[Meme] Plot Twist

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2022-07-15 06:47:17 UTC
Modified: 2022-07-15 11:53:02 UTC

Oliver Twist reference

Meme: Please sir may I have some more?
Papa António, will you feed poor, orphaned states in exchange for votes in favour of illegal proposals?

Summary: The current EPO does not and cannot operate properly anymore; the sole goal is milking it to death by giving millions of illegal European Patents (in violation of the European Patent Convention)

The Old Ways of Computing Were Objectively Better: Not as fast, but certainly much better
Computer-Generated Legal Filings Get You Reported to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA): We'll write a lot more about this in the future
EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part XII - In the Second-Largest Institution in Europe One Can Take Paid 'Sick Leave' for Doing Cocaine, Then Come Back: Cocaine addicts in the management were bullying colleagues. They're still in charge.
Sites in Their Twenties: We currently run concurrently a handful of series and have a lot more in the backlog
SLAPP Censorship - Part 88 Out of 200: Brett Wilson LLP is Defaming Trans People in America Because Garrett Pays Hired Guns to Silence Them: Garrett is scoring many own goals this year
Sloppy "Resource Action," (RA) or IBM Layoff, Leads to Another IBM Lawsuit, Alleging IBM Tries to Pass Liability to Algorithms: IBM is meanwhile resorting to slop to gaslight its remaining shareholders
The Latest IBM Layoff Rumours: What has happened to the company that invented so much of modern computing?
Holy See Recognises the Threat of GAFAM and Slop: Will the Holy See move away from GAFAM?
Social Control Media is a Giant Waste of Time (and There Are No Future Remedies for This): Social Control Media is considered unhealthy to young people, but it is also collectively unhealthy to nations and nation-building
Codecs and Software Patents - Part X - Florian Müller Still Muddying the Waters for FOSS, Using Software Patents: Some things never change...
Gemini Links 26/05/2026: Slop Bug Reports and Crawlers Considered Evil: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 25, 2026: IRC logs for Monday, May 25, 2026
Slop Causes Global Warming: in some parts of the world people die from overheat (heat strokes) as temperatures reach almost 50 degrees as early as May in the northern hemisphere
Vatican Speaks Out Against Slop, Promoting Instead "Truth, Dignity of Work, Social Justice, and Peace.": Religion (no matter which) does not oppose machines, but LLMs aren't useful machines
SLAPP Censorship - Part 87 Out of 200: Access to Justice: this part will be short
A Promise IBM/Red Hat Could Not Keep: "all about control, not so much optics."
Links 25/05/2026: Russia Lobbing Oreshnik Ballistic Missile Again, Slop Comes Under More Fire: Links for the day
Gemini Links 25/05/2026: Injury in Gym and Abusive LLMs DDoSing Software Developers While Misusing Their Code: Links for the day
A 'Bank Holiday' When National Debt Doubles in a Decade: Maybe it's time to rename "Bank Holidays"
Links 25/05/2026: Lingering Environmental Concerns and Domain Registrars Targeted for Unmasking: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 24, 2026: IRC logs for Sunday, May 24, 2026
Gemini Links 24/05/2026: Impressions of Auckland, the Age of Left or Right Extremism, and .zim files: Links for the day
Microsoft's 'Hiring Freeze' (Layoffs) and Salary Freeze (While Inflation Approaches Double-Digit Rates): If they get replaced by anyone, it'll be low-paid folks in low-salary regions [...] workers' stress levels shoot up, compensation goes down
Slop Will Not End Humanity, The Pushers of It Do (Artificial Scarcities and Global Warming): Causing hunger and poverty in the name of "computation"
How Can the 'Broligarchs' Love Us When They Don't Even Love Themselves?: Their SLAPPs have their limits
Death at IBM Due to Overwork: Dying for IBM is never worth it
We Publish Less, We Get More Exposure: UbuntuPit is coming to realise that quantity isn't what comes to matter or truly "count", especially when quantity comes at expense of authenticity
Codecs and Software Patents - Part IX - GNU Project Has Chosen to Adopt AV1 for Its Videos, Conversion and Additions Underway: One of our readers is working to help GNU through the maze of software patents and maze of patent lawsuits, which aren't the same thing but are somewhat overlapping issues
SLAPP Censorship - Part 86 Out of 200: The Position of Courts on Computer-Generated Lawsuits and Filings From Another Continent (Made by Two Men Who Work for Slop Companies): Lawsuits by proxy from California
Links 24/05/2026: SoftBank CEO Getting Conned by Scam Altman, Hotter 2026 and El Nino With Growing Impact: Links for the day
Links 24/05/2026: Ebola Outbreak and "Journalists Identify Murder Victims Of Trump’s Boat Strike Program": Links for the day
IAM Magazine is in Effect Dead, It's Now Fused Into Microsoft's Patent Troll (Which It Has Promoted All Along): Microsoft-connected patent trolls in Europe [...] Now, in his new job, Wild can use his 'expertise' to help guide blackmail/extortion to better harm Europe's industry
A Huge Proportion of 'Articles' in The Register MS Are Actually Paid Spam of the Communist Party of China, Selling Compromised (for Wiretapping) Technology: The Register MS is having a go at becoming a marketing company or "B2B"
Top Officials Have Just Left Microsoft, Layoffs in Anything But Name: Microsoft's debt is very fast-growing
Local Staff Committee The Hague (LSCTH) Meets "Alicante Mafia" at the European Patent Office (EPO): Report on meeting with VP1 and his team on 21 April 2026
UbuntuPit (ubuntupit.com) Has Deleted Slop Pages, Its Slopfarm Experiment Has Failed (Like Always!): Turning one's site into a slopfarm is a death knell
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 23, 2026: IRC logs for Saturday, May 23, 2026

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