Chronological Index, Page 132

• 2026-03-16 ^02:49 Pirate Praveen Arimbrathodiyil & Debian denouncing volunteers, hiding romances
• 2026-03-16 ^02:55 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-03-16 ^02:55 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 15, 2026
• 2026-03-16 ^03:05 Gemini Links 15/03/2026: "Create Opportunities for Good Things to Happen", DOSbook, and Bitcoin Criticism
• 2026-03-16 ^03:33 EPO Strike This Week
• 2026-03-16 ^05:11 2026 Microsoft Layoff Rumours
• 2026-03-16 ^05:27 EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part VII - Cult Mentality, Mobbing, Nepotism
• 2026-03-16 ^06:11 "Slop-forking" or "Vibe-forking" as the New 'Noble' Plagiarism
• 2026-03-16 ^07:07 Gemini Links 16/03/2026: AB 1043, Lagrange Android Beta 47, and Poetry
• 2026-03-16 ^07:18 The Register MS is Again Femmewashing GAFAM (Which Makes Widows) in Exchange for Money
• 2026-03-16 ^07:46 Debian is Dying for Some of the Same Reasons IBM's Fedora is Rapidly Dying
• 2026-03-16 ^08:48 Links 16/03/2026: Moscow Experiencing Cellphone Internet Outages, "Salman Rushdie Is Tired of Talking About Free Speech"
• 2026-03-16 ^16:29 Gemini Links 16/03/2026: KN95 Skins and CSS Surprises
• 2026-03-16 ^16:33 Links 16/03/2026: Arctic Security and 'Mr. Nobody Against Putin'
• 2026-03-16 ^16:43 Linux Teck (linuxteck.com) and Ubuntu PIT (ubuntupit.com) Are Botspam
• 2026-03-16 ^17:17 Today's Discussions About How IBM Pushes Workers Out
• 2026-03-16 ^18:04 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 14 Out of 200: The Abusive Cases of the Serial Strangler From Microsoft and His Litigation Buddy Garrett Did Cause "Serious Harm"
• 2026-03-16 ^18:51 Several MPs Blast Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) for Inaction and Ineffective Action This Week
• 2026-03-16 ^19:13 At Least Six EPO Strikes Next Month (Yes, Six!)
• 2026-03-16 ^19:45 The European Patent Office (EPO) Illegally Transitioning Into 'Gig' 'Economy' Equivalent (a Shop for Patent Monopolies in Europe)
• 2026-03-16 ^20:00 Someone at Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is Censoring the Birthday Greetings to Richard Stallman
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• 2026-03-17 ^04:08 IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 16, 2026
• 2026-03-17 ^04:09 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-03-17 ^04:33 Social Control Media is Cancel Culture (Companies Like Facebook Also Punish/Ban Accounts for Mentioning "Linux" and Lobby for Anti-Linux Legislation)
• 2026-03-17 ^05:08 Little Community Element Left in CentOS
• 2026-03-17 ^05:24 People Who Attacked Techrights Also Attacked My Mother
• 2026-03-17 ^05:50 The European Patent Office (EPO) Holds a Public Demonstration Tomorrow and It'll be Live-streamed
• 2026-03-17 ^06:13 Credit/Debit Cards Have Long Been Called Plastics, Over Time They're Becoming More Like Pure Plastics
• 2026-03-17 ^06:36 GAFAM Deprecating Old Videos ("Content") by Removing the Support for Their Format for No Good Reason
• 2026-03-17 ^06:45 British Justice Minister Sarah Sackman Blasts Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)
• 2026-03-17 ^08:08 For Third Time in a Week The Register MS Runs Google SPAM That Paints Google as an Ally of Women (Which is False, They're Womanisers)
• 2026-03-17 ^08:39 Links 17/03/2026: American Fentanylware (TikTok) Investors Implicated in Kickbacks, "Big Oil Knew It Was Wrecking Louisiana’s Coast"
• 2026-03-17 ^16:27 Héctor Orón Martínez & Debian shadow candidate pressure on Sruthi Chandran
• 2026-03-17 ^18:07 Gemini Links 17/03/2026: Newcomers and False-Positive 'Slop'
• 2026-03-17 ^18:12 Links 17/03/2026: Microsoft Windows Broken by Samsung, Afghanistan-Pakistan War Escalation
• 2026-03-17 ^18:19 Sophie Brun, Raphael Hertzog & Debian sexual conflicts of interest
