[Meme] Divine Protection
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-05-24 17:32:43 UTC
- Modified: 2022-05-24 17:32:43 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- Slopfarms Slopping Away at "Linux" and Spreading Microsoft Misinformation
- Slopfarms don't comprehend this as they lack actual comprehension, they're just parrots
- GitHub the Company Has, in Effect, Just Died (Time to Look for Alternatives)
- To Microsoft, what's left of GitHub after dismantling/folding it is some "training set" (people's code, without permission to "train" i.e. misuse under the guise of "GenAI" plagiarism)
- Linux Foundation Says "Housekeeping", "Hung", "Normal", "Native Feature/Support" and "Girl/Girls" Are Offensive Words
- Bombing people is OK, just use the right "terms"
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- Gemini Links 13/08/2025: Climate, Coffee, and Deploying Troops in Washington DC After Pardoning 1,000+ Insurrectionists in Washington DC
- Links for the day
- The Register MS Lowered MS Focus This Week
- We hope The Register recognises its errors and tries to make up for them
- Learning Ethics From Jeffrey Epstein's Enabler/Client/Ally, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft Accenture
- Whatever merits vocabulary changes initially had are being tainted or obscured by later iterations, which tell us to avoid word like "normal", which apparently offend some people (so they argue)
- Personal Attacks From Rust People Serve to Confirm They Have Lost the Argument
- "The discussion I find around the net so far has no technical merit and centers around ad hominem"
- Physical Meters and Purely Mechanical Meters Aren't Dumb; It's Dumb to Mock or Dismiss Them as Antiquated
- I've learned a lot this week, both online and over the telephone
- "AI" Hype or LLM Slop is Not About Efficiency, It's About Lowering Standards
- It does not seem like IBM is genuinely committed to the same goals (or commitments) as the original Red Hat
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 12, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, August 12, 2025
- GitHub Will End Up like XBox and Skype
- It is not likely that the XBox franchise will survive the next 5 years
- Stones Thrown in Glass Houses
- Projecting? You bet!
- As Europe Gets Increasingly Serious About Software Freedom and Digital Sovereignty It Needs to Enforce a Ban on Software Patents ASAP
- many councils in Europe move to Free software and US policy/companies cannot be trusted
- Windows 12 in Bahrain (Microsoft "Market Share" Down to 12%, an All-Time Low)
- They really ought to get away from Windows even faster
- The Web Needs 'Pest Control' When It Comes to LLM Slopfarms
- The goal is to discourage more sites becoming slopfarms
- Microsoft Can Now Stop Reporting the GitHub Layoffs (Even When They Happen)
- GitHub's original staff will see the true cost of becoming "b0rged" - something that Microsoft earned a bad reputation for
- How to Get Very Bad or Even Malicious Code Into Linux? Write it in a Language That Linus Torvalds and Most Other Linux Developers Don't Understand.
- One point nobody brings up is, what if code gets committed while evading audits and scrutiny?
- Links 12/08/2025: Wikipedia Fails at UK High Court, Perlmutter Still Fights to Squash the Slop Lobby
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 12/08/2025: Field Recording and Digital Legacy
- Links for the day
- Links 12/08/2025: WinRAR Zero-Day, SonicWall Does More Harm Than Good
- Links for the day
- Links 12/08/2025: More Sabotage of Underwater Cable Ahead of Russian Alaska Summit
- Links for the day
- Richard Stallman Will Not Miss Microsoft GitHub, It Was Only Good at Harvesting a Lot of Code for Plagiarism-as-a-Service
- investors are apparently willing to lose money for buzzwords
- Links 12/08/2025: Science, Hardware, and Ukraine Excluded From Negotiations About Its Future
- Links for the day
- It Looks More Like Microsoft GitHub Layoffs
- GitHub is just losing loads of money
- Gemini Links 12/08/2025: Meditation, OpenStreetMap, Smolweb, and More
- Links for the day
- Google News is Dying: Most of Its Top Stories Now Are LLM Slop With Slop Images (i.e. 100% Fake 'Content')
- Google News has been drowning in this sort of stuff for quite some time
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 11, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, August 11, 2025
- Our Predictions Were Right: GitHub Dying as Losses Pile Up (as a Company It Cannot Continue to Exist, It's Not 'Free Hosting')
- GitHub always lost money
- Links 11/08/2025: Meritless Twitter Suspensions and Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 11/08/2025: Upgrading Debian Bookworm and Better Quality PDFs From Gemini Pages
- Links for the day
- Currys PCWorld Lied a Decade Ago, 10 Years Later It Still Effectively Voids Your Warranty for Installing GNU/Linux Despite It Being Increasingly Mainstream
- Microsoft gatekeepers
- Team GNOME Has Libeled Me for Nearly 20 Years
- we are not dealing with sane people
- Experience With Airlines in 'Web Sites' and in 'Apps'
- In a lot of ways, Stallman Was Right about what JavaScript would turn out to be
- Open Does Not Mean Free
- wiser to ask if some program is freedom-respecting
- The Register MS Takes Money From Companies Banned by the Biden and Trump Administrations (National Security Risk)
- today's sponsor
- Sabotaging GNU/Linux PCs (and Users) is Not a 'Joke'
- maybe cruelty is the very objective
- How We Process Screenshots of Slop to Suitably Tag Them as Slop
- everything is a single command
- Links 11/08/2025: Data Breaches, Politics, and Climate
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 10, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, August 10, 2025
- Gemini Links 11/08/2025: Tea Caffeine Hot and Super ZZ Zero
- Links for the day
