IRC Proceedings: January 18th, 2011

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2011-01-19 06:55:05 UTC
Modified: 2011-01-19 06:55:05 UTC


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BetaNews is Now Officially a Spamfarm With Phantom Authors and Fake Text (SPAM and Linkspam Made With LLM Slop): That's it, the site is virtually dead now (maybe that was the plan all along)
Hazem Abbas of medevel is Ruining His Site With LLM Slop: Some of his articles are original, but now everything is suspect
Free Software Foundation: Anchoring the FSF in its values: Original by Free Software Foundation
GNU/Linux Surges to All-Time Highs in Greenland, Windows Sinks to All-Time Lows: a lot of GNU/Linux gets detected there lately
Microsoft in Trouble as Azure Breaks and Only Days After Promising Investment in "Datacentres" Construction of Actual Datacentres Paused (Expect More Azure Layoffs Very Soon): No wonder many people who got trapped inside Azure quit Azure, which keeps bleeding (losses and layoffs)
Using a Popular Ponzi Scheme to Sell Expensive Hardware Mislabelled as "Hey Hi" (AI): Selling shovels in an age of "gold rush"
Search Engine-Optimised (SEO) Googlebombs Target "Linux", "Ubuntu", and "RISC-V", Still Composed by Bots: the way to defeat LLM slop (trash) is to call out serial sloppers or "repeat plagiarists"
If TikTok (China) Has the Rights of American Persons, Then ByteDance Can be Sentenced to Death: TikTok - like Julian Assange - does not enjoy any protections of the First Amendment and since it's not a person it would lack these protections as an American company, too
After a Year of Layoffs in Microsoft Nigeria (and Microsoft in Africa at Large) Windows Falls to New Lows and Bing Falls to 0.46% "Market Share": Of course Microsoft gave bribes in Nigeria to suppress GNU/Linux adoption
An Important Lesson About Patents and Patent Maximalism (They Drive People and Companies Away): This previously happened in Texas, where companies perceived their presence (in any form) to be a liability as patent trolls could drag them to friendly courts and win "damages"
When It Comes to Fentanylware (TikTok), a Digital Weapon of a Hostile Entity, Common Dreams is Jumping the Shark Again (Years After It Ran Out of Steam or Money): Or maybe it likes the agenda promoted (curated) by Fentanylware (TikTok) and its parent company, Bytedance or Chinese Community Party (CPP)
[Meme] Real and Fake (or "several influential "open source" organizations [which] have come to be dominated by large companies"): The Free Software Foundation has not sold out
Microsoft's "Donald Trump First" Doctrine: national deficits growing
Gemini Links 11/01/2025: Wildfire, Militia and the Mole, IRC vs Social Control Media: Links for the day
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Links 10/01/2025: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Shrinking, "Not every user owns an iPhone": Links for the day
Gemini Links 10/01/2025: Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Linux Desktop Setup: Links for the day
[Meme] Donald Trump Will Pay Microsoft Back: bribery administration is 10 days away
statCounter Sees GNU/Linux Tripling in Share in 3 Years in Iran: ChromeOS adoption is low, but then again, nobody buys a Chromebooks with the expectation of better privacy
Guardian Digital, Inc (linuxsecurity.com) is Again Spamming or Googlebombing "Linux" and "Security" Using LLM Slop: Guardian Digital is basically a dodgy company. Don't trust Guardian Digital with your security.