• 2026-03-17 ^18:53 The EFF Has a Bug, Fixing This Bug is Likely Not Possible Anymore
• 2026-03-17 ^19:25 LLM Slop With "Linux" in the Domain Names
• 2026-03-17 ^19:40 Updates About Richard Stallman's Free Software Foundation
• 2026-03-17 ^20:06 "Vibe-forking" and Why It'll Ultimately Fail (Hype on Top of Hype)
• 2026-03-17 ^21:44 Instant Bluewashing at Confluent: Mass Layoffs Alleged at IBM
• 2026-03-17 ^22:03 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 14 Out of 200: Men Who Strangle Women (and Worse) Trying to Force Us to Write Public Apologies to These Men
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• 2026-03-18 ^06:03 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 17, 2026
• 2026-03-18 ^06:04 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-03-18 ^06:29 LibreLocal Also Coming to Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, New Zealand, and Spain
• 2026-03-18 ^06:38 Gemini Links 18/03/2026: Brazilian SYN Attacks and BGP
• 2026-03-18 ^07:28 EPO Staff Demonstration Today
• 2026-03-18 ^07:36 A Step Close to Shutting Down the European Patent Office (EPO)
• 2026-03-18 ^08:23 Links 18/03/2026: Commodore's Hedley Davis Dies, Apple Not Good Enough, Cheeto "Floats Treason Charges for Iran War Coverage"
• 2026-03-18 ^11:46 EPO Demonstration Happening Right Now, Later This Week Things Will Only Escalate Further
• 2026-03-18 ^12:03 UPC is Still Illegal and Unconstitutional (Kangaroo Court for Patents, Manned by Corporate Staff), Federal Court of Justice of Germany Receives Belated Complaint About It
• 2026-03-18 ^12:25 Slop Is Plagiarism, Not (Vibe) Coding, and It's Not Automated, It Doesn't Save Money
• 2026-03-18 ^15:00 IBM Thrashing Confluent Upon Arrival, Based on Rumours
• 2026-03-18 ^15:24 What IBM Meant to Red Hat: "Proprietary Bundling, Restricted Source Access"
• 2026-03-18 ^15:45 systemd Increasingly Microsoft Project, Controlled by Microsoft and Slopware
• 2026-03-18 ^16:06 Smug Threat by Garrett to Put My Family and I in Prison Doesn't Prove We Did Anything Wrong, It Only Proves He's Truly Desperate to Stop Further Publications That Embarrass Him
• 2026-03-18 ^16:45 Estimates That IBM to Lay Off Close to 10,000 Workers in 2026 (Not Counting People Pushed Out)
• 2026-03-18 ^17:10 Gemini Links 18/03/2026: Librarians, Phone Anxiety, Growing 'Small' Net, and Slop Versus Software Engineering
• 2026-03-18 ^17:39 Cusdeb Makes New Presentation About Where GNU Hurd (Still a Possible Linux Replacement) Stands in 2026
• 2026-03-18 ^18:16 Slop-Spewing GAFAM LLM That Knows Nothing and Understands Nothing, It's a Stochastic Parrot That Cannot Even Figure Out Tux Machines is a Community That Started in Tennessee 22 Years Ago
• 2026-03-18 ^18:30 New Post Has Just Explained How IBM Gets Robbed by the People Who Fail IBM
• 2026-03-18 ^18:56 Arvind Says... Something Something "Hey Hi" (the State of Today's Media)
• 2026-03-18 ^19:40 IBM Red Hat is Still Promoting Restricted Boot Which Restricts Users' Control Over Their Computers
• 2026-03-18 ^20:49 Links 18/03/2026: "Venture Capitalist Warns That It’s All About to Come Crashing Down" Due to Slop Bubble, "Birdwatching for Fun and no Profit"
• 2026-03-18 ^20:56 A Slopfarms Survey for Today (linuxteck.com, linuxsecurity.com, linuxjournal.com)
• 2026-03-18 ^22:08 SLAPP Censorship - Part 15 Out of 200: Background and Particulars of Truth Regarding Techrights and Tux Machines
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• 2026-03-19 ^06:03 Links 19/03/2026: LLM Fatigue (It Doesn't Work as Advertised), "Small Web Feeds"
• 2026-03-19 ^06:04 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, March 18, 2026
• 2026-03-19 ^06:19 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-03-19 ^06:54 IBM Effect at Confluent: Mass Layoffs and IBM's Business Conduct Guidelines (BCGs) Said to be Violated
