06.25.20
Latest EPO Cartoon: Lufthansa
The ‘animal office’ latest
Summary: Insiders of the European Patent Office (EPO) will know what it’s all about and what that generally alludes to
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Minimalism for Maximisation of Productivity and Clutter Mitigation
Unfortunately, GNU/Linux (especially the latter, Linux) embraces bloat and anti-features in pursuit of sales (appeasing large corporations, not users’ needs), reducing the modularity, reliability and productivity of computer systems in the name of helping “dumb” users (they keep telling us people are very dumb and those who disagree are “elitist” and “extremist” or even “neckbeards” — in effect insulting every person out there)
IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 21, 2020
IRC logs for Monday, September 21, 2020
Post-Coronavirus Linux.com Became Nothing But a SPAM Site
As per the Linux Foundation‘s very own brochure, scripted and fake ‘interviews’ are to be produced and then edited/negotiated (before publication) with the sponsor… in Linux.com as the platform. This is corruption (or marketing, one might call them de facto ads presented as fake ‘articles’).
Erosion of Free Speech and Tolerance of Opposing Viewpoints in Free Software Communities
The concept of free speech is being reinvented by oversensitive people who nowadays expand the list of exclusions/exemptions (from scope of 'permissible' speech) to politics and criticism of large and highly abusive corporations
Links 21/9/2020: PlasmaShell With Vulkan, Plasma Beta Review Day, OpenMediaVault 5.5.11
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Guest Post: The Worrying State of Political Judgement in Free Software Communities
A look at what Mozilla has become and what that teaches us about the Web and about software
Links 21/9/2020: KTechLab 0.50.0, Linux 5.9 RC6
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IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 20, 2020
IRC logs for Sunday, September 20, 2020
Git is Free Software, GitHub is Proprietary Trap
More and more people all around the world understand that putting their fruit of labour in Microsoft's proprietary (but 'free') prison is misguided; the only vault they have is for human beings, not code
Daniel Pocock on Codes of Conduct and Their Potential Dangers in Practice
In Debian we’ve already witnessed several examples where Codes of Conduct, if put in the wrong hands (in the Linux Foundation it’s corporate hands), can achieve the very opposite of their intended goal and its a true shame as well as a travesty for legitimate victims of real abuse
Links 20/9/2020: Flameshot Screenshot Tool 0.8, Okular Improvements and More
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Reminder: Vice Chair of the Linux Foundation's Board is an Oracle Executive Who Used to Work for Microsoft
The Linux Foundation issued statements to the effect of opposing Donald Trump, but its current leadership (people from companies like Oracle, Microsoft and IBM) is a strong proponent of doing as much business as possible with Trump (even in violation of international law)
[Meme] How to Hijack Linux and Free Software to Make Them Proprietary and Microsoft-Controlled
Intel keeps outsourcing almost everything (that's not proprietary with back doors, e.g. ME) to Microsoft's proprietary software prison, known as GitHub; to make matters worse, Intel now uses the Microsoft-hosted Rust to develop in Microsoft servers, along with Microsoft, code that promotes Microsoft proprietary software (e.g. Hyper-V) and non-standard 'extensions'.
DDOS Attacks Against Us Lately
(Distributed) Denial-of-service attacks or DDOS attacks have slowed down the site, but we treat that as evidence of suppression and fear (of what's to come and what was recently published), or accuracy (in reporting) rather than inaccuracy
[Meme] Windows as Dead Man Walking (Patches Accelerate the Death)
Microsoft is squeezing whatever life is left in its “burning platform” (which is already exceeded in terms of market share by Android) that has a "burning" (bricked) WSL with barely any users and plenty of critical problems
We Let Them Get Away With Murder, But They Make up for It by Banning Words
The Microsoft propaganda machines (notably ZDNet this weekend) are busy portraying Microsoft as a “good company” for censoring words, never mind the actual, meaningful, substantial actions of Microsoft, which is boosting authoritarian people who imprison even babies (for the ‘crime’ of being on the ‘wrong’ side of the border)
High-Profile and Invalid (Invalidated) European Patents Harm the Presumption of Validity of European Patents
The EPO's 'printing machine' (over-producing patent monopolies) is harming the legal certainty associated with such patents, helping nobody but deep-pocketed monopolists and law firms
Epitaph for (Death of) Patent-Centric Media: Litigation Giant Bird & Bird Nowadays Doing Ads as 'Podcasts' in Think Tank Site 'Managing IP'
Publishers don't hesitate and openly revel in taking bribes as if it's a badge of honour or importance, allowing themselves to be profoundly corrupted in pursuit of quick cash; we discuss what's happening in sites that pretend to cover patent news (but actually drive agenda of litigation giants, to the detriment of actual innovators)
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, September 19, 2020
IRC logs for Saturday, September 19, 2020
Links 20/9/2020: 4MLinux 34.0 Released, September Release and EndeavourOS for ARM
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Video: Free Communication With Free Software - Daniel Pocock - FOSSASIA Summit 2016
The 2016 FOSSASIA talk from Daniel Pocock (Debian) about Free software alternatives to Google, Microsoft Skype and so on (Microsoft started paying Debian in 2016)
[Meme] Microsoft Downtime... Now in 'Linux' (Wait a Month for Microsoft to Restore Uptime)
Microsoft’s utter failure that is "WSL2" is bringing the failures Windows is so notorious for (loss of work, lack of security, fatal patches) to so-called ‘Linux’; the timeframe for a fix says a lot about just how much Microsoft “loves” Linux…
Coming Soon: Microsoft Leaks (Which Microsoft Pressured Medium to Suppress and Promptly Unpublish)
Microsoft is no ordinary company; exposing it is like dealing with the Mafia or some drug cartel in Mexico, but we're able to publish truths about Microsoft nonetheless (their notorious intimidation and silencing attempts have always failed against us)
Dishonest Corporations -- Like Smug Politicians -- Pretend to be Something They're Not
Corporate lies dominate the media, having been crafted by unethical marketing departments with their photo ops and hashtags
GNU is Also a Brand, But It Boils Down to Philosophy and Principles, Not Greed or Corporate Identity
Why the goal of GNU should be freedom rather than so-called 'world domination' (the objective of large firms with shareholders)
IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 18, 2020
IRC logs for Friday, September 18, 2020
Links 19/9/2020: Taiwins 0.2 and a Call for Ubuntu Community Council Nominations
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One Year Later Richard Stallman Needs to be Un-cancelled and Attention Turned to the Real Perpetrator of MIT Scandals
The sheer hypocrisy, treating Stallman as the real nuisance to MIT when it was in fact Bill Gates who trafficked money through convicted sex criminals (to MIT); justice needs to be belatedly restored
ZDNet's 'Linux' Section Isn't About Linux But About Microsoft
ZDNet's so-called 'Linux' section isn't really about GNU/Linux; it's just the site's usual Microsoft propaganda, bought and paid for by Microsoft
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