[Meme] EPO All Backwards: Are National Delegates and the Administrative Council Just Puppets of the Office They're Meant to Govern?
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-06-24 18:23:54 UTC
- Modified: 2022-06-24 18:23:54 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Sites Writing Fake News About Linux Using LLMs (Microsoft Hype That Promotes Misinformation)
- RMS recently called these "bullshit machines"
- Pushing Nonsense Using the Brand "Linux"
- the trademark "Linux" might already lack potency
- In China, statCounter Seeing Windows Vista 11 as Falling 2.5% This Month Relative to Other Versions of Windows (Vista 7 Grows Its Gap Over "11")
- Vista 7 is bigger!
- Wine Took the Bait (Mono), Soon Starts the Microsoft Circus With the Banhammer
- large companies are exercising more control over the thing/s they claim to "donate" to
- This is Not a Sustainable Way to Run Microsoft
- This is a downward spiral
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- [Meme] Red Hat Staff Must Learn IBM's Dark History (IBM Still Boosts Donald Trump, So No Lessons Learned)
- This isn't a subject for humour
- Don't Fall for Reputation Laundering and Whitewashing
- Remember history, don't pay attention to PR and charm offensives
- [Meme] Microsoft as a Joke That Writes Itself
- "Microsoft confesses its recent security updates…broke Windows 10 security patches"
- GNU Turns 41 in Just 12 Days
- Can truth and science be resuscitated, please?
- [Meme] Large Language Models (LLMs) Destroy the Web With an Ocean of Disinformation and Misinformation, Falsely Promoted as "Intelligence" by Microsoft et al
- "Microsoft bribes the media to say 'Microsoft loves Linux'"
- Dr. Richard M. Stallman (RMS) Asks People to Stop Calling Large Language Models (LLMs) "Artificial Intelligence" (AI)
- "I think that the first step is stop calling them AI"
- Even Microsoft Boosters Think XBox is Doomed
- "Reports Say Morale At Xbox Is “Very Low”"... a Microsoft booster cited by them
- Dr. Richard M. Stallman (RMS): "There are still people who make it their business to try to stop me from getting invited to speak, and it's a slow process working back from that"
- From the talk he gave last month
- Very Few Invidious Instances Still Work (for Video Playback)
- Google has sabotaged Invidious
- Gemini Links 15/09/2024: MINIbase and Pocket Reform Experience
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, September 14, 2024
- IRC logs for Saturday, September 14, 2024
- [Meme] The Prosecutor and Prosecuted, the Community and Businessmen (Red Hat)
- "Social justice is not a corporate slogan or identity politics"
- Dr. Richard M. Stallman (RMS) Explains Why So-called 'Cryptocurrencies' Suck and Why GNU Taler is Better
- "I've never used cryptocurrency. There were things I found disappointing and worrisome..."
- Links 14/09/2024: Verizon's 5,000 Layoffs and China's 'Runaway' Pension Age
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 14/09/2024: Comparing Costs and Being "Tamed"
- Links for the day
- Links 14/09/2024: Science, War, and Politics
- Links for the day
- Transcript (and Correction) of Dirk Hohndel's Interview With Linus Torvalds in 2014
- A lot of things have deteriorated since then
- Microsoft Asia President Ahmed Mazhari Leaves the Company
- Even everything they say about Mazhari is just "prepared" quotes from Microsoft itself
- Contrary to What Microsoft Claims, Teams Were Cut Yesterday, XBox Sales Have Collapsed, Layoffs Announced at 3AM (in the Morning)
- There is actually a lot of media coverage about this, unlike prior waves of layoffs at Microsoft
- Last Month Dr. Richard M. Stallman (RMS) Explained Why You Should Delete GitHub
- RMS explained why
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 13, 2024
- IRC logs for Friday, September 13, 2024
- Gemini Links 14/09/2024: LoRa, ROOPHLOCH, and Crafting a Programming Language
- Links for the day
- [Video] Why Hurd and MINIX (or BSD) Didn't Get Ahead of Linux?
- We've converted the video into WebM to make it more accessible
- Dr. Richard M. Stallman (RMS) Explains That a Free/Libre Program Running on Somebody Else's Server (e.g. Clown Computing) Leads to Freedom Deficit
- "when you are doing your computing you must not entrust that to somebody else's server because users including you should have control over their own computing but you can never have control over what somebody else's server does because somebody else installs software in that computer and configures it and thus decides what computing it is going to do."
- ircII Has Turned 35
- Don't listen to people who say IRC is "dead"
- [Meme] Code of Conduct in WINE
- irritate productive developers...
- Number of Gemini Capsules Rising Closer to 4,100, Certificate Authority "Let's Encrypt" Down to 1.1%
- Some time soon the Certificate Authority "Let's Encrypt" will probably fall below 1%
- Richard M. Stallman Explains Why the Web Becoming a Pile of Proprietary JavaScript Programs (Not Pages to Render) Does Harm to Web Users
- "The web was designed to let users control how that data would be rendered but businesses didn't like that."
- [Meme] From Checked by Three Examiners to Gone (Granted) in 3 Seconds!
- twice as many monopolies with 10% less staff
- EPO Staff Representatives Explain the Latest Corruption at the EPO in a New Paper
- Owing to corrupt management the EPO has resorted to corporate crime or organised crime designed to benefit large corporations. Who will pay the price? Everybody else in Europe.
- Links 13/09/2024: Crackdowns on Bloggers, Deepfakes, Internet Archive‘s Wayback Machine Now in Google Search
- Links for the day
- RedMonk: September the Month of the Mouth of Redmond (Still)
- the usual storyline, i.e. what's not controlled by Microsoft's proprietary GitHub simply does not exist
- Links 13/09/2024: Disinformation in Focus, End of Presidential Debates (Trump Accepts It Hurts Him)
- Links for the day
- Mono as a Double-Purpose Trojan Horse Inside Wine
- And now they can oust founders and top contributor with a CoC
- This is How Bad Things Have Become at Microsoft
- We're seeing nearly 80 reports in English about those layoffs
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 12, 2024
- IRC logs for Thursday, September 12, 2024
- Links 13/09/2024: Recorded Future Bought by MasterCard, Bits of Freedom Turns 25
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 13/09/2024: Towards Aristocratic Personal Computing, Technology and Privac
- Links for the day
- Once Again, Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (Just Like Every Month This Year)
- Reporting and articles trickling in (in recent hours)
- Rumour: Layoffs in IBM Consulting Today
- IBM has had many layoffs lately