• 2026-03-19 ^07:27 In Confluent Layoffs, IBM Vapourises a Quarter of Its Workforce (IBM Buys Something That It Destroys Already)
• 2026-03-19 ^07:33 IBM is Being Robbed, Companies and Jobs Are Destroyed
• 2026-03-19 ^07:50 IBM Has Turned Red Hat and Fedora Into Slop
• 2026-03-19 ^08:32 What People Impacted by the Bluewashing Layoffs at IBM Confluent Say (While the Media Says Nothing at All, in Effect Burying the News)
• 2026-03-19 ^08:43 The European Patent Office, Europe's Second-Largest Institution, is on Strike Today
• 2026-03-19 ^09:05 Links 19/03/2026: "AI Glasses" as Euphemism for Mass Surveillance and ABC (US) Has Begun Publishing Slop as 'News'
• 2026-03-19 ^13:36 People Who Decided to Boycott Novell Over Its Microsoft Alliance Should Also Boycott Canonical
• 2026-03-19 ^16:48 "AI" 15 Times in Short 'Article' From The Register MS. And The Register MS Got Paid to Publish It.
• 2026-03-19 ^19:38 Gemini Links 19/03/2026: "Aktion GPT-4" and "Kill All Descendants"
• 2026-03-19 ^19:40 Links 19/03/2026: Culling Deepfakes of Artists’ Music and "Age Verification Isn’t the Answer"
• 2026-03-19 ^19:55 ABC, the American National Broadcaster, "Now Publishes Slop"
• 2026-03-19 ^20:04 Archiving or Preserving Pages About IBM Layoffs
• 2026-03-19 ^20:26 Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Admits Failures and Criticism of Inaction on SLAPPs
• 2026-03-19 ^20:33 Spoiler: Diversity & Debian means different things to different people
• 2026-03-19 ^20:38 Letter 'A' prohibited by Code of Conduct extremism
• 2026-03-19 ^20:42 Joerg Jaspert (Debian Account Manager/DAM) personally approved Raphael Hertzog's wife Sophie Brun
• 2026-03-19 ^21:27 Microsoft "hiding behind bigger news of war, Epstein, other companies' layoffs"
• 2026-03-19 ^22:07 SLAPP Censorship - Part 16 Out of 200: Detailing the Actors and Explaining Techrights' Own Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Network
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• 2026-03-20 ^05:20 Gemini Links 20/03/2026: Digital Identity Bifurcation and a "Return to Gemini"
• 2026-03-20 ^05:21 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 19, 2026
• 2026-03-20 ^05:22 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-03-20 ^05:37 "IBM boss Arvind Krishna... financial package valued at $38 million in calendar 2025 - equivalent to the average collective pay of 765 Big Blue workers."
• 2026-03-20 ^05:47 The Layoffs at IBM Carry on (Shades of Enron)
• 2026-03-20 ^06:04 Confluent Insiders: IBM Laid Over Over 800 at Confluent, Not Just 800
• 2026-03-20 ^06:30 "systemd is essentially a corporate IBM/Redhat project and corporations of course will comply"
• 2026-03-20 ^07:16 Windows Down From 99% to ~50% in Republic of Seychelles (République des Seychelles)
• 2026-03-20 ^07:52 Inaction Helps Your Enemies
• 2026-03-20 ^08:24 Even Uganda Understands That Journalists Never Belong in Prison
• 2026-03-20 ^13:21 Links 20/03/2026: Cryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award and BMG Sues Anthropic for Copyright Infringement
• 2026-03-20 ^13:34 None of the Above (NotA) & Debian snubbing Sruthi Chandran
• 2026-03-20 ^14:03 Scheduled Server Maintenance Tomorrow Night
• 2026-03-20 ^15:08 Reports or Hearsay Suggest Ogilvy Broke Up With IBM and Insiders Report Mass Layoffs in "Infrastructure" (Might Impact Red Hat Entrants)
• 2026-03-20 ^15:31 Strangulation, suffocation, Jonathan Carter & Debian toxic culture confirmed
• 2026-03-20 ^16:19 SimilarWeb Was Never a Reliable Yardstick for Traffic
• 2026-03-20 ^16:36 Gemini Links 20/03/2026: Depictions of Culture and The Social Smolnet
• 2026-03-20 ^18:18 Under IBM, Red Hat Replaces Code With LLM Slop, Fedora is Slopware
• 2026-03-20 ^18:35 Symptom of Publishers Dying: They Move to Adopt Slop. Symptom of Software Companies Dying: They Move to Adopt Slop ('Vibe').
