𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Friday, August 01, 2025 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Sat 2 Aug 02:49:26 BST 2025 Created by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (𝚛𝚘𝚢 (at) 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚣 (dot) 𝚌𝚘𝚖) Full hyperlinks for navigation omitted but are fully available in the originals The corresponding HTML versions are at 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈 Latest in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕 and older bulletins can be found at 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕-𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 Full IPFS index in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔 and as plain text in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔/𝒕𝒙𝒕 Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2025/08/01/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmbHjgPAAcGNUG9Sej4vSKhK8DfUYokfFkXLdKwr1JtGJG QmdLsuRLzrwb58dZaSmJah6oCmNNZ6cW4ick4chqJmHjmY QmTNR3uqcbMYjPAbbHjBqyNJb3ib8kytQvdFnATzkBFVvo QmfCHrqMLfMsHXYnQeAvVuNYt91Zw2AmMJ5mx4RqsrWy3b QmR2rr1yXDANjQBEz2oGtd2UMgy9U37FHdjpUhPfAk7h5z QmWE6ucdKk9Q1pi6ce3ko9xPWd9Y4BjpLij3W7tJ5TMjG3 QmaoEDiALTYYZdaq3SQ86aQpMwUji1nqCeLbXAoszFRYvJ QmSTkZUY74BcgbgqS6JKwwNbVnbzY5uqwpgWtYonGJua8s QmXZcp3rXLYa24pYd7jUu6sPDrhziRCNCok875WLJTLysP QmUE7nd24kx2soZFbSYKDsb1ik1wpirFTRTBhDTj6w9sjh QmdKeWBhfnjgQLYU48wto7DdStpXsB5mE1yEEnWcxQ53vu QmfSnnTnjcAe3YvtRsVgAwUJfpcEk1dM5J5yjJLyv7MxqM QmQ16CkpxBbMzPZ6wZcuKBUcxH1RZ8uAEhcvdBsPRpVZe9 QmT3gTQRv33wEDtJveL8DiqiacGeRaxEbRFDUyVSJEAvDL QmTs9qcwghZPs5oBh9qzsu8a11T4s6xHrJjVNyk5miFy3X Qmdqd6mb8mj27qVvQZRR7sjshrXYYirWm9vRttLkNB5rW6 QmSjY85vxbu9nNFHUMmuK7CxRame2VYuhb523CJaK5zRkj QmZwah9nZHVvSzbJWEAMxumYDpanFPqTahnqoNP83tuZbx QmQWSrGfeYwgf6HE9N3742DJrJwq8uNSCUAz469CnuUFGe QmcgTTyseF5zFd4MLquM4PtJZzkFcBEqaUbqDe4eaUx6Na QmZMEFKvpgvjxAcV9Pwu7yF74LYZwS7ktdLFdYb988Ncfu ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Techrights - As Expected, Google in the UK Now Experiments With Slop Instead of Web Search ⦿ Techrights - Being Obedient or Doing the Right Thing ⦿ Techrights - Financial Engineering Companies: A Company Worth 4 Trillion Dollars Would Not Borrow 100+ Billion Dollars at Interest Rates Like Today's ⦿ Techrights - For Second Day in a Row, Top Story in The Register MS is "Microsoft Says" ⦿ Techrights - Google as a 'Bullshit Generator' Disguised as Intelligence ⦿ Techrights - History Will Be Distorted, Sometimes Intentionally, Under the Guise of Intelligence (Manipulated/Curated Slop) ⦿ Techrights - IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 31, 2025 ⦿ Techrights - LLMs as Attack Method Against Free Software and Programming ⦿ Techrights - Meeting (Webchat) With Maria Arranz Gomez, Florian Grundies, Jürgen Janda and Konstantinos Kortsaris Confronts EPO Management About Breaking Promises and Crushing Workers ⦿ Techrights - Microsoft is Googlebombing "Linux" While Paying Former News Sites to Publish SPAM ⦿ Techrights - Microsoft's Debt Exploded by 15.4 Billion Dollars in the Past 9 Months Alone (Despite All the Layoffs) ⦿ Techrights - Over at Tux Machines... ⦿ Techrights - Stability and Reliability, Backward Compatibility ⦿ Techrights - The Data You Don't Give Away is Your Advantage ⦿ Techrights - What "the News" Looks Like in 2025 ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/As_Expected_Google_in_the_UK_Now_Experiments_With_Slop_Instead_.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/Being_Obedient_or_Doing_the_Right_Thing.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/Financial_Engineering_Companies_A_Company_Worth_4_Trillion_Doll.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/For_Second_Day_in_a_Row_Top_Story_in_The_Register_MS_is_Microso.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/Google_as_a_Bullshit_Generator_Disguised_as_Intelligence.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/History_Will_Be_Distorted_Sometimes_Intentionally_Under_the_Gui.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_July_31_2025.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/LLMs_as_Attack_Method_Against_Free_Software_and_Programming.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/Meeting_Webchat_With_Maria_Arranz_Gomez_Florian_Grundies_Jurgen.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/Microsoft_is_Googlebombing_Linux_While_Paying_Former_News_Sites.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/Microsoft_s_Debt_Exploded_by_15_4_Billion_Dollars_in_the_Past_9.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/Stability_and_Reliability_Backward_Compatibility.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/The_Data_You_Don_t_Give_Away_is_Your_Advantage.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/What_the_News_Looks_Like_in_2025.shtml ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/Gemini_Links_01_08_2025_Happy_Hacking_Keyboards_and_New_Gemini_.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/Links_01_08_2025_Health_Conflict_and_Attacks_on_Freedom_of_the_.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/Links_01_08_2025_The_Great_British_Firewall_and_U_S_Army_Sponso.shtml ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 91 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/As_Expected_Google_in_the_UK_Now_Experiments_With_Slop_Instead_.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/As_Expected_Google_in_the_UK_Now_Experiments_With_Slop_Instead_.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ As Expected, Google in the UK Now Experiments With Slop Instead of Web Search⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 01, 2025, updated Aug 01, 2025 Hours ago it started looking like this ("All" means Web search, "AI_mode"_means slop, not intelligence) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇AI_Mode_-_slop⦈_ Yesterday we explained that Google's Web search - its bread and butter - is collapsing under a weight of slop. Web search aside, Google's so-called "news" syndicator (Google News) is already manipulated to death by slopfarms. It's horrible. You look for something there - not just "Linux" (our 'case study') - and maybe 50% of the results are fake 'articles' composed by bots. It's very unpleasant. It renders the whole thing worse than useless and it's pumping out fake (slop) images*. At this point more people ought to stop and think: Does Google's search engine deserve trust? If not, then how else to browse the Web? Maybe there's another way? Google is conditioning people to get a nutrition of slop, not food. That's a sinister agenda. █ _____ * The Web is getting filled with fakes like these: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇more_Fake_Richard_Stallman_on_Seinfeld_photos.⦈_ * The_Data_You_Don't_Give_Away_is_Your_Advantage * Google_as_a_'Bullshit_Generator'_Disguised_as_Intelligence ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣧⣤⣤⣤⣤⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣼⣿⣿⣧⣤⣦⣄⣠⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣦⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣧⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣿⣿⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣽⣿⣿⣧⣤⣦⣤⣤⣤⣴⣄⣸⣿⣿⣧⣥⣤⣴⣼⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣋⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣙⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛ ⣿⣿⢿⡿⢿⡿⢿⣿⣻⡿⠻⣿⣿⣛⣿⡿⢻⣿⡿⣿⢻⢟⡿⣿⣿⠻⣿⡿⢿⣿⡿⢿⣿⡟⣻⠿⢻⣿⢻⣿⡿⢿⣿⠟⣿⡿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣾⣷⣾⣿⣾⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣿⣶⣿⣿⣾⣿⣶⣿⣾⣿⣶⣿⣿⣶⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡿⠟⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠛⠛⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⠀⣀⣤⡀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠁⠀⢀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠸⢿⣿⡿⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡧⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠡⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⢀⣬⡄⡇⣬⡀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⡀⢉⡿⣿⣓⣅⡅⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠄⠀⠀⠀⢀⡤⠔⠀⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠩⠉⠂⢤⡄⠄⠆⠃⠀⢃⡖⠡⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠘⠟⢁⣁⠚⡟⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⡽⠹⢘⡿⣷⢀⠀⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⣰⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⡀⠀⠀⣬⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠳⢈⣧⣴⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠹⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠇⣂⠌⠿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢁⠉⣉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡟⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠀⠀⠘⠛⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠄⣽⢹⡶⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠄⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢤⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠖⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⣴⣯⣶⣼⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣄⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢼⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⡐⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⢀⣸⣿⣷⣶⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠤⠤⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⢹⡄⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡤⠀⠀⠈⢸⣿⣿⣿⡆⠤⠓⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠸⢿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢴⣶⣾⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⢤⠀⠀⣀⣠⣿⣿⣿⣧⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠈⣢⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⠟⠄⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡤⢦⡀⣤⠤⠄⣵⢀⣾⠉⣿⢻⡿⠿⢻⡿⠿⢰⡄⠀⢠⠤⣭⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠿⠿⠁⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣇⠈⠁⣿⣀⠀⡿⢸⣿⣆⡟⢸⣇⡀⣾⣿⡀⣾⠁⠀⣿⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠙⣷⢸⡏⠉⢸⡇⣸⠸⣿⡇⣿⠉⠁⣿⢹⠁⣿⠀⢠⡏⢀⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠷⠶⠋⠼⠷⠖⠸⠃⠿⠀⠿⠁⠿⠀⠸⠿⠶⠺⠷⠶⠸⠷⠞⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣇⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣰⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠁⡖⣴⡒⡄⢰⣒⢲⢢⣖⣴⢢⠀⣖⢶⠲⢰⡂⣦⡆⣖⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⡿⣛⣿⣛⠿⡿⣿⣿⣿⢿⠿⣿⢻⡿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⡿⢿⣻⢿⣿⡿⡿⢿⠿⡿⢿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠷⠻⠤⠧⠼⠤⠸⠸⠧⠻⠞⠀⠮⠛⠴⠸⠄⠏⠇⠧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣟⣂⣿⣸⣤⣁⣛⣜⣻⣤⣤⣇⣅⣷⣅⣿⣡⣣⣀⣪⣿⣰⣹⣐⣚⣆⣄⣇⣦⣸⣤⣁⣮⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⣏⢻⣛⢹⢙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⢟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 175 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/Being_Obedient_or_Doing_the_Right_Thing.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/Being_Obedient_or_Doing_the_Right_Thing.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Being Obedient or Doing the Right Thing⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 01, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Corpo-tech⦈_ Over the years we've had to deal with greedy, reckless, careless people. They issue threats to us, they libel us, they try to ridicule us and - failing that - they start harassing family members. It's not a new problem. It is not limited to Microsoft, albeit Microsoft is by miles the worst. When I was about 20 I already knew I didn't want to pursue money. I had friends who felt the same way. Remember this was after the dot-com bubble had already burst and the world was getting worse every year (we're talking about the post- 9/11 world). Not just politically by the way. So I spent many years working in universities; the salary was always a lot lower than my level of skills/experience allowed me to get, but I didn't mind. It was also around that time - maybe 2003 - that I did plenty of advocacy for "alt-tech" (alternative technology) in USENET, in my Web site, and years later in "social" sites (when those were a relatively new thing). It felt like doing the right thing. I know people who choose to follow the "normal" way of life. Most of them aren't happy. Some are getting by, some are stressed and/or dissatisfied. They feel like they're being used and made to do things they lack a genuine passion for. When Linus Torvalds was a student he was tinkering with systems - same as many Finns around that time (including the Finn who pioneered IRC a few years earlier). Going further back in time, a "last true hacker" in Boston decided to quit his job at MIT and built GNU. He chose the "difficult" way. A similar story can be told by Matt Mullenweg and WordPress. Society gravitates towards conformity and people get pressured, even berated, for going "astray". But the world needs more people who are nonconformist. There are things one can obey (the law for example) because it is common sense, but at the same time adopting a "lifestyle" recommended by "the system" isn't obligatory. People need to think "Outside_the_Box" to avoid becoming just a cog. What's most loathsome is the extent to which cogs would go out of their way to bully, demoralise, and sometimes defame those who think "Outside the Box". In many cases, this is done because of envy, sometimes it's the fear of having to accept that being a cog is the wrong way to live. 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The real number of layoffs is about twice as big (we kept a running tally) and they don't seem to understand what temps, contractors, and perma-temps are. Microsoft is shrinking rapidly, its debt is fast-growing, and its_claims_about_it_finances_are_lies. How can a company gain in "value" when it's shutting down so many operations? "How much of Microsoft illusion of growth is due to stocks, or specifically to stock buy-backs? I suspect that stock buy-backs were used to artificially inflate the valuation and give it a false high value," an associate notes. Some time later today we expect to see the figure for Microsoft's total debt as of June 30th. We'll then do a follow-up article. The media isn't falling for a Ponzi scheme; it's a participant in it. It gets paid to play along. █ * Microsoft_is_Googlebombing_"Linux"_While_Paying_Former_News_Sites_to Publish_SPAM * History_Will_Be_Distorted,_Sometimes_Intentionally,_Under_the_Guise_of Intelligence_(Manipulated/Curated_Slop) ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 352 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/For_Second_Day_in_a_Row_Top_Story_in_The_Register_MS_is_Microso.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/For_Second_Day_in_a_Row_Top_Story_in_The_Register_MS_is_Microso.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ For Second Day in a Row, Top Story in The Register MS is "Microsoft Says"⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 01, 2025 Yesterday: theregister.com:_The_Voice_of_Microsoft_US? This morning: (also top of the front page) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Kremlin_goons_caught_abusing_ISPs_to_spy_on_Moscow-based diplomats,_Microsoft_says⦈_ Thankfully The Register MS is not just a parrot of Microsoft, right? The Register MS has a new editor in chief. This man: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Matt_Rosoff⦈_ That's sort of like appointing Waggener_Edstrom as editor in chief of The Register MS. The previous editor of this publisher has meanwhile taken a job at GAFAM US. Stay classy. The editor in chief exercises control over everybody else. █ "Mind Control: To control mental output you have to control mental input. Take control of the channels by which developers receive information, then they can only think about the things you tell them. 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Here's an annotated version of what it spewed out (there's a lot more to be said, but some things stand out): 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇roy_schestowitz:_That_was_like_2_decades_ago;_I_quit_that job_3_years_ago;_Plagiarism/parrot⦈_ Don't_rely_on_anything_Google_dubs_"hey_hi". It's nothing but a stochastic parrot that echoes outdated, false, mislabeled things. 