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<title>Behind the Scenes With Richard Stallman (updated)</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Behind_the_Scenes_With_Richard_Stallman.shtml</link>
<description>If you support his ideas, even if you dislike him as a person, then you'll welcome his ability to speak about those ideas</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>European Patent Office (EPO) Strikes and Other Industrial Actions Are Working: Patent Application Grants Have Collapsed</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/European_Patent_Office_EPO_Strikes_and_Other_Industrial_Actions.shtml</link>
<description>Even before the strikes happened any day of the week</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>SLAPP Censorship - Part 49 Out of 200: Two Americans, One Case, Recycled for Low Budget at Brett Wilson LLP and 5RB Barristers</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_49_Out_of_200_Two_Americans_One_Case_Recy.shtml</link>
<description>Change one character, bill the client tens or hundreds of thousands of US dollars</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Pension Contribution Increases as Another Attack on Compensation for EPO Staff (Mostly Patent Examiners)</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Pension_Contribution_Increases_as_Another_Attack_on_Compensatio.shtml</link>
<description>Pension contribution increases!</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Almost 1,000 IBM Layoffs Not Newsworthy (Nobody Covers It), Unlike When Snap Does It and Mentions a Celebrated - or Reviled - Buzzword</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Almost_1_000_IBM_Layoffs_Not_Newsworthy_Nobody_Covers_It_Unlike.shtml</link>
<description>not a word regarding IBM layoffs</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Gemini Links 17/04/2026: "Many Problems and Inequities in the Legal System", "No Place to Hide"</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Gemini_Links_17_04_2026_Many_Problems_and_Inequities_in_the_Leg.shtml</link>
<description>Links for the day</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Links 17/04/2026: SRA Breaks Its Own Rules as Solicitor Attempts Suicide, IPv6 Barely Hits 50% After 20+ Years</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Links_17_04_2026_SRA_Breaks_Its_Own_Rules_as_Solicitor_Attempts.shtml</link>
<description>Links for the day</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>ActBlue former IT boss disappearance: Decklin Foster &#x26; Debian, Harvard suicide lab, Chris Gleason is wife, whistleblower or both?</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/ActBlue_former_IT_boss_disappearance_Decklin_Foster_Debian_Harv.shtml</link>
<description>Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Gemini Links 17/04/2026: Getting competent in NixOS and Alhena 5.5.6 Released</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Gemini_Links_17_04_2026_Getting_competent_in_NixOS_and_Alhena_5.shtml</link>
<description>Links for the day</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Links 17/04/2026: "We Cannot Lose Sight of Ukraine" and "When Leaders Should Resign"</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Links_17_04_2026_We_Cannot_Lose_Sight_of_Ukraine_and_When_Leade.shtml</link>
<description>Links for the day</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>GizChina Appears to Have Become a Slopfarm, I.e. Fake News Site With Fake Text</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/GizChina_Appears_to_Have_Become_a_Slopfarm_I_e_Fake_News_Site_W.shtml</link>
<description>Don't waste a moment reading LLM slop, as at the very least it rewards plagiarism [...] Deemed to be slop also by two human beings, not just two scanners</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Massive, Cross-Site Strike at the EPO Today</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Massive_Cross_Site_Strike_at_the_EPO_Today.shtml</link>
<description>There's coordination across sites for maximal pressure</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Dr. Andy Farnell Says "AI" is "Only a Marketing Term" for Things That Exist for "Entertainment Purposes Only"</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Dr_Andy_Farnell_Says_AI_is_Only_a_Marketing_Term_for_Things_Tha.shtml</link>
<description>distortion or misuse of the term (now buzzword/s) "AI"</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Over at Tux Machines...</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml</link>
<description>GNU/Linux news for the past day</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 16, 2026</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_April_16_2026.shtml</link>
<description>IRC logs for Thursday, April 16, 2026</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Strikes at the EPO Carry on, Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Increases Pressure Ahead of Technical and Operational Support Committee (TOSC) Meeting Next Week</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Strikes_at_the_EPO_Carry_on_Staff_Union_of_the_European_Patent_.shtml</link>
<description>the local section The Hague (or SUEPO TH) wants to rally many staff members</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Gemini Links 16/04/2026: LLM Nuisance, Identity Systems (Surveillance), and Why Windows is Failing</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Gemini_Links_16_04_2026_LLM_Nuisance_Identity_Systems_Surveilla.shtml</link>
