[Meme] Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Defending Crime Again

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2022-07-14 01:34:51 UTC
Modified: 2022-07-14 01:34:51 UTC

SJVN shilling Microsoft
Microsoft, according to SJVN, "hasn't been evil for about eight years now" in this piece that's hours-old. Article full of lies, distortion, and revisionism (retirement is well overdue, get off the Linux Foundation money).

Summary: An unbelievably misleading article, full of errors, has been published by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols; he also helped shield Bill Gates (Jeffrey Epstein enabler) by defaming Richard Stallman in a site funded by Microsoft, IBM, and their front group 'Linux' Foundation

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Don't Talk to Bullies: This serious matter is still being examined by British authorities
Geeks Like GNU/Linux: The technical community seems to be consolidating and rallying around GNU/Linux
GNU/Linux is 486 in Ireland: 4.86% that is
End of Reliable Media: it makes the world a worse place, it renders the Web a misinformation machine
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IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 17, 2025: IRC logs for Sunday, August 17, 2025
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We've Never Used Large Language Model (LLM): we just never used an LLM
Gemini Links 18/08/2025: Retro and Endless Escape from the WWW: Links for the day
Working Whilst Away From Home: Decades ago being away meant all sorts of problems associated with workflows and connectivity
The Next Version of Windows Will Always be the Best (for Microsoft): It's worse and slower over time
"End of the Smartphone Era" According to Jeffrey Epstein's Key Enabler: They call it "sour grapes"
Microsoft's Windows in Gabon: Still Moving Down: What is this Unknown? Who knows...
Links 17/08/2025: Strike Downs Air Canada, Postmortems of Putin's Red Carpet Summit: Links for the day
Links 17/08/2025: Slow Tools and Enshittification of YouTube: Links for the day
Links 17/08/2025: "The Performance of Power" and "My Undesirable Friends": Links for the day
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The Russian Vision of Technology: Russia's surveillance is very extensive
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The Register MS Has Begun Using Slop Images: It's not clear when it started; but it's definitely getting worse [...] Worst of all are 'articles' about slop that are themselves slop
Reddit Funded by Microsoft: Reddit is merely a filter and we knows who controls that filter (using money)
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IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 16, 2025: IRC logs for Saturday, August 16, 2025
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Gemini Links 17/08/2025: Misunderstanding "Geminiverse" and Let's Encrypt: Links for the day
Links 17/08/2025: Breaches, Layoffs, and Scams: Links for the day
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Gemini Links 16/08/2025: Back After Hiatus and News Aggregators in Geminispace: Links for the day
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Links 16/08/2025: Chatbots Bad for Kids, Software Patents Apple Battle: Links for the day
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Original European Patent Convention (EPC, 1973), Routinely Violated by the European Patent Office, Now in Geminispace: hundreds of thousands of European Patents must be immediately revoked
Gemini Links 16/08/2025: Politics and Alhena 5.2.8: Links for the day

[Meme] Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Defending Crime Again

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