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1 readyEurope in 2026: Over 5% GNU/Linux, Not Counting Chromebooks

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2 readyState of Tech Journalism in 2026: Follow the Money

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3 readySlopfarm Says Microsoft's "Biggest Business" is the 'Business' Where It Loses Tens of Billions of Dollars

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4 readyAt the Start of January 2025 Microsoft President Said Microsoft Would Spend 80 Billion Dollars on "AI" Data Centres. That Didn't Happen. Microsoft Laid Off 30,000 Workers, Debt Surged.

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5 readyLinks 02/01/2026: Insurrectionist Attacks Musicians Critical of Him With Lawfare, Project Gutenberg Now Has Over 75,000 Books

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6 readyDecline in LLM Slop About "Linux" is a Good Start for 2026

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7 readyEPO People Power - Part XXII - Contact Officials and Inform Your National Representatives (Delegates) of the EPO's Cocainegate

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8 readySlopwatch Still Dead, Not Enough LLM Slop About "Linux"

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9 readyLibXML2 Will Carry on (Without or With the Name "LibXML2")

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10 readyGemini Links 02/01/2026: ThinkPad, SHARP Zaurus, Lagrange Handheld Support

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11 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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12 readyIRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 01, 2026

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13 readyLinks 01/01/2026: "Biophobia" and Renewed Effort to Locate MH370

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14 readyGemini Links 01/01/2026: Bot Accounts Online and Reading in 2025

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15 readyIBM’s and Red Hat’s "Operation Evolution initiative" Just Long, Fancy Term for Bluewashing, Redundancies, Layoffs

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16 readyDesigning a Better Mousetrap or Tools for the SSG

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17 readyLinks 01/01/2026: 1930 Works in the Public Domain, Electricity Pricing 'a Mystery'

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18 readyFirefox is Toast Because It Got Toasted by Mozilla

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19 readyIgnore the LLM Slop and the Noise, Microsoft is in a Death Spiral

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20 readyRed Hat is Vanishing Before Our Eyes

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21 readyIn 2025 Microsoft Lost Palau

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22 readyMicrosoft Mocked UNIX/Linux for Not Handling Dates After 2038, Microsoft Breaks Down on 2026!

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23 readyAnother New Year's Resolution: Public Domain Sources, Credits

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24 readyCombatting Slop Images (and ClownFlare)

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25 readyThe End of Red Hat

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26 readyA New Year's Resolution: Maximal Transparency

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27 readyGemini Links 01/01/2026: 2025 Comes to a Close and Capsular Gemlog Manager

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28 readyFree Software Foundation (FSF) Raised About 1.3 Million Dollars in the Past Couple of Months!

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29 ready2026 IBM Phaseout of Red Hat

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30 readyMicrosoft Budget Issues, XBox Thrown Under the Bus

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31 readyOnly Hours Into the New Year People Already Discuss the Next Round of Layoffs at Red Hat/IBM

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32 readyEPO People Power - Part XXI - Europe's Second-Largest Institution Became a Corrupt For-Profit Company Run by Drug Addicts

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33 readyAnother Very Productive Year Commences

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34 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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35 readyIRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 31, 2025

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36 readyFiji: GNU/Linux Has Risen From Almost Nothing to Almost 5% in Recent Years

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37 readyGemini Links 31/12/2025: Blogosphere is Growing and New Year Begins

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38 readyRecruiters Don't Use Microsoft LinkedIn, Spammers Use LinkedIn

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39 readyYou've Only Wasted Your Life in Social Control Networks

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40 ready2025 Was a Very Bad Year for Social Control Media

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41 readyDon't "Go Paperless", Go Paperful [sic] (for What Really Matters)

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42 readyComplexity Considered Harmful: We Used to Run an Operating System on 64KB of RAM, Not 64GB of RAM (a Million Times More)

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43 readyThe Slop Industry is Failing So Badly (Mountains of Debt, Losses) That It's Merging With the SPAM Industry

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44 readyLinks 31/12/2025: Cheeto Pushing for More Wars, ‘Security is a Shared Responsibility’

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45 readyEnshittification of Postal Services Isn't Technological Advancement

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46 readyIBM Starts 2026 a Much Smaller Company (Not Homage to Gerstner)

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47 readyXBox is Likely Dead Already, But the Threat It Posed to Us All for Two Decades Isn't Over

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48 readyAhead of 2026 Mass Layoffs at Microsoft the Tree Gets Shaken to See Who 'Falls' (Resigns/Retires)

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49 readyAlmost 6,5000 Pages in 2025, Aiming Higher in 2026

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50 readyMicrosoft XBox Having a "Dog Ate My Homework" Moment: No New Console Until 3 Years From Now... Because "RAM Prices"

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51 readyGemini End of Year Capsules Tally (Based on Lupa) Shows About 10% Growth

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52 readyGemini Links 31/12/2025: New Resolution, Reverse Hexdump, and Programming Languages

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53 readyDr. Andy Farnell Explains Why Chatbots Became Dishonesty on Top of Dishonesty (Hiding Usage of Dishonest Salads of Words)

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54 readyLinks 31/12/2025: Nvidia Faces Bubble-Bursting Moment, Saudi Oil Money Pumped Into Chatbots to Keep the Energy Waste Going (Circular Financing Again)

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55 readyRichard Stallman's First Talk in a U.S. College Since 2018

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56 readyEPO People Power - Part XX - Why António Campinos Chose to Put His Cokehead Friend on 'Sick Leave'

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57 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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58 readyIRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 30, 2025

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