Chronological Index, Page 139

2026-05-04 ^02:00 Gemini Links 04/05/2026: Another Old Web Pillar Gone and Simple Lobsters Mirror for Gemini
2026-05-04 ^02:02 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 03, 2026
2026-05-04 ^02:04 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-05-04 ^02:17 Melissa Chan on Why Press Freedom Matters to Everyone, Not Just Journalists
2026-05-04 ^02:33 The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XII - Outsourcing Everything to Microsoft, Which is Illegal
2026-05-04 ^03:03 SLAPP Censorship - Part 66 Out of 200: Alex Graveley Did Illegal Things, Then Asserted Mentioning Those Illegal Things is Privacy Violation
2026-05-04 ^03:33 The Real News is Botnets (e.g. Windows With Back Doors), Not Iran
2026-05-04 ^05:35 KDE's Cornelius Schumacher Explains Why You Should be Slop-Free
2026-05-04 ^06:20 Links 04/05/2026: Energy Shortages Become More Visible, Germans Reject Military Service, Merz Says US 'Humiliated' Over Iran
2026-05-04 ^06:48 ChromeOS and GNU/Linux Exceed 5% in New Zealand
2026-05-04 ^07:50 Links 04/05/2026: "DNC Covering Up Its 2024 Autopsy" and Rudy Giuliani in Critical Condition
2026-05-04 ^13:29 Ubuntu.com While Ubuntu.com is Under DDoS Attack and Intermittently Offline Due to Windows Botnets: Don't Use Ubuntu, Use Windows Instead
2026-05-04 ^13:48 Microsoft: Yes, We Are Losing Windows Users and Yes, We Have Problems With Payroll (So We Lay Off Essential Workers)
2026-05-04 ^14:13 Libera.Chat Openly and Publicly Admits It Has an LLM Slop Problem (Chatbots in Its Channels)
2026-05-04 ^14:31 IBM's "FutureNow" is the Rebranding of the Client Innovation Center (CIC), for Lobbying Purposes by IBM While Halving People's Salaries
2026-05-04 ^17:22 Links 04/05/2026: Economics of Slop Discredited, Democrat and Republican Voters Want Cuts to Data Centres
2026-05-05 ^00:15 Gemini Links 05/05/2026: ASCII Chessboard Without HTML and Ongoing Antenna Migration
2026-05-05 ^02:00 Codecs and Software Patents - Part I - The 2026 Status Quo
2026-05-05 ^02:15 The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XIII - Health and Safety With Cocaine
2026-05-05 ^02:20 Links 05/05/2026: Energy Crises, Data Breaches, and Journalists Murdered
2026-05-05 ^02:23 IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 04, 2026
2026-05-05 ^02:25 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-05-05 ^02:53 SLAPP Censorship - Part 67 Out of 200: Graveley and Garrett Claims Against My Wife and I Assert 'Distress', But It Was Just a Copy-Pasted Template (Mechanical Crocodile Tears)
2026-05-05 ^03:47 Chatbots Are Not Replacing Web Search, But They Contaminate Results
2026-05-05 ^04:13 Microsoft is Waning Like IBM
2026-05-05 ^04:30 Future-Proofing Techrights
2026-05-05 ^04:58 Unsustainable 'Tech' (Debt) Giants Rely on US Taxpayers for Bailouts and Subsidies
2026-05-05 ^05:37 What "Age Verification" Laws Are About
2026-05-05 ^07:32 Microsoft Lunduke Has a Serious Problem: He's Fronting for Sites That Insist on Exposing Children to Pornography
2026-05-05 ^08:04 Links 05/05/2026: "Republicans Made Children More Expensive" and "Internet Blackouts" Cripple Economies
2026-05-05 ^08:36 Links 05/05/2026: Germany, Depression, and Control of Online Discourse in Geminispace
2026-05-05 ^11:54 The Register MS Published Fake Article That Mentioned "AI" Almost a Dozen Times. It Got Paid to Do This.
