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Slopwatch: Comparing Linux to Vermin, Attacking BSD With LLM Slop, and Helping Microsoft Demonise Linux/OpenBSD/SSH Over Weak User Passwords
Apropos Ubuntu, just over 20% of Planet Ubuntu right now is LLM slop and it is mostly the fault of one person. If Canonical doesn't step in to correct this, then its official or main planet will be ...
Opinion
Techrights13hOpinion
Scandinavia Saying Goodbye to Microsoft
There's no guarantee that writing the truth will result in an audience (or readership), but over time - in the long run - people generally gravitate towards what they know or feel to be crude truth, ...
Techrights13h
GNU/Linux Measured at 6% in Bangladesh, According to statCounter
Recent months: Bangladesh (Population Close to 200 Million) Sees Highest GNU/Linux Adoption Levels Ever | GNU/Linux in Bangladesh Up From 0.5% to Over 4% (Windows Slid From 95% to 18%) | Sharp ...
Techrights16h
Armenian Adoption of GNU/Linux
There are Armenians who are fluent at Free software and GNU/Linux, so this month's data from statCounter [ 1, 2] does not ...
Opinion
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Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part II: Turning a Once-Respected Patent Office Into a Circus and Laughing Stock
In Part I we discussed the general background, why this whole thing matters even to people outside Poland, and how this relates to EPO scandals (Poland's delegation protected the white-collar criminal ...
Techrights1dOpinion
Our Case is a Very Easy Win, the SLAPPs From Microsofters Were a Grave Error, and Censoring Information Won't Work (It'll Only Ever Backfire)
They know that it's a game they cannot win, for it will only result in further public embarrassment. Picking on some minor ...
Techrights1d
In-Depth EPO Coverage at Techrights Turns Eleven
There's no guarantee that writing the truth will result in an audience (or readership), but over time - in the long run - ...
Techrights1dOpinion
Say the Truth, the Rest Will Follow
Say the Truth, the Rest Will Follow. . Over the past week or two we served over a million requests per day and in Gemini too ...
Techrights1d
Windows Measured Below 10% in Afghanistan, GNU/Linux Gaining a Lot
Windows Measured Below 10% in Afghanistan, GNU/Linux Gaining a Lot. . A new month began with statistics favourable to GNU/Linux (many site ...
Techrights1d
How to Expose High-Level Corruption Without Getting in (Too Much) Trouble
In the case of Wikileaks, which is a textbook example in how to expose some of the world's most powerful institutions (US military, Swiss banks and so on), there's no "safe way" to do anything because ...
Opinion
Techrights1dOpinion
Poland's Political Predicament and Social Control Media
Today we finally started the series about the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) with Part I of a series that might be weekly, daily, or something in-between. Poland is in many headlines right now for purely ...
Techrights1d
Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part I: It's a Lot Like the EPO
Publication of objective information about the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland isn't an easy matter. What complicates it is the language barrier (the same applies to other patent offices ...