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Put another way, it has been found that only about 1 in 10 people would bother to back facts by going to actual sites rather than blindly relying on the slop. As for "search" (whatever "Mode" that is), due to "AI_Overview" - yes, it's a misnomer also - news sites report a 50% drop in clickthroughs. That's disturbing as it lessens an already-low incentive to cover news, which means that in due course Google slop will ingest or rely upon other slop or outright_nonsense_like_"tweets". Google is attacking information, replacing it with low-grade "fast food". This is a disaster_long_in_the_making; all of GAFAM participate in it, including Apple. At least Apple admitted slop was unreliable and generally showed less enthusiasm for it. With financial_difficulties, however, Apple needs vapourware for financial_engineering. We need to convince more people to dump GAFAM along with this "GAFAM agenda". 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https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/LLMs_as_Attack_Method_Against_Free_Software_and_Programming.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/LLMs_as_Attack_Method_Against_Free_Software_and_Programming.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ LLMs as Attack Method Against Free Software and Programming⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 01, 2025, updated Aug 01, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Lisp⦈_ DDoS in "hey hi" (slop) clothing, set aside Microsoft's_attacks_on_the_licence "During the past 3 months I've noticed that gnu.org is almost entirely unusable*," a friend told me last night. "The webserver at 209.51.188.116 started returning mainly "409 Too many requests" a few months ago. Now it rarely even completes a request at all." "Gnu.org seems to either be under permanent DDOS attack or has been configured to basically give up trying to serve content." "There are other sites that mirror some of the content. For example, when I have e-lisp queries there are other places to look. But it seems sad that the home of Emacs is unable to deliver any man pages or help connected with the editor now." "Does anyone know what the status of gnu.org is? Why is it behaving this way?" I told him this was a known issue. See [ 1 2] ("How the Free Software Foundation Battles the LLM Bots" and "Our small team vs millions of bots"). To quote the article about the Free Software Foundation, quoting its staff: "Yet “We don’t use any of the so-called ‘cloud’ services,” explains another web page, “since the ‘cloud’ they typically refer to is just someone else’s computer. We do not abstract away problems with frameworks on top of Docker containers running in Kubernetes assembled by someone who tells you to directly pipe curl output into bash and install the software as root without looking at it…”" A "use case for LLM slop finally found," I told him: "take down FREESW." █ _____ * Regarding GNU.org being unusable: 209.51.188.116|:443 429 Too Many Requests This was "tested from 11 different IP addresses in Europe," he said, an "ongoing situation for approx 3 months!" * Stability_and_Reliability,_Backward_Compatibility * For_Second_Day_in_a_Row,_Top_Story_in_The_Register_MS_is_"Microsoft_Says" ⠛⠉⠈⠁⠈⠉⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⡁⠀⠈⣉⣉⣉⣁⠉⠁⢈⣁⡀⠉⠉⠉⠉⣈⣈⣉⣉⠉⠁⢈⣀⣉⡈⠁⠉⠉⣉⣉⣁⡀⠉⠉⢉⣈⣀⣈⡈⠁⠈⣉⣉⣉⣉⠉⠉⢉⣉⣉⣉⡉⠉⠉⣉⣉⣉⣉⢹⣿ ⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⢀⡀⠀⢀⣀⣀⠇⠅⡉⠉⣙⠿⣍⢿⣭⠍⢉⣑⢂⣿⣯⡭⠭⣽⣿⣿⣿⣭⠭⢭⣿⡿⣡⣉⡤⠬⣴⣶⣶⣾⠅⠭⢭⣿⣿⣿⣯⡭⠥⠹⣿⣿⡏⣬⠭⢭⣿⣿⣿⣯⡭⠭⢙⣵⡐⣍⢸⣿ ⠉⣝⠿⡛⢄⠛⣰⣿⣿⡿⣸⢠⣏⣿⣿⡿⠐⢿⣿⠉⣉⡓⠸⠸⢃⣎⣿⡿⢟⠻⢿⣿⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣿⡿⢁⢻⣿⣿⣹⣿⣿⣿⢋⠈⡁⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣹⡇⣿⣿⡇⣿⣏⣿⣿⣿⡿⢛⣁⣈⣿⣿⡇⣿⢸⣿ ⠀⣏⢲⡍⣑⣚⣺⣿⣿⢇⠃⣒⣓⣿⣿⣦⣆⣁⣈⣀⣤⣴⣿⣚⣒⡓⣡⣾⣿⣟⣂⢚⣺⡿⣛⢉⡛⣒⣓⣿⢇⣬⣟⣓⣚⣺⣿⠃⣰⢃⠐⡐⣰⣿⣿⣟⡓⠚⢚⣐⣿⣿⡃⣒⣓⣿⡿⣫⠞⠓⠚⠚⢛⠋⡴⠛⢸⣿ ⣀⣎⠇⡃⣟⣖⣺⣿⣿⢸⢰⣳⣒⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣖⣺⣿⣿⣿⣿⠓⣐⡛⠏⠻⢻⣟⠐⢊⢀⣴⣧⢹⢰⣒⡟⣸⣿⣿⣟⣖⡺⠃⣼⣡⡮⢂⣐⣿⣿⣿⣩⢒⡔⢚⣿⢻⠟⣱⣳⣒⣿⣤⣶⣾⣟⣖⣺⣶⢰⢰⢘⢸⣿ ⣿⣥⣴⣿⣖⣒⣒⣻⡇⣿⢰⣒⣒⣚⠿⠛⣛⡒⣒⣒⣻⣿⣿⡗⣐⠒⣀⡾⢱⢸⣖⢐⣀⣺⣿⣿⠐⢐⣒⡂⣿⠿⢿⢖⠒⣀⢻⠎⣡⣶⣒⣒⣚⣿⣿⠊⣐⢐⢒⢱⢏⣾⣷⣒⣒⣚⣿⣿⠿⢒⣒⣒⠛⠃⡸⣰⢸⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⢺⣿⡇⣿⠸⠿⡗⢡⠚⢳⣮⡃⢿⢺⣿⣿⣿⡇⠟⠀⣿⡇⣷⣿⡿⢆⢺⣿⣿⣟⠄⠼⡗⣇⠻⣿⡬⡠⢦⠘⣡⢸⣿⣿⠿⡗⡿⠟⡫⠄⠂⠸⠐⠸⠐⠮⠙⠿⡗⠿⠫⣑⣤⡾⢿⢺⣄⣠⣎⢿⢸⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡯⠯⠽⢽⣿⣷⢹⠥⠩⠯⣌⣓⣚⠋⠯⠌⠹⣿⣿⣿⠅⠅⠬⣿⡇⣿⠯⠯⠽⢸⣿⣿⣿⠨⠨⠯⣿⡧⣩⡬⠏⠥⢼⣿⡄⣿⠽⠭⠏⠵⣫⣶⡯⠦⠥⢼⣷⣾⣿⠬⠀⠀⠀⠬⠭⠄⠂⠠⢼⣿⣿⣿⠥⢸⣿ ⣿⡻⣿⣿⡯⡭⢽⣿⣿⣧⢻⢥⠩⣿⣿⣿⣷⠠⠈⠅⣿⣿⣿⢣⠅⠭⣿⣿⡎⠍⡈⡥⠽⠿⠿⠿⠇⠄⠭⠏⡔⣫⡴⡯⡭⢽⣿⡇⣿⣿⠍⠈⠾⠿⣿⣿⠩⠩⢽⣿⣿⣿⣿⠥⠌⡉⠝⣛⣛⡋⠭⢽⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿ ⣿⡷⠘⢿⣯⡭⠭⢽⣿⣿⣦⠩⠅⠌⠻⣿⣿⡇⡅⠡⢽⣿⢏⡼⢡⠭⠭⣿⣿⠿⣋⡭⠄⢩⣭⣭⠍⡄⠈⠁⣾⣿⣷⡩⡭⠭⢽⡏⣿⡏⢀⠭⠤⣤⠿⢿⡇⠈⠩⢽⣿⣿⠏⢈⠌⠭⣿⣶⣶⣦⡭⠭⢽⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿ ⣿⣦⠛⣤⡍⠻⢽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣌⠳⠖⢪⣶⠀⡇⣽⢟⡁⢎⣰⣿⡯⠟⣫⠱⣃⣥⣾⣽⣿⣿⢋⢚⣡⣭⣼⣿⣿⣿⣇⢨⣽⣿⡇⡻⢃⡼⣯⣿⣧⣉⣼⣿⣶⣽⠿⢛⢁⣠⡿⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿ ⣿⣿⣷⣦⣐⠻⢠⣶⠖⣊⣉⡈⠓⡃⣾⡘⣿⡀⣃⢠⠞⣴⡾⢛⡀⢒⣫⣵⣾⣿⣓⣻⣺⣿⣿⡸⡘⢚⣗⣿⣿⣿⣿⣓⢠⣸⣿⣿⢰⣖⡂⣆⣭⣭⣭⡍⠁⠐⣒⣩⣶⣿⡟⣐⣗⣿⣿⣿⣿⣓⣻⣺⣿⣿⣿⣟⢸⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣷⣖⣒⣨⣙⡸⢿⢢⣒⡒⠆⠻⢿⡤⠂⣐⠘⢨⡉⠢⣴⣒⣒⣿⣿⣿⣷⣖⣒⣺⣿⣿⡇⢂⢒⣒⣿⣿⣿⣷⡖⢐⣺⣿⣿⢸⣶⡂⡒⣻⢡⣶⣶⡄⢒⣺⣿⣿⢋⣴⣒⣒⣿⣿⣿⣷⣖⣒⣺⣿⣿⣿⣶⢸⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣗⣒⣒⣻⣿⠗⡔⠒⠂⢒⡙⠇⣬⡕⢂⡒⢀⣒⣁⢈⢒⣒⣚⣿⣿⣿⣗⣒⣒⣻⡟⢠⣀⣒⣒⣚⣿⣝⡈⠃⠒⣒⣻⣟⢾⣿⡂⢂⣀⣿⣿⣿⣗⢐⣒⡻⡁⣼⣿⣒⣒⣚⣿⣿⣿⣗⣒⣒⣻⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿ ⣿⣌⠻⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⢋⡞⣵⣶⣦⡄⡄⣧⣌⢡⣷⡦⣸⠿⢿⠌⣧⢰⣶⡝⡹⠿⡿⠳⢲⡟⢓⣾⣿⣿⣶⣾⣿⡿⣫⣶⡧⢀⡛⠿⠘⢿⡆⢰⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⢰⣶⣱⢸⣿⣿⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡶⠿⢛⣵⣶⢸⣿ ⣿⣌⡳⠖⢭⡍⡭⠴⣫⣾⣿⣿⣿⠀⠂⡇⡟⠈⣛⣣⣆⠿⢓⠠⣩⣾⣿⣵⣧⣤⣵⡇⡬⢥⢽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠣⠿⣿⢇⣻⣿⣤⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢏⣾⣿⡏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡗⣴⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⡆⠄⡇⡇⠀⢶⠈⢻⣦⣿⢐⠻⣿⣜⣈⣸⣿⣘⣃⣇⣸⡔⣿⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣌⣙⣛⣐⣚⣛⠻⢸⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⢏⣾⣿⣿⢱⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣷⣿⣟⣾⣿⡿⢿⣿⢸⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⢹⠇⡇⣽⣇⡇⢸⣷⣶⡿⣿⡿⣨⣤⣿⠰⠆⡅⡇⣃⡃⢸⣿⠿⢛⢁⡠⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⢣⣿⣿⡿⣡⡜⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣼⣿⡟⣵⡿⣿⢸⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣟⣻⣿⣿⠟⣉⢭⠅⡬⡘⠇⣺⣿⡇⢸⣿⡏⠙⣨⣵⣿⠟⣿⣿⡿⠋⠋⠟⣿⣿⣿⣇⢸⣶⡶⠂⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣷⣾⣿⣷⡉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢏⣼⣿⡟⢘⣵⣾⣿⢸⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢁⡜⣱⠲⣇⣿⣷⣆⠛⠛⣴⢂⣝⣛⣵⣿⣿⣿⣐⢬⣥⣬⣀⣠⠤⢀⣿⣿⣿⣶⠐⠘⣄⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣛⠿⠿⠿⠉⣩⣾⣿⢟⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⠟⣁⡴⢫⡾⢣⡇⣿⡸⣿⠏⡢⡑⢀⣛⡋⢔⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢨⡍⣭⣥⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣸⢹⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⡔⠆⡩⠵⣾⣷⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢫⣭⣙⢿⣿⣿⢟⣫⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿ ⣿⣿⢡⡾⢋⣴⠛⡀⢸⣿⡜⣷⡁⣊⣥⣶⣿⣿⣧⠸⣿⣿⣿⠏⣘⣿⢡⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⡃⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣽⣿⣿⣇⢀⣸⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⡨⣭⣥⣿⣿⣮⣙⠻⣷⡹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿ ⣿⡏⣶⢆⣿⡖⣤⣷⠿⣋⣵⣎⠻⣌⠻⣿⣧⢘⡿⢗⠹⣿⢏⣾⠿⢂⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣻⣿⣿⣿⣤⣠⣼⡇⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣙⠫⠽⢿⣿⣿⣎⢣⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿ ⠿⠶⠿⠾⠿⠷⠿⠷⠾⠿⠿⠿⠷⠾⠿⠾⠿⠾⠶⠷⠶⠿⠾⠿⠾⠾⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠷⠾⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠷⠾⠿⠿⠿⠿⠶⠨⠍⠭⠭⠭⠭⠭⠭⠻⠿⠾⠿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 947 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/Meeting_Webchat_With_Maria_Arranz_Gomez_Florian_Grundies_Jurgen.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/Meeting_Webchat_With_Maria_Arranz_Gomez_Florian_Grundies_Jurgen.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Meeting (Webchat) With Maria Arranz Gomez, Florian Grundies, Jürgen Janda and Konstantinos Kortsaris Confronts EPO Management About Breaking Promises and Crushing Workers⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 01, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Home_office_desk_with_computer_and_paperwork.⦈_ The EPO's Local Staff Committee Munich has circulated a document about a recent meeting concerning a recent_scandal. In a message to staff it said: Dear Colleagues, On 9 July 2025, the Office announced a two-year renovation of the Isar Building during which all allocated offices will be abolished. In its publication of 10 July, the LSC Munich protested against the lack of consultation with staff representation and requested, by open letter of 23 July, an urgent meeting on the topic. On 29 July, Social Dialogue sent an invitation for a 30-minute meeting on “ISAR building renovation – allocation of workspaces” which would be held two days later. In the meeting which took place on 31 July, we proposed that affected Isar Building staff is relocated to the upper floors of the Pschorr. We asked again the Office to promise that after the renovation was finished, they would get their allocated offices back. Also, that the loss of allocated offices would not be rolled out to the other buildings. This move from the Office happened at a time when some managers, e.g. in Dir. 1103 in The Hague, had unilaterally decided to abolish allocated offices in their directorate. "Read more in the detailed report," they said, referring to a PDF dated today about yesterday's webchat. We've decided that it's worth reproducing for the public (the biggest stakeholder) to see: Örtlicher Personalausschuss München Innenstadt, Haar und Brüssel Local Staff Committee Munich City, Haar and Brussels Le Comité local du Personnel de Munich Ville, Haar et Bruxelles Munich, 01-08-2025 sc25008mp § Meeting between Social Dialogue and the Local Staff Committee Munich⠀➾ on 31 July 2025 On 9 July 2025, the Office announced a two-year renovation of the Isar building during which all allocated offices will be abolished. In its publication of 10 July, the LSC Munich protested against the lack of consultation with staff representation and requested, by open letter of 23 July, an urgent meeting on the topic. On 29 July, Social Dialogue sent an invitation for a 30-minute meeting on “ISAR building renovation – allocation of workspaces” which would be held two days later. This paper reports on the meeting. On 31 July 2025 members of the Local Staff Committee Munich met online with Maria Arranz Gomez (Social Dialogue Secretariat), Florian Grundies (PD General Administration), Jürgen Janda (Director Buildings) and Konstantinos Kortsaris (President's Office). Meeting opened: 10:00 Mr Kortsaris opened the meeting by explaining that it was not a secret that a renovation of the Isar building had been planned for years, and disruption in the medium term would make the building better in the long term. Big projects unavoidably change the way we work, and we need to “tighten our teeth”. Everyone who works in the Isar building would be affected. Would Staff Representation like to see the presentation again? Staff Representation explained that they were not challenging that renovation was needed, and they had already analysed the presentation. They knew that the presentation mentioned that allocated offices would be abolished in the Isar building for the duration of the renovation. However, two years was a long time and even longer than some of the fixed-term contracts given by the Office. Allocated offices had been promised to staff working at least three days a week, as part of the “Bringing Teams Together” concept, and the Administrative Council had also been told this (CA/16/24, page 42/100). Why couldn’t disrupted Isar Building staff be reallocated to the upper floors of the Pschorr (5 in part, 6, 7 and 8)? To clarify, renovation of the Isar Building was welcomed, the only concern that Staff Representation wanted to raise in the current meeting was that of the loss of allocated offices. Staff Representation stressed that a lot of staff needed allocated offices to work properly for privacy reasons, which was particularly important for HR, financial services and Health and Safety staff. A lot of staff in the Isar building also still relied on paper to work because of a lack of digital alternatives. In 2008-2010 the Isar Building had been renovated, and staff moved to other EPO buildings (incl. Westsite). Why couldn’t something similar be done now? Mr Janda replied that due to planned work in the Pschorr underground garage there would be a lot of noisy construction work and staff from lower floors would need to be moved. So, staff from the Isar Building could not move to the Pschorr. PH 7 would also be renovated for the reallocation of the Boards of Appeal, so that would also not be available for Isar staff. Staff Representation asked why, in that case, the Office couldn’t just rent a building, as had been done in the past. Mr Janda replied that this was not needed with the current workplace concept as half of the space in the Isar would be sufficient to host all Isar staff. Staff Representation stressed that the situation was identical with that of 2004 and 2008- 2010 as the problem was only with staff with allocated offices. This was only about 300 people. Again, why couldn’t space be found for these people? Staff have been promised a concrete solution. Where was it? Mr Kortsaris replied that, as a lawyer he could see both sides. Staff Representation stressed that the Office was asking staff who come to work every day to look for a room every day. Nowhere in the Bringing Teams Together document, nor in Circular 419, was it mentioned that allocated offices could be abolished. Mr Janda answered that it could be seen from the pipeline that the Pschorr underground garage would be renovated in 2026, and this would obviously cause disruption. The impact, because of noise, would be on the lower floors. Mr Grundies added that the Westsite was not rented in the past just because of the Isar renovation project but because the Office was waiting for PH 7&8 to be built. Anyway, the Office had a different workplace concept then. Staff Representation asked why affected staff couldn’t move to the upper floors of the Pschorr, where there was space for not only staff from both halves of the Isar building but also the lower floors of the Pschorr. Staff were not being well-treated by the Office. Mr Grundies replied that if anyone said to him that staff were not being well treated he would reply “Come on!”