TechBytes Episode 65: End of the Season

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 1: Brandon from Fedora	TechBytes Episode 1: Apple, Microsoft, Bundling, and Fedora 14 (With Special Guest Brandon Lozza)	1/11/2010
Episode 2: No guests	TechBytes Episode 2: Ubuntu's One Way, Silverlight Goes Dark, and GNU Octave Discovered	7/11/2010
Episode 3: No guests	TechBytes Episode 3: Games, Wayland, Xfce, Restrictive Application Stores, and Office Suites	8/11/2010
Episode 4: No guests	TechBytes Episode 4: Fedora 14 Impressions, MPAA et al. Payday, and Emma Lee's Magic	9/11/2010
Episode 5: No guests	TechBytes Episode 5: Windows Loses to Linux in Phones, GNU/Linux Desktop Market Share Estimations, and Much More	12/11/2010
Episode 6: No guests	TechBytes Episode 6: KINect a Cheapo Gadget, Sharing Perceptually Criminalised, Fedora and Fusion 14 in Review	13/11/2010
Episode 7: No guests	TechBytes Episode 7: FUD From The Economist, New Releases, and Linux Eureka Moment at Netflix	14/11/2010
Episode 8: Gordon Sinclair on Linux Mint	TechBytes Episode 8: Linux Mint Special With Gordon Sinclair (ThistleWeb)	15/11/2010
Episode 9: Gordon Sinclair returns	TechBytes Episode 9: The Potentially Permanent Return of ThistleWeb	17/11/2010
Episode 10: Special show format	TechBytes Episode 10: Microsoft FUD and Dirty Tactics Against GNU/Linux	19/11/2010
Episode 11: Part 2 of special show	TechBytes Episode 11: Microsoft FUD and Dirty Tactics Against GNU/Linux - Part II	21/11/2010
Episode 12: Novell special	TechBytes Episode 12: Novell Sold for Microsoft Gains	23/11/2010
Episode 13: No guests	TechBytes Episode 13: Copyfight, Wikileaks, and Other Chat	28/11/2010
Episode 14: Patents special	TechBytes Episode 14: Software Patents in Phones, Android, and in General	29/11/2010
Episode 15: No guests	TechBytes Episode 15: Google Chrome OS, Windows Refund, and Side Topics Like Wikileaks	30/11/2010

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 16: No guests	TechBytes Episode 16: Bribes for Reviews, GNU/Linux News, and Wikileaks Opinions	3/12/2010
Episode 17: No guests	TechBytes Episode 17: Chrome OS Imminent, Wikileaks Spreads to Mirrors, 'Open' Microsoft	5/12/2010
Episode 18: No guests	TechBytes Episode 18: Chrome OS, Sharing, Freedom, and Wikileaks	11/12/2010
Episode 19: No guests	TechBytes Episode 19: GNU/Linux Market Share on Desktop at 4%, Microsoft Declining, and ChromeOS is Coming	16/12/2010
Episode 20: No guests	TechBytes Episode 20: GNU/Linux Gamers Pay More for Games, Other Discussions	18/12/2010
Episode 21: No guests	TechBytes Episode 21: Copyright Abuses, Agitators and Trolls, Starting a New Site	20/12/2010
Episode 22: No special guests	TechBytes Episode 22: Freedom Debate and Picks of the Year	27/12/2010

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 23: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 23: Failuresfest and 2011 Predictions	2/1/2011
Episode 24: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 24: Android, Microsoft's President Departure, and Privacy	10/1/2011
Episode 25: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 25: Mono, Ubuntu, Android, and More	14/1/2011
Episode 26: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 26: €£98 GNU/Linux Computer, Stuxnet's Government Roots, and More	18/1/2011
Episode 27: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 27: Linux Phones, Pardus, Trusting One's Government-funded Distribution, and Much More	22/1/2011
Episode 28: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 28: The Weekend After Microsoft's Results and LCA	30/1/2011
Episode 29: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 29: KDE, Other Desktop Environments, and Programming	31/1/2011

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 30: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 30: Microsoft at FOSDEM, Debian Release, and Anonymous	7/2/2011
Episode 31: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 31: Nokiasoft and Computer Games	13/2/2011
Episode 32: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 32: Desktop Environments, Computer Games, Android and Ubuntu as the 'New Linux', Copyright Mentality	22/2/2011

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 33: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 33: Patent 'Thieves' and News That Deceives	6/3/2011
Episode 34: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 34: Done on a Dongle	13/3/2011
Episode 35: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 35: You Can't Please Some People	19/3/2011

