Chronological Index, Page 117

• 2025-12-08 ^02:50 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 07, 2025
• 2025-12-08 ^02:51 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-12-08 ^07:04 Links 08/12/2025: Slop Failing and Windows Users Won't 'Upgrade' Due to Slop
• 2025-12-08 ^08:01 Books About Bubbles
• 2025-12-08 ^08:32 Gemini Links 08/12/2025: Earbuds and Offline 'Smartphones'
• 2025-12-08 ^11:22 Links 08/12/2025: "Leaving Intel" (Exodus Continues) and Ways "to Civilize Digital Life"
• 2025-12-08 ^11:59 Open Letter to the Administrative Council of the EPO Calls For Action as Salaries Decrease (Just Like Patent Validity)
• 2025-12-08 ^12:24 Monsieur Claude Sahl, Part of the Administrative Council of the EPO (Which Fails to Administer the EPO), Has Been There For Over 30 Years
• 2025-12-08 ^12:49 IBM + NDA = Laid Off Workers Saying "Thank You" for the Layoffs
• 2025-12-08 ^13:11 OpenAI Traffic Collapsing (for 3 Months in a Row About 20% Down Per Month), Bankruptcy Likely Soon
• 2025-12-08 ^13:33 Mocking a Software Developer for Using the Terminal or Programs Like Emacs
• 2025-12-08 ^15:53 Canonical Outsourcing Ubuntu to Microsoft Results in Broken Ubuntu, Just as One Can Expect
• 2025-12-08 ^16:41 The "Cut 10,000 Jobs" Clickbait and Microsoft Sites Now Speculating That Microsoft CEO Has Just Signalled More Mass Layoffs
• 2025-12-08 ^16:52 Links 08/12/2025: Cambodia-Thailand Air Raids, Japan/China Military Incident
• 2025-12-08 ^17:10 'Linux' Foundation 'Research' (Marketing) Has New Report About "Open Source" and It Was Made Using Proprietary Software and Not Linux
• 2025-12-08 ^17:29 Consumerism and Christmas
• 2025-12-08 ^18:03 IBMers Impacted by the Mass Layoffs (Which IBM Tries Not to Talk About) Are Livid as the CEO "Spends 11 Billion He Doesn’t Have"
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• 2025-12-09 ^03:30 IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 08, 2025
• 2025-12-09 ^03:31 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-12-09 ^03:53 IBM's Total Debt is About to Hit Almost 80 Billion Dollars, the Company Can Only Raise $14.8 Billion Within 3 Months
• 2025-12-09 ^04:18 Tomorrow the EPO Administrative Council is Meeting to Discuss the EPO, Contact Your National Representative Today
• 2025-12-09 ^04:38 BetaNews Still a Dodgy Site, It Seems to be Partly Run by Chatbots
• 2025-12-09 ^05:07 Slopwatch May be Doomed
• 2025-12-09 ^06:15 The Year of the New Dark Age
• 2025-12-09 ^06:41 LibreWolf Will Turn Six in March, It Already (Probably) Has Millions of Users
• 2025-12-09 ^06:57 UbuntuPIT Started Experimenting With LLM Slop and a Month Ago It 'Died'
• 2025-12-09 ^07:12 They Won't Tell You This ("Revolution Won't Be Televised"), But the Slop Bubble Already Burst
• 2025-12-09 ^07:30 Linux Foundation Has Found a New Business: Pyramid Schemes
• 2025-12-09 ^08:16 Gemini Links 09/12/2025: Lunar Observations and Programming
• 2025-12-09 ^08:19 Links 09/12/2025: "After the Bubble" (of Slop), "The Internet Forgets"
• 2025-12-09 ^15:58 Links 09/12/2025: Tariffs Causing Great Harm and "How to Leave the U.S.A."
