Chronological Index, Page 118

• 2025-12-15 ^00:11 GAFAM "doesn't depend on any sort of lock-in, humans just don't want to be free anymore," according to MinceR
• 2025-12-15 ^00:27 EPO People Power - Part XII - The Mobbing Got So Bad People Were Unable to Work
• 2025-12-15 ^00:48 𝐈𝐁𝐌 𝐂𝐄𝐎 𝐀𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐧𝐚: Proof That at IBM People Fall Upwards
• 2025-12-15 ^01:09 The Future of News on the World Wide Web
• 2025-12-15 ^01:13 In Russia, Microsoft is Already a Dying Breed Online
• 2025-12-15 ^01:34 They Say Rules Are Made to be Broken, at Microsoft That Became an Imperative (e.g. Accounting Fraud, Bribery and So on)
• 2025-12-15 ^01:57 Another "AI" (Slop) Use Cases Turns Out to be a Fraud
• 2025-12-15 ^02:53 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 14, 2025
• 2025-12-15 ^02:54 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-12-15 ^03:16 More Than a Million Bytes Should be Enough for Most Computer Programs
• 2025-12-15 ^03:44 Slop ("AI") Will Replace People and Take Away Jobs, Say the Slopfarms With Fake (LLM-Generated) Text and Slop Images
• 2025-12-15 ^04:09 Demonisation Attacks on Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS) - Including Antisemitic Attacks - Have Not Worked
• 2025-12-15 ^04:20 IBM May be Breaking the Law to Silence Staff It Laid Off
• 2025-12-15 ^04:26 Breaking Your Proprietary Router in the Name of "Security"
• 2025-12-15 ^07:31 Links 15/12/2025: Chromebooks as Work Machines, "Americans [Who] Moved to Australia" to Avoid Cheeto
• 2025-12-15 ^08:37 EPO People Power - Part XIII - If the EPO's Chief Propagandist (Berenguer) Told the Police He Was a Spanish Tourist (or Similar) or That He Does Not Reside in Munich, Then He May Have Lied to the Police (in Addition to Doing Cocaine in Public)
• 2025-12-15 ^09:09 Perpetuating the Lie of "No Red Hat Layoffs" Because of the Bluewashing (Red Hat Became Just "IBM")
• 2025-12-15 ^10:00 Microsoft Colonialism in Africa is Not Sustainable
• 2025-12-15 ^10:10 The Register MS Has Just Been Paid to Promote the Ponzi Scheme Some More ("AI" Keyword Stuffing)
• 2025-12-15 ^10:27 'Crypto' 'Currencies' Are a Ponzi Scheme. So Is "AI". Both Destroy the Planet, Not Just the Economy.
• 2025-12-15 ^11:15 Due to 'Secure Boot' (An Anti-Security Measure, a Kill Switch) Computer Users Are Afraid of GNU/Linux
• 2025-12-15 ^13:12 Links 15/12/2025: "Life in Prison" for Criticising China, Tikhanovskaya Says 'Pressure Works'
• 2025-12-15 ^13:44 IBM Layoffs in India and IBM's CEO Spins His Lack of Market Share as a Strength
• 2025-12-15 ^14:12 The New Chief Editor at The Register MS is a Microsofter, Now They Increase Microsoft Coverage and Add Microsoft Slant to 'Linux' Coverage
• 2025-12-15 ^17:16 Gemini Links 15/12/2025: How We Lost Communication to Entertainment, Dichotomy Between the Real and the Digital
• 2025-12-15 ^19:32 Wrapping Up and Ending "Slopwatch"
• 2025-12-15 ^20:09 Claims of More IBM Layoffs a Week Before 'Christmas Week'
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• 2025-12-16 ^03:40 IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 15, 2025
• 2025-12-16 ^03:41 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-12-16 ^05:04 Links 16/12/2025: More GAFAM (Now Amazon) Layoffs and iRobot Chapter 11
• 2025-12-16 ^05:38 Claim That Finance and HR at IBM Already Work on the Next Wave of IBM Layoffs, Media Silence Persists
