Chronological Index, Page 154

• 2026-08-17 ^04:03 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 16, 2026
• 2026-08-17 ^04:04 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-08-17 ^04:35 Links 17/08/2026: "Bluesky Is Down Again!" and "Anti-Social Media"
• 2026-08-17 ^04:44 Gemini Links 17/08/2026: Chamboree, Partial Solar Eclipse, Lady Macbeth
• 2026-08-17 ^05:19 Slowing Down by Intention
• 2026-08-17 ^05:25 Clownflare: In Australia and New Zealand GNU/Linux Peaks at Over 10% During Working Hours
• 2026-08-17 ^05:31 SLAPP Censorship - Part 152 Out of 200: Injunctions Do Not Cover Criticism, They Have Scope
• 2026-08-17 ^07:02 Clownflare Sees About Quarter of Web Requests in Ireland Coming From GNU/Linux
• 2026-08-17 ^07:31 GAFAM Loyalty Has Come to an End, Morale Low, People Whose Future is Uncertain Choose to Become "Lifers"
• 2026-08-17 ^13:15 Links 17/08/2026: Myanmar’s Cholera Outbreak, China Sends Commercial Vessels Through Arctic
• 2026-08-17 ^14:01 Cuba and Venezuela High in Adoption of GNU/Linux
• 2026-08-17 ^16:01 FreeCAD is Becoming Slop-ware, Use LibreCAD Instead
• 2026-08-17 ^16:15 Clown Storage Without Backups
• 2026-08-17 ^17:59 Gemini Links 17/08/2026: Life in Plain Text, Mimicking KARL, Release of Jugulans, Avoiding Slop
• 2026-08-17 ^18:48 Loans and Massive Debt at Microsoft, This Won't End Well.
• 2026-08-17 ^19:43 Birthday in 80 Days
• 2026-08-17 ^20:19 Google Search Has Gotten Worse (a Lot Worse)
• 2026-08-17 ^20:28 Less Technology, More Life
• 2026-08-17 ^21:13 Evri (HermesUK) is Now Run by Bots and Hallucinating Scammers
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• 2026-08-18 ^04:44 Gemini Links 18/08/2026: Solar Power, Kipple and Impermanence, Catastrophe Ethics
• 2026-08-18 ^04:46 IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 17, 2026
• 2026-08-18 ^04:48 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-08-18 ^05:24 SLAPP Censorship - Part 153 Out of 200: Decades of Debt, Weaponising Borrowed Money to Try to Put Their Critics in Debt
• 2026-08-18 ^05:50 Openwashing and Manifestos Composed in Private by Dictators With Deliberately Addictive (and Subsidised, Bundled) 'Tech'
• 2026-08-18 ^07:13 Clownflare Sees One in 7 Web Requests in Libya Originating From GNU/Linux
• 2026-08-18 ^08:45 SBS News Interviews Daniel Pocock
• 2026-08-18 ^09:13 Links 18/08/2026: Sergey Brin Controlling State Policies, "Dario Amodei's (Anthropic) Wife Is Closely Linked to Jeffrey Epstein"
• 2026-08-18 ^09:35 IBM is Dead or Dying. Now It Asks Workers to 'Resign' Voluntarily.
• 2026-08-18 ^10:01 GNU/Linux in Ecuador and Colombia: Growing, Still Below International Average
• 2026-08-18 ^16:20 Linux Losing Interest in Users' Freedom, Pursues DRM Instead
• 2026-08-18 ^16:46 Links 18/08/2026: US Abandons South Korea, New Legal Disputes Over Slop Plagiarism in the Music Scene
• 2026-08-18 ^17:27 China Says Goodbye to Microsoft
• 2026-08-18 ^17:56 Bluesky is in Trouble
• 2026-08-18 ^18:10 Gemini Links 18/08/2026: Google Bait and Switch (Getting College People 'Hooked' on 'Cheap' Storage, Then Backups Gone), a "Question of E-mail"
• 2026-08-18 ^18:22 Last Night GNU/Linux Measured at 9% in Africa
• 2026-08-18 ^18:33 20,000 by Year's End
• 2026-08-18 ^19:09 A "Tech Journalist" Would Not Cover Vote on LLMs as a Sex Issue
• 2026-08-18 ^19:29 They Were Wrong All Along
• 2026-08-18 ^19:47 Laos Leaving GAFAM Behind, Gradually
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• 2026-08-19 ^03:33 Gemini Links 19/08/2026: Shirts, Handwriting, and Fights in Geminispace
• 2026-08-19 ^03:35 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 18, 2026
• 2026-08-19 ^03:38 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-08-19 ^04:18 Microsoft is 'Angel of Death' to Developers (Even Its Own), 'Voluntary' Layoffs Happening Again
• 2026-08-19 ^05:22 Mass Layoffs at Dropbox, Blame the Debt, Not Slop Hype
• 2026-08-19 ^05:28 Slop's Achilles Heel: It Increases the Workload, Not Just Costs
