Chronological Index, Page 129

2026-02-23 ^03:39 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 22, 2026
2026-02-23 ^03:40 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-02-23 ^03:52 First speech of Chanellor Hitler, Andreas Tille & Debian denounce Branden Robinson
2026-02-23 ^04:48 Reasons to Go on Strike in the European Patent Office (EPO)
2026-02-23 ^05:05 IBM Has Already Admitted 2026 Mass Layoffs (in 4Q Earnings Call)
2026-02-23 ^05:11 “Power is a Thing of Perception. They Don't Need to be Able to Kill You. They Just Need You to Think They are Able to Kill You” ― Julian Assange
2026-02-23 ^05:28 Gemini Links 23/02/2026: Imperfect Journal, Evil, and "Progress Goes Boing!"
2026-02-23 ^05:41 In Greenland, Firefox's Gecko and KHTML (KDE, But Bastardised by Apple) Bigger Than Chrome
2026-02-23 ^05:53 Linux Kernel 7.0 Release Candidate Comes Out, Stallman Turns 73 in Three Weeks
2026-02-23 ^06:18 The Demise of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and Profession Based Around Bullying With SLAPPs and Empty Threats
2026-02-23 ^06:25 Dr. Andy Farnell Explains Why the Slop Industry is Like Trespassers and Thieves
2026-02-23 ^06:38 Free Software (or Software Freedom) Ain't No Religion
2026-02-23 ^07:02 Germans Recognise the Contagion is Digital, Not Racial
2026-02-23 ^07:34 Based on Insider Leaks, Asha Sharma's Job is to Kill XBox While Talking About "AI"
2026-02-23 ^07:50 GAFAM Jobs No Longer Lucrative
2026-02-23 ^08:05 Links 23/02/2026: US Surrenders to Climate Change (to Benefit Oil Companies and Slop), UK Court of Appeal to Hear Mazur
2026-02-23 ^08:10 EPO Strike Has Begun (or Resumed)
2026-02-23 ^08:25 Free Software Projects Become Slow Due to Slop
2026-02-23 ^08:38 Microsoft Tricked the Media Into Lying About Microsoft Layoffs in January. Now It Does the Same (in February).
2026-02-23 ^08:45 IRC Usage Levels Seem to be Rebounding This Year
2026-02-23 ^09:29 Links 23/02/2026: "What Boston Will Cost Me" and Women as Hostages
2026-02-23 ^13:40 EPO Staff Union: The Strike Actions and Other Industrial Actions "Have Already Delivered Measurable Gains."
2026-02-23 ^13:59 There is No Such Thing as "AI Skills", "AI Competency", "AI Fluency" Etc.
2026-02-23 ^14:19 Quitting Reddit (Social Control Media Controlled by Conde Nast)
2026-02-23 ^14:56 Slop (So-called 'genAI') is Not a Skill, Slop Gets You Suspended or Even Sacked, It Can Eventually End Your Career
2026-02-23 ^15:35 Coders and Thinkers
2026-02-23 ^15:50 Techrights Thanks Every Single EPO Worker Who Went on Strike Today
2026-02-23 ^16:12 Valnet's Good Legacy of GNU/Linux Advocacy in Journalism Form
2026-02-23 ^16:27 Aaron Swartz Has Already Explained What Reddit/Conde Nast Meant to Him and Why We Should All Avoid Reddit If We Value Software Freedom
2026-02-23 ^17:12 Security and blobs, by Alex Oliva (GNU Linux-Libre)
2026-02-23 ^17:22 Trusting the Evil Maids
2026-02-23 ^18:58 Kyndryl Fell by About 50% in One Day, IBM Fell 23% in 20 Days
2026-02-23 ^19:28 Gemini Links 23/02/2026: Moving to Gentoo, Wake-on-LAN Script
2026-02-23 ^19:30 Links 23/02/2026: Withdrawal From Slop and Ukraine Invasion Enters Fifth Year
2026-02-23 ^19:38 IBM Common Stock Crashes Hard (Almost $100 Below the Levels of February's Beginning)
2026-02-23 ^19:50 Not Much Left to "Pump" in This Slop Bubble
