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Attacks on Techrights Make Techrights Stronger and Attract More Whistleblowers to Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 09, 2026,
updated Mar 09, 2026

Shooting Yourself in the foot

6 days ago: The Harder They Attack Tux Machines, The More People Will Read Tux Machines

The sister site is already set to have a record year. We too are on a roll, with well over 200 pages/articles since the start of last week:

  1. 2026-03-02 02:19 Dr. Andy Farnell on "Good Tech"
  2. 2026-03-02 02:25 Gemini Links 02/03/2026: Weird Phone Calls, Small Phones, and Exploring Racket
  3. 2026-03-02 02:47 Speed of Sites Matters
  4. 2026-03-02 02:48 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 01, 2026
  5. 2026-03-02 02:50 Over at Tux Machines...
  6. 2026-03-02 03:34 IBM is Killing Red Hat's Portfolio - Including Linux - to Prop Up Ponzi Scheme ("AI")
  7. 2026-03-02 03:46 Microsoft Users Drowning in Slop, If They Complain Microsoft Censors Them
  8. 2026-03-02 03:58 There Has Never Been a Better Time to Quit Social Control Media
  9. 2026-03-02 04:43 Links 02/03/2026: "Not Envious of Billionaires" and Palantir SLAPPs "Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn't Want Palantir"
  10. 2026-03-02 05:07 Free Software Foundation Needs to Become More Active in Europe to Avoid Impersonation by Microsoft-Sponsored Groups
  11. 2026-03-02 05:27 Microsoft FUD From Microsoft Site Helps Distract From Actual Microsoft Back Doors
  12. 2026-03-02 05:50 "Over 1,100 Law Firms Gone in Five Years" in the United Kingdom (UK) Alone
  13. 2026-03-02 06:24 LLM Slop Does Not Know People (It Knows Nothing) and Cannot Distinguish Between People. It's a Recipe for Disaster.
  14. 2026-03-02 06:55 TeX Live Has New Release, But Planet Debian Won't Tell You That
  15. 2026-03-02 07:14 More Publishers Have Turned From Slop Boosters Into Slop Sceptics and Critics
  16. 2026-03-02 07:32 Don't Fall for "Top X Law Firms" in "Discipline Y", They Pay $Z to Get False Endorsement/s
  17. 2026-03-02 07:57 2026 Microsoft Mass Layoffs in So-called 'AI' Datacentres, Why Doesn't the Mainstream Media Cover The News?
  18. 2026-03-02 09:39 Links 02/03/2026: Claude Code Causes a Mexican Government Cyberattack, "London Repair Week" Noted
  19. 2026-03-02 14:04 "Here in the UK, GNU/Linux rose to all-time high at Windows' expense"
  20. 2026-03-02 14:11 Was a Lot of "Windows" and "Unknown" in Iran Just GNU/Linux in Disguise?
  21. 2026-03-02 14:47 For the First Time, statCounter Measures Internet Explorer at 0.01% "Market Share"
  22. 2026-03-02 15:14 XBox is Virtually Dead Already, What Next Will Die at Microsoft?