• 2025-12-09 ^16:48 Google Still Promotes Plagiarism From WebProNews and Prolific Slopfarms
• 2025-12-09 ^17:03 IBM: We Lay Off Tens of Thousands of People the Very Same Week We Spend 11 Billion Dollars (Debt) on "AI" Fantasies, Hiring About 8,000 People at Cost of 1.3+ Million Dollars Per Employee
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• 2025-12-10 ^00:48 Gemini Links 10/12/2025: Cranberry Juice and Gramophones
• 2025-12-10 ^01:51 With 3 Weeks Left (Sans Extensions) the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Already Raised About Half of the Money Set as Fund-Raising Goal
• 2025-12-10 ^02:14 Richard Stallman Was Right About "AI"
• 2025-12-10 ^02:23 New EPO Series: Mafia Culture, Mobbing, Nepotism, and Illegal Drugs
• 2025-12-10 ^02:34 The Boundaries of Criticism
• 2025-12-10 ^02:51 IBM Says It Buys Another Company for "AI", So Why Does IBM Fire Its Own "AI" Experts?
• 2025-12-10 ^03:00 Valuing One's Work by the Effort or Budget Taken to Undermine It
• 2025-12-10 ^03:05 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 09, 2025
• 2025-12-10 ^03:06 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-12-10 ^03:50 Many of the Attacks on Us Apparently Boil Down to Jealousy
• 2025-12-10 ^04:31 Why So Many Software Projects Are Quitting Microsoft and GitHub
• 2025-12-10 ^04:50 Almost a Thousand EPO Workers Have Voted for Industrial Action
• 2025-12-10 ^05:54 Y Combinator (YC) Funds Scams, Run by Scammers
• 2025-12-10 ^06:04 It's Not Too Late to Send an E-mail to Your European Representative Regarding European Patent Office Abuses
• 2025-12-10 ^06:30 IBM Has Become a "Plantation"
• 2025-12-10 ^08:02 EPO People Power - Part I - Identifying Corruption
• 2025-12-10 ^10:13 Links 10/12/2025: Ransomware (Windows TCO) Has Crippled Economies, Slop (Fake) "Videos Have Flooded Social (Control) Media"
• 2025-12-10 ^12:12 Circular Funding
• 2025-12-10 ^13:47 Links 10/12/2025: McDonald’s Latest Slop Gaffe (After Dumping IBM's Slop) and "Scam Altman’s Panic Sweats"
• 2025-12-10 ^16:50 Just a Little Slop About "Linux"
• 2025-12-10 ^17:08 EPO People Power - Part II - Talking About Corruption
• 2025-12-10 ^17:24 IBM is Laying Off Workers in India (While Spending a Fortune Buying a Company for Buzzwords, a Box-Ticking Exercise)
• 2025-12-10 ^17:37 Moving Away From Content Management Systems (CMSs) and Flocking to Static Site Generators (SSGs)
• 2025-12-10 ^17:46 Gemini Links 10/12/2025: "Thousand Mile Journey" and The Art Of Chilling
• 2025-12-10 ^18:11 For New PCs and for Old (or Retro) PCs the Increased Cost of System Memory Benefits GNU/Linux and BSDs
• 2025-12-10 ^18:29 Like Clickfraud Spamnil (Swapnil Bhartiya) But for Hate Mongering: What Twitter Has Become
• 2025-12-10 ^19:35 Keeping Up the Pressure on EPO Management
• 2025-12-10 ^20:19 Five Years in Gemini Protocol
• 2025-12-10 ^20:29 Democracy and Buzzwords
• 2025-12-10 ^20:44 Richard Stallman Was Also Right About Microsoft GitHub (It's Becoming a Botfarm)
• 2025-12-10 ^21:04 Microsoft Lunduke Tailors His 'Content' for 4Chan
• 2025-12-10 ^21:17 Slopfarms Parrot Any Number That GAFAM Throws at Them, Even Totally Fictional Figures That Merit Fact-Checking
• 2025-12-10 ^21:48 The Web Has Become Extremely Rude
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• 2025-12-11 ^04:42 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 10, 2025
• 2025-12-11 ^04:43 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-12-11 ^04:57 A Lot More Than Techrights
• 2025-12-11 ^05:22 The Flawed Notion of Criticising for Criticism's Sake
• 2025-12-11 ^05:40 EPO People Power - Part III - Challenging Corruption
• 2025-12-11 ^05:56 If You Want Freedom, Follow Richard M. Stallman (RMS)
