Chronological Index, Page 133

2026-03-23 ^03:44 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 22, 2026
2026-03-23 ^03:45 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-03-23 ^04:54 Links 23/03/2026: Security Breaches, Energy Shortages, Another SRA Scandal, and Patents on Nature
2026-03-23 ^05:16 Most Press Articles About IBM Are LLM Slop, Sometimes With Slop Images
2026-03-23 ^05:52 Scheduled Maintenance This Coming Wednesday
2026-03-23 ^06:23 Fuel Autonomy and What It Teaches Us About Software Autonomy (or Software Freedom)
2026-03-23 ^06:41 Fear is Not a Legitimate Factor
2026-03-23 ^06:47 Gemini Links 23/03/2026: Geminispace/Elpher Enhancement and the Cerberus Cinco
2026-03-23 ^07:45 The Scandal Bigger Than IBM/Red Hat Layoffs is the de Facto "Media Blackout" About Those Layoffs
2026-03-23 ^08:16 Links 23/03/2026: "Shocking Peter Thiel Antichrist Lectures", Robert Mueller Remembered
2026-03-23 ^15:53 Debianism election 2026 community poll created, everybody can vote
2026-03-23 ^16:53 Slop Means False, New Article by Cybershow
2026-03-23 ^17:58 Links 23/03/2026: Gulf Water at Risk, Heatwave in Malaysia
2026-03-23 ^18:10 Microsoft Downgraded on Concerns (Lack of Growth) Amid Silent Layoffs in 2026
2026-03-23 ^18:21 Mass Layoffs at HashiCorp, IBM Hid Them
2026-03-23 ^18:23 Last Week's EPO Strike Was the Biggest (Highest Participation Rate), Hours Ago General Assembly Discussed Next (Growing) Intensity of Strikes
2026-03-23 ^19:07 SLAPP Censorship - Part 20 Out of 200: All Roads Lead to Rome and to GAFAM Funding
2026-03-23 ^19:26 Gemini Links 23/03/2026: "Mandatory" Bad Things and Dangers of Perfection Aspirations
2026-03-24 ^04:07 IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 23, 2026
2026-03-24 ^04:08 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-03-24 ^05:33 Richard Stallman to Give Public Talk This Thursday at the University of Bologna (Italy)
2026-03-24 ^05:49 Gemini Links 24/03/2026: Slop Interview and Why Slop Makes Lousy Code
2026-03-24 ^07:58 Links 24/03/2026: "Airports on ICE" and "Have You Paid Your “Intuit Tax”?"
2026-03-24 ^08:51 SLAPP Censorship - Part 21 Out of 200: It's About Behaviour Online, Not How Much Money From Shadowy Third Parties Gets Spent on Lawyers and Two Barristers
2026-03-24 ^10:08 What Feminism in Science Means (Codes of Conduct Don't Tackle the Real Issues)
2026-03-24 ^10:34 EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part IX - Cocaine Addicts in Charge of the EPO Attacking Families of EPO Staff
2026-03-24 ^11:05 The New Layoffs: 'Silent Layoffs', 'Secret Layoffs', 'Quiet Layoffs', 'Passive Layoffs' 'Stealth Layoffs', and Unannounced Layoffs Disguised as Return-to-Office (RTO Mandates)
2026-03-24 ^11:48 Dr. Stallman’s Work Will Never be Considered 'Mainstream' Because He Rejects and Works Against the So-called 'Mainstream'
2026-03-24 ^12:09 Hating Techrights is a Career
2026-03-24 ^12:22 New Example of Pentagon in "Feminist" Clothing Inside Fake News of Publishers Paid to Promote Outsourcing to US ("Clown Computing") and American Slop