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 36: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 36: “Come to Take Me Away”	3/4/2011
Episode 37: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 37: Escaping the Soaps	4/4/2011
Episode 38: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 38: Thanks for Reaching Out	11/4/2011
Episode 39: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 39: Groklaw wins, Microsoft me too's and trolls fail	13/4/2011
Episode 40: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 40: Video Begins at 40	17/4/2011
Episode 41: Tim, Gordon, Rusty, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 41: Going Rusty	24/4/2011
Episode 42: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 42: Bandwidth, Android and Patents, Games, and Computer Nostalgia	29/4/2011

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 43: Tim, Jono Bacon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 43: At Home With Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager	4/5/2011
Episode 44: Rusty, Gordon, Tim, Roy, and Brandon Lozza	TechBytes Episode 44: The Four Horsemen Reunited; Fedora Ambassador Interview	7/5/2011
Episode 45: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 45: Skype, Facebook, and Weekly Musings	14/5/2011
Episode 46: Rusty, Gordon, Tim, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 46: GNU/Linux in Germany, Android's Openness, and More	15/5/2011
Episode 47: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 47: Unity With the Wife	21/5/2011
Episode 48: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 48: Will The Real Steve Ballmer Please Step Down?	27/5/2011

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 49: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 49: Linux - To Boldly Go...	3/6/2011
Episode 50: Rusty, Tim, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 50: With Rusty Again, Challenging FUD	6/6/2011
Episode 51: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 51: Nokia and Apple, GPL's Importance, Silverlight's Death, and Copyrights Unrest	15/6/2011
Episode 52: Rusty, Tim, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 52: Desktop Environments and the Demise of Ubuntu	26/6/2011

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 53: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 53: WebOS, Universal Laws, and Tablets	5/7/2011
Episode 54: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 54: Patent Extortion, Economy Shifting, Tablets Lacking	4/7/2011
Episode 55: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 55: Google's Growth, Sabayon Linux 6, and Sony-Microsoft	15/7/2011
Episode 56: Michael Glasser, Tim, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 56: GNU/Linux Versus Mac OS X	24/7/2011

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 57: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 57: Desktop Choice is Grand	5/8/2011
Episode 58: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 58: HP's 180, Google's New Patents, and the New GIMP	24/8/2011

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 59: Tim, Roy, and Rusty	TechBytes Episode 59: Privacy, Tablets, and Dream Studio	5/9/2011
Episode 60: Tim, Roy, and Rusty	TechBytes Episode 60: Microsoft Versus Dual Booters, Google Competition Matters, and Google+	22/9/2011
Episode 61: Roy and Sebastian	TechBytes Episode 61: Sebastian on Mageia and the GNU/Linux Desktop	24/9/2011

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 62: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 62: I Told You So	3/10/2011
Episode 63: Tim, Roy, abd Rusty	TechBytes Episode 63: Enter KDE	9/10/2011
Episode 64: Tim, Roy, abd Rusty	TechBytes Episode 64: From Russia to Bristol	13/10/2011

