IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 04, 2020

Microsoft FakeHub: Identity Theft in Microsoft GitHub (Microsoft Won't Bother Addressing It; It Gives a False Impression of Adoption by GNU/Linux Veterans): This is the same company that kept intact deleted accounts and counted them as if they're live and active (to hide the gradual abandonment and demise of the "hub")
Microsoft Tries to Force People Into Vista 11 by Stopping Vista 10 Patching, Herding Them Into TPMdom: It's backfiring
CyberShow Blog Upgraded, RSS Feed Added: CyberShow Blog has just had somewhat of a facelift
[Meme] The Microsoft Syndrome: Typical Microsoftism
Last Day of 2024 Was Spent by Brittany Day Publishing Only Fake 'Articles' (LLM Slop) About "Linux", Joined by Serial Slopper Brian Fagioli: Not even a holiday was enough to stop Day from "spamming" the Web with fake 'articles' (LLM slop) about "Linux"
Gemini Links 01/01/2025: Looking Back at 2024 and Happy 2025: Links for the day
Addendum: What the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) Really Is: Not serum free light chains (SFLC)
Sitting on a Mountain of Money (Almost 8 Million Dollars) is "Pro Bono": Does the general public realise what SFC is?
Software Freedom Conservancy Inc (SFC) Lost Revenue and Also Got Rid of "Senior Director of Diversity and Inclusion" (Sage A Sharp, Formerly Known as Sarah Sharp, Who Ran an Ill-Spirited Campaign Against Linus Torvalds, Theodore Tso, and Other Prominent Linux Developers): Not much needs to be said; a little needs to be shown (from an authoritative source, the IRS)
In Operating Systems, Google Was the Biggest Winner in 2024: Nevertheless, 10% of the managers are to be laid off shortly (after a leak led to confirmation by the CEO)
FSF-EEE (Colonial Splinter Group Based in Germany) Promotes Microsoft: New and misleading
Did GAFAM or IBM 'Downgrade' Pensions to 'Insurance' (Which Can be Denied)?: 'Insurance' does not mean what it may sound like
Gemini Protocol Continued to Grow in 2024: it's no longer hosted from home
GNU/Linux Gained About 0.5% Last Year, According to StatCounter: 2024 ended with "proper" GNU/Linux at +0.4%, ChromeOS at +0.1% (based on statCounter/StatCounter)
Geoffrey Knauth, FSF President and Treasurer, Comments on the FSF Raising Over $300,000: Now almost $304,000
Links 01/01/2025: Whistleblowers Shunned, EU/Germany Blasts Twitter (X, MElon) Interference: Links for the day
Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower Says Her Son Was Murdered (He Accused OpenAI of Copyright Violations at a Massive Scale, OpenAI is Running Out of Money That It Borrowed): "Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower Alleges He Was Murdered, Says There Were Signs of Struggle"
Housekeeping and Productivity: The less we tinker with those things (system administration tasks), the more we can write and curate links
The Engineering Side in 2024: A Look Back, Taking Stock: uptime was somewhere around 99.95%
Dr. Andy Farnell Nominates Gromit the Dog "as an Unlikely Hacker Hero.": The world needs more decent engineers
The Free Software Foundation's (FSF) Holiday Fund-Raising Campaign Reaches About $303,000: in some parts of the US it's still 2024
Gemini Links 01/01/2025: Reflecting on 2024 and FSMs: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 31, 2024: IRC logs for Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Links 31/12/2024: Another Jeju Air Plane Has Severe Landing Gear Issue (Cannot Blame Birds Anymore), Turku Quits Twitter/X: Links for the day
2025 Coming. "Lawsuits are temporary. Glory is forever. Go public.": another promising year for us
Free Software Foundation (FSF) Raises about $50,000 After Saying We Should Put Pressure on Microsoft, Might Exceed $300,000 in Total Before 2025 (Boston Time): FSF fund-raiser now at 292k US dollars. Spectacular growth, rising at a pace of about $20k per day!
