Techrights — Welcome to the New Techrights
Welcome to Techrights. Welcome to the current iteration of Techrights, online since 2006 with a major infrastructural upgrade in late 2022.Here you will find our latest posts. In addition to HTTP/HTTPS here, Techrights is also available via Gemini and IPFS editions, though the IPFS service is on hiatus for the foreseeable future. Just the other year, Techrights upgraded from a heavy content ...
Free Software Licence Compliance is About Security Too
3 days ago · Free Software Licence Compliance is About Security Too. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 03, 2024, updated Nov 03, 2024. Is security a real goal? The chief used to be Microsoft staff despite Microsoft working on back doors.Now: SOMEONE has pointed out to us that, in the context of the Linux Foundation (LF), "strip-mining" of …
Techrights — An LLM Inside a 'Search' Engine Means That …
1 day ago · The future of 'googling' things might be as unreliable as using Social Control Media as a source of information. THIS is a classic "test case": Can search engines be trusted when they "speak" instead of list relevant results from authoritative pages, …
"Free Software Is Under Attack! (Will You Help Defend It?)"
Oct 18, 2024 · The 'Turning-Free-Code-Proprietary Foundation' (Linux/Microsoft Foundation) LF will basically become just as sinister as its corporate sponsors. [Meme] Python Knows Its Bosses. Microsoft strings attached. Python Software Foundation is 'Cancel Culture' Rehomed. Python isn't grassroots and it doesn't really tolerate grassroots.
Techrights — Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part V
5 days ago · The right for people, through democratic discussion, thought and education, to a self-determined appropriation and affordance of technology that transcends the influence of both market and state, for a higher purpose. To "go our own way". Otherwise technology becomes a kind of communism not a tool of freedom.
Techrights — Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part IV
Oct 21, 2024 · Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part IV. posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Oct 21, 2024, updated Oct 21, 2024. By Dr. Andy Farnell. Back to Part I. Back to Part II. Back to Part III "Responsibility" is a much more complex claim than it first appears and does not easily fall to the ableist objection nor to technological totalitarianism.
Our Stance on Electronic (or Digital) Voting Machines
2 days ago · Our Stance on Electronic (or Digital) Voting Machines. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 04, 2024. In the past we wrote dozens of articles about voting machines. The reason we bring this up today isn't to seed doubt and distrust but to explain things in context.. Later this week it already seems inevitable that there will be a war of words (or much worse) because some people - perhaps most ...
The War on Free Software Reporters - Part I - Techrights
May 31, 2024 · The War on Free Software Reporters - Part I - Why Techrights Cannot be Censored (and Won't be Censored) posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 31, 2024,
Techrights — Plans for the Site's 19th Year
Oct 2, 2024 · Plans for the Site's 19th Year. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 02, 2024. A single month from now begins our 19 th year as a site and next summer will be the start of our 18 th year as an IRC community, which continues to expand.Back in 2014 we focused a lot of our efforts, resources etc. on covering EPO scandals.
Techrights — GNU/Linux Took Off at the BSDs' Expense (Amid …
Oct 9, 2024 · AT&T litigation is often blamed for BSDs "staying behind" or losing momentum (developers or coding inertia). Lawsuits or not, GNU/Linux (and UNIXes) remaining at the forefront is a shared opportunity for BSDs. UNIX or POSIX is the future. THIS week there's a lot of FreeBSD coverage in many ...