. The Office was investing a lot of money for a two-year disruption. Staff Representation replied that this was not a minor disruption. What about staff with special technical equipment? What about staff still using paper? What about staff who needed to come to work every day because they could not work at home? With this issue staff was losing trust in the Office. Staff Representation again asked the Office to promise that after the renovation was finished, they would get their allocated offices back. Also, that the loss of allocated offices would not be rolled out to the other buildings. This move from the Office happened at a time when some managers, e.g. in Dir. 1103 in The Hague, had unilaterally decided to abolish allocated offices in their directorate. Mr Grundies replied that there was “no plan to change the workplace concept”. Nobody from Social Dialogue was prepared to promise that staff would get their allocated offices back after the renovation was finished. Mr Kortsaris said that the subject of the current meeting was only about the renovation. He added that the Office had looked into giving Isar staff allocated offices in the Pschorr, but this was not possible. Staff Representation stressed they could not understand the refusal of the Office to relocate Isar Building staff to the PH 1- 4 in allocated offices according to their needs and their presence on-site as was being monitored in the NWoW usage dashboard. Mr Grundies stressed that everyone would have a place to work, in a public workspace either in the Isar or in Pschorr 1-4. The Office would find solutions for every issue raised. Meeting closed: 10:40 The Local Staff Committee Munich The lack of consistent messages suggests plans other than what's advertised and the lack of consultation (secrecy) likewise. █ * Links_01/08/2025:_"The_Great_British_Firewall"_and_U.S._Army_Sponsors Palantir * Microsoft's_Debt_Exploded_by_15.4_Billion_Dollars_in_the_Past_9_Months Alone_(Despite_All_the_Layoffs) ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠻⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠻⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⢰⣶⣿⣼⣿⣿⣿⡟⠛⠻⠟⢁⣭⣝⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡌⢻⣿⣟⡫⠭⣽⣿⣿⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣻⣿⡍⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠈⢻⣿⣿⠋⠑⠂⠁⠐⠒⠒⠒⠚⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣹⢷⣌⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⡀⠱⡀⢠⣤⣤⠤⠠⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⡇⠀⢸⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣛⣷⡿⠟ ⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⡟⠞⣿⣿⠹⣿⣿⣿⠀⡿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣽⣿⣿⠷⠤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠄⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡠⠄⠀⠀⠼⠁⠀⣸⡿⠠⢤⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠠⡤⡞⠀⠀ ⣿⡿⠛⢁⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣀⣿⣿⣿⣦⣶⡦⣤⠤⠤⠄⠀⢽⣿⣷⡄⠀⢨⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠐⠃⠀⡀⣵⣿⡇⣶⣿⡷⢠⣿⢣⣖⢀⡀⣤⣍⣉⣙⣓⣦⣁⡀⠀ ⠁⠠⢄⣠⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠋⣏⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⢸⣹⣤⠀⠀⠉⠷⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣀⠐⡀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠁⠀⠀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠰⣦⡿⠁⢀⣿⣷⣦⠈⠛⠷⣶⣾⣟⡻⠿⣿ ⣤⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠗⠀⢨⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠾⣿⡾⠖⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠿⡿⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣹⡿⠉⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣷⣧⣄⣉⣉⡉⠭⠶ ⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⡋⠁⠀⢀⡀⠀⠠⡤⡶⠴⣲⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣶⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠈⠶⠖⠥⠽⣼⣿⣇⣆⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣄ ⣶⢂⣤⣤⣤⣤⣄⠀⠀⠈⣠⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣶⡦⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣤⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⣆⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣏⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠛⣿⡇⠀⢨⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠋⠝⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣛⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⠃⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⢸⣄⠀⣀⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⣯⣶⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣛⣻⣭⣽⣶⣿⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿ ⣿⣿⣛⣻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠿⣾⠿⠛⠁⣠⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠛⠉⠉⠙⠟⠛⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⢿⣟⣉⣀⣠⣤⣶⣦⣴⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠯⠇⠀⠈⠙⠉⠉⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠟⠛⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠛ ⠟⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1192 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/Microsoft_is_Googlebombing_Linux_While_Paying_Former_News_Sites.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/Microsoft_is_Googlebombing_Linux_While_Paying_Former_News_Sites.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Microsoft is Googlebombing "Linux" While Paying Former News Sites to Publish SPAM⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 01, 2025 Search "Google News" (Gulag Noise) for almost anything Microsoft-related and what will you get? Paid-for spam for Office and Windows in IDG, though now there is even a fake article (they call it "BrandPost", it's not a new thing) that googlebombs "Linux" to sell proprietary Azure with back doors: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇A_hands-on_guide_to_migrating_the_Linux_estate_to_Azure cloud⦈_ Sponsored article ("BrandPost"). Sponsored by and for Microsoft. It's not a real article. How much lower will IDG sink? Microsoft is basically buying "the news". This is corruption of the media. The above is listed as Linux news in "Google News": 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Google_News:_Microsoft⦈_ For the second_day_in_a_row, moreover, the Web site "The Register MS" is posting "Microsoft sez" (says) pieces: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Kremlin_goons_caught_abusing_ISPs_to_spy_on_Moscow-based diplomats,_Microsoft_says⦈_ We call it The Register MS because it is compromised. It's_run_by_a_Microsofter now. Then there's also the Serial Slopper (SS) writing fake news about "Linux": 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Stuck_on_Windows_10?_4MLinux_49_is_a_lightweight_Linux-based alternative⦈_ Of course it's LLM slop: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇This_version_includes_a_wide_range_of_updated_applications⦈_ We've meanwhile also noticed the habitual LLM slop in Linuxiac: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Proton_Launches_Free,_Open_Source_Authenticator_App⦈_ Linuxiac did not entirely stop doing this. Most articles in Linuxiac are originals now, but Bobby didn't divorce slop entirely. The Web is rapidly becoming a pile of trash and pages are "on sale". 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gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/Microsoft_s_Debt_Exploded_by_15_4_Billion_Dollars_in_the_Past_9.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Microsoft's Debt Exploded by 15.4 Billion Dollars in the Past 9 Months Alone (Despite All the Layoffs)⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 01, 2025, updated Aug 01, 2025 As of minutes_ago, at 6PM on a Friday, the numbers are finally made public Earlier on (today) we published "Financial_Engineering_Companies:_A_Company Worth_4_Trillion_Dollars_Would_Not_Borrow_100+_Billion_Dollars_at_Interest Rates_Like_Today's" As Ryan put it in IRC: "Borrowing at today's interest rates needs to be avoided unless there's no alternative." Looking at the_debt_of_MSFT_(Microsoft), it exploded dramatically despite the company firing close to 30,000 people so far this year: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Quarter_Ending_June,_Total_Debt:_MSFT⦈_ Microsoft borrows money at a pace of about 2 billion dollars per month. Success story? After nearly 10 waves of layoffs in 2025 (not 2 as the mainstream media likes to claim) the workforce is a lot smaller and money is still absent, except for speculation in Wall Street. Microsoft pundits lie about the "headcount" - a myth that we debunked here many times before; IBM tells similar lies. Considering the debt of MSFT (Microsoft), would you invest in such a company based on a speculative "worth"? "Also," an associate argues, "what about debt shifting into newly acquired companies?" It's called debt_loading and it can make the above figure even higher. "The (false) 4-trillion dollar valuation needs addressing, since that will come up in discussions elsewhere." If Microsoft is really worth trillions of dollars, then it'll pay back its debt. But it cannot. It's a lie like many others of its kind [1, 2]. Why would a company that needs to borrow so much money (at an obscene interest level/rate, too) insist that its "worth" skyrockets? Reality check is truly imperative now. "Microsoft is going to try to use the false valuation to distract from the debt," our associate says, "and the firings are part of what the LARPers use to raise stock prices; that along with massive buy-backs. The firings, however, are cutting into the ability to even make future revenue let alone future profits." When people ask, "what is the actual interest rate?" one can go to US government data. The era of "Cheap Money" or "Free Money" was over many years ago; there is no reason to borrow money unless there is absolutely no other choice. If gut feelings or common sense don't add up (like XBox collapsing and Microsoft claiming to be doing extremely well), then someone isn't telling the truth. █ "Microsoft, the world’s most valuable company, declared a profit of $4.5 billion in 1998; when the cost of options awarded that year, plus the change in the value of outstanding options, is deducted, the firm made a loss of $18 billion, according to Smithers." -The_Economist,_1999 * Meeting_(Webchat)_With_Maria_Arranz_Gomez,_Florian_Grundies,_Jürgen_Janda and_Konstantinos_Kortsaris_Confronts_EPO_Management_About_Breaking Promises_and_Crushing_Workers * Links_01/08/2025:_Health,_Conflict,_and_Attacks_on_Freedom_of_the_Press ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢻⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⠟⣿⠻⡿⣿⢿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⢿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1490 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Over at Tux Machines...⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 01, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Time_bug⦈_ ⚓ Updated This Past Day⠀⇛ 1. ⚓ The_4_Best_Android_Phone_Brands_for_Linux_Lovers⠀⇛ Buying a phone can sometimes be more stressful for Linux users than other people 2. ⚓ Ubuntu_25.10_Snapshot_3_is_Available_to_Download⠀⇛ The third monthly snapshot of Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) is available to download 3. ⚓ Free_and_Open_Source_Software,_howtos_and_Installations⠀⇛ This is free and open source software 4. ⚓ Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Standards⠀⇛ FOSS leftovers 5. ⚓ GNU/Linux_Leftovers⠀⇛ and some BSD, mostly GNU/Linux though 6. ⚓ Programming_Leftovers⠀⇛ Development leftovers 7. ⚓ News_From_FSF_and_GNU_Projects⠀⇛ some updates from both 8. ⚓ Mozilla_on_Buzzwords,_Tor_Browser,_Thunderbird_Update⠀⇛ some Mozilla picks 9. ⚓ Security_Leftovers⠀⇛ Security related picks 10. ⚓ Raspberry_Pi_and_Programmable_Computers⠀⇛ mostly Raspberry Pi picks 11. ⚓ Red_Hat_Promotes_Back_Doors_and_Fake_'Studies'_That_It_Paid_For⠀⇛ IBM deceit 12. ⚓ Games:_Steam_on_GNU/Linux_and_Native_GNU/Linux_Builds⠀⇛ 4 stories regarding games 13. ⚓ Jack_Wallen's_Latest_GNU/Linux_Recommendations⠀⇛ 2 articles 14. ⚓ today's_howtos⠀⇛ many for today 15. ⚓ Android_Leftovers⠀⇛ I bought a cheap Android phone and learned a very expensive lesson 16. ⚓ Best_Linux_Laptop_of_2025?_TUXEDO_InfinityBook_Pro_15_(Gen10) Launches⠀⇛ TUXEDO Computers specializes in Linux-focused laptops and desktops 17. ⚓ I've_tested_numerous_Linux_desktop_environments,_and_these_5_are_my favorites⠀⇛ I started my Linux journey with Raspberry Pi OS 18. ⚓ Ubuntu_25.10_Offers_Improved_Disk_Encryption_Using_TPM⠀⇛ Ubuntu 25.10 will make it easier to use hardware-backed full- disk encryption (FDE) integrated with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 19. ⚓ GNOME_Shell_Gets_a_Proper_Desktop_Photo_Widget_(Finally)⠀⇛ Remember digital photo frames? 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On the same day the secondary laptop will exceed 600 days. I don't use Wayland. I never run proprietary software (unless "webapps" count as such; I try to avoid those too, at least to the extent that I can). As somebody put_it_5_days_ago (in relation in Wayland): "Why are some folks so opposed to us having a choice in what software we use?" Another person said: "Your Linux desktop isn't as "open" as you think. Corporations are systematically killing Xorg to force everyone onto Wayland: which breaks 40 years of tools that professionals have come to depend on." I don't fancy relying on social control media as "sources", but from what I've seen a lot of the media - with few_exceptions - takes bribes from the pushers of Wayland (companies like IBM) and would go out of its way to misportray users of X11/Xorg on BSD and GNU/Linux. It doesn't seem to bother them that perhaps over 90% of people do not use Wayland and many have no intention of doing so. Why? Practical reasons. As the "systemd-free linux community" put_it_earlier_this_summer: "Is X11 Xserver dying in a classic RedHat way, “pull the plug and let it rot advertising with 90% of tech-media on the pay-roll that X is dead!” Towards the end it says: "By 2027 you should look forward in the new proprietary closed source non-free Linux-Wayland-IBM-Oracle windows with 2 alternative flavors, Gnome or Plasma. I am willing to bet money I don’t even have, that Oracle will announce they bought Qt (a medium sized multinational corporation) . Linus and Greg go into an early retirement as multi-millionairs, the majority of the hackers become employees of Linux.inc and fork all you want the pre-2017 kernel and X/wayland/wlroots projects and see if it can be maintained by free-lance hackers who refuse and resist any formal organization. Will Gnu join the club and the party to compete head on with MS-win or remain “neutral” which they never have been. They are just as much of a dirty gang as any large organization even non-profit." As the_founder_of_OpenBSD_put_it, regarding Wayland: "The writing has been on the wall a very long time that some people believe their role in the ecosystem is to reduce software choice and push everyone into vertical software monocultures." For Freedom (in the digital sense) we need open-ended, modular, versatile systems, not "software monocultures". 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https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/The_Data_You_Don_t_Give_Away_is_Your_Advantage.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/08/01/The_Data_You_Don_t_Give_Away_is_Your_Advantage.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ The Data You Don't Give Away is Your Advantage⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 01, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇GPS_location⦈_ Yesterday morning a rather typical salesperson with a kit showed up at the door. He moved in like a conspicuous phantom. It was not expected. He started to ask all sorts of questions. The issue wasn't that he was an imposter or social engineer representing himself as something else, under false pretences etc. The issue was, and still is, he held a digital device and started asking my wife all sorts of questions. I interrupted them several times as he was asking personal questions; I also asked him where that data would be fed to and whether it would end up in some server of "Google" or "Amazon". Aside from a real, potent risk of falling for scams (which this one was not), there really is nothing to be gained by giving data to random people at the door or over the phone. There's a polite way to turn them away. They're not your clients or friends or patients or whatever. They get paid to phone or visit you, whereas you do not. At best, they are time-wasters. It would not be unprecedented to say that data you consider innocuous or useless today would, some day in the future, potentially be used to discriminate against you. That sort of thing happens all the time because companies change, data gets sold, new governments get elected etc. Please, stop sharing data that does not need to be shared. Supplying false data isn't the best solution because, despite it "poisoning" the pool, it can inadvertently be used negatively in the future, based on false assumptions. If some place somewhere ("out there", e.g. a restaurant) asks you for a phone number, it would only be fair to politely ask, "WHY?" If someone shows up at the door and asks about your bills, what do you stand to gain by sharing such information? What is there to lose? Well, you just don't know, do you? Whose benefit do those entities stand/aim to serve? When I'm out I always pay with cash and don't present any form of ID. It's not because I do anything tasteless or illegal (not even remotely dubious), it is just common sense. By the way, I got like 10 E-mails recently from PayPal. They offer money in exchange for installing their "app" (which I cannot anyway; I have no device that does "apps"). What they mean to say is, install this thing that lets us spy on your location and more, 24/7. Is that worth 5 pounds? No. To them it's worth a lot more. By the way, PayPal as a company is collapsing after a negative report: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇PayPal_Holdings_Inc⦈_ Society is getting to the point where opting out of most things isn't being "weird" but being ahead of the curve. 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That's not a problem that's limited to Microsoft. The "says" (or "sez") phenomenon extends to Microsoft's Scam Altman and Kapo-berg, the booster of the Convicted Felon in the White House: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇zuckerberg_says⦈_ Imagine training your LLM (slop machine) on "data sets" like these. 