  23. 2026-03-02 15:33 The Topic Many People Don't Want to Talk or Write About
  24. 2026-03-02 16:31 Reporting to Our Politicians/MPs the Failure of the SRA to Stop Hired Guns Who Help Americans (Men Who Attack Women and Nowadays Also Attack British Reporters)
  25. 2026-03-02 16:47 Machine-Generated Legal Documents, Over 2,000 Pages Sent to Us Today Alone
  26. 2026-03-02 17:23 Last Month Matthew Garrett Said Ridiculous Things After His Spouse Had Called Him a "Rapist", Now He's Trying to Take the Site Offline and Put My Family in Prison
  27. 2026-03-02 17:45 Never Miss a Good Opportunity to Shut Up and Drink Coffee
  28. 2026-03-02 18:08 Windows Falls to New Low in World's Largest Population (India)
  29. 2026-03-02 18:16 Richard Stallman is Giving a Public Talk This Week (Friday in Lucerne School of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  30. 2026-03-02 19:37 IBM is Trying to Hide Mass Layoffs, Not Only With NDAs and 'Scripted' LinkedIn Posts
  31. 2026-03-02 20:26 Gemini Links 02/03/2026: Small Phones, "I 3D Printed My Brain", and "Managing 5 Servers at Once with tmux"
  32. 2026-03-02 20:29 Links 02/03/2026: More Social Control Media Bans, Climate Change Woes, and "Journalist With Germany's Deutsche Welle Arrested in Turkey"
  33. 2026-03-02 20:49 Microsoft Mass Layoffs: Being Sacked at 1AM in the Morning
  34. 2026-03-02 21:06 Only One Slopfarm Seems to Have Targeted "Linux" Today
  35. 2026-03-02 21:08 Tomorrow should be sunny (at long last!) and a generally productive dayProductive Week Ahead
  36. 2026-03-03 06:05 Gemini Links 03/03/2026: GrapheneOS and Keyboard Shortcuts
  37. 2026-03-03 06:06 IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 02, 2026
  38. 2026-03-03 06:08 Over at Tux Machines...
  39. 2026-03-03 06:30 Queensland Health Payroll System: IBM billion-dollar-blowout inquiry
  40. 2026-03-03 07:24 Links 03/03/2026: Security Breaches, Iceland Wants EU Membership, and "Wall Street–Backed Lawmakers Want to Help Banks Gouge You"
  41. 2026-03-03 07:44 GNU/Linux Measured at 7% in Yemen
  42. 2026-03-03 07:53 Keeping Track of IBM Layoffs in March 2026
  43. 2026-03-03 08:16 Streisand Effect, the Microsoft Way
  44. 2026-03-03 08:28 EPO and "Equivalent to More Than 100 Days of Strike"
  45. 2026-03-03 10:40 Links 03/03/2026: "No one wants to read your AI slop" and "chatbots in the kill chain"
  46. 2026-03-03 12:49 Confirmed: Using Slop Gets You Fired
  47. 2026-03-03 13:36 When EPO Team Managers (TMs) Are Harassing People Who Strictly Apply the European Patent Convention (EPC) in Patent Examination
  48. 2026-03-03 14:02 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 1 Out of 200: Claim No. KB-2024-001270 in a Nutshell
  49. 2026-03-03 14:08 Bad faith: Hugo Roy knew FSFE impersonating FSF before French tribunal, colleagues deceived
  50. 2026-03-03 14:49 GNU/Linux at All-Time High in Guam
  51. 2026-03-03 15:06 Nobody is Safe at IBM (or Red Hat)
  52. 2026-03-03 16:20 Richard Stallman Confirms Talk in Bern Next Week
  53. 2026-03-03 17:41 Gemini Links 03/03/2026: Phones, LLMs, and Changes on the Web
  54. 2026-03-03 17:43 Links 03/03/2026: "Scam Altman in Damage Control" and Oil Traffic Disrupted
  55. 2026-03-03 19:20 EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part VI - Influx of Spaniards and Portuguese Workers (+77%) at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, Led by the 'Alicante Mafia'
  56. 2026-03-03 19:51 Defending Women Isn't a Crime, Everybody Can Agree on That
  57. 2026-03-03 20:03 Our EPO and IBM Coverage Bears Fruit
  58. 2026-03-03 20:28 Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Failed to Detect Fraud in Law Firms... Until It Was Too Late
  59. 2026-03-03 20:42 Madame Streisand Wanted to Censor The Web, Instead She 'Created' a New Term, "Streisand Effect"
  60. 2026-03-03 20:57 Over 1,500 EPO Workers Went on Strike Last Week
  61. 2026-03-04 04:10 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 03, 2026
  62. 2026-03-04 04:11 Over at Tux Machines...
