Chronological Index, Page 135

• 2026-04-06 ^03:42 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 05, 2026
• 2026-04-06 ^03:43 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-04-06 ^03:54 Week 2 of April IBM Layoffs Accelerate Based on Rumours
• 2026-04-06 ^04:26 Another Microsoft Outlook Downtime
• 2026-04-06 ^04:44 EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part XI - EPO Strike Enters Its Second Week, EPO Sheds Off Qualified Staff to Make Way for Nepotists
• 2026-04-06 ^04:51 Links 06/04/2026: Ex-Microsoft Engineer Explains Why Azure Fails, Germany Prepares for War
• 2026-04-06 ^05:00 Links 06/04/2026: Turning 34, Throwing Things Away, and Printing in GNU/Linux
• 2026-04-06 ^05:26 The Wars Aren't Ending, Now We See GAFAM Facilities Being Bombed
• 2026-04-06 ^05:47 The Military Attacks on Dubai Internet City as Reminder That GAFAM Isn't Safe (Disregard the "Nobody Gets Fired for Buying GAFAM" Mindset)
• 2026-04-06 ^06:10 Techrights Was Further Decentralised Three Years Ago
• 2026-04-06 ^06:50 Free Software Will Outlive GAFAM
• 2026-04-06 ^07:48 You Know "The Economy" is Fake When 6 Months After Oracle Says Debt-Saddled 'Open' 'AI' (Slop) Will Pay It $300,000,000,000 Oracle Says It Must Lay Off 30,000 Workers at 6AM
• 2026-04-06 ^08:05 Enron Versus NVIDIA (the Cost of Circular Financing, or Funding Your Own Customers to Buy Your Products) - “The Inventory Paradox” or “The Vibe Revenue Admission”
• 2026-04-06 ^14:17 Links 06/04/2026: Crackers Breached the European Commission, Why "Old Way of Campaigning Won’t Cut It Anymore"
• 2026-04-06 ^14:34 Observing Slop's Demise
• 2026-04-06 ^15:10 GAFAM Paying the Price for Pursuing US Military Money (Taxpayers' Money as 'Stimulus' With Strings Attached)
• 2026-04-06 ^15:29 IBM prioritises a "lot of smoke and hype and use of trending buzzwords"
• 2026-04-06 ^16:09 "Free Speech, Free Press": What the World Needs to Improve
• 2026-04-06 ^17:53 Gemini Links 06/04/2026: Solar Panel Story and Centralisation
• 2026-04-06 ^18:03 SLAPP Censorship - Part 36 Out of 200: Claim KB-2024-003529 in a Nutshell (Microsoft Employee Does Terrible Things, Then Sues the Reporter in Another Continent)
• 2026-04-06 ^18:22 The Cloud of Smoke
• 2026-04-06 ^18:32 Wikileaks is About to Turn 20
• 2026-04-06 ^18:48 What Matters is Software Freedom, Not the Brands
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• 2026-04-07 ^03:33 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-04-07 ^03:33 IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 06, 2026
• 2026-04-07 ^03:36 Gemini Links 07/04/2026: Aircraft Lift Force, Editor History, and Consumer Hardware Stagnation
• 2026-04-07 ^05:08 From Datacentres Boom to Actual Booms That Target Datacentres, Now Struggling to Justify Humongous Energy and Water Consumption
• 2026-04-07 ^05:28 Social Control Media is Not a Viable Business Model
• 2026-04-07 ^05:40 "AI Revolution" Was a Lie: Microsoft CEO Admits What He Calls "AI" is Sometimes Sloppy and Microsoft Admits That Slop is for "Entertainment Purposes Only" (Not for Any Serious Work)
• 2026-04-07 ^05:48 Newer is Not Better, Lunar Edition
• 2026-04-07 ^06:20 To IBMers, IBM Has Failed and is Fast Becoming a Book of Jokes and One-Word Punchlines
• 2026-04-07 ^08:26 Links 07/04/2026: US Wants to Put Journalists in Prison for Reporting Facts, Artist ‘Bale’ Arrested Over Rape Allegation in Social Control Media
• 2026-04-07 ^09:03 Public Presentations by RMS Hardly Interrupted Anymore
• 2026-04-07 ^09:11 A Lot of What Happened to OSI is Because of Reporting by Techrights
• 2026-04-07 ^09:34 After Killing OpenSource.org IBM Together With OSI Told Us It Would Carry on OpenSource.net, But the Site Has Been Essentially Dead for 9 Months (Effectively Abandoned)
• 2026-04-07 ^09:48 IBM Insiders Say What's Wrong With IBM in Albany (and Yes, There Are Layoffs)
• 2026-04-07 ^10:11 It Would be Good for Debian to Have a Female DPL, But...
