Chronological Index, Page 98

• 2025-07-28 ^02:07 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, July 27, 2025
• 2025-07-28 ^02:08 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-07-28 ^02:48 Hacking revelations at Vatican Jubilee of Digital Missionaries
• 2025-07-28 ^02:55 The Register MS/The Register US
• 2025-07-28 ^03:26 Microsoft Turns News Sites Into Spamfarms
• 2025-07-28 ^03:44 Gemini Links 28/07/2025: Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray and Running pkgsrc in a FreeBSD Jail
• 2025-07-28 ^05:33 Slopfarms Versus 'Linux' (and Against People Who Write Real Articles About GNU/Linux)
• 2025-07-28 ^05:55 LWN Has Been Down for a Long Time, Another Casualty of LLM Bots?
• 2025-07-28 ^06:31 Richard Stallman is Usually Right Because He Thinks "Outside the Box"
• 2025-07-28 ^07:20 Links 28/07/2025: COVID-19 Sped up Brain Aging, "Circumvention is More Popular Than Compliance"
• 2025-07-28 ^18:24 Gemini Links 28/07/2025: Healthy Self-Image With Autism and a "New Life"
• 2025-07-28 ^18:28 Links 28/07/2025: Science, Health, and Conflicts
• 2025-07-28 ^18:34 Nonfree Software in My Bank, by Richard Stallman
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• 2025-07-29 ^02:14 IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 28, 2025
• 2025-07-29 ^02:15 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-07-29 ^02:33 LWN Downtime Due to Linode, Not LLM Bots
• 2025-07-29 ^02:48 Microsoft Behaving Like It's Running Out of Money to Pay Salaries
• 2025-07-29 ^02:59 Expect More Microsoft Layoffs
• 2025-07-29 ^03:20 Linuxiac is Not a Slopfarm, But at Least Some of Its Articles Are Machine-Generated Fakes
• 2025-07-29 ^03:33 This Monday WebProNews Absolutely Flooded the Web With Fake (LLM Slop) 'Articles' About "Linux", Google News Promoted Them as Legitimate
• 2025-07-29 ^06:26 Gemini Links 29/07/2025: Purple Yarrow and Understanding Op Amps
• 2025-07-29 ^06:27 Links 29/07/2025: More Pushbacks Against Slop and More Praises of Tom Lehrer
• 2025-07-29 ^06:46 Another Failed Use Case for Chatbots (LLM): Legal Advice and Analysis
• 2025-07-29 ^07:11 Yes, Microsoft is the Problem
• 2025-07-29 ^07:36 It's About the Cost of Workers, Not the Fictional Skills Shortage (That Does Not Exist, the Media Spreads False and Sometimes Self-Fulfilling Narratives)
• 2025-07-29 ^08:04 They Try to Tell Us the Free Software Foundation Inc is Dying, But Its Revenue Doubled Since the Dot-Com Bubble Burst
• 2025-07-29 ^08:13 We Cover Topics Other Sites Are Too Afraid to Cover (Even When They Know the Facts)
• 2025-07-29 ^09:04 Cash Machines (ATMs) Make Mistakes and They're Proprietary Software
• 2025-07-29 ^09:20 Someone Should Remind Microsoft Lunduke That Microsoft Hires Many Sexual Criminals and Pedophiles as Well
• 2025-07-29 ^11:39 Slopwatch: Linuxconfig.org, Linuxsecurity.com, Fagioli, The Register
• 2025-07-29 ^11:57 Links 29/07/2025: Data Brokers Gone Wrong/Rogue and "Copyright Thicket"
• 2025-07-29 ^15:50 Links 29/07/2025: Bad Climate and "Fair Software Licensing" Blasts Microsoft
• 2025-07-29 ^16:32 Bribery is OK If You Work for Microsoft (No Punishment Expected)
• 2025-07-29 ^16:58 "Four decades; Four freedoms; For all users" Now as a T-shirt
• 2025-07-29 ^17:21 The OSI Has Been Silent for Over 3 Weeks, It Has a Severe Trust Issue After Promoting Microsoft and Proprietary GitHub
• 2025-07-29 ^17:40 Nailing the "Hey Hi" (AI) Hype Bubble
• 2025-07-29 ^18:15 Before the OSI Was Bribed and Hijacked by Microsoft via GitHub and Compromised Management...
