Chronological Index, Page 149

• 2026-07-13 ^22:37 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, July 12, 2026
• 2026-07-13 ^22:38 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-07-13 ^22:57 The Register MS: "AI" Puff Pieces for Sale, Not Journalism at All, Just "Webspam"
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• 2026-07-14 ^00:33 Links 14/07/2026: "The Freedom of Information Act Is in Serious Trouble"; Irish Datacenters Use Up Almost 25% of Total Energy
• 2026-07-14 ^01:20 Internet Relay Chat Trolls Are Not Expressing Opinions, They Are Saboteurs
• 2026-07-14 ^01:43 Modern Technology Harms Women More Than Men (Because the 'Tech Bros' Who Dominate STEM Have a Poor View of Women)
• 2026-07-14 ^02:02 IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 13, 2026
• 2026-07-14 ^02:03 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-07-14 ^02:28 Gemini Links 14/07/2026: Self-Advocacy Online; "The Internet Is Dead: How the Web Lost Its Human Soul"
• 2026-07-14 ^02:34 The Register MS Has Just Published "AI" Webspam That Mentions "AI" 54 Times. It Was Paid to Do This.
• 2026-07-14 ^08:01 Links 14/07/2026: Plagiarism Spun as "Training", Zelensky Announces Leadership Shuffle
• 2026-07-14 ^12:24 Microsoft Layoffs Not Limited to XBox (False Narrative in the Mainstream Media)
• 2026-07-14 ^12:42 In Defence of Physical Tickets
• 2026-07-14 ^15:40 Gemini Links 14/07/2026: Old CD Binder and AWK
• 2026-07-14 ^17:23 Links 14/07/2026: Harsh But Also Fair Criticism of Hey Hi (AI) Slop, 'Open' AI Shuts Down Its Own Products as Funds Run Out
• 2026-07-14 ^17:49 How Software Freedom Would Benefit Everybody
• 2026-07-14 ^17:58 I'll Be Extremely Difficult for Microsoft to Sell Any XBox Consoles Now
• 2026-07-14 ^18:08 IBM Stock Collapses and It's Only the Beginning
• 2026-07-14 ^18:47 IBM the Next Bear Stearns
• 2026-07-14 ^19:00 Red Hat Staff Needs to Start Looking for the Next Job
• 2026-07-14 ^19:10 IBM: From $306 to $212 in 7 Days, IBM Won't Go Up More Than 50% to Where It Was at 'Peak Vapourware'
• 2026-07-14 ^19:26 The Register MS and Its Promotional Microsoft Content
• 2026-07-14 ^19:40 Matters of Public Safety
• 2026-07-14 ^19:52 Michael McMahon Explains Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks on the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
• 2026-07-14 ^20:02 Heshan de Silva-Weeramuni Becomes Program Manager at the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
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• 2026-07-15 ^04:12 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 14, 2026
• 2026-07-15 ^04:13 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-07-15 ^08:13 Gemini Links 15/07/2026: Old Computer Challenge, "Trial by Fire", LLM Slop Destroying Companies
• 2026-07-15 ^08:16 Links 15/07/2026: US Regime "Cuts Two Utah National Monuments by More Than 90%", "Hormuz is Less Crucial Than It Was"
• 2026-07-15 ^08:48 GNU/Linux Estimated at 8% "Market Share" Today (in statCounter)
• 2026-07-15 ^09:52 LibreTech Collective Abandons Microsoft GitHub and All Other Proprietary Software
• 2026-07-15 ^10:06 EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part XIV - "Not One of Us" (How the Group Dubbed by EPO Insiders "Alicante Mafia" Pushes Out Talent, Replacing It With Friends)
• 2026-07-15 ^10:40 Who Next After IBM? (Bubbles Don't Last Forever)
• 2026-07-15 ^10:53 How to Properly Measure the Performance of a Patent Office
• 2026-07-15 ^11:38 Violence is Not a Joke
• 2026-07-15 ^11:53 Focusing on What We Really Ought to Focus on
• 2026-07-15 ^12:09 Strikes at the EPO Approved for the Rest of the Year, "€1,3 Billion Taken From Staff Income"
• 2026-07-15 ^12:28 Making Techrights Faster Down Under (Australia and New Zealand)
• 2026-07-15 ^12:49 How Long Before GNU/Linux is Measured at 20% in Chad?