• 2026-08-19 ^06:23 Improving techrights.org
• 2026-08-19 ^08:03 Links 19/08/2026: Timothy James King (AmigaDOS) Dies, GitHub Goes Offline, Finland Wants to Shun Social Control Media
• 2026-08-19 ^12:01 Instant Impact: GNU/Linux Skyrockets to 10% in China Days After Policy Changes
• 2026-08-19 ^13:51 Microsoft's Active Directory ("AD") and "Entra" Are National Security Threats
• 2026-08-19 ^14:19 Microsoft's Mass Layoffs Impact the Ability to Run Microsoft
• 2026-08-19 ^15:43 No, WSL (Windows With Fake 'Linux') Isn't Growing Faster Than Ubuntu, This Was Disinformation Spread by a Microsoft Propaganda Site, Then Spread by Slopfarms
• 2026-08-19 ^16:05 Omarchy is Already Dying [updated]
• 2026-08-19 ^17:01 Gemini Links 19/08/2026: What Friendship Means, Sm0lNet/SmolNet, and New Feeds
• 2026-08-19 ^17:04 Links 19/08/2026: First Amendment Under Fire by White House of Cards, "Universities Were Forced to Pay Up" for Not Censoring
• 2026-08-19 ^17:23 Fired by IBM for Medical Leave, Rampant Censorship of IBM Critics Explained
• 2026-08-19 ^17:37 SLAPP Censorship - Part 154 Out of 200: Computer-Generated Legal Filings From Men Who Are Salaried by Mass Plagiarism Companies in Another Continent (America)
• 2026-08-19 ^21:15 Clownflare: More Than 1 in 5 Laptops or Desktops in El Salvador Run GNU/Linux or ChromeOS
• 2026-08-19 ^21:35 Firefox in Trouble in the US, Down to Lowest Level in 20+ Years
• 2026-08-19 ^22:29 Gemini Links 19/08/2026: "Big Boost in Autonomy" and "Answer of E-Mail"
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• 2026-08-20 ^04:45 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 19, 2026
• 2026-08-20 ^04:46 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-08-20 ^05:13 Gemini Links 20/08/2026: Planners, Pantsing, Vinylyssee
• 2026-08-20 ^05:48 SLAPP Censorship - Part 155 Out of 200: Throwing Stones in Houses Made of Glass
• 2026-08-20 ^07:05 The Demise of Social Control Media Continues
• 2026-08-20 ^08:18 Clownflare Sees GNU/Linux at 16% Market Share on Desktops/Laptops in Tajikistan
• 2026-08-20 ^11:11 Links 20/08/2026: Facebook "Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians" and Facebook Faces "Social [Control] Media Addiction Trial"
• 2026-08-20 ^16:18 Looking Ahead at September
• 2026-08-20 ^16:30 Clownflare Reckons GNU/Linux is on Almost 1 in 10 Laptops/Desktops in Western Europe
• 2026-08-20 ^17:40 Gemini Links 20/08/2026: A "Break From Routine" and "Modem Was the Problem"
• 2026-08-20 ^17:41 Links 20/08/2026: 'Linux' Foundation Promoting Slop Hype for Money (Hype as a Service), Malaysia’s Exports Jump 38% Year-on-Year
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• 2026-08-21 ^01:22 Gemini Links 21/08/2026: "Ensmallening the BigWeb", "Rust Dependencies"
• 2026-08-21 ^01:45 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 20, 2026
• 2026-08-21 ^01:47 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-08-21 ^01:53 SLAPP Censorship - Part 156 Out of 200: Brett Wilson LLP Becoming Wilson FC
• 2026-08-21 ^02:57 The IBM Censorship Team, PIPs (Silent Layoffs) in IBM Europe
• 2026-08-21 ^03:17 [Satire] Pocock, Binface & nobodies vs Farage: defamation before UK High Court
• 2026-08-21 ^03:29 £5 Million Unsolicited/Undisclosed Bribes and What That Means to British Politics
• 2026-08-21 ^03:58 IBM Offers Workers Some Money to Fire Themselves, It's Called "Next Step" and It's Allegedly 'Extended' (Not Enough Fools Have Fired Themselves)
• 2026-08-21 ^04:30 The State of Slopfarms About "Linux" in August 2026
• 2026-08-21 ^05:02 Secret Layoffs at Microsoft, Apparently More Sites Will Shut Down Entirely
• 2026-08-21 ^05:22 Clownflare: In Past 12 Months Microsoft Windows Fell From ~80% to ~75% on Desktops/Laptops in Asia
• 2026-08-21 ^05:43 Northern Europe Leads the Pack in Abandoning Windows After Threats Made to Greenland (Says Clownflare Data)
• 2026-08-21 ^06:25 SLAPP Censorship - Part 157 Out of 200: What is a 'Defamation Troll'?
