Chronological Index, Page 164

2026-10-26 ^03:03 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 25, 2026
2026-10-26 ^03:05 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-10-26 ^03:49 Gemini Links 26/10/2026: Brazilian Politics and Leaving Bear Blog
2026-10-26 ^03:52 Links 25/10/2026: Microsoft Layoffs and Cuts, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Wins Election
2026-10-26 ^04:27 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XV - Annualised Consequences for Opposing Microsoft Back Doors in Linux Since 2012
2026-10-26 ^04:58 In Reporting, Timing is Everything
2026-10-26 ^08:03 Links 26/10/2026: China’s Communist Party Plenum and Aleksandar Vucic Concedes Defeat
2026-10-26 ^14:22 European Patent Office Takes From the Poor to Give More to the Rich
2026-10-26 ^14:46 More Stories and Material Than We Can Publish
2026-10-26 ^14:59 Shift to the Lula (Left)
2026-10-26 ^15:42 Search Without Encryption for Legacy Systems (Permacomputing) and Full Backward Compatibility
2026-10-26 ^16:04 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XVI - The Faustian Pact That Irritates Hired Guns is Still a Distraction From the Serious Harm Done by Their Clients to GNU/Linux Users (Notably Plagiarism and Back Doors)
2026-10-26 ^17:20 This is How Microsoft Ends (Over a Quarter of the Company Now on the Chopping Block)
2026-10-26 ^17:41 Microsoft 'Buyouts' Sound Just Like 60,000 Layoffs of 'Expensive' or More Experienced Staff ('Soft' Layoffs or Even Worse, Negligible Severance)
2026-10-26 ^17:52 The Register MS Gets Rid of Disclosures About Paid-for Spam Regarding "AI", It Also Composes Fake News for the Sponsors
2026-10-26 ^18:13 Gemini Links 26/10/2026: Writing Down Dreams and "Sabbath as Resistance"
2026-10-26 ^18:16 Links 26/10/2026: Microsoft Chaffbot "Building Detailed Psychological Profiles of Its Users", Man Executed for Childhood Offenses
2026-10-27 ^01:31 Gemini Links 27/10/2026: "To Change or Not To Change?" and "Initial Planner Plans"
2026-10-27 ^02:20 Richard Stallman Was Right About "Hey Hi"
2026-10-27 ^02:47 It's Perfectly Possible That Microsoft Has Just Told Most of Its American Workers to Leave
2026-10-27 ^03:05 As Microsoft Tells Close to 30% of Its Staff to Leave IBM Takes Notes
2026-10-27 ^03:11 IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 26, 2026
2026-10-27 ^03:12 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-10-27 ^03:42 Slop is Killing the Open Web
2026-10-27 ^04:13 Volunteers or Unpaid Developers Won't Bother Interacting With Mindless LLMs That Pass Labour From Lazy Companies to Human Beings
2026-10-27 ^05:50 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XVII - The Relevance of Silent Layoffs at Microsoft
2026-10-27 ^07:23 We've Already Begun Work on the 20th Year of Techrights
2026-10-27 ^07:46 The British Economy Too Dependent on an American Slop Scheme
2026-10-27 ^08:08 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XVIII - Microsoft is Not the Victim (It Was Never the Victim), It's Just DARVO
2026-10-27 ^14:22 Links 27/10/2026: Google Increases Spying on Online Everything (Personal Files, Mail), Anthropic Takes Its Losses and Debt Public
2026-10-27 ^19:46 Links 27/10/2026: "Why My Dad Didn’t Have a Cell Phone" and Sudan Famine Risk
2026-10-27 ^20:10 Gemini Links 28/10/2026: BaseFree Numerical System, Tolino Vision 2, and More
2026-10-27 ^20:49 The Need for Operating System Kernels That Forbid LLM Slop
2026-10-27 ^21:05 Just Jealous
2026-10-27 ^21:30 "EVENTS" as Paid Spam (Marketing) at The Register MS
2026-10-27 ^21:38 The Cyber Show on Plagiarism (BS Artists) and Fear of GNU/Linux Users
2026-10-28 ^05:03 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 27, 2026
2026-10-28 ^05:05 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-10-28 ^05:33 Compelling Examiners at the European Patent Office to Fake "Growth" (in Patent Monopolies) Using Slop and Sloppy Processes
2026-10-28 ^06:35 Intercontinental Brigading - Part IX - Literature About Malignant Narcissists in America Silencing the Press
2026-10-28 ^08:02 Racism at Microsoft
2026-10-28 ^08:12 100 Years of IBM Racism
2026-10-28 ^09:09 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XX - Restricted and Moot, or How 'Secure Boot' Turns Out to be a Disaster (Again) This Week
2026-10-28 ^09:26 Gemini Links 28/10/2026: Cold Outside Again and Maths
2026-10-28 ^09:49 Links 28/10/2026: "Rest of World Faces Prospect of Shutting Down" and Robert Reich Says "Musk Wants Me Imprisoned"
2026-10-28 ^14:03 The Corrupted Corporate Media is Spinning Massive Microsoft Layoffs as "Investment in AI" Instead of Evidence That "AI" Nonsense is Catastrophic
2026-10-28 ^21:03 Gemini Links 28/10/2026: Slop Plagiarism Considered a "Weapon", "Completely restored HTML interface to the Orbital Fox mailing list"
2026-10-28 ^21:05 Links 28/10/2026: Slop Bubble Pops in China, Rocky Linux Creator Becomes Slopper, Openwashing by the Slop Pushers Explained
2026-10-28 ^22:40 Turning Point for the Slop Industrialists
2026-10-28 ^23:00 Project Glasswing and PHP2Shell vulnerability
2026-10-29 ^02:48 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 28, 2026
2026-10-29 ^02:49 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-10-29 ^03:11 Linux Links 29/10/2026: Refractor Stargazing and Making Better Use of RAM in Linux
2026-10-29 ^03:51 What Makes Techrights a Community
2026-10-29 ^04:10 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXI - Techrights Was Right, So Why Was It Punished by Lawfare While the Culprits Walk Away Scot-free?