• 2026-07-15 ^13:09 Like Kyndryl, Multiple Securities Fraud Investigations Into IBM
• 2026-07-15 ^14:55 IBM's Crash Continues Today
• 2026-07-15 ^15:06 Microsoft Whistleblowers Say "The Entire Thing is Going to Fall Apart" and There Are "No Benefits" to Being Part of Microsoft
• 2026-07-15 ^16:39 IBM Sinking to Lowest Levels Since 2024, But Will Any Executives Be Arrested for Securities Fraud?
• 2026-07-15 ^17:35 Get Ready for Increase in PIPs and RAs at IBM, Red Hat, and Other Companies Devoured by IBM
• 2026-07-15 ^17:48 Techrights Was Right: Microsoft's Layoffs Tally Was False, Far More People Are Being Sacked
• 2026-07-15 ^18:07 Allegedly More IBM RAs (Mass Layoffs) Same Day the Stock Crashed
• 2026-07-15 ^19:04 Links 15/07/2026: "Gianni Infantino Under Fire" and "Todd Blanche's Record Raises Alarming Questions About the Future of the US DOJ"
• 2026-07-15 ^19:15 Gemini Links 15/07/2026: Lab 6, Retrospective 2, and "Getting Back Into Gemini"
• 2026-07-15 ^19:55 UEFI 'Secure Boot' Still Not Secure in 2026, New Holes (or Bypasses) Still Being Found
• 2026-07-15 ^20:03 IBM Down to $211.20, the Market in General is Up
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• 2026-07-16 ^05:24 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 15, 2026
• 2026-07-16 ^05:25 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-07-16 ^07:04 Technology Against Human Nature
• 2026-07-16 ^07:30 Rebellion Brewing at Microsoft
• 2026-07-16 ^07:57 Gemini Links 16/07/2026: Photography, Agility, and "Today I have Truly Become a Linux User."
• 2026-07-16 ^07:59 Links 16/07/2026: Solar Greenwashing by Energy-Wasting GAFAM and Growing Concerns About Harm by Social Control Media
• 2026-07-16 ^14:36 IBM's Next Stop: $199 (Market Cap Already Under 2.5 Times IBM's Debt)
• 2026-07-16 ^15:00 No Skinnerboxes, No Slop, No False Idols or Corporate Prophets
• 2026-07-16 ^15:20 Techrights is Annoying People Who Work for (and Serve) People Who Annoy (and Abuse) Society
• 2026-07-16 ^15:57 One Year Has Passed
• 2026-07-16 ^16:18 Windows Down to 10% in India
• 2026-07-16 ^16:32 Illusions of Choice
• 2026-07-16 ^17:18 Public Interest News Foundation Shows News Drought or News Deserts in the United Kingdom
• 2026-07-16 ^17:40 Tomorrow is Another Strike Day at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the Media is Still Deliberately Ignoring It
• 2026-07-16 ^18:15 Last Summer Microsoft Mass Layoffs Came in Two Large Waves, Rumours Say Next Week Another Large Wave is Coming
• 2026-07-16 ^18:22 Gemini Links 16/07/2026: esp32-gemserv, Slop-Contaminated Free Software, and Moving Systems
• 2026-07-16 ^19:52 Microsoft Whistleblowers Explain How Brutal the Latest Cull is (Layoffs in Seconds-Long Calls, Mass Elimination of Whole Studios and High-Level Officials)
• 2026-07-16 ^20:04 GNU/Linux Approaching 5% "Market Share" in Oceania, Almost Trebling in 12 Months
• 2026-07-16 ^21:41 Links 16/07/2026: Slop Recognised as a Waste of Energy, Hong Kong Cracking Down on Dissent/Opposition Some More
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• 2026-07-17 ^05:15 Gemini Links 17/07/2026: Sunlight in the Clouds, Techno-Therapy, and Sloppifying Original Text
• 2026-07-17 ^05:17 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 16, 2026
• 2026-07-17 ^05:18 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-07-17 ^06:50 Nichirei and Asahi Beer Need to Take Cyberattacks as Hint of Opportunity to Move to Free Software
• 2026-07-17 ^07:10 Links 17/07/2026: Microsoft is Cutting OneDrive Coverage, Larry Ellison Sued by Paramount Investor
• 2026-07-17 ^07:52 Richard Stallman Always Cautioned, Upfront, That His Political Views Were Wholly Separate From His Scientific Work or GNU
• 2026-07-17 ^08:07 Microsoft Has Just Been Sued Over Layoffs