• 2025-12-11 ^06:23 EPO People Power - Part IV - Sexism, Chauvinism, and Lines of Cocaine at Europe's Second-Largest Institution
• 2025-12-11 ^06:46 In Addition to National Delegates, Contact the French or Portuguese Governments (Politicians) Regarding António Campinos
• 2025-12-11 ^07:20 Keep on Pushing, EPO Management is in a State of Panic This Week
• 2025-12-11 ^07:49 Microsoft-Sponsored Wikipedia Spam About "AI", Added by Microsoft Operatives
• 2025-12-11 ^07:58 At The Register MS, Fake 'Articles' Sponsored by WIntel (Windows+Intel)
• 2025-12-11 ^08:19 Those of Us Who Grew Up Playing Doom Must Remember What Microsoft Did to Its Creator
• 2025-12-11 ^08:49 Yes, IBM is Also Laying Off Indians (Even in India)
• 2025-12-11 ^08:59 We Need Your EPO Insider Stories
• 2025-12-11 ^09:13 Gemini Links 11/12/2025: Repairs, Wisdom of the Crowds, and AC Explorations
• 2025-12-11 ^14:55 Links 11/12/2025: Dangerous Flukes by Slop and Bottled Water as 'Placebos'
• 2025-12-11 ^15:56 Killing the IBM Cash Cow, Raising Massive Debt Instead
• 2025-12-11 ^18:06 Links 11/12/2025: Escalations Around Japan, Software Patents Found Invalid
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• 2025-12-12 ^02:02 Gemini Links 12/12/2025: 'Kinetic Energy' and Browsing Geminispace With a GUI, TUI, or CLI Client
• 2025-12-12 ^02:10 Links 12/12/2025: Oracle Shares Collapse After Slop Bubble Inflated (Circular Funding/Financing One's Own 'Clients'), "Trials by Jury" in UK Considered
• 2025-12-12 ^02:21 LLM Slop About Linux Still Seems Scarce
• 2025-12-12 ^02:35 IBM Workers Still Blast IBM Management for Firing Loads of Workers While Overpaying to Buy Useless Companies
• 2025-12-12 ^03:02 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 11, 2025
• 2025-12-12 ^03:03 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-12-12 ^03:26 Afraid of Words, Not Afraid of Actions
• 2025-12-12 ^03:35 Datacentre and Server Maintenance Next Week
• 2025-12-12 ^03:54 EPO People Power - Part V - The European Media is Practically Dead When It Comes to Covering European Patent Office (EPO) Corruption
• 2025-12-12 ^04:45 New Paper Shows That EPO "Growth" is Dictated From Above, Not Earned (More Monopolies Granted by Breaking Rules, Laws, Conventions)
• 2025-12-12 ^05:08 "Smart" or "Intelligent" Agents and "Vibe Coding" Deletes Everything You Have
• 2025-12-12 ^05:30 EPO People Power - Part VI - Criticism Not Permitted, Media Subjected to Contempt by Cocaine Addicts Who Manage the Press for the EPO
• 2025-12-12 ^05:51 EPO People Power - Part VII - The Corporate Media and the Reference Sites (e.g. Wikipedia) Are Already Compromised and Complicit
• 2025-12-12 ^06:21 Microsoft Trims More Jobs
• 2025-12-12 ^06:39 Andy Farnell and Helen Plews Now at the Wheel in Cybershow
• 2025-12-12 ^06:44 Under IBM, Things Culminate at "AI-Equipped Customer Experience Transformation" at Red Hat
• 2025-12-12 ^07:55 2026 Guaranteed to Give Us Compromised Media Funded by "AI" Boosters to Promote "AI" and Sometimes be Composed by "AI" (Chatbots)
• 2025-12-12 ^08:13 The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Paid Respect to Its Founder This Year, Now It Wants You to Join
• 2025-12-12 ^08:32 Valve's SteamOS, Microsoft Canonical's Ubuntu, and Other Platforms That Only Leverage Free Software (But Won't Protect It)
• 2025-12-12 ^08:45 Techrights Site Search Was a Success After All
• 2025-12-12 ^08:56 What If the Economy Isn't "Down" But Mostly Diverted? (While "AI" Fills a Gap for Capital That No Longer Exists in Tech)
• 2025-12-12 ^09:41 EPO People Power - Part VIII - The Chipmunk on Cocaine, Now Deleting Videos
• 2025-12-12 ^11:09 "In a modern economy it is impossible to seal oneself off from injustice."
