Hair (and Heir) Management at the EPO
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2020-05-10 10:19:03 UTC
- Modified: 2020-05-10 10:19:03 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Microsoft XBox Layoffs: Almost 2,000 Layoffs Became "Over 2,000"? (Over 20% of the Staff)
- over 20% of staff will be let go, not counting staff that leaves voluntarily
- Summer Plans in Techrights and Elsewhere
- massive layoffs at Microsoft
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- EPO Presentation Bemoans Misuse of Slop in Decision-Making on Patents and in Classification (Which is Likely Illegal Too)
- We habitually mention failed use cases of LLMs on the Web
- Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Confirmed, "XBox Hardware Is Dead"
- It's possible that over 20% of the staff will be laid off
- Links 30/06/2025: Kyrgyzstan vs Media Freedom, Dalai Lama Succession
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 30/06/2025: Backend Programs in Gemini and Dynamic Content Without The Scripting
- Links for the day
- Links 30/06/2025: Zuckerberg’s Tax-Evading Scheme Harms Kids, US Copyright Office Lacks Leadership
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Isn't Laying Off Tens of Thousands to 'Invest' in Slop ('Hey Hi'), It's Laying Off Tens of Thousands Because It's Running Out of Money (and Willing Lenders)
- the layoffs are a sign of the business failing, not "hey hi" (whatever that is) replacing staff
- Intel Lays Off 20% of Its Workforce, Microsoft is Doing the Same This Year
- Like a yoyo, whatever goes up will come back down
- GNU/Linux Rises to New Highs in Angola, Africa in General is Abandoning Windows
- Western media barely covers Microsoft layoffs in Africa, but in recent years Microsoft culled the workforce and even shut down entire operations
- Destination Geminispace (in the Age of LLM Slop and Slop Images That Infest the Web and Social Control Media)
- Geminispace isn't vast, but at least it is - on average - a lot "cleaner"
- GNU/Linux Growing in Sierra Leone This Year
- Based on what statCounter is seeing, this year there are more and more people there who adopt GNU/Linux
- Serial Sloppers Gonna Slop
- More sites out there ought to call out the cheaters
- Quartz (qz.com) is Spam and a Slopfarm
- It used to be OK. Then they fired the staff.
- Links 30/06/2025: US Economic Woes, Extreme Heat
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 29, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, June 29, 2025
- Gemini Links 30/06/2025: "The AI Hype" and New AuraGem Ask
- Links for the day
- Our Desktops Are Not Your Experiments, X is Not an Experiment
- Breaking what already worked
- Microsoft's Big Lies Regarding This Week's Mass Layoffs Have Already Begun (and They're Already Being Spread by Slopfarms)
- Microsoft is the "market leader" in slop
- Explaining the Full Story of SLAPPs From Microsoft Staff
- For every action there is a reaction, for every attack there will be proportionate consequences
- The Openwashing Shills Initiative (OSI) - Part III: IRS and Status of OSI
- "They lied to the US IRS and there’s a paper trail"
- IBM Red Hat's Dogmatic Fanaticism Under a Thin Veil of "Modernism"
- IBM now has the audacity to paint people who don't agree as "nazis"
- Microsoft's Share in Guatemala Fell From 97% to 14%
- Eventually Microsoft will get stuck in a loop of layoffs, layoffs, and more layoffs
- They Made Technology Scary and Taught Us That It's Innocent, Friendly, Even "Social"
- Rejection of all this "apps" and "gadgets" and "Smart" (whatever that means!) status quo isn't a rejection of society
- The Media is Under Attacks Partly Because There's Little Other (Remaining) Press to Speak in Its Defence
- The biggest danger here is that when there's very little press or no "opposition media" left it becomes even easier to crush critics because there aren't many people left to speak about the matter
- If Your Web Site is Run by Bots, Eventually Nobody Will 'Read' It Except Bots (People Don't Want to Read Slop)
- Eventually people learn from mistakes
- Links 29/06/2025: Microsoft Releases False/Fake Benchmarks, "Google Wants You to Watch Ads or Take Surveys to Read Articles"
- Links for the day
- Links 29/06/2025: Data Breaches and Online Censorship
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 29/06/2025: "The Price Of Eggs" and Gemini 3D Tic Tac Toe
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 28, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, June 28, 2025
- The "News" You Saw About Canonical is Misleading, It Made Only 18 Million Dollars Last Year and Barely Paid Any Taxes
- Lies are the norm these days...
- Pushing Wayland Using Straw Man Arguments
- phoronix.com has long promoted the talking point of "Wayland people" (for at least a decade already)
- Australia: Windows Fell to All-Time Low, Even Lower Than iOS
- There's a good reason why next week there will be so many Microsoft layoffs
- Slopwatch: Linuxsecurity, WebProNews, and Google News Boosting Slopfarms as 'News'
- People who don't recognise the slopfarms and don't know which sites are fake would struggle to understand what's really going on
- Links 28/06/2025: Hardware/GPU Wars, GAFAM Throws Money (Borrowed Cash) at Hopeless Slop Pipe Dream
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 28/06/2025: Shellshock and Network UPS Tools
- Links for the day
- Links 28/06/2025: The Age of Integrity and FreeBSD Foundation Added John Baldwin as Board Member
- Links for the day
- Fedora 44
- IBM now does to Fedora what it did to RHEL
- Microsoft Already Shaved Off Costs Anywhere It Could. It Was Not Enough.
- Office and Windows aren't "selling" (licences) like they used to
- Scheduled Maintenance Next Week
- Our community is alive and well
- BetaNews: We're Publishing LLM Slop About LLM Slop
- Beta version of a slopfarm?
- 3-Month Updates on Our Complaint to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)
- In short, the complaint remains open, updated, and is advancing
- IBM Red States Hat (Project 2025): Our "New Thing" Replaces This "Old Thing"
- The new replaces the old. That's how IBM frames it.
- Start X
- Just because something is old does not mean it is bad
- Slopwatch: Linuxsecurity, Google News Slopfarms, and Linux Journal (LJ)
- Today we take a quick look at 3 slopfarms
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 27, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, June 27, 2025
- Links 28/06/2025: "CC Signals" Virtue-Signals to Slop Ponzi Schemes, North Korea Aims for Tourism
- Links for the day