2026-02-23 ^20:09 Kyndryl Also in a Freefall Today, James Kavanaugh's Accounting Skills Seem to be Based on Pumping and Dumping
2026-02-23 ^20:29 The Monday After the 9PM-on-Friday Prepared Puff Pieces-Under-Embargo Microsoft Strategy for XBox Collapse
2026-02-23 ^20:37 Probably IBM's Worst Day in Wall Street in Well Over a Decade
2026-02-24 ^05:25 IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 23, 2026
2026-02-24 ^05:26 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-02-24 ^05:40 Links 24/02/2026: Telephone Turns 150, Political News Catchup, and Rearmament
2026-02-24 ^05:52 Asha Sharma "a Palliative Care Doctor Who Slides Xbox Gently Into the Night"
2026-02-24 ^06:06 Gemini Links 24/02/2026: Voltage Divider on Slide Rule and Many Raspberry Pi Projects
2026-02-24 ^06:28 Free Software is for Everyone
2026-02-24 ^06:55 IBM is the World Champion at Layoffs and There Are Reportedly More Layoffs in IBM This Month (EU)
2026-02-24 ^09:02 Gemini Links 24/02/2026: Hardware Tinkering and Slop Bots Attacking the "Small Web"
2026-02-24 ^09:22 EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part IV - "Many Jobs Were Given to Spanish Employees for No Related Skills At All"
2026-02-24 ^10:08 Another New Low for Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA): Authorising Slop Disguised as "Legal Advice"
2026-02-24 ^10:25 Links 24/02/2026: Copyright Litigation Over Anne Frank’s Diary, "Arrogance of Developers"
2026-02-24 ^10:41 IBM Did Not Fall Because of COBOL Vapourware, IBM Still Collapses Because It's Worthless, Way Overvalued, and Very Likely Cooks the Books
2026-02-24 ^11:16 "Half-baked Vibe Code Shipped Full of Errors"
2026-02-24 ^11:27 Slop Boosters and 'Hype Agents' Render Themselves Irrelevant and the General Public Becomes Incredulous Due to "Bros Who Cry Wolf!"
2026-02-24 ^12:32 Bitcoin: Code of Conduct stifled open source concerns
2026-02-24 ^15:20 2023: Layoffs Are Because of "AI". 2024: Shares Up Owing to "AI". 2025: Shares Recently Fell Due to "AI". 2026 Forbes (Paid by IBM): Shares Falling is Good!
2026-02-24 ^16:35 Links 24/02/2026: Drug Cartel Decapitated, Jeffrey Epstein-Connected 'Linux' Foundation Promotes Slop and Buzzwords at MWC Barcelona 2026
2026-02-24 ^17:09 Liberating the Self From the Invisible Prison of Plutocrats-Controlled Media and Social Control Media
2026-02-24 ^17:32 EPO Strike Actions and Other Industrial Actions Are Effective When Management Fears the Staff and Staff No Longer Fears Any Managers
2026-02-24 ^18:01 Religious or Not, Consider Quitting Social Control Networks (All of Them) This Season
2026-02-24 ^18:20 Combatting Censorship in the "Civilised World": The Media Blackout Surrounding EPO Strikes and Other Large-Scale Actions
2026-02-24 ^18:45 France Needs to Focus on Software Freedom, Not Flags
2026-02-24 ^19:24 Can Much Longer Can the Financial 'Press' (Pump-n-Dump Megaphone) Cheer for IBM's Accounting Enigma?
2026-02-24 ^19:34 Father of XBox Says What Microsoft Does Not Want to Hear About XBox (They All Know It's Dead)
2026-02-24 ^19:47 Balmoral rape cult & Debian suicide cluster indifference, community
2026-02-24 ^20:22 Championing a Cause
2026-02-24 ^20:30 Life is Sweeter When Less Means More
2026-02-24 ^20:46 Envy is the #1 Enemy of Richard Stallman
2026-02-24 ^20:52 Gemini Links 24/02/2026: x86 Computer In-Browser and Administration
2026-02-24 ^21:50 HR Blunder at IBM or IBM Struggling With Money?