2026-10-29 ^04:55 No, Microsoft Isn't Doing Well (It Has Struggled for a Long Time)
2026-10-29 ^04:59 'Secure' Boot Is Not Secure, Here Are News Reports About the Latest Evidence
2026-10-29 ^06:21 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXII - Still "Radio Silence" From "Restricted Boot" Perpetrators (After Techrights Proven Right Again)
2026-10-29 ^09:09 Links 29/10/2026: Anthropic Still Sued Over Copyright Infringement (Plagiarism Isn't "Training"), Elon Musk Openly Admits He Helps Putin Crush Ukraine
2026-10-29 ^14:28 The Register MS is Publishing Spam About "AI" for HP, Sponsored by HP, Even Composed by HP
2026-10-29 ^20:32 Gemini Links 29/10/2026: London, Worcestershire, and Robot Exclusion Protocol
2026-10-29 ^20:38 Links 29/10/2026: Microsoft-Connected and Funded Openwashing at FOSDEM, Tragedy in Spain
2026-10-29 ^21:09 The Next 50 Years of Emacs (and GNU)
2026-10-29 ^21:31 It's About Intention, Not Attrition, at Microsoft
2026-10-29 ^21:55 More Than 5 Years Have Passed Since Official Release of Vista 11 and in the US It's Measured as Only 3 Times Bigger Than GNU/Linux on the Desktop/Laptop
2026-10-29 ^22:01 The Metric is Not the Mission
2026-10-30 ^04:27 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 29, 2026
2026-10-30 ^04:28 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-10-30 ^04:42 Gemini Links 30/10/2026: RIP Patrick Stewart and Amp Integration
2026-10-30 ^05:22 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXIII - What Garrett Did Puts Elections at Risk (Also in His Own Country, Where a Dictator Trusts Only Machines That 'Support' Him)
2026-10-30 ^06:05 Who Or What Are Security Professionals/Experts?
2026-10-30 ^07:35 GNU/Linux as a Free Software Platform is More GNU (and GPL) Than Linux
2026-10-30 ^07:59 What Linus Torvalds Told Me Two Decades Ago
2026-10-30 ^08:15 Fake 'Articles' in The Register MS Concerning "AI"
2026-10-30 ^11:42 Links 30/10/2026: Google Crashes on Slop Disappointment and GAFAM's "Data Center Blitz Is Burning Through Cash and Scaring Wall St."