  63. 2026-03-04 04:49 Free Software Foundation Supports Its Founder, Advertises His Talks in Switzerland
  64. 2026-03-04 05:06 The EPO's General Consultative Committee (GCC) Discussion Illuminates How Much Worse Things Have Gotten ("on Strike and Participated in the 'Meeting'")
  65. 2026-03-04 05:45 Gemini Links 04/03/2026: The Garnet Star, The Hunt, The SYN Attacks
  66. 2026-03-04 06:06 GNU/Linux in Laptops/Desktops Still Matters, It's Likely the Only Way to Achieve Software Freedom
  67. 2026-03-04 07:07 Media Blackout Reducing or Preventing Press Coverage of Microsoft Layoffs in 2026
  68. 2026-03-04 07:41 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 2 Out of 200: Detailed Timeline From 2012 (Attack on Reporters That Question Restricted Boot) to 2024 (Lawsuit Against Reporter and His Wife in Another Continent)
  69. 2026-03-04 08:16 High GNU/Linux Adoption in Brunei Darussalam
  70. 2026-03-04 08:28 Coming Soon: Evidence of Abuse in Our IRC Network
  71. 2026-03-04 09:39 Links 04/03/2026: "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling" and a call to "Nationalize Amazon"
  72. 2026-03-04 15:29 Why Slop Will Flop - Part I - Slop Fatigue Prevalent
  73. 2026-03-04 15:39 Nicaragua's GNU/Linux Usage Measured at Over 8% by statCounter
  74. 2026-03-04 15:55 The Register MS Takes Money From Chinese Surveillance Threat to Promote a Ponzi Scheme
  75. 2026-03-04 16:13 Gemini Links 04/03/2026: About a Missing Symbol and "Good Manners"
  76. 2026-03-04 16:32 Simpler Means Faster
  77. 2026-03-04 16:38 Why Slop Will Flop - Part II - Devil in the Details
  78. 2026-03-04 17:12 Why Slop Will Flop - Part III - Our Relationship With Slop (and Yours)
  79. 2026-03-04 19:48 Links 04/03/2026: Scam Altman Causes Chatbot Sub Numbers to Plunge, "Stocks Drop as Inflation Risk Emerges"
  80. 2026-03-04 20:04 Android is Proprietary 'Linux' and It Becomes More Malicious Over Time, Google Only Delayed What It Planned All Along
  81. 2026-03-04 20:27 Why Slop Will Flop - Part IV - We've Seen the End of It
  82. 2026-03-04 21:06 FSF Promoting Richard M. Stallman (RMS) Talk in Switzerland in Just Over a Day From Now
  83. 2026-03-05 05:58 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, March 04, 2026
  84. 2026-03-05 05:59 Over at Tux Machines...
  85. 2026-03-05 07:24 Gemini Links 05/03/2026: Greed and Sentiments Shifting Against Slop
  86. 2026-03-05 07:26 Links 05/03/2026: A Bet Against Substack, American Government Openly Hostile Towards Environment
  87. 2026-03-05 07:36 Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Others Promoting String of RMS Talks, Starting Tomorrow in Lucerne School of Computer Science and Information Technology
  88. 2026-03-05 08:03 "Silent Layoffs" or "Forever Layoffs" at IBM and Red Hat (After Bluewashing)
  89. 2026-03-05 13:51 Links 05/03/2026: New LexisNexis Data Breach Confirmed, "Goldman Sachs Head During Financial Crisis Says He “Smells” a Similar Crash Coming"
  90. 2026-03-05 14:05 2026 Seems Like (Potentially) the Last Year of Slop Drowning News Sites
  91. 2026-03-05 14:29 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 3 Out of 200: A More In-Depth Breakdown
  92. 2026-03-05 14:35 Another EPO Strike a Fortnight From Now, Local Staff Committee Munich (LSCMN) Shares 127-Page Document Explaining How Policies Impact EPO Staff
  93. 2026-03-05 14:56 Microsoft and Microsoft's 'Open' 'AI' Seeking Bailout From the Pentagon Means Brand Erosion
  94. 2026-03-05 15:23 IBM Union Says Many IBM Layoffs in Europe, With Netherlands and Belgium Confirmed, Allegedly Italy Soon (200 Layoffs)
  95. 2026-03-05 16:09 IBM Hates Computer Freedom. This Means Red Hat Too is an Enemy of Software Freedom.