2026-02-25 ^04:38 Gemini Links 25/02/2026: Rise of Solar in 2025 and Smallnet Protocols
2026-02-25 ^04:40 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 24, 2026
2026-02-25 ^04:42 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-02-25 ^05:28 Sunsetting IBM (for the Benefit of Few Corrupt Officials and Wall Street Speculators)
2026-02-25 ^06:11 In Praise of Eben Moglen
2026-02-25 ^06:19 Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Contradicting Itself: You Can Use Slop to Cheat Clients, But You Can Also Face Disciplinary Actions Over Slop
2026-02-25 ^06:41 Nothing Over the Horizon for XBox
2026-02-25 ^06:56 Austria Tackles Digital Weapon Disguised as "Social" and/or "Media"
2026-02-25 ^07:27 When it Comes to Firmware, the FSF and Its Founder RMS Won the Argument (But Not the Fight, Yet)
2026-02-25 ^07:44 3,300 Capsules Known to Lupa and Currently Accessible
2026-02-25 ^07:58 “Xbox, like a lot of businesses that aren’t the core AI business, is being sunsetted."
2026-02-25 ^08:09 Software Freedom is Science, But It Also Sustains Life
2026-02-25 ^08:40 IBM (and Red Hat) Can Disappear in the Coming Years, Along With Kyndryl (Debt Twice as Big as Its 'Worth')
2026-02-25 ^09:41 Links 25/02/2026: 'Hybrid Warfare' and "Boycott the State of the Union"
2026-02-25 ^14:13 IBM Debt-Loading and Liability (Toxic Asset) Offloading
2026-02-25 ^15:20 Australian Signals Directorate ex-employee sold back doors to Russia
2026-02-25 ^15:39 Stallman Was Right About Back Doors
2026-02-25 ^16:44 Mozzarella Company: All Our Cheese Comes With Mold Now, But You Can Ask the Seller to Remove the Mold
2026-02-25 ^17:12 They Try to Ruin Linux, Too ("Attestation" in GNU/Linux)
2026-02-25 ^17:25 The Register MS Published a Ponzi Scheme-Boosting Fake Article This Morning. It Mentions "AI" 30 Times.
2026-02-25 ^19:17 Gemini Links 25/02/2026: Retired a Year, Illness, Losing a Lung, and "Back to Gemini"
2026-02-25 ^19:20 Links 25/02/2026: Fifth Year of War in Ukraine, Dihydroxyacetone Man Looking to Start More Wars
2026-02-25 ^19:32 A Lot of Slopfarms Died, Google News Feeds the Few Which Survived and Still Target "Linux"
2026-02-25 ^19:41 What Microsoft Hides Underneath
2026-02-26 ^04:29 FSF's Alex Oliva on Hardware Black Boxes
2026-02-26 ^04:33 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 25, 2026
2026-02-26 ^04:34 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-02-26 ^04:54 Fraud and Crimes at Microsoft
2026-02-26 ^05:06 Alex Oliva (GNU Linux-Libre): Stricter is Less Popular
2026-02-26 ^05:13 Two Weeks Have Passed and It Looks Like Conde Nast's Ars Sloppica Sacked "Senior" "AI" "Reporter" Benj Edwards But Did Not Remove All His LLM-Produced 'Articles'
2026-02-26 ^05:52 Microsoft Slop is Already Killing XBox
2026-02-26 ^05:57 Talking About Blackboxes
2026-02-26 ^06:24 Of Course Android is Not Free Software
2026-02-26 ^06:40 Where Does the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Stand on Machine-Generated Legal Documents and Copy-pasting One Client's Lawsuit to Start Another (for American Serial Strangler)?
2026-02-26 ^06:55 March Plans for Techrights
2026-02-26 ^07:16 LLM Slop Will Try to 'Rewrite' History of UNIX and GNU/Linux
2026-02-26 ^07:33 Giving to the Community Versus Taking From the Community (or Worse, Attacking the Community)
2026-02-26 ^07:38 Writer's Block is Not a Problem to Us, Only a Lack of Time
2026-02-26 ^08:17 Richard Stallman (Free Software Foundation) and Eben Moglen (Columbia Law School) Explained 25 Years Ago That Proprietary Software (and Proprietary Firmware) Would Lead to Back Doors
2026-02-26 ^08:32 "Community" Site Deleted by Jeffrey Epstein-Connected 'Linux' Foundation Had Interview Where Eben Moglen Spoke of GPLv3 and of DRM, Back Doors Etc.