2026-03-24 ^12:46 More Threats (Including Physical Threats) Against Us Are a Dumb Move
2026-03-24 ^14:06 2012: 'Secure' (Microsoft-Controlled) Boot Has Not (Yet) Been Made Obligatory. 2026: systemd Has Not Implemented Age Verification
2026-03-24 ^14:57 The Empty Suits of IBM Managers (NIH or "Nothing Invented Here")
2026-03-24 ^15:49 The "Media" Does Not Only 'Miss' Mass Layoffs
2026-03-24 ^18:48 Links 24/03/2026: "Epic Lays Off Over 1000 Employees" and US in Financial Trouble According to the Fed
2026-03-24 ^19:18 Not Much LLM Slop About "Linux" Lately, It Only Ever Comes From the Same Few Sites
2026-03-24 ^19:25 Gemini Links 24/03/2026: Junk Drawer Time Capsule and Building Outside Alire
2026-03-24 ^19:47 SLAPP Censorship - Part 22 Out of 200: When You Complain People Impersonate You in IRC (But You Yourself Impersonate People in IRC and Lock Them Out of Their IRC Handles)
2026-03-25 ^03:55 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 24, 2026
2026-03-25 ^03:56 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-03-25 ^04:25 IBM Americas President Ayman Antoun Comes to OpenText, Weeks Ahead the Mass Layoffs Begin
2026-03-25 ^04:38 An Open Admission Profits Depend on Addiction
2026-03-25 ^05:03 GAFAM Mozilla Removes Theora Support, Now GNU Needs to Re-encode Videos
2026-03-25 ^05:17 Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Must More Carefully Investigate or Assess the Financial State of Law Firms in the UK
2026-03-25 ^05:42 It's Always a Question of Trust
2026-03-25 ^06:20 Rise in Energy Prices Will Significantly Accelerate the Death of So-called "AI Companies"
2026-03-25 ^06:32 Gemini Links 25/03/2026: Blogging Fright and Absolutely Useless 'Apps' Made by Slop Machines
2026-03-25 ^07:27 Links 25/03/2026: Airports Further Militarised, "Slopification and Its Discontents", Microsoft 'Open' 'Hey Hi' Shutting Things Down
2026-03-25 ^08:04 Gnome Foundation Inc is in Trouble
2026-03-25 ^08:38 SLAPP Censorship - Part 23 Out of 200: We Were Right All Along (for 2 Years) About Third Party Funding and Willingness to 'Break the Bank' in Pursuit of "Revenge"
2026-03-25 ^13:34 This Morning The Register MS Published Slop Promotion With the Term "AI" 15 Times In It. The Register MS Was (As Usual) Paid to Do This
2026-03-25 ^13:55 EPO's "Current Industrial Actions Are Likely to Intensify Further."
2026-03-25 ^14:26 IBM's "Legacy Employees" (Experienced Workers, IBM Management Dubs Them 'Dinobabies')
2026-03-25 ^14:59 Fedora Maintainer-ship Using Slop (Mistakes) Would Make Fedora Less Reliable
2026-03-25 ^19:17 Gemini Links 25/03/2026: Resisting Authoritarianism and Why Slop Needs to Go Away
2026-03-25 ^19:20 Links 25/03/2026: Nations Return to Russian Oil and Burning Wood
2026-03-26 ^02:14 Gemini Links 26/03/2026: Buying a House, Stargazing, OFFLFIRSOCH 2026
2026-03-26 ^02:21 Public Talk by Richard Stallman in Half a Day "at the Engineering and Architecture Campus of Cesena of the University of Bologna"