  96. 2026-03-05 16:30 Ubuntu is Controlled by a Youngster From the British Army (Background in Mass Surveillance), So One Can Expect Ubuntu to Not Respect Privacy
  97. 2026-03-05 16:45 'Former' Red Hat Staff Upset That Techrights Covers IBM Accounting Problems
  98. 2026-03-05 16:59 Without IBM, Microsoft Would Not Have Taken Off. Both Companies Need to be 'Taken Down'.
  99. 2026-03-05 18:06 Myanmar/Burma: Growing Acceptance of GNU/Linux, Big Losses for Windows
  100. 2026-03-05 18:49 Libel/Defamation Law Does Not Exist to Cover up Crimes
  101. 2026-03-05 19:29 Dr. Richard Stallman in Ada Lovelace Lecture Series 20 Hours From Now in Lucerne School of Computer Science and Information Technology (Rotkreuz)
  102. 2026-03-05 19:50 "AI Companies" Running Out of Money, GAFAM Layoffs Are Signs of Weakness, Not "AI Efficiency" or Novelty
  103. 2026-03-05 20:08 It's Not "AI", IBM is Collapsing Due to Financial Difficulties, "All Small Country Offices Will Close"
  104. 2026-03-05 20:15 Gemini Links 05/03/2026: Industrial Panettone, Cancel, and LLMs
  105. 2026-03-06 03:06 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 05, 2026
  106. 2026-03-06 03:08 Over at Tux Machines...
  107. 2026-03-06 03:37 IBM's March 2026 Layoffs Already Happening (to Accelerate Soon in Europe and America)
  108. 2026-03-06 03:52 In Argentina Firefox is Measured at Only 1%, Google Chrome (Proprietary) at About 90%
  109. 2026-03-06 04:14 Thousands of EPO Workers Rally Against EPO Management
  110. 2026-03-06 04:32 Richard Stallman in the United States - Part IV - Back to Switzerland
  111. 2026-03-06 04:53 EPO Staff to 'Meet' This Coming Tuesday to Plan Industrial Actions Including Upcoming Strikes
  112. 2026-03-06 05:07 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 4 Out of 200: Rianne’s Version of Events and Narrative
  113. 2026-03-06 05:34 Microsoft ‘Project Helix’ is Just a Tweet in MElon's "X"
  114. 2026-03-06 05:57 GNU/Linux Seen as Rising to 20% in Eritrea, But That's statCounter Identifying "Unknown" as GNU/Linux
  115. 2026-03-06 06:13 Murder as a 'Joke' to GAFAM People (Sociopathy)
  116. 2026-03-06 06:21 New XBox Boss (Sharma) Implicitly Confirmed XBox (the Console) is Now Dead
  117. 2026-03-06 06:54 The Techrights Static Site Generator (SSG) Turns 5 Next Year
  118. 2026-03-06 07:02 Microsoft 'Open' 'AI' Has Severe Financial Problems, Version Inflation ("GPT-5.4") is Mindless Hype and a Misleading Distraction
  119. 2026-03-06 07:21 Microsoft Windows Used to be Identified on Over 99% of Web Requests From Benin. Now It's Around 50%.
