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If You Read Techrights, Then You Probably Want to Read Tux Machines as Well

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 15, 2025

British Royal Mail Van

That site is more active than this one

The sister site, Tux Machines, is turning 21 in 3.5 weeks from now and 2 years ago we decided to reduce duplication by not posting the same links both here and there; we decided this site would be focused on particular kinds of stories, whereas general GNU/Linux and Free software news would only be posted in the sister site. We said that explicitly several times back in 2023.

To follow the sister site, given how often it gets updated (47 new pages yesterday alone), we suggest adding this RSS feed to an RSS reader. We coded several of our own RSS readers, but my wife still uses QuiteRSS and Thunderbird as RSS readers... alongside Roy and Rianne's Righteously Royalty-free RSS Reader (R.R.R.R.R.R.) - her main means for curating news.

Last week we added this new page for original articles. Ever since then we've increased the frequency of "originals". For instance, I've just published this article about GNU/Linux in BRICS.

There are already many articles in this site, but only recently we saw a lot of them going viral, probably because Microsoft insiders want to know more about the mass layoffs. This month around 40 new articles are clocked at over 1k (proper views), so it may remind a self-flattering person of Groklaw, which came back online some weeks ago. One motto at Groklaw used to say that Groklaw is the place you turn to when you want to know more, and (or but) don't know where to look.

This site covers topics no other sites cover (or in a way no other sites would, covering hidden/suppressed angles too), but that makes it more attractive to information takedown attempts including SLAPPs and extortion-type attacks on the Webhosts. The sister site too got targeted by SLAPPs. So far we're successfully protecting the facts. There's nothing for us to worry about; the ones who worry right now are the SLAPPers (by year's end the Microsoft "pests" might be found guilty of harassment in the UK's High Court [1, 2]).

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