Chronological Index, Page 147

• 2026-06-29 ^04:18 Gemini Links 29/06/2026: Sansieviera, HiFi, and Self-Signed Certificates
• 2026-06-29 ^04:23 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 28, 2026
• 2026-06-29 ^04:24 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-06-29 ^05:08 Canada 5-0: GNU/Linux Rises to 5.0%, Windows Rapidly Falls to New Lows
• 2026-06-29 ^05:21 Monoculture in Europe as National (or Continental) Security Threat
• 2026-06-29 ^05:28 Laptop Bricked After Microsoft Certificates Expiry
• 2026-06-29 ^05:49 Pensions Tied to Ponzi Schemes Are Themselves Ponzi Schemes
• 2026-06-29 ^06:09 'Modern' Web: "Stop! You Are Browsing Too Fast!"
• 2026-06-29 ^07:04 IBM's Alderon as "Silent Layoffs", Not Just Bailout From Taxpayers
• 2026-06-29 ^07:52 Links 28/06/2026: More Om Malik Eulogies, Cloudflare Promotes Web Browser Monocultures
• 2026-06-29 ^07:54 Week of Microsoft Layoffs, Maybe Record-Breaking Scale
• 2026-06-29 ^13:28 Two Pieces About "AI" This Morning Were Paid-For SPAM at The Register MS
• 2026-06-29 ^14:12 In Signal of Weakness or Phasing Out XBox (Not Sustainable, According to the CEO) Microsoft "Pauses New Third-Party Game Pass Deals"
• 2026-06-29 ^14:44 The World Needs GNU/Linux for Security, Turn Off "Secure Boot" (It's the Opposite of Security)
• 2026-06-29 ^14:54 Contact Members of the EPO Administrative Council, Tell Them the EPO (Office) Became a Disgrace and an Enemy of Europe's Citizens
• 2026-06-29 ^15:13 PIPs and "Retirements": IBM Layoffs in Anything But Name
• 2026-06-29 ^16:21 European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Networking With the National Delegates
• 2026-06-29 ^17:08 SLAPP Censorship - Part 122 Out of 200: Garrett's Solicitors Confirm That Garrett is Ban-Evading and Spying on Our IRC Network
• 2026-06-29 ^17:25 How Long Can a Company Delay Its Financial Report That Likely Confirms Exodus of Staff, Growing Debt, and Other Problems?
• 2026-06-29 ^17:51 Whistleblowing and Retaliation by Microsoft Workers Against Microsoft Seems Increasingly Likely
• 2026-06-29 ^18:40 Pushing to the Top
• 2026-06-29 ^19:02 DDoS Attacks Are a Crime and They Only Increase Interest (Intrigue) in Their Target
• 2026-06-29 ^19:44 Antisocial People With No Computer Science Background Are Ruining the Technology Space (Like Officials With No Experience in Patents Destroyed the EPO)
• 2026-06-29 ^20:14 Links 29/06/2026: Lemote Yeeloong Laptop With OpenBSD, Slop Ruins Code/Development
• 2026-06-29 ^20:33 Gemini Links 29/06/2026: Using More of GPLv3+ and Merits of Security by TOFU
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• 2026-06-30 ^02:30 IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 29, 2026
• 2026-06-30 ^02:31 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-06-30 ^02:36 Gemini Links 30/06/2026: Music and Broken Hearts
• 2026-06-30 ^02:55 European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Photo-Ops Galore and Suspicions of Influence-Peddling
• 2026-06-30 ^03:09 More Layoffs in Microsoft's PR Department, Even Ahead of 'D-Day'
• 2026-06-30 ^03:18 Massive EPO Demonstration Today
• 2026-06-30 ^03:29 EPO Staff Union's (SUEPO) The Hague Committee, With Help of Lawyer, Challenges Lack of Rewards for Hard Work
• 2026-06-30 ^04:12 SLAPP Censorship - Part 123 Out of 200: Why Violence Against Animals Matters
• 2026-06-30 ^06:13 Sad Lives of People Who Think Women Are Just Sexual Toys (All They Have is Money)