• 2025-07-29 ^18:48 Gemini Links 29/07/2025: Wayland Unfit for Use and LLM Slop Faking One's Language Skills With Robot Communications
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• 2025-07-30 ^00:57 Slopwatch: Fake 'Linux' 'Articles' and Spamfarms/Slopfarms
• 2025-07-30 ^01:08 Local Staff Committee Munich (LSCMN) at the European Patent Office (EPO) Requests an Urgent Meeting to Avoid Abolishing the Office
• 2025-07-30 ^01:38 Corruption is the Standard Operating Procedure at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• 2025-07-30 ^01:50 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 29, 2025
• 2025-07-30 ^01:52 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-07-30 ^02:07 Microsoft Rapidly Shrinking (No, It's Not About Efficiency, It's About Unbearable Debt)
• 2025-07-30 ^02:26 GAFAM 'Revolving Doors' at The Register and a "Bribe Price List"
• 2025-07-30 ^02:50 Microsoft Will Continue Resorting to Crimes in Order to Keep GNU/Linux Usage Down
• 2025-07-30 ^02:57 Gemini Links 30/07/2025: Two Sides of Me and "Hooked on Cosmic Voyage"
• 2025-07-30 ^03:11 PCLinuxOS Had Functional Backups Before the House Fire, the Site Will be Restored in New Webhost
• 2025-07-30 ^03:39 Google 'Search' is Fast Becoming No Better Than Social Control Media Infested With Bots
• 2025-07-30 ^04:10 Not Owning Mobile Phones
• 2025-07-30 ^04:45 Dealing With Sociopaths, Liars, and Cranks
• 2025-07-30 ^05:29 The Register Relays Microsoft Marketing, Dubs That Marketing "Research"
• 2025-07-30 ^05:50 "The Unix Kernel"
• 2025-07-30 ^06:36 Last Month Our IRC Community Turned 17
• 2025-07-30 ^08:23 Links 30/07/2025: Tea Class Action and Google Killing the Web With Slop
• 2025-07-30 ^08:41 Some People See What Others See... But Only 40 Years Later
• 2025-07-30 ^17:37 Riot for peace & Love: Catholic Influencers and Digital Missionaries welcome Jubilee of Youth
• 2025-07-30 ^19:05 Gemini Links 30/07/2025: Watson’s List of Limits, Lysenko 2000
• 2025-07-30 ^19:08 Links 30/07/2025: Climate Calamities Highlighted, Kyrgyzstan Crackdown on Expression/Freedoms
• 2025-07-30 ^19:32 Slopwatch: Google News is Pumping in Lots of Web Traffic Into Fake Sites That Say "Linux"
• 2025-07-30 ^19:53 Slopwatch Makes the Web Better
• 2025-07-30 ^20:32 My Experience With Judges Has been Positive, But We Must Still Pursue SLAPP Reform in the United Kingdom
• 2025-07-30 ^20:56 Wayland Considered Harmful (to GNU/Linux Adoption)
• 2025-07-30 ^21:12 Wall Street Does Not Care About Microsoft's Impending (August) Layoffs, It Believes Lies From Microsoft, Whose Debt Grows Rapidly
• 2025-07-30 ^21:28 How to Report Apple Layoffs Without Saying the "L" Word
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• 2025-07-31 ^02:52 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 30, 2025
• 2025-07-31 ^02:53 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-07-31 ^03:16 Google: From Pointing to Relevant Sites to Pointing to Social Control Media to Actually Parroting Social Control Media as "Facts"
• 2025-07-31 ^04:21 An Illusion and Cult Worship of Magnitude (Ubiquity as "Victory")
• 2025-07-31 ^06:11 Gemini Links 31/07/2025: Fake Money and Gemini Diaries
• 2025-07-31 ^06:12 Links 31/07/2025: War in Ukraine, Security News, and Cyberattacks Against Journalists on the Rise
• 2025-07-31 ^06:29 Yes, You Can Love and Adore Things Whilst Also Criticising Them
• 2025-07-31 ^07:30 theregister.com: The Voice of Microsoft US?
