Lot to See Who Pays Me...
2024-03-31 Gemini Links 31/03/2024: Plasma 6 and Disinformation in Social Control Media
2024-03-31 Links 31/03/2024: Farmers Striking and "the Next Banking Crisis"
2024-04-01 Lying to Canadian Authorities to Harass People, Even to Harass Their Spouses
2024-04-02 Links 02/04/2024: Microsoft Layoffs Again
2024-04-02 Richard Stallman Was Right and What Happened in XZ Wasn't a "Linux" or Free Software Problem, It Was Social Engineering (This Happens in Proprietary Software Too and, in This Case, It Was Enabled by Microsoft's Proprietary Social Control Media Disguised as 'Codeforge')
2024-04-03 Richard Stallman Explained How Proprietary Software Hides Rather Than Prevents Back Doors
2024-04-03 Links 03/04/2024: War Escalations and Election Manipulation via Social Control Media
2024-04-04 Links 04/04/2024: Attacks on the Press and Patent System Adopting Illegal Kangaroo Courts Controlled by Corporations
2024-04-04 Microsoft Enabled China to Crack US Government Systems. Now It Bribes the Media for "Sponsored" Narratives and Distraction (With "Linux").
2024-04-06 Links 06/04/2024: More Layoffs and Shutdowns, 'Small Web' Gaining Interest
2024-04-08 Links 08/04/2024: Chatbots Failing Badly (Recycling Their Own Spew), Microsoft Sabotages Third-party Interface Customisation Software
2024-04-08 Links 08/04/2024: Eclipse and Microsoft Trying to Hide "AI" Losses
2024-04-09 Mastodon (mastodon.social) Gives the Boot to the Militants Who Attacked My Wife and I
2024-04-09 Links 09/04/2024: Eclipse and Privacy in the Social Control Media Age
2024-04-09 Links 09/04/2024: More Own Goals by Twitter (X)
2024-04-11 [Video] How the Media Blamed SSH and Linux (for Nearly a Whole Fortnight!) Instead of Microsoft's GitHub and Systemd
2024-04-11 First They Came for Iranian Developers...
2024-04-11 Links 11/04/2024: Web Diversity and More Crackdowns in Russia
2024-04-12 Links 12/04/2024: Reporters Without Borders Rep Kicked Out of Hong Kong
2024-04-13 Links 13/04/2024: Huawei and Loongson PCs, IBM Layoffs
2024-04-13 Gemini Links 13/04/2024: SEO Spam and ‘Broadband Nutrition Label’
2024-04-14 Links 14/04/2024: Software Needed for Work and Issues in Brazil
2024-04-16 Over at Tux Machines...
2024-04-16 Links 16/04/2024: Many More Layoffs, Broadcom/VMware Probed (Antitrust)
2024-04-16 Ruben Schade's Story Shows the Toxicity of Social Control Media, Not GNU/Linux
2024-04-17 Microsoft's Windows Falls to All-Time Low and Layoffs Reported by Managers in the Windows Division
2024-04-18 Links 18/04/2024: Misuse of COVID Stimulus Money, Governments Buying Your Data
2024-04-20 Links 20/04/2024: Chinese Diplomacy and 'Dangerous New Course on BGP Security'
2024-04-20 Links 20/04/2024: Apple is Censoring China’s App Store for the Communist Party of China
2024-04-21 Links 21/04/2024: Censorship Abundant, More Decisions to Quit Social Control Media
2024-04-21 Links 21/04/2024: Earth Day Coming, Day of Rest, Excess Deaths Hidden by Manipulation
2024-04-22 [Meme] Master Engineer, But Only They Can Say It
2024-04-23 Links 23/04/2024: US Doubles Down on Patent Obviousness, North Korea Practices Nuclear Conflict
2024-04-25 Links 25/04/2024: South Korean Military to Ban iPhone, Armenian Remembrance Day
2024-04-26 Links 26/04/2024: Facebook Collapses, Kangaroo Courts for Patents, BlizzCon Canceled Under Microsoft
2024-04-26 Links 26/04/2024: XBox Sales Have Collapsed, Facebook's Shares Collapse Too
2024-04-27 Links 27/04/2024: Kaiser Gave Patients' Data to Microsoft, "Microsoft Lost ‘Dream Job’ Status"
2024-04-27 Links 27/04/2024: Spying Under Fire, Intel in Trouble Again
2024-04-29 Software in the Public Interest (SPI) is Not a Friend of Freedom
2024-04-29 A Discussion About Suicides in Science and Technology (Including Debian and the European Patent Office)
2024-04-29 [Video] How Much Will It Take for Most People to Realise "Open Source" Became Just Openwashing (Proprietary Giants Exploiting Cost-Free or Unpaid 'Human Resources')?
2024-04-29 [Video] Enshittification of the Media, of the Web, and of Computing in General
2024-04-30 Links 30/04/2024: More Google Layoffs (Wide-Ranging)
2024-04-30 Links 30/04/2024: Wireless Carriers Selling Customer Location Data, Facebook Posts Causing Trouble
2024-05-01 Publicly Posting in Social Control Media About Oneself Makes It Public Information
2024-05-02 Links 01/05/2024: Take-Two Interactive Layoffs and Post Office (Horizon System, Proprietary) Scandal Not Over
2024-05-03 Links 03/05/2024: Microsoft Shutting Down Xbox 360 Store and the 360 Marketplace
2024-05-04 Links 03/05/2024: Clownflare Collapses and China Deploys Homegrown Aircraft Carrier
2024-05-04 Techrights This May
2024-05-05 The Revolution Continues
2024-05-06 Microsoft GitHub: A Hair Salon Where You Get Awards for Nothing (NFT Vanity)
2024-05-07 Links 07/05/2024: Pulitzer for Supreme Court Expose, New Threats to Media Reported
2024-05-08 Techrights Gets Under the Skin of Bad, Corrupt, Immoral People (That's a Good Thing)
2024-05-08 IRC Network of Techrights Turns 3 (or 16 if We Count the Freenode Days)
2024-05-09 Links 09/05/2024: Diplomacy Efforts With China, AstraZeneca Stops Experimenting With COVID-19 Vaccines
2024-05-09 Links 09/05/2024: More Microsoft Layoffs on the Way
2024-05-10 Links 10/05/2024: Fears Over TSMC, Microsoft Loses Major Patent Case
2024-05-11 Taking Things Up a Notch
2024-05-11 Attacking the Messenger?
2024-05-11 Links 11/05/2024: Analysis of the Microsoft Crisis and Backdoor-Looking Bugs
2024-05-11 Links 11/05/2024: XBox Crisis, Spotify Exodus Continues
2024-05-12 Online Bullying (Trying to Make People Unhappy)
2024-05-12 [Meme] Miscomprehension of GDPR
2024-05-12 Julian Assange on Privacy of People, Even Little Children
2024-05-13 Links 13/05/2024: Clown Computing Failing Again, Navalny Posthumously Awarded Prize
2024-05-14 Links 14/05/2024: Bounties on Terrible Patents, China Censors Dissidents Internationally via Attack Dogs
2024-05-15 Links 15/05/2024: Growing Tensions Between East and West, Anticlimax in Chatbot Space
2024-05-18 Links 18/05/2024: Fury in Microsoft Over Studio Shutdowns, More Gaming Layoffs
2024-05-18 Links 18/05/2024: Caledonia Emergency Powers, "UK Prosecutor's Office Went Too Far in the Assange Case"
2024-05-18 Links 18/05/2024: Revisiting the Harms of Patent Trolls, Google Tries to Bypass (or Plagiarise) Sites Under the Guise of "AI"
2024-05-19 Links 19/05/2024: Iran's President Lost in Helicopter Crash, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Awaits Decisions in Less Than a Day
2024-05-22 Links 22/05/2024: Pixar Layoffs and More Speculation About Microsoft Shutdowns/Layoffs (Ninja Theory)
2024-05-22 Links 22/05/2024: China in Other Countries' Islands, Growing Threat of Piracy
2024-05-23 Links 23/05/2024: Apple Responds to Streaming Music Fine, DOJ to Sue Live Nation
2024-05-23 Links 23/05/2024: SeekOut Collapsing and Why Microsoft Probably Isn’t Going to Buy Valve
2024-05-24 Links 24/05/2024: Layoffs at LinkedIn and Election Interference Via Social Control Media
2024-05-24 Links 24/05/2024: More Software Patents Invalidated (US), New Fights to Protect Free Speech
2024-05-24 Daniel Pocock (IND) in European Election Debate
2024-05-25 Links 25/05/2024: Section 230 and Right of Publicity Violations by Microsoft (Which Attacks Performance Artists)
2024-05-25 Galway street artists support social media concerns
2024-05-25 In New Caledonia Windows is Now Below 30% (It Used to be Over 90%)
2024-05-25 Links 25/05/2024: Microsoft Adds More DRM (Screenshot Blocking), Another Microsoft Outage Takes Down Everything
2024-05-27 "Tech" in the Context of Even Bigger Issues
2024-05-27 Google: We Don't Have Source Diversity, But We Have Chatbot Spew in Place of Sources (and It's Not Even Accurate)
2024-05-27 A 3-Year Campaign to Coerce/Intimidate Us Into Censorship: Targeting Several Webhosts (in Collaboration and Conjunction With Mentally-Ill Flunkies)
2024-05-28 Summer in the Air
2024-05-29 Links 29/05/2024: Hack The Box, Why I Left Healthcare, and Chatbots as Health Risk
2024-05-29 Links 29/05/2024: More Arrests of Regime Critics and Hate Crimes
2024-05-30 The Campaign to 'End' Richard Stallman - Part III - The Reddit Mob (Social Control Media Controlled, Steered or Commandeered by Wall Street)
2024-05-30 A 3-Year Campaign to Coerce/Intimidate Us Into Censorship: In Summary
2024-05-31 The War on Free Software Reporters - Part I - Why Techrights Cannot be Censored (and Won't be Censored)
2024-05-31 The War on Free Software Reporters - Part II - Antisocial Mobs
2024-06-01 Links 01/06/2024: More Crackdowns in Hong Kong, Street Named After Navalny
2024-06-01 Society Has Been Destabilised by Social Control Networks
2024-06-01 Twitter is (in Many Ways) Already Dead
2024-06-01 The War on Free Software Reporters - Part III - Doxing and LARPing
2024-06-05 Links 05/06/2024: Illegal Kangaroo 'Court' (UPC) Turning One, OpenAI Insiders Blow the Whistle
2024-06-08 Links 07/06/2024: “Bird Flu” Alarming, Best Buy Against Repairs
2024-06-08 Over at Tux Machines...
2024-06-08 Links 08/06/2024: e-cigarettes Ban, Windows to Hoard Screenshot of Use Despite Uproar
2024-06-08 Links 08/06/2024: More Dramatisation of Bird Flu, Further Chinese Incursions at Sea
2024-06-08 The Mainstream Press and National Media Became Like Tabloids
2024-06-09 Links 09/06/2024: Microsoft Adds Windows’ Mass Surveillance (Recall) in Hibernation First (Boiling Frog, Like UEFI 'Secure' Boot)
2024-06-10 Links 09/06/2024: Facebook Enabling Online Fraud, Apple Already in Trouble for iOS 18 “Web Eraser” Tool
2024-06-10 His Last Tweet (July 2017)
2024-06-11 The War on Free Software Reporters - Part VII - Groupthink, Censorship Demands, and Ultimatums
2024-06-12 'Team Microsoft' Wants to Leverage Our Popularity as a Weapon Against Us
2024-06-14 "Planets" Cannot Replace Social Control Media, They're Very Much Akin to It (Censorship Hubs, Gatekeepers)
2024-06-14 Statement on Antisemitism in Our IRC Network and in Social Control Media
2024-06-15 The 'Nobody Reads Techrights Anyway' Crowd
2024-06-15 Techrights Statement on Men Who Viciously Attack Women in Free Software
2024-06-15 Links 15/06/2024: Microsoft's Intellectual Ventures Attacks Kubernetes With Software Patents, More Layoff Waves
2024-06-16 Patriotism is OK, But We Need Facts and Reason, Not Blind Obedience to Authority
2024-06-16 Social Control Media in Japan: Twitter (X) Has Collapsed, YouTube Rising (Apparently)
2024-06-17 Roy and Rianne's Righteously Royalty-free RSS Reader (R.R.R.R.R.R.) and the Front-End Interfaces
2024-06-18 24/7 Work Discipline
2024-06-18 Links 18/06/2024: More Executives Leave Microsoft, Attacks on the Press in Russia and 'Exile'
2024-06-19 US Surgeon General's Advice on Social Control Media (and "Smart" Phones) Seems Reasonable
2024-06-19 They Want 'Transparency' Only for the General Public (Every Bit of Communication Available to the Government, Usually Via Corporations)
2024-06-19 You're Only Proving Our Point, Sir
2024-06-20 Links 20/06/2024: Somali Piracy Surges, Juneteenth Discussed
2024-06-21 EFF Not Only Lobbies for TikTok (CPC) But for All Social Control Media, Irrespective of Known Harms as Explained by the US Government
2024-06-21 Links 21/06/2024: Overpopulation, Censorship, and Conflicts
2024-06-21 Links 21/06/2024: Matrimony Perils and US-Sponsored COVID-19 Misinformation
2024-06-22 Links 22/06/2024: More Layoffs and Health Scares
2024-06-23 Links 23/06/2024: Hey Hi (AI) Scrapers Gone Very Rogue, Software Patents Squashed at EPO
2024-06-24 Techrights in the Coming Decade: The Software Angle
2024-06-24 The Corporate/Mainstream Media and Even Social Control Media is Distorting the Record About What Mozilla Actually Did (It Originally Surrendered to Vladimir Putin)
2024-06-24 Links 24/06/2024: Long COVID and "How I Write Blogs"
2024-06-24 Staying the Course
2024-06-25 Links 25/06/2024: RAM Stress, COVID Graft
2024-06-25 An Extended Statement on Julian Assange
2024-06-25 We Know Who Stands to Gain From the Demise of the Press
2024-06-26 Trying to Make Blogs (Independent and Mostly Decentralised Platforms) What Comes After Social Control Media
2024-06-26 [Meme] Julian Assange's Lawyers Need to Ensure Assange Maintains Freedom to Publish
2024-06-26 The Plot to Silence (or Deplatform) Techrights
2024-06-26 Links 26/06/2024: US State Department Controlling YouTube, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hype on the Brink as "Losses Balloon"
2024-06-27 Links 27/06/2024: Microsoft's Chief Brand Offices Kathleen Hall to Leave, The Beauty of Blogging, Ukraine Updates
2024-06-27 Links 27/06/2024: Black-Lives-Matter-Poster-Related Lawsuit, Misinformation and Propaganda by Chinese Userfarms
2024-06-28 State of the News (and Depletion of Journalism Online, Not Just Offline)
2024-06-28 Links 28/06/2024: Kangaroo Courts and Patents Spam, EFF Still Fighting for CPC's TikTok (a Digital Weapon)
2024-06-29 Bringing in 12 Santas and Taking 13 Out (Old Interview With Julian Assange)
2024-06-29 About 10 New Free Software Foundation (FSF) Members Per Day
2024-06-30 Links 30/06/2024: LLMs Under Fire and Dictatorship of the Old
2024-07-01 Making the Wikileaks Site More Active Again (and Gradually Exiting "X" or Other Social Control Media)
2024-07-01 Elon Musk Killed Not Only the Twitter Bird, He Also Killed the Platform
2024-07-02 Links 02/07/2024: Jennifer Robinson Turns to Free Press in Hong Kong, Calls for an Assange Pardon
2024-07-03 Over at Tux Machines...
2024-07-03 Links 03/07/2024: Rubik Cube Turns 50, History Of Perpetual Motion, and Censorship in Social Control Media
2024-07-03 Links 03/07/2024: Holiday, Censorship in Social Control Media Debates, and Stellantis Has Mass Layoffs
2024-07-04 Links 04/07/2024: Update on Gershkovich and Verizon to Pay $847M For Infringing 5G and Hotspot Patents
2024-07-04 Links 04/07/2024: How the Ultra-Wealthy Think About Money, Labour Seems Set to Win UK by Landslide
2024-07-05 Links 05/07/2024: OpenText Layoffs and More Google/Alphabet Cuts
2024-07-06 Links 06/07/2024: More on Microsoft Layoffs
2024-07-07 Just Say the Truth, People Will Come
2024-07-07 GNU/Linux Up to 4.4%, But Let's Think Beyond the Numbers
2024-07-08 Links 07/07/2024: Bruce Bastian Dies and Escalations in Korea Again
2024-07-08 [Video/Audio] 12 Minutes of Julian Assange Hearing in US Court in Saipan
2024-07-08 People Seek Transparency
2024-07-09 Thinking of the Next Phase of Wikileaks (and Beyond Wikileaks)
2024-07-10 Debian harassment: verbal and textual references to abuse every bit as bad as deepfake and AI generated images of women
2024-07-10 Links 10/07/2024: Microsoft Burns Users of Office 365 connectors in Teams
2024-07-10 Links 10/07/2024: War, Environment, and End of ICQ
2024-07-11 Links 11/07/2024: Space Programs, Education, and Mass Layoffs
2024-07-11 Links 11/07/2024: Internet Phone Book and Intense Mind Control/Censorship by Social Control Media
2024-07-11 Links 11/07/2024: Intuit Layoffs, Companies Keep Bricking Products
2024-07-12 Links 12/07/2024: XBox in Trouble, Crackdowns in UAE
2024-07-12 The Final Demise of Social Control Media May be Upon Us (It Ought to be Collectively Abandoned for Society's Sake)
2024-07-13 Links 13/07/2024: TikTok Interferences, YouTube Throttled in Russia
2024-07-14 The List of Sites or Sources for Linux News is Getting Shorter Over Time (Despite GNU and Linux Steadily Growing in Usage)
2024-07-14 Links 14/07/2024: Goldman Sachs Says 'Advanced' or 'Generative' Hey Hi (AI) is Just Hype, Thoughts on Negatives
2024-07-15 Links 15/07/2024: China’s Economic Problems, Boeing Under Fire
2024-07-16 The Software Freedom Conservancy Folks Don't Even Believe in Free Speech and They Act As Imposters (Also in the Trademark Arena/Sense)
2024-07-16 The World Wide Web Has Been Rotting for Years (Quality, Accuracy, and Depth Consistently Decreasing)
2024-07-17 Censorship as Signal of Opportunity for Reform
2024-07-20 Links 20/07/2024: Shopping Mall in Southwestern China and New Health Crises
2024-07-20 Links 20/07/2024: Patents on Software Squashed, Further Attacks on Independent News Sites
2024-07-20 When (Software) Freedom is the Goal
2024-07-20 Techrights Turns 18 in About 3 Months
2024-07-20 No Outage Here
2024-07-21 Shark-infected Water on the Web
2024-07-21 [Meme] Hate Speech
2024-07-21 What The Internet Can Achieve When Put in the Hands of the Good People and Not Censored by the People Who Already Control the Mass Media
2024-07-22 The Impact of OFTC's Latest Changes on the Perceived Scale of IRC Globally
2024-07-22 Links 22/07/2024: Internet Optimism and Kamala Harris Policies Debated
2024-07-22 [Meme] Twitter (X) Will Reject the Concept of a Female President
2024-07-23 Censorship in Eklektix's Linux Weekly News (LWN)
2024-07-23 Why Virtually All the Wikileaks Copycats, Forks, and Rivals Basically Perished
2024-07-23 Insulting Free Software Users in Social Control Media (Proprietary, Bloated With Opaque JavaScript) is Like Insulting Amish on TV
2024-07-23 Links 23/07/2024: NetherRealm Layoffs and Illegitimate Patent 'Courts' (Illegal)
2024-07-24 Why We're Revealing the Ugly Story of What Happened at Libre-SOC
2024-07-25 Links 25/07/2024: Tesla's 45% Profit Drop, Humble Games Employees All Laid Off
2024-07-26 Nobody Holds the GNOME Foundation Accountable (Not Even IRS), It's Governed by Lawyers, Not Geeks, and Headed by a Shaman Crank
2024-07-26 Links 26/07/2024: Tesco Cutbacks and Fake Patent Courts
2024-07-28 Links 28/07/2024: Censorship in Africa and Europe, History Of Internet Outages
2024-07-29 Lessened Accountability Because Technology Replaces Humans for Many Tasks
2024-07-29 Addictive Behaviour Leads to a False Measure of Productivity
2024-07-30 Links 30/07/2024: Microsoft Admits Lying About ClownStrike/Windows Outages to Save Face and Shared Email Addresses
2024-07-30 Links 30/07/2024: Atrocities in Sudan, Escalations Near Lebanon
2024-07-31 Links 31/07/2024: Facebook Privacy Violations, Microsoft Ads Full-screen Adverts to Vista 11
2024-08-01 Gemini Links 01/08/2024: Social Control Media and Programming
2024-08-02 Links 02/08/2024: ‘Lifetime’ Price Guarantee That Wasn’t, Security Researchers and Journalists at Risk
2024-08-03 It's Utterly Foolish to Do Bad Things and Expect Positive Results
2024-08-03 Links 03/08/2024: Blaugust Series, 'Game Informer' Shutting Down
2024-08-03 Links 03/08/2024: CP/M at 50, Bill Gates Exposed as Abuser of Family
2024-08-04 Links 04/08/2024: Environmental Issues and Lots of Political
2024-08-04 [Video] Why Bryan Lunduke's Attitude Tends to Discredit Some Legitimate Criticism of Illegitimate Organisations
2024-08-05 “Ignoring office politics doesn't avoid them. It makes you the target."
