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When the Employer Conflates a Two-Person Chat Outside Work With a Completely Unrelated Party



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Summary: Having lost any real understanding of Free software, my former employer also lacks understanding of free speech; somehow conversations that I was having with a friend online (not mentioning the company or staff) are spun as 'evidence' that my wife did something wrong and this backfired on the company; it also shocked our lawyers that the company was dumb enough to do this

TODAY'S video is a little different and it was recorded without prior preparation (nor post-recording edits) in OBS Studio, which has just had a major new release.



Viewers can now see one of the letters we've received from the 'UK' CEO of Sirius 'Open Source' (probably sent from his home, as the company no longer has an office). Scare quotes around 'UK' because the company now pretends to be American (despite having almost no American staff) and around 'Open Source' because the company rapidly abandons its Open Source roots. Shown above is the phone used in conjunction with Asterisk, which is Free (or Open Source) software. This phone won't be of use anymore due to lots of outsourcing of what's left of the company.

"This phone won't be of use anymore due to lots of outsourcing of what's left of the company."Also shown in the video is the controversial koala which became a theme here (this post offers some context), a photo of us in a post-wedding party, and other stuff that the stalker ('UK' CEO of Sirius 'Open Source') was collecting for weeks in an effort to frame innocent people. What is that all about? Is he trying to show that he found something that does not exist? Sirius knows these two people run Tux Machines, and Sirius even exploits that to market itself. In IRC, Sirius was never mentioned! Not by name.

"In IRC Sirius was never mentioned! Not by name."The video above hopefully helps explain the absurdity of this whole situation. It shows example pages with IRC logs in them, falsely asserting those have something to do with my wife (she is not even in IRC, it's just me and a friend). In the later parts the latest article and meme are shown and explained in passing. It's better to just read them, the video tries not to repeat what's already in them.

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