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Old Fucking Punk<p>'The OSI (Open Source Initiative) has gone "full" Microsoft'<br><a href="https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/27/What_Happened_to_the_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Elections_The_P.shtml" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techrights.org/n/2025/04/27/Wh</span><span class="invisible">at_Happened_to_the_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Elections_The_P.shtml</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/Techrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Techrights</span></a></p>
Old Fucking Punk<p>Gnome Foundation and weaponized codes of conduct.<br><a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/04/23/the-elephant-in-the-room/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/</span><span class="invisible">04/23/the-elephant-in-the-room/</span></a><br>Found this on <a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/Techrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Techrights</span></a>, but I'm not comfortable with their editorializing around the Gnome project, so I just posted this link.</p><p>I do agree that none of this should be done completely in secret. I prefer a fully open discussion of members rather than a behind the scenes board discussion.</p>
Old Fucking Punk<p>Serial Sloppers Are Killing the Web (They Probably Don't Care, Either)<br><a href="https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Serial_Sloppers_Are_Killing_the_Web_They_Probably_Don_t_Care_Ei.shtml" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Se</span><span class="invisible">rial_Sloppers_Are_Killing_the_Web_They_Probably_Don_t_Care_Ei.shtml</span></a><br><a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/Techrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Techrights</span></a></p>
Old Fucking Punk<p>Fedora Already Lost Its Soul Under IBM<br><a href="https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/18/Fedora_Already_Lost_Its_Soul_Under_IBM.shtml" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techrights.org/n/2025/04/18/Fe</span><span class="invisible">dora_Already_Lost_Its_Soul_Under_IBM.shtml</span></a><br><a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/Techrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Techrights</span></a></p>
Old Fucking Punk<p>All Your "Github Projects" Will be Gone One Day (Just Like Skype)<br><a href="https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/18/All_Your_Github_Projects_Will_be_Gone_One_Day_Just_Like_Skype.shtml" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techrights.org/n/2025/04/18/Al</span><span class="invisible">l_Your_Github_Projects_Will_be_Gone_One_Day_Just_Like_Skype.shtml</span></a><br><a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/Techrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Techrights</span></a></p>
Old Fucking Punk<p>Trump Authority (CA) With a Trump NSA is All About Security, But Whose?<br><a href="https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Trump_Authority_CA_With_a_Trump_NSA_is_All_About_Security_But_W.shtml" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Tr</span><span class="invisible">ump_Authority_CA_With_a_Trump_NSA_is_All_About_Security_But_W.shtml</span></a><br><a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/Techrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Techrights</span></a></p>
Old Fucking Punk<p>LLMs are being used to write anti-Linux articles. Is <a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> behind this?<br><a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/TechRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechRights</span></a><br><a href="https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Slopwatch_Anti_Linux_Articles_Not_Even_Written_by_Humans.shtml" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Sl</span><span class="invisible">opwatch_Anti_Linux_Articles_Not_Even_Written_by_Humans.shtml</span></a></p>
Old Fucking Punk<p><a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/TechRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechRights</span></a> is reporting that Xbox is likely going away ala. Skype. I've refused to allow <a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> in my house, so I won't miss it.</p>
Old Fucking Punk<p>Seen on <a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/TechRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechRights</span></a>, 'If you don't have an account on gab, then you probably should not have one in "X" either'</p>
Old Fucking Punk<p>Today the company I work for announced it was blocking Deep Seek and people should use ChatGPT.</p><p>Today I also saw this: <a href="https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/Microsoft_Bing_Lies.shtml" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/Mi</span><span class="invisible">crosoft_Bing_Lies.shtml</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/TechRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechRights</span></a></p>
Old Fucking Punk<p>Microsoft bankruptcy coming soon?<br><a href="https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/31/Microsoft_Staff_Explains_How_Microsoft_Swindled_Employees_and_A.shtml" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techrights.org/n/2025/01/31/Mi</span><span class="invisible">crosoft_Staff_Explains_How_Microsoft_Swindled_Employees_and_A.shtml</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/TechRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechRights</span></a></p><p>Not paying severance is going to get them sued.</p><p>$235 billion in debt and only $17 billion in cash assets. Those not getting fired should be running away, but Amazon and Google are shedding employees as well.</p><p>Is Trump going to bail out GAFAM?</p><p><a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a></p>
Old Fucking Punk<p>Microsoft-Funded IDG Seems to be 'Googlebombing' the Term Free Software to Promote Proprietary Spyware Too<br><a href="https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/27/Microsoft_Funded_IDG_Seems_to_be_Googlebombing_the_Term_Free_So.shtml" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techrights.org/n/2025/01/27/Mi</span><span class="invisible">crosoft_Funded_IDG_Seems_to_be_Googlebombing_the_Term_Free_So.shtml</span></a><br><a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/TechRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechRights</span></a></p>
