Chronological Index, Page 152

• 2026-08-03 ^03:29 Gemini Links 03/08/2026: Collectibles, Cities of the Red Night, and Lali Lambda
• 2026-08-03 ^03:30 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 02, 2026
• 2026-08-03 ^03:31 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-08-03 ^03:43 Many Anniversaries
• 2026-08-03 ^04:14 Not Hard to Guess Who Will Pay for IBM's Collapse (Due to False Statements Made to Shareholders), Red Hat May Disappear
• 2026-08-03 ^04:34 It's Easy to Predict Microsoft Layoffs for October 2026 Because of the Financial 'Results' That Month (More Faking, More Secret Debt and Buzzwords to Perfume This Debt as "Investment")
• 2026-08-03 ^05:02 GNU/Linux at 8% in Croatia
• 2026-08-03 ^05:09 Forcing the Slop Bubble to Implode Fully to Save the Economy From an Even Greater Collapse and Societal Harm
• 2026-08-03 ^05:35 Fanning the Flames of Journalism
• 2026-08-03 ^05:50 All Social Control Media is a Weapon (Against Its Users, Serving the Real Owners)
• 2026-08-03 ^06:13 In Poor Peru, GNU/Linux Surges From 1% to 5% in a Few Years
• 2026-08-03 ^06:40 Morten Linderud Has Helped Microsoft Put Locks (and Kill Switches) on the PCs of Arch Linux Users
• 2026-08-03 ^07:19 Daniel Pocock on Sky News This Morning
• 2026-08-03 ^08:04 Links 03/08/2026: EU Curtailed Slop, Frank Zappa Recalled
• 2026-08-03 ^15:15 Links 03/08/2026: Strike By Flight Attendants (WestJet) and Greedflation
• 2026-08-03 ^15:41 GNU/Linux-Centric Blogs Belatedly Pick Up News About GNU/Linux Gains: 4-8% Depending on the Surveyor
• 2026-08-03 ^15:54 statCounter Corrects GNU/Linux Estimates, Now Measured at 9% Worldwide
• 2026-08-03 ^15:58 RMS Won the Argument and Now GNU Wins Over Computer Users
• 2026-08-03 ^16:52 Alexandre Oliva on Slippery Slop (LLMs)
• 2026-08-03 ^17:06 The Cyber Show on "Weaponised Antisocial Technology"
• 2026-08-03 ^17:33 Microsoft's Slop Bet is Killing the XBox Even Faster
• 2026-08-03 ^17:45 GNU/Linux Has Surged to 6.3% in Madagascar
• 2026-08-03 ^17:56 Gemini Links 03/08/2026: Great Exodus, xkcd as Text, and Dead Ends
• 2026-08-03 ^18:05 SLAPP Censorship - Part 138 Out of 200: Garrett Has Basically "Lost" and It is "Embarrassing" to Them
• 2026-08-03 ^18:22 GNU/Linux Rises Above 6% in Colombia
• 2026-08-03 ^18:29 Swatting People Who Write About Corruption, Misogyny, Criminal Misuse of Funds
• 2026-08-03 ^18:37 statCounter Estimates GNU/Linux at 5.32% in Kuwait, Years Ago It Was Near 0%
• 2026-08-03 ^19:13 IBM Has Embraced and Rewarded Liars
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• 2026-08-04 ^05:22 Gemini Links 04/08/2026: Library Cards, Dead Ends in Software Development, and DOS on USB Key
• 2026-08-04 ^05:30 Over 3,500 Known Gemini Capsules Accessible and Active According to Lupa
• 2026-08-04 ^05:42 IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 03, 2026
• 2026-08-04 ^05:43 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-08-04 ^06:09 LLM Slop Won't Replace People and Jobs (in the Long Run)
• 2026-08-04 ^06:35 Many Anniversaries [updated]
• 2026-08-04 ^06:40 IBM Innovation: It Has Invented New Methods of Silent Layoffs or Secret RAs
