Bonum Certa Men Certa

Staying Productive

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 06, 2025,
updated Aug 06, 2025

Fish in the machine

Since Monday we've published 63 pages (see below) and it's only 6 AM on a Wednesday. As we said at the end of last month, we wish to spend no more time on the people we sued [1, 2, 3], seeing that they repeatedly fail to meet Orders from Judges and thus dig their own graves [pun intended]. They also repeatedly fail to explain who's funding it.

We'll carry on being productive and cover issues they wish to prevent us talking about. Two very reputable institutions recently told us they now reckon Microsoft is somehow funding those SLAPPs against us.

  1. 2025-08-04 03:27 Gemini Links 04/08/2025: Qubes OS and Curious crypto case of certificates (CCCC)
  2. 2025-08-04 03:28 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 03, 2025
  3. 2025-08-04 03:29 Over at Tux Machines...
  4. 2025-08-04 03:46 It Looks Like Managers at Oracle Now Use LLM Slop to Write Blog Posts
  5. 2025-08-04 04:37 Protecting GNU/Linux-Centric Journalism From Serial Sloppers
  6. 2025-08-04 04:53 In Spain, Microsoft's Search Engine Market Share Fell to 2%
  7. 2025-08-04 05:40 "For Five decades; For freedoms; For all users" (Original EMACS Turns 50 Next Year)
  8. 2025-08-04 05:53 Groklaw Static Site Relaunches With New Theme, But Many Pages and All the Comments Are Missing
  9. 2025-08-04 06:14 Links 04/08/2025: 80 Years Since Last Nuclear War, IPv6 in China
  10. 2025-08-04 06:40 Microsoft's Stock is Like a Religion, Microsoft Goes Into 'Hiding' (From Shareholders)
  11. 2025-08-04 15:49 Gemini Links 04/08/2025: Misiamisia and Mobile Linux
  12. 2025-08-04 15:50 Links 04/08/2025: Very Bad Weather and Travel Restrictions in China
  13. 2025-08-04 16:35 Flagging or Tagging Slop That We Find Online
  14. 2025-08-04 17:24 Microsofters' Lawyers Are Name-calling and Insulting Microsoft Critics, Even Their Spouses
  15. 2025-08-04 17:32 In Many Countries Vista 11 Adoption Stalled or Became Negative
  16. 2025-08-04 19:17 Microsoft and Windows Have Many Back Doors, But LLM Slop Keep Claiming That Linux Has "Backdoor"
  17. 2025-08-05 01:19 Microsoft Layoffs Continue in August 2025
  18. 2025-08-05 01:37 Dr. Andy Farnell Explains How Google Turned From "Librarian" Into "Oracle", Telling Us What to Think Instead of Where to Look
  19. 2025-08-05 01:46 The Register MS Links to the Wrong statCounter Page
  20. 2025-08-05 01:59 ChatGPT in Trouble
  21. 2025-08-05 02:05 IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 04, 2025
  22. 2025-08-05 02:06 Over at Tux Machines...
  23. 2025-08-05 02:12 Gemini Links 05/08/2025: Zombie Threat and Switching to NixOS
  24. 2025-08-05 02:30 About a Quarter of Today's "linux" News in Google News Came From One Domain and It's a Slopfarm
  25. 2025-08-05 04:41 Mongolia: Microsoft Windows at All-Time Low
  26. 2025-08-05 04:53 Shouting is an Indication of a Lack of Convincing Argument
  27. 2025-08-05 05:00 Why We Also Include Gopher Links in Our Gemini (Protocol) Links
  28. 2025-08-05 05:15 Microsoft Windows Fell to 19% "Market Share" in Montenegro
  29. 2025-08-05 05:42 When The Register MS Says "Linux Backdoor" It Actually Talks About Malware
