GNU/Linux Turns 38 Next Month
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2021-08-24 21:51:31 UTC
- Modified: 2021-08-24 21:52:37 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Plagiarism is Hardly a New Problem, It Predates Mainstream Media Getting Paid to Whitewash It as "Training" or "Hey Hi", Then Conflate Plagiarism With "Intelligence" or Deferred "Value"
- "Quantum" isn't new either; it's a 'circle-jerk' for companies without direction, only hype
- Unsafe at Any Speed, "Modern" Appliances
- Appliances have gotten worse
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- IBM's Senior VP of Infrastructure is Out, Silent Layoffs Still Going On
- Some people imagine the CEO will also "retire" very soon (and "ahead of time")
- Gemini Links 09/09/2026: Mechanical Cameras, "Super App", and Prusa Issues
- Links for the day
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 177 Out of 200: Manosphere Without Financial Transparency
- It has moreover replaced a female worker with a male
- Deadline Tomorrow (10th of September) to Appeal the EPO's Fleecing of Staff (Union to Make Legal Challenges)
- Join them. Fight the good fight.
- linuxstans.com Died, Then Came Back as Slop (LLM Junk)
- Don't make the mistake or the assumption that merely 'dabbling in' or 'experimenting with' LLMs can be forgivable as it is a trust destroyer
- Links 09/09/2026: GAFAM Fatalities in Miami International Airport, "Britain’s Health Crisis Is Becoming a Political Crisis"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 09/09/2026: "Adjective Is Subjective" and Walled Gardens
- Links for the day
- Links 09/09/2026: Airport 'Down' (Glasgow and Edinburgh), 'Open' 'AI' Losses Rise to Pace of 50 Billion Dollars in Losses Per Year
- Links for the day
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 176 Out of 200: The Sex-Obsessed Non-Experts
- We heard some sexual stories
- European Patent Office (EPO): No Transparency and No Paper Trail
- The incompetence is that of the management, i.e. sheer incompetence of people who never examined a patent in their entire lifetime
- Gemini Links 09/09/2026: Going Out, Smartphone Addiction, Mapping the Geminispace
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 08, 2026
- IRC logs for Tuesday, September 08, 2026
- Linux is Sabotaged by Botspam and Bloat (de Facto Denial of Service Attack in "Intelligence" Clothing After Rust in "Security" Clothing)
- Linux is becoming orphaned, devalued and diluted by GAFAM slop
- Switzerland No Longer Wants Microsoft's 'Swiss Cheese' (Back Doors)
- Switzerland's patience with Microsoft is wearing thin
- Debian is Not a Community, Many Debian Developers Work for Large Companies Including GAFAM (US)
- "Community" sounds like friendship and amicability
- Links 08/09/2026: Slop Companies Attack Some More Sites, Nvidia Bribes 'Linux' Foundation for Some More Openwashing and for Saying Slop is "Secure"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 08/09/2026: Ultra Introverts, BlackBerry Bold in 2026, and Laughing at LLMs
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Layoffs in October 2026
- Microsoft is a market leader. In NDAs.
- Links 08/09/2026: "The Green Revolution Has Failed Africa" and Palantir/Microsoft Harming NHS
- Links for the day
- Microsoft's Silent Layoffs Are the New Normal at Microsoft
- Microsoft has a ton of layoffs all the time, but the media isn't mentioning those as no WARN notices get issued
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 175 Out of 200: Implicit and Explicit Coalition Against the UK's SLAPP Industry
- SRA recognises the problem
- Further Transparency Problems at the EPO
- The EPO was never meant to be profitable
- Gemini Links 08/09/2026: "Everything Must Go", Announcing Perigee, and Presentations in a Browser
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 07, 2026
- IRC logs for Monday, September 07, 2026
- Alleged Manager at IBM Says "[t]here are likely to be a lot (and I meant, A LOT) of RAs before December."
- "We’re getting pressure from above to put some team members on PIPs."
- Links 07/09/2026: Amazon Cargo Plane Crash, .org/.net/.com Domains Considered Risky
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 07/09/2026: Cheese, Text-based Life, and Icons in Swaybar
- Links for the day
- Freedom, Not Fame, is His Goal
- pursuit of money can be not only tiring but also involve abandoning one's freedom
- Links 07/09/2026: Slop Trashes Memory of Parton, Flock Surveillance Infuriates Everyone
- Links for the day
- Getting Better After 20 Years
- Exactly two months from now this site is turning 20
- EPO Hiding Cocainegate and Abandoning Transparency (Even Access to Very Basic Information is Denied)
- The EPO isn't just becoming like a private for-profit corporation. It's also becoming more secretive.
- Richard Stallman Has Resurrected Lost Updates
- We didn't ask about it
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 174 Out of 200: Cascading Scandals and a Path Towards Much-Needed, Long-Awaited Reform
- Reform the UK's law, not "Reform UK"
- EPO's Gema Requena Sempere (PD People) Contacted Regarding Children With Disabilities
- In the coming week we may be in fruitful contact with some media regarding EPO scandals
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- Gemini Links 07/09/2026: Music Composition, Free Stuff, and Self-hosting Git Repos
- Links for the day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 06, 2026
- IRC logs for Sunday, September 06, 2026