• 2025-07-31 ^07:50 A Lot of Supposedly "Successful" Businesses Are Just Debt-Racking Vessels Without Any Prospects of Financial Sustainability
• 2025-07-31 ^10:24 Links 31/07/2025: Spotify Collapses and Spotify Now Forcing Some Users to Undergo Face-Scanning
• 2025-07-31 ^15:53 Links 31/07/2025: Australia Restricts YouTube Access, Personal Privacy at Risk
• 2025-07-31 ^16:02 Slopwatch: Google News Has Lost the Plot
• 2025-07-31 ^17:39 Moving on in Techrights, Geeks Gonna Geek
• 2025-07-31 ^18:03 Sabotaging Linux on Behalf of Microsoft With UEFI 'Secure' Boot (De Facto Remote 'Kill Switch'), Then Defaming, Stalking and Harassing Critics of 'Secure' Boot for 12 Years, Then SLAPPing Their Spouses and Them
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• 2025-08-01 ^01:59 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 31, 2025
• 2025-08-01 ^02:00 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-08-01 ^02:02 Gemini Links 01/08/2025: Happy Hacking Keyboards and New Gemini Arrivals
• 2025-08-01 ^02:54 Being Obedient or Doing the Right Thing
• 2025-08-01 ^03:21 The Data You Don't Give Away is Your Advantage
• 2025-08-01 ^03:54 As Expected, Google in the UK Now Experiments With Slop Instead of Web Search
• 2025-08-01 ^04:13 Google as a 'Bullshit Generator' Disguised as Intelligence
• 2025-08-01 ^05:20 Microsoft is Googlebombing "Linux" While Paying Former News Sites to Publish SPAM
• 2025-08-01 ^05:30 Financial Engineering Companies: A Company Worth 4 Trillion Dollars Would Not Borrow 100+ Billion Dollars at Interest Rates Like Today's
• 2025-08-01 ^05:44 History Will Be Distorted, Sometimes Intentionally, Under the Guise of Intelligence (Manipulated/Curated Slop)
• 2025-08-01 ^06:06 What "the News" Looks Like in 2025
• 2025-08-01 ^06:31 Stability and Reliability, Backward Compatibility
• 2025-08-01 ^07:39 LLMs as Attack Method Against Free Software and Programming
• 2025-08-01 ^08:00 For Second Day in a Row, Top Story in The Register MS is "Microsoft Says"
• 2025-08-01 ^12:28 Links 01/08/2025: "The Great British Firewall" and U.S. Army Sponsors Palantir
• 2025-08-01 ^13:00 Meeting (Webchat) With Maria Arranz Gomez, Florian Grundies, Jürgen Janda and Konstantinos Kortsaris Confronts EPO Management About Breaking Promises and Crushing Workers
• 2025-08-01 ^17:07 Microsoft's Debt Exploded by 15.4 Billion Dollars in the Past 9 Months Alone (Despite All the Layoffs)
• 2025-08-01 ^17:38 Links 01/08/2025: Health, Conflict, and Attacks on Freedom of the Press
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• 2025-08-02 ^00:49 Gemini Links 02/08/2025: ZFS, LLM Hype, and Fake Modules
• 2025-08-02 ^01:55 Links 02/08/2025: İstanbul Retail Inflation Reaches 42.48%, US FBI Opens Office in New Zealand
• 2025-08-02 ^01:58 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-08-02 ^02:00 IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 01, 2025
• 2025-08-02 ^02:16 Microsoft Actually in Trouble, Microsofters Unable to Obey Judges' Orders
• 2025-08-02 ^02:26 Slopwatch: The Issue Persists, But the Consensus in the Media Changes as Google Enrages It With LLM Plagiarism
• 2025-08-02 ^03:00 Upcoming OSI Scandal Series
• 2025-08-02 ^03:33 LLM Slop Harms Real Literature, Real Web Sites, Real Journalism
• 2025-08-02 ^04:07 When (Almost) One-Man Operations Are Disguised as Medium-Sized Companies
• 2025-08-02 ^04:22 Free Software is Not a Business Model
• 2025-08-02 ^08:31 Links 02/08/2025: Blaugust 2025 and "Russia Declares Navalny Memoir ‘Extremist’"
• 2025-08-02 ^10:34 All-Time Highs for GNU/Linux on the Client Desktop/Laptop, Based on Steam Survey
• 2025-08-02 ^10:51 GNU/Linux Rises to All-Time Highs in Europe
• 2025-08-02 ^11:07 Criminal Behaviour is the Standard Operating Procedure at Microsoft
• 2025-08-02 ^11:24 Weeks After Microsoft Shut Down Its Operations in Pakistan Windows Falls to All-Time Lows
• 2025-08-02 ^11:30 The Register US = The Register MS
• 2025-08-02 ^11:42 Microsoft's Latest Financial Report: We "Gained" 300 Million Dollars in "Goodwill" and Liabilities Grew by 32 Billion Dollars
