Chronological Index, Page 87

• 2025-05-12 ^03:41 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 11, 2025
• 2025-05-12 ^03:43 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-05-12 ^05:34 Links 12/05/2025: Media Being Attacked (New Forms of Attack on the Press), Many Data Breaches
• 2025-05-12 ^05:53 Links 12/05/2025: Gardens and Kitchens
• 2025-05-12 ^06:27 Red Hat's Owner is Called "America's Worst Tech Company" (IBM) and Microsoft's Liabilities Grow
• 2025-05-12 ^07:25 Microsoft Has a Long and Proven History of Funding Meritless Lawsuits Against Rivals and Critics (It Always Backfires)
• 2025-05-12 ^08:06 If the Gossip is True, Today Microsoft Has "Large M1 Meetings" to Discuss Almost 30,000 More Microsoft Layoffs in 2025
• 2025-05-12 ^12:12 The Enshittification of Royal Mail (Post Office/Postal Services) Continues
• 2025-05-12 ^13:21 Links 12/05/2025: US Brain Drain and Reminder That "Microsoft's Lobbying Efforts Eclipsed Enron" (Fraud Coverup)
• 2025-05-12 ^13:26 The Finances of GAFAM Aren't as They Seem
• 2025-05-12 ^16:37 Gemini Links 12/05/2025: Advice, Iorist Ethics, and Touchscreens
• 2025-05-12 ^16:38 Links 12/05/2025: Measles Rising and Taliban Outlaws Chess in Afghanistan
• 2025-05-12 ^17:17 What Happened to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Elections: Missed Deadline
• 2025-05-12 ^20:04 Major Microsoft Layoffs This Week (Discussed Online)
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• 2025-05-13 ^03:40 IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 12, 2025
• 2025-05-13 ^03:41 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-05-13 ^03:54 23,000 More Microsoft Layoffs by the End of June If the Estimates Are Correct (In Addition to About 6,000 Layoffs So Far This Year)
• 2025-05-13 ^04:09 Gemini Links 13/05/2025: Shopping is an Exasperating Nightmare and Making Phones Minimal
• 2025-05-13 ^04:46 Last Week's Public Talk by Richard Stallman Well Attended and Covered in Technical News Sites
• 2025-05-13 ^04:56 The Slow Death of Windows Will Mean the Inevitable Demise of Microsoft
• 2025-05-13 ^05:10 The Numbers Game: 50,000-60,000 Microsoft Workers Laid Off in 2.5 Years? And Debt Still Tripled Under Nadella.
• 2025-05-13 ^06:41 "Special Place in Hell" for Women Who Help Violent Microsofters From Another Continent Attack Local Women Who Did Nothing Wrong, They Just Got Bullied and Deserve Sympathy or Compensation
• 2025-05-13 ^07:27 Signs of Trouble: Microsoft Job Openings for Jobs That Do Not Exist!
• 2025-05-13 ^07:56 2025 Will be a Big Year For GNU/Linux on Desktops/Laptops
• 2025-05-13 ^14:37 As Expected, Microsoft Uses Media Operative (Jordan Novet) to Downplay the Scale of Mass Layoffs
• 2025-05-13 ^15:56 Links 13/05/2025: Microsoft Breaks Windows Very Badly Again, Mass Layoffs Reported (But False Figures, It's a Lot Higher)
• 2025-05-13 ^16:35 McKinsey (McK) is Killing IBM, It's All About Killing This Goose, "National Sales Team 80% on PIP Now" (Preceding Layoffs Without Severance)
• 2025-05-13 ^18:51 Unless a Third of All Microsoft Layoffs Worldwide Are in Redmond (Washington) Alone, Microsoft Has Just Lied to Everyone Via Jordan Novet in CNBC (i.e. the Usual Any Time There's Mass Layoffs and Novet Weighs in With False Numbers)
• 2025-05-13 ^19:53 There Are Also Loads of Microsoft LinkedIn Layoffs Today (Keep Track of the Subsidiaries They Keep Out of Headlines)
• 2025-05-13 ^20:25 Gemini Links 13/05/2025: Apocalyptic Future and More
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• 2025-05-14 ^03:51 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-05-14 ^03:51 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
• 2025-05-14 ^04:10 There Are Bigger Rounds of Microsoft Layoffs Coming, a Cull of 10% Implemented in Waves (the "3%" Figure is Misleading, Face-Saving)
• 2025-05-14 ^06:30 Links 14/05/2025: Google Agrees to $1.3 Billion Settlement After Spying, China Tariffs Don't Work
• 2025-05-14 ^06:50 Slopwatch: BetaNoise (BetaNews), LinuxSecurity, and Slopfarms Still Promoted by Google News
• 2025-05-14 ^07:03 Microsoft is Very Highly Stressed About Adoption of GNU/Linux at Windows' Expense (on Former "Vista 10" PCs)
• 2025-05-14 ^07:27 Gemini Links 14/05/2025: "Writing My Story with Inspiration from Notable Lives" and People Start Shovelling Up LLM Slop Onto Geminispace,
• 2025-05-14 ^07:36 If Microsoft Staff That Strangles Woman Pays You to Write Lies, It Will Not End Well
• 2025-05-14 ^08:00 Canonical Will Give You Money Only If You Work for Microsoft!
