[Humour] A Union in Whose Interests?
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2020-07-04 23:06:48 UTC
- Modified: 2020-07-04 23:06:48 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
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- Perhaps people should ask Canonical what the thinking behind it was...
- Phoronix Seems to be Trying to Kill Discussion About "Asahi Lina" and the Anti-Torvalds Brigade
- Our informed guess is that by reporting this news Phoronix got caught up in flamewars that divide and fracture the community
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- Apple is Still an Enemy of Open Standards and Software Freedom
- Apple did not get any more benign
- Gemini Links 20/03/2025: Wanting the Future Back and "Society That Lost Focus"
- Links for the day
- Fake Articles About GNOME
- betanews again
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- He does not charge people for the talk
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, March 19, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, March 19, 2025
- Debian Pregnancy Cluster, when I stopped using IRC
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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- Thousands believed to have been laid off
- Slopwatch: linuxsecurity.com, cybersecuritynews.com, gbhackers.com, and techmonitor.ai (Fake 'Articles' About "Linux")
- Almost all of them (75%) show up in Google News
- Gemini Links 19/03/2025: go-gopherproxy and 'Small Web' as Self-expression
- Links for the day
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- Links for the day
- Claiming to Love What You Reject or Seek to Totally Own, Control
- The Russia analogy is political
- LinuxTechLab Became Just LLM Slop and SPAM
- Another dead (former "Linux") site
- The Rust Song
- It's about control
- Facts on the Case Already Disclosed by US Authorities
- NGOs in the UK (several keep abreast of this, judging every recent move) are truly unimpressed
- The Times Group (and The Times of India) Basically Died Again
- This time a death by LLM slop/plagiarism
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- They'd be better off shutting down operations with some dignity than resort to bots giving the false impression (illusion) of authorship
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- In Belgium, the lobbying capital of Microsoft, it wasn't easy to get there
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- BSDs aren't written in Rust, so BSD developers should buckle up
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC logs for Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- Sami Tikkanen Explains Rust Language and Its Goals
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- Links 19/03/2025: Gardening Season and the Web Without an Audience
- Links for the day
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- there's definitely a lot going on today
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- Kuhn set another bonfire ablaze
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- Links for the day
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- Gemini Links 18/03/2025: Weather and Resisting "MAGA"
- Links for the day
- Links 18/03/2025: New Apple Blunders and Windows Disliked by Users
- Links for the day
- Once Again 'Losing Track' of Who the Clients Are, The Serial Harasser and Strangler from Microsoft
- Timing is everything
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- Expect over 10,000 layoffs this year (at IBM alone)
- Android (With Linux) Rises to Record Highs in Hong Kong and in Macao
- Looking quite bad for Microsoft
- Distractions. Distractions Everywhere.
- distracting from the real solution
- EPO Concerns About the Education and Childcare Allowance Reform (ECAR) and School Liaison Officer (SLO)
- The public deserves to know as it impacts thousands of families
- Over at Tux Machines...
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