• 2025-08-02 ^12:11 Video: The Rise of GNU/Linux and Free Software as Seen by RMS in 2004
• 2025-08-02 ^12:39 Russia: GNU/Linux Rises to Highest Adoption Level Since Invasion of Ukraine
• 2025-08-02 ^16:09 Links 02/08/2025: Microsoft Already Kills Vista 11 SE, Smartphone Sales Down, Truth Gets "You're Fired!" in the US
• 2025-08-02 ^16:30 Gemini Links 02/08/2025: Transducers in Typed Racket and American ISPs
• 2025-08-02 ^16:39 Canada: GNU/Linux Up to Records Highs, Windows Down to Record Lows
• 2025-08-02 ^16:44 Russia's Yandex Has Caught Up With Bing in Terms of "Market Share"
• 2025-08-02 ^16:51 The Bots Never Sleep: In The Weekends, Slopfarms Dominate Google News, Majority of Entries in Google Are Fake Articles About 'Linux'
• 2025-08-02 ^17:11 The End of Microsoft's Reign in Spain: Windows Falls to All-Time Lows in Spanish Web Traffic
• 2025-08-02 ^17:34 GNU/Linux is Thriving This Summer
• 2025-08-02 ^17:45 Gemini Protocol is Not Dying, It's Growing
• 2025-08-02 ^17:54 GNU/Linux Hits Record High in Portugal
• 2025-08-02 ^18:17 GNU/Linux Share in Sweden Has Doubled Since PewDiePie, A Swede, Recommended It
• 2025-08-02 ^19:00 Microsoft Windows "Market Share" Measured Around 2.7% in Iraq, Plunges to 6.5% in Saudi Arabia
• 2025-08-02 ^19:29 Operating Systems' Statistics in New Zealand: GNU/Linux Up, Windows Down to All-Time Lows
• 2025-08-02 ^19:41 Next Month 'New Techrights' Turns Two
• 2025-08-02 ^20:03 Google Throwing Out the Search Engine With the Bathwater is a Complete and Utter 'Shi---ow' as the Company Drowns in Debt, Layoffs, and Worse
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• 2025-08-03 ^01:59 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 02, 2025
• 2025-08-03 ^02:00 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-08-03 ^02:54 Gemini Links 03/08/2025: Nostalgia and TOFU
• 2025-08-03 ^03:12 Slop Will Not Change the World
• 2025-08-03 ^03:30 GNU/Linux Adoption Reaches All-Time Highs in Chile, statCounter Indicates
• 2025-08-03 ^03:51 It's Even Worse Than Microsoft Lunduke Puts It; GNOME is SLAPPing Journalists
• 2025-08-03 ^04:09 Microsoft Borrows 3 Billion Dollars Per Month, a Company Truly Worth Trillions Would Not Do This
• 2025-08-03 ^04:24 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a Billionaires' Lobby
• 2025-08-03 ^04:52 Online Safety Act Tries to Accomplish the Impossible
• 2025-08-03 ^05:40 Definitely Not a Ponzi Scheme
• 2025-08-03 ^11:39 Links 03/08/2025: Microsoft Exchange 0-day Exploited and Avoidable Nuclear Escalation
• 2025-08-03 ^12:43 Brittany Day Entered LLM Slop Into LinuxSecurity.com and Something Hilarious Happened: The Site is "Exploited"
• 2025-08-03 ^15:36 Links 03/08/2025: Political Catch-up, Global Warming, and Hunger
• 2025-08-03 ^15:56 Gemini Links 03/08/2025: Once-a-Decade Couch Shopping and Blessings in Disguise
• 2025-08-03 ^16:24 StopGenAI in the Cyber Show (C|S)
• 2025-08-03 ^17:06 Microsoft Windows Falls to All-Time Lows in Morocco and Algeria
• 2025-08-03 ^17:16 The Defunct Site LinuxConfig Has Published a Fake Article About Richard Stallman Using LLM Slop, Which Stallman Calls "Bullshit Generator"
• 2025-08-03 ^17:23 Efficiency is Good, So Why Won't Governments Cull LLM Companies Using Stronger, Stringent Policies?
• 2025-08-03 ^17:36 Maldives: GNU/Linux at All-Time High, Windows at New Lows
• 2025-08-03 ^17:49 Social Control Media is Out of Style
• 2025-08-03 ^18:10 Doing a Better Job at Labelling Slop Images
• 2025-08-03 ^18:24 What the Free Software Foundation Started Four Decades Ago is Becoming Mainstream
• 2025-08-03 ^18:37 Google's "AI Mode" is a Pathetic Joke Prematurely Introduced in the UK (Like "Bard", Which Sank the Company's Shares)
• 2025-08-03 ^18:48 GNU/Linux Reaches 5% in Oman
• 2025-08-03 ^19:24 In The United Kingdom (UK), Microsoft Search (Bing) Falls to All-Time Low
• 2025-08-03 ^19:47 "Allowing SDL to default to Wayland caused a number of customer issues so keep the default at X11 for now"
• 2025-08-03 ^19:55 They Tell Us That "Cloud Storage" is Safe and Robust to Incidents Like Fires

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