• 2025-12-16 ^06:04 A Lot of People Don't Want "Smart" (Things That Spy, Stop Working, Cannot be Repaired Easily)
• 2025-12-16 ^06:18 With Half of December Over, FSF Two-Thirds of the Way Towards Funding Goal
• 2025-12-16 ^07:16 Links 16/12/2025: Security and Conflict (No Territorial Concessions in Ukraine)
• 2025-12-16 ^07:34 Gemini Links 16/12/2025: Bingo Card and i586 in 2025
• 2025-12-16 ^07:42 Google News Still Has an LLM Slop Problem (With Slop Images Too), But Google Itself is a Pusher of Slop
• 2025-12-16 ^08:31 Secret Code is Undesirable
• 2025-12-16 ^08:39 EPO People Power - Part XIV - EPO Management Living in Fantasy Land
• 2025-12-16 ^15:37 Publication Plans for the Coming Weeks
• 2025-12-16 ^15:44 When Malformed RSS or Atom Feeds Clog Up (or Even Crash) Programs
• 2025-12-16 ^16:12 Paying the Price for IBM's Leadership Buying Worthless Companies With Capital It Doesn't Have
• 2025-12-16 ^17:34 Blogs to Read (or Even Binge on) When You Look for a Daring and Different Perspective
• 2025-12-16 ^17:43 The Register MS Does the "AI" Keyword Stuffing Because It Gets Paid to Do "AI" Keyword Stuffing
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• 2025-12-17 ^01:12 Gemini Links 17/12/2025: Wrongs, "Wokeness", and 3D-Printable Accessible USB Input Device
• 2025-12-17 ^01:52 Links 17/12/2025: User Data Compromised in SoundCloud and Efforts to Release Jimmy Lai for the 'Crime' of Journalism
• 2025-12-17 ^01:57 Getting Back on Top of Exclusive Articles, Leaks, Whistleblowing
• 2025-12-17 ^02:32 Red Hat Wastes Money on Slop and on Slop Pushers While Laying Off Red Hat Staff
• 2025-12-17 ^02:41 "The Register Hot Seat" is Just More Paid-for SPAM Promoting a Pyramid Scheme to Readers of The Register MS
• 2025-12-17 ^02:49 Firefox and Mozilla Commit Suicide With Slop, Market Share Falls to New Low
• 2025-12-17 ^02:56 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 16, 2025
• 2025-12-17 ^02:57 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-12-17 ^03:24 Cuts, Shutdowns, and Layoffs at Microsoft
• 2025-12-17 ^04:14 Linus Torvalds Seems to Have Aged Faster Since the Bullying by the 'CoC Brigade' (Enforced via Linux Foundation, a GAFAM Front Group)
• 2025-12-17 ^04:29 Microsoft GitHub is Dying and Bot Activity in GitHub Won't Save It
• 2025-12-17 ^04:45 More GAFAM Layoffs in Seattle, Bellevue (Washington)
• 2025-12-17 ^04:52 "Social Justice Warriors" Make Violent Threats Against Event Organisers, Developers, and Journalists
• 2025-12-17 ^05:16 We've All Had Managers and Colleagues Like These, But This is How it Works at IBM
• 2025-12-17 ^05:30 The Collapse of Good Development Practices
• 2025-12-17 ^05:46 Gemini Protocol Saw Significant, Measurable Growth in 2025
• 2025-12-17 ^05:59 Debian Misfits Really Do Not Want You to Read This Article
• 2025-12-17 ^06:25 Windows Has Fallen to All-Time Low of 60% in Laptops and Desktop in Canada
• 2025-12-17 ^06:48 Love and Activism
• 2025-12-17 ^07:26 Mental Problems in Free Software
• 2025-12-17 ^08:43 Links 17/12/2025: Operation Bluebird Lawsuit, GoDaddy Made to 'Dox' Clients
• 2025-12-17 ^10:13 Tom Silvagni sentencing: not Xavier College but DPP and social media to blame
• 2025-12-17 ^10:32 WordPress Begs You to Dump It (for SSGs), Just Like Mozilla With Firefox
• 2025-12-17 ^12:03 Horizon Shows the Travesty of Proprietary Software in British Government, No Lessons Learned?
