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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 09, 2024

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We shared some positive words around the LibreOffice project

New
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The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn

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Blaming "Linux" for Things That Are Not Linux

Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation in the media
Today in Techrights

Some of the latest articles

The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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The Register MS Helps Prove the "AI" Frenzy in the Media is Evidence of Compromised Media, Not Legitimate "Revolution": Ignore the hype and carry on
Microsoft Insiders on "Effectively Being Silently Laid Off From Microsoft": People are laid off by the thousands without the media uttering a word or the companies confirming anything
Microsoft's XBox CEO Asha Sharma Tells Staff That Many Thousands of Layoffs Are in Fact "Return to Growth": Get it? Layoffs are "growth".
Gemini Links 07/10/2026: Nostalgia, Neutral Map, and Shorthanding: Links for the day
Links 08/10/2026: Slop Scammers (Pushers) Inflate Hosting Bills and "YouTube Testing Everything": Links for the day
London Became Synonymous With the Royal Courts of Justice: London used to be a place where we go on holiday/retreat/break; nowadays we have only one destination there
Brigading Against Women - Part XXIII - Extremism in the Mix and Getting the Police Involved: In 2012 I was getting heckled a lot for opposing back doors in Linux; it has not stopped since
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 07, 2026: IRC logs for Wednesday, October 07, 2026
Gemini Links 07/10/2026: On Feeling Guilty Leaving the US, Multinet, and Limiting Net Usage: Links for the day
The Cyber Show Explains the Concept of "Data Rape": a metaphor some might find crude
FREE BEER is Still Online, But Barely Active: 25 years ago or even 20 years ago many spoke of open/free beer (or "COLA")
Syria: GNU/Linux Has Surged to 8% "Market Share": I don't have a convincing explanation for this
IBM Dimming Down the Lights on IBM Consulting, No Knowledge or Experience Required: They just "ride" the (old) brand, that's all
Statement on American SLAPP: Crossposted from schestowitz.com
Today The Register MS Published "SPONSORED FEATURE" and "SPONSORED POST" With "AI" 31 Times in Them: This isn't a "Reality" or "Era of AI", it's a paid-for spam campaign
Links 07/10/2026: Unrest in France and Rumours of Plague in Russia: Links for the day
Brigading Against Women - Part XXII - The Lozza Problem (in Length): Garrett's case was a waste of the Court's money
JavaScript in Richard Stallman's Web Site: For search he is using CGI, not JavaScript
EPO's Local Staff Committee The Hague (LSCTH) Plans Presentation Next Week (Coinciding With Apparent Coronation of 'Cocaine King' Campinos): They've outsourced this session to the dictator's spying eye
The GNOME Foundation's Code of Conduct Has Been Misused to Hide Corruption: People who value free speech and freedom of expression won't touch social control media with a 10-foot bargepole
Voting for Freedom of the Press: American elections happen every 4 years
What Brett Wilson LLP and Matt Garrett Don't Want People to See/Read: Book-burning is counterproductive
Book-Burning Mindset Does Not Work: It makes the suppressed voices more widely known
Microsoft's XBox in 'Freefall': XBox is practically finished
Slop is Plagiarism: Plagiarism is not "theft" and copyright infringement is not "piracy"
IBM is Almost Defunct: IBM is doomed. It just tries to test how much more patience the shareholders have.
Criminalisation of Journalism: "Journalist Derya Okatan arrested in Turkey for allegedly possessing classified material"
Brigading Against Women - Part XXI - Hiding Behind the Veil of "Privacy" After Telling Nazi Things in IRC Channels of Techrights and Physically Threatening People: To merely explain an abuse (or crime) requires naming people; that's a fundamental tenet of reporting
Links 07/10/2026: Quitting Smartphone and "Meta's Muse Is Spying on All Your Friends and Family": Links for the day
Gemini Links 07/10/2026: Greed, In Praise of Zotero, and The de-Google Path: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 06, 2026: IRC logs for Tuesday, October 06, 2026
Microsoft Hiring Only on the Cheap: Much of the same can be said about GAFAM and IBM
Gemini Links 06/10/2026: Nightfall Express, Shorthanding, and Raspberry Pi Desktop Gets a Debian Trixie Refresh: Links for the day
20th Anniversary Next Month: We are currently trying to agree on a plan for next month's celebrations
Taking Photos With Richard Stallman (RMS): What's the point?
GAFAM Attack on FreeDesktop: Now they push lots of LLM slop into Linux
EPO Union Bemoans Lack of Social Dialogue as Dictator Wishes to Govern Forever (No Elections, No Rivals), Hide the Many Issues: "Exchange of open letters"
GNU/Linux Has Risen in France Since the Order to Adopt GNU/Linux (in Public Services): We can expect the same in countries like Denmark, Switzerland, Germany, and The Netherlands
On Microsoft Hiring Freeze or No Permanent Jobs at Microsoft Anymore (Amid Many Silent Layoffs): Microsoft has changed what it can offer workers
IBM Cannot Hide the Layoffs Forever: we welcome whistleblower to tell us more and send us documents related to that
EPO's Central Staff Committee Asking The Council to Get Rid of Corrupt Campinos: We'll be covering EPO scandals around the time of that meeting
Gemini Links 06/10/2026: EU Kids Act, Practicality of Gemini, and Games: Links for the day
Links 06/10/2026: Data Breaches Epidemic and Turkey Blocking Journalists: Links for the day
The Whole Point of Computing is That Computers Are Deterministic (Speed With Predictable Accuracy): Unlike stochastic parrots that stochastically utter out lies
It's Not a Linux Back Door If It's an Unpatched Device: "Linux Backdoor" is a glaring misfit, a possibly 'obscene' term
What is a Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA)? When Law Firms Become the Litigants.: And the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) needs to be more serious about tackling this
Brigading Against Women - Part XX - Attempts by Lozza to Deplatform Techrights and Tux Machines Only Days After I Sued Garrett and My Wife Also Sued Garrett (Shortly Before the Serial Strangler From Microsoft Joined): in 2024
Links 06/10/2026: A Year Since "NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner Released From Prison", World Tries to Deal With El Niño: Links for the day
"SIRIUS CORPORATION LIMITED" as Evidence of the Financial Shell Games in the UK: Rianne and I still have some fond memories of the time the ex-wife of the CEO treated us like human beings
Lots of Silent Layoffs at IBM Last Week, Employees Explain Patterns of Those Impacted: It wasn't just gossip, it actually happened even if the media chose to look the other way (as usual)
Gemini Links 06/10/2026: Fighting for Purpose, Gemlogs, and Gemtext: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 05, 2026: IRC logs for Monday, October 05, 2026