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Arrivals⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 01, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Pentium⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ Turkey?_Vulture?_Turkey_Vulture!⠀⇛ The other day I was on one of my daily walks and saw this large bird pecking at a carcass along with a raven. I could not identify the bird. When I got close, the bird flew up into a tree. Was it a turkey? It has a red head like one. Was it a vulture? It was eating road kill. Turkey vulture! I had to look that one up. Never seen one up close so I took some pics. [1][2] # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding_—_BUEKLRC_Wordo:_OKAYS⠀⇛ # ⚓ tremble⠀⇛ not much light left in the night reality a colourless static my mind bursting with the illusion of life of lust and longing # ⚓ Messianic_Christology_Summary⠀⇛ I am studying the excellent book by Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum, "Messianic Christology" (1998) published by Ariel Ministries. The purpose of the book is to identify and explain all the passages in the Hebrew Bible that prophesy concerning the first coming of Messiah, i.e., the life of Yeshua or Jesus. Prophecy pertaining to his second coming, i.e., his final victory and the establishment of God's kingdom on earth, are not dealt with except incidentally. On the other hand, passages establishing that he will be a king, and his royal lineage, are dealt with, as being relevant to his claims and credentials of being Messiah. # ⚓ saw_cars_swim_today⠀⇛ # ⚓ Goldilocks⠀⇛ Oswald Spengler came up with a rather long story about how civilizations start young, become just right, then dodder off into too-oldism. Parts of the story may actually be true. Elsewhere there's the so-called "Goldilocks zone", or being just about right in space and time. Whether things are actually getting worse (that is, straying from a Goldilocks zone) may be the opinion of an old man yelling at a cloud provider, so it may take a few generations and then historical work or, more troubling for computers, archaeology to try to quantify if things did indeed worsen, and for whom. # ⚓ 🖼️_xkcd_—_Bad_Map_Projection:_Interrupted_Spheres_#3122⠀⇛ # ⚓ 🖼️_xkcd_—_Bad_Map_Projection:_Interrupted_Spheres_#3122⠀⇛ o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Happy_Hacking_Keyboards⠀⇛ I've used Happy Hacking Keyboards (HHKB) [0] for years, but I haven't bought a new one in a long time - probably 10 years ago I bought the last of the four I have. The oldest two are PS-2 models, and they all still work fine, although the white plastic has discolored over time. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ GiM's_gemlog_-_2025-07-31_Re:_Re:_Hello_Gemini⠀⇛ I am somewhat envious. There were BBSes in Poland starting around 1986, but TBH, neither I nor any of my friends used one. Public (dialup) access to internet in Poland started in 1995. I don't think gopher ever took off here, most people that had access to internet at the end of 90s, were using WWW (and ofc irc, e-mail, usenet). Still, I guess it won't be groundbreaking statement if I say that web back then was very much different from what it has become. # ⚓ Re:_Hello_Gemini⠀⇛ The big thing with certs is that they perform two tasks. The first is that it shows ownership of domains. Reading through the cert you can see that the entity owning `fu.br` is the same that owns `foobar.com`. Shortened URLs, secondary domains for specific services, etc. The certs help tie them all together. The second task is to provide a way to identify the content is from said owner. You know there isn't a man-in-the-middle passing you bogus content, trying to trick you or steal your information. If you trust my cert you know reading this post that it is me and two weeks from now when you read another post it is still me. The problem here is that no one actually reads the certs. We care about the little padlock on our browser and that is it. When an error pops up saying "Hey the cert changed and we are a little suspicious all we do is click ignore. We have no communial place to say "Hey, so GiM's cert changed, anyone else see that?" None of us seem to care that much because we are just here to read each others content and not hand over our credit card numbers. # ⚓ Tag_milestone_#️⃣⠀⇛ The tag crawler recently passed a million URLs. Seems like a Gemini milestone. # ⚓ Small_Web_July_-_Conclusions⠀⇛ July has come and gone! It felt both really quick and really long. I have been crunching for the past two weeks and my life has been... interesting. Outside from reading and exercising, which I continued to do consistently every day, I didn't manage to be consistent with journaling, yoga, or meditation. I was simply too busy (some days I only had 2 hours of breaks in the whole 24 hours!). My step count is really, really low, and I wasn't able to go for runs. On the plus side, I am off soon, so I can rest, recover and catch up! # ⚓ New_Gemini_Stack⠀⇛ I can now easily update my gemlog from my iOS phone! A text editor app called Pretext lets me directly edit files on the iOS filesystem. Then, I use the iSH app, which lets you run an Alpine Linux shell, to push to git and upload via SSH to tilde.club. # ⚓ GiM's_gemlog_-_2025-07-31_New_toys_to_test_your gemini_client⠀⇛ I've made three tiny instances, to test handling of client certificates: # ⚓ Re:_On_stagnation_and_burnout_in_the_Gemini community⠀⇛ Below is my thought or two on the topic that seemed to be a big discussion last month in gemini space when I was completely inactive. The discussion may have been touching topics beyond my concern, I could easily just skip it thinking it’s not part of my world. But then exactly solderpunk’s log reminded me how much gemini world is too small for any of us to think that our voice is too insignificant and all of us geminauts are part of a community just by adding our effort, time and creativity to it. So I decided to shortly add my perspective even though I never know if anybody reads. There’s a big chance somebody will I guess. Firstly I think solderpunk is quite right when he describes the two kinds of gemini users - developers, people who want to build apps, constantly thinking of new possibilities within gemini protocol, and gemloggers\gloggers including both writers and readers. Of course these two tribes are not completely separate, many of uf can be both but it looks like the burnout thing is specific to the former while not really concerning the latter. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. * Over_at_Tux_Machines... * Being_Obedient_or_Doing_the_Right_Thing ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2409 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Links 01/08/2025: Health, Conflict, and Attacks on Freedom of the Press⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 01, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Bitmap⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Leftovers o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies/Monopsonies # Patents # Copyrights * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Double_The_Sensors,_Double_The_Fun,_With_2-in- 1_Panoramic_Camera⠀⇛ When film all came in rolls, it was fairly easy to play with the frame of the image. Companies like Hasselblad (and many others) made camera backs that would expose longer strips of 35 mm film to create stunning panoramic images in one single shot. [snappiness] wanted to bring that style of camera into the digital age, and ended up with a 2-in- 1 Sony-based frankencamera. # ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ Linus_Torvalds_still_uses_an_AMD_RX_580 from_2017_—_also_ditches_Fashion_Company_Apple_Silicon_for_an defective_chip_maker_Intel_laptop⠀⇛ Linux creator Linus Torvalds still uses an AMD RX 580 and an defective chip maker Intel laptop for kernel development, as revealed through a bug report involving DSC on his ASUS 5K monitor. His deliberate use of modest, open-friendly hardware subtly pushes back against Hey Hi (AI) hype and proprietary bloat. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Chikungunya_fever_poses_‘medium_to high_risk’_of_local_transmission,_warns_Hong_Kong_health official⠀⇛ The mosquito-borne chikungunya fever poses a “medium to high risk” of local transmission in Hong Kong, as thousands of cases were reported in the neighbouring Guangdong province, a city health official has warned. # ⚓ Breast_milk_deliveries_from_Michigan_prison_benefit_babies with_moms_behind_bars⠀⇛ Breast milk is going mobile at Michigan’s only women’s prison with a new $500,000 delivery program to babies of incarcerated moms. # ⚓ NYPost ☛ How_a_low-key_change_to_your_hands_can_warn_of advanced_lung_cancer⠀⇛ Aug. 1 is World Lung Cancer Day, an annual observance dedicated to raising awareness about the deadly disease. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Interim_head_of_Latvian_Medical_Association chosen⠀⇛ A board meeting of the Latvian Medical Association (LĀB) on Tuesday, July 29th, decided to appoint LĀB Vice-President Māris Pļaviņš as the acting president of the association. # ⚓ Thibault_Martin:_TIL_that_Micro_habits_can_bring_you_down⠀⇛ You don't need trauma to be depressed. A lot of people don't know why they are depressed, and think they have no reason to be depressed. Emma_McAdam believes_this_is_due_to_micro_habits_building_up negativity, that outweigh the positive in people's lives and make them feel depressed. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Trump_DOJ_Halted_Major_Civil_Rights_Lawsuits in_Louisiana,_South_Carolina⠀⇛ The Trump administration has halted litigation aimed at stopping civil rights abuses of prisoners in Louisiana and mentally ill people living in South Carolina group homes. The Biden administration filed lawsuits against the two states in December after Department of Justice investigations concluded that they had failed to fix violations despite years of warnings. # ⚓ In_Los_Angeles,_a_terrified_immigrant_sits_inside_a_truck as_a_masked_man_swings_a_baton,_shattering_his_window.⠀⇛ We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself. # ⚓ NYPost ☛ ‘Despicable’_terrorist_who_bragged_about_helping Osama_bin_Laden_plan_9/11_could_be_free_in_days⠀⇛ Haroon Aswat, 50, is set to be released from the secure psychiatric hospital unit where he's currently locked up after he completes mental health treatment. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ 20_hospitals_in_Thailand_impacted_by Thai-Cambodia_border_conflict;_9_closed⠀⇛ 139 community health centres have also been affected, with 128 fully closed and 11 partially closed. # ⚓ Brother:_Walmart_attack_suspect_a_danger_for_years,_‘fell through_cracks_every_time’⠀⇛ A man charged with stabbing 11 people at Walmart had a history of schizophrenia, violence and incarceration. ‘It’s been an absolute nightmare,’ says his brother. Advocates say Michigan needs to do more. # § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_authorities_raid_company_linked_to prime_minister’s_family_–_media⠀⇛ Lithuanian financial crime investigators conducted a raid Thursday at the offices of Dankora, a company tied to Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas’ sister-in-law, as part of a probe into alleged misuse of European Union subsidies, the news outlet 15min.lt reported, citing law enforcement sources. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Derk_Sauer,_pioneering_Dutch_journalist_and Moscow_Times_founder,_dies_at_72_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_veteran_turned_city_council_chairman caught_on_video_threatening_constituent:_‘I’ll_smash your_face’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ A_‘zoo’_of_IT_infrastructure:_How_Aeroflot’s slow-moving_transition_to_Russian-made_software_left_it wide_open_to_hackers_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘A_step_towards_war’:_Russia’s_ex-President Dmitry_Medvedev_gets_to_nuclear_threats_in_record_time in_latest_social_media_dust-up_with_Trump_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Amid_U.S._tariff_threat,_India_tells_state refiners_to_find_alternatives_to_Russian_oil_— Bloomberg_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ A_fortress_under_threat_A_year_after reaching_Pokrovsk,_Russian_forces_appear_ready_to launch_a_full_assault_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kyiv_death_toll_hits_28_as_rescue_workers recover_10_more_bodies_from_apartment_building_struck by_Russian_missile_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Trump_says_U.S._special_envoy_Steve_Witkoff will_travel_to_Russia_soon_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_defense_contractor_charged_with embezzling_billions_of_rubles_by_supplying_makeshift body_armor_to_the_military_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainian_parliament_passes_Zelensky’s_bill restoring_anti-corruption_agencies’_independence_— Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Suit_up_Ex-army_chief_and_U.K._Ambassador Valerii_Zaluzhnyi_strikes_a_pose_for_Vogue_Ukraine_— and_gets_Russian_propagandists_talking_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_state_media_runs_op-ed_titled_‘No One_Should_Remain_Alive_in_Ukraine’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_signs_law_penalizing_online_searches for_content_deemed_‘extremist’_by_Russian_authorities_— Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ U.S._reports_secret_talks_with_‘Putin’s_top people’_but_no_progress_toward_peace_in_Ukraine_— Meduza⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Railway_Time:_Why_France’s_Railways_Ran Five_Minutes_Behind⠀⇛ With us chafing at time zones and daylight saving time (DST) these days, it can be easy to forget how much more confusing things were in the late 19th century. Back then few areas had synchronized their clocks to something like Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) or other standards like London time or Paris time, with everyone instead running on local time determined by as solar time. This created a massive headache for the railways, as they somehow had to make their time schedules work across what were effectively hundreds of tiny time zones while ensuring that passengers got on their train on time. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Art_Spiegelman,_John_Waters_and_Other Banned_Artists_on_How_Censorship_Changed_Them⠀⇛ Nine artists on how American censorship changed their work and their lives. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ E.U._Did_Not_Retain_Texts_Sought_by Journalists_on_Covid_Vaccine_Deal⠀⇛ The European Union acknowledged for the first time that a top official reviewed the messages, but said it had no duty to keep them, despite intense interest. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Find_it_out,_write_it_down,_get_it_out_there. Leonid_Bershidsky_remembers_pioneering_journalist_Derk_Sauer —_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Court_extends_detention_of_journalist_Ercüment Akdeniz_in_'terrorism'_case⠀⇛ Akdeniz remains two suspects in detention in an investigation into the Peoples' Democratic Congress. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Erdoğan_'postpones'_mine_workers'_strike, bringing_his_tally_to_22⠀⇛ The president cited national security concerns for the move. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ When_Online_Safety_Means_Surrendering_Your_ID, What_Can_You_Do?⠀⇛ A universal feature of traveling Europe as a Hackaday scribe is that when you sit in a hackerspace in another country and proclaim how nice a place it all is, the denizens will respond pessimistically with how dreadful their country really is. My stock response is to say “Hold my beer” and recount the antics of British politicians, but the truth is, the grass is always greener on the other side. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ APNIC ☛ RIR_Governance_Document_consultation_summary_report and_next_steps⠀⇛ The NRO NC has completed its qualitative analysis and summary of the community responses received on the RIR Governance Document. § Monopolies/Monopsonies⠀➾ o § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ $4,000_awarded_for_Key_Patent_Innovations entity,_Malikie_Innovations,_video_streaming_patents_prior art⠀⇛ Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $4,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations. The patents generally relate to various video streaming and media delivery technologies. We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on these patents. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. o § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Public Domain Review ☛ Watching_the_World_in_a_Dark_Room: The_Early_Modern_Camera_Obscura⠀⇛ Centuries before photography froze the world into neat frames, scientists, poets, and artists streamed transient images into dark interior spaces with the help of a camera obscura. Julie Park explores the early modern fascination with this quasi-spiritual technology and the magic, melancholy, and dream-like experiences it produced. # ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Mexican_photographer_Rodrigo_Moya,_who famously_photographed_Che_Guevara, dies_at_91⠀⇛ Part photojournalist and part street photographer, the naturalized Mexicn citizen captured some of the most significant events of the turbulent history of Latin America in the mid-20th century.  * Microsoft's_Debt_Exploded_by_15.4_Billion_Dollars_in_the_Past_9_Months Alone_(Despite_All_the_Layoffs) * Gemini_Links_02/08/2025:_ZFS,_LLM_Hype,_and_Fake_Modules ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2836 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Links 01/08/2025: "The Great British Firewall" and U.S. Army Sponsors Palantir⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 01, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇netcat⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Leftovers o Science o Career/Education o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Integrity/Availability/Authenticity # Privacy/Surveillance # Confidentiality o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies/Monopsonies # Patents # Copyrights * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Joel Chrono ☛ Links_make_the_web_great⠀⇛ This is probably the most obvious thing, but have you ever thought about how great it is that links just let you write whatever you want without actually having to provide that much context about something, just add a link and you’re good, no need to infodump extra paragraphs just in case! o ⚓ Ben Congdon ☛ The_Agency_Gap⠀⇛ However, high-impact ICs usually exhibit these same traits. They don’t “just” execute tasks; they anticipate problems, clarify ambiguity, proactively communicate risks, plan future work, and drive things forward with a focus on the ultimate objective. They internalize whatever the true end goal is and take ownership beyond their immediate assigned slice. o ⚓ John Calhoun ☛ Camera_Genealogica_(Part_1)⠀⇛ It is very important to me to digitize old family photos and soon enough I would begin to scan in what turned out to be about 800 photos. Further, I would try to identify who was in the photos, determine approximate dates for the photos, put them in something of a chronological order. I spent perhaps a year or so on that first pass through the photos. o ⚓ Howard Oakley ☛ Paintings_of_stave_churches⠀⇛ At one time, many churches across northern Europe were constructed using load-bearing wooden posts termed staves, hence are known as stave churches. It’s thought that in Norway alone there used to be as many as two thousand. As they were built of wood rather than stone, fire was a danger, and between those that burned down and others that were replaced by more modern structures, there are now only thirty-one original stave churches remaining, all except three being in Norway. They have seldom been painted, and in this article I show paintings known to depict real churches from two Norwegian artists, and a relative from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2025-07-25_[Older]_Distorted_sound_of the_early_universe_suggests_we_are_living_in_a_giant_void⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2025-07-30_[Older]_Why_the_Pacific tsunami_was_smaller_than_expected_– a_geologist_explains⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2025-07-29_[Older]_Psychedelic_drug_DMT and_near_death_experiences_have_long_been_linked_–_my_study is_the_first_to_explore_the_connection_in_depth⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2025-07-29_[Older]_The_hunt_for_‘planet nine’:_why_there_could_still_be_something_massive_at_the_edge of_the_Solar_System⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2025-07-25_[Older]_A_company_says_it could_turn_mercury_into_gold_using_nuclear_fusion._Can_we take_this_claim_seriously?⠀⇛ # ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ How_Do_Particulate_Matter_Sensors Work?⠀⇛ We recently released a very cool particulate matter sensor - The SparkFun Air Quality PM1/PM2.5/PM10 Sensor - BMV080 based on the incredibly miniscule BMV080 from Bosch Sensortec, which is 450 times smaller than comparable devices on the market. In the wake of this release's popularity, we've had plenty of questions asking about the underlying technology behind particulate matter sensors and what ranges particle size detection are needed for what applications. Let's get into it! # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Cheating_on_Quantum_Computing_Benchmarks⠀⇛ Peter Gutmann and Stephan Neuhaus have a new paper—I think it’s new, even though it has a March 2025 date—that makes the argument that we shouldn’t trust any of the quantum factorization benchmarks, because everyone has been cooking the books: [...] # ⚓ [Old] Cryptology ePrints Archive ☛ Replication_of_Quantum Factorisation_Records_with_an_8-bit_Home_Computer,_an_Abacus, and_a_Dog [PDF]⠀⇛ This paper presents implementations that match and, where possible, exceed current quantum factorisation records using a VIC-20 8-bit home computer from 1981, an abacus, and a dog. We hope that this work will inspire future efforts to match any further quantum factorisation records, should they arise. o § Career/Education⠀➾ # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ In_Seattle,_what_happens_when_funding_cuts close_a_braille_library?⠀⇛ On July 1, the doors to the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library swung shut to the public for in- person exploration and gathering due to a lack of state funding. As needs increase and revenue growth slows, the state of Washington is facing a budget deficit. Ms. Carpenter, who was among those working with legislators to secure funding for libraries, came up empty-handed. “We weren’t the only community whose services got cut,” she says. “There were a lot of programs that didn’t get funding this year.” o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ The Guardian UK ☛ Worried_about_your_child’s_screentime? Get_a_landline⠀⇛ The funny thing about this is that unlike the brick phone, another answer to the puzzle of how to keep children off social media, the families of Portland discovered that the very thing that limits the landline – the fact it’s attached to the wall – turned out to be one of its big attractions. Most families put the phone in a high-traffic area of the house, keeping their kid at least notionally in the mix rather than shut away in their room. This was a tactic popular in the early days of home computers, when parents would put the family’s single, giant desktop on a table in the kitchen so the kid wasn’t isolated or left alone with “the [Internet]”, a healthy instinct that smartphones effectively killed. # ⚓ Nebraska Examiner ☛ ‘Half-baked’_USDA_relocation_irritates members_of_both_parties_on_US_Senate_Ag_panel⠀⇛ Members of both parties on the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee chastised a U.S. Department of Agriculture official Wednesday for not consulting Congress before proposing to shift thousands of jobs out of the Washington, D.C., area. USDA Deputy Secretary Stephen Alexander Vaden defended the sweeping proposal, which Secretary Brooke Rollins announced with a five-page memo last week, saying it would help bring the department closer to the people the government oversees and lower the cost of living for federal workers, while pledging to work with members of the committee over the next month of planning. # ⚓ BoingBoing ☛ Luigi:_the_Musical_is_coming_soon_to_New_York and_Los_Angeles⠀⇛ The creators of Luigi: the Musical state that they aren't glorifying violence, but, rather, interrogating it. They further explain that the musical examines the spectacle of violence-as- entertainment in the United States, and critiques how violence is "packaged, sold, and consumed in American media." They continue: [...] o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Feds_still_trying_to_crack_Volt_Typhoon hackers’_intentions,_goals⠀⇛ Federal analysts are still sizing up what the Chinese hackers known as Volt Typhoon, who penetrated U.S. critical infrastructure to maintain access within those networks, might have intended by setting up shop there, a Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency official said Thursday. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Apple_shipped_its_3_billionth_iPhone⠀⇛ That’s also a lot of eggs in one basket. Apple’s own Eddy Cue recently admitted that “you may not need an iPhone 10 years from now.” That should be pretty worrying if your biggest business is selling phones! Apple’s most notable foray into a forward- looking form factor hasn’t exactly set the world on fire, either. It has somewhat famously fumbled its first attempts at adding meaningful AI features to its phones, too. At least from the outside, Apple doesn’t seem terribly well prepared for that world we might be living in ten years from now. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Apple_says_Trump’s_tariffs_are_adding_another $1_billion_to_its_costs_|_The_Verge⠀⇛ Cook says Apple has already spent around $800 million during the June quarter, which is less than the $900 million that the company predicted in May. “The bulk of the tariffs that we paid were the IEEPA [International Emergency Economic Powers Act] tariffs that hit early in the year, related to China,” Cook said. # ⚓ Reuters ☛ UK_airports_disrupted_by_radar_fault_in_air traffic_control_system⠀⇛ "It is clear that no lessons have been learnt since the Aug '23 NATS system outage and passengers continue to suffer as a result of Martin Rolfe’s incompetence," Ryanair chief operating officer Neal McMahon said in a statement. # § Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism⠀➾ # ⚓ Ben Werdmuller ☛ Evaluating_AI⠀⇛ This is my personal mental model (not, to be clear, a company policy at my employer). A few people have said it’s helped them make decisions about AI in their own teams, workplaces, and lives, so I thought I’d share. My approach to evaluating AI is through two main lenses: the technology itself and the vendors who make it. Let’s start with the vendors, since they shape how we access the technology. # ⚓ Sean Monahan ☛ sloptimism⠀⇛ Slop has another quality. It is generative. It arrives in volume and displaces older, more refined forms; outcompeting them like an invasive species; a massive kudzu vine rapidly growing in the media ecosystem. The oral epic is overcome by the papyrus scroll; the written word by the printed book; the novel by the radio play; radio by film and television; film and television by artificial intelligence and memes. Whatever media format is newest is slop. In thirty years time, the twentysomethings of today may mourn generative AI. “Whatever happened to Miyazaki memes? That was real culture.” The teens of 2050 are addicted to Neuralink-enabled orgasms, the feelies predicted in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Tesla’s_‘robotaxi’_rides_in_San_Francisco have_a_human_at_the_wheel_|_The_Verge⠀⇛ California requires companies to obtain three permits to operate a commercial robotaxi service. So far, the state has granted Tesla just one of the permits, allowing it to run a ridehailing service with a human in the driver’s seat. The Alphabet-owned Waymo is currently the only company with all the permits to offer commercial driverless rides in San Francisco. # ⚓ Kieran Healy ☛ The_Sound_of_Silence⠀⇛ In the comments, people note that this class of error has been known for a while and there are equivalents or counterparts in other languages: [...] # ⚓ Futurism ☛ Mark_Zuckerberg_Looks_Like_He's_Been_Taken Hostage_as_He_Explains_Plan_for_Deploying_AI Superintelligence⠀⇛ By video's end, one starts to suspect that Zuckerberg may well have used one of his LLMs to actually write the script and its accompanying letter, which are full of pablum and platitudes but light on anything resembling substance. # ⚓ Futurism ☛ Judge_Accused_of_Using_AI_to_Issue_Garbled Ruling⠀⇛ Worse yet, Wingate eventually replaced the errors-riddled order with a corrected version — which still cites a 1974 that doesn't appear to exist, according to Mississippi Today. # ⚓ Bruce Lawson ☛ Bruce_Lawson's_personal_site _:_Gen_AI in_the_UK⠀⇛ As far as I can tell, the only reason for “AI” in search is to keep people on a Google domain, rather than send them to where the search engine actually found the information that its AI regurgitates. If you think it’s not fair for Google to hoover up other people’s content without sending visitors their way, and thereby starving them of search revenue, you wouldn’t be the only one. # § Social Control Media⠀➾ # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2025-07-28_[Older]_TikTok_shows individual_removing_chalk_marks_from_parked_cars [Ed: TikTok encourages and rewards harm]⠀⇛ # § Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets⠀➾ # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Minnesota_governor_activates National_Guard_amid_St._Paul_cyberattack⠀⇛ “We now know this was not a system glitch or technical error,” Carter said Tuesday. “This was a deliberate, coordinated digital attack carried out by a sophisticated external actor intentionally and criminally targeting our city’s information infrastructure.” # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Minnesota_gov_calls_National_Guard after_St_Paul_cyberattack⠀⇛ Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has activated the state's National Guard and declared a state of emergency in response to a cyberattack on the city of Saint Paul. The governor called in the armed forces because the magnitude and complexity of the attack exceeded the city's response capabilities, according to a statement from Walz's office on Tuesday. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ NHS_provider_nears_collapse_a_year after_cyberattack⠀⇛ Private equity-backed NRS Healthcare works with around 40 councils across England and Northern Ireland, although most of its services are provided to authorities in Southeast England. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ 'I_am_afraid_of_what's_next,'_ex- ransomware_negotiator_says⠀⇛ Ransomware gangs now frequently threaten physical violence against employees and their families as a way to force victim organizations into paying their demands. # ⚓ BSDly ☛ The_Despicable,_No_Good,_Blackmail_Campaign Targeting_..._Imaginary_Friends?⠀⇛ Yet we still see a stream of reports about people who have actually gone out and bought their first bitcoins (or more likely fractions of one) in order to pay off blackmailers who claim to have in their possesion videos that record the vicim while performing some autoerotic activity and the material they were supposedly viewing while performing that activity. o § Security⠀➾ # § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Proton_Launches_Free,_Open_Source Authenticator_App⠀⇛ 2FA (Two-Factor Authentication) is a security method that requires two forms of verification to access an account—typically something you know (like a password) and something you have (like a code from an app or a text message). The idea is pretty simple – adding an extra layer of protection beyond just a password. After earning a lot of attention for its strong privacy-focused tools and services like Proton Mail, Proton Pass, Proton Drive, etc., the company is now rolling out something new and super handy — Proton Authenticator. The app does exactly what it’s supposed to do – it generates unique six- digit codes directly on your device, refreshing every 30 seconds. