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1 readyMicrosoft 'Studies' Again? Leon Musolff is Writing Papers With Microsoft. (updated)

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2 readyTowards GNU World Domination (updated)

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3 readyRMS is Done at KCL, Next Stop is Oxford (updated)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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10 readyMicrosoft Windows in Cyprus Lacking a Future

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11 readyMatrix Has a Severe Problem With Illegal Images

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

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

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

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15 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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16 readyGemini Links 23/04/2025: Librarians, Anubis, and Refactoring a Gemini Capsule

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17 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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18 readyIRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 22, 2025

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19 readyLinks 22/04/2025: Ending DEI Policies at Adobe, FTC Sues Uber

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20 readyUS Government Already Bailing Out OpenAI/Microsoft With "Contracts", As Usual, Back Doors You Cannot Remove Becoming 'a Step Closer' on New PCs (Unless Everyone Acts ASAP)

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21 readyMicrosoft Devises PR Stunts to Distract From Impending Mass Layoffs and Likely Bad Results Preceding Those Mass Layoffs

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22 readyGemini Links 22/04/2025: Deaths, HamsterCMS, and More

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23 readyLinks 22/04/2025: FTC v. Meta Trial and Google Remedies

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24 readyIn Turkey, Windows Down Rapidly While GNU/Linux Grows

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25 readyGNOME, Microsoft, and GitHub: The Lack of Reporting on Abusive Colleagues Contributed to Profound Media Vacuum (or Blackout), Now Resorting to SLAPPs

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26 readyRichard Stallman Has Updated His Article on Why "Free Software Is Even More Important Now"

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27 readyMicrosoft Already Attacks the BSDs as Well (the E.E.E. Way, as Usual)

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28 readyThe Open Source Initiative (OSI) is in Trouble, May Soon be Out of Business

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29 readyMicrosoft's Debt Grew Over 6 Billion Dollars in the Last Reporting Quarter (Before Inauguration), Expect Worse Next Week When 'Results' Are Disclosed and Mass Layoffs Resume

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30 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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31 readyIRC Proceedings: Monday, April 21, 2025

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32 readyRichard Stallman Gives Public Talk in London in 7 Hours (Need to Register as Venue Limited to 150 Seats), Public Announcements Begin to Appear

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33 readyGemini Links 21/04/2025: Remembering Pope Francis, Crystal Simulation

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34 readyDoing Microsoft's Job. On IBM's Payroll.

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35 readyGoogle News is Rewarding Slopfarms, Not Journalism

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36 readyTeaching GAFAM in Schools is Like Teaching Children to Smoke Tobacco

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37 readyRichard Stallman, Whose Site is Trusted by Greater Manchester, Has Come to the United Kingdom

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38 readyOn Desktops/Laptops in Singapore Does a Fifth of Users Run GNU/Linux?

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39 readyLinks 21/04/2025: Fake Ceasefire and Software Patents (Fake Patents) Thrown Out

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40 readyCompanies With Fake Values and a Fake Economic/Financial State (Phony Valuations)

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41 readyLinks 21/04/2025: Microsoft LLM Slop (Plagiarism) Going Out of Control, CT Scans' Cancer Problems Was Underrated

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42 ready4 Years Ago Freenode Crumbled From Within

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43 readyGNOME Has a Long History (Over a Decade) Misusing the Code of Conduct (CoC) to Censor (Cull) Legitimate Technical Criticism

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44 readyMicrosoft Has Tainted GNOME, Which Has Key People Acting as a SLAPP Front Against Techrights (Trying to Censor the Site by Extortion and Many Threats)

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45 readyHomeland of Linux Kernel Turning to GNU/Linux?

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46 readyAccording to StatCounter, This is What Linux Adoption Looks Like (Based on Web Requests Visible to StatCounter)

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47 readyGemini Capsules Still Outsourcing to Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Now Measured at Less Than 10 (or Less Than 0.3%)

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48 readyTwisting Microsoft's Failure (Transmitting Malware) as "SSH Backdoors" and a Linux Problem

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49 readyVista 11 Has Burned OEMs and Some Move to GNU/Linux

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50 readyRemember That Microsoft Mass Layoffs Are Imminent Because Its 'Empire' is Falling Apart

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51 readyRichard Stallman in the UK This Week, Scheduled to Give Two Public Talks (London and Oxford)

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52 readyGemini Links 21/04/2025: April, Autism, and ASN

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53 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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54 readyIRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 20, 2025

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