• 2026-04-07 ^14:18 Gemini Links 07/04/2026: Copyleft Revisited, Killing Linux Processes With FZF
• 2026-04-07 ^14:28 Links 07/04/2026: Patent Trolls Leigh M. Rothschild, Bolstered by GNOME and OIN, Continues to Attack; ‘Retaliatory Antitrust Suit’ by MElon
• 2026-04-07 ^14:36 linuxbuz.com is a Slopfarm, It Depends on LLMs
• 2026-04-07 ^15:04 Microsoft: Move Over, XBox, Slop is the New "Entertainment" and We Demote Our "Entertainment" CEO
• 2026-04-07 ^16:25 When Energy Prices Double in About a Month the Slop Bros Won't Sleep at Night
• 2026-04-07 ^16:39 Maintenance Later This Month
• 2026-04-07 ^16:45 Microsoft Has Lost Nearly 20% in "Desktop Operating System Market Share" Since COVID-19 Began
• 2026-04-07 ^17:21 SLAPP Censorship - Part 37 Out of 200: The Correct Suspicion Garrett and Graveley Were Collaborating in Overseas Litigation Against Critics
• 2026-04-07 ^17:55 American Back Doors No Longer Trusted by Europeans
• 2026-04-07 ^18:30 Harassment by Microsoft, Then a Cover-up
• 2026-04-07 ^18:47 Growing Awareness of Techrights' Importance
• 2026-04-07 ^19:06 2026 Starting to Feel Like 2020
• 2026-04-07 ^19:34 Azure is Dying, the "Entertainment" (Slop) Couldn't Lift Up Fake 'Demand' For Azure
• 2026-04-07 ^19:58 Ubuntu More Honest Than Microsoft Windows
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• 2026-04-08 ^04:19 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 07, 2026
• 2026-04-08 ^04:20 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-04-08 ^04:28 Gemini Links 08/04/2026: GPG Symmetric Encryption and Slop in USENET
• 2026-04-08 ^04:53 April 2026 FSF LibreLocal Concludes in Atlanta
• 2026-04-08 ^05:09 What Communities Mean and Look Like (If They're Effective and Focused)
• 2026-04-08 ^05:34 Software Freedom is Closely Connected to Privacy
• 2026-04-08 ^06:15 SLAPP Censorship - Part 38 Out of 200: Advertisement or £10,000+ Classified Ad in the Form of Court Filing in Another Continent
• 2026-04-08 ^06:34 Are Some Obscure or Chinese Operating Systems (Like Huawei's) Taking Over in "Unknown" Clothing?
• 2026-04-08 ^07:07 Microsoft Shares Down 35% in 5 Months, Executives Leave Microsoft
• 2026-04-08 ^07:15 Associated Press Failed Financially, Now It's Offloading What's Left to Slop (How Sites Die 'Cheaply')
• 2026-04-08 ^07:28 IBM Red Hat Profited From 5+ Weeks of War in Iran
• 2026-04-08 ^07:42 A Lot of Law Firms Are Collapsing
• 2026-04-08 ^12:10 Links 08/04/2026: Dems Call for 25th Amendment Remedy, Bill Epsteingate Summoned in Jeffrey Epstein Investigation
• 2026-04-08 ^17:13 Links 08/04/2026: GAFAM "Abandons Multi-Billion Dollar Data Centres in US as Investors Demand Energy, Water Usage"; Artemis II Astronauts Updates
• 2026-04-08 ^17:33 Gemini Links 08/04/2026: "Managing Dotfiles with GNU Stow" and "Observations on Blocking Various Webbots"
• 2026-04-08 ^17:47 Slopfarms Marginalised, Some Suspend Operations
• 2026-04-08 ^19:04 Malicious Bots
• 2026-04-08 ^19:17 IBM's Fedora Project Sees Sharp Increase (Over 25%) in Code of Conduct Complaints, i.e. Censorship Demands
• 2026-04-08 ^19:36 Microsoft Azure is Now “Perpetually on Life Support”, Even Microsoft Sites Express Concerns
• 2026-04-08 ^20:46 SLAPP Censorship - Part 39 Out of 200: Recycled Text for Garrett and Graveley (Buy One, Get One Free?)