Gary Smith Says Brett Wilson LLP Engages in SLAPP Against Him Over LinkedIn Post, "This is the Streisand Effect in Real Time": "Lawyers who front SLAPP‑style threats on behalf of powerful institutions are not “defending reputation”; they are abusing legal process to intimidate and silence legitimate public‑interest scrutiny."
Brett Wilson LLP Has Just Lost a Case of Its Biggest Client "IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)": Is Brett Wilson LLP proud of such clientele?
Gemini Links 01/07/2026: Wild Flowers, Slop, and Waystone Tools: Links for the day
Links 01/07/2026: Bending Spoons Makes an 'Exit' ("Going Public"), US Supreme Court Rules on Many Issues: Links for the day
Misattributing Blame, the Core Issue is Slop: that issue has nothing to do with Bash
Microsoft: Layoffs Are an Investment: Sales of the console will take another plunge and debt will skyrocket
Links 01/07/2026: MElon (Elon Musk) "Confronted With List of People He Has Killed", Microsoft Ignores Union, Chooses "Bloodbath": Links for the day
The Register MS: Paid-For SPAM Advocating Chinese Colonialism in Africa, Not Even a Disclosure (as Before): Does The Register MS recognise what this piece is promoting and who for?
Techrights Never Defended Rapists: In the past, I and others got falsely accused of "defend[ing] a rapist"
"Regular Silent Layoffs and PIPs" at Microsoft, According to Microsoft Insider: Many people leave without a fuss, only a signed NDA
Gaming Companies Help Promote Rootkits ('Anticheat') and Help Microsoft Take Control of People's PCs: The industry in its current form acts a bit more like a cabal of power-hungry companies that actively try to back-door everything and smear people who oppose that
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Turns 38 Next Month: IRC did well because over 300k users are on significant networks (simultaneous, also counting bots and cross-network overlaps)
opensourceforu.com is a Slopfarm, It's Not "Open Source" and It's Not "For U": Slop "For U"
DRM and Ownership: We now even have PCs that "expire"
GNU/Linux Reaches 6% in North America: Tomorrow around 10AM we'll see what preliminary data they get for July
IBM Layoffs Still Happening in 2026, They're Just Not Being Reported: The demise of IBM accompanies the demise of the media
SLAPP Censorship - Part 124 Out of 200: The Court Deems My Wife Connected to the Case of the Serial Strangler From Microsoft, Invites Her to the Hearing Last Week: Brett Wilson LLP does not play by the rules
Paying Severance to Staff Laid Off by Microsoft Too Expensive for Microsoft Now?: When companies earn such a bad reputation (not paying severance to people they discard) it lowers morale even further
Microsoft Mass Layoffs Due to Money Problems (Debt, Lack of Money to Complete Payroll), Not "Hey Hi": If Microsoft later comes up with some "Hey Hi" narrative, then immediately reject it
Stop Conflating Free Software With Slop Plagiarism and Time-wasting: Even decades ago people could use "compute" for lots of fuzzing, then file away false or unaudited reports using bots
What Security Means: Security does not mean asking Microsoft for permission
Microsoft May be Losing 10,000+ Workers This Month: Here's the quick math
BSN Senior School Leidschenveen is Shutting Down and What That Means to the European Patent Office (EPO): Follow-up meeting with Site Manager VP1 on school matters
Gemini Links 01/07/2026: Keeping (Relatively) Cool plus Adventures in Solar, Camp Snap Cameras and XTEINK X4 Ereader Reviews: Links for the day
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Different Strokes For Different Folks: Organisation operating in two parallel universes
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 30, 2026: IRC logs for Tuesday, June 30, 2026
GNU/Linux Measured at 4.4% by statCounter, Even More by analytics.usa.gov: GNU/Linux has fared well
Getting Skyped: Closure of Studios Microsoft Bought: wait till July and the mass layoffs outside XBox
Several Waves of Red Hat Layoffs This Year, Is This Still Going on Under IBM?: The PIPs and NDAs hard to get a clear picture
Sabine Hossenfelder Versus IBM Scamming Shareholders: IBM has become a garage of BS
Some XBox Layoffs Underway, At Least Five Studios to be Shut Down: Insiders are in a state of panic
Gemini Links 30/06/2026: Music Theory, Addiction, Clown Computing: Links for the day
Links 30/06/2026: France Recorded 1,000 Excess Deaths During Heat Wave, Slop Replaced by Human Staff: Links for the day
WordPress Becoming What We Feared It Would Become: WordPress and other such bloatware (WordPress used to be fast and light) are moving in the same trajectory that GAFAM leads
People Given the Totally Wrong Idea That "Secure Boot" is About Security (It's the Opposite, It's About Handing Control Over to NSA/Microsoft): "Secure Boot" with capital "B" is conflating compromise with security.
Today The Register MS is Publishing Fake Articles About "AI", 100% of All "Content": Maybe the media is dying because it is selling its soul [...] The Register MS has no standard
America Has Cost Europe Too Much: Countries ought to be controlling all their own systems
GAFAM Debt Will Surge, in July We'll Know by How Much: Do not fall for slop or sloppy narratives
Call for European Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowers: The European Patent Organisation (EPO) might not reform the Office
400-Page US Federal Court Against Abuses by Google, Microsoft and Front Groups That Abuse Volunteers for American Corporations: There are 386 pages in total (in the US claim)
Projection Tactics - Part IV: SLAPP by Americans Against Techrights (UK) to Hide Serious Abuses Against American Women: "PRs need to stop being complicit in suppression of information via SLAPPs"
