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1 readyManchester United Dumped Microsoft Because Qualcomm Sort of Did (updated)

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2 readyDays Without Slop About "Linux"

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3 readyLinks 27/12/2025: Canada Post Strike Called Off, Debate About Europeans "Working Over Christmas"

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4 readyGemini Links 27/12/2025: Household Appliances and Flight Fright

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5 readyLinks 27/12/2025: US Cracking Down on Whistleblowers, Expanding Bombardment Campaigns Worldwide

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6 readyResuming EPO Coverage Today, Can António Campinos 'Survive' Cocainegate?

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7 readyLinks 27/12/2025: More Attacks on Media (Meduza Co-founder Sentenced to Prison in Absentia), "What Owning Music Means To Me"

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8 readyGemini Links 27/12/2025: geminiprotocol.net Downtime and Capsular Gemlog Manager

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9 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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10 readyIRC Proceedings: Friday, December 26, 2025

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11 readyTossing Embarrassing News Under the Christmastime Bus

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12 readyVictim-Blaming in Debian

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13 readyIBM Cuts in Japan, Red Hat is Attached to a Sinking Ship

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14 readyFree Software Foundation (FSF) Supported by Unconventional Digital Bartering Communities

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15 readyGeminispace: 5,000 Capsules in 2026

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16 readyGemini Links 26/12/2025: Careful What You Eat and "My Secret Santa"

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17 readyThe Indigenous Community Versus Corporate AstroTurt and 'Cancel Culture'

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18 readyRichard Stallman: Epstein is a Serial Rapist. Bill Epsteingate: Epstein is a Friend.

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19 readyThe Paradox of GAFAM: Saying You Protect Women, Appointing Abusers of Women to Run the Company

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20 readyCensored by FreeBSD Core Team Secretary, Reinstated After Talking About it in Public

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21 readyLinks 26/12/2025: Chatbot Toys Terrorising Children, US Undeclared "War on Terror" Unilaterally Extends to Nigeria During Holidays

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22 readyLinks 26/12/2025: French Postal Services Under Russian Attack,  U.S. Cheetos Accuse People Who Obstruct Information Warfare by Russia of "Censorship"

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23 readyDebian's Daniel Kahn Gillmor is Wrong, Signal is No "Gold Standard" (It's Also Promoted by Proponents of Back Doors)

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24 readyNext Year Will be the Year of Quantum, Just Like 2020, 2015, 2010, 2005 and So On

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25 readyThe Silent Power of Coercion Over Speech

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26 readyKazakhstan Doesn't Need GAFAM Datacentres (Spy Hubs)

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27 readySo Simple That You Can Touch and Feel It

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28 readyChristmas Music Project: Back to When Music Was Music

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29 readyInternet Relay Chat (IRC) Under Attack by Cross-Network Spam Floods

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30 readyAn "AI-Infused" Windows

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31 readyMicrosoft Laid Off Over 30,000 People This Year, Coders Are "Too Expensive"

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32 readyCritics Have Long Said Microsoft Produces "Slopware", Microsoft Wants to Prove Them Right

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33 readyThe Top 8 Innovations of IBM in 2025

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34 readyAnd as the Year Turns...

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35 readyAppliances Versus Computers

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36 readyA Dark Side of Europe

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37 readyWhy People Love Techrights (and Also Loved "Boycott Novell")

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38 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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39 readyIRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 25, 2025

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40 readyBrowsing Techrights With a GUI and 10 Megabytes of RAM Per Tab

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41 readyA Tribute to Richard Stallman

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42 readyLinks 26/12/2025: Impermanence, Salt and Thermometer, Freetube

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43 readyGemini Links 25/12/2025: Hibernation and TV Detox

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44 readyCanonical is Making the Cost of PCs Very High, Due to Unnecessary Ubuntu Bloat

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45 readyCanonical's Ubuntu is Bloatware

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46 readyThe EPO is a Very Vicious Organisation You Neither Wish to Join Nor Stay in for "Too Long"

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47 ready2026 Will Hopefully Turn Out to be Slopless

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48 readyLinks 25/12/2025: Mail Carriers in "a Murky Future", Dihydroxyacetone Man’s "Chip Embargo Against China Backfiring Spectacularly"

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49 readyThe Register MS: All I Want For Xmas is Microsoft

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50 readyHow to Win Nobel Prize for Peace

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51 readyThe Right to Repair (Especially When Products Are So Poorly Made)

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52 readyLinks 25/12/2025: Ample Cover-up Found in Jeffrey Epstein Files; ChatGPT Causes Psychosis, Not a Good Use Case

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53 readyGiving Money to Free Software

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54 readyThe Register MS: Don't Use Linux

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55 readyEPO People Power - Part XV - EPO Cocainegate to Resume This Weekend

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56 readyMicrosoft: XBox is Going "Online", "Cloud"...

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57 readyThe Year of the Bubble

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58 readyMozilla Firefox is a GAFAM Browser With Slop, Move to a Free Software Web Browser

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59 readylibera.chat Was Under Attack Last Night

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60 readyFree Software Foundation (FSF) Raises Over $300,000 Before Christmas

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61 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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62 readyIRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 24, 2025

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