Techrights — Welcome to the New Techrights
WEBWelcome 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 — Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part III
WEB3 days ago · Technology that's inclusive must attend to both least and most able users, and put neither group in conflict with the other. But perhaps more concerning is the irony that "convenient" technology causes debilitating human conditions. Technologically mediated isolation is a cause of social anxiety.
The Problem Isn't That New Cars Use Electricity But That They Use …
WEB4 days ago · The Problem Isn't That New Cars Use Electricity But That They Use Too Many Bits of Electronics. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 08, 2024 "...and proprietary software wrapped in proprietary APIs and protocols all without a modicum of compartmentalisation," an associate adds, "specifically designed to infringe on individual rights, why else would the vehicles upload many GB per hour?"
Techrights — World Wide Web: Only Criminals Would Want Real …
WEB3 days ago · World Wide Web: Only Criminals Would Want Real Security and Vouch for Themselves When They Use Encryption. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 09, 2024,
Techrights — Loss of Technical Merit(ocracy)
WEB2 days ago · Loss of Technical Merit(ocracy) posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 10, 2024. WE HAVE often complained about the skills of Computer Science being watered down, sometimes even replaced by buzzwords, gimmicks, and corporate training for things like Clown Computing, i.e. proprietary GUIs.Apparently some university in California let a person with no Computer Science background teach "security" just ...
Techrights — On the Web, HTTPS Has Actually Become a Privacy …
WEB5 days ago · THE Linux Foundation's Certificate Authority continues its rapid decline in Geminispace. It's one heck of a fall. To quote Lupa today: "This page presents some statistics on the current state of the Gemini space. It has been updated on 2024-10-07 03:04:00Z. [...] 2587 (89.7 %) capsules are self ...
Techrights — Instead of Telegram People Should Use Free …
WEBSep 7, 2024 · Having just mentioned new changes at Telegram, we sort of forgot or missed an opportunity to promote decent alternatives. Mumble is for voice chat with text on the side, but more suitable or equivalent tools exist, such as Jami [1, 2]. "The post forgot to mention that Telegram is proprietary and ...
Techrights — Today in Techrights
WEBDec 11, 2023 · Today in Techrights. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 11, 2023. Updated This Past Day. A Code of Conduct Can Lead to Deterioration of Quality Control in Linux (Nobody Reprimanded for Technical Issues, Instead Critics at Times of …
Free Software and Privacy Aren't for Extremists; Those Who Take …
WEBNov 16, 2021 · Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) tactics along with irrational fear-mongering against Free software are leveraged against the wider acceptance and broader adoption of Free software; comparing it to extremism is a pattern foreseen in the Halloween Documents when in fact much of the extremism is supported, for a profit, by companies like Microsoft that rely on Pentagon-connected ‘bailouts ...
Techrights — Focus on the Concepts, Not the Brands
WEBOct 31, 2023 · Focus on the Concepts, Not the Brands. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 31, 2023, updated Oct 31, 2023. Cults don't improve people's lives, they typically con people for their hard-earned money (to the point people borrow money that they lack so as to signal loyalty to brands) T HE truth of the matter is, …