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2026-02-16 ^02:45 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 15, 2026
2026-02-16 ^02:46 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-02-16 ^03:45 Debt of Broadcom Grew by More Than 50%, Broadcom is Deeper in Debt Than Google
2026-02-16 ^04:09 Dr. Andy Farnell on How Universities and Culture of Education Got Crushed by "Technofascist Nightmare"
2026-02-16 ^04:30 More People in Chad Move to GNU/Linux
2026-02-16 ^04:48 Microsoft Amutable Already Reveals That Its Focus Is Not Linux, It'll Promote "Remote Attestation"
2026-02-16 ^06:01 They Will Call Smart People "Luddites"
2026-02-16 ^06:27 Social Control Media is Just a Digital Weapon
2026-02-16 ^07:27 "AboutCode" is a Microsoft Proxy and Microsoft's Acquisition of the OSI Advances Via OSI Moles
2026-02-16 ^07:40 The Techrights Community Never Needed Money, Only Goodwill
2026-02-16 ^08:07 Links 16/02/2026: cURL’s Daniel Stenberg Asserts That Slop is DDoSing Free Software, But Still Uses a Plagiarism and GPL-Violating Blender (Microsoft GitHub)
2026-02-16 ^08:09 Linux Foundation Continues Falling Off a Cliff in Geminispace
2026-02-16 ^08:38 IBM Reduces the Thresholds for Acceptance (and the Salaries)
2026-02-16 ^09:06 Techrights' Architecture
2026-02-16 ^09:16 Happy Birthday (or Anniversary) to SoylentNews
2026-02-16 ^17:12 Gemini Links 16/02/2026: Task Completed by Avoidance and "Playing Again With Akkoma"
2026-02-16 ^17:20 Links 16/02/2026: Barack Obama Responds to Racist Cheeto and Benjamin Mako Hill Studies Online Communities
2026-02-16 ^17:30 Another EPO Strike One Week From Now, Local Staff Committee Munich to Discuss It This Week
2026-02-16 ^18:31 Microsoft to Focus on Name-Dropping Buzzwords to Distract From Declining Business, IBM RAs (Layoffs) With Staff Stack-Ranked
2026-02-16 ^19:24 Where Microsoft's Bing Cannot Even Reach 1% "Market Share"
2026-02-16 ^19:53 The Southern California Linux Expo (“SCALE”) or SCALE 23x Becomes Microsoft
2026-02-17 ^05:18 Gemini Links 17/02/2026: Alpenglow Industries' Closure and Gemini Server Issues
2026-02-17 ^05:21 IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 16, 2026
2026-02-17 ^05:22 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-02-17 ^06:04 IBM's Collapse Continues, Half of EU Countries to Have Mass Layoffs, "IBM Clearly Disinvests From Europe" Says IBM European Works Council
2026-02-17 ^06:32 EPO's Central Staff Committee on Fourth Technical Meeting, Two Days Before First of (At Least) 4 Winter Strikes at the Second-Largest European Institution
2026-02-17 ^06:55 Techrights Became a Hub for News That IBM/Red Hat Doesn't Want You to See (and Pays Mainstream Media to Distract From)
2026-02-17 ^07:14 Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Way Too Slow to Respond to Financial Fraud at Law Firms, in Effect Helping Those Law Firms Defraud Many More People (Fleecing Clients)
2026-02-17 ^07:32 Just Like The Register MS, Conde Nast's Ars Technica Has Just Publicly Admitted That It Published Fake Articles (Slop) Made by LLMs About Serious Subjects
2026-02-17 ^07:51 Microsoft Turned Bing Into Censorship Machine of China, But Bing Is Pegged at a Mere 2% in Asia, Yandex is Bigger
2026-02-17 ^08:08 Microsoft's "AI" Concerns Are All Indian (or Low-Paid Workers Who Work Extra Hours Unpaid)
2026-02-17 ^08:18 Only One in 50 Saudis Would Use Microsoft for Search, Almost Same as Would Use Russia's Yandex
2026-02-17 ^08:57 Slop Technica: Ars Technica Seems Like Repeat Offender, a Part-Time Slopfarm
2026-02-17 ^09:22 Benj Edwards (Ars Technica) Used Fake Articles to Promote Ponzi Scheme for Conde Nast and Its Client (Marketing)
2026-02-17 ^11:42 Links 17/02/2026: Why OpenClaw is Very Sleazy and Ars Technica Exposed as Hub of LLM Slop (Credibility Destroyed Overnight)
2026-02-17 ^12:51 Where Slop Meets Ghostwriting: It's a False Analogy
2026-02-17 ^13:10 Resisting IBM and EPO Corruption
2026-02-17 ^14:30 The Problem is Not Technology, the Problem is Really Bad Things Sold or Imposed as "Tech" (Like a Religion Built Around Technology)
2026-02-17 ^15:15 EPO "Productivity" Will Fall Off a Cliff If Examiners Stick to the European Patent Convention (EPC) and Follow the Real Rules
2026-02-17 ^18:58 Links 17/02/2026: Machine Rage and Microsoft Kills XBox Social Clubs