• 2026-08-04 ^07:07 Afghanistan: GNU/Linux Steadily Rises to 9%
• 2026-08-04 ^07:35 Ableism in the Free Software Movement Typically Comes From GAFAM Operatives and Proprietary Software Apologists
• 2026-08-04 ^08:16 Microsoft Sites or Sites Sponsored by Microsoft Angry That GNU/Linux is Gaining
• 2026-08-04 ^09:08 Romania: GNU/Linux Reaches 4% (Less Than EU Average)
• 2026-08-04 ^09:17 Microsoft's Share in Search Falls Sharply in Europe
• 2026-08-04 ^09:27 Signs That XBox as a Console is Coming to an End, Windows Gaming Will be Called "XBox"
• 2026-08-04 ^09:57 Links 04/08/2026: "Framework for Musician Burnout" and Alexa+ "is a Buggy Embarrassment"
• 2026-08-04 ^10:12 Rumours of Silent Layoffs in Microsoft This Month (August 2026), PIPs and Global Voluntary Separation Agreement (GVSA), aka "Buyouts"
• 2026-08-04 ^11:04 The 'Hyperinflation' in Hardware Dooms Video Hosting (Very Large Files)
• 2026-08-04 ^11:21 Collapse of MElon Companies a Taste of What's to Come for Slop Bubble and GAFAM (Trillions in Debt, Justified as Slop "Investments")
• 2026-08-04 ^12:02 Brigading Against Women - Part II - Threatening Women Using the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) and Then False Threats Miscarrying the Name of a Court
• 2026-08-04 ^12:33 Rumours of Further IBM Shutdowns
• 2026-08-04 ^13:17 SLAPP Censorship - Part 139 Out of 200: Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Needs More Public Scrutiny (New Management Changed Nothing, It's Costing a Lot of Taxpayers' Money)
• 2026-08-04 ^14:26 Reminder: The Pedophilia Problem Comes From the Accusers
• 2026-08-04 ^14:37 statCounter Reckons 12.33% of Web Traffic in Gambia Can be Attributed to GNU/Linux, Even 15% If Adding ChromeOS
• 2026-08-04 ^14:57 Microsoft is Trying Vapourware Again (to Keep Developers and Gamers From Fleeing)
• 2026-08-04 ^15:27 Worse Than "Taking Your Job", the Slop Pyramid Scheme Will "Take Your Pension"
• 2026-08-04 ^15:44 Abundance of Fake (Sometimes Paid-for) 'News' About IBM Will Discredit the Media as a Whole
• 2026-08-04 ^16:51 Growing Proportion of Linux Commits Being Made by LLMs Not a Sign of LLMs Working, It's a Sign of Linux Development Being Shifted From Community to GAFAM and Other Slop Pushers
• 2026-08-04 ^18:33 Big Blue's Quiet Axe - Poem Regarding IBM "RAs"
• 2026-08-04 ^18:49 Alternate Data (Not IBM's Headcount) to Show Mass Layoffs' Effect at IBM (Despite Many Acquired Workers Via M&A)
• 2026-08-04 ^20:00 Gemini Links 04/08/2026: Root Shell and "Duty of Care"
• 2026-08-04 ^20:04 Links 04/08/2026: GAFAM Expressing Concerns About Dangerous Disinformation by Slop, Bill Epsteingate-Connected Litigation Firm Salivating Over Europe
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• 2026-08-05 ^04:45 Gemini Links 05/08/2026: Being Good, Tildeverse and Tilde.pink, Games
• 2026-08-05 ^04:46 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 04, 2026
• 2026-08-05 ^04:47 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-08-05 ^05:29 IBM CEO Says IBM Won't be Bankrupt by 2028 or 2029 (When He Reaches Retirement Age)
• 2026-08-05 ^06:09 Tanzania: GNU/Linux Now Seen on 8% on Desktops/Laptops (User Clients)
