Chronological Index, Page 116

2025-12-01 ^03:40 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 30, 2025
2025-12-01 ^03:41 Over at Tux Machines...
2025-12-01 ^04:13 Silent Layoffs at IBM: Still Using PIPs to Hide Full Scope and Extent of Layoffs
2025-12-01 ^04:30 Let's Hope Slopwatch Has Become Obsolete
2025-12-01 ^04:48 Infatuation With GUIs is a Misguided Fool's Errand
2025-12-01 ^05:17 An Almost-Depressing Lack of Reliable News Sites
2025-12-01 ^07:17 Links 01/12/2025: Dumping Microsoft GitHub, "Files Expose Britain’s Secret D-Notice Censorship Regime"
2025-12-01 ^08:16 Gemini Links 01/12/2025: Loon Pond Meditation, Too Many Tabs, and Disclosing (Mis)Use of Slop
2025-12-01 ^09:13 Preparing for Potential Pre-Christmas Staff Strike at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2025-12-01 ^12:15 "IBM Research" in Albany, New York "on the Chopping Block"
2025-12-01 ^13:12 Links 01/12/2025: US Regime Cracks Down on Scholars, Floods a Growing Problem, "Fame Can Cut Years From a Singer's Life"
2025-12-01 ^14:15 Call for Media Awareness and Action Bears Fruit, European Patent Office (EPO) Has a History of Contempt for the Media (Also: the EPO's Communication Chief Does Cocaine)
2025-12-01 ^14:38 "Investigate Europe" Should Investigate Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the EPO
2025-12-01 ^14:55 German and Austrian Media Publishers Need to Cover European Patent Office (EPO) Scandals Because the EPO Has 3 'Branches' There (75% of Everything in Europe)
2025-12-01 ^15:17 Short Survey of Past Media Coverage About Campinos, EUIPO, and a Call for Action on EPO Press Coverage
2025-12-01 ^15:48 We Keep Seeing Evidence That IBM RAs Impact India as Well
2025-12-01 ^16:27 Search for "linux" in Google News, Get Slopfarms
2025-12-01 ^17:05 Nokia's Linux Journey (Nokia 770 Internet Tablet) Turns 20, a Time to Remember How Much Microsoft Hates Linux
2025-12-01 ^18:44 Gemini Links 01/12/2025: Romania's National Day, Labels in Geminispace, and Advent of Code
2025-12-01 ^20:05 Links 01/12/2025: National News About Politics, Economics, and Civil Rights
2025-12-01 ^20:59 Gemini Links 01/12/2025: A Work Thing, High Blood Pressure, and KeePassRX 0.12.0
2025-12-02 ^04:31 IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 01, 2025
2025-12-02 ^04:32 Over at Tux Machines...
2025-12-02 ^04:58 Many IBM Layoffs Revealed This Week, Probably to Peak ("Last Day") December 4th
2025-12-02 ^05:12 Tomi Ahonen's Site is Gone, Memory-holed by Typepad's Shutdown
2025-12-02 ^06:33 "The Mafia" at the EPO Now Attacks Staff That Points Out Misconduct at the EPO
2025-12-02 ^07:02 Attempts to Censor People Are a Sign That Arguments Were Lost, Gagging the Opposition Attempted Instead
2025-12-02 ^07:38 IBM's CEO Now on a Buzzwords Propaganda Tour
2025-12-02 ^09:15 Links 02/12/2025: "Around 500 million PCs are holding off upgrading to Windows 11" and "LLMs are a failure"
2025-12-02 ^15:16 Steam Survey Signals Steep GNU/Linux Growth
2025-12-02 ^17:52 Gemini Links 02/12/2025: Kentucky, Resilience, Raspberry Pi Pico, and Efficient Route Metrics
2025-12-02 ^17:55 Links 02/12/2025: Microsoft SharePoint Exploited, Openwashing Still a Thing, Europe Want a Seat at the Table With Russia Negotiations
2025-12-02 ^18:17 "The News" is Sponsored and It Lies (for Money), It Even Makes Up Phony Rankings
2025-12-02 ^18:30 Keep the Pressure Up at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the EPO
2025-12-03 ^03:10 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 02, 2025
2025-12-03 ^03:11 Over at Tux Machines...