2026-02-17 ^19:12 Gemini Links 17/02/2026: 3D-Printed Stainless Steel Smartwatch and Gopher Bay Offline
2026-02-17 ^19:40 Still Some Slopfarms in View, Sometimes Targetting "Linux"
2026-02-17 ^19:57 IBM suffers "worst weekly drop in six years", Microsoft's MSN calls it "buying opportunity"
2026-02-17 ^20:49 Red Hat Is Not a Company Anymore, Amid Bluewashing and Mass Layoffs It's Merely IBM "Division" or "Brand" or "Product"
2026-02-17 ^20:59 Microsoft Had Mass Layoffs Every Month Last Year, This Year It's Delaying a Lot to "Prove" Rumours That Crashed Its Stock... 'Wrong'
2026-02-18 ^04:31 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 17, 2026
2026-02-18 ^04:32 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-02-18 ^05:19 The Register MS Paid-for 'Articles' (Ads) Seem to be LLM Slop Again
2026-02-18 ^05:35 Linux Foundation Puts Slop Images, Not Just Slop Text, in Linux.com
2026-02-18 ^05:46 "Senior AI Reporter" at Slop Technica/Ars Sloppica Has Written Nothing in Nearly a Week, Did Conde Nast Suspend Him for Fake Articles With Fake Quotes?
2026-02-18 ^05:52 France Does Not Need Digital Weapons Disguised as Social and as Media
2026-02-18 ^06:10 "How Many Friends Do You Have?"
2026-02-18 ^06:47 Are IBM CEO and IBM CFO Ready for Financial Audit That Topples the Shares by 50% in One Day?
2026-02-18 ^06:52 Gemini Links 18/02/2026: Astronomy and Texinfo
2026-02-18 ^07:06 Mozilla Firefox Died in Afghanistan
2026-02-18 ^07:20 The Techrights Team Makes the Platform Faster
2026-02-18 ^08:08 Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Responds to Crises Only After It's Way Too Late
2026-02-18 ^09:01 Twitter Falling to 1% in Africa's Largest Nation (Algeria)
2026-02-18 ^09:46 Links 18/02/2026: Gig 'Economy' Condemned, Microsoft Insulting/Stressing People With False Slop Predictions
2026-02-18 ^18:28 Links 18/02/2026: DMCA Weakened, Anna’s Archive Still Thriving
2026-02-19 ^04:31 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 18, 2026
2026-02-19 ^04:32 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-02-19 ^05:39 Gemini Links 19/02/2026: Taxing the Rich, Raspberry Pi 4 Tinkering
2026-02-19 ^05:41 Links 19/02/2026: Illegal Kangaroo Court for Patents Attracts Aggressive Firms, Public Domain Review Grows
2026-02-19 ^05:52 Very Little Slop
2026-02-19 ^05:57 Microsoft's "AI CEO" (Slop Propagandist) is Projecting, Many Microsoft "Jobs to be Replaced With All-Indian Low-Paid Staff in 12 Months"
2026-02-19 ^06:27 Mass Layoffs (But Silent Layoffs) Still Happening in IBM, You Need Only Look Closely (There Are NDAs, PIPs, 'Early Retirement' Sweeteners and IBM - Like Microsoft - Skirts the WARN Act)
2026-02-19 ^06:48 EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part II - Illegal Drug Addicts Mobbing the Wrong People, This Will Definitely Backfire
2026-02-19 ^07:17 Slides Shown a Week Ago by the EPO's Staff Committee Ahead of the Second Very Large Strike
2026-02-19 ^07:45 statCounter: Only One in 350 Iranians Would Use Microsoft for Web Search
2026-02-19 ^07:57 EPO Union Leaders in Rijswijk Explain Where EPO Strikes Stand and How to Prepare for Next Week's
2026-02-19 ^08:12 Typical! Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Tells Victims of Fraud to Wait 10 Weeks
2026-02-19 ^08:51 Richard Stallman in the United States - Part II - "Haters Gonna Hate"
2026-02-19 ^08:56 Bitcoin: government engagement contradictions
2026-02-19 ^09:34 Spaniards Shutting Down MElon's Digital Weapon of "Smart Mobs"
2026-02-19 ^09:43 Economic Failure and Other Harsh Realities Have Nothing to Do With Slop 'Innovation'
2026-02-19 ^10:06 These Statistics Should Keep Microsoft Shareholders Awake at Night
2026-02-19 ^11:16 An Inherently Royal (Monarchs') Legal System Where Size Matters (Big Capital Eats the Small)
2026-02-19 ^12:16 Links 19/02/2026: "A.I.pocalypse" Inevitable and "Butlers to LLMs"
2026-02-19 ^13:27 In Africa's Second-Largest Nation, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Opera 10 Times Bigger Than Firefox (and GNU/Linux Now at 5%)
2026-02-19 ^18:27 Links 19/02/2026: Protecting Framework Laptop 13, Hardware Drive Shortages
2026-02-19 ^18:51 The Few Slopfarms We Saw Today
2026-02-19 ^19:04 No "Smart Mobs" (Social Control Media) in BRIC?