<description>Links for the day</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>'Going Offline' is Not Primitivism</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Going_Offline_is_Not_Primitivism.shtml</link>
<description>Computers are good at automation, but people are not robots</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Register MS Has Published Article With "AI" 18 Times in it, "Cloud" 9 Times. It Got Paid to Do This.</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/The_Register_MS_Has_Published_Article_With_AI_18_Times_in_it_Cl.shtml</link>
<description>What happened to journalism?</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>In Europe, More People Turn to Russia for Answers, Not Microsoft</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/In_Europe_More_People_Turn_to_Russia_for_Answers_Not_Microsoft.shtml</link>
<description>The future of computing doesn't look pretty</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>SLAPP Censorship - Part 48 Out of 200: Brett Wilson LLP and 5RB Copy-Pasting Bogus Claims for Violent Americans (Microsoft) Who Tell Women to Kill Themselves</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_48_Out_of_200_Brett_Wilson_LLP_and_5RB_Co.shtml</link>
<description>Microsoft's Graveley telling his partner to kill herself is probably a crime</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The EFF Is Hardly Doing Anything Anymore</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/The_EFF_Is_Hardly_Doing_Anything_Anymore.shtml</link>
<description>Our series about the EFF has been brewing for over 2 years already</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Microsoft Uses Slop to Bribe (at No Cost) Nations That Otherwise Would Move to GNU/Linux and IBM is Forcing Red Hat Staff to Use Slop</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Microsoft_Uses_Slop_to_Bribe_at_No_Cost_Nations_That_Otherwise_.shtml</link>
<description>Life it too short to waste "consuming" slop</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Links 16/04/2026: Roblox Launching ‘Roblox Kids’ Accounts and "Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools"</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Links_16_04_2026_Roblox_Launching_Roblox_Kids_Accounts_and_Deep.shtml</link>
<description>Links for the day</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Red Hat Staff: IBM Red Hat Laid Off About 400 Engineers, the Media Did Not Cover This</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Red_Hat_Staff_IBM_Red_Hat_Laid_Off_About_400_Engineers_the_Medi.shtml</link>
<description>The media is not doing its job or doing a really shoddy job</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Gemini Links 16/04/2026: Nocturnal Pulse, Unpersoned Outlaws, and Monaspace Lagrange Fontpacks</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Gemini_Links_16_04_2026_Nocturnal_Pulse_Unpersoned_Outlaws_and_.shtml</link>
<description>Links for the day</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Richard Stallman Lecture in GDC Auditorium in Austin, Texas</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Richard_Stallman_Lecture_in_GDC_Auditorium_in_Austin_Texas.shtml</link>
<description>corporate power could not 'cancel' the man</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>It's Not About the Head, It's About the Masters (and Funding)</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/It_s_Not_About_the_Head_It_s_About_the_Masters_and_Funding.shtml</link>
<description>Regardless of who the OSI claims to be its leader, its masters are Microsoft, just follow the money</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Over at Tux Machines...</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml</link>
<description>GNU/Linux news for the past day</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 15, 2026</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/IRC_Proceedings_Wednesday_April_15_2026.shtml</link>
<description>IRC logs for Wednesday, April 15, 2026</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Links 15/04/2026: Geelong Corio Refinery Fire, Journalist Sentenced for "Insulting the President"</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/15/Links_15_04_2026_Geelong_Corio_Refinery_Fire_Journalist_Sentenc.shtml</link>
<description>Links for the day</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Gemini Links 15/04/2026: Organiding .bashrc with Imports, Oddμ as SSG</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/15/Gemini_Links_15_04_2026_Organiding_bashrc_with_Imports_Odd%CE%BC_as_.shtml</link>
<description>Links for the day</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Over at Tux Machines...</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/15/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml</link>
<description>GNU/Linux news for the past day</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 14, 2026</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/15/IRC_Proceedings_Tuesday_April_14_2026.shtml</link>
<description>IRC logs for Tuesday, April 14, 2026</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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