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1 readyOfficial SUSE Blog Still Uses LLM Slop (Bots) to Make Fake Articles (Marketing) (updated)

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2 readyCompanies Realise That Slop Doesn't Work as Advertised, Accordingly Dump It (updated)

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3 readyMicrosoft-Funded Lawsuits Against Critics of UEFI 'Secure Boot' (updated)

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4 readyIt's Only the Second Week of September and Already Two Waves of Layoffs at Microsoft, Slopfarms and Microsoft-Funded Sites Spin It as "AI Investments" Rather Than Commercial Failure (updated)

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5 readyIf Your Machine Still Has "Secure Boot" Enabled, Then Microsoft Has a de Facto Kill Switch (Even If Your Machine Doesn't Have Windows and Never Had Windows) (updated)

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6 readyReddit is Corporate Propaganda (updated)

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7 readyJeff Geerling Shocked to Discover Many Metrics in YouTube Are Fake (His Audience Turns Out to be Much Smaller) (updated)

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8 readyLinks 09/09/2025: “Torrents of Hate” and Political Crisis in France

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9 readyGemini Links 09/09/2025: "Dedigitizing" and Forgejo on FreeBSD

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10 readyGoogle News (Not Just Google Search) Lets Itself by Gamed by One Slopfarm - to the Point Almost Half of "Linux" News is Bot-Produced Plagiarism (LLM Slop With Slop Images)

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11 readyBill Gates-Funded Media Inadvertently Refutes the Microsoft Lie That in 2025 Microsoft Had Just Two Waves of Layoffs

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12 readyFrom theregister.co.uk to theregister.com (US) to The Register MS (Run by Microsoft Operatives) and theregister.ai

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13 readyOpen Source Initiative (OSI) Culture of Censorship Necessitates More Speech

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14 readyHow to Reach Us Discreetly (Other Than Encrypted E-mail)

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15 readyLLMs Are Vastly Worse Than a Waste of Energy and the Externalities Are Huge

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16 readyLLMs Versus Search (Not Replacing Search But Engaging in DDoS Attacks Against Web Sites That Permit Searching)

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17 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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18 readyIRC Proceedings: Monday, September 08, 2025

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19 readyThe UEFI 9/11 - Part IX - Shunning Old Computers (in 2023 the Certificate Was Updated/Overridden, Underlying Aim May Be Herding/Forcing People to Get TPM and Other 'Novel' Restrictions)

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20 readyRumour: Second Wave of Microsoft Mass Layoffs in September to Commence Third Week of September

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21 readyGemini Links 08/09/2025: Reality, ROOPHLOCH 2025, and Writing Another Gemini Client

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22 readyUpdating Firmware is Not the Solution But Only Additional Risk, Disable "Secure Boot" Today

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23 readyMicrosoft Tim's DevClass (Part of The Register MS/Situation Publishing) is Full of Slop

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24 readyMicrosoft Trying to Fake Demand for Slop. At What Cost?

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25 readySunlight is the Best Disinfectant and Kryptonite/Garlic to Vampires

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26 readyThe Register MS Uses Slop in Articles About Slop

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27 readyVisiting a Web Page or a Public URL Should be Safe, Predictable, and Benign

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28 readyThe Register MS (Situation Publishing) is Paid to Spread Mindless Hype for the "Hey Hi" Ponzi Scheme and That's a Serious Problem

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29 readyLinks 08/09/2025: Burger King Cracked, Cox v. Sony Analysed

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30 readyGemini Links 08/09/2025: Socialist Computer Museum and GAFAM/ByteDance/TikTok-Dominated Net

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31 readyLinks 08/09/2025: Tim Crook Disappoints Apple Faithfuls and Zuckerberg Lies (Financial Fraud) for Cheeto King

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32 readyEPO Workers Point Out that the EPO is Destroying the Planet Under the Guise of "Hey Hi" (It Also Grants Many Invalid Patents Illegally

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33 readyTurn Off Microsoft's Restricted Boot ("Secure Boot")

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34 readySocial Control Media Sites Have Become Bot Farms (Not Limited to LLMs and Automation)

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35 readyDeep in Debt With the Magnitude of Losses Quickly Growing, Microsoft "Open" "Hey Hi" Now Uses Broadcom for Vapourware, Pretending It'll Do OK Next Year

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36 readyYou Can Tell Microsoft is in Trouble When Its Own Fans and Staff Blast it

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37 readyMultiple Undersea Cable Cuts and We're Still OK

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38 readyLawyers Who Think They Are Online Assassins Don't Deserve a Licence to Operate

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39 readyMicrosoft Windows Fell to 3.9% "Market Share" in Bahamas

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40 readyHow the European Union (EU) Fell Out of Love With Free/Libre Software

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41 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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42 readyIRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 07, 2025

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43 readyGemini Links 07/09/2025: Scanner, Slop, and Chadobear

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44 readyThe UEFI 9/11 is 3 Days Away

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45 readyGoogle Versus Journalism

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46 readyGemini Links 07/09/2025: Advertising, Decentralized Archival, and Outsourcing to Bezos

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47 readyCertificate Authority Let's Encrypt Has Almost Gone Down to Zero, Nearly Totally Extinct in Geminispace, the Few Capsules Still Using It Are Spam/Dead/Stagnant

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48 readyNot Much Left in News Cycles

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49 readyTrying to Silence Techrights Was a Huge Mistake

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50 readyThrowing Away "Old" Computers (Mozilla and Other Climate Deniers)

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51 readyThe UEFI 9/11 - Part VIII - Denial of Service and Selling Us WSL (Windows) Instead of "Risky" (Prone by Breakage by Microsoft) GNU/Linux

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52 readySlop is Extremely Rare in Geminispace, Slop Images Are Unheard Of (Despite Images Being Supported)

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53 readyLinks 07/09/2025: Robodebt Class Action, Fines, and Copyright Settlement

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54 readyLinks 07/09/2025: Yle Impersonated in Social Control Media, Boat-Attacking Orcas, Midjourney Sued Again

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55 readySlopwatch: LinuxSecurity, Linux Journal, and the Serial Slopper

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56 readyLinks 07/09/2025: Google Fines in EU and "Your Internet Access Is at Risk"

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57 readyGemini Links 07/09/2025: Little Brother and Corporate Theatre

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58 readyLinks 07/09/2025: More Harms of Slop and Anthropic's Nightmare Scenario (Huge Legal Liabilities for Slop)

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59 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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60 readyIRC Proceedings: Saturday, September 06, 2025

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