Links 3/4/2014: Instructionals
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-04-03 15:29:11 UTC
- Modified: 2014-04-03 15:34:21 UTC
Imagine having the equivalent of four 1920x1080 monitors in a 2x2 grid, on your desk, with absolutely no seam between them. This article describes my journey towards that goal...
Recent Techrights' Posts
- The "Alicante Mafia" - Part XI - No Comment From Steve Rowan, Niloofar Simon, and Christoph Ernst About Cocaine Inside EPO
- What kind of patent office is this?
- Giving a Voice to the Community (Even When It's Inconvenient or 'Scary')
- Once upon a time we were threatened with deplatforming for merely reposting articles by Daniel Pocock; we no longer have this problem
- Judgment: French army vanquishes German FSFE on Hitler's birthday, Microsoft contract dispute (1716711)
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Projection Tactics - Part IV: SLAPP by Americans Against Techrights (UK) to Hide Serious Abuses Against American Women
- "PRs need to stop being complicit in suppression of information via SLAPPs"
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- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 24, 2026
- IRC logs for Saturday, January 24, 2026
- After the Slop Bubble
- At the end, looking back, we'll all generally understand that the net effort of slop was environmental destruction
- IBM CEO Says IBM is Just Reliant on Buzzwords That Are Overhyped
- IBM has nothing to show anymore and telling fairytales to shareholders is a temporary 'fix'
- Projection of Fanatic From Microsoft
- Microsoft Lunduke is pandering to the 4Chan 'crowd'
- Digg.com (Digg) is a Censorship Platform, Just Another Social Control Media/Network, Controlled by the Few
- We are not going to bother with any social control media
- Spam, Slop, and Fake 'Articles' Regarding "Linux"
- Serial Sloppers like these are harming real reporting about Linux and GNU
- Rape investigation dropped: Will Fowles & ALP transgender deception
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Diversity, Grooming & Debian transgender Zero
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Pauline / Maria / Alice Climent(-Pommeret) & Debian transgender offensive cybersecurity deception
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Did judge with transgender sister & Debian conflict of interest help cover-up a death?
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Links 24/01/2026: CBS News Demolished From the Inside and Many Publishers Admit Layoffs
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 24/01/2026: Dreams and Raspberry Pi Zero 2W
- Links for the day
- Richard Stallman's First Talk in US College Since 2018: Videos and Photos
- There are some backstories
- Judge Richard Oulevey (Grandcour Choeur, Tribunal Vaud) & Debian shaming abuse victims and witnesses
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- EDPB/CNIL privacy expert Amandine Jambert (cryptie, FSFE) implicitly admitted lying about harassment when she resigned admitting conflict of interest
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Links 24/01/2026: TikTok Controlled by Alt Reich in US Now, White House Shares Fake, Manipulated, Misleading Images Already
- Links for the day
- Dirty Laundry at Debian and Elsewhere
- We cannot just brush aside real issues involving real people and their families
- Illegal, Unconstitutional Kangaroo Court for Patents Drops the Masks, Shows Its Real Purpose is to Serve Multinational Monopolists and Crush European SMEs
- Europe (or the EU) is rapidly becoming a corporate project, not a unified governance initiative
- The "Alicante Mafia" - Part X - EPO Strikes to Begin Next Week
- Things gradually escalate this month
- Gemini Links 24/01/2026: Snow, Boxing, and Lisp is Fun
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 23, 2026
- IRC logs for Friday, January 23, 2026
- Senior management and HR email privacy: Martin Ebnoether (venty), Axel Beckert (xtaran) & Debian abuse in Switzerland
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Pierre-Elliott Bécue, ANSSI & Debian cybertorture
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- MJ Ray, Micah Anderson & Debian on drugs, prostitution at DebConf6 fight
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Excellence in Ethics: a list of victories for the truth
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Richard Stallman Giving Public Talk, Answering Questions From the Audience
- We understand (from the organisers) that there will be a video of the talk
- Forbes Covers in 2026 What Was Already Clear for Over a Decade: Microsoft's BitLocker 'Encryption' is a Back Door
- One that's promoted by the loudest boosters of UEFI 'secure boot' as well
- The Grapevine Says IBM's American RAs (Mass Layoffs) Soon to Follow European RAs, PIPs and "Reviews" as Pretext for a Likely Baseless Dismissal
- The days of honourable corporations and work ethics are long gone it seems...
- Links 23/01/2026: Minus 24 deg C in South Korea, "Iran Internet Blackout Passes Two-Week Mark"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 23/01/2026: "Witch Watch" and English on the Net
- Links for the day
- Reminder That "Linux" in the Site's Name (and Domain) Does Not Imply Authentic Journalism About GNU/Linux
- the sad fact that some once-legitimate sites became slopfarms
- Further Comments Illuminate Observations Regarding IBM's Layoffs (RAs) Plan for Europe
- Some shed light on the expected scale
- Links 23/01/2026: Growing Censorship, Intel Falls (Another Bubble, Propped Up by Cheeto Bailout), and Huge GAFAM Layoffs Continue
- Links for the day
- Working for Freedom Makes You a Target
- it's not about what you do but about who gets served
- Appeasing Bullies Doesn't Work
- The reason we're still here and very active is that we're good at what we do
- Claim That IBM Mass Layoffs Began Again in Europe, With Rumours It'll Close Offices
- Unless IBM issues a statement (admission) to the media or issues WARN notices (in the US), the lousy media will simply assume - however wrongly - that nothing is happening and there's nothing to report
- How Microsoft Will Tell Shareholders That the Business is Failing in a Few Days
- It'll resort to "AI" storytelling (lying about slop having potential for some unspecified future year)
- Flying to See Today's Talk by Richard Stallman
- It's probably not too late to reserve a seat for today's talk
- The Fall of Freenode Didn't Kill IRC and the Web's Issues (Not Limited to LLM Slop) Didn't Kill Everything
- As long as there are enough people willing to keep the simple (or "old") stuff it'll refuse to die
- GAFAM Layoffs by Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) Hide the Real Scale of Their Financial Troubles
- the "official" numbers of layoffs will never tell the true story
- 'Domesticated' Animals Not More Valuable Than Free-range Wildlife, Proprietary ('Commercial') Software Isn't Better Than Free Software
- the proprietary software giants (companies like SAP or Microsoft) have a lot of lobbyists
- The "Alicante Mafia" - Part IX - EPO Budget Funnelled Into Cocaine and Moreover Rewards Cocaine-Addicted Management for Getting Busted by Police
- Any day that passes without European media and European politicians doing anything about it merely discredits the media and the EU (or national governments)
- Richard Stallman Won't Talk About "AI", He'll Talk About Chatbots and LLMs Lacking Any Intelligence
- This really irritates people who dislike the message; so they attack the person
- Slopfarms Still Fed by Google, Boosting Fake 'Articles' That Pretend to Cover "Linux"
- At this point about 80-90% of the search results appear not to be slopfarms
- Gemini Links 23/01/2026: The Danish Approach to Deepfakes and Random vi Things
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 22, 2026
- IRC logs for Thursday, January 22, 2026