2024-08-05 UK Riots Show the Corrosive Impact (and Collective Cost) of Social Control Media
2024-08-05 Elon Musk is Using Social Control Media to Stir Up Political and Physical Violence in the UK (and Elsewhere)
2024-08-05 We Have a New and Democratically-Elected Government That Won by a Very Wide Margin, We Don't Need Social Control Media to Bring "Arab Spring" to the United Kingdom
2024-08-05 [Meme] Violenceware
2024-08-05 New Study: Social Control Media Going Out of Fashion as More People Recognise It For What It Really Is
2024-08-05 60 Minutes
2024-08-05 Links 05/08/2024: Libraries, Games, and Social Control Media Against Free Speech
2024-08-06 Links 06/08/2024: Dell Layoffs (Again) and Elon Musk Suing Sam Altman
2024-08-08 [Meme] UK Government Belatedly Recognises the Role Social Control Media Plays in Violent Unrest
2024-08-08 Cops Scouring Social Control Media Looking for Who to Arrest
2024-08-08 Disinformation Sites Would Not Stand a Chance Without Social Control Media, Which Fueled Them
2024-08-08 [Meme] When Social Control Media Giants Become Like Cross-national Governments That Police Everybody's Speech
2024-08-08 Using Chatbot to 'Write' Articles About Chatbots in a "Linux" Site (Brittany Day at linuxsecurity.com Again)
2024-08-08 Links 08/08/2024: COVID-19 Revisionism and Automattic's Latest Spyware
2024-08-08 [Video] The World Would be Better Off After Social Control Media 'Addiction' and LLMs Hype
2024-08-09 New Video: Twitter and Facebook Censored Distinguished Scientists Who Spoke About COVID-19 and Response to It (the People Who Did This Still Engage in Online Social Control in 2024)
2024-08-10 Julian Assange is No Longer in Social Control Media
2024-08-10 [Meme] Temporal and Volatile
2024-08-10 A New Low: Manchester United is Selling Microsoft Malware
2024-08-10 Links 10/08/2024: North Korea Floods, Invalidating Bad Patents on Software
2024-08-11 How Social Control Media Will Perish
2024-08-12 It Was an Oligarchs' Festival
2024-08-12 Links 12/08/2024: Bracing for More Mass Layoffs at Microsoft, Hey Hi ("AI") Bubble Continues Popping
2024-08-13 Links 13/08/2024: YouTube Getting Worse, Facebook Conspires With Copyright Industry
2024-08-14 The News Vacuum
2024-08-14 Links 14/08/2024: Ecology and War Inside Russia
2024-08-15 Links 15/08/2024: Monkeypox Hysteria and Modern Homesteaders Living Off the Grid
2024-08-16 Balancing Activism Against (or With) Basic Necessities and Daniel Cantarín on Our Collective Battle for Software Freedom Around the World
2024-08-16 Clown Computing
2024-08-16 Links 16/08/2024: YouTube Bans and Surveillance Expanded
2024-08-17 Links 17/08/2024: Greedflation Illuminated by Harris, Apple Changes App Store Rules
2024-08-19 Links 19/08/2024: X Axed in Brazil, Politicians Turn to Social Control Media 'Influencers'
2024-08-19 Social Control Media is Detrimental to Modern Democracies as It Lowers the Quality of Winning Candidates
2024-08-20 Links 20/08/2024: Digital Services Act (DSA) Misused Politically, China Asserting Control in Far Seas
2024-08-21 Links 21/08/2024: Economic Problems in China, Patents From the EPO Smashed in Court
2024-08-22 Links 22/08/2024: Tension Around Taiwan and South China Sea, Automobile Market's Oversupply
2024-08-23 Links 23/08/2024: Arrest of Chinese Dissident on Spy Charges, Tate Brothers Remanded In Custody
2024-08-24 Links 24/08/2024: Ukraine Diplomacy and Transport Strikes
2024-08-25 Links 24/08/2024: Journalists Culled Through Social Control Media, Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Arrested in France
2024-08-26 Links 26/08/2024: NASA Updates, Tensions and Conflict
2024-08-31 Gemini Links 31/08/2024: Personal Posts and Social Control Media Cross-posting
2024-08-31 Cheaters and Spammers Like These Do Real Damage to Real Sites (Like AnandTech)
2024-08-31 Links 31/08/2024: Kremlin Targets Galina Timchenko, AnandTech Saying Goodbye
2024-09-01 Links 01/09/2024: Tanzania Joins the Twitter ("X") Blocking Club
2024-09-03 Social Control Media is the Correct Term Because of Controls (Including Censorship for Social Control Purposes)
2024-09-04 [Meme] Microsoft's LinkedIn and GitHub: Fakes, Misinformation, and Plagiarism
2024-09-05 Links 05/09/2024: Starlink to Block Twitter (X) in Brazil, Ukraine Government Shake-Up
2024-09-07 Gemini Links 07/09/2024: Freedom in Bareness, Reactions in Addictive Social Control Media
2024-09-07 Links 07/09/2024: China's Financial "Bond" to Africa and Attempts to Postpone Trump Criminal Cases
2024-09-07 No, Mastodon is Not Growing, Social Control Media is Generally Waning
2024-09-07 Links 07/09/2024: Qualcomm May Buy Parts of Intel, YouTube Deletes Channels for the US Government
2024-09-07 Rage in the Propaganda Machine
2024-09-07 Techrights is a Demonstrably Popular Site, Reporting Suppressed Facts. Those Vouching for Its 'Unpopularity' Express a Desire Rather Than a Condition or a Fact.
2024-09-07 The Free Software Movement Must Not Assume That Truth and Science Always Win
2024-09-07 The Arrest of Pavel Durov is Changing Telegram
2024-09-08 Over at Tux Machines...
2024-09-08 Links 08/09/2024: Super Typhoon and Lots of Climate Journalism
2024-09-08 On Losing the Job at Google After Talking About Committing Acts of Violence Against Colleagues
2024-09-09 [Video] Richard Stallman's New Talk in Germany Covers What Free Software Means, Why LLMs are "Bullshit", and Lots More (Web3 Summit 2024 Berlin)
2024-09-09 The Best Interface is Outdoors, It's Nature!
2024-09-09 Links 09/09/2024: More Trash Balloons and Collapse of Real Estate Market in China
2024-09-10 Links 10/09/2024: Big Brother Awards Germany 2024 and Telling the Unemployed to 'Drive Uber'
2024-09-11 The Toys of Today's Kids and Coordination Woes, Not to Mention a Lack of Social Skills
2024-09-11 Links 11/09/2024: Russia Enters Latvia With Drone, Truth Social Stock Crashes
2024-09-11 Links 11/09/2024: EPO Patents Tossed Out by Courts, Software Patent Reveals Ford "Tech That Listens to Driver Conversations to Serve Ads"
2024-09-12 Saudi Arabia and Its Footprint in X/Twitter
2024-09-13 Links 13/09/2024: Recorded Future Bought by MasterCard, Bits of Freedom Turns 25
2024-09-13 Links 13/09/2024: Disinformation in Focus, End of Presidential Debates (Trump Accepts It Hurts Him)
2024-09-13 Links 13/09/2024: Crackdowns on Bloggers, Deepfakes, Internet Archive‘s Wayback Machine Now in Google Search
2024-09-14 Links 14/09/2024: Verizon's 5,000 Layoffs and China's 'Runaway' Pension Age
2024-09-15 Links 15/09/2024: Complicated Music Licensing Schemes and Dangers of Sleep Deprivation
2024-09-16 Later on Elon Musk Wonders Why Large Nations Block His Pet 'Social Control Media' (Incitement/Radicalisation) Platform...
2024-09-17 Something Has Gone Very Wrong at iTWire
2024-09-17 Links 17/09/2024: Volkswagen Layoffs May Exceed 15,000, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Arrested
2024-09-18 Links 18/09/2024: Web Server Survey Shows Microsoft Down Again, Omkhar Arasaratnam Leaves Microsoft-connected OpenSSF
2024-09-19 Links 19/09/2024: UPC Illegal 'Court' and Microsoft LinkedIn Called Out for Data Misuse
2024-09-20 Links 20/09/2024: Qualcomm Layoffs, Interest Rates Fall
2024-09-22 Links 22/09/2024: Nokia's Latest Aggression With Software Patents (Against Linux Devices) and Recalling Tromsø Convention on Access to Official Documents
2024-09-22 Links 22/09/2024: Personal Web and Further Actions Against Health Harms of Gadgets and Social Control Media
2024-09-22 Beheadings in Twitter/X
2024-09-23 [Meme] Threatened at Knifepoint
2024-09-23 A Migration to Centralised Certificate Authorities (CAs) Has Betrayed LXer
2024-09-23 Burying Criticism of Linux as an RTOS
2024-09-23 GNU is Turning 41 Next Week and It'll Outlive Linux
2024-09-24 A Year Since the Big Switch - Part III - Deliberate Deceit and Misunderstandings
2024-09-24 If You Start Your Own Show, Don't Do the First Episode With the Head of a Terror Group
2024-09-24 Links 24/09/2024: Independent Web and Supply Chain 'Cleanup' by USA
2024-09-24 Links 24/09/2024: Lowered Interest Rates and Financial Woes
2024-09-26 A Year Since the Big Switch - Part V - In Summary
2024-09-27 [Meme] A Cup of Apple
2024-09-28 Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) Barometer
2024-09-30 Blind Worship of Technology is a Misguided Fool's Errand
2024-10-02 If Red Hat Has Mass Layoffs This Year, Nobody Will Tell You About It
2024-10-02 Links 02/10/2024: Microsoft Spying on Windows Users Grows, Microsoft's Surveillance Arm LinkedIn Used to Highlight Employment Crisis
2024-10-03 Links 03/10/2024: Climate Issues and Tensions in East Asia
2024-10-03 Links 03/10/2024: Quantum Computer Vapourware (as Usual) and Samsung Layoffs
2024-10-04 "The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly has voted to confirm that Julian Assange was held as a political prisoner."
2024-10-05 Links 05/10/2024: Shift to ARM, Microsoft XBox Crisis
2024-10-05 The Danger of Outsourcing Your Platform to Social Control Media and Getting "Information" There
2024-10-05 Links 05/10/2024: Patents Being Squashed, EFF Insists on Children's Access to Porn
2024-10-06 Links 06/10/2024: Ham Radio for Recovery, Health Problems Worldwide
2024-10-07 Links 07/10/2024:China’s 'Deflation' (Price Decreases), Brazil Still Bars Twitter ("X")
2024-10-07 Links 07/10/2024: Politics, Education, Wars, Financial Crunch
2024-10-07 Synthesised Voices Aren't a New Technology (the Hype Might Be, They Call It "Hey Hi" Now)
2024-10-08 X Has Axed Itself. This is Great News and Further Affirmation of Everything We've Said About Social Control Media.
2024-10-08 gemini.techrights.org and techrights.org (Same Server, Not the Same Protocol)
2024-10-08 Links 08/10/2024: Microsoft Deleting Office Documents Instead of Saving Them, "Threads Still Sucks"
2024-10-08 Links 08/10/2024: Australian Fines for Twitter (X), Fake Patent Courts Still Not Scuttled
2024-10-08 The Problem Isn't That New Cars Use Electricity But That They Use Too Many Bits of Electronics
2024-10-09 Dr. Andy Farnell's Article on Societal Disorganised Attachment and the Role of Social Control Media
2024-10-09 Links 09/10/2024: Microsoft's Surface Duo 2 Officially Dead, X/Twitter Shutdown in Brazil, and "OpenAI Is A Bad Business"
2024-10-09 Links 09/10/2024: Samsung's Fall, Tensions Growing Near China
2024-10-09 GNU/Linux Took Off at the BSDs' Expense (Amid Telecom Lawsuit) and the Rivalry Persists Because Microsoft is Negligible in the Server Space
2024-10-10 Links 10/10/2024: TikTok's Legal Problems, WeblogPoMo Challenges
2024-10-11 Links 11/10/2024: Lots More Censorship and Growing Concerns About Health Impact of Social Control Media
2024-10-12 Links 12/10/2024: TikTok Layoffs and Risk of More Wars
2024-10-14 How to Follow Our Updates About EPO (or Everything Else for That Matter)
2024-10-15 Links 15/10/2024: GAFAM Returning the Menace of Nuclear Reactors, More Press Crises Reports
2024-10-16 Links 16/10/2024: Science, Politics, and BBC Cuts
2024-10-17 When GNU/Linux Reaches All-Time Highs So Will the Attacks on Its Leaders
2024-10-17 Science and Journalism Abandoned in Favour of Public Relations and Fantasy (or Buzzwords)
2024-10-19 The Drew DeVault Report: Taking Out His Frustration on Other People While Doing Drugs
2024-10-19 2021 Deja Vu: The 'Counter-Petition' Defending Richard Stallman (RMS) Gets a Lot More Support Than the Hateful Screed
2024-10-19 [Meme] How 'Editorial Control' and/or 'Fact-Checking' Work in Social Control Media
2024-10-20 A Classic Example of Concern Trolling
2024-10-20 Links 20/10/2024: Social Control Media Data Harvested for Harm
2024-10-21 There Have Been Many Waves of Layoffs at Microsoft's LinkedIn (the State of the Job Market Cannot Help), Site Traffic Steadily Going Down
2024-10-21 Word of Praise for Growing Recognition That Social Control Media Causes Health Problems (But It's Not Just 'TikTok' or "China")
2024-10-21 Gamification of Blog Comments is Like Social Control Media
2024-10-21 Lionel Dricot Celebrates His 20 Years of GNU/Linux Life (in Gemini Protocol and HTTP)
2024-10-22 Links 22/10/2024: RTO as Mass Resignation Precursor, UK Social Control Media Law
2024-10-22 Links 22/10/2024: Ukraine Updates, China's Economic Difficulties
2024-10-22 Links 22/10/2024: IBM Layoffs in California, Efforts to Raise Retirement Age to 75
2024-10-23 20 Years of Blogging (and WordPress Isn't the Same as It Was Back in 2004)
2024-10-24 Links 24/10/2024: Apple Fines and Vision Pro Shows Signs of Dying Already (Production Stalled)
2024-10-24 [Meme] Fast Approaching Peak Disinformation via Social Control Media
2024-10-25 Almost 18
2024-10-25 Endorsing Facts, Not Political Parties
2024-10-26 Links 26/10/2024: Harald Welte Back to Taiwan, Military Targets in Tehran Under Fire
2024-10-26 Links 26/10/2024: Malaria Surge and Chatbots Resulting in Suicides; Some Software Patents Squashed Again
2024-10-27 Links 27/10/2024: Scam in YouTube, Tensions for Taiwan
2024-10-28 Wikileaks and Assange Family: Donald Trump Still Praises Man Who Wanted to Assassinate Julian Assange
2024-10-28 [Meme] Voting Based on Preferences of Xi and Elon Musk
2024-10-28 YouTube Waning and Drowning
2024-10-29 Focusing on Getting Stuff Done
2024-10-30 The Role of Publishers on the World Wide Web (and Gemini Protocol, Among Other Digital Transmission Protocols)
2024-10-30 [Meme] Good Books Don't Give You "Likes"
2024-10-30 Links 30/10/2024: TSMC Concerns and North Koreans in Ukraine War
2024-10-31 Facebook is for Zombies
2024-10-31 Links 31/10/2024: Supermicro Plummets 33%, Block and Dropbox Mass Layoffs
2024-10-31 [Meme] Probably the Worst Possible Time to Get Information From Social Control Media
2024-11-01 Links 01/11/2024: Election Interferences by X/Twitter/Musk, Strava as Espionage Tool
2024-11-01 Facebook's Debt Has Soared to All-Time High of Nearly 50 Billion Dollars
2024-11-02 What Social Control Media Really Is
2024-11-02 Links 02/11/2024: Many Fakes in Social Control Media
2024-11-03 Elon Musk Has Trashed Twitter for Ideological Reasons (and Propping Up Trump in Exchange for Financial and Political Favours Once in Public Office)
2024-11-04 Links 04/11/2024: FCC, Broadband Industry Spar Over Net Neutrality; Software Patent Squashed
2024-11-04 Microsoft and "Retrospective Re-writing of History..."
2024-11-04 Our Stance on Electronic (or Digital) Voting Machines
2024-11-04 Rigging Elections is Difficult, Cheating a Little is Not
2024-11-04 Things That Can Improve Election Integrity
2024-11-04 Apple's MacOS Shows Us the Vision of Computing That GAFAM Has for Us (Digital Prisons)
2024-11-05 Against Outsourcing of Sites and E-mail
2024-11-05 An LLM Inside a 'Search' Engine Means That Companies Tell You What They Want, Not What Web Pages to Visit
2024-11-05 How Voting Does Not Work
2024-11-05 Links 05/11/2024: Criminal Referrals Regarding Patent Trolls and Disinformation About the Election Process (Already)
2024-11-06 Social Control Media, Even Hours Before Polls Have Closed
2024-11-06 Concentration and Centralisation Versus Aggregation or Syndication
2024-11-06 US Polls Close in One Minute (Social Control Media Does Not Care, Will Not Wait)
2024-11-06 [Meme] Announcing "Results" Before Everyone Even "Played"
2024-11-07 Microsoft-Connected Publishers Want Us to Think That Linux is Some Sort of a Virus and a "Backdoor"
2024-11-07 Links 07/11/2024: Facebook Scams, Journalists on Strike
2024-11-07 Links 07/11/2024: Online Manipulation in Social Control Media, Election Deniers, and More
2024-11-07 Links 07/11/2024: HTTP/3, Health Research, and Punditry
2024-11-08 Donald Trump as Censor in Chief Can Now Leverage Censorship Companies and Fake Protection Disguised as 'Security'
2024-11-09 Links 09/11/2024: Politics, Climate, and Why Physical Cash is Crucial
2024-11-09 There's No Free Lunch in Video Hosting
2024-11-09 [Meme] Don't Try This at Home (But a Datacentre Might be OK)
2024-11-09 Links 09/11/2024: Further Restrictions on Social Control Media, CASIO Cracked Again
2024-11-09 Links 09/11/2024: More Mass Layoffs and Concerns About Musk Working Like Trump Aide
2024-11-11 The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is Dead. Cause of Death: Microsoft Bribes.