Old Fucking Punk<p><a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> is attacking the Free Software Foundation mainly by trying to smear Stallman.<br><a href="https://techrights.org/n/2024/11/22/Microsofters_Try_to_Defund_the_Free_Software_Foundation_by_Atta.shtml" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techrights.org/n/2024/11/22/Mi</span><span class="invisible">crosofters_Try_to_Defund_the_Free_Software_Foundation_by_Atta.shtml</span></a><br><a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/TechRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechRights</span></a><br>While the article lists the Free Software Foundation Europe (<a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/FSFE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FSFE</span></a>) as a Microsoft front group, people should be aware of other groups are also fronts for <a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a>, like the <a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/LinuxFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxFoundation</span></a> and the <a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/OpenSourceInitiative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSourceInitiative</span></a> (<a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/OSI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSI</span></a>).</p>
Old Fucking Punk<p>More Microsoft paid astroturfing on Reddit to push the <a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> spyware <a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/VSCode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VSCode</span></a>.<br><a href="https://techrights.org/n/2024/11/18/Business_Software_Alliance_BSA_Microsoft_and_AstroTurfing_Onlin.shtml" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techrights.org/n/2024/11/18/Bu</span><span class="invisible">siness_Software_Alliance_BSA_Microsoft_and_AstroTurfing_Onlin.shtml</span></a><br><a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/TechRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechRights</span></a><br><a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/MicrosoftSucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicrosoftSucks</span></a></p>
Anthk<p>La unión europea, IA mediante, planea informar a terceros<br>sobre el uso de comunicaciones cifradas<br>(fichero PDF en inglés). </p><p>European Union plans to report all private encrypted comms<br>by using AI.<br><a href="https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/upload-moderation.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">signal.org/blog/pdfs/upload-mo</span><span class="invisible">deration.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://paquita.masto.host/tags/rights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rights</span></a> <a href="https://paquita.masto.host/tags/techrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techrights</span></a> <a href="https://paquita.masto.host/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> <a href="https://paquita.masto.host/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://paquita.masto.host/tags/europeanunion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>europeanunion</span></a> <br><a href="https://paquita.masto.host/tags/derechos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>derechos</span></a> <a href="https://paquita.masto.host/tags/derechosdigitales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>derechosdigitales</span></a> <a href="https://paquita.masto.host/tags/privacidad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacidad</span></a> <a href="https://paquita.masto.host/tags/libertad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libertad</span></a> <a href="https://paquita.masto.host/tags/unioneuropea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unioneuropea</span></a></p>
Old Fucking Punk<p><a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/TechRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechRights</span></a> has new articles showing <a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> has been losing a lot of money on Azure and lying about it to shareholders.<br><a href="https://techrights.org/n/2024/10/17/Microsoft_is_hiding_losses_again_Azure_Collapsing.shtml" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techrights.org/n/2024/10/17/Mi</span><span class="invisible">crosoft_is_hiding_losses_again_Azure_Collapsing.shtml</span></a></p>
Old Fucking Punk<p>If you're still hosting on <a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/MicrosoftGitHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicrosoftGitHub</span></a>, you'd better keep a backup of your repository. <a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/TechRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechRights</span></a> outlines how the platform has never made money and looks likely to be abandoned by Microsoft.<br><a href="https://techrights.org/n/2024/10/14/Microsoft_s_GitHub_is_Losing_Traffic_Based_on_an_Extensive_Web_.shtml" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techrights.org/n/2024/10/14/Mi</span><span class="invisible">crosoft_s_GitHub_is_Losing_Traffic_Based_on_an_Extensive_Web_.shtml</span></a></p><p>GitHub was always proprietarily hosted, so it's likely to be completely shutdown if Microsoft abandons it.</p>
Old Fucking Punk<p>"Windows Kills More Than Most Wars (But the Media Casually Ignores the Death Toll of Microsoft)"<br><a href="https://techrights.org/n/2024/10/03/Windows_Kills_More_Than_Most_Wars_But_the_Media_Casually_Ignore.shtml" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techrights.org/n/2024/10/03/Wi</span><span class="invisible">ndows_Kills_More_Than_Most_Wars_But_the_Media_Casually_Ignore.shtml</span></a><br><a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/TechRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechRights</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>I'm all for for getting more policy through Parliament to protect human rights/ liberties in the ways technology is deployed. Strategies for this can be divided into two broad categories;</p><p>1) working with existing parties on tech policy</p><p>2) growing a tech freedom party</p><p>Having been involved in trying both strategies, multiple times, I've had much more success with the first one, for far less effort.</p><p>(2/2)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TechActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechActivism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TechRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TechLiberties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechLiberties</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DigitalRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DigitalLiberties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalLiberties</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/CivilLiberties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilLiberties</span></a></p>
Old Fucking Punk<p>According to <a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/TechRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> is hemoraging money and already carries a huge debt.</p><p>Microsoft <a href="https://social.librem.one/tags/GitHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GitHub</span></a> is one of the loss leaders, so how long before Microsoft either removes all free repository access or closes shop abruptly?</p>
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