[Meme] Importing Corruption, Voting Fodder, and More
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-02-13 01:47:44 UTC
- Modified: 2022-02-13 01:47:44 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Stack(ed) Rankings and Ongoing Layoffs at Red Hat and IBM (Failure to Keep Staff Acquired by IBM)
- IBM is mismanaged and its sole aim is to game the stock market (by faking a lot of things)
- Linuxiac May Have Reverted Back to LLM Slop (Updated Same Day)
- Is he back off the wagon?
- Links 15/01/2026: Internet Blackouts, Jackboots Society in US
- Links for the day
- The Last 'Dilberts' or Some of the Last Salvaged (Comic Strips Which Disappeared Shortly After They Had Been Published)
- Around the time the creator of Dilbert went silent he published some strips mocking TikTok and usage of it
- GAFAM is a National and International Threat to Everybody
- GAFAM is just a tentacle in service of imperialism
- Don't Cry for Gaslighting Media in a Country Which Loathes the Press
- my wife and I received threats for merely writing about Americans
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- More Signs of Financial Troubles at Microsoft, Europe Puts Microsoft Under Investigation
- The end of the library is part of the cuts
- Team Campinos Talks About SAP Days Before EPO Industrial Actions and a Day Before the "Alicante Mafia" Series (About Team Campinos Doing Cocaine)
- EPO staff that isn't morally feeble will insist on objecting to illegal instructions
- The "Alicante Mafia" - Part I - An Introduction to the Mafia Governing the EPO
- Are some people 'evacuating' themselves to save face?
- Pedophilia-Enabling Microsoft Co-founder Cuts Staff
- Compensating by sleeping with young girls does not make one younger
- Microsoft Shuts Down Campus Library, Resorts to Storytelling About "AI" to Spin the Seriousness of It
- Microsoft is in pain
- Free Software Foundation (FSF) Back to Advertising the Talks of Richard Stallman
- A pleasant surprise
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 15, 2026
- IRC logs for Thursday, January 15, 2026
- Gemini Links 16/01/2026: House Flood and Pragmatic Retrocomputing Dogfooding
- Links for the day
- Links 15/01/2026: Starlink Weaponised for Regime Change (by Man Who Boasted About Annexing South American Countries for Tesla's Mining), Corruption in Switzerland Uncovered by JuristGate
- Links for the day
- GAFAM and IBM Layoffs Outline
- a lot of the layoffs happen in secrecy and involve convincing people to resign, retire, relocate etc.
- Coming Soon: Impact With EPO Cocainegate
- Will Campinos survive 2026?
- The Creator of Git Probably Doesn't Know How to Install and Deploy Git
- Nobody disputes this: Mr. Torvalds created Git
- Slop is a Liability
- Slopfarms too will become extinct because people aren't interested in them
- EPO People Power - Part XXXVI - In Conclusion and Taking Things Up Another Notch
- They often say that the law won't deter or stop criminals because it's hard to enforce laws against people who reject the law
- Running Techrights is Fun, Rewarding, and Gratifying
- In Geminispace we are already quite dominant
- Red Hat is Connected to the Military, Its Chief Comes From Military Family (From Both Sides)
- The founder of Red Hat's parent company literally saluted Hitler himself (yes, a Nazi salute)
- Red Hat (IBM) is Driving Away Remaining Fedora Users
- I've not used Fedora since Moonshine
- Robert X. Cringely Has Already Explained IBM's Bullying Culture (Towards Its Own Staff)
- IBM is a fairly nasty company
- Proton Mail compromise, Hannah Natanson (Washington Post) police raid & Debian
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 14, 2026
- IRC logs for Wednesday, January 14, 2026
- Gemini Links 15/01/2026: "Ode to elinks", envs.net Pubnix and Downtime at geminiprotocol.net
- Links for the day
- Still Condoning Child Labour and Exploiting Unpaid Children Developers as PR Props (to Raise Monopoly Money)
- These people lack morals. So they project.
- "Security, AI or Quantum" on "the IBM Titanic"
- Who's RMS?
- Hours Ago The Register MS Published Microsoft Windows SPAM "Sponsored by Intel." The Fake 'Article' Says "AI" 34 Times.
- The Register MS isn't a serious online newspaper
- EPO People Power - Part XXXV - Where Else Will Corruption and Substance Abuse be Tolerated?
- We need to raise standards
- Status and Capital
- People who do a lot are too busy to boast about it and wear fancy garments
- IBM Paying the Price for Treating Workers Badly and Discarding Real Talent (Because It's "Expensive")
- IBM is dead man walking
- Turbulence Ahead
- I last rebooted my laptop in 2023
- Google News Rewards Plagiarism With LLMs (About Linux, Too)
- Google is in the slop business now
- Links 14/01/2026: Failing Economy and Conquest Abroad as a Distraction From Domestic Woes
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 14/01/2026: The Ephemerality of Our Digital Lives and "Summer of Upgrades"
- Links for the day
- Projection Tactics - Part III: Silencing Inconvenient Voices Online
- If X gets banned in the UK, it'll be hard to see what the spouse says in public
- Outsourcing on Microsoft's Agenda, Offshoring Also
- "In some cases, India hiring is poised to replace certain roles previously based in the U.S."
- Links 13/01/2026: 'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams Passes Away With Cancer, Ban on X/Twitter Considered for CSAM Profiteering
- Links for the day
- The Goal is Software Freedom for All
- Anything to do with "Linux Foundation" is timewasting
- Reminder That Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Is Not Free, And It's Because of IBM
- software freedom just 'gets in the way'
- Under IBM, in Order to Game the Stock Market, Red Hat Resorted to Boosting the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in Human History
- This is what IBM turned Red Hat into
- Revision handed Microsoft the keys to the distortion of the past/history
- This isn't the first time The Register MS rewrites computing history in Microsoft's favour, as we pointed out several times in past years
- What Will Happen to GAFAM After the US Defaults Rather Than Bails Out the Market?
- Or tries to topple every government that doesn't play by its rules?
- EPO People Power - Part XXXIV - Bad Optics for the European Union (for Failing to Act and Tolerating Cocaine Use in Europe's Second-Largest Institution)
- There are principles in laws which tie awareness with complicity
- EPO's Central Staff Committee is Now Redacting (Self-Censoring) Due to Threats From the EPO "Mafia"
- "On the agenda: salary adjustment procedure for 2025 (as of January 2026)"
- "AI" (Slop) 'Demand' Isn't Growing, It's Fake, It's a Pyramid Scheme
- They try to resort to 'creative' accounting (fraudulent schemes like circular financing)
- Difficult Times at IBM and Microsoft Ahead of Mass Layoffs (Probably Before This Month's Results Unless Postponed to 'Prove' Rumours 'Wrong')
- IBM and Microsoft used to be tech giants. Nowadays they mostly pretend by pumping up their stock and buying back their own shares.
- Canonical: Make Ubuntu Bloated (Debian With Snaps), Then Sell the 'Debloated' Version for a Fee
- If people want a light distro, then they ought not pay Canonical but instead choose a light (by design) GNU/Linux distro
- People Don't Want "Just Enough", They'll Look for Quality
- That's why slopfarms will go away or become inactive
- Gemini Links 14/01/2026: 3D and Tiny Traffic Lights Pack
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 13, 2026
- IRC logs for Tuesday, January 13, 2026
- Slop Waning Whilst Originals Perish
- Slop is way past its "prime"
- XBox's 'Major Nelson' Loses His Job Again, This Time in a Microsoft Mono Pusher
- Microsoft hasn't much of a future in gaming. XBox's business is in rapid decline and people who push Mono to game developers are the same
