[Meme] What's Worse? Monopoly or Polygamy?
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-12-28 06:06:42 UTC
- Modified: 2022-12-28 06:16:39 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
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- About a thousand workers laid off per month
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- More than one fake 'author' participates in this, so it deserves condemnation
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- Why would you trust alleged 'communication' (platforms) controlled by the same people who cut your undersea cables?
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- Not all audience is desirable
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- Only some Asian sites mentioned it
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- It sounds like they already made the decision/s
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- One can also lose one's reputation for harming women
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- Despite many valid alternatives existing and fast maturing
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- Links for the day
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- Those are just rumours for now
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- Uploaded 11 hours ago by Manuel Cuda News
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- Can somebody from Red Hat or someone who knows someone there (impacted or not) confirm that there are layoffs this week at Red Hat?
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- about 6 hrs ago
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- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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- Does that make sense? In light of geopolitics? Probably.
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- We have some reasons to suspect that one of several parties (possibly not in the UK but having connections here), having suffered major and very expensive setbacks, may look to harm the messenger one way or another
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- What Microsoft and GitHub Really, Really, REALLY Do Not Want You to See or Know About
- They're trying to misuse law in a completely different continent or to allege that reporting important facts is in breach of privacy law
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- the scammers are trying to "go mainstream"
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- RSS readers were designed to save time. Social Control Media was designed to waste time.
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- LLMs don't make GPL violations any more noble or acceptable; it's not hard to see what OSI was paid by Microsoft for
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