OK, so it's April 1st already. People are starting to play along with it ("Microsoft is Creating Linux-based Smartphone OS" has just been published). In recent years we made some jokes about the EPO and USPTO (on April 1st), but quite frankly April 1st on the World Wide Web has become somewhat of a passing fad. More than a decade ago it was a real sensation, but nowadays it's a source of annoyance and confusion; it can be a nuisance trying to figure out what's true and what's satire; the latter concept has been conflated with so-called 'fake news'.