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Last year: The EPO's General Consultative Committee (GCC) Meeting Last Month Sought to Remove Genders (But It's Nearly ...
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 ...
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.
XBox never really made much money (if any; a lot of the time it was just losses and losses, but Microsoft kept cooking the books [ 1, 2 ]). Before Microsoft 'faked' revenue growth in "gaming" ( by ...
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 ...
In the "new site" (static) this post is #9305 and in the "old site" we had close to 40,000 in total, so aside from videos, documents, wiki pages etc. we seem to be approaching a total of 50,000.
For those who don't know, Techrights is also published as Morse code. This started as a geeky joke, but then we saw many people used the feed, gave us feedback about it, offered improvements, and even ...