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 ...
Techrights — The Internet is Failing to Protect Democratic …
2 days ago · The Internet is Failing to Protect Democratic Processes and Human Knowledge. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 05, 2024, updated Nov 05, 2024. Amplifying lies, rewarding plagiarists. At risk of showing falsehoods (blurred above), we wanted to say that the media is already parroting Trump's lies.
Techrights — Sanctions Cause Fragmentation in Software
1 day ago · Sanctions Cause Fragmentation in Software. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 06, 2024, updated Nov 06, 2024. A week ago we found very few reports about Russia's plan for Linux.About a week has passed and a couple more reports trickled in (even in English [1, 2]).Meanwhile, Yandex apparently surges to new highs in Russia while Google falls:. Fines and penalties (even if partly a PR stunt) can't ...
Techrights — Why Technical Sites Need Not Make Political ...
3 days ago · Why Technical Sites Need Not Make Political Recommendations or Endorsements. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 04, 2024. Except perhaps when it's for some purely technical role, e.g. FCC chief. To start this with the gist (or "nutshell"), tech sites are not likely to actually influence how their readers vote in presidential elections. People form their political views based on mostly political ...
Our Stance on Electronic (or Digital) Voting Machines
3 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 ...
Free Software Licence Compliance is About Security Too
4 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 …
Microsoft is a Gift That Keeps Giving (Future Stories to Techrights)
4 days ago · Microsoft keeps trying to silence us, but this has a negative effect on Microsoft. In effect, what censorship attempts typically lead to is the "Streisand Effect". We have some of the best lawyers protecting our rights and insistence on …
Techrights — Nearly 40 Years Without Security Incidents
4 days ago · Nearly 40 Years Without Security Incidents. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 03, 2024. LATER THIS week (on Thursday) this site turns 18 and we've already bought some party kits for the sister site's 21 st anniversary. Next year the combined age - the age of both sites - will be 40. Over the years the sites ran Gentoo, Debian, CentOS, and Alpine.
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.
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.