  120. 2026-03-06 07:40 IBM Red Hat Layoffs: It's Not About "AI"
  121. 2026-03-06 08:05 Dr. Richard Stallman Starts His Talks in Switzerland in 8 Hours
  122. 2026-03-06 08:17 International Women's Day: At the EPO, for Women to Become Managers They Need to Sleep With Well-connected Men and Mingle With Corrupt Men
  123. 2026-03-06 08:43 Threats Issued to Daniel Pocock Having Launched the JuristGate Web Site Which Covers Financial Fraud in "Legal Insurance" Clothing
  124. 2026-03-06 09:24 Garrett Does Not Just Try to Cover Up for Himself, He's Clearly Covering Up for His Mates From Microsoft (and Admits Third Parties Fund His Litigation, With Their Legal Bills Estimates Already Approaching $1,000,000)
  125. 2026-03-06 14:17 Links 06/03/2026: Can't Copyright Slop in US, Microsoft Became Slop Provider for Militarism
  126. 2026-03-06 14:28 Gemini Links 06/03/2026: "Setting up the Feed" and Using Molly Brown
  127. 2026-03-06 16:15 Dr. Richard Stallman (RMS), the Man Whose Mind Scares GAFAM et al, Began Speaking in Switzerland
  128. 2026-03-06 16:27 It's Friday and Many People Publicly Announce Leaving IBM (Which is Engineering 'Willful' Departures to Mask RAs' Scale)
  129. 2026-03-06 19:24 Links 06/03/2026: LLM Prompt-injection Vulnerability in Microsoft's Proprietary GitHub, "260,000 Federal Jobs Lost"
  130. 2026-03-06 19:48 Defending British Democracy From American Predators
  131. 2026-03-06 19:58 LLM Slop Rare and Scarce This Friday
  132. 2026-03-06 20:22 Dances With Wolves, Wakes Up With Fleas
  133. 2026-03-06 21:01 Lots of People Leaving IBM Today
  134. 2026-03-06 21:36 Under IBM, Some Fedora Blog Posts Have Become LLM Slop! (Red Hat is Doomed by Slop Fanaticism)
  135. 2026-03-07 05:41 Gemini Links 07/03/2026: Coffee Problem, Marchintosh, Learning, and "Selectively Disabling HTTP"
  136. 2026-03-07 05:43 IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 06, 2026
  137. 2026-03-07 05:44 Over at Tux Machines...
  138. 2026-03-07 05:54 The Register MS, Sponsored by Communist Party of China (CPC)
  139. 2026-03-07 06:11 "IBM Has Changed So Much in the Last Decade to the Point It's Completely Unrecognizable."
  140. 2026-03-07 06:37 Spooking or Chasing Away Women (From Computer Science)
  141. 2026-03-07 06:48 The Free Software Community is Gaining Momentum as Its Importance is More Broadly Realised
  142. 2026-03-07 06:56 The Corporate Media Repeated the Lies Told by Jack Dorsey ("AI" Hype), Now It Does the Same for Larry Ellison
  143. 2026-03-07 07:49 Links 07/03/2026: Fuel Already Running Low and "Economic Crisis of the Iran War"
  144. 2026-03-07 11:42 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 5 Out of 200: Clearly Not a Security Professional/Expert, Only Ever Pretending to be One
  145. 2026-03-07 12:14 New Lows for Microsoft in Micronesia
  146. 2026-03-07 13:31 Microsoft's Thailand Problem
  147. 2026-03-07 16:00 Links 07/03/2026: CJEU to Finally Examine Behaviour of the Illegal and Unconstitutional Unified Patent Kangaroo Court, Creative Commons (CC) Hosts Open Heritage Statement Event in Amsterdam
  148. 2026-03-07 16:32 Cyber|Show by Andy and Helen Recommended by Techrights and Tux Machines
  149. 2026-03-07 16:35 Gemini Links 07/03/2026: Humour, Chilling, and Oversized 'Phones'
  150. 2026-03-07 16:53 WIRED (Conde Nast) Reviews Are Paid-for Marketing Spam, They Change Dates on Old 'Articles' to Make Them Look Relevant and New
  151. 2026-03-07 17:12 Microsoft is Losing It, Now It's Censoring Its Critics and Sceptics
  152. 2026-03-07 17:32 Nations Stand to Benefit From Gender Equality and Increased Participation by Women
  153. 2026-03-07 17:42 Starting Another New Series This Evening, It's About American Folly
  154. 2026-03-07 18:15 Coinbase - Like Block - is in Huge Trouble, Its Debt Nearly Doubled in Half a Year
  155. 2026-03-07 18:47 Why They Always Try to Shoot the Messenger (When the Message Harms Profits)
  156. 2026-03-07 20:08 An American War on GNU/Linux, Software Freedom, and British Investigative, Science-Based Reporting - Part I - A Matter of National Security
  157. 2026-03-07 20:56 The Harder They Attempt to Take Down This Site (and Take Away Liberties), the More People Will See This Site
  158. 2026-03-07 21:29 Gemini Links 07/03/2026: Buying Woodland, Indra 1.3.0 Available, and LLM Exhaustion
  159. 2026-03-08 04:53 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 07, 2026
  160. 2026-03-08 04:55 Over at Tux Machines...