• 2025-05-14 ^13:22 Links 14/05/2025: Facebook And Instagram Risk Nationwide Bans, Microsoft Subsidiaries Have Mass Layoffs Too
• 2025-05-14 ^14:17 No, Microsoft Didn't Lay Off So Many People Because of "AI" "Innovation" or "Efficiency" or "Era" or "Revolution" Etc.
• 2025-05-14 ^14:30 What We Do When We Say "GNU/Linux" to People
• 2025-05-14 ^18:52 VS Code Is Not FOSS, And Neither Is the Site "It's FOSS"
• 2025-05-14 ^21:24 Gemini Links 15/05/2025: Poseur Nerds and Mennonites
• 2025-05-14 ^21:26 Links 14/05/2025: Fentanylware (TikTok) Harms Kids, Russia Refuses to Defuse
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• 2025-05-15 ^04:35 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, May 14, 2025
• 2025-05-15 ^04:37 Links 15/05/2025: Crikvenica, Analog Computer, and Slop 'Hallucinations'
• 2025-05-15 ^04:47 Beyond Mass Layoffs at Microsoft: Entire Units Shut Down for Good
• 2025-05-15 ^04:51 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-05-15 ^05:12 Slopwatch: Sloppy Brian, Brittany Slop, and General Observations
• 2025-05-15 ^05:27 Microsoft Rumours: This Week's Scale of Layoffs "Higher Than Reported" and More Coming Soon ("A Lot More Severe" Than May's)
• 2025-05-15 ^05:58 At IBM, Relocation Can be a Trick or a Trap (IBM Gets Rid of Staff Under the Guise of "Relo")
• 2025-05-15 ^06:09 The Lawyers Working for the Serial Strangler From Microsoft on SLAPPing Techrights Have Apparently Lost Their Voice
• 2025-05-15 ^08:07 Breakdown of Microsoft Layoffs Shows It's About Cost, Not Performance or Hype (Like "AI")
• 2025-05-15 ^08:29 Your Real Ally Would Not Defend the Company of SLAPP and Strangling of Women
• 2025-05-15 ^10:17 Bing Might Shut Down - Just Like Skype Did - Some Time in the Coming Months/Years (Parts of It Already Shut Down)
• 2025-05-15 ^10:29 Links 15/05/2025: KOSA Censorship (USA Becomes More Like KSA) and More National Cuts
• 2025-05-15 ^11:04 Gemini Links 15/05/2025: Forced Music in Publicly Accessible Space and ~silv is Online
• 2025-05-15 ^11:56 If You Read Techrights, Then You Probably Want to Read Tux Machines as Well
• 2025-05-15 ^12:27 Richard Stallman Still Respected by Many in the Libre Graphics Community
• 2025-05-15 ^19:08 Links 15/05/2025: Google Betrays Publishers Again, Openwashing by Sysdig
• 2025-05-15 ^19:47 Microsoft WARN Notices Proliferate in the United States
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• 2025-05-16 ^02:51 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 15, 2025
• 2025-05-16 ^02:52 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-05-16 ^03:32 Gemini Links 16/05/2025: Hoking GPS, Grabovac, and Tanana
• 2025-05-16 ^03:52 Anti-Linux FUD Produced by Microsoft LLMs to Blame "Linux" for Microsoft's Own Failures
• 2025-05-16 ^04:14 Microsoft Reduces Office Space Ahead of More Waves of Mass Layoffs
• 2025-05-16 ^04:27 Enshittification is Everywhere: You Pay More, the Services Get Worse
• 2025-05-16 ^05:37 Trolls With LLM Slop Are Disrupting Communications About Mass Layoffs at IBM
• 2025-05-16 ^07:58 The SLAPPs From Microsofters Distract From Serious Copyright Infringement by Microsoft and Apparent Business Crimes