2024-11-11 Debian Voters Clearly Supportive of Richard Stallman (Founder of GNU/Linux), But Debian Leaders Keep Giving Voting Rights to Microsoft Staff
2024-11-11 Links 11/11/2024: Mastodon Year 2 in Review, Freshworks Laying Off 13% of Staff
2024-11-12 Biggest Debt Leap in Years, More Than Half a Trillion Dollars in Just One Month
2024-11-12 Links 12/11/2024: A Lot of Censorship and SWNS at 50
2024-11-13 Just How Slow Has the News Industry Become?
2024-11-14 It Took The Guardian More Than 2 Years of Musk to Realise What Twitter Was and It Took Twitter 4 Years of a President Trump to Realise What Trump Was
2024-11-14 Links 14/11/2024: Science and the Demise of Microsoft-Connected USPTO Director
2024-11-14 Links 14/11/2024: Politics, Climate, and Instability
2024-11-15 Links 15/11/2024: LF Talks About Patent Trolls, Advancing a Warning About "Buy Nothing Day"
2024-11-15 Links 15/11/2024: The Onion Buys Crank's Site, More Publications Quit Twitter/X
2024-11-16 Links 16/11/2024: FTC Investigates Abusive Monopolist Microsoft for "Clown Computing" Market Abuses, General Motors Mass Layoffs
2024-11-16 Wikileaks is Now Stuck Under the Clutches of Donald Trump (via Elon Musk)
2024-11-16 Links 16/11/2024: Twitter (X) Exodus Continues, Social Control Media Sanctions Spread Further
2024-11-17 Centralisation is Dooming the Web, RSS is One Workaround (But Not "Planets")
2024-11-17 Links 17/11/2024: China's Diplomacy and Gazprom Setback
2024-11-18 LLMs Are Not a Form of Intelligence (They Never Will Be)
2024-11-18 Fourth Estate or Missing Fourth Pillar
2024-11-18 Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part VII
2024-11-19 Re-de-centralisation Should Be Our Goal
2024-11-20 Links 20/11/2024: Debt Issues and Fentanylware (TikTok) Ban
2024-11-20 Links 20/11/2024: 'The Open Source Definition' and Further Escalations in Ukraine/Russia Battles
2024-11-22 Links 22/11/2024: Dynamic Pricing Practice and Monopoly Abuses
2024-11-23 Links 23/11/2024: Celebrating Proprietary Bluesky (False Choice, Same Issues) and Software Patents Squashed
2024-11-24 Links 24/11/2024: More IMF Bailouts and Net Client Freedom
2024-11-24 [Meme] Social Control Media Bliss
2024-11-24 Wayland is an Alternative to X
2024-11-25 On Groupthink, Mindless 'Sheep', and Toxic Online Cults
2024-11-25 Links 25/11/2024: Egypt Harasses Bloggers, The University of Michigan Has Become Like a Corporation
2024-11-26 Links 26/11/2024: International Microsoft Outages, Microsoft Mass Layoffs Bigger Than Reported Last Friday
2024-11-26 Links 26/11/2024: Microsoft 360 Users Report Outages, Attacks on Journalists Plentiful Worldwide
2024-11-27 Links 27/11/2024: Zoom Waning (Stock Falls), More Microsoft Shutdowns, and European Commission Flags Bluesky for Breaches
2024-11-27 When Social Control Media in the European Union is Controlled by BRICS
2024-11-27 The Web is Becoming Social Control Media Junk and Fake Text Crafted by Machines (Boosted by Social Control Media via Bots Which Game Visibility/Popularity)
2024-11-27 In Defence of Analog (Sometimes Digital and/or "Smart" is Objectively a Lot Worse)
2024-11-27 Materialistic Culture of Fake Possessions and Fake Popularity
2024-11-27 Links 27/11/2024: “Writing Month”, "Cybertorture", and Qualcomm Trouble
2024-11-28 Death of Human Interaction
2024-11-28 [Meme] When Social Control Media is Over
2024-11-29 Links 29/11/2024: China Tensions and Big Bounties for Invalidation of Software Patents
2024-11-29 Fentanylware (TikTok) Just Doing Exactly What It Was Supposed to Do
2024-11-29 Links 29/11/2024: Smithfield Market in London Shutting Down, BRICS (China) Accused of Validating Undersea Cables Based on New Evidence
2024-11-29 Brigid Purcell (PBP): generation Z, unteachable children, how will they govern in ten years?
2024-11-30 Links 30/11/2024: More Strongarming and Threats to Taiwan, Ananda Krishnan is Dead
2024-11-30 [Meme] Growing Up and Becoming Sceptical
2024-11-30 Links 30/11/2024: Social Control Media Under Growing Scrutiny, Patent Propaganda Sites Still Promote a Fake Court (UPC)
2024-11-30 Understanding Irish general election 2024 results Dublin Bay South
2024-11-30 Links 30/11/2024: Cable Cuts Under Investigation, America’s Cemeteries Are Rewilding, Panda Protection Money Misused
2024-12-01 We Already Know What Makes Techrights So Attractive to Online Abuse and Cybercrimes
2024-12-01 Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch: criminals vs geeks, multinationals vs Ireland
2024-12-02 Self-Deprecating Attacks on RMS
2024-12-03 With 4 Weeks to Go (Before the End of 2024) the FSF Has Already Raised Close to 100,000 Dollars
2024-12-03 Links 03/12/2024: Pat Gelsinger's Firing Spun as 'Retirement', US Exports Land Mines
2024-12-04 Proof That Drew DeVault Vanished From Mastodon After the RMS Attack Site Was Linked to Him (and People Pointed Out DeVault's Fascination With Animated CP, Drawings of Naked Kids)
2024-12-04 Many Geeks' Achilles Heel: They Don't Take Computer Breaks
2024-12-04 Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part IX
2024-12-04 Links 04/12/2024: Social Control Media Thoughts, Enrons of 2024, and More
2024-12-05 Links 05/12/2024: Mass Layoffs at Microsoft's PR (Bribery of Media) Agency, UnitedHealthcare CEO Shot Dead
2024-12-05 Links 05/12/2024: Explaining the South Korea Chaos and French PM Barnier's Government Already Disintegrating
2024-12-06 Links 06/12/2024: Promotion of Fake and Illegal Patent 'Court' (UPC), South Korean Strikes, and More Bailouts at Taxpayers' Expense
2024-12-07 Links 07/12/2024: DEI Chopped by University of Michigan, French and South Korean Governments in Turmoil
2024-12-07 Google Does Not Have a Search Engine Anymore
2024-12-07 Legacy of a Dying World Wide Web
2024-12-07 Another Massive Blow to the Web
2024-12-08 Links 08/12/2024: Boeing Leaks and Bluesky’s Business Model Dilemma
2024-12-09 No Wonder Microsoft's LinkedIn and Github Have So Many Layoffs, Permanent Office Closures
2024-12-09 [Meme] Write Code, Not Social Control Media
2024-12-09 Links 09/12/2024: UnitedHealthcare C.E.O.'s Killer Still Unknown, Syrian Regime Change Completed
2024-12-09 Links 09/12/2024: Health Care Anger and Power Vacuum in Syria
2024-12-10 Links 10/12/2024: Trying "Hey Hi" With New Hype and Buzzwords, TikTok Bans Imminent
2024-12-10 Links 10/12/2024: Nvidia's Regulatory Woes, Trust Issues in LLMs (and Similar Recent Hype)
2024-12-11 Banning Not Only TikTok... if Not for FOMOC (Fear of Missing on Constituents)
2024-12-11 [Meme] Social Control Media is NOT Free Speech
2024-12-11 Communicating Outside of Skinnerboxes and Social Control Media
2024-12-11 [Meme] How NOT to Do Activism Online
2024-12-11 Links 11/12/2024: Climate Warming, 'People Can Fly' Layoffs
2024-12-11 Protecting People From So-called 'Social Media' is Not Censorship (No More Than Banning or Restricting Access to Cigarettes is 'Censorship')
2024-12-11 [Meme] Solving Real Problems With So-called 'Social Media'?
2024-12-11 Links 11/12/2024: Additional Surveillance Ambitions and Cyberattacks on Sudanese Media
2024-12-12 Links 12/12/2024: Another 'Self-driving' Cars Dead End, Infowars Sale Blocked by Court
2024-12-12 There's a New Version of Lagrange (Gemini Reader) and Its Developer is Making an IDE/Editor
2024-12-13 [Meme] Doing Online Activism in Social Control Media
2024-12-13 Links 13/12/2024: Military Buildup Around Taiwan, More Health Problems Associated With Social Control Media Illuminated
2024-12-13 Links 13/12/2024: British Journalism Awards and Censorship by Copyright Misuse
2024-12-14 Stop Glorifying Murderers, They Aren't Helping Anybody
2024-12-14 Playing Social Control Media 'Games' Instead of Writing Articles
2024-12-14 "Journalism in Twitter" is a Paradox
2024-12-15 Links 14/12/2024: Yoon Impeached, "Intel's Death", and "Hey Hi" Hype Causes Warming and Pollution
2024-12-15 Links 15/12/2024: Social Control Media Disarray and Software Patent Eligibility Attempted by Litigation Maximalists
2024-12-16 The Media Failed to Hold GAFAM Accountable (and Now It Suffers From It and For It)
2024-12-16 Changes or Variation of Logo at the FSF as 40th Anniversary is Near (Months Away)
2024-12-17 Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part X
2024-12-17 Why I Continue to Believe That at the End Software Freedom Will Win
2024-12-17 Saving What's Left of Decent and Independent Journalism on the Web
2024-12-18 FSF Has Made It Halfway to Its Target (Funding Goal) a Week Before Christmas Day
2024-12-19 Links 19/12/2024: Magnitude 7.3 Earthquake and Privacy Camp
2024-12-19 Links 19/12/2024: Nurses Besieged by "Apps", More Harms of Social Control Media Illuminated
2024-12-19 Links 19/12/2024: Astronaut Record and Observer Absorbed
2024-12-20 Links 20/12/2024: Windows Breaks Itself, Mass Layoffs Coming to Google Again (Big Wave)
2024-12-21 Electronic Frontier Foundation Defends Companies That Attack Free Speech Online (Follow the Money)
2024-12-22 Links 22/12/2024: North Pole Moving and Debian's Joey Hess Goes Solar
2024-12-23 Links 23/12/2024: 'Negative Time' and US Arms Taiwan Again
2024-12-23 A Strong and Positive Closing for the Year's Last Week
2024-12-25 Links 25/12/2024: Hong Kong Attacks Activists During Holidays, Xerox to Buy Lexmark
2024-12-25 Links 25/12/2024: Fentanylware (TikTok) Scams and "Zelle Scams Lead to $870M Loss"
2024-12-27 Links 27/12/2024: Perfect Desk, Banning Cellphones, Many Cables Cut Near Finland
2024-12-28 Links 28/12/2024: BRICS-Controlled Social Control Media Defended by GOP, "Paper Passport Is Dying"
2024-12-28 Links 28/12/2024: Standards Emphasised, Putin Implicitly Admits Taking Down Passenger Plane
2024-12-29 Fascistic Regimes and Their Justices Will Leverage Social Control Networks to Their Advantage (Power Grab), They Won't Protect Constituents From Them
2024-12-29 Enshittification is Everywhere
2024-12-30 Social Control Media (Not Just TikTok) is a "Modern Challenge" to Democracy
2024-12-30 [Meme] Getting Banned From Social Control Media 2 Days or Two Weeks Before Leaving Office
2024-12-30 Links 30/12/2024: Fentanylware (TikTok) Concerns and Aftermath of Cut Cables
2024-12-30 Massive Gains for GNU/Linux in Australia This Year
2024-12-31 Links 31/12/2024: 'Open'AI Has Run Out of Money Again, Venezuela Fines TikTok, Germany Warns X/Twitter Over Election Interference, Google Search Takedowns Out of Control
2025-01-01 [Meme] The Microsoft Syndrome
2025-01-02 Links 02/01/2025: Production of Apple Vision Pro Halted, More on Public Domain Day 2025
2025-01-02 We Need Something More Like DMOZ, Not Search Engines and Bill-Funded Wikipedia (Censoring Unfaltering Information About Powerful People and Institutions)
2025-01-02 For Software Freedom (and for Broader Personal Freedom), the Goalposts Are Moving
2025-01-02 It's Not Just MElon X, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, All Social Control Media is Basically a Digital Weapon
2025-01-02 [Meme] Wrestling With Pigs in Social Control Media
2025-01-03 [Meme] Crushing Free Speech Before Even Taking Public Office...
2025-01-03 [Memes] Two Dictators. Donald Trump Loves TikTok.
2025-01-04 Links 04/01/2025: Social Control Media Deemed Very Unhealthy, Nick Clegg Leaves Zuckerberg's Influence Operations
2025-01-04 Sometimes Less Publicity is Better (Than Bad Publicity)
2025-01-05 Links 05/01/2025: Math on Checkerboard and Nazi-linked Accounts at Credit Suisse
2025-01-06 British Police: Register a New Account With Unscrupulous American Companies (Microsoft and MElon X) to "Follow" Us
2025-01-06 Links 06/01/2025: Presidential Arrest and Kursk as Bargaining Card
2025-01-07 Google (Blogger) is Already Disintegrating and It's a Reminder of the Great Dangers of Outsourcing Blogs to Companies (Including Automattic or WordPress.com)
2025-01-07 With 10 Days Left the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Looks to Raise Just Over $50,000 More
2025-01-07 Links 06/01/2025: 10 Years Since Terrorism Against Satire in France
2025-01-08 Microsoft LinkedIn Going 'the Way of the Epstein'
2025-01-09 Links 09/01/2025: Software Patents Squashed, Meta Becomes "MAGA" Booster
2025-01-10 Social Control Media and 'Linux' Foundation Accelerate the Death of the Web
2025-01-10 Links 10/01/2025: Scam Altman’s Younger Sister Files Lawsuit Claiming He Sexually Abused Her, Apple Faces Embargo
2025-01-11 Gemini Links 11/01/2025: Wildfire, Militia and the Mole, IRC vs Social Control Media
2025-01-11 When It Comes to Fentanylware (TikTok), a Digital Weapon of a Hostile Entity, Common Dreams is Jumping the Shark Again (Years After It Ran Out of Steam or Money)
2025-01-11 If TikTok (China) Has the Rights of American Persons, Then ByteDance Can be Sentenced to Death
2025-01-11 Links 11/01/2025: Social Control Media Facing Sanctions, Carter Respected at Funeral
2025-01-12 Links 12/01/2025: More Sanctions Against Russia, SCOTUS Signals Fentanylware (TikTok) Ban Will Stay
2025-01-12 [Meme] Being High on Drugs Isn't Happiness (Likewise, Being a "Star" in Social Control Media is Temporary)
2025-01-12 Links 12/01/2025: Microsoft Admits It's Laying Off Staff Only Where Staff is "Expensive" (Race to the Bottom)
2025-01-13 Links 13/01/2025: Hardware, Health, and Conflicts
2025-01-13 Links 13/01/2025: Disinformation, Social Control Media Actively Promoting Nazism, and Catchup With Ukraine
2025-01-13 Modern Web Browsers as Web Censorship Software
2025-01-13 [Meme] What Free Speech Ought to Mean
2025-01-13 [Meme] Twitter ("X") Has Been Grooming Radicals Since 2022
2025-01-13 Links 13/01/2025: Conflicts, Prisoner Exchange, and Homes on Fire
2025-01-14 "AI Music" is Not Music and It's Hardly "AI" Either
2025-01-14 Neuroscience of Consciousness Paper: Why Social Control Media and Proprietary Spyware Harm Your Health
2025-01-14 Android (or AOSP) is More Free Than iOS, Both in Practice (as OEM Bundles) Both Are User-Hostile
2025-01-14 EPO Uses the Misnomer "AI" to Attack Software Developers in Europe
2025-01-15 Links 15/01/2025: Social Control Media Spreading Lies, TikTok Banned in 4 Days
2025-01-15 Links 15/01/2025: Efforts to End Wars and 'Newsflation'
2025-01-15 Computer Users Aren't Zoo Animals
2025-01-16 Links 16/01/2025: Scale and Scope of Microsoft Layoffs Revealed (Two Waves of Layoffs in 2025 Already)
2025-01-17 Links 17/01/2025: Fentanylware (TikTok) Herds Its (Drug) Users Into Even More Harmful "Apps"
2025-01-18 Links 18/01/2025: Apple Getting Out of Hey Hi (AI) Slop (Too Much Misinformation), Chaffbots/Chatbots Try to Settle Copyright Infringement Lawsuits
2025-01-18 Links 18/01/2025: Restoring the Great Wall of China and Economic Expansion in China
2025-01-19 Links 19/01/2025: TikTok (Fentanylware) Now Banned in the US, Convicted Felon Talks to Fentanylware CEO and Pooh-Tin About Undoing the Ban Despite the Supreme Court Unanimously Upholding It
2025-01-19 Links 19/01/2025: Gaza Ceasefire and PR Stunt by Fentanylware (TikTok), Faking It by "Going Dark" to Incite American Addicts (Users)
2025-01-20 Links 20/01/2025: Indonesia to Prevents Kids' Access to Social Control Media (Addiction and Worse), Climate News Catchuo
2025-01-20 Improving Daily Links by Culling Spam, Chaff, and LLM Slop
2025-01-20 Daniel Pocock's ClueCon 2024 Presentation Was Also Streamed Live in YouTube and Later Removed by Google, Citing "Copyrights". Now It's Back.
2025-01-21 [Meme] Free Software and Socially-Engineered Groupthink (to Serve Big Sponsors Like Google and Microsoft)
2025-01-22 Links 22/01/2025: Mass Layoffs at Stripe, Microsoft's Illegal Accounting Practices Under Scrutiny
2025-01-22 Geminispace (Gemini Protocol) Offers an Escape From Social Control Networks Owned by Oligarchs and Governments
2025-01-22 Links 22/01/2025: "The AI Bubble Is Bursting" and Microsoft's Scam Altman is Already Looking for De Facto Bailout From the Insurrectionist
2025-01-22 Links 22/01/2025: Jeju Air Blame-Shifting (Talk to the Wall), Copyright Maximalism Rebounds
2025-01-23 Links 23/01/2025: More Overt Constitutional Violations and "TikTok Executive Order" (White Flag to CCP)
2025-01-24 Links 24/01/2025: Earthquake, Landslide, and Official Implicated in Airplane With Landing Gear Issues (Boeing Plane) "Found Dead"
2025-01-24 Gemini Links 24/01/2025: "Social" Control Media is Unsatisfying; An Old Call for a Gemini Without TLS
2025-01-24 Gemini Links 24/01/2025: The "Hey Hi" Hype Continues Fading, Tesla/X/Twitter/SpaceX Associate With Nazism
2025-01-25 The Limits of Freedom
2025-01-25 Links 25/01/2025: Microsoft Already Shutting Down Its UK "Experience Centre", "AI Deal" Linked to Atrocities
2025-01-25 Bringing Down or Taking Down an Innocent Man is Difficult
2025-01-25 How "Open Source" Became Microsoft (But It's Actually Proprietary, OSI is an Openwashing Front Group Now)
2025-01-25 Links 25/01/2025: Microsoft Chaffbot Offline and Advocacy/Dissent in China Muzzled
2025-01-26 Links 26/01/2025: Fentanylware (TikTok) Turns to Hype/Pyramid Scheme, Insurers Failed to Comply With Federal Law
2025-01-26 Links 26/01/2025: Chatbot Woes and UnitedHealth Data Breach (Windows TCO)
2025-01-26 Links 26/01/2025: Privacy Breaches and Growing Nationalism
2025-01-27 Links 27/01/2025: Social Control Media Explores Propaganda for Racism as a Business Model, China’s Tibet Dam Criticised
2025-01-27 GAFAM Hates - Except in a Worryingly Parasitic Way - GNU/Linux and Its Freedoms (or Its Users)
2025-01-27 Links 27/01/2025: Lukashenko's Sham Elections, TikTok for Insurrection Loyalist (Larry Ellison)?
2025-01-28 Links 28/01/2025: "Against Social [Control] Media", "Smart" Buses' Ticketing System Cracked
2025-01-29 Facebook Banning Linux Sites (or People Who Link to Linux Sites) is Another Symptom of the Web's Demise
2025-01-29 The EPO's Corruption, If It Remains Untackled, Helps the Far Right and Enemies of European Unity/Solidarity
2025-01-29 We Were Right About stallmansupport.org Making an Error by Joining Social Control Media. mastodon.social Suspends stallmansupport.org.