  161. 2026-03-08 05:26 Bruce Perens: Richard Stallman "Has Achieved His Goal"
  162. 2026-03-08 05:37 Even Fedora Leadership Cannot Figure Out the Microsoft Kill Switch/Back Door, 'Secure' Boot
  163. 2026-03-08 06:07 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 6 Out of 200: Intentionally Misnaming Women, People Who Offered to Testify That They Too Had Been Subjected to Similar Abuse
  164. 2026-03-08 06:31 Gemini Protocol in Its Prime
  165. 2026-03-08 06:42 Activism/Journalism in Our Blood
  166. 2026-03-08 11:11 Links 08/03/2026: Cisco Holes Again and "Blatant Problem With OpenAI That Endangers Kids"
  167. 2026-03-08 15:57 Links 08/03/2026: Microsoft Lost $400 Million on "Project Blackbird" and Half the States Sue Over Illegal Tariffs
  168. 2026-03-08 16:44 Insiders Explain Why IBM is Dying and the Inherent Culture Problem
  169. 2026-03-08 16:52 Almost a Slopless Weekend for "Linux"
  170. 2026-03-08 17:06 Attack on Copyright and Copyleft by Code Conversion Is Nothing New, It Predates Slop (Code Produced by LLMs) by Several Decades
  171. 2026-03-08 17:33 An American War on GNU/Linux, Software Freedom, and British Investigative, Science-Based Reporting - Part II - Trying to Put People in Prison for Committing the Act of Journalism
  172. 2026-03-08 18:07 Discrimination and Prejudice Against Female Journalists
  173. 2026-03-08 18:42 Too Focused on Buzzwords the Media is Paid to Saturate the Collective Mind With
  174. 2026-03-08 18:54 Suppressing Speech by Blackmail, the Iran Story
  175. 2026-03-08 19:30 The Slop Companies Gamble at Our Economy's Expense and They Know It's a Losing Bet (So It's a de Facto Robbery)
  176. 2026-03-08 19:49 Richard Stallman Gives Talk in 20 Hours at Ostschweizer Fachhochschule Campus in Rapperswil-Jona
  177. 2026-03-08 20:18 Hard to Replace 'Human Touch'
  178. 2026-03-09 03:47 Sloppyleft
  179. 2026-03-09 04:13 Gemini Links 09/03/2026: Exponentials and Tailscale
  180. 2026-03-09 04:15 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 08, 2026
  181. 2026-03-09 04:16 Over at Tux Machines...
