Links 13/05/2008: Military Fighting Botnets with Botnets
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-13 16:17:21 UTC
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- Rhino Linux Can (and Perhaps Should) Promote Alternatives to Microsoft Instead of Preloading Microsoft
- Deeper down inside Rhino Linux there's a problem
- Slashdot is Once Again Publishing Lies and Revisionism for Bill Gates, Citing Microsoft's MSN to Rewrite History and Distract From the Jeffrey Epstein Crimes
- Of course this also distracts
- Too Big, Will Fail (How Linux Grew Way Too Fat)
- Linux has very extensive hardware support, but that comes at a cost
- Richard Stallman Gives Keynote Address in a Few Hours
- Richard Stallman's personal site was updated to give more details
- IBM Layoffs in 2025: Rumours Say Even Managers Will Get the Axe, Some Via Loopholes Like PIP and/or RTO (Preparations Already Underway)
- Where does IBM's money go?
- FOSDEM Talks Are Vanishing
- They no longer seem to be taking money from Microsoft and/or its tentacles
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- Gemini Links 27/01/2025: IndieWeb Musings and Devlog
- Links for the day
- IBM Layoffs in "Co-location Mandate" Clothing
- It's possible that later this week, around the time of the so-called 'results', many layoffs would be announced
- Microsoft-Funded IDG Seems to be 'Googlebombing' the Term Free Software to Promote Proprietary Spyware Too
- Microsoft advocated along with other proprietary things
- Videos and Photos of Richard Stallman's (RMS) Keynote Address in India Earlier Today
- He probably told the target audience (India) a thing or two about the role of proprietary software in colonialism
- GAFAM Hates - Except in a Worryingly Parasitic Way - GNU/Linux and Its Freedoms (or Its Users)
- Let the story from DistroWatch serve as a reminder that the era of Social Control Media is over
- Links 27/01/2025: Social Control Media Explores Propaganda for Racism as a Business Model, China’s Tibet Dam Criticised
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Relegated by Manchester United
- No Microsoft
- Gemini Links 27/01/2025: Mental Locomotion, Gemini Protocol Bots From China, and Domain-Specific Languages
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Still Hires Journalists to Reward Them (Belated Payment) for Microsoft Propaganda
- The PR/lying pipeline
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 26, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, January 26, 2025
- Links 26/01/2025: Privacy Breaches and Growing Nationalism
- Links for the day
- The UK's Press Gazette Has No Credibility Anymore, It Celebrates Plagiarism and Cheap Misinformation (This Ruins Linux Sites Too)
- They encourage a form of plagiarism and that even ruins "Linux" sites
- Journalistic Malpractice Helps Bill Gates Cover Up His Marriage Collapsing Because of His Very Deep Ties to Jeffrey Epstein (and It's Melinda Who Dumped Him, Divorce Proceedings Started by Her in 2019)
- you can alter narratives and perceptions worldwide
- The Linux Foundation's Certificate Authority (CA) Let's Encrypt Hits New Lows in Geminispace
- 13 known capsules still use it
- How "Open Source" Became Microsoft (But It's Actually Proprietary, OSI is an Openwashing Front Group Now)
- They're still trying to rewrite history, but it's harder when Richard Stallman (RMS) is alive
- Links 26/01/2025: Chatbot Woes and UnitedHealth Data Breach (Windows TCO)
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 26/01/2025: The Postman and More
- Links for the day
- Links 26/01/2025: Fentanylware (TikTok) Turns to Hype/Pyramid Scheme, Insurers Failed to Comply With Federal Law
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 25, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, January 25, 2025
- Gemini Links 25/01/2025: Plaintext Weblog Posts and Software Development
- Links for the day
- More Details Emerge About Upcoming Long-Rumoured Layoffs at IBM
- Without leadership there's no coordination
- Links 25/01/2025: Microsoft Chaffbot Offline and Advocacy/Dissent in China Muzzled
- Links for the day
- Frequent Flyers of the 'Lolita Express' (Where Screwing Underage Girls is Big Business)
- In the words of Bill's wife and mother of his 3 children
- Microsoft-Sponsored Inauguration as a Reminder to Boycott Microsoft
- If you do not support what's happening politically right now in the US, then stop giving money (or anything else) to Microsoft
- Fund-Raising for Initiative Introducing Teens to Free Software Instead of Junk Like Bytedance's TikTok
- A crowdfunding campaign coming soon
- Bringing Down or Taking Down an Innocent Man is Difficult
- One positive thing about all this is that we've come to witness (and meticulously document) how social control media works for the mob
- Plagiarism at LinuxSecurity.com, Piggybacking Other People's Hard Work and Googlebombing "Linux"
- They are googlebombing Google, and worse yet, they leverage bots to do this
- Gemini Links 25/01/2025: Pictographs, Non-voters, and Frustrations
- Links for the day
- Links 25/01/2025: Microsoft Already Shutting Down Its UK "Experience Centre", "AI Deal" Linked to Atrocities
- Links for the day
- Red Hat is Required to Promote Microsoft's Proprietary Stuff and Even Produce Puff Pieces (Mindless Fluff) About It
- Notice the aspect of bribed "media" or "news" or "press coverage" (pay-to-say)
- The Limits of Freedom
- This is generally not a new problem
- The Fall of Corporate Media Controlled by Oligarchs Who Boost (or Are Compelled to Boost) Reckless Lies About the Poor While Normalising Rich People's Crimes
- No wonder they have layoffs
- IBM Layoffs (or Replacement With Low-Cost Labourers) Far Greater Than Reported by IBM
- they serve to confirm what we've long said not only in relation to IBM but also Microsoft
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 24, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, January 24, 2025