2025-12-03 ^03:33 IBM Layoffs: It's Like They Read From a Script, Like They've Signed a Non-Disparagement Agreement/Clause
2025-12-03 ^04:35 New Year's Resolutions 4 Weeks Ahead of 2026
2025-12-03 ^05:00 Reflections on a Month of Techrights Search
2025-12-03 ^05:58 Wayland Rejection Is Not Racist
2025-12-03 ^06:09 The Next Stages of EPO Coverage (and Why That Matters)
2025-12-03 ^06:38 Gemini Links 03/12/2025: Obsession, Ubuntu, and Programming With Scheme
2025-12-03 ^06:42 So Far Rust in Ubuntu Has Turned Out to be an Expensive Mistake
2025-12-03 ^09:09 Links 03/12/2025: UK Budget Leak and Criticism of Peace Posturing Over Ukraine
2025-12-03 ^09:54 Fake Security and 'Free' Certificates as a Trap of Planned Obsolescence and Top-Down Centralisation
2025-12-03 ^13:35 Links 03/12/2025: "Disastrous Hey Hi (AI)", Breaches of Confidentiality, and "Global Democratic Recession"
2025-12-03 ^16:04 At IBM, "Last Day" Can be Same as Layoffs ("RAs"), Might be Euphemism Advanced by PR/HR Under NDA-Tied Conditions
2025-12-03 ^17:04 Slopwatch: It's Blowing, Jim (Gym), the Bubble is Blowing Up
2025-12-03 ^18:51 Loads of People Exit IBM Tomorrow
2025-12-04 ^05:25 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 03, 2025
2025-12-04 ^05:26 Over at Tux Machines...
2025-12-04 ^05:42 Gemini Links 04/12/2025: Christmas Looms, Devuan, and Programming
2025-12-04 ^06:03 IBM and Red Hat Not Done With 2025 Layoffs ("RAs") Yet
2025-12-04 ^06:21 IBM Forces Staff to Sign an NDA If They Want Severance Package, in Effect Bribing Them or Denying Them Money They're Entitled to If They 'Disparage' IBM
2025-12-04 ^06:28 At The Register MS, "Exclusive Webinar" Means Sponsored Video Ad Disguised as an Article
2025-12-04 ^06:43 Bubbles Popping, "Hey Hi" (AI) a Passing Fad
2025-12-04 ^07:24 Microsoft's Vista 11 Not Gaining, Just Plateauing or Even Going Down (Over Time)
2025-12-04 ^07:34 IBM's "AK Sez" Campaign
2025-12-04 ^07:45 Supporting the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Also Supports GNU Development
2025-12-04 ^08:11 The "Hey Hi" House of Cards
2025-12-04 ^08:54 Communication Needs Open Standards and Open Data
2025-12-04 ^09:43 Links 04/12/2025: "Hey Hi" Implosion and Half of Europeans See Cheeto Trump as Enemy of Europe
2025-12-04 ^16:14 Dr. Andy Farnell: Can we regain control (of technology)?
2025-12-04 ^17:04 Links 04/12/2025: "People Hooked on [Slop] Far Are More Likely to Experience Mental Distress", Monopolies in Europe, and "Blogging Makes Me Feel Like A Worse Writer"
2025-12-05 ^02:59 Gemini Links 05/12/2025: Espressif ESP32-C5 UEXT Module, Pixelfed, and the Web Getting Much Worse
2025-12-05 ^03:00 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 04, 2025
2025-12-05 ^03:03 Over at Tux Machines...
2025-12-05 ^03:21 Thousands Laid Off at IBM, "Last Day" Yesterday
2025-12-05 ^04:20 Slopwatch: The Volume of Slop Has Certainly Gone Down a Lot Lately, Slop Image Providers Abandoned/Changed
2025-12-05 ^04:34 EPO: What Comes Next
2025-12-05 ^04:53 A Year After the Owner of X (Twitter) Performed Several Nazi Salutes on Stage the Germany-Based and Microsoft-Funded 'FSFE' Decides to Exit X (Twitter)
2025-12-05 ^05:17 The Fate of "Blockchains" and "Metaverse" as a Sign of Things to Come for Slop ("AI")
2025-12-05 ^05:32 Web Developers in the US Can Already Disregard Mozilla, Firefox, and Firefox Users
2025-12-05 ^05:52 Why Microsoft is Panicking
2025-12-05 ^06:06 Upgrading the Site
2025-12-05 ^06:10 Techrights Publication Pace to Increase Next Year
2025-12-05 ^06:29 Rumour That Another IBM Round of Mass Layoffs (RAs) in Preparation Before the Current One is Even Completed
2025-12-05 ^06:45 Beyond the Hype: Almost Nobody Uses Chatbots, Not Even 1% of Activity Online
2025-12-05 ^06:58 To "Take Back Control" Start With Actions Against 'Tech' (Mass Surveillance, Mass Censorship, Mass Control) Monopolies
2025-12-05 ^07:21 Cars Getting Worse and More Lethal
2025-12-05 ^09:04 Within Weeks, Clownflare Has Collapsed Again, Time to Dump Clownflare
2025-12-05 ^09:15 IBM Will Make You Unemployed On Christmas Eve
2025-12-05 ^09:33 IBM Has No Layoffs, According to IBM, and According to the Media Parroting IBM
2025-12-05 ^12:07 Links 05/12/2025: Slop Harming Democracy/Elections, More Bans Around the World on Kids' Use of Social Control Media
2025-12-05 ^15:20 Does This Pass the NDA "Sniff Test" at IBM?