2026-05-05 ^13:11 Gartner Pays The Register MS and the Effect is Visible (IBM Promotion; IBM Also a Sponsor, of Both!)
2026-05-05 ^13:30 Links 05/05/2026: Live Nation Problems, Growing Tensions in the Gulf Again (Energy Crisis)
2026-05-05 ^16:23 The Generations of CS Are Coming to 'End of Life'
2026-05-05 ^17:01 Media: Let's Repeat the Lie About Mass Layoffs Being a Win for a Buzzword
2026-05-05 ^17:33 IBM is Collapsing, the People Responsible for the Collapse Aren't the Victims
2026-05-05 ^17:56 Reading Closely What Microsoft Put in the Report, Expect Many More Layoffs Later This Year
2026-05-05 ^18:26 Why Chatbots Based on LLMs Cannot Be Improved Even If More Energy (Money) Gets Wasted on Them
2026-05-05 ^19:02 Gemini Links 05/05/2026: Bad Health, Pomera DM250 On Linux, and Children Using DO
2026-05-05 ^20:01 Ubuntu is Run by "N00bs" (and It Shows)
2026-05-06 ^03:26 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 05, 2026
2026-05-06 ^03:27 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-05-06 ^04:36 Links 06/05/2026: Narges Mohammadi in Critical Condition and Copyright Infringement Rampant in Reddit
2026-05-06 ^04:50 Gemini Links 06/05/2026: Childhood Memories, Intense People, and Natural Web Exploration
2026-05-06 ^06:52 The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XIV - Antisemitism Inside the EPO
2026-05-06 ^07:07 Codecs and Software Patents - Part II - AV1 and HEVC Not Really Safe
2026-05-06 ^12:06 Microsoft's XBox Exodus Carries on: Corporate VP of Gaming Ecosystem Organization and Corporate VP of XBox Devices and Ecosystem Both Leave Microsoft
2026-05-06 ^14:32 Links 06/05/2026: Apple Accepts That It Misled People on Slop and Begins Blocking Software/Games Made With Slop
2026-05-06 ^14:44 Gemini Links 06/05/2026: "Who Knows That You Blog?" and New Official Antenna by Michael Nordmeyer
2026-05-06 ^15:15 IBM Allegedly Used Apptio to Target and Sack (RA) Productive or 'Expensive' Employees, Are Apptio Staff Now Subjected to Layoffs?
2026-05-06 ^16:02 Gartner Group Paid The Register MS. And Now The Register MS is a "Gartner Says" Rag.
2026-05-06 ^16:21 The Operating Systems statCounter Cannot Identify or Classify
2026-05-06 ^16:26 SLAPP Censorship - Part 68 Out of 200: Based on Their Particulars of Claims, Microsoft's Graveley and Garrett Seem Like the Same Person (Exactly Same Words Used, Sloppily Recycled)
2026-05-06 ^17:11 Pop the Slop Bubble, Don't Ask When It'll Pop or Expect Others to Pop It for You
2026-05-06 ^17:37 The Register MS is All About MS After the Site Overhaul, Now They Are a Platform of "Microsoft Says"
2026-05-06 ^17:59 IBM Spammers With LLM Slop Discourage Discussion About IBM Problems and Layoffs
2026-05-06 ^18:22 IBM Seems to be Imitating the European Patent Office's "Young Professionals" (YPs) With Client Innovation Center (CIC), Which is About Mass-Hiring Inexperienced People on Very Low Salaries (Sometimes Unlivable)
2026-05-06 ^18:44 The Register MS Does "Microsoft Says", Fails to Accept XBox is Dying and Slop is a Failure
2026-05-06 ^19:09 People Work for Microsoft Because They Fear No Other Company Would Hire Them
2026-05-06 ^19:24 Keeping Server Costs Under Control in Age of Zombie-Majority Net
2026-05-06 ^19:51 Google Slop Contains Serious Errors, Google Has Just Been Sued for 1.5 Million Dollars by One Victim of It