2025-01-29 Sharing is Caring (But Advocating Copyleft Makes You a "Target")
2025-01-29 Links 29/01/2025: Climate Crisis and "It’s time for the Xbox to fade away" (Microsoft Lose)
2025-01-29 Claim: Facebook Deletes Posts of IBM Red Hat Critics
2025-01-29 Links 29/01/2025: Data Privacy Day and Growing Tensions in Europe
2025-01-29 Links 29/01/2025: Dismantling Public Health in the US, Air Busan Plane Up in Flames (South Korea's Air Disasters Streak)
2025-01-29 Mastodon Was Always Biased (Just Like Twitter After Abandoning Chronological and Neutral Timelines in Order to Become More Like Facebook)
2025-01-30 Links 30/01/2025: Amazon Layoffs and DeepSeek Panic
2025-01-30 Links 30/01/2025: Microsoft Wants Convicted Felon to Give Fentanylware (TikTok) to It (After Making a Phonecall Asking for That in 2019), "Moving Away From Google's Ecosystem"
2025-01-30 Links 30/01/2025: Fentanylware (TikTok) Causes Deaths, FBI Seizes Domains
2025-02-01 Links 1/2/2025: LLM Hype Revisited, Linuxwashing by Oumi
2025-02-01 Links 01/02/2025: Administrative Chaos and Aviation Disasters Persist
2025-02-02 Links 02/02/2025: Union-Busting and Censorship by Executions
2025-02-02 Links 02/02/2025: Website Revamps, Blogging About Blogging, and Self-Harming Tariff Wars (Higher Prices)
2025-02-02 Microsoft Uses the Mindset of Drug Dealers and Pays 'News' Sites to Sell 'Drugs'
2025-02-03 Links 03/02/2025: USAID Under Attack, Vista 11 Breaking Itself Again
2025-02-03 Links 03/02/2025: Microsoft's Termination Controversy and EU Hey Hi (AI) Act Compliance Day
2025-02-03 Microsoft Bing Lies
2025-02-03 All Efforts to Censor Techrights Have Always Failed
2025-02-04 Software Freedom Month at NITK Surathkal and Yesterday's Talk by Richard Stallman
2025-02-04 Links 04/02/2025: Mass Layoffs at Salesforce, Economic Pressures, Trade Wars
2025-02-04 Links 04/02/2025: Social Control Media Bans and US Fighting Its Allies, Not Russia
2025-02-05 Links 05/02/2025: Connection without Connectivity and Unionised Grocery Workers
2025-02-06 Links 06/02/2025: YouTube Takedowns Out of Control, 'DOGE' Breaking Laws
2025-02-07 Debian Left Twitter (MElon "X"), We Think the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Should Do the Same
2025-02-07 Social Control Media is Narcissism
2025-02-07 Links 07/02/2025: US 'Demolition Crew', e-ID Loopholes, and Sanctions
2025-02-07 Links 07/02/2025: Amazon’s Stock Collapses and US Government Being Dismantled (Still)
2025-02-08 Links 08/02/2025: News Corp Admits Traffic Declines, Wildlife Trafficking Tackled
2025-02-08 When It Comes to Social Control Media, Linus Torvalds is Channeling Techrights
2025-02-08 This is the Man Who's Attacking Linus Torvalds et al in "a Disease" (Social Control Media)
2025-02-08 Links 08/02/2025: UK Back Doors and Religious Fundamentalists in Positions of Higher Power
2025-02-09 Links 09/02/2025: Hottest January on Record, Panama Blackmailed
2025-02-09 Links 09/02/2025: Russian Energy Cut Off, LLM Pushers Show Signs of Desperation
2025-02-10 Links 10/02/2025: Facebook Mass Layoffs, "Meta" Did What Aaron Swartz Had Done But to the Tune of 81.7 Terabytes
2025-02-10 Links 10/02/2025: Ban on D.E.I. Language, Listeria Risk/Outbreak
2025-02-10 The Standard Needs to Improve Its Standards for Fact-Checking, Aaron Swartz Had Nothing to Do With Reddit and He Detested the Company That Created It
2025-02-11 Links 11/02/2025: Nutritional Poverty, Closure of USAID, More Fictional 'Valuations' Around Buzzwords
2025-02-11 Links 11/02/2025: Trade Wars and "Crisis for American Universities"
2025-02-12 Morale at Microsoft Ruined by the Company Labelling Thousands of Workers 'Low Performers', Sacking Them on the Spot and Denying Them Basic Benefits
2025-02-12 Destruction and Distortion of Information, Including Facts About Linux (Bonus: This is Destroying the Planet)
2025-02-12 Links 12/02/2025: SSL FUD, DEI Phase-out, Felonies Committed by MElon (Data Breaches)
2025-02-13 Social Engineering of the Free Software Movement is a Corporate Takeover With Code of Conduct (CoC) to Drive Out or Expel Dissent
2025-02-13 Links 13/02/2025: Algorithm Bots and 'Teleport' Breakthrough
2025-02-14 Links 14/02/2025: Publicity Rights Violated (ByteDance), Bribes to Trump Passed via Social Control Media 'Settlements' Again
2025-02-14 Moving Away From Certificate Authorities (CAs) Like Let's Encrypt Means Taking Away From the US Government the Power to 'Censor' Sites by Revoking Certificates
2025-02-14 They Will Never Leave Linus Torvalds Alone, Rust is Just Another Way to Cause Instability and Infighting in Linux
2025-02-14 Links 14/02/2025: Mass Layoffs at Sophos, Chatbots Failing Very Badly, "DOGE as a National Cyberattack"
2025-02-15 Links 15/02/2025: Erasing of American Science and Tesla SLAPPing Critics
2025-02-15 The Cyber Show (C|S) Speaks of the "Rise of the Nerd Reich."
2025-02-15 Alex Oliva, the Potential 'Successor' of RMS, Has a New Web Site
2025-02-15 Links 15/02/2025: Harms to Health, Public Domain, and More
2025-02-16 Links 16/02/2025: "Microsoft Is Laying Off Employees" and Internal Dissent Brewing at Facebook Over Regime Complicity
2025-02-16 Links 16/02/2025: Oligarchs "Collect Your Data and Control Your World", Global Temperatures Shoot Up
2025-02-16 Links 16/02/2025: Nostalgia for Physical Media and the US Government Actively Promotes Pro-Kremlin Politicians in the EU
2025-02-17 The Attacks on LinuxQuestions.org
2025-02-17 Links 17/02/2025: War on Dissent and Bloggers, Nationalism a Growing Theme
2025-02-18 Links 18/02/2025: More DeepSeek Bans and Supreme Court Patent Challenges
2025-02-19 Over at Tux Machines...
2025-02-19 Links 19/02/2025: Political Roundup and Halifax Wants to Dump Twitter ("X")
2025-02-19 Links 19/02/2025: Organisations Quitting Social Control Media, Windows TCO Illustrated Some More
2025-02-19 Links 19/02/2025: The Forgotten USB Competitor and Pope's Bilateral Pneumonia
2025-02-21 Links 21/02/2025: Myanmar Scam Centre and Disruptions at USPTO
2025-02-21 Links 21/02/2025: TikTok Layoffs, WebOS Software Patents in Bad Hands
2025-02-21 Links 21/02/2025: Linux Foundation Openwashing, Microsoft Copilot Goes Down
2025-02-22 Links 22/02/2025: Labour Department Investigates Microsoft Infosys Amid Mass Layoffs, Large Law Firms Caught Red Handed With LLM Slop (Defrauding Clients and Courts)
2025-02-22 Microsoft's Serial Strangler and Matthew J. Garrett Join Forces in Trying to Gag Techrights (for Exposing Microsoft Corruption and Crimes Against Women)
2025-02-22 Links 22/02/2025: OpenAI Plans to Possibly Abandon Microsoft, Facebook Doubles Execs' Bonuses While Sacking Thousands
2025-02-23 Links 23/02/2025: Apple Back Doors, Ukraine Updates, and Gemini Leftovers
2025-02-23 Links 23/02/2025: Zuckerberg Despised, US Government Does Not Obey Judges, France Grapples With Terrorism
2025-02-23 The So-called 'IT' Industry Became Somewhat of a Fraud Where People Equate Usage and Power Wasted With "Value" or "Success"
2025-02-24 Proprietary Software is Bad for Your Health, Not Just Your Finances, Privacy and So On
2025-02-24 Links 24/02/2025: Germany Looks to Distance Itself From US, Environment at Risk, Mass Layoffs at Zendesk
2025-02-24 Links 24/02/2025: Compromised Laptops and EU Shift to the Right (Boosted by Social Control Media Interventions)
2025-02-25 The Brigading (in Social Control Media) Did Not Silence the Creator of GNU/Linux
2025-02-25 Links 25/02/2025: Mass Layoffs at Starbucks, Kaspersky Banned on Australian Government Systems
2025-02-25 Bluewashing: IBM Replaces Red Hat With IBM (Bobby Leibrock) at the Top
2025-02-25 Dr. Andy Farnell Publishes Second Part of Series About Freedom Fighters (It Started With Richard Stallman)
2025-02-26 Slopwatch: Another Offending 'Linux' Site Found (Fake Articles About "Linux"), Postgres/PostgreSQL/PSQL Targeted by FUD from LLMs
2025-02-26 Links 26/02/2025: Science, Hardware, and Politics
2025-02-26 Links 26/02/2025: Microsoft's "AI Value" Bubble is Blowing Up, Starbucks in Trouble as Well
2025-02-26 The Short Lifecycle of Twitter Outrage
2025-02-27 Links 27/02/2025: Microsoft Trying Ads as Sales Fall, Preserving Data From Social Control Media a Real Problem
2025-02-27 Links 27/02/2025: Google Clown Computing Layoffs and Slack Goes Down as Usual
2025-02-28 [Video] Full Video of Richard Stallman's Talk Earlier This Month in Italy (Nexa, Turin)
2025-02-28 Links 28/02/2025: Domestic Violence Fatalities, Escalations Again Near Taiwan
2025-02-28 Links 28/02/2025: Mass Layoffs at Autodesk, Employee Burnout, and Measles in Texas
2025-03-01 Links 01/03/2025: Squashing Software Patents, USPTO Facing Additional Cuts
2025-03-01 Links 01/03/2025: GB News Loses Over 100 Million Pounds, Zelensky Wins World's Sympathy
2025-03-02 Microsoft Money Being Spent to Bully Techrights Only Legitimises Techrights
2025-03-02 Links 02/03/2025: Microsoft Outlook Goes Offline, Foreign-Owned Social Control Media Interfering With Fair Elections
2025-03-03 Doing Free Software for a Living in an Era or a Time of Abundance of Code (and Fast Internet to Pass It Around Freely) or Writing When the Web is Attacked by LLM Slop
2025-03-03 Links 03/03/2025: 'Monetisation' Myth' and Microsoft's LLMs Helping Criminals
2025-03-03 In Central African Republic Windows Has Pretty Much Fallen to Zero
2025-03-03 Links 03/03/2025: Europe Rallies Behind Ukraine, Measles Flourishes in US Again
2025-03-04 Links 04/03/2025: Microsoft Issues Policy Instructions to the Cheeto Mussolini Administration, Cloudflare Engages in Mass Censorship Again
2025-03-04 Social Control Media as a Rapid Race to the Bottom - Part I - That Sinking Feeling
2025-03-04 Crossbow tragedy, bigger than Kyle Clifford, social media culture
2025-03-05 Social Control Media as a Rapid Race to the Bottom - Part II - Think Before You Talk
2025-03-05 Use RSS Readers Instead of Social Control Media
2025-03-05 Gemini Links 05/03/2025: Living in Interesting Times, Font, and Social Control Media with Gos v1.0.0
2025-03-05 Links 05/03/2025: Starbucks Debt Soars and CFO Changed, Apple Pretends to Value Privacy, "Cloudflare Blocking Privacy Focused Users From Accessing Third-Party Websites"
2025-03-05 What is fixated behavior? Stalker or just a fan of Emma Raducanu?
2025-03-06 Social Control Media as a Rapid Race to the Bottom - Part III - Foreign Interference and Chaff/Flare
2025-03-06 Links 06/03/2025: Trade Wars, Trademarks, Attacks on (and by) the Media, Digg to Relaunch
2025-03-06 Links 06/03/2025: Discord Wants the Public to Pay for Losses, MongoDB Shares Collapse
2025-03-07 Social Control Media as a Rapid Race to the Bottom - Part IV - Physical Health, Mental Health, and Debilitating Anxiety
2025-03-07 Half a Decade Without Social Control Media
2025-03-07 Links 07/03/2025: Oracle Layoffs, HPE Eliminates 3,000 Jobs, Massive Price Hikes at Microsoft, More Surveillance in Microsoft's Stuff
2025-03-07 Microsoft's Social Control Media Efforts Cratering (GitHub and LinkedIn)
2025-03-08 Gemini Links 08/03/2025: Physical Albums, Analog Computing, Deleting All Social Control Media
2025-03-08 Links 08/03/2025: Microsoft Failures, Further Attacks on Speech in Hong Kong
2025-03-08 Links 08/03/2025: Climate Change Causing Food Shortages, Selling Off Chrome Still in the Cards
2025-03-08 Links 08/03/2025: Tariff Self Harm and Mostly Solved Diseases Making a Comeback
2025-03-08 Links 08/03/2025: International Women's Day, Software Patents Being Squashed
2025-03-08 No, We Don't Want to Go "Viral" (and You Probably Don't, Either)
2025-03-08 Graveyard of Mastodons: A Vast Number of Inactive Accounts
2025-03-09 Links 09/03/2025: FiveThirtyEight Killed by Disney, Nature (Journal) Chooses Suicide by Slop
2025-03-11 Links 11/03/2025: Covid-19 5 Years On and Violence in Syria
2025-03-11 Crossbow murders: prevention, missed opportunities
2025-03-12 Links 12/03/2025: Big Cuts to US Education and Science (e.g. NOAA)
2025-03-14 Links 13/03/2025: Intel Rotates Figurehead and South Korea Imports Karen People From Myanmar
2025-03-14 Links 14/03/2025: Scam Currencies in the US and Oligarchs (Including GAFAM) Controlling All the Major Policies
2025-03-14 Links 14/03/2025: Chinese Tensions With Australia, Putin Turns Down Ceasefire
2025-03-14 Links 14/03/2025: ProPublica Admitting That It Uses Slop (Foolish Move), RIP Mark Klein
2025-03-15 Links 15/03/2025: Albania TikTok Ban, No Skinnerboxes in Danish Schools
2025-03-15 When You Expose Corporate Crimes, Misconduct and Lies They Harasses and Troll You. Then You Write About the Harassment and Trolling and They Allege It's "All Personal".
2025-03-15 Links 15/03/2025: Hey Hi (AI) Hype Waning, Microsoft and Apple Ridiculed for Vapourware
2025-03-16 Links 16/03/2025: Handwriting Comeback and "MElon’s Attack on U.S.A.I.D."
2025-03-17 Reporting Facts is Not a Privacy Violation
2025-03-17 War Readiness Means Removing Every Windows Installation and CALEA-Compliant Equipment
2025-03-18 Links 18/03/2025: New Apple Blunders and Windows Disliked by Users
2025-03-18 Links 18/03/2025: ‘Meritless’ Defamation Suit Thrown Out, InterDigital Software Patents Headed for the Bin Too
2025-03-19 Phoronix Seems to be Trying to Kill Discussion About "Asahi Lina" and the Anti-Torvalds Brigade
2025-03-19 Links 19/03/2025: Attention's Cost and Media Still Besieged by Dictatorships
2025-03-20 Debian Pregnancy Cluster, when I stopped using IRC
2025-03-20 Links 20/03/2025: IBM Layoffs (Thousands Reportedly Laid Off) and Lots More Corruption in the White House
2025-03-20 Links 20/03/2025: Executions in China and Crackdowns on Science in the US
2025-03-21 Hidden from coroners and the public: tech industry cultural contagion
2025-03-21 Speak More About the GNU Manifesto (40 Years Old This Month), It Helps Remind People That GNU/Linux Was Started by Richard Stallman and the Ultimate Goal is Freedom
2025-03-21 Links 21/03/2025: "IBM cuts Thousands" and Outlook Outage Again (Microsoft Looks for Excuses)
2025-03-22 Links 22/03/2025: Johor Flooded, Ador Traps Young Musicians With Contract
2025-03-23 Links 22/03/2025: Science and Antoine Beaupré on "Losing the War for the Free Internet"
2025-03-23 Outline of Open Source Initiative Coverage to Come (Now That Consensus is Changing)
2025-03-24 Cellphones (Mobile Phones) in Classrooms
2025-03-24 Links 24/03/2025: US Detaining Innocent People, F-35 Contracts Suspended Due to Hostilities
2025-03-25 Links 25/03/2025: Putin Sends Children to Battle, 23andMe Drowns as People's Highly Personal DNA Data Floats
2025-03-25 Let Them Eat 'Apps'
2025-03-25 Links 25/03/2025: Clownflare’s Slop and Bounties on Fake Patents
2025-03-26 LLM Slopfarm: A Site's Last Incarnation Before Throwing in the Towel, Going Offline Permanently
2025-03-26 Links 26/03/2025: Healthcare Cuts and Turkey's Own "2025 Project" (Culling Opposition)
2025-03-27 Links 27/03/2025: U.S. Honeybee Deaths Reach Record High, Legal Occupation Next in Line After War on Science
2025-03-28 Links 28/03/2025: Australia at Risk, EPO Grants Illegal Patents With Illegal Effect
2025-03-28 Links 28/03/2025: AirAsia Trouble Again, UMich Culls All DEI Programs
2025-03-29 Links 29/03/2025: Attacks on Social Security and War Updates
2025-03-29 Links 29/03/2025: More Crackdowns on Science, "Hey Hi" Slopping is Flopping
2025-03-29 Links 29/03/2025: Trademarks Battles, Fires Destroy More Than 3,000 South Korean Homes
2025-03-30 Links 30/03/2025: Judge Blocks Dismantling Of VOA, Turkey Arrested Many Journalists
2025-03-30 Links 30/03/2025: "Quantum Randomness" and "F-1 Visa Revoked" in US
2025-03-31 Links 31/03/2025: Press and Democracy Under Further Attacks in the US, Attitudes Towards Slop Sour
2025-03-31 Links 31/03/2025: China Tensions, Bombs Falling in Myanmar After Earthquake
2025-04-02 Links 02/04/2025: Microsoft Developers Are Threatening to Go on Strike, World Backup Day Noted
2025-04-03 Links 03/04/2025: SoftBank Money for Microsoft "Open" "AI" Probably Doesn't Even Exist, Wikimedia Foundation Blasts LLM Nuisance While Microsoft Admits Demand Has Shrunk
2025-04-04 Techrights Has Dealt With More Potent SLAPPs Than Violent Microsofters Begging to Hide What They Did to Women
2025-04-05 Links 05/04/2025: Tariffs Backfiring, YouTuber Arrested, X/Twitter Set to be Fined
2025-04-06 Links 06/04/2025: Attacks on Education, Fake Patents, and Fake (Illegal) Patent Courts
2025-04-07 Links 07/04/2025: Reddit Occupied (Social Control Media Controlled by Oligarchy), Demise of Globalisation Ongoing
2025-04-07 Links 07/04/2025: More Cuts to Science Funding, Snail-speed Internet in Germany
2025-04-08 Gemini Links 08/04/2025: Gabbro 0.1.4 and Disillusioned With Social Control Media
2025-04-08 LLM Slop Will Eventually Stop Due to High Costs, Worse Training Sets (Polluted Models Ingesting Their Own Junk), and No Real Returns
2025-04-08 Wikipedia Can Lower Its Hosting Bill by Going More Static, Not Just by Caching, But It Would Not Solve Its Biggest Problems (Bribes and AstroTurfing)
2025-04-08 Links 08/04/2025: Microsoft Shrinking, Oracle's Clown Computing Cracked
2025-04-08 Links 08/04/2025: More Mass Layoffs Expected at Microsoft (Gaming), Fentanylware (TikTok) Unsold
2025-04-09 UK House of Lords Recognises the SLAPP Issue in the UK and EFF Pursues "Bill (That) Could Put A Stop To Censorship By Lawsuit" in the US
2025-04-09 People Are Sick of LLM Slop. Offer Them Alternatives.
