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1 readyGet Rid of Back Doors, Don't Obsess Over Bounties and Other Corporate PR Stunts (or Needless Reboot Rituals) (updated)

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2 readySerial Sloppers Are Killing the Web (They Probably Don't Care, Either) (updated)

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3 readyIBM's Debt Ballooned by 8.5 Billion Dollars in Just 3 Months! (updated)

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4 readyBig Trouble in GNOME (updated)

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5 readyNew Article Explains How the GPL Came About and WordPress Having Copyleft Obligations (updated)

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6 readyThe Cost (to Linux) of LLM Slop

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7 readyLinks 25/04/2025: Ubisoft Spyware, Hegseth Fails at Tech on Every Level

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8 readyGemini Links 25/04/2025: Food Forest Update and Facebook Destroying the Net

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9 readyStreaming Apps Are “Investor Fraud” That Kills the Planet

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10 readyThings Get Increasingly Nasty at Microsoft Ahead of the Fake Results and May's Mass Layoffs Wave

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11 readySlopping the Trough: Disney Plus Loses Billions and the Decline of Physical Media in America

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12 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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13 readyIRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 24, 2025

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14 readyLinks 24/04/2025: GAFAM Problems and No Peace (or Ceasefire) in Sight

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15 readySlopfarms on the Web Almost Always Generate Anti-Linux FUD When They Produce "Linux" Output

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16 readyRichard Stallman's Oxford Talk Has Just Ended, Here Are Some Photos

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17 readyGemini Links 24/04/2025: Birthday and Good Work of Academia in Esotericism

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18 readyLinks 24/04/2025: EU fines Apple and Facebook, Another Microsoft GitHub Security Blunder

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19 readyIBM Gained Almost 6 Billion Dollars in "Goodwill" Value in Just 3 Months, According to IBM

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20 readyIn Belarus, Yandex is Now Measured as 50 Times More 'Popular' (by Usage) Than Microsoft

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21 readyIBM Cannot Lie to Shareholders Anymore

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22 readyDr Richard Stallman (RMS) Gives Talk in Oxford University in 4 Hours

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23 readyUsing a Law Firm's Licence to Exercise Politics Through Frivolous SLAPPs and Nastygrams (to Silence People, Remove Pages, Demand Fake or Forced 'Apologies')

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24 readyWe're Working to Make Full-Site Search Available

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25 readyLinks 24/04/2025: IBM Loses Many Contracts, Intel to Lay Off Over 20% (Not Counting Those Who Leave 'Voluntarily')

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26 readyRichard Stallman Can Explain to Oxford Artificial Intelligence Society Why LLM Slop is Not Artificial Intelligence and Why It Hurts Society

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27 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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28 readyIRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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29 readyOpen Source Initiative (OSI) Promoting Microsoft and Proprietary Software Using Microsoft Operatives

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30 readyAnother Site Bites the Dust: "Open Source For You" Becoming a Slopfarm (LLM Slop)

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31 readyLinks 23/04/2025: Crackdowns on Dissent, Palin Loses Libel Retrial Against New York Times

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32 readyLinks 23/04/2025: Hard Times and Digital Amnesia

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33 readyThe GNU/Linux Site Formerly Known as "linoxide.com" is Back... as an LLM Slopfarm!

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34 readyRichard Stallman to Speak in Oxford University Exactly a Day From Now

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35 readyLinks 23/04/2025: "Hiding Corruption" and "The Cost of Defunding Harvard"

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36 readyMicrosoft 'Studies' Again? Leon Musolff is Writing Papers With Microsoft.

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37 readyTowards GNU World Domination

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38 readystatCounter Helps Visualise Just How Deep in Trouble Microsoft is (Especially in Africa)

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39 readyThe Register is Using Linux-Hostile Clickbait in Articles of Linux Proponents

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40 readyMicrosoft Windows in Cyprus Lacking a Future

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41 readyMatrix Has a Severe Problem With Illegal Images

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42 readyNever Try to Justify Strangulation of Women (Not in the US and Not in the UK)

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43 readyLinks 23/04/2025: Tesla Profits Plunge 71%, Intel Ready to Lay Off 20% of Staff, Microsoft and IBM Layoffs

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44 readyMicrosoft's Most Profound Issue is That People Moved to 'Mobile' and "App Stores" (Microsoft's Presence There is Negligible)

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45 readyGoogle News is Amplifying FUD and Lies About Linux (and OpenSSH/SSH) by Promoting Slopfarms With Machine-Generated FUD and Slop Images

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46 readyGemini Links 23/04/2025: Librarians, Anubis, and Refactoring a Gemini Capsule

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47 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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48 readyIRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 22, 2025

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