• 2026-06-30 ^06:28 Patents Are Not "Cash Cows"
• 2026-06-30 ^06:56 Communities Need Strong Leadership, Not Dictators Like IBM
• 2026-06-30 ^07:25 This is Not a Security, This is a Circus
• 2026-06-30 ^08:00 Links 30/06/2026: What's Wrong With EU Age Verification, RSA Keys with Many Zeros
• 2026-06-30 ^08:16 Sirius Open Source's Latest Report: Fake (False) Number of Staff, Almost No Money in the Bank, Overdraft, and Growing Debt (About £100,000 More Borrowed)
• 2026-06-30 ^12:29 Media Says Microsoft's (XBox) Layoffs May be Record-Breaking
• 2026-06-30 ^12:41 Too Many "Marketers on the Payroll" at IBM, Selling Impossible Products That Cannot be Delivered or Will Never Deliver
• 2026-06-30 ^14:56 Projection Tactics - Part II: Causing "Serious Harm" to Many People (Even Animals) [updated]
• 2026-06-30 ^15:10 Five Years Ago, After We Broke the Story About Richard Stallman Rejoining the FSF's Board, All Hell Broke Loose (for Me and My Family) [updated]
• 2026-06-30 ^15:12 Projection Tactics - Part IV: SLAPP by Americans Against Techrights (UK) to Hide Serious Abuses Against American Women [updated]
• 2026-06-30 ^15:24 400-Page US Federal Court Against Abuses by Google, Microsoft and Front Groups That Abuse Volunteers for American Corporations [updated]
• 2026-06-30 ^16:19 Call for European Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowers
• 2026-06-30 ^17:30 GAFAM Debt Will Surge, in July We'll Know by How Much
• 2026-06-30 ^17:40 America Has Cost Europe Too Much
• 2026-06-30 ^17:55 Today The Register MS is Publishing Fake Articles About "AI", 100% of All "Content"
• 2026-06-30 ^18:13 People Given the Totally Wrong Idea That "Secure Boot" is About Security (It's the Opposite, It's About Handing Control Over to NSA/Microsoft)
• 2026-06-30 ^18:24 WordPress Becoming What We Feared It Would Become
• 2026-06-30 ^19:21 Links 30/06/2026: France Recorded 1,000 Excess Deaths During Heat Wave, Slop Replaced by Human Staff
• 2026-06-30 ^19:33 Gemini Links 30/06/2026: Music Theory, Addiction, Clown Computing
• 2026-06-30 ^19:47 Some XBox Layoffs Underway, At Least Five Studios to be Shut Down
• 2026-06-30 ^20:04 Sabine Hossenfelder Versus IBM Scamming Shareholders
• 2026-06-30 ^20:53 Several Waves of Red Hat Layoffs This Year, Is This Still Going on Under IBM?
• 2026-06-30 ^21:06 Getting Skyped: Closure of Studios Microsoft Bought
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• 2026-07-01 ^03:22 GNU/Linux Measured at 4.4% by statCounter, Even More by analytics.usa.gov
• 2026-07-01 ^03:27 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 30, 2026
• 2026-07-01 ^03:28 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-07-01 ^03:48 European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Different Strokes For Different Folks
• 2026-07-01 ^04:00 Gemini Links 01/07/2026: Keeping (Relatively) Cool plus Adventures in Solar, Camp Snap Cameras and XTEINK X4 Ereader Reviews
• 2026-07-01 ^04:05 BSN Senior School Leidschenveen is Shutting Down and What That Means to the European Patent Office (EPO)
• 2026-07-01 ^04:31 Microsoft May be Losing 10,000+ Workers This Month
• 2026-07-01 ^04:52 What Security Means
• 2026-07-01 ^05:09 Stop Conflating Free Software With Slop Plagiarism and Time-wasting
• 2026-07-01 ^05:23 Microsoft Mass Layoffs Due to Money Problems (Debt, Lack of Money to Complete Payroll), Not "Hey Hi"
• 2026-07-01 ^05:38 Paying Severance to Staff Laid Off by Microsoft Too Expensive for Microsoft Now?