2025-04-09 Links 09/04/2025: Quartz Fires All Writers (Shutdown, LLM Slop or Slopfarm Instead), "Bitcoin Is Crashing Hard"
2025-04-10 Links 10/04/2025: Hardware, Politics, and Internet
2025-04-10 Microsoft's "Linux" Foundation Pays Writers to Publish Propaganda and Then LLM Slop Sites (Slopfarms) Repeat the Propaganda, Using Microsoft LLMs
2025-04-10 Links 10/04/2025: Fentanylware (TikTok) Perils and Internet Shutdown
2025-04-11 Over at Tux Machines...
2025-04-11 Links 11/04/2025: Microsoft Mass Layoffs Again, Zelensky Doubles Down on Claim That Many Chinese Are Fighting for Russia
2025-04-11 Links 11/04/2025: "Getting Screamed At" and LLM Crawlers as Vandals Online
2025-04-12 Slopwatch: Lots of Fake Articles About "Linux" Infect the Web, Google News Still Promotes These as 'News'
2025-04-12 Links 12/04/2025: "Part of the Problem" and "Facebook Is Just Craigslist Now"
2025-04-13 Revisionism and Lies by LLM Slop and Lazy "Media"
2025-04-13 Links 13/04/2025: Tariff Remorse and Chatbots Leak Again
2025-04-13 Links 13/04/2025: Microsoft Cuts to "AI" and Azure (It's Failing), ‘Ghiblification’ Shows Slop Doing Much Harm
2025-04-14 Links 14/04/2025: Disinformation, Public Disdain for LLMs, and "Lessons on Tyranny"
2025-04-14 Links 14/04/2025: Russian Attack on Sumy Shows No Intention of Peace, Virgin Australia Admits Overcharging People
2025-04-15 Gemini Protocol Milestone (3,000 Active Capsules)
2025-04-15 Links 15/04/2025: China Admits Targetting Critical Infrastructure Using CALEA Back Doors, NASCAR Cracked by Windows Usage
2025-04-15 Links 15/04/2025: Touchable Volumetric Display and Resistance to American Spying Firms
2025-04-16 Links 16/04/2025: Cliff Lynch RIP, More Attacks on Science (NASA)
2025-04-17 Links 17/04/2025: Calling Whistleblowers at Microsoft, Slop Doing More Harm Everywhere
2025-04-17 Links 17/04/2025: LayoffBot and Tesla Cheats Buyers
2025-04-17 Links 17/04/2025: Russian Bot Farms Infect TikTok (Which US Government and SCOTUS Decided to Block January 19), US Hardware Stocks Crash Due to Tariffs
2025-04-18 Links 18/04/2025: Layoffs at Microsoft Infosys and Qt Becoming Increasingly Proprietary (Plus Slop)
2025-04-18 Links 18/04/2025: "Fentanylware (TikTok) Exodus Continues", Chinese Weapons Allegedly in Russia Already
2025-04-19 Links 19/04/2025: "Infantilization at Big Tech" and LLM Slop Abused in Defiance of Workplace Rules/Policies
2025-04-19 Links 19/04/2025: Economic Races, Charm Offensives, and USB-C Rants
2025-04-20 Electronics in People's Bedrooms
2025-04-20 Five (or Three) Years Without Social Control Media
2025-04-20 Links 20/04/2025: Bleeding Constitution and ChatGPT Infuriates Users Some More
2025-04-20 Links 20/04/2025: Many Data Breaches and Growing Censorship Wave
2025-04-21 Links 21/04/2025: Microsoft LLM Slop (Plagiarism) Going Out of Control, CT Scans' Cancer Problems Was Underrated
2025-04-21 Links 21/04/2025: Fake Ceasefire and Software Patents (Fake Patents) Thrown Out
2025-04-22 GNOME, Microsoft, and GitHub: The Lack of Reporting on Abusive Colleagues Contributed to Profound Media Vacuum (or Blackout), Now Resorting to SLAPPs
2025-04-22 Links 22/04/2025: FTC v. Meta Trial and Google Remedies
2025-04-23 Links 23/04/2025: "Hiding Corruption" and "The Cost of Defunding Harvard"
2025-04-23 The GNU/Linux Site Formerly Known as "linoxide.com" is Back... as an LLM Slopfarm!
2025-04-24 Using a Law Firm's Licence to Exercise Politics Through Frivolous SLAPPs and Nastygrams (to Silence People, Remove Pages, Demand Fake or Forced 'Apologies')
2025-04-24 Links 24/04/2025: EU fines Apple and Facebook, Another Microsoft GitHub Security Blunder
2025-04-24 Links 24/04/2025: GAFAM Problems and No Peace (or Ceasefire) in Sight
2025-04-25 Links 25/04/2025: Ubisoft Spyware, Hegseth Fails at Tech on Every Level
2025-04-25 Links 25/04/2025: Slop Fatigue and Patent Judges Flocking to Fake, Unconstitutional and Illegal Kangaroo Court (UPC, Captured 'Justice')
2025-04-26 Links 26/04/2025: Facebook Layoffs Again, Remembering What's Real, and Say No to Mass Surveillance
2025-04-26 Links 26/04/2025: General Assassinated in the Town of Balashikha, US Promoting Seafloor Mining
2025-04-27 Links 27/04/2025: Death of Nest Thermostats, Death of Metaverse
2025-04-27 Links 27/04/2025: Pope Goodbyes, "Politics of Fear", Slop Redux and More Google Shutdowns (Google Debt Had Grown This Year)
2025-04-28 Links 28/04/2025: Cyberattacks Happening, Chatbots Disappointing, and "Free Speech Under Fire"
2025-04-29 Links 29/04/2025: Water Scarcity, LLM Slop Backfiring Again in Legal Documents
2025-04-29 Links 29/04/2025: Microsoft Infosys Layoffs, 'Popcorn Lung' With Vapers, Hong Kong Banning Possession of e-cigarettes in Public
2025-04-30 Links 30/04/2025: Censorship in the Guise/Clothing of "Combatting Deepfakes", Mass Surveillance Increasingly Framed as Catchphrase "AI"
2025-04-30 Techrights Statement: The Solution is Not More Censorship or Moving to Another Mastodon Instance, the Core Problem is Social Control Media Including Mastodon
2025-05-01 Links 01/05/2025: Slop Blowback, Social Control Media as Vehicle of "Sextortion"
2025-05-02 Links 02/05/2025: Mineral Selloff and Chinese Sanctions
2025-05-02 Links 02/05/2025: Expedia Group Undergoes Layoffs, Twitter Exodus in Europe
2025-05-03 Let's Put Slop In the Casket Once and for All (Call Out the Sites and People Who Produce and Spread Slop)
2025-05-03 Links 03/05/2025: Bribery in Dutch Microsoft DC Probe, Zuckerberg Conflates Slop With 'Friends'
2025-05-03 Happy 20th Birthday to OpenDocument Format (ODF)
2025-05-03 Links 03/05/2025: Amazon and Apple Problems (the A's in GAFAM), Hard to Hide Any Longer; Australia’s Election
2025-05-04 Links 04/05/2025: FCC Turning Into MAGA’s Censoring Machine, SEC Pressured to Delist Chinese Companies
2025-05-04 Links 04/05/2025: Science, Conflicts, and Monopolies
2025-05-05 Links 05/05/2025: US Economy Shrinks, US Presidency Spreading Deepfakes
2025-05-05 Links 05/05/2025: TikTok Still a Romanian Woe/Foe, Signal Perils Showing
2025-05-05 From EPO to "MAGA Regime": A Shift Away From Reality to Fake News and False Metrics
2025-05-06 Links 06/05/2025: LLMs/Chatbots Attract More Scrutiny (Getting Worse Over Time), PwC Has Many Layoffs
2025-05-06 Windows and Microsoft Causing Serious Data Breaches, Media Rushes to Blame That on "Linux" Somehow
2025-05-06 Links 06/05/2025: Microsoft's Assassination of Skype After Years of Failure, Slop Hallucinations Are Getting Worse
2025-05-07 Weaponisation of For-Profit Dockets - Part III: No More Media Lawsuits From Brett Wilson LLP This Year, One Can Only Guess Why
2025-05-07 Links 07/05/2025: Pegasus Guilty and a Path Towards EU Without Russian Energy
2025-05-08 Lasse Fister, Organiser of Libre Graphics Meeting, Points Out the Code of Conduct is Likely Violated by the Same People Who Promote Codes of Conduct (and Then Bully Him Into Cancelling a Keynote)
2025-05-08 Links 08/05/2025: "Slop Presidency", US Government Defunds Public Broadcasting
2025-05-09 Links 09/05/2025: TeleMessage Blunder, More Distractions From Impending Mass Layoffs at Microsoft
2025-05-09 Rust Propaganda Now Amplified by Slopfarms Powered by Microsoft LLMs, Encouraging the Outsourcing of GNU/Linux Distros to Microsoft/GitHub/NSA (and a Shift Away From GPL/Copyleft)
2025-05-09 "Victory Day" - Part II: Abject Defeat to Hypocrites and Objectionable People Who Strangle Women Whilst on Microsoft's Payroll
2025-05-10 Links 10/05/2025: Germany Considers Smartphone Ban in Schools, Right to Repair Bills
2025-05-10 Links 10/05/2025: WW2 Revisionism, Further Tit-for-tat in India-Pakistan Conflict
2025-05-11 Links 11/05/2025: China's Fentanylware (TikTok) Tells Kids to Vandalise Schools' Chromebooks and Increased Censorship in India
2025-05-12 Links 12/05/2025: Media Being Attacked (New Forms of Attack on the Press), Many Data Breaches
2025-05-12 Links 12/05/2025: US Brain Drain and Reminder That "Microsoft's Lobbying Efforts Eclipsed Enron" (Fraud Coverup)
2025-05-13 Links 13/05/2025: Microsoft Breaks Windows Very Badly Again, Mass Layoffs Reported (But False Figures, It's a Lot Higher)
2025-05-14 Links 14/05/2025: Google Agrees to $1.3 Billion Settlement After Spying, China Tariffs Don't Work
2025-05-14 Links 14/05/2025: Facebook And Instagram Risk Nationwide Bans, Microsoft Subsidiaries Have Mass Layoffs Too
2025-05-15 The Lawyers Working for the Serial Strangler From Microsoft on SLAPPing Techrights Have Apparently Lost Their Voice
2025-05-15 Links 15/05/2025: KOSA Censorship (USA Becomes More Like KSA) and More National Cuts
2025-05-15 Richard Stallman Still Respected by Many in the Libre Graphics Community
2025-05-15 Links 15/05/2025: Google Betrays Publishers Again, Openwashing by Sysdig
2025-05-16 Links 16/05/2025: Microsoft Sacks Pregnant Women, People Fired on Their Birthday; Adobe Censorship Failing
2025-05-17 Links 17/05/2025: Stabber of Salman Rushdie Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
2025-05-17 Links 17/05/2025: Microsoft Kills "Surface Laptop Studio" (More Canceled Products/Units), Groups Caution About Harms of Social Control Media
2025-05-18 Links 18/05/2025: Science, Censorship and European Commission Taking on Monopoly Abuse by Microsoft
2025-05-18 Links 18/05/2025: Decreased Prospects of Science Careers, Disappearance of Journalists
2025-05-18 The Importance of Full Disclosure and Transparency Online
2025-05-19 Links 19/05/2025: Political Catchup and CISA Advisories
2025-05-19 Links 19/05/2025: Charges of Blackmailing Over Son Heung-min, Chad Opposition Leader Detained
2025-05-19 Slopfarms (Machine-Generated Fake News Sites Authored by Bots With Slop Images) Spread GNU FUD
2025-05-20 Links 20/05/2025: "Bankrupt 23andMe Just Sold Off All Your DNA Data" and "Free Speech Warriors" MIA
2025-05-20 Links 20/05/2025: Biden's Cancer, GDPR Changes, and UK Defamation Cases (or SLAPPs) Fail Again
2025-05-21 Links 21/05/2025: Climate Problems and Ceasefires No Longer Foreseen
2025-05-22 My New Desk Arrangement (and More Breaks From the Keyboard)
2025-05-22 Links 22/05/2025: Openwashing, Dumping Microsoft's Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub), and New Climate Disasters
2025-05-23 Links 23/05/2025: Tax Audits of Hong Kong's Independent as ‘Intimidation Tactics,’ Why "Regulating X Isn’t Censorship"
2025-05-24 Links 24/05/2025: Google Helps Slop Videos, Microsoft Resorts to Desperate Measures to Fake Demand for Slop
2025-05-24 Links 24/05/2025: From War on Science to War on Academia, Chagos Islands Handed Over to Mauritius
2025-05-26 Links 26/05/2025: Walmart Layoffs and DRM Dumpster Fire ('Old' Fire TV Devices Lose Netflix Access)
2025-05-26 Links 26/05/2025: Deletions from Microsoft's GitHub, Telegram Blocked in Vietnam
2025-05-26 The Issue Isn't the Internet, the Issue is How People Are Taught to Use or Misuse It
2025-05-26 Breaking Into Other People's Devices Without Authorisation Isn't "Funny" or "Research"
2025-05-27 There's Nothing Funny About Lawbreaking
2025-05-27 Gemini Links 27/05/2025: From Celsius to Fahrenheit and Deleting Social Control Media
2025-05-27 Links 27/05/2025: Science Defunded, India Arrests an Academic
2025-05-28 Very High Attendance Level at Richard Stallman's Talk Shows People Can Relate to His Message
2025-05-28 Links 28/05/2025: GitHub MCP Exploited and MathWorks Discovers Huge Windows TCO
2025-05-28 Links 28/05/2025: More Arrests for Bitcoin-Connected Torture and Prosecutions for Dieselgate-Linked Executives
2025-05-29 Links 29/05/2025: YouTube Problem and Giant Privacy Hole in Microsoft OneDrive
2025-05-29 Links 29/05/2025: US Health Deficit and Malware Disguised as Slop Generator
2025-05-29 Links 29/05/2025: Chinese Cracking Against EU Institutions (Prague), More Assaults on Media and Its Funding Sources
2025-05-30 Links 30/05/2025: LLM Slop Already Ingests and Vomits Its Own Garbage, Facebook Exec Admits Copyrights a Concern Too
2025-05-31 Links 31/05/2025: Slop Stigmatised as Disinformation, Catalyst/Driver of "Death of Communication"
2025-05-31 Links 31/05/2025: US Court Orders Sides With RFE/RL, War Updates From Ukraine
2025-05-31 Why Microsoft is Collapsing (Similar to What's Happening at IBM), As Insiders See It
2025-06-01 Links 01/06/2025: "Vibe Coding" Turns Out to be a Fraud and Amazon Merits Boycott, Argue Bloggers
2025-06-01 Bloodlust and Love of Blades (Fascination With Murder) Nothing New Among Microsofters
2025-06-02 Covering Corruption in Poland, Including a War on Science (Due to Bad Politicians)
2025-06-02 The Web We Lost, the Information Lost Due to Microsoft's Attacks on Companies Like Yahoo! (Before the LLM Slop Frenzy)
2025-06-02 Links 02/06/2025: South Korea to Vote, Russia Blitzed From Within
2025-06-03 Links 03/06/2025: Tiananmen Square Massacre Censorship and Growing Military Activities Around Taiwan
2025-06-04 Poland's Political Predicament and Social Control Media
2025-06-04 Our Case is a Very Easy Win, the SLAPPs From Microsofters Were a Grave Error, and Censoring Information Won't Work (It'll Only Ever Backfire)
2025-06-04 Links 04/06/2025: WSL Backfiring on Microsoft and "Disney, Microsoft Announce Massive Layoffs"
2025-06-05 Links 05/06/2025: First US Spacewalk 60 Years Ago, GNU Octave 10.2.0 is Out
2025-06-05 Links 05/06/2025: US Poised for Another $2.4 Trillion to Debt, Cops Want GAFAM Kill Switches
2025-06-06 Links 06/06/2025: Microsoft XBox Bracing For More Mass Layoffs, Climate Disaster, Fake 'Money' Tokens From US President
2025-06-06 Links 06/06/2025: "Convicted Felon and MElon Trade Insults" and Europe Snubbed by US Again
2025-06-07 Drug Addiction is a Real Problem, It Destroys Families
2025-06-07 Links 07/06/2025: More Rumours of Mass Layoffs in Microsoft's XBox Division, New COVID Variant
2025-06-07 Links 08/06/2025: Security Lapses, CISA Cuts, and More
2025-06-08 When the News Sources Become Scarce and Increasingly Full of Polluted/Contaminated 'Content' (With LLM Slop and Slop Images)
2025-06-08 Links 08/06/2025: Exposure of More GAFAM Surveillance and Social Security Records Compromised
2025-06-09 Links 09/06/2025: Science, Hardware Projects, and Democracy Receding
2025-06-10 Live as You Preach
2025-06-10 Links 10/06/2025: Jaws at 50 and US Democracy Crushed Very Rapidly (Martial Law Seems Imminent)
2025-06-10 Links 10/06/2025: Apple Hype and Physical Attacks on Bloggers
2025-06-11 Who Imitates Who? Plagiarist as Client (From Microsoft), 'Plagiarism' at the Law Firm?
2025-06-12 Links 12/06/2025: Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson Dies
2025-06-12 It's Possible That BetaNews Got Cracked, But Nobody Talks About It, The Site Contains an Outdated Old Image, No Activity
2025-06-12 Links 12/06/2025: Portland Homeless Deaths Quadruple, COVID Cases Surge in Asia
2025-06-13 The More Time Passes, the Better Our Advice on Social Control Media Seems
2025-06-13 Links 13/06/2025: US Reduces Nonessential Staff at Baghdad Embassy Ahead of Strikes in Iran, Invasion of California Debated
2025-06-14 Links 14/06/2025: Wars and L.A. Distortion Effect
2025-06-14 I Never Spoke to BetaNews. But BetaNews Wants to Ensure I Never Will, Either.
2025-06-15 Links 15/06/2025: Windows TCO, Openwashing, and Wars
2025-06-16 Links 16/06/2025: Climate, Wildfires, Breaches, and Monopolies
2025-06-16 "Linux" Sites That Went Astray
2025-06-16 Links 16/06/2025: EchoLeak and NASA Teaming up With India
2025-06-17 Links 17/06/2025: "The Grift Economy" and Kubernetes Does Proprietary
2025-06-18 Like Most Social Control Media, Microsoft LinkedIn is Collapsing
2025-06-18 Links 18/06/2025: SCOTUS Decision on Fentanylware (TikTok) Still Ignored, 4.5-Day Work Weeks
2025-06-19 Links 19/06/2025: WhatsApp Identified as Assassination 'Crosshairs', Patreon Now Rips Off People Even More
2025-06-19 Links 19/06/2025: Ghostwriting Scam and Fentanylware (TikTok) Buying Time
2025-06-20 Mastodon and the Fediverse Have an Issue: Liability for Content (Even in Other Instances) and Costs
2025-06-20 Common Mistake: Believing Social Control Media Will Document Your Writings/Thoughts and Search Engines Like Google Will Help You Find These
2025-06-20 Links 20/06/2025: Google Shareholder Sues Google and Google Sued for Defamatory Slop ('Hey Hi') Word Salads ('Summaries')
2025-06-21 Links 21/06/2025: Phone Bans for Concerts, Tensions in Taiwan Strait
2025-06-21 The Microsoft OOXML Modus Operandi: Throw 1,000 Pages of Other People's Work for a Judge to Read Ahead of a One-Hour Meeting
2025-06-21 Links 21/06/2025: Data Breach With 16 Billion Passwords, Dutch Government Recommends Children Under 15 Stay off TikTok and Instagram
2025-06-22 Links 22/06/2025: More Slop Lawsuits (Copyrights) and "America’s Oligarch Problem"
2025-06-22 Links 22/06/2025: Windows TCO Tales and YouTube Getting More Hostile to Users
2025-06-23 Why It's Unlikely That LLM Slop Will Dominate the Web in the Long Run
2025-06-23 Censorship is a Sign of Weakness Which Invites More Censorship Attempts
2025-06-23 Links 23/06/2025: Many Security Breaches, Population Declines
2025-06-23 From Do Your Own Research to Do Your Own Search
2025-06-24 Polygamy, from Catholic Synod on Synodality to Social Control Media & Debian CyberPolygamy
2025-06-24 Links 24/06/2025: OpenAI [sic] May Soon Die (Too Much Debt) and Social Control Media Accused of Being Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda Amplifier
2025-06-24 Links 24/06/2025: Trouble at "Open" "AI" and ‘Siarhei is Free’
2025-06-25 Social Control Media, Technology & Catholicism: Synod on Synodality review and feedback
2025-06-25 Microsoft LinkedIn is Dying and Many More Layoffs Are on the Way
2025-06-25 What is "MATA"?