2026-10-30 ^15:07 Microsoft Layoffs Far Worse Than the Media Tells (Microsoft Spin Laundered as "Reporting")
2026-10-30 ^15:21 Gemini Links 30/10/2026: Solar MiniBBS, Kubernetes With FreeBSD, "Sysadmin Day"
2026-10-30 ^16:19 Despite the Mass Layoffs Microsoft's Debt Soared by 5.1 Billion Dollars in Just 3 Months
2026-10-30 ^16:35 "Early Retirement" (Silent Layoffs) for Everybody Except the Executives
2026-10-30 ^18:10 Birss Replaces Vos in UK's High Court, LLM Slop Plagiarism a Contentious Issue
2026-10-30 ^19:38 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXIV - It's an Inherently American Issue and American Elections Are at Risk From Restricted ('Secure') Boot and LLM Chatbots (Disinformation at Scale)
2026-10-30 ^21:03 Links 30/10/2026: "Over 41,000 DHS Employee Records Leaked Online" and Concerns Over Radicalism in France
2026-10-31 ^05:14 IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 30, 2026
2026-10-31 ^05:15 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-10-31 ^05:28 Gemini Links 31/10/2026: "Where I Draw the Line With" Slop Plagiarism and "Nobody Cares That You're Leaving Proton" (Over Slop)
2026-10-31 ^05:41 Many People "Left" Red Hat This Month, Including Yesterday
2026-10-31 ^06:17 Slavery at Microsoft
2026-10-31 ^06:23 Google Illegally Destroyed a Quarter Million Trees Without a Permit for a Hypothetical Project That Might be Cancelled, Debt Has Soared by 30 Billion Dollars in 3 Months ($10 Billions Borrowed Per Month)
2026-10-31 ^06:36 Amazon's Debt Skyrockets by Almost 100 Billion Dollars in 9 Months
2026-10-31 ^07:52 Links 31/10/2026: The Hinge on Apple's Constantly Breaking New Foldable iPhone Was "Built With Slop", Slop Causes Cash Squeeze GAFAM
2026-10-31 ^08:38 Gemini Links 31/10/2026: Hallowe'en and "Thinking About People"
2026-10-31 ^12:23 "The Judge Accepted That Mrs Schestowitz Had Been the Subject of a Vicious Campaign of Online Harassment"
2026-10-31 ^13:29 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXV - Election Integrity at a Time of Back Doors and Very Severe Bugs in UEFI
2026-10-31 ^14:17 "AI" as Surrogate for Debt and Distraction From Computing (Bots Described as "Agents" and/or Any Form of "Intelligence" is More Like a Religion)
2026-10-31 ^15:46 IRC's Growing Popularity in 2026
2026-10-31 ^16:37 Can't Trust Big Banks, Let's Try 'Bros' Instead?
2026-10-31 ^18:37 Gemini Links 31/10/2026: Rambling on Self-hosting and Ad Video Screens Don’t Make Money
2026-10-31 ^19:00 Links 31/10/2026: John Romero Comeback After Being Shafted by Microsoft, Google Faces Criminal Probe Over Deforestation in Finland
2026-10-31 ^19:08 The Munich FUD Tactics (Microsoft Modus Operandi): Microsoft-Connected Sites Claim Denmark Failed With Free Software, But That's Not What Actually Happened
2026-10-31 ^19:44 Audience Growing in Spite of the Deluge of Webslop
2026-10-31 ^19:59 They Hate Him Because He's Effective
2026-10-31 ^20:16 Intel Has Just Lost in One Single Day Over 150 Billion Dollars in 'Value' (Market Cap), Intel is Also Over 50 Billion Dollars in Debt
2026-10-31 ^20:47 In US Government Sites, GNU/Linux Measured at New All-Time High of 7% (or About 10% Across Desktops/Laptops Alone)
2026-10-31 ^21:36 Massive Cuts Inside Microsoft (the Media Does Not Talk About That)
2026-10-31 ^22:35 Gemini Links 31/10/2026: MangoWM, Qutebrowser and Codeberg, Plugh
2026-11-01 ^05:36 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 31, 2026
2026-11-01 ^05:38 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-11-01 ^06:15 Links 01/11/2026: Digital Minimalism and "Palantir Cofounder Announces Cruel Plan to Breed Thousands of Lab Monkeys for Medical Experiments"
2026-11-01 ^06:46 Gemini Links 01/11/2026: "Trick-or-Treating seems to be dead, at least in our neighborhood"; BaseFree Numerical System and Human Emacs
2026-11-01 ^13:18 Links 01/11/2026: Malaysian Media Perishing, France Belatedly Identifies Social Control Media as Weaponised Yellow Press
2026-11-01 ^15:45 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXVI - The "Law and Order" Candidate Who Crushes Both Law and Order and Even Rejects Election Outcomes (Insurrection Follows)
2026-11-01 ^16:46 GNU/Linux is No Underdog (But There Are Attempts to Put It "To Sleep")
2026-11-01 ^17:04 Assange on What Lula Means to Free Press
2026-11-01 ^17:35 Making Up Words or Inventing a Vocabulary
2026-11-01 ^17:51 SkyChatz: From Nothing to #2 in IRC (in Less Than a Year)
2026-11-01 ^18:10 Microsoft Says Its "Goodwill" Value Has Been Declining for Years, But It Also Claimed That Doubled in One Year
2026-11-01 ^18:21 Microsoft Accenture in Trouble, Accenture’s Debt Skyrockets
2026-11-01 ^18:34 IBM Vapourware on a Budget (to Grab Bailouts From US Taxpayers)
2026-11-01 ^19:19 Gemini Links 01/11/2026: OpenBSD, Broken MicroHDMI, Nextcloud, and More

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