• 2026-03-20 ^19:12 IBM's Red Hat Diversity: Only 3 Women (Out of 11 Leaders)
• 2026-03-20 ^19:30 The EPO's Local Staff Committee Munich (LSCMN) Explains to the Administrative Council (AC) How Bad Things Have Become at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, Biggest Patent Office, and Corruption/Cocaine Hub (Jobs Sold to Friends)
• 2026-03-20 ^21:00 Links 20/03/2026: Facebook Weaponised Politically, Openwashing by LF and NVIDIA, Encyclopedia Britannica Sues Microsoft Proxy for Plagiarism
• 2026-03-20 ^21:10 Plagiarism in "Linux" Clothing (LLM Slop in linuxiac.com, LinuxTeck.com, and linuxsecurity.com)
• 2026-03-20 ^21:50 SLAPP Censorship - Part 17 Out of 200: A Long Track Record of Online Abuse, Then Choosing a Low-Cost Law Firm to Muzzle People Who Have Illuminated This Abuse for Over a Decade
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• 2026-03-21 ^05:20 IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 20, 2026
• 2026-03-21 ^05:21 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-03-21 ^05:42 A/Prof Susan G Kleinmann, Enkelena Haxhija & Debian-private risk to MIT
• 2026-03-21 ^05:56 Invitation to General Assembly After 1,200 EPO Workers Participated in the Demonstration 3 Days Ago
• 2026-03-21 ^07:34 HSBC the Latest Failed Bank Using Slop as Excuse for Its Financial Failure
• 2026-03-21 ^08:47 Gemini Links 21/03/2026: Historic Ada Docs; The Lurking LLM on the SmolNet
• 2026-03-21 ^08:54 Links 21/03/2026: Metastablecoin Fragmentation and Crescent Moon
• 2026-03-21 ^14:40 Links 21/03/2026: David Botstein Dies, Slop as Censorship Apparatus
• 2026-03-21 ^14:54 When Nobody Else Covers the News
• 2026-03-21 ^15:10 Coders Don't Just Reject 'Vibe Coding' Because They're "Luddites", They Just Know the True Cost of Slop
• 2026-03-21 ^15:26 Slop Does Not Replace Art, It Contaminates Everything With Reckless Nonsense
• 2026-03-21 ^15:59 Reader Shares Recent Memes on Slop and 'Coding' by LLMs
• 2026-03-21 ^16:18 Microsoft OpenAI, Drowning in Debt and Forced to Make Significant Cuts (as Reports Reveal This Month), Does Hiring Disguised as "Takeovers" to Fake Value or Alleged Potential
• 2026-03-21 ^17:02 Bluewashing at Confluent: Some Workers to Leave Within 3 Months (IBM Mass Layoffs)
• 2026-03-21 ^17:14 EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part VIII - Mobbing and Silencing of Dissenting Staff
• 2026-03-21 ^17:36 Behind the PR Smokescreen and Microsoft-Sponsored Chaff, Microsoft Layoffs in "AI" Alleged This Month
• 2026-03-21 ^17:52 Maintenance Reminder
• 2026-03-21 ^18:07 Techrights Was Always a Community Site
• 2026-03-21 ^18:15 Communities Can Only Survive When Trust Prevails
• 2026-03-21 ^18:51 Sirius Open Source is Just a Zombie Firm With Shell Entities
• 2026-03-21 ^19:06 No Tolerance for Attacks on Family Members
• 2026-03-21 ^19:25 Never Trust People Who Write Their Own Wikipedia Pages (Vanity Pages About Themselves) or Ask Friends to Do So. Also: Jono Bacon is Married to Microsoft.
• 2026-03-21 ^21:41 SLAPP Censorship - Part 18 Out of 200: Third Parties Funding Attacks on the Messengers, Lawsuits Against GAFAM-Critical Voices That Uphold Real National Security

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