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2019-02-20 Links 20/2/2019: digiKam 6.0.0, Cockpit 188, Mesa 19.0 RC5
2019-02-23 Links 23/2/2019: GNU/Linux Server Domination and GCC 8.3 is Out
2020-12-20 Links 20/12/2020: GNOME 40 Workspace Updates, New Excuses From Red Hat About CentOS
2021-07-03 Links 3/7/2021: Wine 6.12, Darktable 3.6.0, and Texinfo 6.8
2022-10-12 Links 11/10/2022: WordPress 6.1 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) and New KDE Plasma
2023-05-01 Links 01/05/2023: MenuLibre 2.3.1 and GnuCash 5.1
2024-10-01 Gemini Links 01/10/2024: Separation, Validation, and Flatfile Databases
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)
2024-11-10 Links 10/11/2024: Microsoft Adds Surveillance to Notepad and Paint, TikTok Shutdown Order
2025-01-01 Links 01/01/2025: Whistleblowers Shunned, EU/Germany Blasts Twitter (X, MElon) Interference
2025-01-02 It's Not Just MElon X, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, All Social Control Media is Basically a Digital Weapon
2025-01-03 [Meme] Crushing Free Speech Before Even Taking Public Office...
2025-01-03 Links 03/01/2025: Neil Young Drops Out of Glastonbury and MElon Attacking the Free Press
2025-01-06 British Police: Register a New Account With Unscrupulous American Companies (Microsoft and MElon X) to "Follow" Us
2025-01-07 Matt Birchler: "This is why it’s important for people to own their presence on the web, especially when it comes to government agencies that need to communicate with people."
2025-01-08 Microsoft LinkedIn Going 'the Way of the Epstein'
2025-01-09 Links 09/01/2025: X-Book (Facebook) Follows the MElon (Musk) Model and X Comes Under EU Investigation for Inciting
2025-01-13 [Meme] Twitter ("X") Has Been Grooming Radicals Since 2022
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 Improving Daily Links by Culling Spam, Chaff, and LLM Slop
2025-01-22 Geminispace (Gemini Protocol) Offers an Escape From Social Control Networks Owned by Oligarchs and Governments
2025-01-24 Rumour of IBM 'Bloodbath' in Clown Computing
2025-01-27 GAFAM Hates - Except in a Worryingly Parasitic Way - GNU/Linux and Its Freedoms (or Its Users)
2025-01-29 Nazi Twitter (aka "X") Became a Troll Site That Lets People Buy a Blue Tick While Its Boss Actively Promotes Neonazi Politicians
2025-01-29 The Munich-Based EPO is Still Using a Platform That Promotes the Far Right and Rehabilitates Nazism
2025-02-02 Germany's 'Share' of GNU/Linux Rises to All-Time High Based on This Surveyor
2025-02-07 Debian Left Twitter (MElon "X"), We Think the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Should Do the Same
2025-02-08 Links 08/02/2025: MElon Coup, Mass Layoffs at Facebook, and PlayStation Network Down
2025-02-11 Links 11/02/2025: Trade Wars and "Crisis for American Universities"
2025-02-12 Links 12/02/2025: SSL FUD, DEI Phase-out, Felonies Committed by MElon (Data Breaches)
2025-02-14 Links 14/02/2025: Publicity Rights Violated (ByteDance), Bribes to Trump Passed via Social Control Media 'Settlements' Again
2025-02-14 Apple: Social Justice or Social Nationalism?
