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IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 29, 2023
IRC logs for Thursday, June 29, 2023
The Mindset of Cops: To Avoid Getting Raped Don't Wear a Miniskirt
Just 4 hours after escalating the matter of Sirius ‘Open Source’ fraud to its (previously) biggest client, which oversees police budget, the Economic Crime Victim Contact Unit (VCoA) got in touch with me regarding my Action Fraud crime report (many victims; not handled for almost 10 weeks despite escalation to my Member of Parliament), saying they “offer free [editor’s note: taxpayer-funded actually] help and advice to people who have been the victims of fraud and cyber-crime to try to help prevent them from becoming a repeat victim.” But we need action, we need law enforcement, not “advice” (action is well overdue, several months already).
Links 30/06/2023: Fairphone's CEO Leaves, Rocky Works Around IBM's Red Bait Code Restrictions
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Gemini Links 30/06/2023: Fingerprinting People on IRC and TOFU Ruminations
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This is How Phoronix Covers Microsoft's Attack on Linux, Turning Mesa Into a Mess (Windows Code)
Microsoft is trying to compel people to make "Linux" programs that only work in Windows (WSL) and it is making the Mesa codebase a lot worse (some Mesa developers openly complained about it), but Phoronix puts a smile on and treats this like something to be celebrated
Techrights Strives to Publish Over a Dozen Posts Per Day Again, Here's What's to Come
The media online and offline is dying; rather than try to link to what's left of it we'll attempt to contribute with more original articles of our own
Canonical is a Microsoft Reseller
Canonical is marketing proprietary surveillance (Azure) for the company that's attacking GNU/Linux; it even calls this surveillance "confidential"
[Meme] Still Not Naming Clients of Sirius Open Source
GLA (Greater London Authority) may in fact be a client of Sirius ‘Open Source’, but it is mentioned because it's responsible for the people who should hold the company accountable for very serious crimes (but aren’t doing their job; crime reports go back to March!)
Greater London Authority (London Municipality): We Don't Know You All Once You're the Victims of Fraud
The crimes of Sirius ‘Open Source’ were reported to Greater London Authority (London Municipality), a client of Sirius ‘Open Source’ since 2013 and also administrator of police (Sirius ‘Open Source’ is registered in London). Nobody there even respond. What a lovely system of accountability we have here.
Greater London Authority (London Municipality), Which Oversees the Metropolitan Police/Action Fraud and Is Also a Sirius 'Open Source' Client for a Decade, Does Not Respond
As a victim of crimes committed by Sirius ‘Open Source’ I’ve contacted what was the biggest client (at some point) of Sirius ‘Open Source’ to see if they can get the police to actually do its job (this client is in charge of the police)
MIT Technology Review, a Microsoft Propaganda Outlet
On numerous occasions earlier this year we provided extensive evidence that Microsoft was controlling MIT Technology Review, both directly and by proxy; here's an example from yesterday
Upcoming New Series: The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry
Next month we’ll start a series about how the Linux Foundation and its corporate handlers (sponsors such as Microsoft) actively attack the community and weed out community participation in Free software (they call it “Open Source”, typically reject copyleft, and outsource everything to proprietary GitHub where only corporations do everything)
Timeline of IBM Killing opensource.com Two Months Ago (Open Source Isn't Important to IBM)
Based on internal sources, the opensource.com correspondents stopped accepting new stories; this coincided with the Red Hat layoffs, so it’s possible that opensource.com editorial team got laid off (IBM does not see “opensource.com” as strategic for Red Bait) or — at best — sent to another department, just like Linux Foundation did to linux.com (all writers and all editors fired months before the pandemic)
[Meme] Many Months for Police to Come to the Scene of the Crime (Many Victims Confirming Crime Took Place)
I contacted British police back in March regarding crimes committed by Sirius ‘Open Source’; June is almost finished and only after escalating to the political system in London it seems like finally there’s some progress
What Needs to Happen Next With Sirius 'Open Source'
The investigation of Sirius ‘Open Source’ and any remedial actions for the crimes committed
Links 29/06/2023: Kernel Articles and InkBox OS 2.0
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IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, June 28, 2023
IRC logs for Wednesday, June 28, 2023
Links 29/06/2023: Blender 3.6 and Godot 4.1 RC 1
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Gemini Links 29/06/2023: MIME Lies and CAPCOM Updates
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Some People Who Signed a Defamatory Petition Demanding the Removal of Richard Stallman (From the FSF and Everything Else) Have Remorse
In a manic rush to crucify the father of Free software (who had started the GNU/Linux operating system almost 40 years ago) thousands of delirious people signed an utterly ludicrous petition (full of distortions and lies) — a petition managed by an employee of IBM. Now, years later, some of them want their names to vanish.
