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Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2008-04-18 05:06:37 UTC
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Recent Techrights' Posts

Hopefully Slopwatch is Dying: Some of the offending sites we used to keep abreast of descended into a lull
Gemini Links 07/12/2025: "Lazy Saturday" and Kubernetes With FreeBSD: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, December 06, 2025: IRC logs for Saturday, December 06, 2025
Links 06/12/2025: Science, Hardware, and Slop Fatigue: Links for the day
Contact Your National Representatives (Delegates) at the EPO, Here Are All the E-mail Addresses: We'll say more about this next week
Links 06/12/2025: Panic in the Slop (Chatbots) Industry and Perplexity Sued by New York Times for Plagiarising Articles Under Guise of "AI": Links for the day
European Patent Office Issues: Points to Raise or Factoids to Share With Delegates of the EPO's Administrative Council: use their native language/tongue
European Readers, Get Ready to Contact Your National Representatives (Delegates) in the EPO's Administrative Council: Perfect timing might be Sunday or Monday
Why We'll Continue Our IBM/Red Hat Focus in 2026: There will be many more departures not only later this month but also next month
Links 06/12/2025: Slop's "Jeopardy Phenomenon" and RAM Shortage: Links for the day
Gemini Links 06/12/2025: Memories, "Sweetness and Burn", and Hope: Links for the day
Every Site That Uses Clownflare Had Worse Downtime/Uptime Record Than Ours: And the same goes for Azure and AWS
Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Does Not Work for Freedom, It Works to Secure the Massive Salary of Its President And Executive Director: We must be very effective then
Why (and When) I Become an 'Activist' Against Corruption and Abuse: The dictatorship bans criticism of the dictatorship. That's when there's a deadlock.
EPO Call for Action: Get Ready to Contact Your National Delegates, We Need to Remind Them That They Represent People: Today or tomorrow we'll publish contact details for national representatives in nearly 50 European nations
Links 05/12/2025: More Restrictions on Social Control Media and Slop, "Hype Can Turn to Backlash": Links for the day
Like With Red Hat and Other IBM Acquisitions, the RAs (Layoffs) Seem to Already Extend to HashiCorp: Of course it is possible that HashiCorp staff just got PIP'ed or saw the writings on the wall and left [...] IBM is just a dying giant
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 05, 2025: IRC logs for Friday, December 05, 2025
Massachusetts Institute of Theft (MIT) Nowadays in the Business of Selling SPAM to Prop Up Fashionable Pyramid Schemes: There is nothing benign about it, more so when they misuse the MIT brand to lend credibility to elaborate schemes or scams
Many IBM Departures Today (Last Friday): Way to go, IBM leadership
The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation Has More Reasons Than Cocainegate to Vote for Real Change in the European Patent Office: This is about democracy and accountability in Europe
Gemini Links 05/12/2025: Need for Simpler Systems, Molecular Dynamics, and More: Links for the day
Slopwatch: Not Much Today, Same as in Recent Weeks: Google News got 'conned' (maybe willingly) by one operator of several (at least 3) slopfarms that trash "Linux"
On IBM: "More Layoffs in Minnesota Are Coming" (Unverified Hearsay, for Now): IBM is having loads of layoffs before the holidays
Links 05/12/2025: Openwashing by Microsoft's 'Open Source' Initiative, Unauthorised War Without Boundaries/Borders Waged by US: Links for the day
Finnish Politician Aura Salla Says Finland Must Dump Microsoft, Citing Security and Control Reasons, Not Costs: She says Finland should quit using Microsoft
Does This Pass the NDA "Sniff Test" at IBM?: In many companies, those who suck up to management get ahead
Links 05/12/2025: Slop Harming Democracy/Elections, More Bans Around the World on Kids' Use of Social Control Media: Links for the day
IBM Has No Layoffs, According to IBM, and According to the Media Parroting IBM: Another day of parrots (losers) who call themselves "journalists"
IBM Will Make You Unemployed On Christmas Eve: lists of people to cull
Within Weeks, Clownflare Has Collapsed Again, Time to Dump Clownflare: It's run by amateurs who, even if you maintain your site perfectly well, will render it inaccessible without prior notice
Cars Getting Worse and More Lethal: Who will be held accountable?
To "Take Back Control" Start With Actions Against 'Tech' (Mass Surveillance, Mass Censorship, Mass Control) Monopolies: collusion, price-fixing, a "cartel" of sorts
Beyond the Hype: Almost Nobody Uses Chatbots, Not Even 1% of Activity Online: 3 years ago when Scam Altman (Microsoft) acted as if Google (search) was doomed a lot of the press got paid to pretend this was true
Rumour That Another IBM Round of Mass Layoffs (RAs) in Preparation Before the Current One is Even Completed: IBM still has strong brand recognition (because of its age and past might), but that won't last forever
Techrights Publication Pace to Increase Next Year: one is encouraged to stay indoors
Upgrading the Site: Debugging might be needed, so feedback helps
Why Microsoft is Panicking: Keep advocating (or "marketing") GNU/Linux to Vista 10 (or Vista 7) users... there are still over a billion of them "out there".
Web Developers in the US Can Already Disregard Mozilla, Firefox, and Firefox Users: "Last month, Firefox turned 21"
The Fate of "Blockchains" and "Metaverse" as a Sign of Things to Come for Slop ("AI"): Doesn't that tell us a lot about the modus operandi of these companies?
A Year After the Owner of X (Twitter) Performed Several Nazi Salutes on Stage the Germany-Based and Microsoft-Funded 'FSFE' Decides to Exit X (Twitter): Will the real Free Software Foundation (FSF) follow suit?
EPO: What Comes Next: European media seems to have been sedated by soft bribes from cocaine addicts
Slopwatch: The Volume of Slop Has Certainly Gone Down a Lot Lately, Slop Image Providers Abandoned/Changed: It's a big improvement compared to past months
Thousands Laid Off at IBM, "Last Day" Yesterday: IBM is a dying company. This is a problem for Red Hat.
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 04, 2025: IRC logs for Thursday, December 04, 2025
Gemini Links 05/12/2025: Espressif ESP32-C5 UEXT Module, Pixelfed, and the Web Getting Much Worse: Links for the day