2025-02-16 Links 16/02/2025: "Microsoft Is Laying Off Employees" and Internal Dissent Brewing at Facebook Over Regime Complicity
2025-02-18 By Buying Twitter, MElon and Cheeto Now Control EU Politicians, Even at the Highest Levels
2025-02-21 Techrights Disconnected From the United States Two Years Ago
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)
2025-02-23 The So-called 'IT' Industry Became Somewhat of a Fraud Where People Equate Usage and Power Wasted With "Value" or "Success"
2025-02-25 UK: Twitter Falls to Lowest Traffic Levels in 5 Years (Start of Lockdowns), Down From More Than 37% to Only 6.5%
2025-02-25 Government Sites That Use Centralised CAs Are Still Remotely Controlled by MElon and GAFAM at the Oval Office
2025-03-05 Social Control Media as a Rapid Race to the Bottom - Part II - Think Before You Talk
2025-03-06 Links 06/03/2025: Discord Wants the Public to Pay for Losses, MongoDB Shares Collapse
2025-03-08 Links 08/03/2025: Climate Change Causing Food Shortages, Selling Off Chrome Still in the Cards
2025-03-11 Links 11/03/2025: NASA Besieged and "DOGE Has Become What It Claimed To Destroy"
2025-03-11 Links 11/03/2025: Covid-19 5 Years On and Violence in Syria
2025-03-11 Ukraine Didn't Take Twitter/X Down, Microsoft or Windows Likely Did
2025-03-14 Links 13/03/2025: Intel Rotates Figurehead and South Korea Imports Karen People From Myanmar
2025-03-15 Links 15/03/2025: Albania TikTok Ban, No Skinnerboxes in Danish Schools
2025-03-19 Links 19/03/2025: Attention's Cost and Media Still Besieged by Dictatorships
2025-03-22 Links 22/03/2025: Social Security Attacks and More Attacks on the Press
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"
2025-03-24 Links 24/03/2025: Political Catchup and Environmental Concerns
2025-03-25 Links 25/03/2025: Clownflare’s Slop and Bounties on Fake Patents
2025-03-28 Links 28/03/2025: Australia at Risk, EPO Grants Illegal Patents With Illegal Effect
2025-03-30 The LLM Bubble is About to Implode, Gimmicks and Financial Shell Games Cannot Prevent That, Only Delay It
2025-04-01 Links 01/04/2025: Apple Fined $162M for Privacy Abuses, Disinformation Online a Growing Concern
2025-04-04 A Note on SimilarWeb
2025-04-05 Links 05/04/2025: Tariffs Backfiring, YouTuber Arrested, X/Twitter Set to be Fined
2025-04-12 Links 12/04/2025: Science and "DEI" Dismantled Further in the US
2025-04-18 Links 18/04/2025: Layoffs at Microsoft Infosys and Qt Becoming Increasingly Proprietary (Plus Slop)
2025-04-20 Five (or Three) Years Without Social Control Media
2025-05-02 Links 02/05/2025: Mineral Selloff and Chinese Sanctions
2025-05-09 Links 09/05/2025: Inflation Rising and Rights to Protest Curtailed Some More
2025-05-10 Links 10/05/2025: WW2 Revisionism, Further Tit-for-tat in India-Pakistan Conflict
2025-05-15 Links 15/05/2025: Google Betrays Publishers Again, Openwashing by Sysdig
2025-05-21 Links 21/05/2025: GitHub Becoming Slop, MElon as a Drug Addict Considered National Security Risk
2025-05-23 Links 23/05/2025: Tax Audits of Hong Kong's Independent as ‘Intimidation Tactics,’ Why "Regulating X Isn’t Censorship"
2025-05-26 A Healed Reputation of a Movement's Leader and His Robust Message
2025-05-28 Links 28/05/2025: More Arrests for Bitcoin-Connected Torture and Prosecutions for Dieselgate-Linked Executives
2025-06-01 Links 01/06/2025: Windows TCO, Openwashing, "It's FOSS" Still Promoting Microsoft
2025-06-02 The Web We Lost, the Information Lost Due to Microsoft's Attacks on Companies Like Yahoo! (Before the LLM Slop Frenzy)
2025-06-11 Wayland Shows the IBM/Red Hat Way of Doing Things
2025-06-18 Links 18/06/2025: SCOTUS Decision on Fentanylware (TikTok) Still Ignored, 4.5-Day Work Weeks
2025-06-21 Links 21/06/2025: Data Breach With 16 Billion Passwords, Dutch Government Recommends Children Under 15 Stay off TikTok and Instagram
2025-06-23 Links 23/06/2025: Many Security Breaches, Population Declines
2025-06-25 Microsoft LinkedIn is Dying and Many More Layoffs Are on the Way
2025-06-27 X is Dying, But Not XServer/X11. Twitter X.com is Dying.