  182. 2026-03-09 05:14 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 7 Out of 200: Like With the Serial Strangler From Microsoft, Misuse of UK-GDPR to Try to Hide Embarrassing Facts
  183. 2026-03-09 05:47 Why The Register MS Sold Out to Microsoft: They're Losing Lots of Money, The Register MS is Bleeding to Death, Based on Its Own Financial Records
  184. 2026-03-09 06:11 Using Slop (and Slop in Articles) to Attack Copyleft 'on Budget'
  185. 2026-03-09 09:49 Links 09/03/2026: GAFAM Outsourcing, "MAGA Political Meddling" in EU, Indonesia Bans Social Control Media for Children Under 16
  186. 2026-03-09 10:08 Dr. Andy Farnell on How GAFAM, NVIDIA and Others Lie to People Via the Sponsored Media to Prop Up Lies Under the Guise of "AI"
  187. 2026-03-09 10:18 EPO Strike 10 Days From Now, Planning Assembly Tomorrow, Last Couple of Strikes Had High Participation Rates (1,500-1,600 Staff Went on Strike)
  188. 2026-03-09 10:41 What the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and Action Fraud UK Have in Common
  189. 2026-03-09 11:07 Richard Stallman (RMS) Talk Five Hours From Now
  190. 2026-03-09 15:06 IBM's Fedora as a Booster of Slop Disguised as Code or Computer Programs
  191. 2026-03-09 15:17 Richard Stallman (RMS) Talks in 30 Minutes, Next Stop Bern (Last Stop)
  192. 2026-03-09 15:41 People Who Work or Worked at IBM Hate It
  193. 2026-03-09 16:19 Links 09/03/2026: Many Security Breaches and a Pandemic of Censorship
  194. 2026-03-09 16:31 No Slop Found in RSS Feeds, Only in Google News
  195. 2026-03-09 16:47 Richard Stallman (RMS) Has Defeated Cancel Culture, a Mostly American Phenomenon
  196. 2026-03-09 16:51 Police investigations, lawsuits & Debian leader election candidate shortage
  197. 2026-03-09 17:18 An American War on GNU/Linux, Software Freedom, and British Investigative, Science-Based Reporting - Part III - Very Strong Legal Basis for an Appeal
  198. 2026-03-09 17:49 Iran & FSFE: blackmailing women, from football to the French Government (CNIL)
  199. 2026-03-09 18:04 RMS is 73 Next Week
  200. 2026-03-09 19:10 European Patent Office (EPO) to "Eventually Eliminate the Tasks Performed by Formalities Officers"; EPO Run by People Without Experience in Patents
  201. 2026-03-09 19:27 People at IBM Are Still Smart Enough to Understand What's Really Going on
  202. 2026-03-09 19:47 The Register MS Has Just Taken Money From Google (Where the Former Chief Editor Now Works) for Femmewashing and Ponzi Scheme Promotion
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Gemini Links 21/03/2026: Historic Ada Docs; The Lurking LLM on the SmolNet
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HSBC the Latest Failed Bank Using Slop as Excuse for Its Financial Failure
"HSBC is planning on cutting as many as 20,000 jobs in the near future as the company allies with AI revolution."
A/Prof Susan G Kleinmann, Enkelena Haxhija & Debian-private risk to MIT
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 20, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, March 20, 2026
Plagiarism in "Linux" Clothing (LLM Slop in linuxiac.com, LinuxTeck.com, and linuxsecurity.com)
The net effect of those slopfarms is very negative
Links 20/03/2026: Facebook Weaponised Politically, Openwashing by LF and NVIDIA, Encyclopedia Britannica Sues Microsoft Proxy for Plagiarism
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The EPO's Local Staff Committee Munich (LSCMN) Explains to the Administrative Council (AC) How Bad Things Have Become at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, Biggest Patent Office, and Corruption/Cocaine Hub (Jobs Sold to Friends)
We'll say a bit more tomorrow
IBM's Red Hat Diversity: Only 3 Women (Out of 11 Leaders)
For comparison's sake, the FSF is about 50% female
Symptom of Publishers Dying: They Move to Adopt Slop. Symptom of Software Companies Dying: They Move to Adopt Slop ('Vibe').
It'll always fail. It's hype. It's a bubble.
Under IBM, Red Hat Replaces Code With LLM Slop, Fedora is Slopware
Not even hiding it, those things are in plain sight
Gemini Links 20/03/2026: Depictions of Culture and The Social Smolnet
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SimilarWeb Was Never a Reliable Yardstick for Traffic
5RB may need some "house-cleaning"
Strangulation, suffocation, Jonathan Carter & Debian toxic culture confirmed
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Reports or Hearsay Suggest Ogilvy Broke Up With IBM and Insiders Report Mass Layoffs in "Infrastructure" (Might Impact Red Hat Entrants)
hearsay in Social Control Media
Scheduled Server Maintenance Tomorrow Night
Starting 9PM
None of the Above (NotA) & Debian snubbing Sruthi Chandran
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Links 20/03/2026: Cryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award and BMG Sues Anthropic for Copyright Infringement
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Even Uganda Understands That Journalists Never Belong in Prison
"Ugandan authorities must respect the spirit of this ruling and abandon any measures that seek to jail Ugandans for the free flow of ideas."