2026-03-26 ^02:29 Where and How to Spot LLM Slop
2026-03-26 ^02:47 Microsoft's "Silent Layoffs" in Slop Clothing
2026-03-26 ^02:50 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, March 25, 2026
2026-03-26 ^02:51 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-03-26 ^03:17 EPO Union Decides to Continue Industrial Actions, Next Strike in Four Days
2026-03-26 ^03:33 Confluent Insiders: IBM Laid Off Over 800 at Confluent, Not Just 800 [updated]
2026-03-26 ^03:36 IBM is "Increasing Its Temporary and Part-time Headcount" While Net Headcount Falls (Despite Buying Many Companies and Their Workforce)
2026-03-26 ^06:27 Back to Normalcy
2026-03-26 ^06:42 Official New Figures Show That Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Sees Rise in Dishonesty Among Law Firms Forcibly Shut Down ('Euthanised' Due to Misconduct)
2026-03-26 ^07:58 SLAPP Censorship - Part 24 Out of 200: The Failed Effort by Brett Wilson LLP to Strike Out My Lawsuit and My Wife's Lawsuit Against Garrett (the Master Allowed Our Lawsuits to Proceed)
2026-03-26 ^08:29 Altering Perceived Reality to Make It Seem Like Microsoft is Thriving, Not Failing
2026-03-26 ^09:01 Microsoft Lost 31% Of Its Alleged "Value" in Five Months, Then It Got Downgraded
2026-03-26 ^09:23 Hard to Find a Job After Working for Microsoft (Back Doors Giant, Bribery Hub)
2026-03-26 ^09:38 IBM Pushes Workers Out, It Does Not Count Them as "Layoffs"
2026-03-26 ^11:35 Microsoft Secure Boot Removes Users' Choice
2026-03-26 ^11:41 Regaining Software Freedom Means Regaining Control Over Programs That Run on Our Devices
2026-03-26 ^12:00 Links 26/03/2026: Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Closes 101 Law Firms in 2 Years, "Please Compensate the Work You Appreciate"
2026-03-26 ^12:08 The World Wide Bots
2026-03-26 ^19:48 Gemini Links 26/03/2026: "The War of the Worlds" and "sometimes science is just the dumbest thing"
2026-03-26 ^20:38 Links 26/03/2026: Tor Relay at National Taiwan Normal University, Copyright Hammers Fall
2026-03-27 ^04:30 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 26, 2026
2026-03-27 ^04:31 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-03-27 ^04:41 Richard Stallman lynchings: Sruthi Chandran splitting Debian
2026-03-27 ^05:08 Media Says Microsoft Hiring Freezes, But There Are Already Microsoft Layoffs
2026-03-27 ^05:53 IBM Media Puff Pieces While Layoffs Go On and On
2026-03-27 ^06:11 Slop Plunge
2026-03-27 ^06:38 GNU/Linux Distros Should Reject "Age Verification" and Uphold Software Freedom for Users
2026-03-27 ^06:48 Microsoft Experiencing "Leadership Exodus"
2026-03-27 ^07:57 GNOME Has No "Real" Executive Director, Only an IBM (Perma)'Interim' One With No Openings in Sight
2026-03-27 ^08:21 Gemini Links 27/03/2026: "Being Busy" and "Posting Again"
2026-03-27 ^08:23 Links 27/03/2026: Google Executive (GAFAM, US, Surveillance) "Named the New BBC Head", Prominent Climate Scientist Resigns From NASA
2026-03-27 ^09:43 Last Night The Register MS Published a Fake Article. It Mentioned "AI" 27 Times.