2025-06-30 Destination Geminispace (in the Age of LLM Slop and Slop Images That Infest the Web and Social Control Media)
2025-07-02 Links 02/07/2025: Deep Microsoft Cuts, Macron Speaks to Putin
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
2025-07-13 Links 13/07/2025: UnitedHealth's Censorship Campaign, Australia Wary of China
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.
2025-08-02 Links 02/08/2025: Blaugust 2025 and "Russia Declares Navalny Memoir ‘Extremist’"
2025-08-09 Microsoft Lunduke is Just Provoking People for Provocation's Sake
2025-08-13 Links 13/08/2025: The “Incriminating Video” Scam and Corruption in South Korea
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.
2025-08-26 Links 26/08/2025: "Ballooning Debt" in France and "Transnational Repression in the UK"
2025-09-03 Techrights Has Been Subjected to Calls of Violence (and Death Threats), It Never Condoned Violence
2025-09-03 Links 03/09/2025: Microsoft Causes Mass Layoffs Outside Microsoft Also, "Google Can Keep Paying for Firefox Search Deal"
2025-09-12 Only One Speaker Does Not Do Sharecropping for MElon (in X.com)
2025-09-13 Gemini and Web Links 13/09/2025: MElon's Slop Grift and "Autonomous Trains"
2025-09-17 Links 17/09/2025: Power Outages, Digital Controls, and Attacks on the Mainstream Media (by Insecure and Corrupt Dictators)
2025-09-19 The Right to Punch People (Apparently)
2025-10-22 Links 22/10/2025: Amazon Plans to Replace Workers With Robotics, AWS and Clown Computing in General Ridiculed
2025-11-03 Links 03/11/2025: Internet Anniversary
2025-11-08 Being Absent/Missing From Social Control Media is Not a Sign of Weakness
2025-11-14 Many Times in the Past We Said That Microsoft Lunduke Was Becoming a Spokesperson/Voice for - and Occasionally Weaponising - 4Chan. He's Proving Us Right This Week.
2025-11-17 The "Nazi Bars"
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
2025-11-25 Twitter is a Catastrophe (Data Loss, Outdated Caching, Restoration From Backup, Bugs, or Whatever Else)
2025-11-26 Twitter Became a Very Dangerous (to Its Users) Site
2025-11-26 Links 26/11/2025: Windows TCO and GAFAM Hurting "British Economic Security", "Data Center Boom Creating a Water Crisis"
2025-11-28 Circular Financing in NVidia (NVidia Pays Its Clients to Buy From NVidia) and "Lessons From the Dotcom Crash"
2025-11-30 The Control of Twitter (Now X.com) and of Its Userbase Used to Fake 'Demand' for the Failed, Stagnant Chatbot of MElon
2025-11-30 Social Control Media, Now 'Infused' With Chatbots (Fake Activity Because Real Users or Actual Humans Leave)
2025-12-09 Links 09/12/2025: Tariffs Causing Great Harm and "How to Leave the U.S.A."