• 2026-08-21 ^08:04 Links 21/08/2026: "Silicon Valley’s Billionaire Cults Are Coming for Democracy" and "Who’s Raking it in as the National Debt Explodes?"
• 2026-08-21 ^08:10 North America: GNU/Linux Measured at 13%-15% Every Night
• 2026-08-21 ^13:57 The Slop Pyramid Scheme (Not Boon!) Isn't Good for GNU/Linux, Even If the Plagiarism Engines (Framed as "Training" or "Intelligence") Almost Always Run GNU/Linux
• 2026-08-21 ^14:21 Slop-ware: Nobody Knows What Code Goes Into Linux and Most Developers Cannot Understand the Rust Code (Even If They Tried)
• 2026-08-21 ^15:39 Mass Layoffs at IBM, But Mostly in Secret (PIPs and 'Voluntary' Redundancies)
• 2026-08-21 ^18:49 Gemini Links 21/08/2026: Rain Coming Back and "Small Internet"
• 2026-08-21 ^18:54 Links 21/08/2026: Outrage Over Politicians Who Support Slop-Feeding Data Centres, "America Is About to Get More Expensive"
• 2026-08-21 ^19:36 Ubuntu is Not Linux
• 2026-08-21 ^19:59 Sources-First Publication
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• 2026-08-22 ^05:29 IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 21, 2026
• 2026-08-22 ^05:30 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-08-22 ^06:12 New Data Shows Microsoft's XBox is Really Dying
• 2026-08-22 ^08:26 Links 22/08/2026: TikTok Settles With Feds, Harms Caused by Social Control Media Gaining Attention
• 2026-08-22 ^08:36 SLAPP Censorship - Part 158 Out of 200: Making Alliances With Men Arrested for Strangling Women Was Always a Terrible Strategy
• 2026-08-22 ^14:48 Gemini Links 22/08/2026: The Bodyguard (1992), Minimalism, Backups, and IPFS
• 2026-08-22 ^15:34 Another Round of GAFAM Layoffs, This Time Apple
• 2026-08-22 ^16:21 'Voluntary' Mass Layoffs at IBM/Red Hat
• 2026-08-22 ^18:15 Links 22/08/2026: Prince Harry, Elton John and Others Pay High Price for Frivolous Litigation in the UK
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• 2026-08-23 ^00:28 Gemini Links 22/08/2026: Broken Car, Devuan, and Thundermail
• 2026-08-23 ^01:06 Clownflare Data US-Centric
• 2026-08-23 ^01:29 Microsoft to Its Workers in April-May: You're Too Old, Go Away. Microsoft in August: Young People, Go Away.
• 2026-08-23 ^01:43 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 22, 2026
• 2026-08-23 ^01:46 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-08-23 ^02:34 SLAPP Censorship - Part 159 Out of 200: Telling Courts False Information and Spoon-feeding Them Insults, Hoping or Expecting Them to Repeat These Insults
• 2026-08-23 ^03:51 "AGI" is Decades Old and It Never Found a Viable Business Model or Real, Actually Useful Use Cases
• 2026-08-23 ^04:47 The Slop Industry Bribed the Media to Pretend It Has Something New and Revolutionary. Now It Bribes Politicians Too. Anything to Avoid Scrutiny and Regulation.
• 2026-08-23 ^05:03 Microsoft is in Double Trouble in Singapore
• 2026-08-23 ^05:52 Links 23/08/2026: Slop "Children's Stories Contain Bizarre Patterns" and "Butterflies at the One Garden"
• 2026-08-23 ^13:55 Links 23/08/2026: Water Crises, Illegal Tariffs, and Carney Confronts US Over Patent Imperialism
• 2026-08-23 ^14:07 France: GNU/Linux Averaging at 7%, Peaked at 14% Today
• 2026-08-23 ^14:36 PIPs and Lawsuits: On the Future of IBM Trying to Spit Out Its Own Staff at Minimal Cost
• 2026-08-23 ^15:28 Northern Africa: GNU/Linux Measured at Around 5%
• 2026-08-23 ^17:02 Gemini Links 23/08/2026: Exercising Again, Tackling Phone Addiction, and Putting Graal Online Back Online
• 2026-08-23 ^17:55 Things Not to Fear Missing Out on
• 2026-08-23 ^18:20 GNU/Linux Usage Measured at 23% in Russia Today
• 2026-08-23 ^18:53 You Can Lose Some Battles and Still Win the War
• 2026-08-23 ^19:10 Cloudflare Sees a Quarter of Requests in China Coming From GNU/Linux Today
• 2026-08-23 ^19:30 The Sniff Test
• 2026-08-23 ^19:52 Will Your "Modern" New Car Still be on the Road in 2060?
• 2026-08-23 ^20:09 Gemini Links 23/08/2026: Turning 60, PineTime, and Simulation Hypothesis

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