2025-06-25 Links 25/06/2025: Elon Musk’s Lawyers Caught Lying, WhatsApp Faces More Bans
2025-06-25 Links 25/06/2025: Thwarting More Software Patents, Overlap Grows Between EPO Corruption and Illegal Kangaroo Patent Courts in EU
2025-06-26 Links 26/06/2025: Noise Pollution Considered High in Europe, Mass Layoffs Next Week in Microsoft Confirmed, Very Large in Scale and Scope
2025-06-27 X is Dying, But Not XServer/X11. Twitter X.com is Dying.
2025-06-27 Links 27/06/2025: Journalists Under Fire and Microsoft Has Serious Slop Problems
2025-06-27 Gemini Links 27/06/2025: Poetry and Censorship by Social Control Media Centralisation
2025-06-27 Links 27/06/2025: International Tensions and Contentions Over Plagiarism Perfumed as "Hey Hi" and "Fair Use"
2025-06-28 Links 28/06/2025: "CC Signals" Virtue-Signals to Slop Ponzi Schemes, North Korea Aims for Tourism
2025-06-28 Links 28/06/2025: Hardware/GPU Wars, GAFAM Throws Money (Borrowed Cash) at Hopeless Slop Pipe Dream
2025-06-29 Links 29/06/2025: Data Breaches and Online Censorship
2025-06-29 Links 29/06/2025: Microsoft Releases False/Fake Benchmarks, "Google Wants You to Watch Ads or Take Surveys to Read Articles"
2025-06-30 Destination Geminispace (in the Age of LLM Slop and Slop Images That Infest the Web and Social Control Media)
2025-06-30 Links 30/06/2025: Zuckerberg’s Tax-Evading Scheme Harms Kids, US Copyright Office Lacks Leadership
2025-06-30 Links 30/06/2025: Kyrgyzstan vs Media Freedom, Dalai Lama Succession
2025-07-01 Links 01/07/2025: "Beauty of Blogging" and "Etiquette of Collapse"
2025-07-01 Links 01/07/2025: "Independence Day in Taiwan", Bounties on Software Patents
2025-07-02 Links 02/07/2025: Massive Microsoft Layoffs About to Commence, "Tesla's Robotaxi Program Is Failing"
2025-07-02 Links 02/07/2025: Deep Microsoft Cuts, Macron Speaks to Putin
2025-07-03 Links 03/07/2025: More Cuts and Cancellations at Microsoft Revealed
2025-07-04 Links 04/07/2025: Microsoft's H-1B Visa Applications Show Another Crisis Unfolding, Many More Deep Cuts and Shutdowns Revealed, Complete Microsoft Exits
2025-07-04 Links 04/07/2025: Google Replaces the Web With Slop, "AI Might Kill Us All"
2025-07-05 Julian Assange Has Been Free for a Year
2025-07-05 Bryan Lunduke is Actually Sending His Audience to Attack People
2025-07-05 Links 05/07/2025: Hungary and US Defecting to Russia, "Google's Hotseat Hypocrisy"
2025-07-05 Links 05/07/2025: Dalai Lama Succession as 90th Birthday Approaches, 40 deg C in China
2025-07-05 COVID-19 Sped Up Site Improvements in Techrights
2025-07-06 A Short History of Attacks on Techrights (and Boycott Novell Before That)
2025-07-06 Social Control Media, Even If Based on Free Software, Still Has Many Problems
2025-07-06 Links 06/07/2025: Climate Change and "The Right to Criticise"
2025-07-06 Links 06/07/2025: End to End Encryption at Risk, Reuters Twitter ("X") Account Withheld in India
2025-07-06 It's Hard to Trust People Who Worked - Not Only Those Who Still Work - at Microsoft
2025-07-06 Links 06/07/2025: Airlines Perils, Scams, and Breaches
2025-07-06 Being in Social Control Media Means Exposing Oneself to Heckling
2025-07-07 Reinforcing the Allegations Some More, Bryan Lunduke Digs His Own Grave
2025-07-07 The 'Corporate Neckbeard' is Not the "Good Guy"
2025-07-07 Links 07/07/2025: XBox Effectively 'Dead', DMCA Subpoena Versus Registrar
2025-07-07 Dalai Lama Succession as Evidence That Determined, Motivated People Can Reach Their Nineties
2025-07-07 You Need Not Wave a Rainbow Flag This Month to Basically Oppose Arseholes Looking to Disrupt and Divide the Community
2025-07-07 Mozilla Firefox Did Not Die, It Got Killed
2025-07-09 Links 09/07/2025: More Heatwaves, Officials Culled in Russia
2025-07-09 Links 09/07/2025: "Subprime AI Crisis" and "OpenAI May Be in Major Trouble Financially"
2025-07-10 Links 10/07/2025: "Apple Vs The Law" and Twitter Became Full Nazi Bar
2025-07-10 Links 10/07/2025: Linda Yaccarino Divorces MElonazi Site, Wildfires Hit Syria
2025-07-10 Links 10/07/2025: Microsoft E-mail 'Services' Collapse Again, "Yet Another Strava Privacy Leak"
2025-07-11 Links 11/07/2025: Intel Collapsing and Microsoft Resorts to Bribery to Push Slop Via Obligatory Education
2025-07-11 Links 11/07/2025: Hardware, Russia, and China
2025-07-12 Links 12/07/2025: Birdwatching and Fake/Misleading Wall Street 'Valuation' Figures
2025-07-12 Links 12/07/2025: Jail in China for Homoerotica, South Korea Discriminates Against Old Workers
2025-07-13 Links 13/07/2025: Partly Assorted News From Deutsche Welle and CBC
2025-07-13 Links 13/07/2025: UnitedHealth's Censorship Campaign, Australia Wary of China
2025-07-14 Links 14/07/2025: Arresting Photographers, Threats to Revoke US Citizenship Over Criticism
2025-07-14 Links 14/07/2025: Chatbots Broken Again, McHire LLM Shows Limits of the Hype
2025-07-15 There's Still Hope for the World Wide Web
2025-07-15 Links 15/07/2025: Press Freedom at Risk and New Facebook Blunders
2025-07-16 Links 16/07/2025: Fascist Slop Takes "Intelligence" Clothing, New Criminal Case Against MElon
2025-07-17 Links 17/07/2025: Science, Hardware, and Censorship
2025-07-17 Tech Used to be Fun. To Many of Us It's Still Fun.
2025-07-18 Links 18/07/2025: Weather Events and Health Hazards
2025-07-18 Social Control Media Productivity
2025-07-18 Links 18/07/2025: More Microsoft Layoffs in Activision, The New Stack (Sponsored by Microsoft) Complains About Openwashing
2025-07-19 Links 19/07/2025: Kapo-berg Settles, Software Patents Challenged
2025-07-19 Yes, Your Mastodon Instance Will Also Shut Down
2025-07-19 Links 19/07/2025: Microsoft Cuts in China and Wall Street Journal Sued for Reporting on Jeffrey Epstein
2025-07-19 Links 19/07/2025: Techtarget to Cull 10% of Staff, New Threats to Free Press in the US (Home of Dangerous and Violent Stranglers From Microsoft)
2025-07-20 Links 20/07/2025: More GAFAM Lawsuits, Layoffs, and SLAPPs
2025-07-20 Framed by social control media: Alex Belfield, Voice of Reason
2025-07-20 Links 20/07/2025: Fending Off BRICS and US Government Attacks Its Own Media (Like China and Russia)
2025-07-20 Conspiracy or grooming? Alex Jurado, Voice of Reason compared to Outreachy
2025-07-21 Social Control Media Relies on Advertisers, So It'll Always Be Hostile Towards Free Software
2025-07-21 Ofcom Online Safety Group Speaks of Protecting Women Online, Will Brett Wilson LLP Ever Listen?
2025-07-21 Links 21/07/2025: Indie Web and Toxic Politics
2025-07-22 Links 22/07/2025: "Blog Restart" and Microsoft Clobbered by “ToolShell"
2025-07-23 Links 23/07/2025: Book Bans, Storms, and Kangaroo Court for Patents Commits More Unlawful Acts of Overreach
2025-07-23 Links 23/07/2025: Retreating From Transparency on Jeffrey Epstein, We No Longer Have Press Freedom
2025-07-23 Links 23/07/2025: Slop Patents Tackled, Slop Copyright Misuses Tackled by Politicians
2025-07-23 Links 23/07/2025: Droplets GUI Patent Monopoly Challenge, Nokia Leverages Illegal Patent Court Against Rivals
2025-07-24 Microsoft, Microsofters and 'Secure' Boot Shills Already Storming the LWN Report About Expiring Certificate, Shooting the Messenger
2025-07-24 Links 24/07/2025: Storage Tapes Still Kicking, Windows TCO 'on Steroids' (Microsoft-Induced Catastrophes)
2025-07-24 Links 24/07/2025: Convicted Felon Quits UNESCO, "Vibe Coding Goes Wrong", and Signalgate Gets Worse
2025-07-25 YouTube is a Spamfarm, Slopfarm, and Clickfarm (a Lot of Numbers There Are Fake)
2025-07-25 Links 25/07/2025: NOAA Cuts Endanger Lives, "Europe's Self Inflicted Cloud Crisis"
2025-07-26 Links 26/07/2025: Rationed Meals in the US and TikTok Repels Investments (Too Toxic)
2025-07-26 Doing My Share to Tackle Online Slop and SPAM
2025-07-26 Many People Still Read Techrights Because It Says the Truth, Produces Evidence, and Does Not Self-Censor
2025-07-26 Links 26/07/2025: 50 Percent Tariffs in Amazon, Dying Intel Offloads Network and Edge Group (NEX)
2025-07-26 Links 26/07/2025: Amazon Shutdown in China, Russian Economy Slows
2025-07-27 Misinformation in Social Control Media
2025-07-27 When Silence Says So Much
2025-07-27 Pushers of systemd Rewrite History (Richard Stallman Said UNIX "Was Portable and Seemed Fairly Clean")
2025-07-27 When They Tell You It's Free, Does That Mean No Charges (If So, Who's Paying and Why)?
2025-07-27 Links 27/07/2025: FSF Hackathon and "Hulk Hogan Was a Very Bad Man"
2025-07-27 Links 27/07/2025: More Microsoft Layoffs Coming, Science and Hardware News
2025-07-27 Just Trying to Keep Web Sites Honest (Journalistic Integrity)
2025-07-27 LLM Slop Has Only Been a Boon for Misinformation Online
2025-07-28 Hacking revelations at Vatican Jubilee of Digital Missionaries
2025-07-28 Links 28/07/2025: COVID-19 Sped up Brain Aging, "Circumvention is More Popular Than Compliance"
2025-07-29 Links 29/07/2025: Bad Climate and "Fair Software Licensing" Blasts Microsoft
2025-07-30 Google 'Search' is Fast Becoming No Better Than Social Control Media Infested With Bots
2025-07-30 Last Month Our IRC Community Turned 17
2025-07-30 Links 30/07/2025: Tea Class Action and Google Killing the Web With Slop
2025-07-30 Riot for peace & Love: Catholic Influencers and Digital Missionaries welcome Jubilee of Youth
2025-07-30 Links 30/07/2025: Climate Calamities Highlighted, Kyrgyzstan Crackdown on Expression/Freedoms
2025-07-31 Google: From Pointing to Relevant Sites to Pointing to Social Control Media to Actually Parroting Social Control Media as "Facts"
2025-07-31 Links 31/07/2025: Australia Restricts YouTube Access, Personal Privacy at Risk
2025-08-01 Stability and Reliability, Backward Compatibility
2025-08-01 Links 01/08/2025: "The Great British Firewall" and U.S. Army Sponsors Palantir
2025-08-02 Links 02/08/2025: İstanbul Retail Inflation Reaches 42.48%, US FBI Opens Office in New Zealand
2025-08-02 Links 02/08/2025: Blaugust 2025 and "Russia Declares Navalny Memoir ‘Extremist’"
2025-08-02 Links 02/08/2025: Microsoft Already Kills Vista 11 SE, Smartphone Sales Down, Truth Gets "You're Fired!" in the US
2025-08-03 Slop Will Not Change the World
2025-08-03 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a Billionaires' Lobby
2025-08-03 Links 03/08/2025: Microsoft Exchange 0-day Exploited and Avoidable Nuclear Escalation
2025-08-03 Social Control Media is Out of Style
2025-08-04 Links 04/08/2025: 80 Years Since Last Nuclear War, IPv6 in China
2025-08-05 Links 05/08/2025: Hey Hi (AI) Passing Fads and GAFAM "Embracing the Military"
2025-08-05 The Inflammatory Influence of Social Control Media Giants
2025-08-06 Staying Productive
2025-08-06 Links 06/08/2025: Faked Values of Slop Companies and Government Bailouts
2025-08-06 Links 06/08/2025: Substack in Trouble, Slop Sceptic Shira Perlmutter Seeks Emergency Injunction Pending Appeal
2025-08-07 Criticising Social Control Media in Social Control Media
2025-08-07 Links 07/08/2025: Apple Makes False Promises, More Trouble for Microsoft
2025-08-08 Links 08/08/2025: "Quit Facebook" and High Cost of Microsoft/Windows Shown Again ("BlackSuit")
2025-08-08 Links 08/08/2025: China King of Plastics and US Dictator Plans to Meet Russian Dictator
2025-08-09 Hate Mail From Anonymous Cowards
2025-08-09 There Are Probably Over a Million Pages in Geminispace
2025-08-09 Links 09/08/2025: Apollo 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell Dies, Slop Future Bleak
2025-08-09 Links 09/08/2025: Putin Allegedly to Visit Alaska (Which He Deems Part of Russia), Mike Tyson Sued for Copyright Infringement
2025-08-10 If You Attack Somebody Too Much You Legitimise and Strengthen That Somebody
2025-08-10 Links 10/08/2025: From Social Control Media to Prison, New Examples of Windows TCO
2025-08-10 Links 10/08/2025: Webrings, “AI Sunglasses” and “AI Eyeglasses”, US Administration Intensifies Attacks on Science and Research
2025-08-10 Links 10/08/2025: AOL Ending Dial-up
2025-08-11 Links 11/08/2025: Data Breaches, Politics, and Climate
2025-08-11 Links 11/08/2025: Meritless Twitter Suspensions and Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson
2025-08-12 Links 12/08/2025: More Sabotage of Underwater Cable Ahead of Russian Alaska Summit
2025-08-12 Links 12/08/2025: Wikipedia Fails at UK High Court, Perlmutter Still Fights to Squash the Slop Lobby
2025-08-13 "AI" Hype or LLM Slop is Not About Efficiency, It's About Lowering Standards
2025-08-13 Links 13/08/2025: GitHub Trouble and Openwashing by Microsoft OSI With the Typical Buzzwords
2025-08-13 Links 13/08/2025: The “Incriminating Video” Scam and Corruption in South Korea
2025-08-14 Links 14/08/2025: Data Brokers Hiding Opt-Out Pages From Google, "Fight Chat Control"
2025-08-14 Links 14/08/2025: Second-hand ThinkPad and Enhanced Surveillance on Chipsets from the United States
2025-08-14 Reddit Deletes Stuff, But Not for Being False or Misleading
2025-08-15 Links 15/08/2025: German Government Falls Short on Free Software, Russians Breach EU Systems
2025-08-15 Links 15/08/2025: Flight Attendant Strike, Floods, and Tropical Storms
2025-08-16 Links 16/08/2025: Chatbots Bad for Kids, Software Patents Apple Battle
2025-08-16 Links 16/08/2025: Science Besieged, Confidentiality Standards Breached
2025-08-16 Links 16/08/2025: mRNA Being Abandoned, Putin Plant Flags in Alaska, Faces No Sanctions
2025-08-17 Reddit Funded by Microsoft
2025-08-17 The Russian Vision of Technology
2025-08-17 Growing Our Reach
2025-08-17 Links 17/08/2025: "The Performance of Power" and "My Undesirable Friends"
2025-08-17 Working Whilst Away From Home
2025-08-18 End of Reliable Media
2025-08-18 Links 18/08/2025: LLM Reputation Damaged, Australia Catches Google Foul Play
2025-08-18 Links 18/08/2025: "Microsoft Store" Gets Increasingly Hostile, "Cracking Abandonware DRM"
2025-08-19 Online Safety Act Does Not Tackle the Worst (and Biggest) Culprits
2025-08-19 Links 19/08/2025: "Eavesdropping on Phone Conversations Through Vibrations" and Air Canada in Chaos
2025-08-20 Using the Best Tool/s for the Job: RSS Feeds and RSS Readers
2025-08-20 A Lot of What Happened in Twitter Was Bots, Botfarms, and Troll Farms. It's Even Worse Now (Under X.com) and People Are Noticing.
2025-08-20 Social Control Networks Give You False Metrics to 'Addict' You To Them
2025-08-20 Links 20/08/2025: Oracle Layoffs in India, "AI" Scammers/Profiteers Admit It's a "Bubble", Softbank-Saudi (Oil) Control Tech Companies
2025-08-20 Links 20/08/2025: Mass Surveillance Framed as "Artificial Intelligence" (All Old Things Reworded to Misframe Old Computer Issues), Europe Resists Capitulation to US(SR)
2025-08-21 Over at Tux Machines...