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 Richard Stallman Was Also Right About Microsoft GitHub (It's Becoming a Botfarm)
2025-12-13 Links 13/12/2025: Jimmy Lai and Media Freedom on Trial, "OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Hiding the Truth"
2025-12-30 Nope, There's No Twitter "Successor"
2025-12-31 2025 Was a Very Bad Year for Social Control Media
2026-01-03 Links 03/01/2026: Twitter Turns From Disinformation Powerhouse to Production and Dissemination of Child Pr0n, "New China Cybersecurity Law Becomes A Reality In 2026"
2026-01-09 Links 09/01/2026: Cambodia and China Extradition, "NATO’s High-risk Patrols Near Ukraine"
2026-01-10 Links 10/01/2026: "Abolish ICE or GTFO", Calls to Ban X/Twitter From Apple/Google App Stores (or Implement National Blocks) Over MElon Turning It Into Non-consensual Deepfake Porn Site
2026-01-10 Links 10/01/2026: Iran Offline, Venezuelans Decry Civilian Casualties
2026-01-12 Links 12/01/2026: Brussels Plotting Exit From GAFAM (US), Carole Cadwalladr Explains "Peter Thiel's New Model Army"
2026-01-12 Links 12/01/2026: Twitter (X) Being Blocked in More Countries, PTAB Besieged by Cheeto Appointees (Bad Patents Getting Through)
2026-01-13 Freedom of Speech in the UK (or Freedom of the Press/Expression) and Protection From Adversaries
2026-01-13 Links 13/01/2026: Ubisoft Layoffs, "India IT In Shambles", and Microsoft Chatbot Killing People
2026-01-14 Projection Tactics - Part III: Silencing Inconvenient Voices Online
2026-01-14 Links 14/01/2026: Failing Economy and Conquest Abroad as a Distraction From Domestic Woes
2026-01-15 Links 15/01/2026: Internet Blackouts, Jackboots Society in US
2026-01-15 Links 15/01/2026: Starlink Weaponised for Regime Change (by Man Who Boasted About Annexing South American Countries for Tesla's Mining), Corruption in Switzerland Uncovered by JuristGate
2026-01-16 Links 16/01/2026: Social Control Media Curbs in Australia Underway, MElon Still Profiting by Sexualising Kids 'as a Service'
2026-01-16 Links 16/01/2026: UK Royal Family's "Legal Team Accused of Dishonesty, Fraud and Misconduct", OSI Still Controlled by Microsoft (the OSI's Spokesperson is on Microsoft's Payroll, Not Interim Executive Director, Deborah Bryant)
2026-01-17 Links 17/01/2026: Internet Blackout Normalised, Russian Attacks Civilians by Causing Massive Blackouts
2026-01-29 Links 29/01/2026: Kennedy Center Officials Resigning and Amazon to Cut 16,000 Jobs
2026-02-02 Links 02/02/2026: Cultural Cleansing by China and 'Living Behind Firewalls" in Iran
2026-02-08 Links 08/02/2026: Microsoft OSI (Openwashing Lobby) in Europe, Raised Against Social Control Media Provocateurs in EU
2026-02-13 statCounter Suggests Americans Are Dumping Social Control Media
2026-02-13 Links 13/02/2026: SUSE Uses Microsoft Internally, MElon's Company Helps Turn Epstein Files Into Child Abuse (After the Pornography Scandals)
2026-02-14 xAI and X (Twitter) Live on Borrowed Time, It'll Get a Lot Worse Fast
2026-02-17 Microsoft Turned Bing Into Censorship Machine of China, But Bing Is Pegged at a Mere 2% in Asia, Yandex is Bigger
2026-02-19 Spaniards Shutting Down MElon's Digital Weapon of "Smart Mobs"
2026-02-19 No "Smart Mobs" (Social Control Media) in BRIC?