2025-12-05 ^17:48 Finnish Politician Aura Salla Says Finland Must Dump Microsoft, Citing Security and Control Reasons, Not Costs
2025-12-05 ^18:11 Links 05/12/2025: Openwashing by Microsoft's 'Open Source' Initiative, Unauthorised War Without Boundaries/Borders Waged by US
2025-12-05 ^19:05 On IBM: "More Layoffs in Minnesota Are Coming" (Unverified Hearsay, for Now)
2025-12-05 ^19:24 Slopwatch: Not Much Today, Same as in Recent Weeks
2025-12-05 ^19:33 Gemini Links 05/12/2025: Need for Simpler Systems, Molecular Dynamics, and More
2025-12-05 ^20:50 The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation Has More Reasons Than Cocainegate to Vote for Real Change in the European Patent Office
2025-12-05 ^21:10 Many IBM Departures Today (Last Friday)
2025-12-05 ^22:03 Massachusetts Institute of Theft (MIT) Nowadays in the Business of Selling SPAM to Prop Up Fashionable Pyramid Schemes
2025-12-06 ^05:13 IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 05, 2025
2025-12-06 ^05:15 Over at Tux Machines...
2025-12-06 ^06:28 Like With Red Hat and Other IBM Acquisitions, the RAs (Layoffs) Seem to Already Extend to HashiCorp
2025-12-06 ^06:49 Links 05/12/2025: More Restrictions on Social Control Media and Slop, "Hype Can Turn to Backlash"
2025-12-06 ^07:42 EPO Call for Action: Get Ready to Contact Your National Delegates, We Need to Remind Them That They Represent People
2025-12-06 ^08:24 Why (and When) I Become an 'Activist' Against Corruption and Abuse
2025-12-06 ^08:48 Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Does Not Work for Freedom, It Works to Secure the Massive Salary of Its President And Executive Director
2025-12-06 ^09:08 Every Site That Uses Clownflare Had Worse Downtime/Uptime Record Than Ours
2025-12-06 ^09:44 Gemini Links 06/12/2025: Memories, "Sweetness and Burn", and Hope
2025-12-06 ^14:18 Links 06/12/2025: Slop's "Jeopardy Phenomenon" and RAM Shortage
2025-12-06 ^16:02 Why We'll Continue Our IBM/Red Hat Focus in 2026
2025-12-06 ^16:16 European Readers, Get Ready to Contact Your National Representatives (Delegates) in the EPO's Administrative Council
2025-12-06 ^16:30 European Patent Office Issues: Points to Raise or Factoids to Share With Delegates of the EPO's Administrative Council
2025-12-06 ^18:43 Links 06/12/2025: Panic in the Slop (Chatbots) Industry and Perplexity Sued by New York Times for Plagiarising Articles Under Guise of "AI"
2025-12-06 ^19:54 Hopefully Slopwatch is Dying
2025-12-06 ^20:15 Contact Your National Representatives (Delegates) at the EPO, Here Are All the E-mail Addresses
2025-12-06 ^21:15 Links 06/12/2025: Science, Hardware, and Slop Fatigue
2025-12-07 ^03:46 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, December 06, 2025
2025-12-07 ^03:53 Over at Tux Machines...
2025-12-07 ^04:08 Gemini Links 07/12/2025: "Lazy Saturday" and Kubernetes With FreeBSD
2025-12-07 ^05:27 Links 07/12/2025: Political Catchup, Conflicts, Environmentalism
2025-12-07 ^05:42 IBM's Mass Layoffs Will Continue Until Morale Improves

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