Five Years Ago, After We Broke the Story About Richard Stallman Rejoining the FSF's Board, All Hell Broke Loose (for Me and My Family): They generally seem to target anyone who thinks Richard Stallman (RMS) should be in charge or thinks alike about computing
Projection Tactics - Part II: Causing "Serious Harm" to Many People (Even Animals): Narcissists and sociopaths are like that
Too Many "Marketers on the Payroll" at IBM, Selling Impossible Products That Cannot be Delivered or Will Never Deliver: IBM is rotting away
Media Says Microsoft's (XBox) Layoffs May be Record-Breaking: think somewhere in the range of ~5000 for gaming/XBox alone
Sirius Open Source's Latest Report: Fake (False) Number of Staff, Almost No Money in the Bank, Overdraft, and Growing Debt (About £100,000 More Borrowed): massive (and still growing) debt
Links 30/06/2026: What's Wrong With EU Age Verification, RSA Keys with Many Zeros: Links for the day
This is Not a Security, This is a Circus: Security does not mean "asked Microsoft for permission"
Communities Need Strong Leadership, Not Dictators Like IBM: Leadership in Free software is not ownership [...] Fedora will only last as long as IBM can somehow make some money out of it or leverage it to attract sharecropping
Patents Are Not "Cash Cows": People who deliberately don't understand patents (or believe lies about them) will fail to understand how the world works (or does not work)
Sad Lives of People Who Think Women Are Just Sexual Toys (All They Have is Money): money is still a man-made concept and life is finite
SLAPP Censorship - Part 123 Out of 200: Why Violence Against Animals Matters: Starting tomorrow (Wednesday) we'll begin telling stories about what happened last week
EPO Staff Union's (SUEPO) The Hague Committee, With Help of Lawyer, Challenges Lack of Rewards for Hard Work: The EPO is not about granting valid patents anymore. The horse-trading corrupt officials just see the EPO as some thing that "prints money"
Massive EPO Demonstration Today: It'll start in about 6 hours
More Layoffs in Microsoft's PR Department, Even Ahead of 'D-Day': Notice they are not even waiting for the official date (nor week)
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Photo-Ops Galore and Suspicions of Influence-Peddling: coverage of the EPO's Croatian junket
Gemini Links 30/06/2026: Music and Broken Hearts: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 29, 2026: IRC logs for Monday, June 29, 2026
Gemini Links 29/06/2026: Using More of GPLv3+ and Merits of Security by TOFU: Links for the day
Links 29/06/2026: Lemote Yeeloong Laptop With OpenBSD, Slop Ruins Code/Development: Links for the day
Antisocial People With No Computer Science Background Are Ruining the Technology Space (Like Officials With No Experience in Patents Destroyed the EPO): This is a real issue; it needs to be widely recognised and tackled
DDoS Attacks Are a Crime and They Only Increase Interest (Intrigue) in Their Target: Information cannot be DDoSed out of reach/existence, except temporarily
Pushing to the Top: Publishing is about exposing corruption
Whistleblowing and Retaliation by Microsoft Workers Against Microsoft Seems Increasingly Likely: some will go to the press, looking to expose some shenanigans
How Long Can a Company Delay Its Financial Report That Likely Confirms Exodus of Staff, Growing Debt, and Other Problems?: Brett Wilson LLP was meant to release its annual report some time early this month
SLAPP Censorship - Part 122 Out of 200: Garrett's Solicitors Confirm That Garrett is Ban-Evading and Spying on Our IRC Network: his solicitors basically acknowledge this
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Networking With the National Delegates: António Campinos with a prime opportunity to network with the Administrative Council delegates and lobby for his reappointment
PIPs and "Retirements": IBM Layoffs in Anything But Name: That former Red Hat (now IBM) staff threatens to put my wife and I in prison is worse than cruel
Contact Members of the EPO Administrative Council, Tell Them the EPO (Office) Became a Disgrace and an Enemy of Europe's Citizens: If you live in Europe (not just the EU, even Turkey is included), please contact your delegates
The World Needs GNU/Linux for Security, Turn Off "Secure Boot" (It's the Opposite of Security): They call it "Secure Boot", but what does it mean to say "Secure" when you actively opt for back doors controlled by Microsoft, the FBI, and many more parties?
In Signal of Weakness or Phasing Out XBox (Not Sustainable, According to the CEO) Microsoft "Pauses New Third-Party Game Pass Deals": Moments ago
Two Pieces About "AI" This Morning Were Paid-For SPAM at The Register MS: The Register MS is the "Tech News" publisher you can pay to promote your company and even key-word-stuff pages for SEO purposes
Week of Microsoft Layoffs, Maybe Record-Breaking Scale: They will mislead about the scale
Links 28/06/2026: More Om Malik Eulogies, Cloudflare Promotes Web Browser Monocultures: Links for the day
IBM's Alderon as "Silent Layoffs", Not Just Bailout From Taxpayers: Seeing through the noise
'Modern' Web: "Stop! You Are Browsing Too Fast!": Can the Web ever recover from this?
Pensions Tied to Ponzi Schemes Are Themselves Ponzi Schemes: Pensions are becoming more like that as well
Laptop Bricked After Microsoft Certificates Expiry: Is "Jim" dead?
Monoculture in Europe as National (or Continental) Security Threat: We need more browser diversity
Canada 5-0: GNU/Linux Rises to 5.0%, Windows Rapidly Falls to New Lows: Will we be seeing 6-0 (6%) by year's end and will Microsoft be shown two red cards?
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 28, 2026: IRC logs for Sunday, June 28, 2026
Gemini Links 29/06/2026: Sansieviera, HiFi, and Self-Signed Certificates: Links for the day

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