2026-02-19 ^19:15 Microsoft Found Another Bailout Opportunity: Killing People
2026-02-19 ^19:25 IBM Behaves Like a Company Looking for Loose Change Between Sofa Cushions
2026-02-19 ^19:51 Gemini Links 19/02/2026: "Towards a Gemini Famicom Resource" and Dumping Microsoft
2026-02-20 ^02:46 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, February 19, 2026
2026-02-20 ^02:48 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-02-20 ^03:13 The Register MS Gets Paid by Gartner to Promote a Ponzi Scheme for Gartner, Microsoft, and Others
2026-02-20 ^03:33 IBM Layoffs Aren't Just in IBM 'Proper'
2026-02-20 ^03:45 IBM, Red Hat and Fedora: Don't Say "Master", It Offends People. Also IBM, Red Hat and Fedora: "Master Podman".
2026-02-20 ^05:39 Links 20/02/2026: Windows TCO Versus Deutsche Bahn, Europe Seeks More Independent Digital Future
2026-02-20 ^05:55 GNU/Linux Adoption is Higher in Richer Countries
2026-02-20 ^06:42 IBM Inclusivity: Red Hat Summit is for Rich Sponsors Like Microsoft and Rich Guests Who Pay $500 a Day
2026-02-20 ^08:02 Gemini Links 20/02/2026: "Mainstream Unix, Underground Unix", Slop Staging DDoS Attacks Against Small Sites
2026-02-20 ^08:19 What Do People Ever Buy From Microsoft Anyway (Not PCs)?
2026-02-20 ^09:28 Links 20/02/2026: Standards, Science, and Politics
2026-02-20 ^16:16 Don't Wait for "Red Hat Layoffs" Because After Bluewashing They're IBM RAs and Don't Wait for "IBM Layoffs" Because They're Perpetual
2026-02-20 ^16:40 Turkmenistan One of Many Countries Where Microsoft Fell to Distant Third in Search
2026-02-20 ^17:25 Links 20/02/2026: Microsoft Intentionally Kills Older Hardware, "The Story of XBox" Shows How Defective Microsoft Hardware Really Was
2026-02-20 ^18:13 The Little Clique of Sloppers/Spammers About "Linux" Got Even Smaller
2026-02-20 ^18:57 It's Friday Again and Many People Leave IBM for Good (IBM Should be Reported for Illegal NDAs That Hide Layoffs)
2026-02-20 ^19:40 Sponsored Videos and 'Articles' in The Register MS, Stenography as a Service/Product
2026-02-20 ^19:53 GNU/Linux Apparently Rose to 6% in Uzbekistan
2026-02-20 ^20:00 Our Uptimes Are Always Better Than Any Site That Uses Clownflare
2026-02-20 ^20:34 Linus Torvalds: Bill Epsteingate Good Enough for Me to Wine and Dine With
2026-02-20 ^20:43 The New Digg.com is Slop
2026-02-20 ^20:53 analytics.usa.gov Reckons Windows "Market Share" Fell to Just 38%, Vista 11 Not Even a Third of Windows Users
2026-02-20 ^21:11 Former Debian Project Leader Branden Robinson Cautions Against Cover-up and Censorship in Debian
2026-02-20 ^21:34 Gemini Links 20/02/2026: Misfin Server and Magic in Programming
2026-02-20 ^21:49 9PM on a Friday Night: Microsoft Says the Layoffs Are Not Layoffs
2026-02-20 ^22:05 Not Only Leaders of XBox Got Sacked (Layoffs)
2026-02-20 ^22:28 Like a Shell
2026-02-21 ^06:25 Gemini Links 21/02/2026: "The Evil of Action" and Slop Bots Causing Great Harm Online (Not Just the Web)
2026-02-21 ^06:30 IRC Proceedings: Friday, February 20, 2026
2026-02-21 ^06:31 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-02-21 ^06:40 GNU Linux-libre is a Grown-Up Today
2026-02-21 ^08:02 Links 21/02/2026: "Moving Away From Cloudflare", Many Layoffs or Shutdowns in Games (Including XBox/Microsoft)
2026-02-21 ^13:04 Links 21/02/2026: Tensions Over Iran and Illegal Cheeto Tariffs, Presidential Approval Sags