• 2026-07-17 ^08:11 Teaser: Daniel Pocock is About to Go Mainstream Again
• 2026-07-17 ^08:27 GitHub is Dying (Traffic Down Despite Bots and Slop), Microsoft Will Eventually Cull it - Just Like XBox - to Limit the Losses
• 2026-07-17 ^08:41 "Market Share" of GNU/Linux Nearly Trebled in Cambodia This Month
• 2026-07-17 ^08:42 EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part XV - Nazi-Like Thinking at the European Patent Office (EPO) Not a Thing of the Past
• 2026-07-17 ^09:13 The Register MS is Publishing Spam for Gartner Group to Spread Hype About "AI", Mentioned 30 Times in the Paid (Fake) Article
• 2026-07-17 ^09:36 Tux Machines Moving Onwards and Upwards
• 2026-07-17 ^09:54 IBM SHAREHOLDER INVESTIGATION: Potential Securities Claims Involving International Business Machines (IBM)
• 2026-07-17 ^10:24 IBM Can Burn Pensioners to Appease Wall Street and Protect the Billionaire CEO With His Humongous Bonuses
• 2026-07-17 ^11:43 ServiceNow/ServiceLine and Slop at the EPO is Becoming a Health Risk to Staff
• 2026-07-17 ^12:12 Daniel Pocock Running for Office Again, Clacton-on-Sea By-election
• 2026-07-17 ^12:57 27-Year IBM Veteran on IBM: "Worse than the Titanic and Perhaps Just Like Madoff, Enron, etc."
• 2026-07-17 ^13:27 GNU/Linux Grows at the Expense of Microsoft Windows in Croatia, Now Close to 8%
• 2026-07-17 ^14:57 “Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software”
• 2026-07-17 ^15:20 Why I Quit Academic Career (or Academia) Nearly 15 Years Ago
• 2026-07-17 ^15:49 In Defence of Courts' Privacy Policies
• 2026-07-17 ^16:21 One Heck of a Week for IBM, the 'Grandpa' of 'High-Tech', International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM) Under Investigation by Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC
• 2026-07-17 ^16:33 Layoffs at Microsoft Are Massive, Go Under the Radar for the Most Part
• 2026-07-17 ^16:47 Farage Out, Daniel Pocock in?
• 2026-07-17 ^17:25 Andy Burnham as National Leader Would be Excellent for Techrights
• 2026-07-17 ^19:26 Daniel Pocock as Independent Candidate, Now in The London Standard
• 2026-07-17 ^20:58 Gemini Links 17/07/2026: "Silence Doesn't Mean Abandoned", Revisiting PalmOS in 2026
• 2026-07-17 ^21:01 Links 17/07/2026: Protests Erupt Throughout Ukraine and Anthropic Caught Secretly Spying on Users
• 2026-07-17 ^21:41 IBM Already Tentatively Down for Next Week (Monday) After Its Worst-Ever Week
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• 2026-07-18 ^05:26 Gemini Links 18/07/2026: A Manifesto by The Dissident, Shokz Headphones, and Gemini Tinylog Reader (GTL)
• 2026-07-18 ^05:28 IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 17, 2026
• 2026-07-18 ^05:29 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-07-18 ^06:57 Links 18/07/2026: Spotify Uses Slop Song Descriptions, "San Francisco Demands Removal of Nudify Apps"
• 2026-07-18 ^07:13 Daniel Pocock's Candidacy (Election of Member of Parliament) Mentioned in BBC and Over a Dozen News Sites Since Yesterday
• 2026-07-18 ^07:40 PIP-Styled Mass Layoffs Allegedly Coming to Microsoft by 12 August 2026
• 2026-07-18 ^07:58 In Free Software, Nobody Gets Fired
• 2026-07-18 ^13:59 Independent, But Not Fringe
• 2026-07-18 ^14:36 Explaining the Culture of Bulletin Board-Style Chat
• 2026-07-18 ^15:06 Only "Torvaldos" (Linus Torvalds) Can Use the F-Word, CoC Does Not Apply to the Enforcer, and Richard Stallman Punished for Using the Other F-Word ("Freedom")
• 2026-07-18 ^15:52 We Don't Depend on Google (or Search Engines in General)
• 2026-07-18 ^16:19 After 5 Years Vista 11 Still Adopted Less Than Its Predecessor (Orphaned, End of Life Since Last Year)
• 2026-07-18 ^16:37 First Female Debian Project Leader (DPL) Affirms Low Profile and Inferior Status of Women in GAFAM
• 2026-07-18 ^17:09 "But Stallman is Scaring Away Women..."