• 2025-12-17 ^12:24 Step One: Scan All Uploaded Files; Step Two: Compel People to Upload Everything Automatically; Step Three: Scan All Offline Files
• 2025-12-17 ^13:29 TheLayoff.com Deleting Comments About IBM, Even Comments That Do Not Name Individuals and Don't Use Profane Language
• 2025-12-17 ^14:03 IBM Apparently Forces Red Hat Employees to Use or Put Slop Instead of Code in Red Hat's Products (or Test Code Using Slop)
• 2025-12-17 ^14:13 Still Not Enough for "Slopwatch"
• 2025-12-17 ^14:31 IBM Staff Inside Fedora as Pusher of Slop
• 2025-12-17 ^15:13 Links 17/12/2025: Qt 6.8.6 Released and "Is Denmark Really Banning VPNs?"
• 2025-12-17 ^15:57 LinuxSecurity Founder Dave Wreski Quit Participating in the Slopfarm 10 Months Ago
• 2025-12-17 ^18:29 Gemini Links 17/12/2025: Passion and Creativity, Euronews, Avoiding "Smart" "Phones"
• 2025-12-17 ^18:31 Links 17/12/2025: "Jimmy Lai’s Conviction Was Years in the Making" and "Pandemic Lockdowns Changed a Songbird’s Beak"
• 2025-12-17 ^18:35 IBM (and Therefore Red Hat) Rapidly Imploding
• 2025-12-17 ^19:20 It Won't be Long Before Microsoft Shuts Down LinkedIn (Already Subjected to Many Waves of Mass Layoffs, Offices Shut Down)
• 2025-12-17 ^19:42 The "Hey Hi" Ponzi Scheme Promoted Again by The Register MS
• 2025-12-17 ^20:13 Firefox Became Irrelevant in the Past Year or Two
• 2025-12-17 ^20:40 Microsoft Lunduke: The Problem With [Some Program/Project] is That It's "Gay"
• 2025-12-17 ^20:59 Maybe the Future of the Web is Static Site Generators (SSGs) After All
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• 2025-12-18 ^05:19 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 17, 2025
• 2025-12-18 ^05:20 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-12-18 ^06:57 Slop Fatigue
• 2025-12-18 ^07:09 EPO Coverage Will Resume When the Time is Right
• 2025-12-18 ^07:24 Running Our Own Network and Building Our Own Systems
• 2025-12-18 ^07:30 Next Year Windows XP Turns 25, Many People (Millions) Still Use It Because Windows Became Bloated and Unreliable
• 2025-12-18 ^07:59 Free Software Literature (Books) to Read This Holiday Season
• 2025-12-18 ^08:49 XBox Sales Collapsed, XBox Cannot Survive
• 2025-12-18 ^09:31 Links 18/12/2025: ZorinOS Raising Money, Canonical Giving Gifts to Microsoft
• 2025-12-18 ^19:10 Gemini Links 18/12/2025: Fake Dynamic rendering Site and Connectivity in a Digital Age
• 2025-12-18 ^19:12 Links 18/12/2025: Fake Videos in Social Control Media and "Oscars Move to YouTube from ABC"
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• 2025-12-19 ^02:16 Only a Few Examples of LLM Slop Found, Mostly via Google News
• 2025-12-19 ^02:44 EPO Violates Laws to Profit More From Invalid Patents, Then Cuts the Budget Allocated to Staff
• 2025-12-19 ^03:12 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 18, 2025
• 2025-12-19 ^03:13 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-12-19 ^03:26 More Shutdowns and Layoffs at IBM
• 2025-12-19 ^03:29 You Can Get Work Done With Lean Software
• 2025-12-19 ^03:53 The Cost of Being Influential
• 2025-12-19 ^04:15 "The War on Privacy" is Real