• 2025-12-12 ^11:47 Julian Assange on Fake Activists in Silicon Valley
• 2025-12-12 ^12:33 Developing Some New Software for the Sites
• 2025-12-12 ^13:26 Links 12/12/2025: Thunderbird Adds Proprietary Plug, "Catch-22 of Canadian Digital Sovereignty" Explained by Michael Geist (About GAFAM/US)
• 2025-12-12 ^14:03 Litigation Transparency Until 2030 or 2031
• 2025-12-12 ^14:18 EPO People Power - Part IX - Insiders Say the EPO's Chief Propagandist Effectively Ousted (on Fake 'Sick Leave') Because of Reporting by Techrights
• 2025-12-12 ^14:25 IBM Layoffs in Europe as Well
• 2025-12-12 ^16:52 EPO People Power - Part X - Together, We Can Fix the EPO
• 2025-12-12 ^17:13 To Linus Torvalds, the Microsoft Linux Foundation is Increasingly a Liability and Risk to the Brand
• 2025-12-12 ^17:44 Life Began at 40
• 2025-12-12 ^20:46 Gemini Links 12/12/2025: Bad Joke, Western Union Blues, and More
• 2025-12-12 ^20:48 Links 12/12/2025: GAFAM Now Trying to Settle With Remaining News Sites It Plagiarised, "NATO's Rutte Says Alliance Is 'Russia's Next Target'"
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• 2025-12-13 ^05:47 IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 12, 2025
• 2025-12-13 ^05:48 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-12-13 ^06:41 Expecting Mass Layoffs, More Microsoft Workers Join Unions
• 2025-12-13 ^08:56 Links 13/12/2025: Social Control Media Bans and "Could Finland be Hiding a Blue Zone?"
• 2025-12-13 ^13:54 2026 Could Very Well be Last Year of XBox, Microsoft Dropped the Ball
• 2025-12-13 ^14:06 LLM Slop Becoming Rarer
• 2025-12-13 ^14:20 GAFAM is a Financial Problem and Sovereignty Risk, a Policy-Level (National Level) Boycott is Needed
• 2025-12-13 ^15:24 Latest Stallman Talk (Event in Argentina) Published
• 2025-12-13 ^16:32 It Seems Like IBM is Firing 'Everybody' (Anywhere, Any Age, No Matter What Team)
• 2025-12-13 ^16:37 Dealing With "Tech Cults"
• 2025-12-13 ^17:27 Running With Technology
• 2025-12-13 ^17:55 Russian "Hybrid Attacks" Are Typically Microsoft TCO and/or Windows TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)
• 2025-12-13 ^18:19 EPO People Power - Part XI - The Media in Europe is Ill and Complicit in Ills
• 2025-12-13 ^18:36 Canonical and Ubuntu: Working for Microsoft, Promoting Proprietary Surveillance (Dis)Services
• 2025-12-13 ^18:49 Deliberate Lies or Glaring Distortions
• 2025-12-13 ^21:23 Gemini Links 13/12/2025: Extensive Catchup With Gopherholes
• 2025-12-13 ^21:25 Links 13/12/2025: Jimmy Lai and Media Freedom on Trial, "OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Hiding the Truth"
• 2025-12-13 ^22:00 IBM: We Pay You to be Obedient or Deny You What You're Entitled to If You Don't Act Obediently
• 2025-12-13 ^22:04 Google News is Google Noise
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• 2025-12-14 ^04:49 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, December 13, 2025
• 2025-12-14 ^04:50 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-12-14 ^05:12 Links 14/12/2025: "The Slop of Things to Come", Goldman Sachs Nervous About Slop Bubble
• 2025-12-14 ^06:12 A Utopian and Very Dumb Vision of Technology, Based on Accounting Fraud
• 2025-12-14 ^12:57 Links 14/12/2025: Tensions in Asia, US Making Deals With Belarus
• 2025-12-14 ^22:48 Gemini Links 14/12/2025: "GUI TUI CLI" and EmacsConf 2025 Video
• 2025-12-14 ^22:53 Links 14/12/2025: "Chile to ban smartphones in classroom" and "Portugal updates cybercrime law to exempt security researchers"

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