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<description>bonum certa men certa</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Writing for Good (updated)</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/02/Writing_for_Good.shtml</link>
<description>The Web has an abundance of junk</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 15:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXVIII - Microsoft Doesn't Want People to Speak About Microsoft-Controlled Restricted ('Secure') Boot, a Silent Injustice and Back Door/Kill Switch (updated)</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/02/Intercontinental_Brigading_Part_XXVIII_Microsoft_Doesn_t_Want_P.shtml</link>
<description>Can we please stop treating this as normal or acceptable?</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 06:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Links 01/11/2026: Digital Minimalism and "Palantir Cofounder Announces Cruel Plan to Breed Thousands of Lab Monkeys for Medical Experiments" (updated)</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/01/Links_01_11_2026_Digital_Ninimalism_and_Palantir_Cofounder_Anno.shtml</link>
<description>Links for the day</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 18:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Windows Down to All-Time Low, Says statCounter, While Microsoft Tells 60,000 Workers They're No Longer Necessary</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/02/Windows_Down_to_All_Time_Low_Says_statCounter_While_Microsoft_T.shtml</link>
<description>Microsoft must be feeling "salty" right now</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>A British Uphill Battle to Eliminate Microsoft and Its American Back Doors</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/02/A_British_Uphill_Battle_to_Eliminate_Microsoft_and_Its_American.shtml</link>
<description>There are places of work and homes where GNU/Linux is installed and regularly used, not as a mere hobby but as a hyper-productive, practical tool</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 15:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Technical Coverage of US Elections</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/02/Technical_Coverage_of_US_Elections.shtml</link>
<description>When elections are done by computers and decided by computers it becomes a tech issue</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 14:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>By Killing the "Linux News Section" in Softpedia (the Most Popular Section, Based on Its Editor) Softpedia Killed Itself</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/02/By_Killing_the_Linux_News_Section_in_Softpedia_the_Most_Popular.shtml</link>
<description>Enjoy Ballmer</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Linkspam in "It's FOSS" Today (and It's Not Even FOSS)</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/02/Linkspam_in_It_s_FOSS_Today_and_It_s_Not_Even_FOSS.shtml</link>
<description>free-to-access ad for some dodgy companies and the URLs are 'tampered' for cashback</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Links 02/11/2026: Slop Destroying Mathematics and "Democracy is Not on the Ballot" (in US)</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/02/Links_02_11_2026_Slop_Destroying_Mathematics_and_Democracy_is_N.shtml</link>
<description>Links for the day</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Celebrating Photography, Celebrating Life, Celebrating Magnificent Humanity, Not Plagiarism Disservices</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/02/Celebrating_Photography_Celebrating_Life_Celebrating_Magnificen.shtml</link>
<description>Any time we adopt or spread slop imagery we are participating in the problem</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Year-Long Celebration Starts on Saturday</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/02/Year_Long_Celebration_Starts_on_Saturday.shtml</link>
<description>This coming Saturday we turn 20</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>On Desktops/Laptops, Clownflare Sees Windows at Under 60% and GNU/Linux at 15% This Past Weekend</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/02/On_Desktops_Laptops_Clownflare_Sees_Windows_at_Under_60_and_GNU.shtml</link>
<description>Impressive if accurate</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 04:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Microsoft Lunduke is Slop</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/02/Microsoft_Lunduke_is_Slop.shtml</link>
<description>Microsoft Lunduke is just trying to stir up hatred</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 04:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXVII - Shooting the Messengers (People Who Oppose Microsoft Back Doors), Even Across the Atlantic</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/02/Intercontinental_Brigading_Part_XXVII_Shooting_the_Messengers_P.shtml</link>
<description>Keep this in mind later this week when a dictator either discredits the voting or covertly tampers with the voting process</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 03:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Microsoft Wants 60,000 Employees Gone (One Way or Another)</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/02/Microsoft_Wants_60_000_Employees_Gone_One_Way_or_Another.shtml</link>
<description>At IBM, 15% of staff got marked as candidates for removal; at Microsoft it's almost 30%</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 03:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Over at Tux Machines...</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/02/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml</link>
<description>GNU/Linux news for the past day</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 02:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 01, 2026</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/02/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_November_01_2026.shtml</link>
<description>IRC logs for Sunday, November 01, 2026</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 02:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Jean-Claude Van Linus</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/02/Jean_Claude_Van_Linus.shtml</link>