2026-02-26 ^09:27 If You Value Privacy, Follow the Likes of Eben Moglen, Phil Zimmermann, and Richard Stallman, Not Back Doors' Boosters Who Mislabel Themselves as Security Experts
2026-02-26 ^10:16 Links 26/02/2026: "Peak Mental Sharpness" and "The Whole Economy Pays the Amazon Tax"
2026-02-26 ^20:21 Links 26/02/2026: Bcachefs Man Bonkers, "Seven Journalists Convicted for Taking Photos at Courtroom"
2026-02-26 ^20:32 Gemini Links 26/02/2026: Sending a Thesis and Lupa/Onion ("Lupa now lists Gemini .onion addresses")
2026-02-26 ^20:48 Another Quiet Slop Day Passes By
2026-02-26 ^21:00 [Video] "New RMS [Richard Stallman] Positive Media" Reaches Millions of Viewers This Week
2026-02-27 ^04:51 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, February 26, 2026
2026-02-27 ^04:52 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-02-27 ^04:57 Priceless leaks found in crowdfunding campaign
2026-02-27 ^05:03 Almost 5,000 Known Gemini Capsules
2026-02-27 ^05:28 Truth Versus Fiction: IBM's Collapse Due to Money Crunch, Not Slop Disguised as Code
2026-02-27 ^05:41 Rust Will Not Inherit the Earth, It Barely Deserves a Place on the Planet
2026-02-27 ^05:52 Microsoft XBox Can't Stop Talking About Slop
2026-02-27 ^05:58 If You Want More Verifiable (Auditable) Security, Use GNU Linux-Libre
2026-02-27 ^06:30 Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) on Slop and Breach of Confidentiality
2026-02-27 ^06:58 Apple Doesn't Want Anybody to Ask What Happened to Vision Pro
2026-02-27 ^07:26 Open Source Endowment (OSE) Looking to Raise Money for Free Software, But It's Hard to Know who Runs the Open Source Endowment Foundation
2026-02-27 ^07:43 Greenland Needs to Disconnect From United States Tech to Protect Its Independence
2026-02-27 ^07:58 Techrights is 100% Disconnected From Cheeto's America, the Problem is Hired Guns in London Helping Violent Americans Attack Us Domestically
2026-02-27 ^08:26 The Sister Site is Still Improving the Static Site Generator (SSG) We Use in Techrights
2026-02-27 ^08:31 The GNU Manifesto Turns 41 in March (Next Week)
2026-02-27 ^08:42 Jim Zemlin's 'Linux' Foundation is the Real Link Between Linux and Pedophilia
2026-02-27 ^09:16 EPO Management Trying to Hide Cocainegate, Silence/Discredit Whistleblowers, and Probably in a Panic Due to the Strikes
2026-02-27 ^09:37 pulltheplug.uk Says the Internet Harms Us, Will March in London Tomorrow
2026-02-27 ^11:08 Like a Mafia: Kris De Neef and Nellie Simon, Who Help Campinos Cover Up Cocainegate at the EPO (Substance Abuse at the Highest Office), Are Bullying EPO Whistleblowers
2026-02-27 ^11:33 Please Report the European Patent Office (EPO) to Europol for Cocaine Abuse and Tampering With Witnesses and Media to Hide This Cocaine Abuse
2026-02-27 ^13:42 Links 27/02/2026: Slop Incompatible With Nuclear Codes, Chinese Slop "Chatbots Censor Themselves"
2026-02-27 ^15:10 It Looks Like Linux Chief Linus Torvalds Made a Good Call Regarding Kent 'Slop' Overstreet
2026-02-27 ^15:51 Gemini Links 27/02/2026: Unlearning Literacy (Slop) and Firefox as Slop-ware
2026-02-27 ^16:24 IBM CEO and CFO Make It Hotter in the Kitchen
2026-02-27 ^20:14 Links 27/02/2026: Block Cuts 40% of Its Workforce While Blaming Ponzi Scheme, Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros.