2026-05-07 ^04:09 Gemini Links 07/05/2026: Dissociated Jekyll And Hyde, New Antenna 2.0.0
2026-05-07 ^04:11 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, May 06, 2026
2026-05-07 ^04:13 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-05-07 ^05:05 The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XV - Talking About Responsibility and Accountability While Failing to Hold Themselves Accountable
2026-05-07 ^05:24 Codecs and Software Patents - Part III - AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) and Antitrust Issues
2026-05-07 ^07:11 SLAPP Censorship - Part 69 Out of 200: Microsoft's Graveley Strangles, Gets Arrested, Charged, Then Asks for Apology From Those Who Reported It by Recycling Garrett's Plea for Apology
2026-05-07 ^07:54 Links 07/05/2026: "Most Vibe-coded (Slop) Tools Are Not for You" and "Prepare for the PCB Shortage"
2026-05-07 ^18:05 OSI Partners With Microsoft to Help Pretend Proprietary (GitHub) 'Celebrates' Open Source
2026-05-07 ^19:23 Links 07/05/2026: "The ‘Perfect Storm’ Hanging Over Britain’s Public Debt" and "Internet Shutdowns Spread in Africa"
2026-05-07 ^19:37 Servers Became "Cloud", VR Became "Metaverse", Now Bots Become "Agents" (of Slop)
2026-05-07 ^20:01 During IBM's Annual Event/Bash IBM's Stock Fell to (Almost) Lowest Level in a Year, Insiders Explain "IBM is on the Brink of Collapse."
2026-05-07 ^20:53 Gemini Links 07/05/2026: Unicode and "RSS 4 Noobs (Getting Started)"
2026-05-07 ^21:28 Companies That Say They Are "Hey Hi" (AI) Leaders Don't Really Do Well, They Have Mass Layoffs Because Hype and Storytelling Won't Live Up to Shareholders' Expectations
2026-05-07 ^21:47 Kyndryl Holdings Inc Falls Almost 15% in 2 Days, What Does That Tell Us About IBM?
2026-05-08 ^02:50 Mass Layoffs at IBM's Kyndryl, Slop Won't Save Kyndryl
2026-05-08 ^02:54 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 07, 2026
2026-05-08 ^02:56 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-05-08 ^03:11 The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XVI - EPO Had Data Breaches, Covered Them Up, Now Lectures Staff That Didn't Do It and Didn't Cover It Up
2026-05-08 ^03:55 Codecs and Software Patents - Part IV - Things Got So Bad That Some Laptop Sales Got Banned in the EU (Over Software Patents!)
2026-05-08 ^04:48 Microsoft's XBox is Going Away Like Microsoft's Skype (Slowly But Surely, Then All at Once)
2026-05-08 ^05:09 Site Overhauls at Cybershow and at analognowhere.com (Less is More!)
2026-05-08 ^06:11 It's Not a GAFAM World Anymore and There Are Far More Operating Systems Than Google's, Apple's, and Microsoft's
2026-05-08 ^06:47 Internal Microsoft Communications Confirm: "Buyout" Offer Worse Than a Year's Salary and Microsoft Offers "Retirement" to Young People Who Cannot Retire
2026-05-08 ^07:19 NDAs as a Price Tag on Criticism (or Honest Expressions of Opinion)
2026-05-08 ^08:08 Cloudflare is a Giant Pile of Debt, Now There Are Mass Layoffs and Media Coverage About This is Churnalism, Sometimes by Slopfarms (False Excuses)
2026-05-08 ^08:48 Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux
2026-05-08 ^09:27 SLAPP Censorship - Part 70 Out of 200: Microsoft's Graveley Injunction Request 100% the Same as Garrett's (Pure 'Copy-paste', Not Even a Word or Single Character Changed!)