Free Software Foundation (FSF) Added Dr. Miriam Bastian as Program Manager to Its Staff Page Some Time Last Month
Techrights has just noticed changes in the Staff and Board page of the FSF; Dr. Miriam Bastian has joined as staff (with personal E-mail address). The Wayback Machine saw her yesterday, a fortnight ago (still with the same typo in the job role/title), one month ago, on May 7th but not on the first of May; as far as we can gather, there was no formal announcement about her joining, but she wrote for the FSF this past December, she is indexed as staff, she was point of contact for talks this past March (or last year), and the FSF mentioned her as staff this past January (albeit only in social control media). Please welcome Miriam!
Sirius 'Open Source' Still Listing as Staff ('Meet the Team') People Who Resigned Almost HALF A DECADE AGO
Sirius thinks it can fake its size (it lies to applicants; we'll give examples in the future) and in the process it lists as "Team" or "Staff" people who have had nothing to do with the company since before the COVID-19 pandemic
[Meme] The Hidden Cost of Governments Outsourcing to Private Companies
The latest escalation (referral from the government) serves to show that it’s too costly for public institutions to ignore fraud committed against people who built/maintained their computer systems; outsourcing means they’re not in direct control of what goes on behind the scenes
Quick Update on Sirius 'Open Source' Fraud: Matter Escalated to City of London Police
The crimes of Sirius ‘Open Source’ are serious enough for the matter to have escalated to the City of London Police, which is about as high as one can go in the United Kingdom. We’ll provide more details about Sirius ‘Open Source’ at a later stage. This is becoming a government blunder too.
Almost 2,500 Known Gemini Capsules That Are Working, But There Are More
As per aggregators’ take, many capsules aren’t counted/included and moreover “many capsules in CAPCOM’s database which have gone permanently offline will hit “three strikes” and be reclassified as inactive. The odds of any given active feed being sampled for inclusion will then increase substantially.” The graphs in this post show that in the month of June there was nonetheless very substantial growth in the number of active Gemini capsules (reasons unspecified)
Linux Foundation: Openwashing as a Service, Using Proprietary Software
The Linux Foundation is at it again; “Linux Foundation Research [sic] (marketing) partnered [sic] with (has taken money from) Futurewei, LF Energy, and Intentional Futures to research the state of open source in the microgrids market.” But what they produced, using proprietary software only, is openwashing that miscarries the name “Linux”
Links 28/06/2023: NVK Update and Ubuntu EoL
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Gemini Links 28/06/2023: Many Net and Technology Musings
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LibrePlanet Mailing List Censored Questions About Ukraine. Now It's Not Willing to Talk About IBM's Red Bait (RHEL) and Associated GPL Issues. (Updated)
Freedom of speech/expression is as important as Software Freedom because one depends on the other and they’re mutually connected; it’s important to hear what the Free Software Foundation (FSF) thinks of the General Public Licence (GPL) being bypassed one little step at a time or to simply see in writing its stance about Red Hat and IBM, longtime sponsors of the FSF
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 27, 2023
IRC logs for Tuesday, June 27, 2023
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