• 2025-12-19 ^05:57 Links 19/12/2025: Scam Altman Humiliates Self in Public, Climate Alarm Sounded, Egyptian Economist Convicted Over "Social Control Media Posts Critical of the Government"
• 2025-12-19 ^06:10 Microsoft, Over 120 Billion Dollars in Debt, Prepares Next Round of Mass Layoffs (After Christmas)
• 2025-12-19 ^06:29 Microsoft Reportedly Tries to Cause Top-Level Managers to Resign If they Don't Participate in the Ponzi Scheme
• 2025-12-19 ^07:01 Google Has Begun Linking to commandlinux.com in Google News, But It Seems to be a Slopfarm
• 2025-12-19 ^07:45 In Activism and Journalism, If You're Ineffective They Ignore You, When You Become Effective They Stalk and Harass You, Failing That They Threaten You
• 2025-12-19 ^08:19 Once Again, Just in Time for Christmas, UEFI and Its Boot System Turn Out to be a Giant Bug Door (Also a Microsoft Remote Kill Switch)
• 2025-12-19 ^08:34 The Copycats of the FSF Have Serious Problems
• 2025-12-19 ^08:47 Richard Stallman Explains Why Software Patents Are Really Bad and Very Much Unnecessary
• 2025-12-19 ^08:53 Nearly Three Months Have Passed Since EPO Cocainegate and the EPO's Management Still Refuses to Talk About It
• 2025-12-19 ^13:45 Links 19/12/2025: Windows TCO in NHS, "Locked Out of Apple Account Due to Gift Card"
• 2025-12-19 ^14:17 IBM Research Shutting Down Labs, Lots of Workers Laid Off (Even Days Before Christmas in Devout Catholic Country)
• 2025-12-19 ^15:06 Why We Got Told by Insiders That Almost Everyone at EPO Reads Techrights and Many at IBM Track IBM RAs Via Techrights
• 2025-12-19 ^15:19 Red Hat Senior Engineering Manager Leaves (or Gets Pushed Out by IBM) After Nearly 20 Years at the Company
• 2025-12-19 ^16:02 Today, The Register MS is Parroting Marketing Spam for Ponzi Scheme ("AI") in Exchange for Money
• 2025-12-19 ^17:44 Links 19/12/2025: Privacy International's Reports and Russian Assets in EU
• 2025-12-19 ^18:37 Google News Helps Slopfarms (What's Left of Them)
• 2025-12-19 ^19:20 Gemini Links 19/12/2025: Great Website Rebuild of 2025 and Running OpenBSD in a Hostile Environment
• 2025-12-19 ^19:43 No Electronics, No Clocks, No Phones
• 2025-12-19 ^20:12 Microsoft Has Purchased Another Linux Foundation Seat
• 2025-12-19 ^20:29 Austria vs GAFAM
• 2025-12-19 ^20:48 'Linux' Foundation: The Foundation Has Almost Nothing to Do With Linux, It Just Misuses the Name "Linux"
• 2025-12-19 ^21:04 Very Shallow LLM Slop for IBM Disguised as Journalism About a "Plan to Train 5 Million Learners in India by 2030" (Unverified Figures With Very Distant Future Date/Year)
• 2025-12-19 ^21:37 Barbados: Significant Gains for GNU/Linux
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• 2025-12-20 ^06:34 Links 20/12/2025: Media Layoffs, a Third of Online Traffic is Bots
• 2025-12-20 ^06:35 IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 19, 2025
• 2025-12-20 ^06:36 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-12-20 ^07:00 Coming to Grips With a Lack of Future at IBM
• 2025-12-20 ^07:14 Gemini Links 20/12/2025: Christmas Songs, Storms, and Old Web
• 2025-12-20 ^07:41 Impulsive Writing, Quotas, and Keeping Things as Concise as Feasible