2026-02-21 ^13:36 EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part III - It's in His Eyes
2026-02-21 ^13:53 Firefox is No-Go in China, Not Even 1% "Market Share" Anymore
2026-02-21 ^13:56 Going for 1,000 (Days of Uptime)
2026-02-21 ^14:10 Slop Hype Makes Our Core Technology Less Reliable and Far Less Resilient (We Pay for the Catastrophe That Follows)
2026-02-21 ^14:26 Microsoft-Controlled Media With Embargo and Press Operatives
2026-02-21 ^14:41 Waggener Edstrom/Frank Shaw Lied, There Are Definitely Microsoft Layoffs
2026-02-21 ^15:03 Your "Likes" Aren't Yours and They're Mostly "Worthless Clicks"
2026-02-21 ^15:18 2026 a Year of 'Top-Down' Microsoft Layoffs (Management First)
2026-02-21 ^15:32 On The Web, XBox Already a Dying Breed
2026-02-21 ^16:07 Gemini Links 21/02/2026: Veganism and DeskPi RackMate T0
2026-02-21 ^16:19 Digg's Latest Incarnation Already Failed, It's Infested With LLM Slop
2026-02-21 ^16:51 Debian's Master is Deleting Criticism of SystemD and Other Things (On-Topic and Published by Debian Developers), Resorts to the Excuse Messages Are "Too Long"
2026-02-21 ^17:57 Richard Stallman in the United States - Part III - Georgia Tech Did a Fine Job Upholding Free Speech Principles
2026-02-21 ^18:29 Measuring the Growth of Our Mission and Community
2026-02-21 ^18:48 Why IBM is Still Scary and Dangerous
2026-02-21 ^19:14 The Brand 'Watsonx' is a Terrible Name for IBM 'Hey Hi' (Chatbots) Because Watson Agreed With Adolf Hitler
2026-02-21 ^19:52 New Article Challenges Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) for Choosing the Wrong SLAPP Cases to Investigate
2026-02-21 ^19:59 Techrights Has Over 1,000 Good Articles 'in the Tank'
2026-02-21 ^21:03 GNU/Linux Grew a Lot in Nicaragua
2026-02-22 ^04:40 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, February 21, 2026
2026-02-22 ^04:41 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-02-22 ^04:58 Gemini Links 22/02/2026: Dream Job Gone and Slop in Taskwarrior
2026-02-22 ^05:58 Our IRC 5-Year Anniversary (for Self-Hosted) is Fast Approaching
2026-02-22 ^12:09 Links 22/02/2026: "Bloat of Modern Fitness Apps" and Wikipedia Deprecates Archive.today
2026-02-22 ^13:18 Microsoft "Layoffs Incoming"
2026-02-22 ^15:25 Links 22/02/2026: Hardware Price Hikes Across the Board, "Microsoft Issues Statement on Potential Layoffs"
2026-02-22 ^15:37 "XBox" Will Become Slop After Mass Layoffs
2026-02-22 ^16:25 Microsoft Windows Falls to Another New All-Time Low in Guatemala, It is a Bottomless Pit
2026-02-22 ^16:41 EPO Strikes Are Already Working
2026-02-22 ^17:23 The Broken Window Industry and Its Ongoing Desires to Make Technology Less Dependable
2026-02-22 ^17:53 Sites Without JavaScript Deserve Your Visits
2026-02-22 ^18:34 New XBox CEO Typecast in Social Control Media
2026-02-22 ^19:04 Freedom Means Accepting He or She Who is Different
2026-02-22 ^19:21 Gemini Links 22/02/2026: Okonomiyaki and Midcrunch Crisis
2026-02-22 ^19:42 Don't Use the Future Tense to Discuss the Slop Bubble
2026-02-22 ^19:52 8,000 Pages/Articles Per Year
2026-02-22 ^20:08 Google "Intelligence": Despite Slam-Dunk or "Smoking Gun" Proof, Drug Abuse in EPO Leadership is "Unverified Allegations"
2026-02-22 ^20:39 More and More Projects Quit Microsoft GitHub This Year, XBox Will See the Same
2026-02-22 ^20:55 IBM Layoffs Definitely Still Happening

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