• 2026-07-01 ^06:15 SLAPP Censorship - Part 124 Out of 200: The Court Deems My Wife Connected to the Case of the Serial Strangler From Microsoft, Invites Her to the Hearing Last Week
• 2026-07-01 ^06:40 IBM Layoffs Still Happening in 2026, They're Just Not Being Reported
• 2026-07-01 ^07:21 GNU/Linux Reaches 6% in North America
• 2026-07-01 ^07:37 DRM and Ownership
• 2026-07-01 ^07:46 opensourceforu.com is a Slopfarm, It's Not "Open Source" and It's Not "For U"
• 2026-07-01 ^07:58 IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Turns 38 Next Month
• 2026-07-01 ^09:02 Gaming Companies Help Promote Rootkits ('Anticheat') and Help Microsoft Take Control of People's PCs
• 2026-07-01 ^09:16 "Regular Silent Layoffs and PIPs" at Microsoft, According to Microsoft Insider
• 2026-07-01 ^09:51 Techrights Never Defended Rapists
• 2026-07-01 ^10:13 The Register MS: Paid-For SPAM Advocating Chinese Colonialism in Africa, Not Even a Disclosure (as Before)
• 2026-07-01 ^10:43 Links 01/07/2026: MElon (Elon Musk) "Confronted With List of People He Has Killed", Microsoft Ignores Union, Chooses "Bloodbath"
• 2026-07-01 ^11:43 Microsoft: Layoffs Are an Investment
• 2026-07-01 ^12:20 Misattributing Blame, the Core Issue is Slop
• 2026-07-01 ^17:32 Links 01/07/2026: Bending Spoons Makes an 'Exit' ("Going Public"), US Supreme Court Rules on Many Issues
• 2026-07-01 ^17:47 Gemini Links 01/07/2026: Wild Flowers, Slop, and Waystone Tools
• 2026-07-01 ^18:31 Gary Smith Says Brett Wilson LLP Engages in SLAPP Against Him Over LinkedIn Post, "This is the Streisand Effect in Real Time"
• 2026-07-01 ^18:45 Brett Wilson LLP Has Just Lost a Case of Its Biggest Client "IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)"
• 2026-07-01 ^19:06 The Media is Shooting Its Own Foot by Peddling Slop and Spam
• 2026-07-01 ^19:34 The Microsoft-Owned Media Shows What Spin Microsoft Will Use Amid Mass Layoffs
• 2026-07-01 ^19:50 Slop Gives No Real Edge, It's Just Falsely Marketed That Way (FOMO)
• 2026-07-01 ^22:13 Parroting the Script of RAs and PIPs, "Buyouts" and Layoffs by Any Other Name
• 2026-07-01 ^22:20 Links 01/07/2026: Apple and Microsoft Price Hikes, Political Catchup
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• 2026-07-02 ^04:15 Gemini Links 02/07/2026: Kondo, Theological Thought, and X4
• 2026-07-02 ^04:17 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 01, 2026
• 2026-07-02 ^04:18 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-07-02 ^04:52 Links 02/07/2026: Microsoft May be Shutting Down 5+ Studios, Slop Got Too Expensive, "RAMpocalypse" Discussed
• 2026-07-02 ^05:21 Attacks on the Sites
• 2026-07-02 ^05:46 IBM HR "Process is Similar to Raising Farm Animals"
• 2026-07-02 ^06:16 SLAPP Censorship - Part 125 Out of 200: Litigants in Person (LIPs) Handling American Lawfare Funded by Third Parties (About a Million Pounds for 100 Kilograms of Legal Papers)
• 2026-07-02 ^06:38 Silent Layoffs, 'Happy' Layoffs, and 'Buyouts' (Pretending to Voluntarily Retire)
• 2026-07-02 ^06:57 Not Tolerating Death Threats
• 2026-07-02 ^11:57 statCounter: GNU/Linux Has Risen to All-Time High of 6% Worldwide (July 2026)
• 2026-07-02 ^12:10 North America: GNU/Linux Leaps to 8% "Market Share"
• 2026-07-02 ^12:47 In Spain, GNU/Linux Now Measured at 5.5%
• 2026-07-02 ^13:07 European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Cutting Ribbons in Sintra While the EPO Burns
• 2026-07-02 ^13:48 It's Not the Layoffs, It's the Debt
• 2026-07-02 ^15:35 Microsoft Windows "Goes South" in South America, GNU/Linux Popularity Soaring
• 2026-07-02 ^16:03 Off-putting Terms or Behaviour That Keep Women Away From Areas of Technology (Not What IBM and GAFAM Tell Us)
• 2026-07-02 ^16:25 'Largest Single Layoff Event In Gaming History' or 'Largest Single Layoff Event In Microsoft History'?
