TechBytes Episode 66: First of the Second Series

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2012-01-08 01:29:51 UTC
Modified: 2012-01-08 01:29:51 UTC

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Summary: Tim, Rusty and Roy join again for a sort of pilot of the second series (season equivalent, but an annual division)

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Cannot Speak About IBM Wrongdoing or Jobs Being Sent Overseas (Lower Salaries): IBM has long attacked the media, the whistleblowers, and even online forums
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The CIA-Funded Centre-Left in Portugal: In the political turmoil which followed the fall of the old regime, the communists seemed to be acquiring a dominant position and there was a very real risk that Portugal could end up aligned with the Eastern Bloc if they were not stopped
Yesterday Afternoon The Register MS Published a Fake Article That Says "AI" 31 Times Because It Got Paid to Do This: What will happen when all those loans for slop (Ponzi scheme) stop and companies' marketing budgets - which include media bribes for hype campaigns - are no more?
Extraordinary General Meeting of Staff Union of the European Patent Office Ahead of Intensifying Strikes: We will, in the meantime, run a series about EPO corruption, which is now connected to corruption in Portugal and to corruption inside the EU
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The Brotherhood of São Bento: The Palácio São Bento – or São Bento Palace – is the seat of the Portuguese National Assembly in Lisbon
Links 09/06/2026: "Smartphones Broke Dating" and "EU Open Source Strategy": Links for the day
This Coming Friday: Richard Stallman (RMS)
Several Slopfarms That Target "Linux" Seem to Have Died: Or perished severely
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 08, 2026: IRC logs for Monday, June 08, 2026
Gemini Links 09/06/2026: Tanana River, Cassette Beasts, and Emacs: Links for the day
IBM's Quantum Bubble Already Deflating: Shares down over $55 in a few days
SLAPP Censorship - Part 101 Out of 200: Women Come to Realise They Don't Wish to Participate in Attacking Vulnerable Women: It relates to another topic that we shall be covering in the coming weeks
Links 08/06/2026: Proprietary Loaded With Security Holes, Armenia Defies Russia: Links for the day
Gemini Links 08/06/2026: NetHack 5.0.0 and Slop as Cannibalism: Links for the day
Links 08/06/2026: "Rising Emissions, Depleting Water" Due to the Pyramid Scheme of Slop; "Canada Needs to Rebuild Public Telecoms": Links for the day
Brett Wilson LLP Reported to Police for Trying to Throw Large Parcel Into Our Home: This morning the campaign of intimidation...
GAFAM Bots Are Not "Good Bots": There's nothing "Good" about Google
Links 08/06/2026: Criticism of Microsoft Trying to Criminalise Pointing Out Bug Doors, TikTok Now "Climate-Denying Social Media App": Links for the day
Slop Has no ROI, an Economy Built on False Assumptions of Slop is Doomed: we're all going to suffer from this Ponzi scheme
The Cyber Show Has "Exciting Guests Coming" and a Gemini Capsule: "Site development is ongoing but now settling into a more stable form"
GNU/Linux Measured at 10% in Liechtenstein This Month: it seems like statCounter wrongly classified some GNU/Linux clients as Mac clients and is now issuing a correction
Communicating With Freedom - Part III - Quibble Envisioned as a New and Easily Accessible Communications Platform Based on LibreJS: the FSF really needs to become more active if not proactive in promoting those sorts of things
Clownflare Says Majority of Web Traffic is Now Bots, But the Net is Another Story: Bots are to Clownflare what lawsuits are to lawyers
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 07, 2026: IRC logs for Sunday, June 07, 2026
The Strikes at the European Patent Office Planned to Carry on for the Entire Year, Maybe Future Years as Well: There's a cautionary tale somewhere
Number of Patent Grants Has Plunged 23% Amid Strikes at the European Patent Office, Today There Are More Strikes (Strike Participation at Over 3,000, More Than Doubled Since Winter): There is a growing crisis at the European Patent Office
E.E.E. Still Ongoing, the War on Copyleft/GPL Enables That: It also imperils security.
Gemini Links 07/06/2026: Lynx in the 'Modern' Web and 'Overcooked' (Plagiarised by LLM) Code: Links for the day
Links 07/06/2026: Java Needs Seawall, Egypt Blasted for Arbitrary Detention of Activists: Links for the day
SLAPP Censorship - Part 100 Out of 200: Interlude and Outline of the First Half, 3+ Months That Got Us Death Threats Connected to Brett Wilson LLP (and Cyber Attacks That Are Difficult to Attribute): This week we plan to have a good time
Banning Things Versus Teaching People the Reason/s to Shun/Boycott Those Things: Prohibition has its limits
Links 07/06/2026: NASA's Mars Maven Declared Dead, Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Bemoans Russia's Crackdown: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 06, 2026: IRC logs for Saturday, June 06, 2026
Gemini Links 07/06/2026: How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and "Six Days of Play": Links for the day

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