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IRC Proceedings: Sunday, July 09, 2023
IRC logs for Sunday, July 09, 2023
Graph of IBM's Debt Helps Shed Light on the Red Hat Squeeze
The media does not often talk about the debt of the dying giant. IBM’s total liabilities for the quarter ending March 31, 2023 were $111.964 billion and long term debt for the same quarter was $53.826 billion. Like many other companies, IBM is buying back its own shares, faking stability and “growth”. IBM has not been a ‘household name” or even prominent in business for nearly two decades already, so its contemporary existence is largely speculative and the company still makes a lot of its revenue by (software) patent blackmail, using patents that last 20 years.
YouTube is Becoming Television (With DRM) and Creators Just 'Get in the Way'
The Google Gulag does not pursue anything but money, which it increasingly wants to aggressively (e.g. by blackmail) pursue by grabbing control over people’s PCs (in GNU/Linux, YouTube already latches onto desktop components, maybe a one step away from “protected content” through Widevine DRM), so creators who do all the hard work are demoted and their audiences mistreated; waste no time and get away from YouTube as soon as possible
Gemini Links 10/07/2023: More on Old Computer Challenge
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New Report: Many Microsoft Employees Are Nowadays Fake Workers, Contractors Instead of Real Staff (Not Even Counted as Layoffs After Their Disposal)
We’ve long said that the real number of Microsoft layoffs is far higher than what Microsoft and the media (parroting Microsoft’s lies) say and on top of that they don’t even count the temps (temporary workers) and the contractors (what the above articles calls “fake work“); Microsoft suffers a serious crisis which dismantles entire teams and products/disservices (GitHub had at least two waves of layoffs this year, to give one example)
[Meme] Equality at Sirius Open Source
To the credit of Sirius ‘Open Source’, both men and women in the company were defrauded for years and formal, certified payslips were lies; it might be very hard to recover the stolen money, but the perpetrators of the crime need to be arrested (the government and the police cover up for them because some people are implicated contractually)
Boycott TikTok
Bytedance’s TikTok (some spell it ByteDance) comes in two “flavours”, which are known as spinach and opium. The former is for the local (Chinese) market and makes people obedient, whereas the latter makes people destructive (to themselves and to others) overseas; why can’t the mainstream media properly convey such a simple message?
Staying Productive in the Face of Corporate or Military-Grade Trolling (Maybe Even Doxing)
The publication pace at Techrights has gone up by a lot; we're nearly reaching the record levels of 2010
The Corporate ‘Cancel Culture’ Industry — Part VIII: In Conclusion
After 2 introductory parts and 7 core parts we're finally concluding the series with a handful of points
[Meme] EPO Manager's War Against the Law
This nonsensical video means that the EPO’s corrupt administrators have lost the argument and are now stacking up straw men, demonising the people whose job is to decide who receives a patent monopoly and who does not (based on scientific merit and the European Patent Convention). It’ll be interesting to see what Staff Representatives make of the decision from ILOAT regarding the NO-Career System.
The European Patent Office's War of Disinformation Against Patent Examiners (and Mindless Promotion of Microsoft Vapourware)
Under the title “Examiner’s Wars” the EPO now insults its own productive workers, looking to harm their image and their reputation instead of actually fixing the EPO crisis, including all the corruption at the top
Links 09/07/2023: GNU/Linux Client Side Usage Growing, Linux 6.5 Release Candidate Out
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Gemini Links 09/07/2023: Mutt and Updated Thoughts on Gemini
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Surge in Microsoft Traffic Suggests There's Hearsay -- Maybe Panic -- About the July 2023 Layoffs
There’s Microsoft gossip or rumours regarding an impending big wave of layoffs; the source of these rumours is 100% external to us (independent) and pro-Microsoft media chaff seems to be proactive 'damage control'
Microsoft 'Research' (PR and Marketing) Already Preparing Us for Layoffs Excuse?
Yesterday we gave several examples of new Microsoft chaff in the media, insinuating that Microsoft was in fact hiring and that "Hey Hi" (AI) is replacing workers and we really ought to celebrate this; the examples above are just hours old (and it’s Sunday!)
[Meme] Warming Up With Excuses for Mass Layoffs at Microsoft?
They already warm up with the excuses, or so it might seem ("it's NOT layoffs, it's HEY HI!"). Preparatory PR? “In January,” it says, “just days after Microsoft announced plans to lay off 10,000 employees as part of broader cost-cutting measures, the company also confirmed it was making a “multibillion dollar” investment into OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.” Yes, this decoy and misdirection went nowhere (they lost inertia, lost market share, and lost lots of money on it as well, deepening the already-massive debt)
[Meme] IBM and Canonical Respecting Your Freedom
When GNU/Linux vendors misunderstand consent and disrespect the community (volunteers) it's probably time to jog on
Linux Mint Was Right About Snaps and It Should Make LMDE the Default (Better Yet, Base It on Devuan)
The direction taken by Canonical in recent months has upset a lot of people, and rightly so; we kindly remind people that alternatives exist and Linux Mint already explores some of them
Techrights Was Right About Microsoft's Chatbots Hype
There are now many press articles mentioning the rapid demise of chatbots (by usage) but almost nobody mentions the many layoffs in Bing (lots this year) and erosion of excitement, along with market share
Links 09/07/2023: GNOME Web Canary is Back
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Gemini Links 09/07/2023: Hard to Trust Red Hat Now
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Microsoft Panic as GNU/Linux Market Share in the United States is Rising Well Above 3% (or 7% If One Counts ChromeOS)
This month’s data from statCounter (OpenDocument version with chart) gives reasons for optimism; based on what we’re seeing this weekend, there are consequences for GNU/Linux usage surging in the world's most populous nations and Microsoft is panicking
Canonical and IBM Are Turning Ubuntu and Fedora Into Microsoft Windows, Time to Adopt Real Community Distros
IBM, with its notorious army of aggressive lawyers and mountains of software patents, is trying to make RHEL proprietary and render Fedora ‘spyware’ (they know it’ll put off existing and potential users; later they can claim “reduced demand” for it and mothball the whole thing, rebranding it as “CentOS” after they had already fired Fedora management and then abandoned OpenSource.com and OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice); Canonical keeps up with evil by doing some of its own and they don't compete with Microsoft, so we can trust neither of them
37,000 Blog Posts, IRC Treat, and Positive Reader Feedback
After nearly 17 years we’ve crossed the 37,000 blog posts milestone; we can probably hit 40,000 within a year or less and today we’ve replaced the IRC widget (it hasn’t worked for anyone since December; there’s no plan to fix it)
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 08, 2023
IRC logs for Saturday, July 08, 2023
China is Moving Away From Microsoft Windows (as Promised Years Ago)
Microsoft propagandists have long attempted to curb China's move to GNU/Linux. Those propagandists are nowhere to be seen anymore (gone inactive).
Microsoft July 2023 Layoffs: What We Know So Far
Another very big wave of Microsoft layoffs is expected to start soon; Microsoft tends to make “big cuts” during summer when a lot of people are on holiday
Links 08/07/2023: KDE Frameworks 5.108.0, Executives Deserting Microsoft
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UK Home Office, Former Client of Sirius 'Open Source', Shows Just How High the Fraud Scandals Go
The crimes of Sirius ‘Open Source’ cannot be isolated from the British government as Sirius was a prolific government contractor for Free software projects
Upcoming Series: Recruitment Crisis at Sirius and Lying to Applicants
Some time soon we’ll show how the CEO of Sirius ‘Open Source’ lies to applicants and to various other parties, not just to clients (and existing employees who are defrauded)
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