Last year: The EPO's General Consultative Committee (GCC) Meeting Last Month Sought to Remove Genders (But It's Nearly ...

Notice what the CoC seeks to actually accomplish, in practice. How does this even make sense? A "commitments to safety" means not letting an old man with cancer speak to people who eagerly wait to ...

Following on from Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu, Ubuntu will be the first major Linux distribution to adopt sudo-rs as the default implementation of sudo, in partnership with the ...

People Used to Talk. posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 07, 2025, updated May 07, 2025. This hardly happened in the 90s: This is now: In "modern society" it seems like people speak ...

Two days ago Richard Stallman gave a talk in Spain (in Spanish) and later today at 16:30 to 18:30 (local time) he'll the same ...

Rust is Starting to Seem More Like Microsoft-hosted "Digital Maoism", Not a Legitimate Effort to Improve Security. posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 07, 2025, updated May 07, 2025.

People leak a lot of material to Techrights because they know, based on the track record, that the sources will be protected and whatever gets published will stay online, in full, no matter how ...

This month's data from statCounter is particularly interesting near the Baltic Sea [ 1, 2, 3 ]. Whether this data is accurate or not, well... it didn't start this month. There are gradual increases ...

In the next half a year, ahead of the 19-year anniversary, we should be able to wrap up to put and end to a serial abuser [ 1, 2 ], then we can write about it in full. But really, our primary goal is ...

Likewise, Microsoft-connected sites have been ramping up their WSL chaff, in effect encouraging people to stay with Windows ...

Another Wave of Microsoft Layoffs Comes Shortly. Microsoft Propaganda Sites and Slopforms Powered by Microsoft LLMs Already Spew Out Face-Saving Nonsense.

Despite wasting extraordinary amounts of energy (partly at other people's expense, scraping their sites nonstop) people realise that LLM slop is undesirable. Unlike search that links to authoritative ...