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ EFF ☛ 2025-07-30_[Older]_👮_Amazon_Ring_Is_Back_in_the Mass_Surveillance_Game_|_EFFector_37.9⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Central ☛ Android_users_to_finally_get_an extra_layer_of_security_on_Chrome⠀⇛ Currently, Google Chrome does include an option labeled "Authenticate with biometrics before filling passwords" in the Autofill settings. You may have already noticed that Google Password Manager typically prompts you for fingerprint or face authentication when autofilling passwords, but this only applies inside apps. # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Google_will_soon_fix_a_security loophole_in_Chrome's_password_autofill⠀⇛ Manually entering passwords is a pain, which is why many people use autofill services bundled with password managers to save time. For better security, you should require biometric authentication before autofilling passwords. This prevents thieves who steal your phone from signing into accounts that aren’t already logged in. Unfortunately, Google Chrome on Android currently autofills passwords without any form of authentication, but that will soon change. # ⚓ Newgrounds Inc ☛ Mid-Year_Online_Safety_Update⠀⇛ Regarding age verification, here is our current plan for UK users: [...] # ⚓ Jamie Zawinski ☛ Ambient_age_verification⠀⇛ For years, I've been doing something similar to this when generating internal reports on DNA Lounge demographics: e.g., if someone bought a ticket for an 18+ event 5 years ago, they must be at least 23 years old now. # ⚓ Dhole Moments ☛ Age_Verification_Doesn’t_Need_to_Be_a Privacy_Footgun⠀⇛ In meatspace, if you wanted to go to the adult section of a movie store, you would need to show a clerk your government issued photo ID. They would check that your date of birth was before (current date – 18 years), and if so, they would admit you. This is the sort of experience that people who do not understand technology use to build an intuition for how laws like this operate. The Internet is not like meatspace. When you supply your government ID to a website in order to verify your identity, at least two of the following security and privacy risks introduced at once: [...] # ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ YouTube_rolls_out_age-estimation_tech_to identify_US_teens_and_apply_additional_protections_| TechCrunch⠀⇛ YouTube on Tuesday announced it’s beginning to roll out age-estimation technology in the U.S. to identify teen users in order to provide a more age-appropriate experience. The company says it will use a variety of signals to determine the users’ possible age, regardless of what the user entered as their birthday when they signed up for an account. # ⚓ Michael Tsai ☛ Tea_and_the_App_Store⠀⇛ # ⚓ John Gruber ☛ Daring_Fireball:_Tea,_the_Women’s Dating_Gossip_App_Riddled_With_Security Vulnerabilities,_Remains_#3_on_the_US_iPhone_App Store⠀⇛ Tea, unsurprisingly, has almost nothing on their website about the security violations their users have suffered, nor any mention in their App Store listing. Their only public acknowledgement of the fiasco is a series of three Instagram posts on July 26, 27, and 29 (the most recent of which acknowledges that they’ve completely disabled the DM feature “temporarily”), and this FAQ on their website, that, as far as I can tell, is only discoverable through the “links in bio” on their Instagram profile. Their FAQ only addresses the initial discovery from last week, not the more significant one that 404 Media publicized Monday that included the exposure of DMs. # ⚓ OpenRightsGroup ☛ The_Great_British_Firewall:_Age Verification_has_Failed⠀⇛ From Friday 25 July 2025, UK Internet users have had to verify their age to use a range of apps and websites – from social media platforms such as X, Reddit and Bluesky to dating apps like Grindr to porn sites such as Pornhub. And it’s turning out to be as bad as we thought it would be. When it was being debated in parliament, ORG argued that proposals in the Online Safety Act (OSA) to prevent young people seeing adult content were unworkable and harmful to privacy and freedom of expression. Here’s what we are seeing as the law comes into effect. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Trump_administration_announces medical_records_access_plan,_but_privacy_issues_loom⠀⇛ More than 60 companies have signed onto the plan, dubbed the CMS Digital Health Ecosystem, including tech giants Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Anthropic PBC, OpenAI, Google LLC, Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. They’ve pledged to “begin laying the foundation for the next generation of digital health ecosystem,” according to a press release Wednesday. A full list of the organizations and companies signed onto the plan, called Early Adopters, can be found on the CMS website. # ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ Palantir_gets_$10_billion contract_from_U.S._Army⠀⇛ The new contract, the largest ever awarded to the software and data analysis company, cements Palantir’s role as a major processor of data for the military. It comes on the heels of an additional $795 million the military allocated earlier this year to put into its artificial intelligence targeting software, Maven Smart System. # ⚓ EPIC ☛ (U.S._Senate_Judiciary_Committee)_“Protecting the_Virtual_You:_Safeguarding_Americans’_Online_Data”⠀⇛ We need clear rules of the road for the digital frontier, which should include limits on the sale of our data and the use of our sensitive information, including a clear prohibition on tracking our online behavior over time and across apps and sites and strict limits on the use of our location data and biometric data. These rules will protect us from fraudsters, stalkers, and scams and put individual Americans back in control of their own personal information. Furthermore, they will encourage privacy-protective innovation that can improve and expand our online world. # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ German_Christmas_market_attacker shocks_victims_with_letters⠀⇛ The perpetrator, Taleb A., is said to have hand written letters that personally addressed victims by name and mailed these to their homes. # ⚓ NYOB ☛ Annual_Report_2024_out_now!⠀⇛ Almost 7 years after the GDPR came into force, noyb remains to be one of the leading European forces pushing for the fundamental right to data protection for all users. To date, our legal work has resulted in administrative fines totalling €1.69 billion. Our achievements in 2024 prove once again that we can make an impact: In addition to filing 36 new complaints, we also obtained a number of new decisions from authorities and even a ruling from the European Court of Justice (CJEU). # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ UK’s_Online_Safety_Act_Reshapes Digital_Access_for_Minors⠀⇛ A major shift has rippled through the United Kingdom’s digital landscape with the full implementation of the Online Safety Act. This legislation marks a new era for age verification across a broad spectrum of major websites—not just those with explicit content. # § Confidentiality⠀➾ # ⚓ Jan Wildeboer ☛ Be_the_LetsEncrypt_in_your_homelab with_step-ca_-_Jan_Wildeboer’s_Blog⠀⇛ So you have a Cute Homelab and you want to use it to secure your services and containers with x509 certificates? But your homelab isn’t on the internet, so you can’t simply use LetsEncrypt? Well. You can become your own LetsEncrypt and hand out certificates with certbot. You “just” need to run your own CA (Certificate Authority). Sounds frightening and complicated? It kinda is, but not really when you use step-ca, an open source solution that you can run in a container. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Garry Kasparov ☛ Ukrainian_Protesters_Remind_Us_How_to Fight_for_Democracy⠀⇛ Earlier today, the Ukrainian parliament approved legislation restoring the independence of two anti- corruption agencies. Just a week earlier, President Volodomyr Zelenskyy had set out to strip those same agencies of their autonomy with another piece of legislation. Talk about a quick reversal: The Ukrainian government puts out an ill-advised policy. Then the Ukrainian public reacts to it negatively. And then, rather than arresting, beating, or intimidating protesters—the government instead retracts that policy. All in the course of a few days. Can you imagine the US Congress changing tack so quickly? # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Hamas_Wants_Gaza_to_Starve⠀⇛ Hamas actually wants a famine in Gaza. Producing mass death from hunger is the group’s final play, its last hope for ending the war in a way that advances its goals. Hamas has benefited from Israel’s decision to use food as a lever against the terror group, because the catastrophic conditions for civilians have generated an international outcry, which is worsening Israel’s global standing and forcing it to reverse course. # ⚓ PHR ☛ Brutal_Reproductive_Violence_“Systematic,_Deliberate, and_Ongoing”_in_Ethiopia:_Report⠀⇛ Combatants in Ethiopia have perpetrated widespread, systematic, and deliberate acts of conflict-related sexual and reproductive violence, according to a new report published today by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and the Organization for Justice and Accountability in the Horn of Africa (OJAH). # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Evil_terrorist_confesses_he_masterminded_7/ 7_bombings_-_but_could_be_freed_in_DAYS_despite_‘grave concerns_from_cops’⠀⇛ According to US court documents obtained by The Sun, the al-Qaeda fiend confessed he was a “mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks and a 2005 terrorist attack in the UK”. But he could be released from a secure psychiatric unit within days thanks to a legal loophole blocking him from being subjected to stringent risk checks. # ⚓ Task And Purpose ☛ How_an_Army_drone_exercise_highlighted_a generational_divide⠀⇛ A recent Army exercise in Europe revealed a generational gap with drones. Soldiers in the field are picking up new frontline tech within hours, while leaders at higher headquarters are still figuring out what their future battlefields will look like. # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Swedish_[sic]_jihadi_jailed_for_life_over infamous_murder_of_pilot⠀⇛ A Swedish court has sentenced a man to life in prison for helping kill a Jordanian pilot in a notorious 2015 "Islamic State" killing. It is the first conviction over the murder, in which the victim was burned alive. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Swedish_[sic]_jihadist_gets_life_sentence_for 2015_killing_of_Jordanian_pilot_in_Syria⠀⇛ Judge Anna Liljenberg Gullesjo said in a statement that "the investigation has shown that the defendant was at the execution site, uniformed and armed, and allowed himself to be filmed". # ⚓ BBC ☛ Migration_fuels_England_and_Wales_population_jump, figures_suggest⠀⇛ The population of England and Wales is estimated to have jumped by more than 700,000 in the year to June 2024, the second-largest rise in more than 75 years, figures show. # ⚓ The Independent UK ☛ Migration_fuels_second_largest_annual jump_in_population_in_over_75_years⠀⇛ There were an estimated 61.8 million people in England and Wales in mid-2024, up 706,881 from 61.1 million in mid-2023, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Net international migration – the difference between people moving to the country and leaving – was the “main driver” of the jump in population and accounted for 98% (690,147) of the increase, the ONS said. # ⚓ Evening Standard UK ☛ Migration_fuels_second_largest_annual jump_in_England_and_Wales_population_in_over_75_years⠀⇛ This means the population of England and Wales is estimated to have grown by 1.5 million between June 2022 and June 2024: the largest two-year jump since current records began. There were an estimated 61.8 million people in England and Wales in mid-2024, up 706,881 from 61.1 million in mid-2023, according to the ONS. # ⚓ SBS ☛ Australia's_looming_social_media_ban_explained_|_SBS News⠀⇛ "We know that social media is doing social harm, and my government and this parliament is prepared to take action to protect young Australians," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday, alongside Communications Minister Anika Wells. # § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2025-07-31_[Older]_Evacuations_ordered in_South_America_as_worst_tsunami_risk_passes_for_US, Japan⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-30_[Older]_Tsunami_nears South_America_after_Russia_earthquake⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-30_[Older]_Tsunami_warnings after_quake_strikes_off_Russia's_east_coast⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2025-07-30_[Older]_Russia:_Internet_Blocking, Disruptions_and_Increasing_Isolation⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2025-07-30_[Older] Russian_Doctors_Refuse_to_Flee_During_Earthquake, Choose_to_Save_Patient_Mid-Surgery_Instead⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2025-07-30_[Older]_Tsunami_warning_as_it happened:_Millions_evacuated_after_strongest_earthquake recorded_since_2011_hits_Russia;_warnings_issued_for Pacific_nations;_Hawaii_downgrades_threat⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2025-07-30_[Older]_Tsunami_threat_for Japan,_Hawaii_downgraded_after_evacuation_orders sparked_panic⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-30_[Older]_Russian Soprano's_Case_Alleging_National_Original Discrimination_Against_the_Met_Opera_to_Proceed⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-30_[Older]_Cheeto Mussolini_Announces_25%_Tariff_on_India_and_Unspecified Penalties_for_Buying_Russian_Oil⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-30_[Older]_Italy Summons_Russian_Ambassador_Over_'Russophobe'_List Naming_President⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-30_[Older]_Massive Russian_Earthquake_Struck_on_'Megathrust_Fault'⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-30_[Older]_Russia and_China_to_Hold_Naval_Drills_in_Sea_of_Japan_in August,_Interfax_Reports⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-30_[Older]_Russia Has_Developed_Immunity_to_Sanctions,_Kremlin_Says_After Cheeto_Mussolini_Tightens_Ceasefire_Deadline⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-30_[Older]_Russia Lifts_Tsunami_Warnings_for_Kamchatka_and_Sakhalin⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-30_[Older]_Russian Missiles_Hit_a_Ukrainian_Army_Training_Ground,_Killing at_Least_3_Soldiers⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-30_[Older]_Russian Surgeons_Keep_Steady_Hands_During_Massive_Kamchatka Quake⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-30_[Older]_Russia Says_It's_Worried_About_Threat_of_New_Strikes_on Iranian_Nuclear_Facilities⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-30_[Older] Russia's_Far_East_'Land_of_Fire_and_Ice'_Avoids_Major Damage_From_Earthquake_and_Tsunami⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-29_[Older] Ukrainian_Drone_Attacks_Leave_One_Dead,_Spark_Fire_at Train_Station_in_Rostov,_Russia_Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-29_[Older]_Russian Journalist_Sentenced_to_12_Years_Over_Ties_to Opposition_Group⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Kyiv Independent ☛ 2025-07-28_[Older]_Hacker group_“Silent_Crow”_claims_responsibility_for cyberattack_on_Russia’s_Aeroflot⠀⇛ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2025-07-28_[Older]_Dutch_government wrestling_with_risks_involved_in_hosting_Russia_war crime_tribunal⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-28_[Older]_Former POWs_in_Russia_Channel_Their_Pain_Into_Rebuilding_Lives in_Ukraine⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-28_[Older] 'Partisans'_Who_Paralyzed_Russian_Airports_Have_Track Record_of_Disruptive_Hacks⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-28_[Older] Russia's_Medvedev_Says_Cheeto_Mussolini's_'Ultimatum' Could_Lead_to_War⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-28_[Older] Russia's_Night_Attack_on_Kyiv_Leaves_Eight_Injured, Including_Child,_Ukraine_Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-28_[Older] Russia's_Roscosmos,_NASA_to_Hold_First_In-Person_Talks