• 2026-04-08 ^20:59 Countries Where Windows is Measured Below 1%
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• 2026-04-09 ^04:46 Gemini Links 09/04/2026: On the Radio, Boogie Notes, Slop in Search Engines and USENET
• 2026-04-09 ^04:48 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 08, 2026
• 2026-04-09 ^04:49 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-04-09 ^05:16 IBM Layoffs by Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) and More Evidence of Layoffs at HashiCorp After IBM Took Over
• 2026-04-09 ^06:45 SLAPP Censorship - Part 40 Out of 200: Putting Forth Frivolous Claim Only a Few Days Before Running Out of Time (12 Months)
• 2026-04-09 ^06:57 Microsoft Windows in Ireland: From 90% to Just 16%
• 2026-04-09 ^07:15 Microsoft Also Fires Senior Executives
• 2026-04-09 ^07:55 Chatbots (or LLMs) Are Killing Us, and We Ought to Talk About It
• 2026-04-09 ^08:44 Microsoft's DevDiv Executive Has Quit (Is GitHub on the Chopping Block?)
• 2026-04-09 ^09:01 Links 09/04/2026: TikTok Sets Up Another Outpost in Finland (EU), "Trump Attacks On Public Media Blocked by Judge"
• 2026-04-09 ^18:55 Gemini Links 09/04/2026: Shopping, LLMs That Ruin the Net, and Moving to GNU/Linux
• 2026-04-09 ^18:58 Links 09/04/2026: Microsoft Attacking VeraCrypt and "Canada’s New Surveillance Law"
• 2026-04-09 ^19:05 Quick Roundup of "Linux" Slop
• 2026-04-09 ^19:34 Henry Abbott (TrueHoop) Says Microsoft Taken Public by Alvin Bernard "Buzzy" Krongard (in New Interview About Jeffrey Epstein)
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• 2026-04-10 ^02:45 Gemini Links 10/04/2026: Cycling, Slop, and Software to Keep Photos Organised
• 2026-04-10 ^02:47 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 09, 2026
• 2026-04-10 ^02:48 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-04-10 ^03:09 April 15: Richard Stallman to Speak at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas
• 2026-04-10 ^03:23 Microsoft, Drowning in Net Debt, Will Make Many More Cuts
• 2026-04-10 ^03:44 Many Layoffs at IBM Red Hat, as the Rumours Said
• 2026-04-10 ^04:20 "IBM is Constantly Laying Off People" (Not Just in Red Hat)
• 2026-04-10 ^06:02 The Slop Delusion: This Morning We Broke Story on Red Hat Layoffs in Two Posts, Google is Already Plagiarising Them With Slop and Getting the Basic Facts Wrong
• 2026-04-10 ^06:34 Dr. Andy Farnell Blasts Misuse of the Term "AI" to Describe Plagiarism, Plunder, and Misinformation
• 2026-04-10 ^06:52 A Sign of Progress?
• 2026-04-10 ^08:20 SLAPP Censorship - Part 41 Out of 200: More Misuse of UK-GDPR (for US Citizens), More Copy-Pasting for Garrett and Graveley, Alleging That Publishing Unflattering Information is a 'Privacy' Issue
• 2026-04-10 ^08:40 Links 10/04/2026: Pseudoscience and "Amazon Pulls Support for Perfectly Fine Older Kindles" and More Attacks on American Journalism
• 2026-04-10 ^10:21 We'll Never Ever Do Social Control Media, Nate Silver's Article Helps Explain Why
• 2026-04-10 ^10:44 Raw: Extensive Evidence of Red Hat's Mass Layoffs in China (IBM Meets Geopolitics)
• 2026-04-10 ^10:49 More Information on IBM Red Hat Layoffs in April 2026, Hundreds of Skilled GNU/Linux Engineers Laid Off (300+ Simultaneously)
• 2026-04-10 ^11:06 This Coming Weekend and Next Week We'll Cover EPO Scandals a Lot, There Are Still Perpetual Strikes That the Media Intentionally Avoids Covering
• 2026-04-10 ^11:31 SLAPP Censorship - Part 42 Out of 200: Getting the Very Basic Technical Concepts Very Wrong, or Where Miscomprehension Begets "Plausible Deniability"
• 2026-04-10 ^11:51 IBM 'Value' Fell 20%, The Executives Took Bonuses and Bonus Hikes
• 2026-04-10 ^17:02 Media Blackout Regarding Mass Layoffs at Red Hat
• 2026-04-10 ^18:30 Links 10/04/2026: Indonesia's Social Control Media Bans Extend to Google YouTube, "I.M.F. Says Iran War Will Drag Global Growth Lower"
