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Links 13/05/2022: End of 'About BSD'
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IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 12, 2022
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Links 12/05/2022: AlmaLinux OS 8.6 and LibreOffice 7.2.7
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[Meme] Yes, Minister, Yes!
We’re meant to think that patents — not sharing — are going to save the world
Central Staff Committee of the EPO Reminds the EPO's Management, Yet Again, That It is Breaking Laws
Sinking quality of European Patents, plus a Patent Granting Process that is not compliant with the law, quite likely mean the EPO drives straight into a wall; the Central Staff Committee is still trying to save the institution, but management is uncaring and unresponsive (these people typically serve a term and leave, so they couldn’t care less about the long-term viability of their employer)
Formalities Officers Team Managers at the European Patent Office Consider Stepping Down
Formalities Officers Team Managers at Europe's second-largest institution face a growing list of issues; some are even "considering stepping down," according to internal documents
Links 11/05/2022: KDE Gear 22.04.1 and EuroLinux 8.6
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IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, May 11, 2022
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SPAMnil Appears to be Buying Fake Views in YouTube (to Embellish a Failing Channel)
It seems like SPAMnil is ordering clickbots or similar to boost the “views” of his videos (by a factor of 10 or more, as before); I’ve gathered what I believe to be more than sufficient evidence of that (the above uses the Wayback Machine to make a point) and this is not about a channel's failure but an ethical breach, a liability for the Linux Foundation that likes to brag with false numbers in order to sell PR services
Links 11/05/2022: NVIDIA Shifting a Bit to Software Freedom
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Ubuntu (Canonical) Will Not Help Us Get Rid of Windows (Microsoft)
Canonical is rapidly losing its dominance among desktop/laptop GNU/Linux users (it's still doing OK in servers); but adding insult to injury, it's now boosting Windows instead of GNU/Linux, perhaps failing to grasp that this is in part the cause of the exodus (of Ubuntu engineers, too)
Links 11/05/2022: Rocky Linu Gets a Lot of Money and iXsystems Releases TrueNAS 13.0
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Links 11/05/2022: Update for elementary OS 7 and IPFire 2.27 – Core Update 16
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IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 10, 2022
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Links 10/05/2022: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
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The Web and Social Control Media (Including YouTube and Blogs Like Phoronix) Increasingly Bought and Paid for
AstroTurfers or "shills" on the Web are a mostly unspoken-about pandemic of growing proportions; we use Phoronix as an example of influenced (as in "influencer") coverage
Peak AMD
An attempt to measure the impact of ‘gifting’, putting aside tweets, pictures etc.; we’re assessing the number of mentions of AMD in headlines and summaries (number of string matches or mentions of “amd” in the monthly archives); nearly 50% of the articles in the site so far today are about AMD, a company with about 15k workers (for comparison’s sake, Intel is almost 120k). What Phoronix does not tell us does matter because just like in social control media, things are not quite how they seem on the surface (sometimes the site even posts AMD job ads as “articles”, even for just one single role)
Links 10/05/2022: Fedora Linux 36 Released
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[Meme] IBM Does Not Want to THINK Anymore
IBM‘s lack of resistance if not promotion of Microsoft means that one should quit expecting the company's leaders to understand us; all they understand is money, which also means planned obsolescence
IBM/Red Hat Promoting Microsoft Surveillance and Proprietary Software Instead of Freedom-Centric, Self-Hosted, Privacy-Respecting, and 'Real' GNU/Linux Servers
IBM is not interested in Free software and under IBM the company formerly known as Red Hat does not have a positive vision (a lot of the technical staff has already left)
ZDNet is Dying
The pace of publication at ZDNet this year is about half what it was a year ago and a third compared to 2 years ago; production and staff cuts have been made rather obvious, so the inflammatory clickbait and FUD are on the way out
Links 09/05/2022: KDE Connect on Apple Things, Raspberry Digital Signage for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
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IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 09, 2022
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Evolution at Linux Foundation: Microsoft Attacks, Microsoft 'Joins', Microsoft Takes Control
The Linux Foundation sure loves its rapist; maybe a forced marriage is in order, too? It was always about money, nothing else…
Links 09/05/2022: Thunderbird's Android Plans and Gemini Client 'Bloat'
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When It Comes to Software Patents, IBM is Still a Big Bully (and Red Hat's Patents Can Become Part of the Big Blue Bullying)
Big Blue Bully (BBB) or the international blackmail machine is still lobbying for software patents and is still weaponising software patents, even in courts; what does that mean for a company like Red Hat, which kept assuring us that there's no need to worry about its patents?
Links 09/05/2022: New KWin/Plasma 5.25 and LibreOffice Quality Assurance Annual Report
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IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 08, 2022
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