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1 readyMicrosoft XBox is Dying as More Retailers Stop Stocking It and Massive Layoffs Planned Again (updated)

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2 readyLinux and the Freedom Paradox (updated)

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3 readyWatch the FSF Party Live (via Livestream) (updated)

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4 readyAdvocacy of Software Freedom Changed, LUGs Became Less Relevant (updated)

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5 readyLinks 05/10/2025: Slow News Day and Wondering About the Canada Post Walkout

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6 readyGemini Links 05/10/2025: Telnet Debugging and The Programmer’s Brain

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7 readyMore Than "Just a Rumour": XBox Seems to Have Just Died

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8 readyHow to Tell Your Community, Project or Company is Being Infiltrated by Saboteurs

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9 readyThe Fortieth Birthday of the FSF Made Us Extremely Happy

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10 readyChat Control 2 Them, Not 2 U

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11 readyMozilla: Throw Away Your "Old" PC and Enable "Digital Rights Management (DRM)"

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12 readyControlling Our Computing for Another Forty Years

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13 readyMotivational Small Place to Run Large Sites

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14 readyTechrights' Text Version (Daily Bulletin) Turns Five This Month

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15 readyWe'll Continue Covering the Moribund OSI and Other Dysfunctional if Not Hostile Institutions

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16 readyLinks 05/10/2025: Lufthansa Layoffs (4,000) and More Spotify Woes (Aside From Massive Debt)

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17 readyThe Free Software Foundation's Livestream Has Ended, Video/s Might be Online Next

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18 readyThe Register MS Does Not Know the Difference Between Microsoft GitHub and GitLab

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19 ready"Bullshit Generators" (What RMS Calls LLMs) and Fake Images Already Target the FSF

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20 readySoftware Patents as a Bubble

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21 readyLinks 05/10/2025: Political Leftovers, Climate Change, and Security Incidents

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22 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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23 readyIRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 04, 2025

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24 readyFor the Second Time in a Few Weeks Microsoft Lunduke Makes False Accusations Against Senior Red Hat Staff to Incite a Despicable 'Troll Army'

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25 readyWhen Microsoft "Integrates" Something With "AI" It Means It's Losing Money and Is Generally Hopeless

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26 readyMost Certificates Don't Improve Security, They Mostly Increase Downtime (for No Good Reason)

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27 readyThe statCounter Site Has Data Integrity Problems

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28 ready10 Ways to Combat Software Patents

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29 ready"Just a Little Bit of Meat..."

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30 readyCompromised by NVIDIA Proprietary Library

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31 readyRed Hat is Ignoring the Free Software Community, It's a "Fortune 1000" Vendor

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32 readyFree Software Foundation Party Has Begun

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33 readyFormer Head of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Lina Khan Knows Whatever Microsoft Touches Will Die

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34 readySlopwatch: Fake Articles About LibreOffice in Austria and Wine 10.16

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35 readyLinks 04/10/2025: "attempted Coup" Noted in Facebook, Russia Kills Journalists via Drones

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36 readyGemini Links 04/10/2025: Anesthesia and Baudpunk

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37 readyHow Software Patents Were Viewed or Their General Status Changed Over Time

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38 readyLinks 04/10/2025: "Privacy Harm Is Harm", Criticism Outlawed in US

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

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

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41 readyFSF Turns 40

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42 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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43 readyIRC Proceedings: Friday, October 03, 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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50 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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51 readySlopwatch: Google News as a Firehose of LLM Slop About "Linux"

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52 readyDatamation, Where I Used to Publish Articles, Appears to Have Been Sold to TechnologyAdvice Only to Become a Slopfarm

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

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

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55 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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56 readyFSF Board Grew 50% Since Last Year, Has New President, Turns 40 in Two Days

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

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58 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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59 readyIRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 02, 2025

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60 readySlopwatch: Linux Journal, Google News, and LinuxSecurity

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

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