[Meme] Working to Death for Nellie Simon
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-06-08 19:48:13 UTC
- Modified: 2022-06-08 19:48:13 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Richard Stallman is Already in India, Giving Talks About Microsoft Chaffbots and More
- he's already giving some talks in India
- Drunk on Chatbots, LinuxSecurity.com Spews Out More LLM Slop About "Wine"
- They just keep googlebombing "Linux" and "Security" using slop
- Gemini Links 24/01/2025: The "Hey Hi" Hype Continues Fading, Tesla/X/Twitter/SpaceX Associate With Nazism
- Links for the day
- Robbery at the European Patent Office (EPO), Office Staff as 'Prisoners'
- publication from the Central Staff Committee, dated yesterday
- Techrights in 0.036 Seconds
- Combining Gemini and HTTP/S, yesterday we served an impressive number of requests
- BetaNews Run by Plagiarism Bots That Googlebomb (for SEO) "Linux"
- Google rewards and thus encourages plagiarism
- IBM Titles Considered Worthless and Many IBM 'Fellows' Are Vanishing (Also: IBM Staff Inside Linux Attacks the Rights of Computer Users for Recognition or Rewards Like "Distinguished Engineer")
- James Bottomley is still "a Distinguished Engineer at IBM"
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- Gemini Links 24/01/2025: Drehgriffel, Computer Science and Capitalism
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Lost a Ton of Market Share in Web Servers Last Month (the Last Month of 2024) and Massive Losses Continue in 2025, Shows New Report
- Microsoft down sharply
- Microsoft (Nick Vidal) and Co-opting "Open Future" With Microsoft-led "Open Source AI Definition" (Openwashing LLM Slop and GPL Violations)
- Microsoft is tainting all sorts of groups via the OSI
- Microsoft, IBM, and Front Groups That Advance Racism for Profit
- IBM has profited a lot from racism and it still does
- FOSDEM and 'No Nazis'
- the issue isn't wealth but principles
- Gemini Links 24/01/2025: "Social" Control Media is Unsatisfying; An Old Call for a Gemini Without TLS
- Links for the day
- [Meme] Levels of Outrage
- Apparently it's hip for criminals to leverage "the law" to silence their exposers
- Links 24/01/2025: Earthquake, Landslide, and Official Implicated in Airplane With Landing Gear Issues (Boeing Plane) "Found Dead"
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 23, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, January 23, 2025
- CDN Giant: Microsoft Bing and Skype Collapsed Since the LLM Hype, Same as Other Metrics Show
- No wonder Microsoft managers suffer anxiety and there are several waves of layoffs even on the same month
- Gemini Links 23/01/2025: Experience With Outer Wilds and Gifting a Site
- Links for the day
- Slopwatch: Fake 'Articles' About Linux by Brian Fagioli and by Brittany Day in BetaNews and linuxsecurity.com (LLM Slop Sites That Are Online Leeches or SEO Operations Working Against Free Software Journalism)
- Two new examples for today
- Links 23/01/2025: More Overt Constitutional Violations and "TikTok Executive Order" (White Flag to CCP)
- Links for the day
- Status of New Year's Resolutions
- 3 weeks later
- "The AI Bubble is Popping", Now It's Bailout Time
- The hype will quietly fizzle, just like "blockchains"
- [Meme] When the Government of the Netherlands Participates in Your Crimes It Lacks an Incentive to Hold You Accountable for Crimes
- the EPO's corrupt management boasted (on television) that it would ignore rulings against it even if issued by the highest Dutch court
- Links 23/01/2025: US Constitution Already Besieged (Impeachable Offences Pile Up), Arrest Warrant for Assad
- Links for the day
- Microsoft's Head of Business Development Quits (Days After Two Large Waves of Mass Layoffs)
- We recently learned that people close to the management are very stressed this month
- [Meme] Reliable Sources
- Sooner or later LLMs swallow up their own lies (that they generated), which means that over time those things will only deteriorate further, exacerbating an already-large misinformation pandemic
- BetaNews Plagiarising Work in the Linux Space
- The originals won't even be listed
- Gemini Links 23/01/2025: US Politics and DevOps Career
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 22, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, January 22, 2025
- Links 22/01/2025: Jeju Air Blame-Shifting (Talk to the Wall), Copyright Maximalism Rebounds
- Links for the day
- [Meme] The 'Garbage in, Garbage Out' Patent Office
- "law of the buzzword"
- Clueless and Nontechnical EPO Management Uses the 'Great Scam' (Hey Hi Hype) to Justify Automation Where It's Both Detrimental and Illegal
- The EPC has been practically set aflame; thus, the EPO has no legitimacy or reason to exist anymore
- Links 22/01/2025: Democratising Tech Initiative and "Bye Bye Meta"
- Links for the day
- The Japanese translation of the term "free software"
- by Akira Urushibata
- Links 22/01/2025: "The AI Bubble Is Bursting" and Microsoft's Scam Altman is Already Looking for De Facto Bailout From the Insurrectionist
- Links for the day
- Dr. Andy Farnell's Latest Article About Software Freedom and Richard Stallman
- why Dr. Stallman is being picked on
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- Gemini capsules that promote fascism and retreat to feudalism are rare and scarce
- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Formally Added an Outreach and Communications Coordinator
- Maybe the addition happened last year (we mentioned it in passing), but now it's in the "rota"
- Electronic Frontier Foundation: Fighting 'for the Poor and Powerless' While Taking Home $336,000 in Annual Salary
- nowadays works for or serves not the interests of the masses
- Of Note: The Misguided, Infiltrated, Weakened Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Now Operating at a Loss of Over a Million Dollars
- Worst since the COVID-19 lockdowns
- Free Software Foundation's Miriam Bastian: We Surpassed Our Year-end Goal of $400,000 USD Thanks to You!
- Miriam Bastian: We surpassed our year-end goal of $400,000 USD!
- [Meme] Omit Microsoft When It's a Scandal or a Breach, Whereupon It Becomes Just an 'IT Company'
- Microsoft is like a cult. Members of this cult promote the opposite of security, expecting to be financially rewarded for it.
- Calling Out Windows (TCO) is Apparently Impermissible in Some News Sites
- The online news sites are failing us (and corporate sponsors play a role)
- Richard Stallman's Remarks on His Pain
- Published two days ago
- Focusing on the Issues
- we'll do our best to find the news and not talk about "Mr. T"
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- It's not hard to see why so far in 2025 Microsoft has already had several waves of mass layoffs - more than any other company
- Rumour: In IBM, Impending "25% Reduction in Finance Roles"
- 25% to be laid off?
- [Meme] Fake Articles From linuxsecurity.com (Just Googlebombing "Linux" With LLM Slop)
- Google should really just entirely delist that site
- RedHat.com Written by Microsoft Staff, Promoting Microsoft' Proprietary Software That Does Not Even Run on Linux!
- This is RedHat.com this week...
- Links 22/01/2025: Mass Layoffs at Stripe, Microsoft's Illegal Accounting Practices Under Scrutiny
- Links for the day
- Fake 'Article' by Brittany Day (Guardian Digital, Inc) About Linux Mint 22.1 'Xia'
- Apparently they've convinced themselves that this is OK
- Red Hat Dumps "Inclusive Language", Puts "Master" In Official Communications and Headlines
- Red Hat: you CANNOT say "master" (because it is racist). Also Red Hat: we put in it our headlines.
- Red Hat Offers DRM, TPM, and Backed Doored 'Confidential' Containers (CoCo) for Microsoft (Proprietary Spyware)
- No kidding!
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC logs for Tuesday, January 21, 2025