Linux Without Linus
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2020-06-01 17:05:50 UTC
- Modified: 2020-06-01 17:05:50 UTC
Zemlin PAC. All about those who pay Jim Zemlin's massive salary.
Summary: The Linux Foundation seems to be acting like Linus (Linux founder) is somewhat of a liability (forcing him to take a 'break' from his own project) while taking even the most notorious proposals from corporations, including those that called Linux a "cancer"
Recent Techrights' Posts
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- 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
- 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
- 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
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- 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.
- Links 10/01/2025: Disinformation Sold as "Artificial Intelligence (AI)" and as "Social Media" Now Facing Growing Scrutiny
- Links for the day
- 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
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 09, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, January 09, 2025
- 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
- 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
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- 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
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 08, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, January 08, 2025
- Gemini Links 08/01/2025: Minimalism and Efficiency With Gemini Protocol and tilde.cafe "May be Shutting Down"
- Links for the day
- There Used to be an Actual Community in SUSE (OpenSUSE is Dying)
- Volunteers with programming skills don't want to become slaves of Microsoft resellers
- [Meme] Blindly Trust Rust
- First, you need to get it from a proprietary platform
- Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) is a Far Bigger Problem Than Some Unintentional Bugs (Not Back Doors) in Software
- What's a "memory safe programing [sic] language"? Rust has holes in itself, never mind programs made using Rust.
- Amid Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (2025) Executives Flock to Google
- The managers and executives typically know ahead of time what's coming
- Links 08/01/2025: HMPV Concerns and UK Deaths Soared in 2024
- Links for the day
- IBMers Question IBM's Decision to Send Money to "Chinese Military Companies" in Spite of US Sanctions
- Some people bring this up now
- [Meme] Real Money and Fake (Speculative, Fictional) Money
- "Looking for the next $400,000,000,000 in 'investment'"
- Microsoft LinkedIn Going 'the Way of the Epstein'
- LinkedIn is going downhill
- Will 2025 Bring Recovery of News Sites or Just More LLM Slop? Probably the Latter.
- The Web is deteriorating. Geminispace does not have LLM trash (yet).
- Engagement in Microsoft GitHub Falls, Expect More Layoffs and Office Closures
- Maybe it'll become an "open secret" if some rebellious whistleblower contacts us
- Why Government Data on "Job Openings" is Typically a Lie (Perpetrated in Part by Corporations)
- Millions (yes, millions!) of fake "openings" exist in the US alone, based on a survey done last year
- [Meme] Microsoft's January 6th
- Most Microsoft employees want to leave the company
- Links 08/01/2025: Arrest of Yoon Suk Yeol Still Due, Prime Minister of Canada Stepped Down
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 08/01/2025: Why Mastodon Sucks and Fake Code Generated by Scanning Real Code
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 07, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, January 07, 2025