• 2026-07-02 ^16:39 Japan's Share of GNU/Linux Has More Than Doubled
• 2026-07-02 ^18:24 Links 02/07/2026: China "Ethnic Unity" Law a Global Threat, "EU Imposes €3 Duty on Parcels From China"
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• 2026-07-03 ^04:15 Gemini Links 02/07/2026: OpenBGPD, Newt and OpenBSD, Indieweb Theme for Ghost
• 2026-07-03 ^04:17 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 02, 2026
• 2026-07-03 ^04:18 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-07-03 ^04:25 The Register MS Covers "AI" Because It Gets Paid to
• 2026-07-03 ^05:15 IBM Red Hat Kicks Out the Community, Promotes Slop
• 2026-07-03 ^05:24 SLAPP Censorship - Part 126 Out of 200: Becoming More Aggressive Against Us Only Proves Us Right
• 2026-07-03 ^05:51 New Record for GNU/Linux in the World's Largest Muslim-Majority Population (287,983,025)
• 2026-07-03 ^06:06 Gaming on Windows is in Trouble, XBox is Practically Dead Already
• 2026-07-03 ^06:24 Mass Layoff Event on June 30 at Red Hat? Let Us Know...
• 2026-07-03 ^06:54 British Women Don't Want to Work for American Men Who Attack American Women
• 2026-07-03 ^07:33 Costa Ricans' Adoption of GNU/Linux Reaches New Highs
• 2026-07-03 ^08:07 Skinnerboxes as Health Problems and Impediments (Against Happiness)
• 2026-07-03 ^08:25 Statement on This Week's DDoS Attacks
• 2026-07-03 ^10:34 Links 03/07/2026: Slop "Isn’t Replacing Lawyers", "App Fatigue"
• 2026-07-03 ^11:10 European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Operation Monte Titano: Micro-State Diplomacy
• 2026-07-03 ^12:43 The European Patent Office's (EPO) Crisis Week Ends Today, the Rest of the Year Will be EPO Staff on Strike
• 2026-07-03 ^13:00 Independence and Software Freedom
• 2026-07-03 ^13:07 The Linux Foundation Does Not Work for Linux, Definitely Not for Free Software
• 2026-07-03 ^13:37 3/4 (Three-Quarter) of Requests Seen by statCounter (Originating From Desktops/Laptops) Deemed to be "Linux" in San Marino
• 2026-07-03 ^13:49 News That Matters, News That's Exclusive, and News LLM Slop Will Never Get Right
• 2026-07-03 ^13:55 FOSS Force 2026 Independence Drive Lacks Independence From GAFAM's 'Linux' Foundation
• 2026-07-03 ^14:15 Technology is Getting Objectively Worse and Less Reliable
• 2026-07-03 ^15:03 Being Prevented From Accessing One's Own System Means Getting Locked Out, Not Security
• 2026-07-03 ^15:43 The March of GNU/Linux in the Russian Ally, Belarus
• 2026-07-03 ^16:19 statCounter Sees Almost 1 in 10 Desktops or Laptops in Egypt as GNU/Linux Workstations
• 2026-07-03 ^16:38 The Cyber Show's Andy and Helen Confronting 'Upgrades'
• 2026-07-03 ^16:49 No, Microsoft is Not Laying Off 5,000-6,000 But a Lot More
• 2026-07-03 ^17:12 10 Years Since the World Lost Ian Murdock
• 2026-07-03 ^17:37 Who or What is "Nadeko"?
• 2026-07-03 ^19:45 John Been (reallinuxuser.com) May Have Crossed Over to the 'Dark Side' of LLM Slop
• 2026-07-03 ^20:44 Links 03/07/2026: Openwashing of Slop in "Linux" Clothing and "Happy Birthday, America"
• 2026-07-03 ^21:11 Gemini Links 03/07/2026: Mindfulness Practice and "Slop Is Killing the Human Spirit"
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• 2026-07-04 ^04:59 IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 03, 2026
• 2026-07-04 ^05:01 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-07-04 ^05:55 Links 04/07/2026: USMCA (Covering Software Patents) Might Not be Renewed, Slop Bros Try to Pay Weird Al to Endorse Their Scheme
• 2026-07-04 ^07:33 SLAPP Censorship - Part 127 Out of 200: Lawsuits by Americans Filed in the UK a Burden on British Taxpayers, No Way to Recover the Funds When Americans Lose Their Cases
• 2026-07-04 ^07:52 Links 04/07/2026: 2026 Old Computer Challenge and Trying Gopher
