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1 readyNothing that Microsoft Lunduke claims or says can be trusted (updated)

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2 readyHow Software Patents Were Viewed or Their General Status Changed Over Time (updated)

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3 readyDatamation, Where I Used to Publish Articles, Appears to Have Been Sold to TechnologyAdvice Only to Become a Slopfarm (updated)

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4 readyGarmin Uses Linux for Some of the Garmin Products, Now It's Sued by Strava Using Software Patents

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5 readyRichard Stallman Will Give a Talk in Sweden in 6 Days

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6 readyFSF Turns 40

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7 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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8 readyIRC Proceedings: Friday, October 03, 2025

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9 readyGemini Links 04/10/2025: Distro Hopping and "Part Time"

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10 readyWe Are Turning 19 in One Month, FSF Turns 40 in 3 Hours (CET)

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11 readyPatent Docs (or PatentDocs) Learned the Wrong Lessons From the Death of TypePad

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12 readyUSPTO Patent Bubble Already Imploding, After Decades of Artificial Inflation, Entire Offices Close for Good

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13 readyTikTok is Not Harmless (Being CheeTok in the US Will Advance Orange Agenda)

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14 readyAndy Farnell and Helen Plews Explain What "Modern" Tech Does to Old People

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15 readyTomorrow the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Turns 40 and Its Web Site is Still Slow Due to DDoS by LLM Slop Bots

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16 readySlopwatch: Google News as a Firehose of LLM Slop About "Linux"

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17 readyLinks 03/10/2025: "NPR’s Economics Lessons Come With Neoliberal Spin" and Canada Post at Risk

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18 readyGemini Links 03/10/2025: Panic Attacks and Food Adulteration

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19 readyLinks 03/10/2025: Lawyers Caught Using LLM Slop Explain Why They Did It, LibreSSL 4.1.1 and 4.0.1 Released

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20 readyFSF Board Grew 50% Since Last Year, Has New President, Turns 40 in Two Days

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21 readyLinks 03/10/2025: Conflicts, Death of TypePad, and TikTok/CheeTok Gives a Boost to Far Right Groups in Europe

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22 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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23 readyIRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 02, 2025

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24 readySlopwatch: Linux Journal, Google News, and LinuxSecurity

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25 readyGemini Links 02/10/2025: Kubernetes With FreeBSD and robots.txt

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26 readyLinks 02/10/2025: 'Open' 'AI' Resorting to Gimmicks and Fake Funding, Europe’s ‘Drone Wall’ Discussed

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27 readyLinks 02/10/2025: Brave Passes 100M Users Milestone, Kodak Selling Its Own Film Again

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28 readyMichael “Monty” Widenius: It Started in 1983 With Richard Stallman (RMS)

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29 readysu lisa && rm -rf /home/ibm/power

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30 readyA Record Demand at Microsoft: Demand to Cancel

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31 readyMicrosoft is Losing Europe

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32 readyThe Free Software Foundation Starts Fund-raising for 40th Anniversary

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33 readySystemd Breaks Networking in Debian and Microsoft Staff Rushes to Make Face-Saving Excuses in LWN

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34 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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35 readyIRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 01, 2025

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36 readyWhat the End of XBox Will Look Like: a Fiery Crash

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37 readyRichard Stallman is Going to Finland to Give a Talk Next Thursday

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38 readyGemini Links 02/10/2025: SMTP Pipelining and End of ROOPHLOCH 2025

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