<description>Claude talking?</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 02:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Gemini Links 01/11/2026: OpenBSD, Broken MicroHDMI, Nextcloud, and More</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/01/Gemini_Links_01_11_2026_OpenBSD_Broken_MicroHDMI_Nextcloud_and_.shtml</link>
<description>Links for the day</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 19:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>IBM Vapourware on a Budget (to Grab Bailouts From US Taxpayers)</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/01/IBM_Vapourware_on_a_Budget_to_Grab_Bailouts_From_US_Taxpayers.shtml</link>
<description>Anderon is the sort of thing that makes IBMers uncomfortable</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 18:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Microsoft Accenture in Trouble, Accenture’s Debt Skyrockets</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/01/Microsoft_Accenture_in_Trouble_Accenture_s_Debt_Skyrockets.shtml</link>
<description>Seeing a wave of adoption of Free software in Europe, it's not exactly shocking that "consultants" from Microsoft Accenture are no longer in demand</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 18:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Microsoft Says Its "Goodwill" Value Has Been Declining for Years, But It Also Claimed That Doubled in One Year</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/01/Microsoft_Says_Its_Goodwill_Value_Has_Been_Declining_for_Years_.shtml</link>
<description>Wall Street deserves far more criticism or scepticism (at the very least)</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 18:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>SkyChatz: From Nothing to #2 in IRC (in Less Than a Year)</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/01/SkyChatz_From_Nothing_to_2_in_IRC_in_Less_Than_a_Year.shtml</link>
<description>Second only to Libera.Chat</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 17:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Making Up Words or Inventing a Vocabulary</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/01/Making_Up_Words_or_Inventing_a_Vocabulary.shtml</link>
<description>Or why Large Language Models are useless</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 17:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Assange on What Lula Means to Free Press</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/01/Assange_on_What_Lula_Means_to_Free_Press.shtml</link>
<description>Here in the UK we've also found our 'Lulas'</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 17:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>GNU/Linux is No Underdog (But There Are Attempts to Put It "To Sleep")</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/01/GNU_Linux_is_No_Underdog_But_There_Are_Attempts_to_Put_It_To_Sl.shtml</link>
<description>There's a moral imperative</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 16:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXVI - The "Law and Order" Candidate Who Crushes Both Law and Order and Even Rejects Election Outcomes (Insurrection Follows)</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/01/Intercontinental_Brigading_Part_XXVI_The_Law_and_Order_Candidat.shtml</link>
<description>A world without real technical security is a world void of democracy, justice, and human rights</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 15:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Links 01/11/2026: Malaysian Media Perishing, France Belatedly Identifies Social Control Media as Weaponised Yellow Press</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/01/Links_01_11_2026_Malaysian_Media_Perishing_France_Belatedly_Ide.shtml</link>
<description>Links for the day</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 13:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Gemini Links 01/11/2026: "Trick-or-Treating seems to be dead, at least in our neighborhood"; BaseFree Numerical System and Human Emacs</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/01/Gemini_Links_01_11_2026_Trick_or_Treating_seems_to_be_dead_at_l.shtml</link>
<description>Links for the day</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Over at Tux Machines...</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/01/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml</link>
<description>GNU/Linux news for the past day</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 31, 2026</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/11/01/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_October_31_2026.shtml</link>
<description>IRC logs for Saturday, October 31, 2026</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Gemini Links 31/10/2026: MangoWM, Qutebrowser and Codeberg, Plugh</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/31/Gemini_Links_31_10_2026_MangoWM_Qutebrowser_and_Codeberg_Plugh.shtml</link>
<description>Links for the day</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 22:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Massive Cuts Inside Microsoft (the Media Does Not Talk About That)</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/31/Massive_Cuts_Inside_Microsoft_the_Media_Does_Not_Talk_About_Tha.shtml</link>
<description>It is in many ways like IBM a decade ago</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 21:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>In US Government Sites, GNU/Linux Measured at New All-Time High of 7% (or About 10% Across Desktops/Laptops Alone)</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/31/In_US_Government_Sites_GNU_Linux_Measured_at_New_All_Time_High_.shtml</link>
<description>There's no doubt GNU/Linux is growing</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 20:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>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</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/31/Intel_Has_Just_Lost_in_One_Single_Day_Over_150_Billion_Dollars_.shtml</link>
<description>This really says a lot about Wall Street and the slop bubble, doesn't it?</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 20:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>They Hate Him Because He's Effective</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/31/They_Hate_Him_Because_He_s_Effective.shtml</link>