2025-08-22 Links 22/08/2025: Cisco Layoffs, LA Times Says "AI Hype is Fading Fast"
2025-08-22 Links 22/08/2025: Lagrange 1.18.8, Wired Magazine and Business Insider Caught Resorting to LLM Slop
2025-08-23 Links 23/08/2025: onmicrosoft.com as Spam Cannon, The Cheeto-Intel Deal Is Official
2025-08-24 Newer is Not Always Better, and It's Possible That 'Peak' is the Past
2025-08-24 Links 24/08/2025: GAFAM Lie About Pollution and Slop's Carbon Footprint, The Guardian Says Slop ("Hey Hi") is a Bubble That Will Send Stock Markets Into a Freefall
2025-08-24 Links 24/08/2025: Heatwaves Threaten Workers, Maldives Versus Press freedom
2025-08-25 Links 25/08/2025: Data Breaches, Politics, and Financial Strain
2025-08-25 Links 25/08/2025: Datacentres Versus Water Supplies and "The IPv6 Divide"
2025-08-25 Links 25/08/2025: ‘Panama Playlists’ and Live Nation/Ticketmaster Suit Aims at Class Action
2025-08-26 Links 26/08/2025: DNS Tampering and TikTok Layoffs
2025-08-27 Links 27/08/2025: Microsoft Demoralises Staff With Slop Demands, Leaving Mastodon Explained
2025-08-27 Links 27/08/2025: Police Against Media Freedom in the UK, Energy-Hungry Countries Targeted by China
2025-08-28 The UEFI 9/11 - Part II - Campaign of Censorship and Defamation Against Critics
2025-08-28 A Much-Needed Wake-up Call to Users of Wordpress.com, Blogspot, Substack and All Those Other Outsourced (and Centralised) Platforms
2025-08-28 Links 28/08/2025: Chatbots Distorting/Fabricating History and Also Driving Suicide
2025-08-29 Links 29/08/2025: Arti 1.5.0, War on Public Health (CDC), and Slop 'Bros' Made to Pay for Their Mass Plagiarism
2025-08-30 Activists, Including Technical Activists, Need Not Pursue Affirmation
2025-08-30 How Not to Build Software
2025-08-30 Links 30/08/2025: Imgur Uproar and Many Ukraine Updates (Mediazona Reports Over 200,000 Russians Died for Putin)
2025-08-30 Links 30/08/2025: NVIDIA Fakes Results to Hide a Bubble Already in Implosion Phase, Data Breaches Galore, Important Win for Workers' Union in Canada
2025-09-01 Links 01/09/2025: Fresh Backlash Against Slop and "Norway’s Electricity Crisis is About to Hit Britain"
2025-09-01 Links 01/09/2025: "Attacks on Science" and China's "Soft Power" Grows
2025-09-01 When You Turn Web Sites About Tech Into Political Sites
2025-09-02 Why We Stopped Publishing Videos (for Now)
2025-09-02 There's No Obligation to Speak to Anybody
2025-09-02 Links 02/09/2025: SCO Summit and Russia Suspected Of Jamming GPS
2025-09-02 Microsoft in Freefall in Finland
2025-09-03 Preparations for Our 19th Anniversary Have Already Begun
2025-09-03 Links 03/09/2025: Microsoft Causes Mass Layoffs Outside Microsoft Also, "Google Can Keep Paying for Firefox Search Deal"
2025-09-04 Gemini Links 04/09/2025: Digital Minimalism and Social Control Media
2025-09-04 Links 04/09/2025: Science, Hardware, and Eyes on China
2025-09-05 Links 05/09/2025: Sainsbury's Caught Spying on In-Store Shoppers and Microsoft "OpenAI is Using Legal Threats to Harass its Critics"
2025-09-05 Links 05/09/2025: Vaccine Sceptics Poison the Well, Two Exploited Vulnerabilities Patched in Android
2025-09-06 The "Left" and the Right"
2025-09-06 Links 06/09/2025: GitHub Meltdown Over Slop, "U.S. Jury Says Google Should Pay $425 Million in Privacy Lawsuit"
2025-09-07 Links 07/09/2025: Google Fines in EU and "Your Internet Access Is at Risk"
2025-09-07 Links 07/09/2025: Yle Impersonated in Social Control Media, Boat-Attacking Orcas, Midjourney Sued Again
2025-09-08 Social Control Media Sites Have Become Bot Farms (Not Limited to LLMs and Automation)
2025-09-08 Links 08/09/2025: Tim Crook Disappoints Apple Faithfuls and Zuckerberg Lies (Financial Fraud) for Cheeto King
2025-09-08 Links 08/09/2025: Burger King Cracked, Cox v. Sony Analysed
2025-09-08 Jeff Geerling Shocked to Discover Many Metrics in YouTube Are Fake (His Audience Turns Out to be Much Smaller)
2025-09-09 Links 09/09/2025: “Torrents of Hate” and Political Crisis in France
2025-09-09 Links 09/09/2025: US-Korea Tensions and Meta Whistleblowers
2025-09-09 Further Media Cut-downs
2025-09-09 Links 09/09/2025: Microsoft Mass Layoffs Again and "RTO" (Timed Like It Serves as a Distraction From the Mass Layoffs)
2025-09-10 Links 10/09/2025: Microsoft Layoffs in "RTO" Clothing and Windows TCO, GitHub TCO
2025-09-11 Links 11/09/2025: Oracle Layoffs, Drunk Pilots in Japan Airlines, US-Korea Tensions Grow
2025-09-11 Celebrating Assassination is Bad Because It Legitimises Assassination of the People You Like, Too
2025-09-11 Links 11/09/2025: "Hey Hi" Ponzi Schemes at Oracle (Unpaid Contracts) and Cindy Cohn is Leaving the EFF
2025-09-11 The UEFI 9/11 - Part X - An Outline of the Series About Microsoft Sabotaging GNU/Linux (With Ramifications to Unfold Online in Coming Weeks as People Reboot)
2025-09-11 Links 11/09/2025: Windows TCO and Russian Drones Invading Poland (EU/NATO)
2025-09-12 Links 12/09/2025: Shira Perlmutter is Back, “Software Per Se” Patent Rejections in In re McFadden
2025-09-12 Links 12/09/2025: Slop Code as Liability, Microsoft Outlook Down for Many
2025-09-12 Links 12/09/2025: "Bad Reviews" as Extortion Weapon, "Free Speech At Risk in America’s Schools" According to ACLU
2025-09-13 Links 13/09/2025: China Punishes for 'Negative' Posts, US Police Unable to Find Shooter
2025-09-13 Gemini and Web Links 13/09/2025: MElon's Slop Grift and "Autonomous Trains"
2025-09-13 Nepal Will Fall Without a Single Shot Fired, Thanks to Social Control Media
2025-09-13 Linux Mint 9/11: "4th One Today..." (in Reddit)
2025-09-14 Links 14/09/2025: US "Economy Sagging", "Michigan Economy Wobbles From Tariffs"
2025-09-14 What Microsoft Garrett and Microsoft Lunduke Have in Common
2025-09-14 Links 14/09/2025: Disasters for CEOs Obsessed With Slop and Slop Companies School Like Fish
2025-09-14 Links 14/09/2025: Ricky Hatton Dies and McDonald's Declares War on Tipping Culture
2025-09-15 Links 15/09/2025: Political Affairs, Censorship, and Copyrights
2025-09-15 Links 15/09/2025: Bitcoin ATMs Scam and "Conservative Cryptography" (Backdoors Fantasies)
2025-09-15 What Ruben Amorim and Stefano Maffulli Have in Common
2025-09-16 The Reach of Techrights Has Broadened
2025-09-16 Links 16/09/2025: While Oracle Pretends to be Rich It's Firing About 70 MySQL Workers, "Oracle's Revenge" (Faking Demand With "AI")
2025-09-16 Links 16/09/2025: "The Censorship Alarm Is Ringing in the Wrong Direction" and ASRock Does Microsoft E.E.E. on GNU/Linux
2025-09-17 Links 17/09/2025: Google Layoffs in "Hey Hi" (AI), Perplexity Hit With More "Hey Hi" (Plagiarism) Lawsuits
2025-09-17 Just What LibreOffice Needs? Another Language? (Rust)
2025-09-17 Links 17/09/2025: Secret Settlement for Internet Archive and Google’s LLM Slop Summaries Attracting Lawsuits
2025-09-17 Links 17/09/2025: Power Outages, Digital Controls, and Attacks on the Mainstream Media (by Insecure and Corrupt Dictators)
2025-09-18 Over at Tux Machines...
2025-09-18 Links 18/09/2025: US War on Media (Truth Banned, Cancel Culture by the Hard Right), NYT Chief Executive Warns Cheeto is Deploying ‘Anti-press Playbook'
2025-09-18 Links 18/09/2025: A Taliban Ban on Internet Access and Troubled US Job Market
2025-09-19 Links 19/09/2025: Media Freedom Ceases to Exist in US, "Consider Dropping Twitter/X"
2025-09-19 Links 19/09/2025: Lobbyist of American GAFAM Becomes Data Protection Commissioner in Europe
2025-09-20 Links 20/09/2025: Internet Shutdowns, Media Censorship, and Climate Worries
2025-09-20 Links 20/09/2025: Hardware Projects in View, Some Independent Publishers About Russia Prosper After Cheeto Cuts Funding
2025-09-20 It's Right to Point Out Violence From the Right
2025-09-20 Our 5-Year Geminispace Anniversary is Coming Up
2025-09-20 Vintage is Sometimes Better
2025-09-21 Links 21/09/2025: "Hey Hi" (Hype) Under Fire, Fakes Identified; Tesla Burns Family
2025-09-22 Links 22/09/2025: Russian War Planes Invade NATO Airspace While Dihydroxyacetone Man Escalates Attack on Free Speech Because of Critics
2025-09-22 Links 22/09/2025: More American 'Censorship' (Retaliation for Journalism), Cheeto "Might Be Losing His Race Against Time"
2025-09-22 Links 22/09/2025: Murdochs Might Join Fentanylware (TikTok) 'Investors' (Masters), United Kingdom Recognises Palestinian Statehood
2025-09-22 What Scares Them the Most is Independent News Sites That They Cannot Control and Censor
2025-09-23 Back to Normal Now, We Plan to Do More In-Depth Series (or Multi-part Stories)
2025-09-23 Lessons We've Learned After 17 Years of American Hosting
2025-09-23 MAHA is a Lie, Public Officials Never Valued Citizens' Health (They Still Value Private Businesses, Their Sponsors)
2025-09-23 Links 23/09/2025: Massive Data Breach, Slop Versus Productivity, and Vista 11 Update Breaks Things Again
2025-09-23 Links 23/09/2025: Japan Limits Uses of Skinnerboxes ('Smartphones') With Toxic "Apps", Fentanylware (TikTok) Tapped by "MAGAts"
2025-09-24 Links 24/09/2025: "NASA Moving Out of Entire Buildings as It's Gutted" and Purge of Online Critics (Opposing Fascism Becomes Unlawful)
2025-09-24 What They Really Hate David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) for
2025-09-24 Links 24/09/2025: Autism Blame-Shifting and Typhoon Ragasa Enters China
2025-09-25 Links 25/09/2025: Jimmy Kimmel Returns to Air (With Limitations) and London Stansted Airport Latest to Have Incident (Fire)
2025-09-25 'Cancel Culture' Isn't About Enforcing Ethics (and It's Done by People on the Right, Not "The Leftists")
2025-09-25 Links 25/09/2025: More European Airports Shut Down Due to What Seems Like Russian Drones
2025-09-26 Links 26/09/2025: "Digital Fatigue" and Slop Frenzy (Hype) Ruining Work Productivity, Culture, Languages
2025-09-26 Links 26/09/2025: More Provocations Against NATO by Russia (Near Alaska, USA), Microsoft Booster Accenture Has Mass Layoffs
2025-09-26 Reminder: We're Unloading Some Publications to Tux Machines
2025-09-27 Links 27/09/2025: Australia Might Ban Microsoft GitHub for Young People, Likely Illegal Executive Order Turns TikTok Into Cheeto Propaganda
2025-09-27 Web Sites That Are Independent Are Also Like Software Projects (Sometimes Literally So)
2025-09-28 People Remembered GNU's Birthday (Which Helps Remind People It All Started in 1983, Not 1991)
2025-09-28 Links 28/09/2025: Fentanylware (TikTok) 'Going Private' (the Dictator's Media Allies) and UK Mirror Lays Off More Journalists
2025-09-28 Links 28/09/2025: Slop Does More Harm, Newly Released Epstein Estate Documents
2025-09-28 Links 28/09/2025: Windows TCO, Security Breaches, and Deutsche Bahn Woes
2025-09-29 Links 29/09/2025: Datacenter Fires and "Too Much Internet Use Is Changing Teenage Brains"
2025-09-29 Links 29/09/2025: Opposition to Surveillance Giant Google and Conflicts Worldwide (Moldova Sides With EU)
2025-09-30 Links 30/09/2025: CERN in "Have I Been Pwned" and More Windows TCO Blunders
2025-09-30 Gemini Links 30/09/2025: Social Control Media and ROOPHLOCH
2025-09-30 Links 30/09/2025: Death Sentences, Internet Censorship, and Internet Shutdowns
2025-10-01 Social Control Media Isn't the Future, The Federation or Fediverse Isn't Growing, People's Accounts Vanish for Good
2025-10-01 After Killing OpenSource.com, IBM ('Red Hat') and OSI Told Us OpenSource.net Would Replace It (But That Didn't Happen)
2025-10-01 Links 01/10/2025: EA $55 Billion Deal is Debt and Slop "Raises Vishing Risks"
2025-10-02 Links 02/10/2025: Brave Passes 100M Users Milestone, Kodak Selling Its Own Film Again
2025-10-02 Links 02/10/2025: 'Open' 'AI' Resorting to Gimmicks and Fake Funding, Europe’s ‘Drone Wall’ Discussed
2025-10-03 Links 03/10/2025: Conflicts, Death of TypePad, and TikTok/CheeTok Gives a Boost to Far Right Groups in Europe
2025-10-03 Links 03/10/2025: Lawyers Caught Using LLM Slop Explain Why They Did It, LibreSSL 4.1.1 and 4.0.1 Released
2025-10-03 TikTok is Not Harmless (Being CheeTok in the US Will Advance Orange Agenda)
2025-10-04 Links 04/10/2025: "Privacy Harm Is Harm", Criticism Outlawed in US
2025-10-04 Links 04/10/2025: "attempted Coup" Noted in Facebook, Russia Kills Journalists via Drones
2025-10-05 Linux and the Freedom Paradox
2025-10-05 Links 05/10/2025: Lufthansa Layoffs (4,000) and More Spotify Woes (Aside From Massive Debt)
2025-10-05 Mozilla: Throw Away Your "Old" PC and Enable "Digital Rights Management (DRM)"
2025-10-06 Links 06/10/2025: Science, Hardware, and Andrej Babis Making a Comeback
2025-10-06 Links 06/10/2025: Grokipedia as Malicious Slop, US 'Martial Law' a "New Normal"
2025-10-06 Links 06/10/2025: Scientific Awards and Typhoon Matmo
2025-10-07 Links 07/10/2025: EU' Chat Control is Back, US Cracks Down on Democracy
2025-10-07 Links 07/10/2025: International Criminal Court (ICC) Convicts Ali Kushayb; Moroccan Imprisoned for 'Offensive' Shirt
2025-10-07 Links 07/10/2025: Privacy at Risk, GAFAM Remains Off the Hook
2025-10-07 Participation in Cancel Culture Detrimental to One's Career
2025-10-08 Social Control Media is Sinking
2025-10-08 How and Why Once-Legitimate Sites Turn Into Slopfarms
2025-10-08 Links 08/10/2025: Y2K38 Bug is a Vulnerability, Chat Control in Europe a Threat
2025-10-08 Links 08/10/2025: ‘Death to Spotify’ and Law to Ban Loud Commercials on Streaming (Dis)Services
2025-10-09 Links 09/10/2025: Sacked Microsoft Workers Make "Sackbird", IBM Taps CockroachDB for PostgreSQL
2025-10-09 Links 09/10/2025: Farewell to Jane Goodall, California Bans Algorithmic Price-Fixing
2025-10-10 Links 10/10/2025: Honoring The Legacy Of Robert Murray-Smith, Many Articles on the Hey Hi (AI) Bubble
2025-10-10 Links 10/10/2025: US Judge Bars Attacks by ICE On Journalists and Protesters; “We Took The Freedom of Speech Away” Says the President
2025-10-10 Links 10/10/2025: Putin Admits Russia Downed Azerbaijan Airlines Jet, More New Heat Records
2025-10-10 The 'Culture Wars' in Free Software Have Gone Out of Control
2025-10-11 Peter O'Callaghan QC represented grandparents, Westernport Hotel, at Liquor Royal Commission
2025-10-12 Paris 'Love Nest' & Debian Outreachy: from Lycée Lakanal to ENS Cachan, Cr@ns, nepotism
2025-10-12 Links 12/10/2025: 'False' DMCA Claims and Slop Facing Perils Again (the Hype Wears Off)
2025-10-13 Links 13/10/2025: Australian Catholic University Uses Slop to Libel Students, Canada Threatens to Kill Beluga Whales
2025-10-13 Richard Stallman to Give Public Talk in 3 Hours, Then in the Technical University of Munich (Germany) Next Week
2025-10-13 Links 13/10/2025: "Toasty Subwoofer" and WiFi Speakers "Are About To Go Dumb"
2025-10-14 Slop Poisons Everything
2025-10-14 Links 14/10/2025: Microsoft OneDrive Scanning Faces in Photos (Without Asking First), "OpenAI Says It Will Move to Allow Smut"
2025-10-14 Links 14/10/2025: Lack of Trust in Slop and "Retirement Challenges"
2025-10-14 Many Developers Have Many Political Views, They'll Never Agree on Everything
2025-10-15 Links 15/10/2025: Mass Layoffs at Amazon, OneDrive Spyware Revved Up, More 'Gen Z Protests'
2025-10-16 Links 16/10/2025: Increased Use of Social Control Media Surveillance in US, French Rage Over Pensions
2025-10-16 Links 16/10/2025: Lies Euphemised as ‘Dueling Versions of Reality’ and Microsoft "Open" "Hey Hi" Resorts to Porn as No Business Model Was Found
2025-10-16 Links 16/10/2025: Red Lines and Feeding of Microsoft Trolls
2025-10-16 Links 16/10/2025: US Starting More Trade Wars With China, CIA War on Venezuela
2025-10-16 Lies Need to be Corrected
2025-10-16 Links 16/10/2025: Political Leftovers and Gemini Protocol Links
2025-10-17 Links 17/10/2025: Nestlé Crisis, Canada Post Versus 'Gig Economy' [sic] and Vista 11 Breaks Itself
2025-10-17 Links 17/10/2025: UK’s Largest Breach Penalty and Windows TCO Examples
2025-10-17 Links 17/10/2025: Fentanylware (CheeTok) Causing Problems, Japanese Government Blasts Slop
2025-10-17 Links 17/10/2025: Better Answers Sought After Air Crashes, "China Fans Patriotic Sentiment as Trade War With U.S. Heats Up"
2025-10-18 Digital Sanitation Good Practices
2025-10-18 Links 18/10/2025: Madagascar's President Flees and ICE Arrests Protest Comedian Robby Roadsteamer
2025-10-19 Links 19/10/2025: Cambodia Scam Centres, Slop Hurting Wikipedia Traffic
2025-10-19 19 Years in Numbers: Techrights' Anniversary Countdown and Retrospective
2025-10-20 Liberation From 'The Feed'
2025-10-20 Microsoft's LinkedIn is Losing Money, Traffic, and Hope; Now It Wants to Sell Its Users' Lifeblood (and Data)
2025-10-20 Links 20/10/2025: Louvre Museum Reveals Weakness, About 7 Million Protest US Turning Into Oligarchy/Monarchy
2025-10-21 An Update About Soylent News, With Jan Rinok "Back in the Saddle"
2025-10-21 Insane, Deliberately Dishonest, or Just Another Bigot?
