[Meme] Monkey See, Monkey Do (Secret Meetings in Eastern Forests)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2021-08-29 18:35:54 UTC
- Modified: 2021-08-29 18:38:01 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Instant Bluewashing at Confluent: Mass Layoffs Alleged at IBM
- So the main question is, did IBM just fire 800 people?
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- Links 18/03/2026: Commodore's Hedley Davis Dies, Apple Not Good Enough, Cheeto "Floats Treason Charges for Iran War Coverage"
- Links for the day
- A Step Close to Shutting Down the European Patent Office (EPO)
- Not going to work all month long
- EPO Staff Demonstration Today
- The demonstration will be live-streamed for those thousands of colleagues who don't live in Munich
- Gemini Links 18/03/2026: Brazilian SYN Attacks and BGP
- Links for the day
- LibreLocal Also Coming to Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, New Zealand, and Spain
- It helps raise awareness of Software Freedom
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 17, 2026
- IRC logs for Tuesday, March 17, 2026
- Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 14 Out of 200: Men Who Strangle Women (and Worse) Trying to Force Us to Write Public Apologies to These Men
- For those who never before saw a SLAPP, they basically make many demands
- "Vibe-forking" and Why It'll Ultimately Fail (Hype on Top of Hype)
- Code made with LLMs sucks; converting solid, human-tested code into slop only complicates matters and increases risk
- Updates About Richard Stallman's Free Software Foundation
- After all those years (a decade) and in spite of phony scandals many people out there still respect him
- LLM Slop With "Linux" in the Domain Names
- This is becoming a pain and a problem also in the arts and in software engineering
- The EFF Has a Bug, Fixing This Bug is Likely Not Possible Anymore
- "the EFF's continued existence impairs the arrival of a replacement organization, one which will actually champion digital rights."
- Sophie Brun, Raphel Hertzog & Debian sexual conflicts of interest
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Links 17/03/2026: Microsoft Windows Broken by Samsung, Afghanistan-Pakistan War Escalation
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 17/03/2026: Newcomers and False-Positive 'Slop'
- Links for the day
- Héctor Orón Martínez & Debian shadow candidate pressure on Sruthi Chandran
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Links 17/03/2026: American Fentanylware (TikTok) Investors Implicated in Kickbacks, "Big Oil Knew It Was Wrecking Louisiana’s Coast"
- Links for the day
- For Third Time in a Week The Register MS Runs Google SPAM That Paints Google as an Ally of Women (Which is False, They're Womanisers)
- What does that make The Register MS to women?
- British Justice Minister Sarah Sackman Blasts Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)
- The "legal industry" is due for "some reckoning"
- GAFAM Deprecating Old Videos ("Content") by Removing the Support for Their Format for No Good Reason
- "Security" is not a valid excuse
- Credit/Debit Cards Have Long Been Called Plastics, Over Time They're Becoming More Like Pure Plastics
- They cost less than a dollar to manufacture
- The European Patent Office (EPO) Holds a Public Demonstration Tomorrow and It'll be Live-streamed
- The EPO's workforce was meant to be capable of speaking many languages and have extensive experience in the sciences
- People Who Attacked Techrights Also Attacked My Mother
- Picking on old ladies because you don't like Free software advocates is never OK
- Little Community Element Left in CentOS
- CentOS, unlike Fedora, was meant to be long supported and solid
- Social Control Media is Cancel Culture (Companies Like Facebook Also Punish/Ban Accounts for Mentioning "Linux" and Lobby for Anti-Linux Legislation)
- The masters of Social Control Media decide what ideas can and cannot be expressed
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 16, 2026
- IRC logs for Monday, March 16, 2026
- Someone at Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is Censoring the Birthday Greetings to Richard Stallman
- Some people remember
- The European Patent Office (EPO) Illegally Transitioning Into 'Gig' 'Economy' Equivalent (a Shop for Patent Monopolies in Europe)
- for scabs aka SEALs
- At Least Six EPO Strikes Next Month (Yes, Six!)
- The pressure intensifies over time
- Several MPs Blast Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) for Inaction and Ineffective Action This Week
- "Four MPs have written to the SRA"
- Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 14 Out of 200: The Abusive Cases of the Serial Strangler From Microsoft and His Litigation Buddy Garrett Did Cause "Serious Harm"
- claims were de facto abandoned at the trial
- Today's Discussions About How IBM Pushes Workers Out
- The corporate media keeps trying - baselessly and in vain - to paint everything that happens with the "hey hi" brush
- Linux Teck (linuxteck.com) and Ubuntu PIT (ubuntupit.com) Are Botspam
- now they just keep experimenting by trashing their sites and reputation
- Links 16/03/2026: Moscow Experiencing Cellphone Internet Outages, "Salman Rushdie Is Tired of Talking About Free Speech"
- Links for the day
- Links 16/03/2026: Arctic Security and 'Mr. Nobody Against Putin'
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 16/03/2026: KN95 Skins and CSS Surprises
- Links for the day
- Debian is Dying for Some of the Same Reasons IBM's Fedora is Rapidly Dying
- Prioritising CoC censorship, not communities
- The Register MS is Again Femmewashing GAFAM (Which Makes Widows) in Exchange for Money
- This is a moral issue because they betray or harm women and prop up authoritarian regimes
- Gemini Links 16/03/2026: AB 1043, Lagrange Android Beta 47, and Poetry
- Links for the day
- "Slop-forking" or "Vibe-forking" as the New 'Noble' Plagiarism
- New Cloudflare Slop Project?
- EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part VII - Cult Mentality, Mobbing, Nepotism
- Does the EPO actually believe in the law?
- 2026 Microsoft Layoff Rumours
- Surely if we had properly-functioning media, then someone would investigate this rather than rely on official statements from Microsoft and WARN notices
- EPO Strike This Week
- contact your national representatives about it
- Gemini Links 15/03/2026: "Create Opportunities for Good Things to Happen", DOSbook, and Bitcoin Criticism
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 15, 2026
- IRC logs for Sunday, March 15, 2026
- Pirate Praveen Arimbrathodiyil & Debian denouncing volunteers, hiding romances
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock