[Meme] Master of None

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2022-07-20 06:22:12 UTC
Modified: 2022-07-20 06:22:12 UTC

EPO run based on connections (nepotism), not merit

Summary: The kakistocracy in charge of today's EPO putting people in charge of disciplines they do not understand (and have no experience in!) is another sign of an institution gone profoundly rogue/wrong; Frenchmen Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos have put a fellow Frenchman, Razik Menidjel, in charge of areas he has never worked it, including European software patents

Disinformation and Marketing Spam From and For OIN (GAFAM's and IBM's Weapon Against Free Software Activists and Reformists Against Software Patents): All in all, this anniversary is just a PR stunt with revisionism
Google Spreading Misinformation and Lies: Google is in the propaganda business
New Video Report About Microsoft Cancelling Multi-Billion Dollar Projects: direct link to the video
Microsoft is Already Laying Off Lots of Contractors: cost-cutting at Microsoft takes a new "edge"
Links 29/04/2025: Microsoft Infosys Layoffs, 'Popcorn Lung' With Vapers, Hong Kong Banning Possession of e-cigarettes in Public: Links for the day
Gemini Links 29/04/2025: Hey-Hi (AI) Isn't Your Friend/Lover, Mastodon is a Mess, and Mandelbrot Programming: Links for the day
Just Sending More and More Threats Does Not Change the Fact We Got Abused for Many Years and Women Got Strangled: Wanting a "gag order" - or sometimes injunctions - by sending many threats
Links 29/04/2025: Water Scarcity, LLM Slop Backfiring Again in Legal Documents: Links for the day
statCounter: GNU/Linux Adoption Surging in Switzerland, Windows at All-time Low: What happened?
Gemini Links 28/04/2025: Free Speech and Perfectionism in Design: Links for the day
What Fake News Looks Like (IBM): IBM told a lie. The media then just blindly repeated this lie.
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 28, 2025: IRC logs for Monday, April 28, 2025
China is Already Culling GAFAM (Not Just Microsoft Windows): OS monoculture or "OS hegemony" may be coming to an end
The "Telephone Operating System in the Vatican" is 95 Years Old, Vatican Moved to GNU/Linux: Maybe Microsoft is down to zero already
If Tesla Shares (and Alleged Value) Fell 55% (From $489 to $222) in a Few Months Maybe It's Not Worth Anything At All (It's Just Gambling): Tesla swasticars have turned from a "status symbol" into a "public embarrassment" and cause for casual humiliation
Coming Soon: Microsoft Fake Results, Mass Layoffs, and Silence About All the People Microsoft Pressured to "Quit" (So That They Don't Get Counted as Layoffs): there will be more mass layoffs
Chromebooks' Adoption in Sweden No Longer Depends on Schools: School breaks are when classrooms are shut
No, IBM is Not Investing $150 Billion in the US and It Doesn't Even Have That Kind of Money: Here we go again... media as a vehicle of lobbying and misinformation
Leak: The EPO's General Consultative Committee (GCC) Does Not Consult Staff on Crucial Matters and Bypasses the Administrative Council (AC) to Do Illegal Things: violations against the EPO's very staff
New Leaks Coming Soon, We Maintain 100% Record of Successful Resistance to Censorship: We won't be told what we can and cannot say (especially when it's true)
Central African Republic (CAR): Vista 11 is Only ~0.2% Market Share: 99.8% to go!
BSD and GNU/Linux Replaced Microsoft in Secure Servers, All Microsoft Has Left is LLM Slop for Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD): the FUD machine never rests
Gemini Links 28/04/2025: A Simple Task Tracking and Auto-Prioritization Tool and Other Programs: Links for the day
Links 28/04/2025: Canada's Election, Pakistan-India Conflict: Links for the day
Speed of GNU/Linux: The media seldom speaks of the dangers of "proprietary software"
Glue Inside Your Pizza (or Why People Will Get Fed Up With Slop): People are given "answers" from non-intelligence word dumpsters
Proprietary Windows Versus "Linux" News (Trying to Keep People on Windows, Never Exploring GNU/Linux): Good editors know better how to recognise threats and not give them lip service
Ensuring That Every Computer User Anywhere in the World Can Take Control of All His or Her Computers: We must fight the people who attack general-purpose computing, in particular those who push this agenda very aggressively inside Linux
Links 28/04/2025: Cyberattacks Happening, Chatbots Disappointing, and "Free Speech Under Fire": Links for the day
Phone Adoption Very Low in Vatican, Windows Usage Fell Nonetheless: Even in places where people still use desktops/laptops most of the time (and have access to these) Windows is gradually losing ground
GNU/Linux 9% in Cuba, Vista 11 Waning, Android Dominant: Microsoft has pretty much lost Cuba
Gemini Links 28/04/2025: Autism and Structural Navigation: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 27, 2025: IRC logs for Sunday, April 27, 2025
What Happened to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Elections: The Purge, the Cover-up, and the Witch-hunts: OSI has gone "full Microsoft"
In 24 Countries Observed by statCounter Vista 11 is Still Less Than a Quarter of Windows Users Despite All Other Versions Being 'Expired': They ought to move to GNU/Linux
Links 27/04/2025: Pope Goodbyes, "Politics of Fear", Slop Redux and More Google Shutdowns (Google Debt Had Grown This Year): Links for the day
Links 27/04/2025: Serenity Dialectics, Hockey Jersey Ethics, and More: Links for the day
Links 27/04/2025: Death of Nest Thermostats, Death of Metaverse: Links for the day
Links 27/04/2025: Projects Workflow and Discovering Technology: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 26, 2025: IRC logs for Saturday, April 26, 2025

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