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IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 21, 2020
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Links 22/4/2020: Valve's Proton at 6,500 Games, NixOS 20.03 Released, Python 2 Subset and Ubuntu 20.04 Out Shortly
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UPC Totally Still Has Momentum
The confidence of Team UPC is no longer there, no matter how desperately they're trying to fake inertia
France Keeps Winning European Inventor Award (Millions of Euros of EPO Budget)
50% of the ceremonies that should include about 30 nations were/will be held in France, sometimes even with 'Judge' Benoît Battistelli, who highlighted how corrupt and political it all became
The Role Played by Media Controlled by Litigation Companies in Promoting the Unitary Patent (UPC) Ploy
The weaponisation of publishers, perturbed to pursue illegal (or rather unconstitutional) law, must never be forgotten; how should we react and how can the publishers that participated in this plot/ploy even regain trust?
Reporting About Reporting and the Disease of Exploiting Pandemic to Sell Advertisements and/or Panic
The media has been showing its worst sides lately; accuracy does not matter, falsehoods are being perpetuated because they attract/yield more clicks, and scaremongering is rampant (for agenda mostly)
IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 20, 2020
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Links 20/4/2020: Linux 5.7 RC2, BleachBit 4.0.0 and DXVK’ 1.6.1
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Guest Post: Finer Details About Rick Allen Jones, Bill Gates Employee Arrested for Trade of Child Exploitation Footage
Further research into the suppressed case (and arrest followed by guilty plea) that involves selling pre-teen rape footage; the police is still uncooperative in the sense that it has provided not a single page of its 2,851-page report
Editorial Note: Do Not Conflate Legitimate Inquiry About Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein With Nutty and Unverified Conspiracy Theories
More than a month ago they said they would send the 2,851-page report in twelve installments; we’re still waiting
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 19, 2020
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Links 19/4/2020: Jonathan Carter Elected DPL, Many Free Designs for COVID-19 Battle
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The Covert Corruption of Publishers That Cover Patent 'News'
There's an ongoing trend that's suggestive of a sort of 'takeover' of particular media by litigation fanatics, who exploit the scholars' sites/magazines to do pure but subtle propaganda/marketing; this ought to be pointed out because it misleads the public and contributes to greater injustice
European Law Firms Are Marketing Illegal Software Patents Using Meaningless Buzzwords
The promotion of software patents in Europe has become so shallow that it boils down to nothing but dumb PR; lawyers speak like children, infatuated by infantile, misused and misapplied nonsense like “HEY HI” (AI) and “Fintech” instead of something with technical substance
JUVE Has a Prank 'Survey' That's Just UPC Lobbying (As Usual)
The idea that UPC will inevitably materialise (and the sole question is, in what form) is still being perpetuated by publishers whose sole goal is UPC lobbying (serving litigators) rather than truth and societal/scientific advancement
Quit and Reject the Pretense That Microsoft and GitHub Are Different Things
Evidence is mounting/growing that GitHub, the original company, had no business model other than becoming a trap for companies looking to entrap and abuse lots of Free software projects. That company was Microsoft, ambushing GitHub since 2014, by its own admission. The entrapment has been ramped up since, with more proprietary 'features' (lock-in).
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 18, 2020
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Links 18/4/2020: Linux 5.8 Plans and Darktable 3.0.2 Released
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IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 17, 2020
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Free Software and AI Race Ever-Slowly Towards Self-Awareness
"Free software has many important achievements, nearly all of which have greater substance than "open source--" Free software is more honest, less corrupt, more thoughtful, and will ultimately be more effective at fighting non-free software than its shill counterparts in the well-paid, often-bribed open-washing world."
Links 17/4/2020: Mir 1.8.0 Release, Mutter Fullscreen/Wayland, Plasma Browser Integration 1.7.5
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Foreclosure by Systemd and IBM
About a week after IBM's leadership changed (now in full effect) there's still no evidence that anything whatsoever is changing (except Linux's gradual and ever-increasing deviation from POSIX)
“Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.” --Hunter S. Thompson
Right now the European Patent Office (EPO) is getting away with lots of new abuses and nobody is talking about that; some publishers in Europe are even bribed by the EPO for their silence (complicity)
EPO Management is Trying to Violate the EPC and Justify Its Illegal Software Patent Grants During a Pandemic's Peak
The EPO’s “Mafia” (cabal of grossly under-qualified friends who put each other in positions of power and hire violent goons) is putting a “mask” over people’s faces whilst attacking the law and attacking EPO staff to squeeze the goose (plunder the EPO until it’s defunct and obsolete)
Simpler Systems, Better Systems
"We're proud to say that after 16 years of Tux Machines and nearly 14 years of Techrights (almost 30 years combined, with daily updates) we never had any known security incidents."
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 16, 2020
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When Compromise Means Surrender
Succumbing to Microsoft managers and selling them influence inside Free software-centric organisations is suicidal because Microsoft's campaign against GNU/Linux continues, albeit it's thinly and strategically disguised as "love"
Of Note: FSFE Took Money From Microsoft, Contributing Further to Trust Issues
FSFE continues to gravitate towards corporate money (and agenda) at the expense of very basic principles and common sense
The Latest GitHub-Free Research: An Introduction or Update
An examination of how dependent on Microsoft's proprietary jail (GitHub) GNU/Linux distros have become
Links 16/4/2020: KWinFT, LibreOffice 6.4.3, White House/Trump Influence Suspected in JEDI Award to Microsoft
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