[Meme] We're Far From Done Writing About Free Software-Hostile Militants Who Attacked Techrights in IRC (and Beyond) for Years
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2023-09-16 01:19:29 UTC
- Modified: 2023-09-16 01:22:15 UTC
Summary: It has been a while since we last wrote about criminals with ties to Microsoft vandalising our IRC network and spreading defamatory material all around the Web (including impersonation, resulting in many account terminations and bans). We plan to spread out the coverage and it'll last until next year.
Recent Techrights' Posts
- No, We Don't Want to Go "Viral" (and You Probably Don't, Either)
- "Viral" junk gets forgotten quickly
- Thinking About Abandoning 'Google News' Altogether Due to Easy Poisoning by LLM Slop
- As long as Google News keeps sending traffic to these leeches, it'll be very hard to justify relying on Google News for anything at all
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- Graveyard of Mastodons: A Vast Number of Inactive Accounts
- More than 80% of users in mastodon.social (the "big one") are no longer active
- Gemini Links 08/03/2025: Reading Cory Doctorow's 'Little Brother', Abandoning GAFAM Forever
- Links for the day
- Windows is Being Eradicated
- On the Web, in Africa in particular, user strings or UAs that say "Windows" are becoming more rare
- For International Women's Rights Day (Today) Staff Representatives at the European Patent Office (EPO) Opened Up on Gender Discrimination at the Office
- Office discrimination against women is widely known; unless you sleep with men in management
- Links 08/03/2025: International Women's Day, Software Patents Being Squashed
- Links for the day
- Under the Pen Name "John O'Donnell" (LLM Slop, Not Real Article or Author) LinuxLinks Pushes Spammy Page
- it happened some hours ago.
- Links 08/03/2025: Tariff Self Harm and Mostly Solved Diseases Making a Comeback
- Links for the day
- Links 08/03/2025: Climate Change Causing Food Shortages, Selling Off Chrome Still in the Cards
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 08/03/2025: Driving in Japan, GrapheneOS, Tariffs Silver Lining
- Links for the day
- Working Like a Pack of Hyenas, the Microsofters Try Hard to Hide the Truth and Actively Censor Critics
- They even target women
- The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): Bylaws of the OSI a Shocking Oversight
- That's what the OSI is right now: a salesperson
- Links 08/03/2025: Microsoft Failures, Further Attacks on Speech in Hong Kong
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 08/03/2025: Physical Albums, Analog Computing, Deleting All Social Control Media
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 07, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, March 07, 2025
- OpenAI, Deep in Debt With Growing Losses, Sees Web Traffic Falling Fourfold in a Year
- Microsoft's shares have fallen over 10% since the last report and OpenAI is trying to con people via Wall Street, offloading the debt to some gullible fools
- Microsoft's Social Control Media Efforts Cratering (GitHub and LinkedIn)
- Expect more layoffs
- Microsoft Office is a Dying Cash Cow and Now It's Just Dying/Starving
- Most people use Android and they don't need some bloated office suite because many processes involve Web forms
- Links 07/03/2025: Radio’s Death Knells and US Abandoning Ukraine
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 07/03/2025: Replacing Firefox with LibreWolf, Visiting Churches
- Links for the day
- Links 07/03/2025: Oracle Layoffs, HPE Eliminates 3,000 Jobs, Massive Price Hikes at Microsoft, More Surveillance in Microsoft's Stuff
- Links for the day
- Manslaughter: Haverfordwest convictions, Abraham Raji & Debian DebConf drowning
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Open Source Initiative's (OSI) Latest IRS Files: Only 2.9% (2.90046827447%) of Its Income is From Members
- So almost all the money is corporate
- Open Source Initiative (OSI) Reported to the California Privacy Protection Agency (Formal Complaint)
- Time will tell if a Cheeto-controlled California will take this seriously or just brush it aside like a head of state from Ukraine
- Half a Decade Without Social Control Media
- Not all audience is desirable
- IBM Laid Off Almost 2,000 Staff Last Friday and No Western Publication (Newspaper, Web Site) Even Mentioned That
- Only some Asian sites mentioned it
- Under IBM, After Killing OpenSource.com, the Next Casualty May be "Community Blog" of the Fedora Project
- It sounds like they already made the decision/s
- Social Control Media as a Rapid Race to the Bottom - Part IV - Physical Health, Mental Health, and Debilitating Anxiety
- One is better off feeding stray pigeons (rather than scrolling and clicking on "timelines" like a dumb pigeon)
- Links 07/03/2025: WSL Breakage (as Usual), Abandoning WordPress for Hugo
- Links for the day
- LLM Slop Versus Richard Stallman
- "Compilation Of Corruption: Jeffrey Epstein And The Halls Of Academia"
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 06, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, March 06, 2025
- Microsoft Laid Off Several Thousands of Workers (Not Counting Those Driven Out) in 3+ Waves of Layoffs in 2 Months in 2025
- About a thousand workers laid off per month
- Microsoft Reduced to Almost Nothing in the Congos
- Even worse for Microsoft in DRC (Democratic Republic Of The Congo)
- Rumour: After FSF Abandons Office in Boston LibrePlanet Will Also Leave Boston
- In the past, Libreplanet (or LibrePlanet) was 'branched' out of MIT to "lesser" universities in the same city
- Why We No Longer Hear About "Red Hat Layoffs"
- Sometimes they don't call them "layoffs" are all; it's just PIPs, RTO, and "relocation" offers. They try to compel people to resign/retire
- Reputation is Not a Human Right, It's Something One Earns
- One can also lose one's reputation for harming women
- linuxsecurity.com is 100% Slopfarm, Nonstop Fake 'Articles' About Security and "Linux"
- More than one fake 'author' participates in this, so it deserves condemnation
- FreeBSD Foundation is Trying to Improve "Laptop Support", But It Has Outsourced Everything to Microsoft Proprietary Software
- Despite many valid alternatives existing and fast maturing
- Links 06/03/2025: Discord Wants the Public to Pay for Losses, MongoDB Shares Collapse
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 06/03/2025: Remaking Sites, Gemini Capsule Turns 5
- Links for the day
- Links 06/03/2025: Trade Wars, Trademarks, Attacks on (and by) the Media, Digg to Relaunch
- Links for the day
- Social Control Media as a Rapid Race to the Bottom - Part III - Foreign Interference and Chaff/Flare
- Why would you trust alleged 'communication' (platforms) controlled by the same people who cut your undersea cables?
- The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): The Problems Are Much Bigger Than the Rigged Elections
- It's not only about elections
- Dr. Andy Farnell on Brutality and (or of) Brute-Force Computing
- "Understandably, the ecological cost of compute was never really on the minds of pure computer scientists"
- IBM Absorbs More of Red Hat and There Are Several Layoff Rumours
- Those are just rumours for now
- [Video] Richard Stallman Explains What Intelligence in Computing Really Means and How Old That Is (Story About 1975, 50 Years Ago)
- Uploaded 11 hours ago by Manuel Cuda News
- Gemini Links 06/03/2025: Digg, Project Failure, and More
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, March 05, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, March 05, 2025