2026-02-20 Links 20/02/2026: Microsoft Intentionally Kills Older Hardware, "The Story of XBox" Shows How Defective Microsoft Hardware Really Was
2026-03-05 Links 05/03/2026: New LexisNexis Data Breach Confirmed, "Goldman Sachs Head During Financial Crisis Says He “Smells” a Similar Crash Coming"
2026-03-06 Microsoft ‘Project Helix’ is Just a Tweet in MElon's "X"
2026-03-06 New XBox Boss (Sharma) Implicitly Confirmed XBox (the Console) is Now Dead
2026-03-09 Attacks on Techrights Make Techrights Stronger and Attract More Whistleblowers to Techrights
2026-04-04 Links 04/04/2026: eBay Scam, "Music Publishers’ X Copyright Lawsuit Officially on Pause"
2026-04-07 Links 07/04/2026: Patent Trolls Leigh M. Rothschild, Bolstered by GNOME and OIN, Continues to Attack; ‘Retaliatory Antitrust Suit’ by MElon
2026-04-10 Links 10/04/2026: Pseudoscience and "Amazon Pulls Support for Perfectly Fine Older Kindles" and More Attacks on American Journalism
2026-04-14 Links 14/04/2026: Against US Monopolies in UK, Legal Action Against Twitter
2026-04-21 Links 21/04/2026: Internet Shutdowns, Bluesky Crippled by DDoS Attack
2026-04-21 Links 21/04/2026: Drunken Kash Patel Sues The Atlantic for Reporting, California Accuses Amazon of Price-Fixing
2026-04-24 Nadella is Killing Microsoft. Slop Kills It Even Faster.
2026-05-01 What May 1 Means to Us (and to Many Others)
2026-05-08 Links 08/05/2026: French Prosecutors Seek Charges Against MElon, Europe Wants Young People Without Skinnerboxes (Smartphones)
2026-05-12 Links 12/05/2026: Samsung Sued by Dua Lipa (Publicity Rights), ‘Savage Love’ Copyright Infringement Lawsuit
2026-05-15 Links 15/05/2026: UK antitrust regulator is officially investigating Microsoft Office, Anthropic’s Fraudulent Lies About Mythoslop Don't Withstand Scrutiny
2026-05-19 Links 19/05/2026: More Obituaries for Peter G. Neumann, Taiwan Abandoned by Cheeto House for Don's Personal Gain
2026-05-31 Links 31/05/2026: Slop 'Code' (Junk) "Increasingly Leads to Production Failures" and "Huge Slop Costs With No Clear Benefits"
2026-06-17 Links 17/06/2026: Slop's “Crack Cocaine” Approach to Pricing, Microsoft's Rapid Shrinking of Gaming Business
2026-06-19 Links 19/06/2026: Microsoft Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures in Europe, "World Cup of Internet Resilience"
2026-07-01 Links 01/07/2026: MElon (Elon Musk) "Confronted With List of People He Has Killed", Microsoft Ignores Union, Chooses "Bloodbath"
2026-07-06 Links 06/07/2026: At Least 20% Staff Reduction in XBox (Microsoft), Taiwan Sees Uptick in Chinese Aggression/Provocation, Senator Rodante Marcoleta Arrested
2026-07-12 Links 12/07/2026: European Commission Versus ‘Addictive Design’, "Google Loses Final Appeal Over $4.7 Billion EU Android Antitrust Fine"
2026-07-16 Links 16/07/2026: Slop Recognised as a Waste of Energy, Hong Kong Cracking Down on Dissent/Opposition Some More
2026-07-17 Links 17/07/2026: Protests Erupt Throughout Ukraine and Anthropic Caught Secretly Spying on Users
2026-07-18 Links 18/07/2026: Chinese State Media Depicting Neighbours as Monkeys, US "Stocks Sink on Anxiety About Tech and Hey Hi (AI) Spending"
2026-07-19 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-07-21 Bluesky Was Such an Utter Failure That After 18 Months Mozilla Goes Hug a Nazi Platform That Produces Child Porn
2026-08-26 Links 26/08/2026: Election Bribery (aka Vote-Buying) Deemed "OK" in the US, "Nitter is Shutting Down After a Cease and Desist Letter" by MElon
2026-08-27 Links 27/08/2026: Facebook to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion to Cover Up Known Harms, Nepal Landslide Kills Many