01.30.23
Gemini version available ♊︎Taking Techrights to the Next Level in 2023
“Apple is fighting against powerful and fundamental economic forces. In the short term, Apple’s technological and industrial design prowess can help to prop up dying business models.”
–Timothy Lee
Summary: I’ve reached a state of “closure” when it comes to my employer (almost 12 years for me, 9+ years for my wife); expect Techrights to become more active than ever before and belatedly publish important articles, based on longstanding investigations that take a lot of effort
Today we published the last daily part of the Sirius ‘Open Source’ series (there will be more coming, there’s already stuff on the way, but not to be published on a daily basis). This series covers, explains and concludes my resignation from that dying company*. It also marks a turning point where I can devote all my time to personal software projects and writing projects. I have a lot of unpublished stories. It takes time to process and verify the facts. Accuracy is paramount. It’s the scientific way; we don’t tolerate “marketing”.
“At the moment Techrights is doing internal stuff, including server migrations.”The Microsoft GitHub series (Microsoft GitHub Exposé/”GitHub: Where everything comes to die”) will resume later this year. Some rumours about GitHub layoffs need verification. Remember that GitHub will one day shut down like CodePlex did. It is inevitable. Users of the platform don’t get to decide on when or how it happens. It’ll just happen. There’s no business model! Since 2018… only losses. Microsoft now tries to ‘monetise’ GitHub as a plagiarism blender. Will you buy monthly subscription for Microsoft to assist your blurred-away plagiarism? This is in court right now.
At the moment Techrights is doing internal stuff, including server migrations. We’re moving to Alpine. There’s also self-improvement work around processes. The goal is to increase our capacity and produce more output (Daily Links, articles, videos, analyses focusing on strategic areas), letting new programs do some of the work, offloading/automating some existing tasks and streamlining others.
“The last time I was not employed was the time I finished my Ph.D. (that in itself was like employment as I was a full-time postgraduate student).”Bear with us while we code some new programs. It may seem slow, but we’ve only just recovered from a sudden disk/storage failure and I’ve been speaking to people over the telephone about scandals we’re eager to expose in February. Curiously enough, some of our articles about Microsoft layoffs are going ‘viral’ weeks after they were originally published. It seems safe to say that Microsoft layoffs are (quite frankly as usual) a lot bigger than what the Microsoft PR depsrtment claims and we already see rumours about another wave of Microsoft layoffs (already in the planning).
The last time I was not employed was the time I finished my Ph.D. (that in itself was like employment as I was a full-time postgraduate student). At age 40 I finally managed to position myself to focus purely on this site and its community. Quite a few people in IRC have been there for nearly 15 years (our main channel turns 15 in a couple of months), so we sort of ‘grew up together’ on the Net. Speaking of the Net, tomorrow we change our home connection from copper to fibre. It’ll make things easier. There may be brief outages for Gemini (DNS changes). █
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* Sirius is dead company walking. It accelerated its demise by doing irrational things and mistreating staff.
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