Unix Men (or UnixMen) Has Turned Into LLM Slop With Embedded Linkspam, Piggybacking "Linux" for SEO: Welcome to 2025 and the "new" Web
Computers as a Heat Source: suppose you have over a dozen activated monitors in a room or two
Social Control Media and 'Linux' Foundation Accelerate the Death of the Web: Social Control Media is basically a dying business
Links 10/01/2025: Disinformation Sold as "Artificial Intelligence (AI)" and as "Social Media" Now Facing Growing Scrutiny: Links for the day
Linux Foundation Increasingly Reliant on Paid Press Releases, Paid-for Stenography, and Even LLM Slop (Fake 'Articles'): This LLM slop is a big problem both for Linux and for Google
Links 10/01/2025: Scam Altman’s Younger Sister Files Lawsuit Claiming He Sexually Abused Her, Apple Faces Embargo: Links for the day
Gemini Links 10/01/2025: Internet Archive Gopher Search Interface and Falling "in Love With the Small Web": Links for the day
Starting 2025 on a Strong Note: we ought to find more time to produce our own stories
Entire News Sites Have Become Just the Output of Bots (or Chatbots Disguised as "Authors"): the Web is screwed
Colombian Trends Help Explain Why Microsoft Rushes to Start the Year With Mass Layoffs (Before Some Staff is Even Back to Work!): No wonder there are mass layoffs (first of GAFAM) as early as week 1 of 2025
LLM Slop and Bot-Generated Marketing for the Linux Foundation and Its Openwashing: Of course it's chaff
Microsoft Gives Money to Trump, Poor or Even Sluggish Adoption of "Hey Hi" (AI) Reported Amid Mass Layoffs: Microsoft now uses its media moles to downplay layoffs and bribes
More IBM Layoffs (2025): IBM is being scattered away, yet the media barely covers it. It'll just happen "silently" over time.
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
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Using Microsoft Chatbot to Generate Microsoft FUD Against SSH/OpenSSH: It's from the "prime suspect"
Free Software Cannot Rely on Politicians, They Don't Even Care About Software, They Only or Mostly Care About Money: There's no simple solution to this situation short of revolutionising the political system
No, There's No "Age Of AI" or "Era Of AI" or "AI Revolution" or "AI Arms Race", It's Just a Dying Tech Industry Looking to Prop Up Its Valuation Using Hype and False Marketing of Mostly Dysfunctional Tools: Please, enough with this nonsense
[Meme] Just a Draft, Nothing Professional Like GNU: the FSF is ~40,000 dollars short of its goal
Draft About Drafts: The static site generator (SSG) is improving
When They Insist That Getting Rid of Paper Receipts and Paper Trail of All Kinds is Better (Manchester City Council and the "Smart" or "App" Mindset): just classic greenwashing
Gemini Links 09/01/2025: Domain Changes, Dirty Links, and OpenWRT: Links for the day
Links 09/01/2025: X-Book (Facebook) Follows the MElon (Musk) Model and X Comes Under EU Investigation for Inciting: Links for the day
[Meme] Microsoft's Scam Altman, Bigger Scammer Than 'Crypto' 'Currency' 'Exchanges': More pollution, too
Interest in Microsoft Waning, Company Deep in Debt and Mass Layoffs Implemented Every Month Since 2023: As fewer people still use Windows (over time many move to Android or whatever) that site, microsoft.com, will likely languish some more
Microsoft Says Scale of Layoffs in January 2025 is Several Thousands: Microsoft is the first of GAFAM to announce layoffs in 2025
Microsoft Windows Continues to Sink in India: The consistent and almost linear decrease will continue because Microsoft has nothing in store other than vapourware and mass layoffs
statCounter Has Outdated and Unfit-for-Purpose User-Agent Parsers: poor recognition or parsing or classification of User-Agent strings
Microsoft Starts 2025 Like 2024: Mass Layoffs Every Month!: It's a company in tailspin
[Meme] GAFAM Buying Shares in NYSE:EFF: To the ordinary person, today's EFF isn't a go-to protector, it's just meant to look like one
Sometimes the EFF Prefers to Talk About Sex, Not Tech (or Unnecessarily Conflate the Two Things): The old name (or brand) remains; the goals? Not so much...
Beta'News' Still a Spamfarm Run by Bots: It's a source of Web pollution
Links 09/01/2025: Software Patents Squashed, Meta Becomes "MAGA" Booster: Links for the day
Gemini Links 09/01/2025: Chants of Sennaar and Security Theater: Links for the day
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