• 2025-05-16 ^16:00 [Video] IBM Shakes Hands of Prince Mohammed bin Salman
• 2025-05-16 ^16:21 The Microsofters Have Just Shared Privileged Trial Data With Microsoft
• 2025-05-16 ^16:54 Gemini Links 16/05/2025: "Repairing Our Way out of Commodity Fetishism" and Pre-librebooted Computers
• 2025-05-16 ^19:57 Links 16/05/2025: Microsoft Sacks Pregnant Women, People Fired on Their Birthday; Adobe Censorship Failing
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• 2025-05-17 ^05:00 IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 16, 2025
• 2025-05-17 ^05:01 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-05-17 ^05:12 ComEd and Microsoft: A Mess of Spaghetti Held Together By Circus Clowns
• 2025-05-17 ^05:30 Gemini Links 17/05/2025: Happier on Gemini and Manipulating Reddit
• 2025-05-17 ^06:27 Trolls With LLM Slop Are Disrupting Communications About Mass Layoffs at IBM [updated]
• 2025-05-17 ^09:10 Links 17/05/2025: Stabber of Salman Rushdie Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
• 2025-05-17 ^09:36 AstroTurfing by IBM in thelayoff.com is Highly Risky (and Likely Outsourced)
• 2025-05-17 ^10:05 Slopwatch: Microsoft's Anti-Linux Propaganda and Cover-up, Slopfarms Clogging Up Google News
• 2025-05-17 ^10:49 Inviting the Founder of GNU/Linux to Events (It Only Costs His Travel Expenses) and Recalling the True Origins
• 2025-05-17 ^19:40 Gemini Links 17/05/2025: Sympathy Algorithm and SSH on Alternative Ports
• 2025-05-17 ^19:42 Links 17/05/2025: Microsoft Kills "Surface Laptop Studio" (More Canceled Products/Units), Groups Caution About Harms of Social Control Media
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• 2025-05-18 ^03:01 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 17, 2025
• 2025-05-18 ^03:02 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-05-18 ^04:59 Gemini Links 18/05/2025: Šibenik and SFJAZZ Historical Archive
• 2025-05-18 ^05:02 Links 18/05/2025: Science, Censorship and European Commission Taking on Monopoly Abuse by Microsoft
• 2025-05-18 ^05:24 Microsofters Have a Long History Trying to Take Down Techrights by Sending Threats to Webhosts
• 2025-05-18 ^10:24 Links 18/05/2025: Decreased Prospects of Science Careers, Disappearance of Journalists
• 2025-05-18 ^12:05 Slopwatch: Slopfarms and Serial Sloppers Still at It
• 2025-05-18 ^12:37 The Importance of Full Disclosure and Transparency Online
• 2025-05-18 ^13:01 Messages in TheLayoff.com Drowned Out by LLM Slop (Comments Focused on Replying to Bot-Generated Provocation)
• 2025-05-18 ^13:22 Abundance of Good Code, "Just Like Air."
• 2025-05-18 ^13:46 There Are Days or Occasions Where gemini:// Requests Almost Exceed http(s):// and Gemini Protocol Isn't Even 6 Yet
• 2025-05-18 ^17:26 Gemini Links 18/05/2025: "Finally Upgraded" and "Rebooting"
• 2025-05-18 ^20:11 Links 18/05/2025: F.D.A. More Sceptical of COVID-19 Vaccines, UK Charges 3 Iranian Nationals In Alleged Attack Plot Against Journalists
• 2025-05-18 ^20:26 Gemini Links 18/05/2025: Five Years on Gemini and Atom Feeds over Gopher

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