• 2026-07-04 ^14:11 Links 04/07/2026: Microsoft Tax Haven (Evasion) Tactics, Tobacco Bans, and More
• 2026-07-04 ^14:34 A Bicycle for the Feeble Mind, or How Computers Got Worse for Productivity (Intentionally)
• 2026-07-04 ^14:47 "Defective by Design" Turns 20
• 2026-07-04 ^15:02 For USA 250 Microsoft is Messing With Our Minds (2.50%) to Distract From Mass Layoffs
• 2026-07-04 ^15:32 IBM Replacing the People Who Built IBM With Cheaper and Younger Staff, According to IBM Insiders
• 2026-07-04 ^15:55 The United States Lost Freedom of Speech
• 2026-07-04 ^16:20 Free Software Has No Kings or CEOs
• 2026-07-04 ^17:03 Brett Wilson LLP is Downsizing, Apparently Closing Down the Oversized and Overpriced Office
• 2026-07-04 ^17:47 Canonical/Ubuntu is Breaking CP (cp) to Help Microsoft Turn Coreutils Into Proprietary Software for Windows
• 2026-07-04 ^18:02 Gemini Links 04/07/2026: Busy Squirrel, Independence Day Celebrations, PalmOS Programming
• 2026-07-04 ^18:28 Daniel Pocock Pursuing Complaint in the United States Against Software in the Public Interest (SPI) et al
• 2026-07-04 ^18:37 Phenomenal Growth for GNU/Linux in Afghanistan
• 2026-07-04 ^18:41 Techrights Was Always a Community Platform
• 2026-07-04 ^19:31 American Independence Needs Independent Media
• 2026-07-04 ^19:58 TheLayoff.com is Deleting Comments About IBM Offshoring
• 2026-07-04 ^20:37 Based on US Government Sites, GNU/Linux Has Reached About 8% "Market Share" in Desktops/Laptops
• 2026-07-04 ^20:52 Microsoft Double Trouble With Slop
• 2026-07-04 ^21:06 Not 2.5% and Not 2.5 Billion Dollars for "Hey Hi"; 2 Waves of Microsoft Layoffs Rumoured This Month, July 8th, Then July 22nd (Just Before 'Results')
• 2026-07-04 ^21:23 France is Winning the Race Against Windows
• 2026-07-04 ^21:35 Do No Evil, Do Not DDoS
• 2026-07-04 ^21:47 BRICS and Windows: All-Time Lows
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• 2026-07-05 ^05:20 Links 05/07/2026: "Tesla Slams Into Crowded Cafe" and "ChatGPT [Turned] Into a Sociopath"
• 2026-07-05 ^05:36 Gemini Links 05/07/2026: Ragebaited and Removing Lines in Emacs
• 2026-07-05 ^05:37 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 04, 2026
• 2026-07-05 ^05:40 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-07-05 ^09:56 EC Looking for Input on Digital Networks Act Until Next Month
• 2026-07-05 ^10:22 SLAPP Censorship - Part 128 Out of 200: Making Laws Work for Britain, Not Oversensitive Americans Looking for 'Revenge' by Lawfare
• 2026-07-05 ^10:50 GNU/Linux Leaps to 6% in Thailand
• 2026-07-05 ^10:59 July 8 as "D-Day" for Microsoft, Mass Layoffs Planned
• 2026-07-05 ^13:30 False Narratives of Slop "Efficiency" as Debt Climbs
• 2026-07-05 ^13:43 Confidentiality at Risk With Slop 'Coding'
• 2026-07-05 ^14:01 Links 05/07/2026: Data Breaches, Heat Waves, and Weinstein Rape Conviction Upheld
• 2026-07-05 ^14:16 At Microsoft "the Morale of Developers is at an All-time Low"
• 2026-07-05 ^15:04 75% of All the Patents Last Year Were Software
• 2026-07-05 ^17:13 Series on GNU/Linux in Japan
• 2026-07-05 ^17:31 A "Never Slop" Policy in Quibble
• 2026-07-05 ^17:50 Only Germany Objected to Salary Adjustment (Reduction) Procedure of "Team Campinos"
• 2026-07-05 ^18:18 They Could Never Kill the Ideas of Richard Stallman (RMS), But They Are Still Trying
• 2026-07-05 ^18:40 XBox is Practically 'Dead Man Walking' at This Point
• 2026-07-05 ^19:14 The 9-Step IBM Algorithm: Gaming Wall Street While Shedding Off Staff and Bribing the Mainstream Media to Play Along
• 2026-07-05 ^19:32 GNU/Linux Market Share is Already High
• 2026-07-05 ^20:02 Gemini Links 05/07/2026: Eye of the Beholder and Baldur’s Gate 3 and Alhena 5.6.5
• 2026-07-05 ^21:29 Not Everything Should be Electric

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