• 2026-07-18 ^17:18 No Technical People Write About UK Parliamentary Elections
• 2026-07-18 ^17:24 Bolivian People Adopt GNU/Linux (They Have a Domestic Distro Too, PluriOS)
• 2026-07-18 ^17:36 Can We Finally All Agree That UEFI 'Secure Boot' is a Sham That Harms Security and Gives Microsoft Remote Control Over All PCs and Servers (Even Those That Don't Run Any Microsoft Software)?
• 2026-07-18 ^17:50 It's Not About XBox, Microsoft is Already Firing Hundreds of People Who Do "Security [sic] Engineering" [sic]
• 2026-07-18 ^18:22 This Bubble is Bursting, Piecewise
• 2026-07-18 ^19:20 GNU/Linux in Lithuanian Desktops/Laptops Climbs to 8%, the Global Average
• 2026-07-18 ^19:33 Gemini Links 18/07/2026: "Business Idiots Everywhere", "The Siren Song of DePIN", and Entering Geminispace
• 2026-07-18 ^20:36 Links 18/07/2026: Chinese State Media Depicting Neighbours as Monkeys, US "Stocks Sink on Anxiety About Tech and Hey Hi (AI) Spending"
• 2026-07-18 ^20:54 UKIP TV (GBNoise) Covers Challengers to UKIP Nigel, Daniel Pocock Mentioned
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• 2026-07-19 ^04:11 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 18, 2026
• 2026-07-19 ^04:12 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-07-19 ^05:16 Free Software is Like an 'Activist Movement'
• 2026-07-19 ^05:37 GNU/Linux Rising to 6% in Brunei
• 2026-07-19 ^05:55 The State of Slopfarms
• 2026-07-19 ^10:27 Gemini Links 19/07/2026: Camping, Health, and Hardware
• 2026-07-19 ^10:28 Links 19/07/2026: People in China Are Buying Feelings and 404 Media Has Third Anniversary
• 2026-07-19 ^13:17 Microsoft Lost 1,200 Billion Dollars in "Market Value", Take a Look at What Happened to Windows
• 2026-07-19 ^13:34 XBox Layoffs Vastly Bigger Than Microsoft Told the Press, Microsoft Keeps Trying to Change the Subject
• 2026-07-19 ^13:48 The "Modern Linux" Song
• 2026-07-19 ^14:31 'Journalists' Who Help IBM Cover Up Fraud
• 2026-07-19 ^15:01 Keep Both Eyes on the Ball
• 2026-07-19 ^17:25 Links 19/07/2026: "The Voice of Google" and "Chinese Surveillance Tech a Threat to Privacy"
• 2026-07-19 ^17:46 GNU/Linux Rises to 8% in Bhutan, Same as the International Average
• 2026-07-19 ^17:57 IRC Started in Finland, GNU/Linux Did Not
• 2026-07-19 ^18:14 Microsoft XBox Studio Leaders Upset at What the New CEO Did
• 2026-07-19 ^18:27 Telling Our Story
• 2026-07-19 ^19:01 Tears in IBM, Company Falls Apart While Management Fakes "Performance" to Take Bonuses
• 2026-07-19 ^19:16 Gemini Links 19/07/2026: Visiting Ethiopia, Two Dreams, and Price of Skinnerboxes
• 2026-07-19 ^19:22 GNU/Linux "Market Share" Rises to About a Quarter in Sudan
• 2026-07-19 ^19:40 Microsoft is a Right-Wing Company
• 2026-07-19 ^20:11 As Envisioned, a Rebellion and Many Whistleblowers at Microsoft
• 2026-07-19 ^20:24 Misleading Coverage in Slashdot Promotes and Openwashes Slop

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