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 πππ πππ ππ«π―π’π§π ππ«π’π¬π‘π§π: 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 Laiβs Conviction Was Years in the Making" and "Pandemic Lockdowns Changed a Songbirdβs 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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