2026-03-27 ^10:10 Ubuntu Started as Free With ShipIt, Now It Becomes Payware That Exploits Debian Volunteers (Slaves)
2026-03-27 ^11:03 SLAPP Censorship - Part 25 Out of 200: That Time Matthew J. Garrett Got Temporarily Banned/Suspended From Twitter
2026-03-27 ^11:37 Mozilla is Not a Privacy Company, Mozilla is Run by GAFAM Executives and Managers Who Came From American Surveillance Companies
2026-03-27 ^12:01 Perpetual Strikes to Begin at European Patent Office (EPO), Large Majority Votes for Strikes Any Day of the Week
2026-03-27 ^12:18 IBM Cuts Are Everywhere (Global), the Aim is to Lower the Pay
2026-03-27 ^13:03 Slides From the Presentation Discussing EPO Strikes Until End of June or Until End of 2026 (Maybe Next Year Too)
2026-03-27 ^16:04 President Not-Cocaine Campinos Notified of Historic EPO Strikes (Thousands of Workers Not Coming Back to the Office)
2026-03-27 ^16:14 Why Techrights and Many Other Sites Stopped Doing April Fools’ Day Articles
2026-03-27 ^16:27 Nokia Could Never Recover From Microsoft
2026-03-27 ^16:50 Mozilla Was Ruined Like Sirius Open Source Was Ruined - From the Top Down
2026-03-27 ^19:55 Gemini Links 27/03/2026: GTD, Gopher Catchup, Gemini Crawlers, and "Slop Everywhere"
2026-03-27 ^19:58 Links 27/03/2026: Studying Whale Births, Apple is Cancelling Products, Cambodia Arrests Journalists Over Photographs
2026-03-27 ^20:29 "Linux" Slop Turning Rarer, New York Times Nowadays Contaminated With LLM Slop
2026-03-27 ^21:00 "Headcount" as Distraction From Mass Layoffs and Salary Reductions
2026-03-28 ^05:18 IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 27, 2026
2026-03-28 ^05:20 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-03-28 ^05:53 Rumours of More IBM Mass Layoffs at Beginning of April
2026-03-28 ^06:07 Gemini Links 28/03/2026: Echo Delay and 0x0.st
2026-03-28 ^08:22 SLAPP Censorship - Part 26 Out of 200: Asking for Documents and Information You Already Have, Even Letters and E-mails That You Yourself Sent!
2026-03-28 ^14:27 Links 28/03/2026: More Worldwide Bans on Social Control Media (Harms to Adolescents), Protests in US Against Dictatorship
2026-03-28 ^20:19 Gemini Links 28/03/2026: "Finding My Base Tone", "Astrobotany", and BugoutBack/OFFLFIRSOCH
2026-03-28 ^20:22 Links 28/03/2026: Microsoft's LinkedIn a National Security Risk, Microsoft's Slop "Ambitions Face Investor Scrutiny Amid Soaring Costs"
2026-03-28 ^20:25 "Linux" Slop Going Away, Microsoft et al Pay 'Linux' Foundation to Promote Slop
2026-03-28 ^20:50 Open Web Destroyed by Centibillionaires, Says Anil Dash of Blogging Fame
2026-03-29 ^04:31 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 28, 2026
2026-03-29 ^04:32 Over at Tux Machines...
2026-03-29 ^04:45 The Real XBox is Dead, So Microsoft is Calling Everything "XBox" Now
2026-03-29 ^05:09 Gemini Links 29/03/2026: Return to Gopherspace, "Zen of Marking Playing Cards"
2026-03-29 ^05:43 The Old Days
2026-03-29 ^09:59 Links 29/03/2026: Water Shortages and No Kings Rallies
2026-03-29 ^11:52 Fedora at the Mercy of Microsoft Because of Back-Doored Kick-Switch Boot
2026-03-29 ^13:03 Links 29/03/2026: Indonesia Cracks Down on Social Control Media Addiction, China Becomes World’s Scientific Superpower
2026-03-29 ^13:41 LLM Slop Kills Sites, as Sites That Adopt Slop Are Doomed
2026-03-29 ^14:00 People Discuss Rumours of Mass Layoffs at IBM Becoming Public in 1-2 Weeks
2026-03-29 ^14:51 Almost 20 Years After Microsoft/Novell
2026-03-29 ^15:22 The Limits of Inclusion
2026-03-29 ^15:51 SLAPP Censorship - Part 27 Out of 200: Using the Tor Network to Hide From Consequences
2026-03-29 ^17:27 Microsoft Azure Does Not Have "Hiring Freezes", It Has Had Mass Layoffs Every Year Since 2020
2026-03-29 ^17:54 No Daylight Saved

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