• 2026-04-10 ^19:05 Gemini Links 10/04/2026: Flexiveganism, What Happened to Twitter, and Algorithm Fetishes
• 2026-04-10 ^19:20 Slopfarms We Forget About Because They Silently Die
• 2026-04-10 ^19:33 IBM and Red Hat Whistleblowers Versus a Dying Fourth Estate (Journalism Seems to Have Died as Silently as IBM RAs Go)
• 2026-04-10 ^20:01 While Thousands of EPO Workers Are on Strike the President of the EPO, Who Bribes His Voters, Gives Himself Millions of Euros and 5,000 Euros Per Month in Housing Allowance
• 2026-04-10 ^21:21 Three Years Ago We Disconnected From the United States, Now France Does the Same
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• 2026-04-11 ^05:13 IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 10, 2026
• 2026-04-11 ^05:15 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-04-11 ^05:44 The Register MS, About 6 Million Pounds in Debt, Helps Promote Microsoft's Gartner Group and Prop Up the Ponzi Scheme of Slop Plagiarism, Fake Article Mentions "AI" About 20 Times
• 2026-04-11 ^06:26 Almost 3 Days Later, Still Zero Press Coverage (Except One Publisher) About Mass Layoffs at Red Hat, Almost 500 People Laid Off (Over 400 for Sure)
• 2026-04-11 ^06:50 thenextweb.com (TNW) Appears to Have Become a Slopfarm, Fake Articles About France and GNU/Linux Flood the Web
• 2026-04-11 ^07:59 Links 11/04/2026: Twitter Presence Considered Harmful to News Sites, "The Future of Everything is Lies"
• 2026-04-11 ^17:15 Links 11/04/2026: Scam Altman’s Trust Issues at OpenAI and EFF Quitting Twitter
• 2026-04-11 ^17:33 Gemini Links 11/04/2026: Critique of Delta Chat and Why Trying to Emulate Centralised, Addictive "Facebook" is Misguided
• 2026-04-11 ^18:09 The Central Staff Committee of the EPO Explains Late March Meetings Coinciding With Commencement of the Non-Stop Strikes at Europe's Second-Largest Institution
• 2026-04-11 ^18:37 Disgruntled IBMers Explain Why IBM is Circling Down a Death Spiral, Gerstner (Recently Deceased) Destroyed IBM in April 1993, and IBM Now Weaponises PIPs to Attack Its Own
• 2026-04-11 ^18:43 statCounter: Microsoft Windows Falls to All-Time Low This Month in France
• 2026-04-11 ^20:13 Gemini Links 11/04/2026: Floppy Disks on Linux and Junix
• 2026-04-11 ^20:53 SLAPP Censorship - Part 43 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley Particulars of Claims Almost Identical and 5RB Needs to Investigate Its Barristers (Its Reputation is at Stake)
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• 2026-04-12 ^04:19 Red Hat: We Kill People, But Please Obey the CoC or We'll Banish You
• 2026-04-12 ^04:31 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 11, 2026
• 2026-04-12 ^04:32 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-04-12 ^05:23 Gemini Links 12/04/2026: "Objective Truth" and Flutter
• 2026-04-12 ^05:25 Links 12/04/2026: Mass Rebellion Against Slop, UK Crackdown on Nudification by Slop
• 2026-04-12 ^05:41 Resistance to SLAPPs in the UK: Coalition Growing
• 2026-04-12 ^09:30 When Cruelty is the Point (American SLAPPs in London, the United Kingdom, Europe)
• 2026-04-12 ^13:12 Racism and IBM
• 2026-04-12 ^14:35 Links 12/04/2026: SLAPPs Against Thai Journalists Who Expose High-Level Corruption, Maharlika (Philippines/Marcos) Threatens to Lawyer Up Against GAFAM to Demand Censorship of Critics
• 2026-04-12 ^15:00 EPO on Strike This Past Friday (All Major Sites), Massive Strike Continues Tomorrow
• 2026-04-12 ^17:14 SLAPP Censorship - Part 44 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley 'Copypasta' Sunday (Copy-Paste, Add One Word, Change 'T' to 't')
• 2026-04-12 ^18:13 The Energy Crisis Will Likely Carry on and Kill the Slop Industry
• 2026-04-12 ^20:39 Gemini Links 12/04/2026: Passports, Science, and Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology
• 2026-04-12 ^20:45 Links 12/04/2026: Climate, Conflict, and Change in Hungaristan

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