• 2025-12-20 ^08:05 Linux Foundation: Richard Stallman Developed Only a Software Licence
• 2025-12-20 ^14:48 Links 20/12/2025: Fentanylware Becomes CheeTok and "Why Roomba Died"
• 2025-12-20 ^17:40 Former Manager at IBM Research (Yorktown) Says Why IBM is Doomed and the Anonymous Tipline (Speak Up) is a Trap
• 2025-12-20 ^18:05 Probably the Least Useful Gadgets, Ever
• 2025-12-20 ^18:30 My Humble Assessment of the Future of Red Hat, A Company That IBM is Flushing Down the Loo
• 2025-12-20 ^19:01 More Microsoft Layoffs Coming Soon
• 2025-12-20 ^19:17 2025 in Numbers
• 2025-12-20 ^19:52 The Real Problem With Rust is Not "Wokeness" (It Never Was)
• 2025-12-20 ^20:30 With 10 Days Left, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Already Raised Close to $300,000 This Winter
• 2025-12-20 ^21:45 Gemini Links 20/12/2025: Merry Christmas 2025 and Running a Factorio Headless Server on FreeBSD with the Linuxulato
• 2025-12-20 ^22:35 Links 20/12/2025: Microsoft Ruins Televisions, 'Epstein Files' Deeply Sanitised (to Protect Particular Culprits)
• 2025-12-20 ^22:44 Did Bill Gates Lobby to Blur the Face of the Young Woman He Openly Braces (and Who Isn't His Wife)?
• 2025-12-20 ^23:09 Scamfarms, Spamfarms, and Slopfarms in "Linux" Clothing
• 2025-12-20 ^23:16 The Register MS Has Lowered Its Standards Considerably
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• 2025-12-21 ^04:44 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, December 20, 2025
• 2025-12-21 ^04:45 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-12-21 ^05:07 The General Public License (GPL) Inspired the Web's Original Openness/Freedom, According to Tim Berners-Lee
• 2025-12-21 ^05:28 After 35 Years the World Wide Web, HTML, and HTTP Are Proprietary
• 2025-12-21 ^06:18 IBM: We Can't Make 'AI' (Voice Recognition) Do the Work of a McDonald's Teenager, So Let's Try the Same on Saudi Planes
• 2025-12-21 ^12:43 Michael Larabel Adds Slop Category to Phoronix, Quickly Realises That It's Worthless
• 2025-12-21 ^13:07 New Drone Footage Shows IBM is Dead (Parts of It)
• 2025-12-21 ^13:27 Africa, Where Microsoft Used De Facto Slaves to Pretend to be "AI", Chatbots Usage is 0.2% of Measured Online Traffic
• 2025-12-21 ^13:46 25 Years of Activism for GNU/Linux
• 2025-12-21 ^14:04 Dr. Richard Stallman, Invited by LibreTech Collective, is Giving a Public Talk in Georgia Tech Next Month (Scheller College of Business)
• 2025-12-21 ^14:30 Sirius Open Source is Now Imminently Dead (Struck Off)
• 2025-12-21 ^15:01 Microsoft is Becoming Irrelevant: The Case of Georgia
• 2025-12-21 ^16:42 Gemini Links 21/12/2025: Labrador Retriever of Lagrange's Developer Dies From Cancer, Political Philosophy, and "Getting to Inbox Zero"
• 2025-12-21 ^16:46 Links 21/12/2025: U.S. Strikes in Syria, "Epstein Files Photos Disappear From Government Website"
• 2025-12-21 ^17:04 Slop is Rare by Now
• 2025-12-21 ^17:30 Microsoft-Connected Publisher Spinning XBox's Death Spiral (It's Dying Fast) as a Strength and Something Deliberate
• 2025-12-21 ^17:47 Why?

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