Microsoft's Copilot and Copilot+ PCs Have Flopped, Manchester United Not Advertising That Junk
Former Red Hat/Open Source (.com) Folk: Let's Just Reset, Set the Goals for Large Corporations' Benefit

[Meme] You're Not Even a Computer Scientist (Certainly No Security Expert)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 28, 2024

Murmur is Free software and it takes one simple command to install it

So some charlatan and liar woke up after a week's hibernation just to bash Mumble 2 hours after we wrote about it, stalking and heckling (i.e. the usual for years already) instead of putting together his Defence [1, 2]. █

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