07.10.13
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Windows Ruining Firefox for GNU/Linux Users
Reprinted with permission from Ryan
Links 19/07/2023: EasyOS 5.4.8 and a Call to Financially Support the Future of PCLinuxOS
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Leftover Links 19/07/2023: Smartphone Sales Plunge Again
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Gemini Links 19/07/2023: Torture in Fiction, GNU/Linux is Usable
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[Meme] Which Team? A Team of Crooks?
The European Patent Office (EPO) is being demolished from within by the management
Bringing Teams Together (BTT) at the European Patent Office Loathed by the Staff, Based on Internal Survey
The staff representatives at the EPO have issued "quantitative analysis of the impact of BTT in terms of time and costs." It looks like an attempt to sabotage the EPO. The high-level managers are the saboteurs.
Microsoft Whistleblowers Needed for the Public to Know the Full Extent of This Year's Layoffs, Plus 'Temps'/'Permatemps' and Contractors (Probably Tens of Thousands Made Redundant)
We take a closer look at layoffs then (in January) and now (in July). Back then it was 10,000+ in a month, then thousands more each month, now 1000+ in ONE WEEK (at least four times bigger than reported at first); does anyone keep a complete tally of how many people lost their job/contract at Microsoft? Are we at over 20,000 yet?
Links 19/07/2023: Vanilla 4.0, Cython 3.0.0, and VirtualBox 7.0.10
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Links 19/07/2023: Bubble 6.0 Released, Posting from Haiku OS
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IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 18, 2023
IRC logs for Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Data Breach in GLA (Greater London Authority, London Municipality) Not Reported, Formality and Forms Insufficient If Rules Not Followed
One last note on the issue of Greater London Authority (London Municipality); even though forms exist to report security breaches or incidents of data breaches, Greater London Authority never seems to have bothered with this; the culmination of this in the media (a scandal which puts at risk victims of sex crimes) overlooks a history of repeat/recurring incidents
[Meme] Meanwhile in Greater London Authority (London Municipality)
Greater London Authority (London Municipality) has supported impunity for its contractor Sirius ‘Open Source’ upon discovering crimes were committed against its own staff
Links 18/07/2023: Meson 1.2 and More Microsoft Layoffs, Amazon Layoffs
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Links 18/07/2023: Free Speech and Tech Illiteracy
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The Argument for UEFI Restricted Boot is Dead
UEFI “Restricted Boot” (not “Secure” Boot) is — and was all along — about protecting the Windows monopoly; those who spouted out lies in support of Restricted Boot are just Microsoft shills (they always were)
2 Weeks Later and the City of London Police Took No Action Against Fraudsters Who Defrauded Their Staff (People Who Had Worked on Computer Systems of the Met's Overlords)
It has now been a fortnight since we got contacted by the City of London Police (we’re victims of a very serious crime). If cops were to receive a scorecard, it would say an “F”; they don’t give a “F” about victims of crimes, especially when those crimes implicate their friends (as perpetrators), so the matter is already being escalated
Techrights Was Right: Microsoft Fired More Than 4 Times What the Media Said Last Week
A report published just over 2 hours ago confirms what we’ve been repeatedly saying this past week. To quote: “Microsoft laid off more than 1,000 employees over the past week, primarily in customer service and sales roles, people familiar with the changes told Insider. [...] They asked not to be identified discussing sensitive matters.” As Ryan has just put it in IRC: “Windows is a remaining value product. The thing was built shoddily a long time ago and expanded with ticky tacky throughout the years. It’s not surprising you’d be cutting sales and evangelism jobs when the people who are buying more licenses are dwindling and were using it all along anyway and now need it to run legacy applications.”
It Might Be Too Late for the German Government to Fix the EPO (It Had a Lot to Do With This Current Mess)
The German government played a considerable role in EPO abuses, not just tolerated them, not to mention how it is replacing patent courts with kangaroo courts that are illegal and unconstitutional (but are plaintiff-friendly and obscenely industry-connected, i.e. they presume junk patents have merit); is there any hope of redemption left?
[Meme] German Efficiency
Now that EPO management openly attacks and smears its own staff it’s hard not to feel like the objective is to destroy what the EPO stood for (for nearly 50 years)
Understanding How the Linux Foundation Really Operates (Looking Beyond the Name and Marketing)
In an endeavour to better understand a tax-exempt organisation that's a misnomer we "follow the money" and decipher who's running it
Links 18/07/2023: Akademy 2023 Videos and Debian Brainwashing
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IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 17, 2023
IRC logs for Monday, July 17, 2023
Tough Times for Invidious and Odysee (LBRY Protocol)
With LBRY down for the count (it’s over basically) it seems rather unclear what will happen to video platforms on the World Wide Web and beyond; it’s time to self-host (almost) everything
Gemini Links 17/07/2023: Art and Home Lab
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For the First Time, Linux Crosses 40% Market Share in France (Well, GNU/Linux and Android)
As per this month’s data from statCounter, France crosses a milestone; “Linux” is at over 40% and Windows is on fewer than 1 in 3 clients observed by sites statCounter tracks (about 3 million sites)
[Meme] When Obeying Laws Means Making Less Money
The German government is in a deeply conflicted situation where it stands to make money by allowing the EPO to break the law, not only at the expense of all Europeans but also at the expense of ordinary Germans
EPO's Patent Invalidity and Low Patent Quality Issues Get the Attention of Christian Wichard (Deputy Director General at Germany's Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection)
Thomas Magenheim, who has been writing about the EPO for about a decade already (also earlier this summer), publishes a new article which reveals that the Ministry of Justice in Germany gets involved as António Campinos refuses to talk about quality/validity issues as discussed by IPQC; loads of fake (invalid, bunk) European Patents are being granted
Microsoft Layoffs Still Ongoing, This Wave Did Not End
This month’s new wave of Microsoft layoffs did not stop; people are still being fired, but Microsoft does not talk about it and there are no known WARN noticed
Links 17/07/2023: Slackware Linux Turns 30, SparkyLinux 2023.07
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Gemini Links 17/07/2023: Slackware Linux Turns 30, Old Computer Challenge 2023 Recap
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