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Microsoft is - and has long been - organised crime
They Say I'm Mr. Bombastic
They didn't take good lawyers
 
Live as You Preach
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Culling Bad RSS Feeds of Bad Sites
Not throwing out the baby with the bathwater
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Links 09/06/2025: Science, Hardware Projects, and Democracy Receding
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BetaNews is a Plagiarism and LLM Slop Hub, the Chief Editor Isn't Addressing This Problem Anymore
SS Fagioli is basically a parasite leeching off or exploiting other people's work
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Links 09/06/2025: Windows TCO and Many Data Breaches
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Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part VI: Political Stunts by Former President Edyta Demby-Siwek and the Connection to Profound Corruption at EUIPO
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Gemini Links 09/06/2025: Pipelines and Splitgate
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Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
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IRC logs for Sunday, June 08, 2025
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Gemini Links 08/06/2025: Love as an Ethnographic Method and Monitorix Gemini-Frontend v0.1
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Links 08/06/2025: Exposure of More GAFAM Surveillance and Social Security Records Compromised
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Linux Foundation is a Mediator for Microsoft et al, Not for Small Companies That Support Rather Than Attack the GPL
Many people still wrongly assume that because it is called "Linux Foundation", then it is pro-Linux and represents the same mindset
This Past Friday, Confirming What We Said All Along About Brett Wilson LLP: It's Shrinking, Has Considerable Debt, Loss of Net Assets Despite the Microsoft SLAPP Money
The documents only became publicly available less than 2 days ago
Some of the Many Reasons We Sued Microsofters for Harassment
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In the eyes of rich and powerful people, those who speak about their crimes are the "criminals"
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Over at Tux Machines...
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IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 07, 2025
IRC logs for Saturday, June 07, 2025
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"Linux" Sites That Spew Out LLM Slop
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