Petition Against Richard Stallman Continues Losing Signatures, Open Letter of Support Reaches 6,750 Signatures
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2021-06-11 10:18:25 UTC
- Modified: 2021-06-11 10:19:44 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
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- Seeing what they did to RMS, remember that those "concern trolls" are about everything other than ethics and morals
- Daniel Pocock in The Nerve
- Lots of publicity owning to the enrollment
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 148 Out of 200: The Manosphere
- Those people don't just threaten our national sovereignty, press, democracy etc. They also endanger women everywhere.
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- Links for the day
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- The situation was very different in past years
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- Really bad when society endures abuse because the abusers silence their exposers
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- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC logs for Thursday, August 13, 2026
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- Today and yesterday
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- The latest move from Microsoft defies logic
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- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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- Links for the day
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- As of this morning
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- Links for the day
- Daniel Pocock on Australia's 9News (Nine Entertainment)
- This gives visibility to software and technology issues
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- Links for the day
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- Links for the day
- Daniel Pocock in National News in Australia the Day of the Election
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- As usual, The Register MS ought to be ashamed of itself for participating in it
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- This slop hype will end up like "metaverse", except "metaverse" never ended up justifying trillions of dollars in "investment"
- Simpler Means More Reliable
- The simple old way of local storage and local backups is still the best
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- That says a lot about social control media
- Clacton manifesto: Reform UK hacking, leaks, raw sewage & 8GB Swiss Archive
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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- Clownflare does not quite refute this
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- Links for the day
- Lack of Empathy Rampant in the Sector
- Sociopaths are sociopaths. They cannot help themselves
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- made to serve and entertain owners, not to allow companies like Sony and Microsoft subjugate owners
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- It's not just in Finland where we see such trends
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- The article is behind a wall that blocks people who block ads
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- Over at Tux Machines...
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