2026-02-28 ^05:25 IRC Proceedings: Friday, February 27, 2026
2026-02-28 ^05:26 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-02-28 ^05:32 Microsoft Mass Layoffs Have Officially Resumed, Microsoft's Waggener Edstrom/Frank Shaw Lied
2026-02-28 ^05:41 March in London Today Against Slop's Harms to Society (and the Environment), Starting at 12:00 GMT at the Microsoft OpenAI Office
2026-02-28 ^06:01 The Slopfarms' Business Case (or Business Model) Never Existed and Nowadays, in 2026, They've Mostly Collapsed
2026-02-28 ^06:20 Tech Layoffs Are Not Because of Slop, They're an Effect of a Rotting Economy and Tech Giants Being Too Deep in Debt
2026-02-28 ^06:55 IBM: Where Companies Come to Perish
2026-02-28 ^08:30 Links 28/02/2026: Bill Epsteingate Admits Sex With Young Girls, "Epstein Files Are the Horror That Keeps on Giving"
2026-02-28 ^14:50 When an Entire News Site is About One Topic (and One Topic Only)
2026-02-28 ^15:13 Cult inquiry: Parliament of Victoria, last chance to have your say
2026-02-28 ^17:04 Links 28/02/2026: "Tehran’s Two-Tiered Internet", "Internet Under Fire"
2026-02-28 ^17:11 Dr. Andy Farnell: Time to Pull the Plug?
2026-02-28 ^17:29 Slopfarms' Demise Looks Like the Beginning of the End (Lowered Demand for Slop)
2026-02-28 ^17:42 The Register MS Standards: Promote a Ponzi Scheme in Exchange of Money
2026-02-28 ^17:51 Still Lots of IBM Departures
2026-02-28 ^18:05 Richard Stallman, Founder of the Free Software Movement, Will be Giving Public Talk in Bern (Switzerland) in Less Than 12 Days
2026-02-28 ^18:25 Teaser: The Next Series About the SRA, Which Would be Just as Effective as It Is Right Now If It Had Zero Employees
2026-02-28 ^19:00 Keeping Techrights Online 99.99% of the Time
2026-02-28 ^19:39 Over 10,000 Pages/Articles Per Year?
2026-02-28 ^19:52 Why We Are Concerned About the SRA's Failure and What That Means to the Profession of Lawyers in the UK
2026-02-28 ^20:00 Two EPO Strikes in March (Maybe More)
2026-02-28 ^20:23 Gemini Links 28/02/2026: Loadbars 0.13.0, IME (Input Method Editor), and ColorColumn in Vim
2026-02-28 ^20:29 Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Turns 37.5
2026-02-28 ^20:54 Slop is Distraction
2026-03-01 ^04:13 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, February 28, 2026
2026-03-01 ^04:14 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-03-01 ^04:53 The term FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) was created to describe IBM's tactics and IBM is doing it again
2026-03-01 ^05:04 ACM Lowers Its Standards for Age of Autocracy
2026-03-01 ^05:11 Gemini Links 01/03/2026: "In the Spirit of OFFLFIRSOCH" and "Delete Patreon"
2026-03-01 ^05:20 Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Inaction and Incompetence - Part I - Introduction
2026-03-01 ^05:41 Now That XBox is Pretty Much Dead and There Are Mass Layoffs at Microsoft
2026-03-01 ^05:59 Live Simply, Live Better
2026-03-01 ^12:58 Links 01/03/2026: American Plutocrats Buy American Media While American Constitution Shredded
2026-03-01 ^13:47 Lots of Lies From the Slop Industry
2026-03-01 ^14:34 'FSFE' an Imposter in Europe, Paid by GAFAM to Represent GAFAM Interests
2026-03-01 ^14:47 On Who 'Speaks for' Techrights
2026-03-01 ^15:13 Richard Stallman to Give at Least Three Talks in Switzerland, Starting This Week
2026-03-01 ^15:30 The Mass Layoffs at Microsoft That Nobody in the "News Industry" Wants to Talk About (and TheLayoff.com Censored, Then It Censored the Evidence of the Censorship)
2026-03-01 ^15:59 On the Concept of "Protected Class" (or Race) at IBM
2026-03-01 ^16:49 Booz Allen Hamilton, the Former Employer of Edward Snowden (NSA Contractor), is Drowning in Debt
2026-03-01 ^17:09 EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part V - Jobs at the EPO for Those Connected to Cocaine Addicts (Skills Not Required)
2026-03-01 ^17:38 Gemini Links 01/03/2026: Simpler Software and Announcing OFFLFIRSOCH (OFFLine-FIRst SOftware CHallenge) 2026

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