This Month's 'Linux' Foundation Event (Linux Foundation Member Summit 2022) Sponsored by the Company That Attacks Linux
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-11-16 18:43:26 UTC
- Modified: 2022-11-16 18:46:19 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Links 10/10/2026: Let's Encrypt Making Changes (Problem for Small Sites/Operations), Quartz is Officially a Slopfarm (Busted)
- Links for the day
- Brigading Against Women - Part XXV - No Anonymity for People Who Did Illegal Things
- "Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture."
- Links 09/10/2026: Stranded Busan Shark Still a 'Circus', Endangered Monkey Rescued, BBC Shells Out Money
- Links for the day
- The Register MS Sponsored to Hype Up "Datacenters" and "AI" (Bubble, Pyramid Scheme)
- "Sponsored by Cisco" with "AI" 26 times in this page
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- Contemptuous Law Firm Accusing Others of Contempt of Court
- Keeping a running tally can help
- Microsoft Abuses PERM and Lays Off Workers in India
- The US government has made it easier for Microsoft to hide the mass layoffs
- The GAFAM Elections in the United States
- If the election is run by platforms that have back doors "baked-in" and if the communications are overseen by GAFAM, you would not have to be a "nutty MAGAt" to dispute the outcome
- More GAFAM Layoffs (Late on Friday Night)
- They say they are worth trillions, but they don't even make money
- Male-Dominated EPO Fails to Have "Concrete Measures to Support Female Staff"
- Being a female at the EPO is exceptionally hard
- Production Freeze at the European Patent Office (Opposing Monarchy, Institutional Maladministration and Corruption)
- Eight reasons to participate
- Links 10/10/2026: Microsoft 'Open' 'AI' Silencing Critics, "Data Centres are the New Front Line in the Russia-Ukraine War"
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 09, 2026
- IRC logs for Friday, October 09, 2026
- Gemini Links 10/10/2026: Optimism, Stargazing, "Life Without Smartphone", and Fairphone 4
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 09/10/2026: Manifesto, Slop, Geminispace, and "Cryptography of the Internet"
- Links for the day
- Betanews is Still a Slopfarm, Articles About "Linux" Are Fake and Plagiarism by LLMs
- Cheaters and plagiarists aren't journalists; they're people who rip off and harm journalists
- James Bottomley Has Promoted Microsoft-Controlled Restricted ('Secure') Boot, His Blog Has Just Been Cracked
- Does this meet IBM's and Microsoft's standards for "distinguished" (in security)?
- Links 09/10/2026: "Internet Archive to Demo Wayback Machine at Friday’s Uniqlo Street Festival", France Wages Censorship War via DNS
- Links for the day
- Controlled Opposition
- The underlying concept is hardly new
- More Stallmans
- We need more Stallmans, we don't need to change Stallman
- SUEPO Munich (EPO Staff Union in the Main Headquarters) Opposes Monarchy ('Cocaine King' Campinos), Plans Online Meeting Next Week
- They may have about 1,000 workers joining in
- World Mental Health Day is Tomorrow and EPO Staff Talks About What the Job Does to Workers
- In recent years we've written a great deal about mental health consideration in relation to work, with a focus on "IT"
- GNU/Linux Flirts With 20% "Market Share" in North America Overnight
- Who should we trust on GNU/Linux? Microsofters on an armchair or Cloudflare Radar?
- You Definitely Do NOT Wish to Live Close to a Datacentre
- put aside for a moment the noise, the pollution...
- New Site Makes the Case Against Adoption of Omarchy, But Focuses Almost Entirely on Politics
- Let's examine what the page says and what points it focuses on
- Brigading Against Women - Part XXIV - Nobody's Name is Unspeakable
- Names are not sacred
- Microsoft is in Trouble (With the Regime It Sponsored)
- It seems like Microsoft paying the existing regime/dictatorship wasn't enough
- GGG Pot Calls the Kettle Black
- "It means a situation in which somebody accuses someone else of a fault which the accuser shares, and therefore is an example of psychological projection, or hypocrisy. Use of the expression to discredit or deflect a claim of wrongdoing by attacking the originator of the claim for their own similar behaviour (rather than acknowledging the guilt of both) is the tu quoque logical fallacy."
- In the United Kingdom, Rising Cost of Hardware Benefits GNU/Linux
- GNU/Linux rose from about 4% to almost 6% in one year
- Japanese Targets of Cyber Breaches or Insider Threats
- Japanese government bureau and major firms experience data breaches
- Gemini Links 09/10/2026: Optimism, Stargazing, and Solar MiniServer
- Links for the day
- The Microsoft Ban Should Go Further (Telecommunications Cybersecurity and Resilience Act Incompatible With Back Doors)
- it's not difficult to see where to start
- When Americans Export a 'Suicide Mission' to Other Continents
- I worry that this culture of debt-taking and overconsumption is being spread from the US to Europe
- The Register MS: "AI" Several Times in Same Headline, 31 Times in Page. The Register MS Was Paid to Do This.
- The phenomenon is commercial (paid media), not scientific
- The Outcome of Microsoft Ban Was Predictable
- told you so
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 08, 2026
- IRC logs for Thursday, October 08, 2026
- Gemini Links 08/10/2026: Economical Thrashing, How I Killed the Earth, and Thoughts on Gemini
- Links for the day
- Links 08/10/2026: Wikimedia Bemoans Chaffbot Slop (Bots Sold as 'Agents') That Sabotage It, ICC's Taliban Warrants
- Links for the day
- Links 08/10/2026: Slop Scammers (Pushers) Inflate Hosting Bills and "YouTube Testing Everything"
- Links for the day
- The Register MS Helps Prove the "AI" Frenzy in the Media is Evidence of Compromised Media, Not Legitimate "Revolution"
- Ignore the hype and carry on
- London Became Synonymous With the Royal Courts of Justice
- London used to be a place where we go on holiday/retreat/break; nowadays we have only one destination there
- Microsoft Insiders on "Effectively Being Silently Laid Off From Microsoft"
- People are laid off by the thousands without the media uttering a word or the companies confirming anything
- Brigading Against Women - Part XXIII - Extremism in the Mix and Getting the Police Involved
- In 2012 I was getting heckled a lot for opposing back doors in Linux; it has not stopped since
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 07, 2026
- IRC logs for Wednesday, October 07, 2026
