[Meme] Sirius AstroTurfing
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2023-04-10 15:46:21 UTC
- Modified: 2023-04-10 15:46:21 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Creditors beware: VMS Enterprises Ltd vs Brexit Party (Reform UK Party Ltd)
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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- EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part XVII - A Vote for Campinos This Month (Reappointment) Would be an Endorsement of Cocaine
- The harder they try to silence critics, the worse it'll get
- The Cyber Show on "Career Scientists" (Resellers of Establishment Brands Like GAFAM)
- "The "career scientist" - with PhD and research office by their mid-twenties - follows well oiled tracks and institutional signposts, steering away from controversial or "difficult" subjects."
- Reporting Court Matters While Preserving Dignity of Staff
- There's a high and growing probability we'll take our appeal to the Court of Appeal next year
- Broligarchs Speech-Policing, Faux 'Community' or 'Hub' in 'User-Driven' Clothing
- Until a broligarch decides to "flag" inconvenient stories
- Gemini Links 02/10/2026: Haiku, Microsoft EEE ('Linux' as a Container in Windows), and ROOPHLOCH 2026 Roundup
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Promised Them Bonuses, Instead They May Get Laid Off
- Laid off or paid off?
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 01, 2026
- IRC logs for Thursday, October 01, 2026
- Lots of People Left Red Hat This Week, No Announcement Made of Layoffs
- Companies just find ways and excuses not to announce their layoffs
- Gemini Links 01/10/2026: Gemini-to-Web Proxies Considered Harmful, ROOPHLOCH 2026 at Griffith Park Observatory
- Links for the day
- "SPONSORED FEATURE" of HPE and NVIDIA at The Register MS Has Just Mentioned "AI" 68 Times in One Page!
- Meanwhile, grown-ups ignore the hype and get work done without slop
- Microsoft's XBox Layoffs Not Finished, Won't be Finished, It's Called "Forever Layoffs"
- Microsoft will shut down (XBox) after shrinking it, there's no need to sell anything (a straw man)
- IBM's Red Hat Lost Lots of People Today, Chief People Officer (CPO) Dethroned
- Headcount falls shortly in secret.
- Microsoft is "Pushing Up Daisies" Amid Mass Layoffs (Secret Ones)
- "Longtime Microsoft research leader Peter Lee and former LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky to depart"
- Links 01/10/2026: "Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal" and The 'Linux' Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB) Has Vacuum
- Links for the day
- Brigading Against Women - Part XIII - The Offer We Didn't Ask For (and Under Threats to a Lady at the Webhost, a Form of Extortion From America)
- Two and a half months ago Garrett made an offer to my wife
- Techrights Turning 20 Next Month
- Our image is under attack, our finances are constantly under attack and so on
- Links 01/10/2026: "Meat Proxies" and "Japan’s Far Right Is Courting Young Voters"
- Links for the day
- Red Hat Being Phased Out of Existence (Like Many Other Companies That IBM Bought)
- The "Red Hat" brand (and badge) is being dissolved some more today [...] IBM is imploding 'creatively'.
- IBM Layoffs Cover-up
- thelayoff.com is censoring threads
- "Restricted Boot" Garrett's State is Now Implementing Kill Switches (Just What We've Warned About All Along)
- The underlying concept is hardly new
- Brett Wilson LLP Has Had No Annual Report in 16 Months
- A cynic might hint that they try to hide something
- Reform UK last minute accounts filing
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Gemini Links 01/10/2026: "Babel With Better Hardware", Software Input That's Slop, and DWeb Cascadia 2026
- Links for the day
- Today is D-Day at Red Hat and People Leave in Droves
- They said there would be "bluewashing", we're mostly seeing people announcing they're leaving
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 30, 2026
- IRC logs for Wednesday, September 30, 2026
- Gemini Links 30/09/2026: Fish Leather, Slop Formation, and ROOPHLOCH
- Links for the day
- In a Lot of Europe (or EU) Android (With Linux) is Bigger Than Windows
- For example in Greece
- Slop-Posting is a New Form of S---posting
- We recently caught several more "linux" sites (with "linux" in their domain name) turning to slop
- EPO Cocainegate: Lots of Money (Over a Million Euros) for Cocaine Addicts, Not for Children With Special Needs
- Next month we'll bring out some more Campinos scandals
- High Court victory: Nigel Farage is 'the Company's own candidate'
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- It Took GNOME's Code of Conduct Committee (CoCC) Over 8 Months to Realise CoC Reports Went Into /dev/null/
- It would be ironic if the blunder's culprits were punished for it, would it not?
- Links 30/09/2026: Microsoft "OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely" and "Pentagon Personnel Agency Data Breach Impacts 3 Million People"
- Links for the day
- The Register MS "Events" As Paid Spam That Promotes and Keeps Afloat Hype About Slop
- This dreary sort of media reads like a soup of words, i.e. like the thing it is advertising
- Digital Independence in the UK and in Western Europe
- We have the technical capacity and skilled personnel to achieve this
- IBM's Anderon as a Mass Layoffs Ritual With a Bailout (From US Taxpayers to IBM) and Other Perks
- Like those empty promises in the first term of the Cheeto dictator
- Gemini Links 30/09/2026: David Bowie, Web Rendering Proxy, Ink and Letters, Gemlog Nostalgia
- Links for the day
- EPO Annual General Meeting (AGM) Will Speak of Financial State of the EPO's Union
- Their work is needed because the EPO breaks the law
- Rust Causes Upgrade Issues in Ubuntu
- They could just keep GNU coreutils in place (nothing was broken about it) and avoid Microsoft's back doors and TPMs
- Losses From Slop Are "Investment", Hundreds of Billions in Debt Are "Growth Opportunity", Layoffs Are "Great to See", and Loss of Business Means "We Need a Slowdown" (for "Safety")
- Microsoft is removing staff, as investment is apparently the act of shrtinking
- Brigading Against Women - Part XII - Toxic Masculinity, Hunting Women, Will Code for Sex
- Who says things like these?
- The Microsoft Lunduke Slop Problem
- Microsoft Lunduke does not support Software Freedom; he serves to discredit many ideas championed by Free software or ideals articulated which are apolitical for the most part
- Links 30/09/2026: "Understanding the LLM Bubble" and "Florida Senate Threatened Legal Action Against Newspapers"
- Links for the day
- It Looks Like Mass Layoffs at "Nordcloud, an IBM Company" Today (a Day Ahead of Red Hat)
- Expect the same from Red Hat next
- British Prime Minister Recognises Social Control Media as National Cohesion Problem
- one has to wonder if addiction to social control media is not compatible with peace
- The Future Isn't Social Control Media (Nothing Will be Left of It, Not Even Archives)
- "Error code: 502 Bad Gateway"
- GNU/Linux Usage in China is Increasing
- China is leaving Microsoft and Windows behind
- 43 Years of GNU and GAFAM's (Especially Microsoft's) Attacks On It
- GNU is very widely used (when people say "Linux commands" they typically mean "GNU programs"), hence it's being attacked a lot
- CDMAG Covers Free Software, New Magazine From Decent People
- If enough people accessed their site, they would not rely on social control media (third parties, censorship platforms)
- Brigading Against Women - Part XI - An Abject Lack of Social Skills (and Not Knowing How to Handle Women)
- GGG enjoy - if that's the right term - very bizarre or esoteric sex life
- Gemini Links 30/09/2026: Accelerationism, "The Billionaire is Wrong", Rant About LLM-generated Support E-mails
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 29, 2026
- IRC logs for Tuesday, September 29, 2026