<description>Effective voices invite more aggressive censorship attempts</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 19:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Audience Growing in Spite of the Deluge of Webslop</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/31/Audience_Growing_in_Spite_of_the_Deluge_of_Webslop.shtml</link>
<description>We probably benefit from the rejection of LLM slop</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 19:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Munich FUD Tactics (Microsoft Modus Operandi): Microsoft-Connected Sites Claim Denmark Failed With Free Software, But That's Not What Actually Happened</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/31/The_Munich_FUD_Tactics_Microsoft_Modus_Operandi_Microsoft_Conne.shtml</link>
<description>With Microsoft, it almost always boils down to politics</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 19:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Links 31/10/2026: John Romero Comeback After Being Shafted by Microsoft, Google Faces Criminal Probe Over Deforestation in Finland</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/31/Links_31_10_2026_John_Romero_Comeback_After_Being_Shafted_by_Mi.shtml</link>
<description>Links for the day</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Gemini Links 31/10/2026: Rambling on Self-hosting and Ad Video Screens Don’t Make Money</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/31/Gemini_Links_31_10_2026_Rambling_on_Self_hosting_and_Ad_Video_S.shtml</link>
<description>Links for the day</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 18:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Can't Trust Big Banks, Let's Try 'Bros' Instead?</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/31/Can_t_Trust_Big_Banks_Let_s_Try_Bros_Instead.shtml</link>
<description>But let's blame "North Korea"</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 16:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>IRC's Growing Popularity in 2026</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/31/IRC_s_Growing_Popularity_in_2026.shtml</link>
<description>No company controls or profits from IRC, it is in the Commons</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 15:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>"AI" as Surrogate for Debt and Distraction From Computing (Bots Described as "Agents" and/or Any Form of "Intelligence" is More Like a Religion)</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/31/AI_as_Surrogate_for_Debt_and_Distraction_From_Computing_Bots_De.shtml</link>
<description>We're letting people without even college degrees game the "market" (Wall Street) by lying to it</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 14:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXV - Election Integrity at a Time of Back Doors and Very Severe Bugs in UEFI</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/31/Intercontinental_Brigading_Part_XXV_Election_Integrity_at_a_Tim.shtml</link>
<description>How dare British media comment on insurrection following a US election?</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 13:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>"The Judge Accepted That Mrs Schestowitz Had Been the Subject of a Vicious Campaign of Online Harassment"</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/31/The_Judge_Accepted_That_Mrs_Schestowitz_Had_Been_the_Subject_of.shtml</link>
<description>That's consistent with how they men treat women</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Gemini Links 31/10/2026: Hallowe'en and "Thinking About People"</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/31/Gemini_Links_31_10_2026_Hallowe_en_and_Thinking_About_People.shtml</link>
<description>Links for the day</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 08:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Links 31/10/2026: The Hinge on Apple's Constantly Breaking New Foldable iPhone Was "Built With Slop", Slop Causes Cash Squeeze GAFAM</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/31/Links_31_10_2026_The_Hinge_on_Apple_s_Constantly_Breaking_New_F.shtml</link>
<description>Links for the day</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 07:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Amazon's Debt Skyrockets by Almost 100 Billion Dollars in 9 Months</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/31/Amazon_s_Debt_Skyrockets_by_Almost_100_Billion_Dollars_in_9_Mon.shtml</link>
<description>On top of that there is additional (secret, kept stealth by accounting tricks) debt</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>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)</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/31/Google_Illegally_Destroyed_a_Quarter_Million_Trees_Without_a_Pe.shtml</link>
<description>Google is bleeding from slop</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Slavery at Microsoft</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/31/Slavery_at_Microsoft.shtml</link>
<description>illegal if true</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Many People "Left" Red Hat This Month, Including Yesterday</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/31/Many_People_Left_Red_Hat_This_Month_Including_Yesterday.shtml</link>
<description>We already saw this with SUSE</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 05:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Gemini Links 31/10/2026: "Where I Draw the Line With" Slop Plagiarism and "Nobody Cares That You're Leaving Proton" (Over Slop)</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/31/Gemini_Links_31_10_2026_Where_I_Draw_the_Line_With_Slop_Plagiar.shtml</link>
<description>Links for the day</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 05:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Over at Tux Machines...</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/31/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml</link>
<description>GNU/Linux news for the past day</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 05:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 30, 2026</title>
<link>https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/31/IRC_Proceedings_Friday_October_30_2026.shtml</link>
<description>IRC logs for Friday, October 30, 2026</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 05:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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