Inaction Helps Your Enemies
Without freedom, there's nothing else left
Windows Down From 99% to ~50% in Republic of Seychelles (République des Seychelles)
Windows fell by a lot
"systemd is essentially a corporate IBM/Redhat project and corporations of course will comply"
Microsoft and IBM care about users' freedom like Cheeto Lump cares about the US Constitution
Confluent Insiders: IBM Laid Over Over 800 at Confluent, Not Just 800
For the record, the layoffs at Confluent won't be over. After the bluewashing there will be "IBM RAs" impacting Confluent folks, aside from PIPs
The Layoffs at IBM Carry on (Shades of Enron)
Is IBM another Enron?
"IBM boss Arvind Krishna... financial package valued at $38 million in calendar 2025 - equivalent to the average collective pay of 765 Big Blue workers."
continues to ruin the company to enrich himself while pretending he has a strategy
Gemini Links 20/03/2026: Digital Identity Bifurcation and a "Return to Gemini"
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Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 19, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, March 19, 2026
SLAPP Censorship - Part 16 Out of 200: Detailing the Actors and Explaining Techrights' Own Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Network
For those who have not followed our story
Microsoft "hiding behind bigger news of war, Epstein, other companies' layoffs"
They know what's coming, they just don't know when
Joerg Jaspert (Debian Account Manager/DAM) personally approved Raphael Hertzog's wife Sophie Brun
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Letter 'A' prohibited by Code of Conduct extremism
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Spoiler: Diversity & Debian means different things to different people
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Admits Failures and Criticism of Inaction on SLAPPs
many if not all solicitors and solicitor firms in the UK are in effect unregulated
Archiving or Preserving Pages About IBM Layoffs
Layoffs at IBM and the media does not talk about these
ABC, the American National Broadcaster, "Now Publishes Slop"
If the "big media" absorbs slop, it'll no longer be trusted and therefore not read/watched by the public
Links 19/03/2026: Culling Deepfakes of Artists’ Music and "Age Verification Isn’t the Answer"
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Gemini Links 19/03/2026: "Aktion GPT-4" and "Kill All Descendants"
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"AI" 15 Times in Short 'Article' From The Register MS. And The Register MS Got Paid to Publish It.
gets paid to do this
People Who Decided to Boycott Novell Over Its Microsoft Alliance Should Also Boycott Canonical
As an associate put it, "selling out further, due to Microsoft moles inside Canonical"
Links 19/03/2026: "AI Glasses" as Euphemism for Mass Surveillance and ABC (US) Has Begun Publishing Slop as 'News'
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The European Patent Office, Europe's Second-Largest Institution, is on Strike Today
Lots more to come
What People Impacted by the Bluewashing Layoffs at IBM Confluent Say (While the Media Says Nothing at All, in Effect Burying the News)
Worse yet, the mainstream media spreads lies about it right now
IBM Has Turned Red Hat and Fedora Into Slop
This is IBM policy
IBM is Being Robbed, Companies and Jobs Are Destroyed
Companies taken over by IBM will be exploited and destroyed to keep a bubble inflated for a little while longer
In Confluent Layoffs, IBM Vapourises a Quarter of Its Workforce (IBM Buys Something That It Destroys Already)
In the past, such things were typically referred to as "media blackout"; now it's just "the norm".
IBM Effect at Confluent: Mass Layoffs and IBM's Business Conduct Guidelines (BCGs) Said to be Violated
For Confluent employees who survived the layoffs there will be "culture chock"
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, March 18, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Links 19/03/2026: LLM Fatigue (It Doesn't Work as Advertised), "Small Web Feeds"
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