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- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2020-08-18 06:01:39 UTC
- Modified: 2020-08-18 06:01:39 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- IBM is Rotting With "Zero Internal Jobs" and Many PIPs (Performance Improvement Plans) on the Way, Typically a Fast Track Towards Layoffs Without Severance
- At risk of giving air(time) to tribal sentiments, the internal joke at IBM is that to IBM "AI" stands for "All Indian"
- The Gerstnerisation of Microsoft: Seventh Wave of Microsoft Layoffs (Over 20,000 to be Cut) Allegedly Going to Start Shortly, Probably Start of Next Week, Microsoft Spreads Chaff and Noise Before the Big Axes Fall
- we might be looking at about 50,000 people that Microsoft gets rid of this year
- GNU (and the FSF) Still Changing the World
- Today, in 2025, GNU powers almost everything
- Military-Grade Anti-Linux Microsoft Propaganda Using Microsoft LLMs in Fake 'News' Sites (Slopfarms)
- This is part of a pattern
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- Rust Propaganda Now Amplified by Slopfarms Powered by Microsoft LLMs, Encouraging the Outsourcing of GNU/Linux Distros to Microsoft/GitHub/NSA (and a Shift Away From GPL/Copyleft)
- Moving to Microsoft GitHub and adopting unfinished, untested code for highly critical bits
- Links 09/05/2025: Inflation Rising and Rights to Protest Curtailed Some More
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 09/05/2025: Good and Evil, LLMs Made the Web Worse Yet Again
- Links for the day
- European Patent Office (EPO) Faked "Revenue Expansion" by Granting Loads of Invalid, Illegal Patents; Staff Still Wants to Know Where That Money Went
- Only about 30% of the EPO's patents are for EU entities/people
- Links 09/05/2025: TeleMessage Blunder, More Distractions From Impending Mass Layoffs at Microsoft
- Links for the day
- Links 09/05/2025: Analog Computer and First time at FOSDEM
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 08, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, May 08, 2025
- Links 08/05/2025: Mass Layoffs at Google Again, India/Pakistan Tensions Continue to Grow, New Pope (US) Selected
- Links for the day
- "Victory Day" - Part I: That is the Day Microsofters Who Assault Women Pay for Their Actions in Foreign Land (Using "Guns for Hire" Who Attack Their Own Country for American Dollars)
- Adding a friend from Microsoft to the docket didn't help
- Rust is Starting to Seem More Like Microsoft-hosted "Digital Maoism", Not a Legitimate Effort to Improve Security
- Maybe this is very innocent, but they seem to have taken a solid, stable program from a high-profile Frenchman and looked for ways to marry it with GitHub, i.e. Microsoft/NSA
- Gemini Links 08/05/2025: Practical Gemini Use Case, Shutdown of the Blanket Fort Webring
- Links for the day
- Links 08/05/2025: "Slop Presidency", US Government Defunds Public Broadcasting
- Links for the day
- Lasse Fister, Organiser of Libre Graphics Meeting, Points Out the Code of Conduct is Likely Violated by the Same People Who Promote Codes of Conduct (and Then Bully Him Into Cancelling a Keynote)
- I am starting to see Lasse Fister as another victim
- LLM Slop Attacks Not Only Sites of Free Software Projects But Also Bug Reporting Systems (Time-wasting, in Effect "DDoS")
- Microsoft, the leading purveyor and promoter of slop, is a cancer
- The Richard Stallman (RMS) "European Tour" Carries on In Spite of the Nuremberg Incident
- Some people spoke about how they saw yesterday's talk
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, May 07, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, May 07, 2025
- The CoC Means the Founder of GNU/Linux Cannot Talk and a 72-Year-Old Man With Cancer is Somehow a "Safety" Risk?
- Those who don't like RMS are not forced to attend his talks
- Gemini Links 07/05/2025: A Shopping Spree and Digital Gardening
- Links for the day
- Links 07/05/2025: Pegasus Guilty and a Path Towards EU Without Russian Energy
- Links for the day
- People Used to Talk
- If pets can live a measurably happy life without gadgets and "apps", why can't humans?
- Outsourcing GNU/Linux to Microsoft GitHub Promoted by Microsoft LLM Slop and Army Officers
- Something doesn't seem right
- Weaponisation of For-Profit Dockets - Part III: No More Media Lawsuits From Brett Wilson LLP This Year, One Can Only Guess Why
- People leak a lot of material to Techrights because they know, based on the track record, that the sources will be protected and whatever gets published will stay online, in full, no matter how stubborn an effort (even lawsuits and blackmail) will be sent its way
- Gemini Links 07/05/2025: Adopting GrapheneOS, Further Enshittification of Flickr
- Links for the day
- Links 07/05/2025: CISA Gutted, Debt-Saddled (Likely Insolvent) 'Open' 'AI' (Proprietary Slop) Faking Its Financial State Again
- Links for the day
- Finland, Lithuania, and Latvia Fortify Their Digital Border With GNU/Linux
- This month's data from statCounter is particularly interesting near the Baltic Sea
- The European Patent Office (EPO) Has a Very Profound Corruption Issue, Far More Urgent an Issue Than Pronouns
- a rather long document
- Richard Stallman Gives Public Talk at Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic
- "For programs that you could run, and for network services that could do your own computing, under what circumstances is it reasonable to trust them?"
- Today We Turn 18.5
- The eighteenth "and a half" anniversary
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 06, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, May 06, 2025