2026-05-08 ^09:52 Outgoing OSI Chief Was Paid by Microsoft to Advocate for GPL Violations (Using the OSI's Name). Now, Inside OIN, He Says GPL Violations Are 'Freedom'.
2026-05-08 ^11:07 Links 08/05/2026: Slop Profiteer NVIDIA (and Circular Financing/Accounting Fraud Leader) May Be Liable for Mass Copyright Infringement, Kyndryl (IBM) Layoffs
2026-05-08 ^11:23 Gemini Links 08/05/2026: Dissociated Pride and Prejudice, Smallnet Protocols Roundup
2026-05-08 ^15:30 Social Control Media and GAFAM as National Security Threats (Domestically and More So Abroad)
2026-05-08 ^16:23 2,000-4,000 More Layoffs Expected at IBM's Kyndryl, Some Say Over 10,000 Layoffs
2026-05-08 ^20:57 Links 08/05/2026: French Prosecutors Seek Charges Against MElon, Europe Wants Young People Without Skinnerboxes (Smartphones)
2026-05-08 ^21:15 Gemini Links 08/05/2026: Slop Falsely Marketed to Greedy Administrators and New Official Maintainer of Antenna Confirmed
2026-05-09 ^04:15 IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 08, 2026
2026-05-09 ^04:17 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-05-09 ^04:48 The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XVII - European Patent Office (EPO) Management Not Sharing Responsibility for Financial Resources
2026-05-09 ^06:17 Gemini Links 09/05/2026: Inkscape "Copy Text Style" and NomadNet
2026-05-09 ^06:22 Links 09/05/2026: "Grand Theft Oil Futures" and Mass Layoffs at Verizon
2026-05-09 ^12:09 SLAPP Censorship - Part 71 Out of 200: 5RB Barristers Made Tens of Thousands of Pounds by Changing From Plural to Singular for Microsoft's Graveley and Garrett
2026-05-09 ^12:46 Google is "Bullshit"
2026-05-09 ^18:10 Links 09/05/2026: Kremlin’s Biggest Day of the Year and FBI's Attack on the Media (to Save Face)
2026-05-09 ^18:29 Gemini Links 09/05/2026: Liberation, The Nocturnals, Rediscovering Internet Radio, and More
2026-05-09 ^18:53 Microsoft XBox Staff Know They're in Trouble, They Try to Unionise Ahead of Mass Layoffs
2026-05-09 ^20:00 Belated Sovereignty: GNU/Linux in Iran Skyrockets to 6% Amid Armed Conflict
2026-05-09 ^20:59 IBM's Kyndryl Holdings Inc Sank 70-75% in 'Value' in 10 Months, Will IBM Follow?
2026-05-10 ^03:22 Gemini Links 10/05/2026: Travelling to Van and "Dark Mode" as Passing Fad
2026-05-10 ^03:25 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 09, 2026
2026-05-10 ^03:26 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-05-10 ^04:41 SLAPP Censorship - Part 72 Out of 200: Microsoft's Graveley and Garrett Signed Documents That Hold Them Accountable to Truth and Liable for Lies
2026-05-10 ^06:08 Links 10/05/2026: Fake Suicide Notes and New EU Restrictions on Slop
2026-05-10 ^14:18 Links 10/05/2026: Hantavirus Brings Back 'Contact Tracing' Surveillance, "Staple Food Prices Soar in Iran"
2026-05-10 ^14:34 The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XVIII - "The European Patent Office (EPO) has a zero-tolerance policy for fraud" (except when managers do it)
2026-05-10 ^15:37 The "Alicante Mafia" at the European Patent Office (EPO) Experiments With New Methods for Crushing Industrial Actions
2026-05-10 ^15:58 Gemini Links 10/05/2026: Inkscape, Guix, and Alhena 5.5.8
2026-05-10 ^16:18 Codecs and Software Patents - Part V - A Reminder That GAFAM and the European Patent Office (Which Serves American Monopolists) Do Considerable Harm to the Commons and Culture

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