2025-10-21 Links 21/10/2025: 'The Lost Art' of Neon Signs and Twitter (X) to Enable Identity Theft (or Handle Theft) as a Service
2025-10-21 The African Lion and the American Cowards
2025-10-21 Links 21/10/2025: AWS-Induced Chaos and Social Control Media Curbs
2025-10-21 Links 21/10/2025: Even "Inventor of Vibe Coding" Rejects Vibe Coding, USPTO Experiments With Slop in Examination
2025-10-22 Links 22/10/2025: Study on Misinformation by Slop and Heavily Debt-Sabbled Microsoft OpenAI (ClosedSlop) Uses "Browser" as Gimmick/Distraction
2025-10-22 Links 22/10/2025: Amazon Plans to Replace Workers With Robotics, AWS and Clown Computing in General Ridiculed
2025-10-23 Links 23/10/2025: Proprietary Blunders and CISA's Latest Disclosure of Holes
2025-10-23 Why We Support Richard Stallman and You Probably Should Too
2025-10-23 Links 23/10/2025: Windows TCO Galore and "The Internet Is Going to Break Again"
2025-10-23 Links 23/10/2025: LLM 'Hallucinations' (Defects) in Practical Code 'Generation', China Becomes More Economically and Technologically Independent
2025-10-24 Links 24/10/2025: Microsoft's Killing of XBox Connected to Revenue/Profit Problems, "How Elon Musk Ruined Twitter"
2025-10-24 Generation Chaff - Phase I: Social Control Media
2025-10-24 Generation Chaff - Phase VIII: In Summary
2025-10-24 Links 24/10/2025: "Independent Media in Cambodia is Collapsing" and Serious F5 Breach
2025-10-24 Links 24/10/2025: Inequality Grows, Billion-Dollar Scam Center Industry
2025-10-24 [Video] Richard Stallman's Talk in Sweden, Attended by Nearly 700 People, is Now Online
2025-10-25 Links 25/10/2025: Target Layoffs and "Shutdown Sparks 85% Increase in US Government Cyberattacks"
2025-10-25 Links 25/10/2025: Two New Smokescreens for Scam Altman and ‘TikTok USA’ Remains in Limbo
2025-10-25 Microsoft is Finally Giving Up on XBox, The Chief Says the Grapes Are Sour Anyway
2025-10-26 Links 26/10/2025: LLM Slop / Plagiarism Programs Continue to Disappoint, CISA Layoffs Threaten Systems
2025-10-26 Links 26/10/2025: Microsoft Spies on Gamers, Open Transport Community Conference
2025-10-27 Following the Line of Cocaine All the Way to the Top
2025-10-27 Links 27/10/2025: Wikipedia Vandalism, Bruce Perens Opens up on Childhood
2025-10-27 Links 27/10/2025: Mass Surveillance Sold as "AI", People Reluctant to Lose Physical Media
2025-10-28 Links 28/10/2025: Mass Layoffs at Amazon and Charter to Cut 1,200 Jobs
2025-10-28 Links 28/10/2025: Meta and Fentanylware (CheeTok) Age-Restricted Down Under, "Britain Needs China’s Money"
2025-10-29 Links 29/10/2025: CISA, Ukraine, and Amazon Problems
2025-10-29 Links 29/10/2025: "US Military Is Destroying the Planet Beyond Imagination" and Boat Strikes Deemed Unlawful
2025-11-01 Links 01/11/2025: Microsoft Azure Goes Offline Again
2025-11-01 Links 01/11/2025: "Americans Are Defaulting on Car Loans at an Alarming Rate" While Many Left to Starve (SNAP)
2025-11-02 Links 02/11/2025: Another Halloween Bust and MAGA Regime Says Public Universities Should No Longer Hire 'Foreign' Employees
2025-11-02 Debunking False/Misleading Statements Made or Told to the High Court
2025-11-03 Links 03/11/2025: The "Smartphone Panopticon" and Belarus' Hybrid Attacks on EU Intensify
2025-11-04 Corruption is Not a Joke
2025-11-04 We Turned Down Every Settlement Offer Because Truths Aren't Determined in Bank Accounts
2025-11-04 Links 04/11/2025: Tensions Around Belarus Grow, Turkey’s Hype-inflation Continues
2025-11-05 Links 05/11/2025: Medicare Privatisation and "Breaker Box Economy"
2025-11-05 Techrights Became a Lot More Productive as a Result of Attacks on It
2025-11-05 Links 05/11/2025: Economic Trouble in France and US Bombing All Over the World Without Declaration of War or Congress Approving
2025-11-06 Telling Our Story as Victims of Online Abuse
2025-11-06 Links 06/11/2025: EFF Wants New Executive Director, Microsoft's Azure Falls Over Again
2025-11-06 Links 06/11/2025: "Component Abuse Challenge", Google Play Store Deemed Too Monopolistic
2025-11-07 Misinformation/Disinformation Disguised as Information About GNU General Public Licenses (GNU GPL) Usage
2025-11-07 Links 07/11/2025: US Government Shutdown Imperils Critical Functions, Slop in "AI" Clothing Debunked Some More, Bubble's Implosion Ongoing/Imminent According to Experts
2025-11-08 Adrian & Diana von Bidder-Senn, Debian: detailed history of a death
2025-11-08 Over at Tux Machines...
2025-11-08 Daniel Pocock Explains Social Engineering in Debian and Other Communities Increasingly Controlled by "Barons"
2025-11-08 Links 08/11/2025: Technical and Financial GAFAM Woes and Arrests of Journalists by Despots
2025-11-08 Links 08/11/2025: Disinformation Crisis, Denmark Recognises Threats Associated With Social Control Media
2025-11-08 Our Site Search Increases Our Editorial and Informational Independence
2025-11-08 Being Absent/Missing From Social Control Media is Not a Sign of Weakness
2025-11-08 Links 08/11/2025: Climate Talk Unfruitful, OldVersion.com Archive Facing Shutdown
2025-11-09 Links 09/11/2025: "Avoid MSI Graphics Like the Plague", Harms of Social Control Media More Widely Recognised
2025-11-10 Links 10/11/2025: "Scam Altman Gets Served Subpoena" and "China will Rule Renewable Energy"
2025-11-10 Links 10/11/2025: BBC Turmoil and Iranian Drought Crisis
2025-11-11 Too Much of Today's Web is Fake, Not Just Fake News
2025-11-11 Links 11/11/2025: Slop Ruins Music, Facebook "to Discontinue Like and Comment Buttons on Third-Party Websites"
2025-11-11 Links 11/11/2025: Misinformation/Disinformation in Twitter/X and BBC in Trouble
2025-11-12 Links 12/11/2025: A US President (Insurrectionist) Attacking British Media, Hyundai's Digital Restrictions (DRM)
2025-11-12 Links 12/11/2025: Botulism Outbreak and Increased Russian Censorship
2025-11-13 The Federation? Almost 90% of Its Users Have Quit Participating.
2025-11-13 Links 13/11/2025: Ghost (E-mails) of Jeffrey Epstein Chases Cheeto, Uproar Over SLAPP Threats Against British Broadcasters
2025-11-13 Links 13/11/2025: "Fight for Control Over In-Car Technology" and "Climate Crisis is a Health Crisis"
2025-11-14 Links 14/11/2025: Sleep Research, France to Suspend Pension 'Reform' Law, and Linux Foundation's Latest Openwashing
2025-11-14 Links 14/11/2025: Goddard Space Center Abused by the White House, Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Expands (Cheetos Need Distraction)
2025-11-14 Links 14/11/2025: YouTube's Trap for Publishers, Lack of Accountability a Growing Legal Matter/Concern
2025-11-15 Many "Last Days" at IBM on Allegedly the "Last Day" for IBM to RA People This Quarter
2025-11-15 Links 15/11/2025: Latest in "Component Abuse Challenge" and Qt Keeps Promoting LLM Slop
2025-11-15 Links 15/11/2025: Science, Conflicts, and International Politics
2025-11-15 Links 15/11/2025: "Small Web, Big Voice" and China Cracking Down on Slop
2025-11-15 Links 15/11/2025: Openwashing of Kubernetes and Austerity Planned for Canada
2025-11-15 Many IBM Workers to Become Unemployed a Few Weeks - Maybe Just Days - Before Christmas
2025-11-16 Links 16/11/2025: Censorship Battles and Margaret Sullivan Speaks
2025-11-17 How We Managed to Make IRC Inclusive and Free Speech-Tolerant Without Banning People
2025-11-17 Links 17/11/2025: "You Don't Need Animations" and Blocking Copyright-Infringing Sites Inevitably Goes Wrong
2025-11-17 Links 17/11/2025: ‘Agentic OS’ Backlash and Facebook ('Meta') Loses Yann Le Cun
2025-11-17 The "Nazi Bars"
2025-11-18 Over at Tux Machines...
2025-11-18 Links 18/11/2025: "Bitcoin Showing Signs of Severe Collapse" and CEOs of GAFAM Finally Speak About a Slop Bubble
2025-11-18 Your Web Site is Connected to the Net and the Server is Powered On, But Cloudflare Takes It All Down
2025-11-18 Celebrating Digital Sovereignty
2025-11-19 Links 19/11/2025: Several Sites Admit Slop Bubble "About to Burst", US Government Tacitly Endorses Assassination of Journalists
2025-11-19 Links 19/11/2025: "Corporate-Government Censorship" by App Stores (Says ACLU) and Invalidation of Patent Trolls' Patents Sought
2025-11-19 Links 19/11/2025: Lawfare Against Greenpeace, Major British Newspaper Caught Using LLM Slop
2025-11-20 Links 20/11/2025: Cloudflare Outage Post Mortem and Tesla Robotaxi "Safety"
2025-11-21 Links 21/11/2025: Former Google CEO Spying on Staff, US Government Lets GAFAM Buy the Competition Despite FTC Challenge
2025-11-21 Links 21/11/2025: "Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare" and "OpenAI Is Suddenly in Trouble"
2025-11-22 Links 22/11/2025: Roblox Rolls Out Face Scans for Age Verification, Social Control Media Misused as Political Weapon Against EU and Others
2025-11-22 Links 22/11/2025: Hate in Social Control Media, Raids, and Environmentalism
2025-11-23 Links 23/11/2025: Facebook "Lied to Congress" About Risks to Kids, Many Political Picks
2025-11-24 Links 24/11/2025: "Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program in Sacramento," SUSE Talks "Buying European"
2025-11-24 Links 24/11/2025: “Agentic OS” Backlash and Cheeto White House Capitulating to Moscow
2025-11-25 Links 25/11/2025: Iberia Data Breach and Apple Layoffs
2025-11-25 Links 25/11/2025: Probably No Water on Mars, China Launches Shenzhou-22 Spacecraft Today
2025-11-26 Links 26/11/2025: Windows TCO and GAFAM Hurting "British Economic Security", "Data Center Boom Creating a Water Crisis"
2025-11-26 Writing About Corruption
2025-11-26 Links 26/11/2025: China Debt-Trapping Nations, GAFAM Datacentre "Wreaking Havoc on a Louisiana Town"
2025-11-27 "The father of modern day engineering"
2025-11-27 Links 27/11/2025: ‘Welcome to the Slopverse’ and ‘The iPad’s Software Problem is Permanent’
2025-11-28 Links 28/11/2025: Apple and Plagiarism, US Government 'Selling' Europe Down the River
2025-11-28 Loads of IBM Departures So Far Today, "Buy Nothing Day"; IBM Pays People in IBM-Bribed "News" Sites to Claim No Layoffs
2025-11-28 Links 28/11/2025: EU Taking on the Social Control Media Madness, StubHub is in Trouble
2025-11-29 Links 29/11/2025: David Lerner Dies, Growing Awareness of "Energy Poverty" in EU
2025-11-29 Links 29/11/2025: Hey Hi (AI) Textbooks Disaster, Talk About Fraudulent Accounting in "AI" Companies, 'Open' 'AI' Needs "Miracle" to Avert Bankruptcy
2025-11-29 The Federation Has Failed, It's Not a Popularity Contest Which Exposes Oneself to Audiences
2025-11-30 Links 30/11/2025: Many Data Breaches, Unnecessary Escalations in Venezuela as Jeffrey Epstein Files Nearing Partial Disclosure, "Optical Illusion of Prosperity"
2025-11-30 Links 30/11/2025: China’s Pooh-tin to "Crack Down on Online Misconduct", Tragedy in Hong Kong Leaves Hundreds Dead and Many Critics Censored
2025-11-30 Social Control Media, Now 'Infused' With Chatbots (Fake Activity Because Real Users or Actual Humans Leave)
2025-12-01 An Almost-Depressing Lack of Reliable News Sites
2025-12-01 Links 01/12/2025: Dumping Microsoft GitHub, "Files Expose Britain’s Secret D-Notice Censorship Regime"
2025-12-01 Links 01/12/2025: US Regime Cracks Down on Scholars, Floods a Growing Problem, "Fame Can Cut Years From a Singer's Life"
2025-12-02 Links 02/12/2025: Microsoft SharePoint Exploited, Openwashing Still a Thing, Europe Want a Seat at the Table With Russia Negotiations
2025-12-03 IBM Layoffs: It's Like They Read From a Script, Like They've Signed a Non-Disparagement Agreement/Clause
2025-12-03 Links 03/12/2025: UK Budget Leak and Criticism of Peace Posturing Over Ukraine
2025-12-03 Links 03/12/2025: "Disastrous Hey Hi (AI)", Breaches of Confidentiality, and "Global Democratic Recession"
2025-12-04 Links 04/12/2025: "Hey Hi" Implosion and Half of Europeans See Cheeto Trump as Enemy of Europe
2025-12-05 Over at Tux Machines...
2025-12-05 Thousands Laid Off at IBM, "Last Day" Yesterday
2025-12-05 A Year After the Owner of X (Twitter) Performed Several Nazi Salutes on Stage the Germany-Based and Microsoft-Funded 'FSFE' Decides to Exit X (Twitter)
2025-12-05 Beyond the Hype: Almost Nobody Uses Chatbots, Not Even 1% of Activity Online
2025-12-05 Links 05/12/2025: Slop Harming Democracy/Elections, More Bans Around the World on Kids' Use of Social Control Media
2025-12-05 Links 05/12/2025: Openwashing by Microsoft's 'Open Source' Initiative, Unauthorised War Without Boundaries/Borders Waged by US
2025-12-06 Links 05/12/2025: More Restrictions on Social Control Media and Slop, "Hype Can Turn to Backlash"
2025-12-06 Links 06/12/2025: Slop's "Jeopardy Phenomenon" and RAM Shortage
2025-12-06 Links 06/12/2025: Panic in the Slop (Chatbots) Industry and Perplexity Sued by New York Times for Plagiarising Articles Under Guise of "AI"
2025-12-06 Links 06/12/2025: Science, Hardware, and Slop Fatigue
2025-12-08 Links 08/12/2025: Slop Failing and Windows Users Won't 'Upgrade' Due to Slop
2025-12-08 Links 08/12/2025: "Leaving Intel" (Exodus Continues) and Ways "to Civilize Digital Life"
2025-12-08 Mocking a Software Developer for Using the Terminal or Programs Like Emacs
2025-12-08 Links 08/12/2025: Cambodia-Thailand Air Raids, Japan/China Military Incident
2025-12-09 Links 09/12/2025: "After the Bubble" (of Slop), "The Internet Forgets"
2025-12-10 Y Combinator (YC) Funds Scams, Run by Scammers
2025-12-10 Links 10/12/2025: Ransomware (Windows TCO) Has Crippled Economies, Slop (Fake) "Videos Have Flooded Social (Control) Media"
2025-12-10 Links 10/12/2025: McDonald’s Latest Slop Gaffe (After Dumping IBM's Slop) and "Scam Altman’s Panic Sweats"
2025-12-10 Like Clickfraud Spamnil (Swapnil Bhartiya) But for Hate Mongering: What Twitter Has Become
2025-12-11 Over at Tux Machines...
2025-12-11 Links 11/12/2025: Dangerous Flukes by Slop and Bottled Water as 'Placebos'
2025-12-11 Links 11/12/2025: Escalations Around Japan, Software Patents Found Invalid
2025-12-12 Links 12/12/2025: Oracle Shares Collapse After Slop Bubble Inflated (Circular Funding/Financing One's Own 'Clients'), "Trials by Jury" in UK Considered
2025-12-12 Datacentre and Server Maintenance Next Week
2025-12-12 The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Paid Respect to Its Founder This Year, Now It Wants You to Join
2025-12-12 EPO People Power - Part VIII - The Chipmunk on Cocaine, Now Deleting Videos
2025-12-12 Links 12/12/2025: GAFAM Now Trying to Settle With Remaining News Sites It Plagiarised, "NATO's Rutte Says Alliance Is 'Russia's Next Target'"
2025-12-13 Over at Tux Machines...
2025-12-13 Links 13/12/2025: Social Control Media Bans and "Could Finland be Hiding a Blue Zone?"
2025-12-13 Running With Technology
2025-12-13 Russian "Hybrid Attacks" Are Typically Microsoft TCO and/or Windows TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)
2025-12-13 Deliberate Lies or Glaring Distortions
2025-12-13 Links 13/12/2025: Jimmy Lai and Media Freedom on Trial, "OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Hiding the Truth"
2025-12-14 Links 14/12/2025: "The Slop of Things to Come", Goldman Sachs Nervous About Slop Bubble
2025-12-15 The Future of News on the World Wide Web
2025-12-15 IBM May be Breaking the Law to Silence Staff It Laid Off
2025-12-15 Links 15/12/2025: Chromebooks as Work Machines, "Americans [Who] Moved to Australia" to Avoid Cheeto
2025-12-15 Perpetuating the Lie of "No Red Hat Layoffs" Because of the Bluewashing (Red Hat Became Just "IBM")
2025-12-16 Links 16/12/2025: More GAFAM (Now Amazon) Layoffs and iRobot Chapter 11
2025-12-16 When Malformed RSS or Atom Feeds Clog Up (or Even Crash) Programs
2025-12-17 Links 17/12/2025: User Data Compromised in SoundCloud and Efforts to Release Jimmy Lai for the 'Crime' of Journalism
2025-12-17 Links 17/12/2025: Operation Bluebird Lawsuit, GoDaddy Made to 'Dox' Clients
2025-12-17 Tom Silvagni sentencing: not Xavier College but DPP and social media to blame
2025-12-17 Links 17/12/2025: Qt 6.8.6 Released and "Is Denmark Really Banning VPNs?"
2025-12-17 Links 17/12/2025: "Jimmy Lai’s Conviction Was Years in the Making" and "Pandemic Lockdowns Changed a Songbird’s Beak"
2025-12-18 Links 18/12/2025: Fake Videos in Social Control Media and "Oscars Move to YouTube from ABC"
2025-12-19 Links 19/12/2025: Scam Altman Humiliates Self in Public, Climate Alarm Sounded, Egyptian Economist Convicted Over "Social Control Media Posts Critical of the Government"
2025-12-19 Nearly Three Months Have Passed Since EPO Cocainegate and the EPO's Management Still Refuses to Talk About It
2025-12-19 Links 19/12/2025: Windows TCO in NHS, "Locked Out of Apple Account Due to Gift Card"
2025-12-20 Links 20/12/2025: Media Layoffs, a Third of Online Traffic is Bots
2025-12-20 Impulsive Writing, Quotas, and Keeping Things as Concise as Feasible
2025-12-20 Links 20/12/2025: Fentanylware Becomes CheeTok and "Why Roomba Died"
2025-12-21 25 Years of Activism for GNU/Linux
2025-12-21 Dr. Richard Stallman, Invited by LibreTech Collective, is Giving a Public Talk in Georgia Tech Next Month (Scheller College of Business)
2025-12-21 Links 21/12/2025: U.S. Strikes in Syria, "Epstein Files Photos Disappear From Government Website"
2025-12-22 Links 22/12/2025: Facebook "Testing $14.99 Monthly Subscription Fee to Post Links" and "Middle East Petrostates as American Media Owners"
2025-12-22 When Conformism Means Capitulation and Defeat
2025-12-22 GAFAM Deeply Connected to Jeffrey Epstein, Richard Stallman (RMS) in No Way Connected to Jeffrey Epstein
2025-12-22 Links 22/12/2025: North Korean Applicants Target GAFAM (Amazon), ‘Orwellian Climate of Fear’ of CPC (Even Outside China)
2025-12-22 Links 22/12/2025: Data Breaches, deterioration in Politics, and Geminispace
2025-12-23 Social Control Media is Bots (Fake Traffic, Fake 'Engagement')
2025-12-23 Links 23/12/2025: GNU Taler 1.3, US Regime Censors Television Again
2025-12-24 Links 24/12/2025: Spotify Surveillance and Shadow Over Rule of Law in Hong Kong
2025-12-24 Links 24/12/2025: Cheeto President "Accused of Rape in Jeffrey Epstein Files", Windows to be Replaced by Slop?
2025-12-24 Links 24/12/2025: US TACOs on "China Chip Tariffs Until 2027", Russian Snickers in U.K. Convenience Shops
2025-12-25 Links 25/12/2025: Ample Cover-up Found in Jeffrey Epstein Files; ChatGPT Causes Psychosis, Not a Good Use Case
2025-12-25 Links 25/12/2025: Mail Carriers in "a Murky Future", Dihydroxyacetone Man’s "Chip Embargo Against China Backfiring Spectacularly"
2025-12-26 Links 26/12/2025: Chatbot Toys Terrorising Children, US Undeclared "War on Terror" Unilaterally Extends to Nigeria During Holidays
2025-12-26 Victim-Blaming in Debian