Brittany Day Unleashes Microsoft Propaganda About Linux, Likely Generated by Microsoft LLM to Strategically Googlebomb a Topic: Yes, it's definitely LLM slop
Gemini Links 31/12/2024: Default Apps 2024 and Google News RSS Woes: Links for the day
Links 31/12/2024: 'Open'AI Has Run Out of Money Again, Venezuela Fines TikTok, Germany Warns X/Twitter Over Election Interference, Google Search Takedowns Out of Control: Links for the day
Gemini Links 31/12/2024: Google's Evil and VF-1 1.0.0 is Out: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 30, 2024: IRC logs for Monday, December 30, 2024
Links 30/12/2024: Arrest Warrant for South Korean President Yoon, Experts Contest 'Bird Strike' Narrative for Crash Blame: Links for the day
[Meme] Systemd-Max: Why is everything - even aviation - getting so much worse?
Links 30/12/2024: Bad Year, Sxmo/PostmarketOs, and Gemlog/Tinylog: Links for the day
Just a hobby, it won't be big and professional like GNU. It'll be controlled by Microsoft due to administrative neglect.: Get well soon, Linux
Free Software Foundation (FSF) Raised About 20,000 Dollars Today: FSF funds now near 275k dollars. Growing VERY fast today.
Massive Gains for GNU/Linux in Australia This Year: Windows lost clout and Android was the biggest gainer
New IRS Filing Shows That the Most Dominant Company in the Linux Foundation is Microsoft: The 'Linux' Foundation devotes only about 2% of its budget to Linux (skeleton crew). It invests a lot more money in the Ponzi scheme of Microsoft and Scam Altman.
[Meme] Who's the Linux Boss?: Bill Gates is a lot more interesting anyway
In 2024, Under Linux Foundation Management, Linux.com Produced and Published Only 5 Articles: Remember when Linux.com had 3-4 original articles per day?
Trying to Informally Police or at Least Report LLM Slop About "Linux" (and Several Related Topics): Do they deserve public humiliation/condemnation? Yes, as that might be the only way to nip this in the bud
Links 30/12/2024: Fentanylware (TikTok) Concerns and Aftermath of Cut Cables: Links for the day
A Free Software Foundation (FSF) Led by Dr. Richard Stallman Can Still Raise a Lot of Money: Give people more time (e.g. until end of January) and maybe hit the target
Is Microsoft's Plundering of Africa Coming to an End?: Microsoft had many layoffs in Africa this year
Microsoft Windows Down From 23% to 20% This Year in Asia (Android Up From 54% to Almost 60%): Less and less of Windows, more of the Linux-powered Android
15 Years Ago Mozilla Firefox Had Over 50% of the Slovakian Market, Now Google's Chrome Has Over 70%: Peaked at 72.4% earlier this year
Remembering When Photography Meant Realistic Captures of Reality, Not "Hey Hi" (AI) and 'Instagrammed' (Filtered, Manipulated): Fake pictures predate the "hey hi" hype; Instagram in particular was full of these
Good Gains for Android for GNU/Linux in New Zealand This Year: Notice that GNU/Linux rose to its highest point (this month)
2024 a Record Year for Android (Almost 50% "Market Share"), Which is Now Bigger in Europe Than Microsoft Windows: a look at Europe
Apple's Main Stronghold (North America) at Risk From GNU/Linux: Apple had several rounds of layoffs in the US this year
Wishing for a Wikileaks Renaissance in 2025: as a site that facilitates whistleblowers, hosting large leaks
statCounter: Microsoft Windows Down a Percent This Year in South America, GNU/Linux Up to 3.2%: Microsoft down, freedom up
[Meme] Getting Banned From Social Control Media 2 Days or Two Weeks Before Leaving Office: Seems like interference using dinners with an insurrectionist
The Threat of Googlebombing and LLMs: There are many Carters, but search engines and LLMs lack the "logic" (or common sense) to tell the difference
Social Control Media (Not Just TikTok) is a "Modern Challenge" to Democracy: Society is worse off with Social Control Networks
Jimmy Carter on Globalisation of "Tech": Carter's legacy in the area of science (and technology)
IBM's Bad Leadership is a Threat to GNU/Linux: We worry that since Red Hat controls so much of the GNU/Linux stack difficulties at IBM will result in divestment
The True Importance of Diversification: Monopoly or monoculture breed fragility
Putting Some Eggs in the Geminispace Basket: Do not bet on the future of the Web
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 29, 2024: IRC logs for Sunday, December 29, 2024
Gemini Links 30/12/2024: Countdown to New Year, Tinylogging, and LLM Hype: Links for the day


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