  30. 2025-08-05 06:24 Tesla's Debt More Than Doubled in 2 Years and the Company Will Operate in the Red (at a Loss) Quite Soon
  31. 2025-08-05 06:27 The Debian Language Police Department (PD)
  32. 2025-08-05 06:51 IBM is Shutting Down (Piecewise)
  33. 2025-08-05 07:08 Rumours of Mass Layoffs at Red Hat Next Week (August 11th, 2025)
  34. 2025-08-05 09:06 Links 05/08/2025: Samsung and Microsoft Layoffs
  35. 2025-08-05 12:31 Links 05/08/2025: Hey Hi (AI) Passing Fads and GAFAM "Embracing the Military"
  36. 2025-08-05 15:00 Slopwatch: WebProNews, LinuxSecurity, and Some Success Stories
  37. 2025-08-05 15:16 Introducing Mission:Libre and FreeXR (and BreakXR)
  38. 2025-08-05 15:20 Some Cola Formulas Aren't Secret, But the Barrier is the Branding
  39. 2025-08-05 16:14 The Register is Desperate for Money, According to The Register [updated]
  40. 2025-08-05 16:23 The Register's Editor in Chief (Who Left for Google) Told Me "AI" Was a Bubble, But Now The Register Gets Paid to Participate in Inflating This Bubble
  41. 2025-08-05 16:34 Gemini Links 05/08/2025: Lagrange v1.18.6, No Stagnation in Geminispace, and Fake Coding (Slop)
  42. 2025-08-05 17:05 Microsoft's Washington Layoffs Aren't Everything, They're Definitely Not Happening in Just One State in the US
  43. 2025-08-05 17:23 Zimbabweans Aren't Into Windows or Microsoft
  44. 2025-08-05 17:42 Geminispace Promises Simplicity But Also Provides a "bunch of forums that get flood-filled by agitation against the very essence of Gemini itself"
  45. 2025-08-05 17:58 Calling Plagiarism "Intelligence" is Pure Genius, Brilliance!
  46. 2025-08-05 18:16 Stricter Enforcement of Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act is Sorely Needed
  47. 2025-08-05 18:33 Shortly After a Microsofter Took Over The Register as Editor in Chief Microsoft Tim (Tim Anderson) is Back and It's Still Microsoft Propaganda, Sometimes Funded by Microsoft
  48. 2025-08-05 18:57 IRC Turns 37
  49. 2025-08-05 20:43 Microsoft v Planet Earth
  50. 2025-08-05 20:53 The Inflammatory Influence of Social Control Media Giants
  51. 2025-08-05 21:05 Gemini Links 05/08/2025: Opel Zoo near Frankfurt and Alhena 5.2.5
  52. 2025-08-05 21:16 On "Tragedy of the Commons in the Production of Digital Artifacts"
  53. 2025-08-05 21:31 Openwashing Slop... Using Slop!
  54. 2025-08-06 02:19 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 05, 2025
  55. 2025-08-06 02:22 Over at Tux Machines...
  56. 2025-08-06 02:42 Windows All-Time Lows, Android All-Time Highs in Kuwait
  57. 2025-08-06 03:04 Gemini Links 06/08/2025: BitTorrent and Feedly Bots
  58. 2025-08-06 03:32 Richard M. Stallman Has Published AI Memos Since 1980 (45 Years Ago)
  59. 2025-08-06 04:07 Microsoft is Apparently Sending Gag Orders or NDAs to Staff That Got Laid Off (“We were told not to post on LinkedIn. Not to say anything.”)
  60. 2025-08-06 04:21 New "US Editor for The Register" is 80% Microsoft and Windows
  61. 2025-08-06 04:34 The Mainstream Media Talks About Spotify Share Price and Price Hikes, Not Its Debt Increasing by About 33% in Just 12 Months
  62. 2025-08-06 05:11 Apple's iOS Bigger Than Microsoft Windows in Many Countries
  63. 2025-08-06 05:27 66 Countries Where More People Use iPhones (or iPads) Than Microsoft Windows, According to statCounter Data

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