IRC Proceedings: June 22nd, 2014 – September 13th, 2014

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2014-09-29 12:45:43 UTC
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IRC Proceedings: June 22nd - June 28th, 2014


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IRC Proceedings: June 29th - July 4th, 2014


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IRC Proceedings: July 5th - July 12th, 2014


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IRC Proceedings: July 13th - July 19th, 2014


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IRC Proceedings: July 20th - July 26th, 2014


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IRC Proceedings: July 27th - August 2nd, 2014


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IRC Proceedings: August 3rd - August 9th, 2014


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IRC Proceedings: August 10th - August 16th, 2014


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IRC Proceedings: August 17th - August 23rd, 2014


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IRC Proceedings: August 24th - August 30th, 2014


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IRC Proceedings: August 31st - September 6th, 2014


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IRC Proceedings: September 7th - September 13th, 2014


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Recent Techrights' Posts

Peter Moon's (Computerworld) Interview With Richard Stallman: Stallman: If you want freedom don't follow Linus Torvalds
At What Point Does Outsourcing Constitute Malpractice?: Brett Wilson LLP's new staff page is misleading
From Do Your Own Research to Do Your Own Search: The Web is full of garbage; search engines amplify this garbage
Brett Wilson LLP Solicitors (M): Over 99.9% of Our E-mail is Self-Marketing, We Send You 3.5MB E-mails for Less Than 1KB of Text: Why would tech people entrust legal matters to such people?
United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sailing to GNU/Linux, According to statCounter: countries in that region will quickly learn the price of neglecting digital sovereignty
More People Moving to Geminispace?: at age 6+ Gemini Protocol seems to have gained some maturity and it seems like more people use it
Permutation in LLMs Does, Inevitably, Change Meanings and Therefore LLMs Cannot Properly Rephrase or Summarise Texts: LLMs lack actual grasp or comprehension of what they spew out
Links 23/06/2025: Many Security Breaches, Population Declines: Links for the day
Gemini Links 23/06/2025: "America at the Crossroads" and OpenWRT Surgery: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 22, 2025: IRC logs for Sunday, June 22, 2025
Pure Dove: Different means different, and sometimes those who "deviate" from "the norm" have a point
Censorship is a Sign of Weakness Which Invites More Censorship Attempts: revolutionaries don't succumb to pressure from bullies
Why It's Unlikely That LLM Slop Will Dominate the Web in the Long Run: Slopfarms will eventually perish (they have no actual value) and "survivors" on the Web will be sites that never depended on search engines and social control media
GNU/Linux in Argentina Now Measured Near 5%: Like in central Europe, they must be seeing an increasingly hostile US
BetaNews is Fake News, Composed by LLM Slop: nothing in BetaNews is written by humans anymore
Links 22/06/2025: Giving Up on Smartphones and 'Jaws' at 50: Links for the day
Gemini Links 22/06/2025: Furniture Construction and Bubble for Comments: Links for the day
Links 22/06/2025: Windows TCO Tales and YouTube Getting More Hostile to Users: Links for the day
The FSF Board and FSF Beard: So the FSF's Board has grown
Law Firms Facing the Consequences for Patently Abusive Litigation on Behalf of Microsoft Employees Who Got Arrested for Strangulation and Had Done Even Worse Things: Having spent 1.5 years bullying me with patronising letters on behalf of Microsofters, last week they got served a massive bill and, in effect, lost the Hearing
New Report From the EPO's Staff Representatives in The Hague (LSCTH) Reveals Many Unsolved Issues: Local Staff Committee The Hague (LSCTH) wrote to staff just before the weekend
LLMs Breaking Everything: Computing and the Net became a playground for scammers and "bros", like people who "invented" fake currencies and also try to tell us that LLMs spewing out things will have some real value
Links 22/06/2025: More Slop Lawsuits (Copyrights) and "America’s Oligarch Problem": Links for the day
Gemini Links 22/06/2025: Gigantic Toolchest and Annoying Bots: Links for the day
The Calling: Persist and persevere, justice will come your way
So Far Every BetaNews 'Article' is LLM Slop, So BetaNews is Officially Just a Slopfarm: They just don't seem to value what they have
IBM Rumour: Mass Layoffs (RAs) Lists Being Made for Consulting, With Effect in July 2025: Bogus companies with no viable products and no world-leading (in their field) staff are doomed to perish
Links 21/06/2025: Data Breach With 16 Billion Passwords, Dutch Government Recommends Children Under 15 Stay off TikTok and Instagram: Links for the day
Gemini Links 21/06/2025: Notes about Typst (and LaTeX) and Opos: Links for the day
Microsoft's Competition Tactics: Sabotage GNU/Linux Installs, Block Chrome: Edge is dying
1989: Free Software as "Open" Software (OSI Didn't Coin "Open Source", It Also Predates Linux): "One man's fight for Free software"
The Microsoft OOXML Modus Operandi: Throw 1,000 Pages of Other People's Work for a Judge to Read Ahead of a One-Hour Meeting: No time to discuss this - that's the point
Formalities Officers (FOs) at the EPO Are in Trouble, Reveals Internal Report: We already know, based on an HR pattern we saw at IBM and elsewhere, that reallocating roles can be prerequisite for dismissal and those who do so expect many to resign anyway
The Web is Slop and FUD, Let's Go to Gemini Protocol: Lupa sees self-signed capsules at 92.4%
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 20, 2025: IRC logs for Friday, June 20, 2025
Links 21/06/2025: Phone Bans for Concerts, Tensions in Taiwan Strait: Links for the day
Gemini Links 21/06/2025: Spoilers, Public Yggdrasil Node, Changes to AuraGem Search: Links for the day