at_Heads_Level_Since_2018,_Russia_Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-27_[Older]_Russia_opens_new direct_flights_to_North_Korea⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-27_[Older]_Russia Starts_First_Moscow-Pyongyang_Passenger_Flights_in Decades⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-27_[Older]_Russia Accuses_Kyiv_and_the_West_of_Rejecting_Diplomacy_to Solve_Conflict_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-27_[Older]_Russia Says_291_Ukrainian_Drones_Downed⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-27_[Older]_Russia Scales_Down_Celebrations_Honoring_Its_Navy_as_Ukraine Launches_More_Drone_Attacks⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-26_[Older]_How_a_Russian mother_is_helping_prisoners_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-26_[Older]_Indian Firm_Says_It_Shipped_Non-Military_Explosives_to Russia⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-26_[Older]_Pope Leo_Discusses_War_in_Ukraine_With_Russian_Orthodox Church_Official⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-26_[Older]_Ukraine Drone_Attack_Disrupts_Volgograd_Railway_Power,_Russia Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-26_[Older]_Russian Attack_Kills_3_in_Ukraine's_City_of_Dnipro,_Governor Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-26_[Older]_Russia Says_It_Has_Captured_Two_Villages_in_Ukraine,_Ukraine Reports_Heavy_Fighting⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-26_[Older] Russia's_Zakharova_Says_Peace_Settlement_in_Ukraine_Has Never_Been_on_'Real_Agenda'_of_the_West⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-26_[Older]_Ukraine Says_Its_Long-Range_Drones_Hit_Electronic_Warfare_Plant in_Russia⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-25_[Older]_Russia_to_crack down_on_what_it_deems_'extremist'_content⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-25_[Older]_Cheeto Mussolini_Says_He_Wants_to_Maintain_Nuclear_Limits_With Russia⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2025-07-24_[Older]_Russia_suspected_of_hacking_Dutch prosecution_service_systems⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2025-07-24_[Older]_Russia_Clamps_Down_on_Online Searches⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2025-07-30_[Older]_Intelligence_cyberattack_on Crimea._Documents_confirming_abduction_of_children_from Ukraine_found⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-30_[Older]_Ukraine_updates: Cheeto_Mussolini_tells_DW_Ukrainians_may_remain_in_US⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-30_[Older]_Ukraine Arrests_Air_Force_Officer_for_Spying_on_Western- Supplied_Fighter_Jets⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-29_[Older]_Ukraine: Zelenskyy_signs_law_for_over_60s_to_join_military⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-29_[Older]_Higher US_Tariffs_Part_of_the_Price_Europe_Was_Willing_to_Pay for_Its_Security_and_Arms_for_Ukraine⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-29_[Older] Ukraine's_Live-Blogging_Lawmakers_Fuel_Public_Anger_at Parliament⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-28_[Older]_Putin_has_10-12 day_deadline_to_reach_Ukraine_deal_—_Cheeto_Mussolini⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-27_[Older]_EU Urges_Ukraine_to_Uphold_Independent_Anti-Corruption Bodies;_Zelenskiy_Signals_Swift_Action⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-27_[Older] Ukrainian_Drones_Target_St_Petersburg_as_Putin_Attends Scaled-Down_Navy_Day⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2025-07-25_[Older]_Ukraine_updates: Zelenskyy_says_3_Patriot_systems_secured⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-25_[Older]_Ukraine Anti-Corruption_Chief_Says_His_Agency_Faces_'Dirty Information_Campaign'⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-25_[Older]_Ukraine Facing_Fierce_Fighting_Around_Eastern_City_of_Pokrovsk, Zelenskiy_Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-25_[Older] Ukraine's_Zelenskiy_Sets_Target_for_Interceptor_Drone Production⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2025-07-25_[Older]_US, China_Confront_Each_Other_on_Ukraine_at_United Nations⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ How_Fossil_Fuel_Mad_Men_Have_Aided_and_Abetted the_Industry’s_Climate_Denial⠀⇛ Meanwhile, the fossil fuel Mad Men are also facing pushback within their own ranks, as some of their fellow “creatives” blow the whistle and join with outside activists to confront their industry’s role in helping propel humanity toward a chaotic, deadly breakdown of the climate system. As of June 2025, more than 1,400 advertising agencies around the world have signed the “Clean Creatives” pledge to “decline any future contracts with fossil fuel companies, trade associations, or front groups.” # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Renewable Energy World ☛ Will_new_Interior_Department rules_shackle_wind_and_solar?_Insiders_are_divided⠀⇛ Since only 4 percent of existing renewable energy projects are on public land, clean industry insiders who have interpreted the new policy narrowly are not yet panicking. But those with a broader interpretation of the text — or those who suspect that the administration will take a broad interpretation — wonder if the new rules will amount to a de facto gag order on the industry. For now, only time will tell just how many of their fears come to pass. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ OpenAI_raids_Europe_with_100K_GPU supercluster_in_Norway⠀⇛ The facility will be located in Kvandal outside the town of Narvik in Norway's northern reaches, and is expected to eventually add 230 megawatts of compute capacity to OpenAI's planned Stargate compute network with the potential to add another 290 megawatts in the future. # ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ EU_plans_$30_billion_investment_in gigawatt_AI_data_centers_—_multiple_sites_to_host 100,000_AI_GPUs_each_as_bloc_plays_catch-up_to_US_and China⠀⇛ The EU's effort, if realized, is probably one of the world's largest publicly funded initiatives in artificial intelligence, probably well below what Chinese authorities (both federal and local) have invested in AI data centers, but well ahead of what other big economies invest in their AI efforts. Henna Virkkunen, European Commission executive vice president for technology policy, told CNBC that while Europe has a strong talent base — reportedly 30% more AI researchers per capita than the U.S. — their limited access to computing has held back development. Building massive AI data centers is designed to solve this problem and kick- start the AI sector across the EU. # ⚓ CNBC ☛ Europe_sets_its_sights_on_multi-billion-euro gigawatt_AI_factories⠀⇛ Henna Virkkunen, the European Commission's executive vice president for tech sovereignty, told CNBC the gigawatt factories are four times more powerful when it comes to computing capacities than the biggest AI factory and require billions of euros in investment. The gigafactories could add 15% to Europe's total computing capacity — a sizeable boost, even when compared to the U.S. which currently owns around a third of global capacity according to UBS data. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2025-07-28_[Older]_What_to_do_when wasps_crash_your_picnic_–_a_scientist’s_guide_to_dining safely_with_these_insects⠀⇛ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Mind-Blowing_Discovery:_Peacocks_Have Lasers_In_Their_Tails⠀⇛ Applying a special dye to multiple areas on a peacock's tail, researchers from Florida Polytechnic University and Youngstown State University in the US went on the hunt for structures that may emit a very different signature glow. In a mind-blowing first for the animal kingdom, they discovered the eyespots on the fowl's fabulous feathers have unique properties that align light waves by bouncing them back and forth, effectively turning them into yellow-green lasers. # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ Your_dog_can_read_your_mind_–_sort of⠀⇛ Thousands of years of co-evolution have given dogs special ways to tune in to our voices, faces and even brain chemistry. From brain regions devoted to processing our speech to the “love hormone” or oxytocin that surges when we lock eyes, your dog’s mind is hardwired to pick up on what you’re feeling. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ Researchers_find_automated_financial traders_will_collude_with_each_other_through_a_combination_of 'artificial_intelligence'_and_'artificial_stupidity'⠀⇛ If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, would it be fair to call it a duck? Or, in the case of a working paper from researchers at Wharton and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, how closely does the behavior of "AI-powered trading" have to resemble collusion before it would be fair for financial regulators to start treating it as such? The working paper (PDF) is titled "AI-Powered Trading, Algorithmic Collusion, and Price Efficiency" and was published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. It effectively looks to answer the question raised above by conducting experiments with algorithmic trading agents that use reinforcement learning to determine when they should buy and sell assets based on the broader market's history, trends, and forecast. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Insight Hungary ☛ Orban_says_political_discrimination against_Hungary_is_in_the_past_thanks_to_Trump⠀⇛ In his annual speech in Băile Tuşnad, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Donald Trump’s presidency had brought an end to “political discrimination” against Hungary, 444 reports. According to Orban, the new administration cleared the way for major projects such as the Paks II nuclear plant and new investments. He argued that Trump’s return to the White House "reduces the chances of a world war". Orbán noted that rivalry between the great powers, Russia, China, and the United States, had intensified since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On the Ukraine war, Orbán said it was already “a European war” rather than a local conflict. He argued that Ukraine’s bid to join the West had triggered “an existential crisis” for Russia, and that EU support for Ukraine had “started a spiraling conflict.” He reiterated his opposition to Ukraine joining the EU and stressed Hungary’s stance of staying out of the war by building good relations with all major powers, including Russia, China, India, and the “Turkic world.” # ⚓ FAIR ☛ Media_Sidelined_Deadly_Consequences_of_Trump’s Reconciliation_Bill⠀⇛ President Donald Trump on July 4 signed into law an omnibus reconciliation bill, branded in MAGA propaganda (and much of corporate media) as the “Big Beautiful Bill.” The legislation scraped up just enough votes to narrowly pass in both chambers of the Republican-controlled Congress, with 51 to 50 votes in the Senate and 218 to 214 in the House. # ⚓ Nick Heer ☛ The_Tim_Cook_Era_Is_Fully_Cemented_–_Pixel Envy⠀⇛ On 16 September 1997, Steve Jobs became interim CEO of Apple. 5,090 days later, he handed the reins to Tim Cook, weeks before he died. 5,090 days after 24 August 2011 is today. The Cook era is now as long as the Jobs renaissance era. # ⚓ Jeffrey Paul ☛ Jeffrey_Paul:_Show_Candidates_Your_Cap Table.⠀⇛ There’s an implicit pressure on candidates to not push harder for such figures, as if wanting the actual details about their compensation package means they might not sufficiently believe in the vision or presumed success. Somehow, inconsistently, this implied perception of skepticism isn’t applied to honest discussions about the salary. The situation is ultimately ridiculous. You want serious people? Have serious conversations. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ This_Far-Right_Movement_Is_Hijacking_Local Churches⠀⇛ In small towns, as well as cities like Harrisburg, there is an underreported but epic struggle being waged for the hearts and minds of everyday people, with ripple effects for the entire nation. And the church—its pulpit, pews, and survival programs—is a critical staging ground for that struggle. There are Christians who are preaching and practicing the ministry of Jesus, the son of God, who himself was unhoused and undocumented and sided with the poor, the sick, the indebted, the incarcerated, and the immigrant, while decrying the idolatry of tyrants. And then there are Christian nationalists, whose religion of empire is more akin to the worship of Caesar than the Jesus of the scriptures. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ A_Ukraine_without_Ukrainians: Putin_is_erasing_Europe’s_largest_nation⠀⇛ In reality, the official ban on Ukrainian language studies is a formality confirming processes that have been well underway ever since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February 2022, and for far longer in areas of Ukraine occupied by Moscow following the initial onset of Russian aggression in 2014. The removal of the Ukrainian language from Ukrainian classrooms has been accompanied by the introduction of a new Kremlin-friendly curriculum that glorifies the ongoing Russian invasion while denying Ukraine’s right to exist and demonizing Ukrainians as Nazis. Parents who resist risk losing custody of their children. This campaign of classroom indoctrination is only one aspect of the Kremlin’s comprehensive Russification policies in occupied Ukraine. Since February 2022, the Russian authorities have conducted mass arrests of anyone deemed a potential threat to the occupation, with thousands of Ukrainian officials, activists, community leaders, veterans, and patriots disappearing into a vast network of prisons. A recent UN probe has classified these large-scale detentions as a crime against humanity. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ The Kyiv Independent ☛ Russia_to_fine_people_for 'extremist'_search_queries_under_new_law⠀⇛ According to the law, those who deliberately search for materials listed in the government's federal registry of "extremist" content can face fines ranging from 3,000 to 5,000 rubles (approximately $35 to $60). This includes using software to bypass state-imposed website blocks, such as VPNs. Advertising tools or services that provide access to banned online resources can result in even penalties up to 500,000 rubles (about $5,600). # ⚓ Hamilton Nolan ☛ Negotiating_With_Terrorists, Unsuccessfully⠀⇛ Yesterday, Brown University signed an agreement with the Trump administration. You can read it here. In exchange for having its government funding restored and (it hopes) having the government stop incessantly hounding it, the school agrees to pay $50 million, to acquiesce to right wing obsessions over bathrooms and trans people, to absolutely end giving racial or income preferences in admissions, and to take a number of performative actions regarding “antisemitism”—which is to say, to position the school as pro-Israel and to agree to serve as a persecutor of anti-Israel sentiment on campus going forward. # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Why_the_‘South_Park’_Trump_Parody_Struck_a Nerve⠀⇛ The scene is a thinly veiled, relentless prodding at Paramount’s allegiances, as well as the chilling effect Trump’s actions have created. This approach stretches across the bulk of the episode. Further twisting the knife is a parody of 60 Minutes that portrays its journalists as constantly hedging to avoid displeasing the president: The segment opens with a ticking bomb, in lieu of a clock, as a voice-over shakily announces, “This is 60 Minutes. Oh, boy. Oh, shit.” An anchor then nervously introduces a report of South Park’s protest against the president, who, he is quick to add, “is a great man; we know he’s probably watching.” # ⚓ Vox ☛ The_Columbia_and_Brown_deals_with_Trump_are_just_the beginning⠀⇛ These Ivy League schools have large endowments, billions of dollars in reserve funds that should put them in the best financial position among institutions of higher education to resist the administration’s allegations and attempts to hold their federal funding ransom. But so far, they have chosen to settle with Trump instead — and in so doing, campus free speech advocates say they are compromising academic freedom and dialogue throughout higher education. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Reddit_wants_to_be_a_search_engine_now⠀⇛ Huffman says that “every week, hundreds of millions of people come to Reddit looking for advice, and we’re turning more of that intent into active users of Reddit’s native search.” Reddit’s core search has more than 70 million weekly active unique users — Reddit overall averages 416.4 million weekly active unique users — and Reddit Answers, the platform’s AI search tool that it launched in December, has 6 million weekly users, up from 1 million weekly users in the first quarter of this year. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Speak_Out,_Lose_Service:_Iran_Targets_SIM_Cards_Of Dissenting_Voices⠀⇛ The practice, which intensified in the summer of 2024 and is resurging again, targets journalists, activists, academics, and ordinary users across the country. Individuals are reporting sudden SIM card deactivations after publishing posts on platforms such as X and Instagram that criticize government policies or actions. To restore service, users say they are often required to delete the offending content, sign written pledges to avoid future criticism, and, in some cases, publish statements in support of the Islamic republic. # ⚓ The Independent UK ☛ Ofcom_investigates_34_pornography sites_under_new_age-check_rules⠀⇛ Ofcom said it expected to make further enforcement announcements in the coming months. New online safety protections for children came into force on July 25. # ⚓ Tedium ☛ Thoughts_On_A_Ninja_Sword_Ban⠀⇛ Online, this has taken the form of content blocks, particularly in the United Kingdom, where a new law requires users to verify their age with either a picture of their ID card or a scan of their face. The result, at least thus far, has been an absolute surge in the update of virtual private networks, or VPNs. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Banning_VPNs_to_protect_kids?_Good_luck with_that⠀⇛ However the more obvious workaround was to simply install a VPN and browse the web as if from another country where such age verification laws don't apply. As has been widely reported, including by this vulture's kettlemates, some VPN companies reported a 1,400 percent increase in sign-ups since the OSA came into force. The idea of a total VPN ban was subsequently floated, but how realistic or feasible would this be to implement? o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ The Moscow Times ☛ Derk_Sauer,_Moscow_Times_Founder_and Dutch_Media_Entrepreneur,_Dies_at_72⠀⇛ Derk Sauer, the Dutch media entrepreneur who founded The Moscow Times, died on Thursday at age 72, his family said in a statement. # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Journalists’_rights_and_obligations_in_digital media⠀⇛ The digital media transformation has created fundamental changes in communication and journalism while profoundly affecting the balance between rights and responsibilities. The need to redefine the traditional concept of press freedom in the digital environment has emerged, leaving journalists confronted with both numerous new opportunities and unprecedented threats. The unlimited information-sharing possibilities offered by digital platforms, coupled with accompanying privacy concerns, administrative interventions, and security issues, necessitate a reevaluation of the fundamental parameters of contemporary journalism. Throughout this transformation process, journalists benefit from the news-gathering and dissemination capabilities provided by digital tools while simultaneously facing new responsibilities regarding the boundaries of freedom of expression and digital security practices. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ What_Liberal_Media?_Axios_Thinks_Being_Neutral Means_Kissing_Trump’s_Ass⠀⇛ The reality is that Axios launders rightwing talking points in ugly short form vignettes that not only hide nuance, but reveal how their version of “neutral, objective” coverage actually means normalizing Donald Trump’s madness. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Eric Bailey ☛ On_inclusive_personas_and_inclusive_user research⠀⇛ Recently, the accessibility arm of a government web services team put their “inclusive personas” out onto the internet. These personas were a set of hypothetical people, each with a different disability condition. The goal of this resource was to get people aware of, and designing for accessibility concerns and considerations. Generally-speaking, that’s a great idea! The earlier in the process that you can get people considering accessibility, the better. # ⚓ Alabama Reflector ☛ Rosa_Parks,_Helen_Keller_statues_set_to be_dedicated_at_Alabama_State_Capitol_in_October⠀⇛ Members of the Alabama Women’s Tribute Statue Commission on Wednesday discussed a planned unveiling at the Capitol grounds on October 24, with a guest list of 214 that will include “individuals, families, stakeholders, and partner organizations.” The ceremony will be held in the Capitol Auditorium, with Gov. Kay Ivey providing the opening remarks, before the unveiling of the statues. # ⚓ Washingon-Baltimore News Guild ☛ Journalists_at_The_Hill overwhelmingly_ratify_first-ever_union_contract_-_Washington- Baltimore_News_Guild⠀⇛ The agreement is the culmination of nearly three years of negotiations and organizing, despite union-busting tactics from Nexstar management. The Hill voted overwhelmingly to unionize in May 2022, less than a year after Nexstar acquired it, and began negotiating its first-ever contract that September. # ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ Why_more_immigrants_are_being_tracked with_ankle_monitors_–_and_who_profits⠀⇛ Last month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement directed personnel to sharply increase the number of immigrants they shackle with GPS- enabled ankle monitors. ICE is targeting about 183,000 people with the expansion of the policy, all enrolled in the agency’s Alternatives to Detention program. # ⚓ Cost Rica ☛ How_Costa_Rican_Women_Won_the_Right_to_Vote⠀⇛ On July 30, 1950, Costa Rica witnessed a quiet but groundbreaking revolution: for the first time, women voted alongside men, marking a turning point in the country’s democratic history. The occasion was a local plebiscite to determine whether the communities of La Tigra and La Fortuna would remain part of the canton of San Ramón or be annexed to San Carlos. # ⚓ Futurism ☛ NASA_Announces_It_Will_Be_Randomly_Searching Employees⠀⇛ "When randomly selected, individuals will be notified upon entry to pull over and asked to step out of the vehicle," the memo says. "Once the random search is complete, the individual will return to their vehicle and proceed to the parking garage. The estimated search time will be less than 5 minutes." That memo comes months after NASA was caught purchasing a license to use Clearview AI — a controversial digital surveillance startup — throughout its facilities. # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ ICE’s_Mind-Bogglingly_Massive_Blank_Check⠀⇛ GEO invested $70 million preparing to expand its detention capacity before Trump even took office; CoreCivic spent $40 million doing the same before a single new contract was signed. Just three years earlier, President Joe Biden had signed an executive order directing the Justice Department not to renew its contracts with private-prison companies, saying that they amounted to “profit- based incentives to incarcerate” in a system that “imposes significant costs and hardships on our society and communities and does not make us safer.” JPMorgan Chase said it would stop working with the industry. But now, with Trump, the companies’ leaders had good reason to feel confident: His election meant the elevation of figures such as Pam Bondi, who worked as a lobbyist for GEO as recently as 2019 and became attorney general in February, and Tom Homan, the president’s border czar, who was a GEO consultant during the Biden administration. The website for Homan’s consulting firm touted a “proven track record of opening doors and bringing successful relationships to our clients, resulting in tens of millions of dollars of federal contracts to private companies.” Homan has said he is recusing himself from contract negotiations now that he is back working for the government. # ⚓ Futurism ☛ CEO_Lays_Off_150_Employees,_Tells_Them_They'll Largely_Be_Replaced_With_AI⠀⇛ Executives are stumbling over themselves to replace pesky and expensive human labor with AI. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ ICE_Claims_Officer_Was_‘Assualted’_During_An Illegal_Search_Of_A_Hospital_But_The_Recording_Shows Something_Else⠀⇛ That’s exactly what happened in Ontario, California, when a masked officer claiming to be an ICE officer attempted to enter a private area of a private building — namely, the inner rooms of a surgery center. Employees of the surgery center demanded identification and a warrant — something well within their rights. In response, they got refusals and one employee got an ICE forearm to their throat. Supposedly, there’s an assault in here but all I see is someone instinctively reacting to an assault by an ICE officer — one in which the employee did nothing more than place a hand on the officer’s arm in hopes of dissuading the officer from further assaulting their coworker: [...] o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2025-07-28_[Older]_How_the_internet_and its_bots_are_sabotaging_scientific_research⠀⇛ # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ When_the_interwebs_went_down⠀⇛ Our home Internet connection went down earlier this week without warning, and stayed that way for a few days. It was… fun! I also learned a few things. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Study_Shows_Musk’s_Starlink_Too_Congested_To Tackle_U.S._Broadband_Woes_Despite_Billions_In_New Subsidies⠀⇛ The researchers estimated that pushing the network past any more than 6.7 Starlink customers per square mile results in significant slowdowns that will get worse. That’s why, they note, it’s a terrible idea for the Trump administration to redirect infrastructure bill grant money from more reliable (often fiber-based and locally owned) ISPs and instead give it to Elon Musk: [...] o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Futurism ☛ Spotify_Made_a_Huge_Mistake_With_AI⠀⇛ While Spotify users worm their way through a maze of AI-generated slop, the streaming giant's executives are dealing with an exodus of musicians after CEO Daniel Ek was working on a massive investment into an AI military weapons firm. § Monopolies/Monopsonies⠀➾ o ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2025-07-28_[Older]_CJEU:_No_time_limit_for_invalidity based_on_bad_faith⠀⇛ o ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Pluralistic:_You_can’t_fight_enshittification⠀⇛ That's because systemic problems have systemic solutions. They are addressed through mass movements, impact litigation, political action, street uprisings, mutual aid, and other forms of solidarity and community. The monsters who benefit from the status quo don't want you to know this. They want to brainwash you with Margaret Thatcher's mantra, "There is no such thing as society." They want you to think that you are a pathetic, atomized individual. They want you to die in a heatwave while gasping out your profound regret for not recycling more diligently and taking more care with your "carbon footprint." They want you to drive around for hours looking for an independent cardboard seller to make your protest sign with, convinced that it's more important to avoid shopping on Amazon than it is to actually show up at the protest outside the Amazon warehouse. They want you to curse yourself for failing to cycle and take the bus in your city where there are no bike lanes and the buses run every 45 minutes and stop at 8PM. If you wanted a livable city, you should have made better consumption choices! Perhaps you could dig your own subway, ever think of that, hmmm? o ⚓ The Verge ☛ The_Epic_Games_Store_is_bringing_Fortnite_back_to Google_Play⠀⇛ Epic may not be the only company to put a rival app store inside of Google’s Play Store in the near future. The Ninth Circuit appears to have lifted a stay on the entire permanent injunction that Epic won against Google’s app store monopolies, and that injunction would force Google to crack open Android for other third-party stores as well. “The stay is lifted,” Epic spokesperson Cat McCormack confirms to The Verge. o ⚓ The Independent UK ☛ Amazon_and_Microsoft_harming_competition_in cloud_computing,_finds_CMA⠀⇛ The final report from an independent inquiry group of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has found that Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are hurting competition in the cloud computing sector. Microsoft came under particular fire, with the panel’s report saying it has “significant market power” with some of its software products. o ⚓ Deccan Chronicle ☛ Microsoft_Hit_With_Opera_Complaint_To Brazilian_Antitrust_Regulator⠀⇛ Opera complained to the European Commission in December 2007 about Microsoft tying its Internet Explorer browser to its Windows operating system. The case eventually ended with a 561 million-euro ($648 million) EU antitrust fine for the U.S. company. o § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ The Guardian UK ☛ Australian_woman_who_introduced_the_hula hoop_to_the_world_–_but_missed_out_on_the_profits_–_dies_aged 101⠀⇛ In 1961, the Andersons filed a lawsuit against the Wham-O toy company and eventually settled with a small amount of compensation. # § Kangaroo Courts⠀➾ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2025-07-29_[Older]_[GuestPost]_Has_G1/24 made_the_referral_of_the_question_of_amendment_of_the description_from_T697/22_inevitable?⠀⇛ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2025-07-29_[Older]_BREAKING:_Referral_on description_amendments_finally_confirmed!_(G1/25_- “Hydroponics")⠀⇛ # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Silk_Typhoon_spun_a_web_of_patents for_offensive_cyber_tools⠀⇛ Both companies were previously linked to the Silk Typhoon crew, also known by the Microsoft moniker "Hafnium," which first made headlines in 2021 after exploiting zero-day flaws in Microsoft Exchange to compromise tens of thousands of systems worldwide. The Chinese government crew is also believed to be behind the December break-in at the US Treasury Department. # ⚓ The Record ☛ Patents_by_Silk_Typhoon-linked_company shed_light_on_Beijing’s_offensive_hacking capabilities⠀⇛ The report focuses on intellectual property rights filings by Shanghai Firetech, a company the DOJ said works on behalf of the Shanghai State Security Bureau (SSSB). The company was allegedly involved in many of the Silk Typhoon attacks and was previously identified as part of the Hafnium attacks seen in 2021. The researchers found previously unseen patents on offensive technologies tied to Shanghai Firetech, SentinelLabs expert Dakota Cary told Recorded Future News. o § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Rolling Stone ☛ Bob_Dylan's_'Subterranean_Homesick_Blues' Video_Is_Still_Influencing⠀⇛ Not an actual music video, the scene was the opener of documentarian D.A. Pennebaker’s penetrating 1967 film Dont Look Back, shot during Dylan’s U.K. tour of two years before. As Pennebaker later said, the concept came from Dylan himself: “He said, ‘I’ve got this idea for a film where I take a whole lot of sheets of paper and write lyrics for a song, and hold them up as the lyrics come up in the song and then I just toss them away.’ And I said, ‘That’s a fantastic idea.’ So we brought along about 50 shirt cardboards.” * For_Second_Day_in_a_Row,_Top_Story_in_The_Register_MS_is_"Microsoft_Says" * Meeting_(Webchat)_With_Maria_Arranz_Gomez,_Florian_Grundies,_Jürgen_Janda and_Konstantinos_Kortsaris_Confronts_EPO_Management_About_Breaking Promises_and_Crushing_Workers ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 4923 ➮ Generation completed at 02:49, i.e. 11 seconds to (re)generate ⟲