Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 29, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Intimidation, Threats, and Bullying Not Tolerated by Techrights

   When it comes to our reporting, safety always comes first

2. Something to Celebrate in Gemini Protocol

   More capsules and users join in

   New

3. Banned evidence: Ars Technica forums censored email predicting DebConf23 death, Abraham Raji & Debian cover-up

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

4. A World Without Rules

   We're long insisted on better laws and actual enforcement of them (applicable to all, not selectively applied)

5. IBM's BS (Bait, Switch) Regarding Ways to Stay Onboard

   PIPs, RTOs, and forced relocations are just an illusion of choice (or ability to recover)

6. statCounter Sees Microsoft Windows Falling to New, Unprecedented Lows in Palau

   Taking Android into account, Windows is now down to an all-time low of 14%

7. Google News Lost the Fight to LLM Slop (While Google Itself Sells Slop, Nowadays Under the Name "Gemini")

   Many people say that "Google is getting worse"; that's almost an understatement

8. Links 28/03/2025: AirAsia Trouble Again, UMich Culls All DEI Programs

   Links for the day

9. Gemini Links 28/03/2025: Alexa is for Gullible People, Rant About Feature Overload

   Links for the day

10. The SLAPPs From the Microsoft Strangler (and Sidekick) No Better Than Patent Trolling

    one must never settle with trolls

11. Links 28/03/2025: Last Reminder "to Delete Your 23andMe Data", "UK's First Permanent Facial Recognition Cameras Installed"

    Links for the day

12. Microsoft Canonical Continues Its FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) Campaign, Reveals Google Too Sponsored It

    They're paid-for lies from a Chinese company that takes GAFAM money to write puff pieces about them

13. Android Rises Above 76% in Mozambique, Leaving Windows in the Dust

    Windows may soon be measured as smaller than Apple's iOS

14. IBM, Red Hat and Microsoft Probably Also Manipulate Metrics (It Helps Con the Shareholders)

    Wall Street's credibility will depend on enforcement of "checks and balances"

15. Slopwatch: trendhunter.com and Other Pure Junk From "Google News"

    The need to vet sources is hardly new; anyone can spew out anything, anywhere. There's a need for vetting.

16. Gemini Links 28/03/2025: Rewatching The X-Files, Slop Concerns, and NOSTR Censorship

    Links for the day

17. Links 28/03/2025: Australia at Risk, EPO Grants Illegal Patents With Illegal Effect

    Links for the day

18. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

19. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 27, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, March 27, 2025

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