• 2026-08-05 ^07:18 Freedom Includes the Liberty to Disagree (and be Listened to, Not Censored)
• 2026-08-05 ^07:30 The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Web Site is Online, GNU's Site Having Issues (Ongoing Issues)
• 2026-08-05 ^07:37 Luxembourg and Software Freedom
• 2026-08-05 ^13:31 Links 05/08/2026: Internet Archive Harmed by Slop Bot, "EBay And Former Execs Agree to Pay $56 Million For Trying to ‘Crush’ a Journalist"
• 2026-08-05 ^14:04 The Establishment, Cambridge, Steve McIntyre & Debian suicide cluster
• 2026-08-05 ^14:27 Software in the Public Interest (SPI) Starts Spending Big Money in an Effort to Resist Lawsuit From Daniel Pocock
• 2026-08-05 ^14:45 How to Dehumanise a Triple National
• 2026-08-05 ^15:07 In El Salvador, ChromeOS and GNU/Linux Now Measured at Around 12%
• 2026-08-05 ^15:53 No Room for Misogyny and Incels in Free Software
• 2026-08-05 ^16:18 In Chile, GNU/Linux Approaches 4%
• 2026-08-05 ^17:15 Fertility app privacy, Britain's teenage pregnancies & faith based schooling
• 2026-08-05 ^17:21 The Register MS Takes Money From NVIDIA and HP to Promote Their Ponzi Scheme, "AI", in a Fake 'Article' That Says "AI" 42 Times
• 2026-08-05 ^17:40 analytics.usa.gov Says 7% of Sessions Come From GNU/Linux and ChromeOS. If ~40% (Mobile) Get Omitted, It's More Like 11%.
• 2026-08-05 ^18:20 Gemini Links 05/08/2026: No to Slop, Dangers of Clown Computing, and Reducing Internet Usage
• 2026-08-05 ^20:08 Links 05/08/2026: Microsoft's (XBox's) "Devastating July" and "Never Write With" Slop, Says New York Times
• 2026-08-05 ^20:53 Debian losses in Switzerland hidden until after DPL election debate
• 2026-08-05 ^21:17 SLAPP Censorship - Part 140 Out of 200: You Become What You Eat, Your Clients Become You
• 2026-08-05 ^21:50 The Establishment, Oxford, Google & Debian artificial intelligence conspiracies
• 2026-08-05 ^22:06 Gemini Links 05/08/2026: Family Room, Smoke, and Alarm clocks
• 2026-08-05 ^22:24 GNU/Linux Seen Exceeding 10% in Antigua and Barbuda
• 2026-08-05 ^22:31 Big Announcement Tomorrow
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• 2026-08-06 ^05:19 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 05, 2026
• 2026-08-06 ^05:21 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-08-06 ^05:36 Gemini Links 06/08/2026: "Eat That Frog", Mutt Terminal Email Guide, and BASICODE
• 2026-08-06 ^06:03 Texts of the Claims From Balabhadra (Alex) Graveley and Matthew J. Garrett Almost Identical, I am Suing for Abuse of Process
• 2026-08-06 ^06:44 SLAPP Censorship - Part 141 Out of 200: Brett Wilson LLP Failed to Learn From the Mistakes of the European Patent Office (EPO)
• 2026-08-06 ^07:43 IBM Cannot Survive for Much Longer, There Are Limits to RAs and Offshoring, IBM Now Asks Workers to Quit
• 2026-08-06 ^08:34 August 2026 Microsoft Layoffs Confirmed by Staff This Week
• 2026-08-06 ^09:19 GAFAM Mass Layoffs and Mountains (Trillions of Dollars in 'Secret' or 'Off-the-Ledger') Debt
• 2026-08-06 ^10:23 A Data Centres Hub Puts Everyone at Risk, Especially People Who Live Near Them at Times of War/s
• 2026-08-06 ^11:09 Maintenance to be Completed Tonight (IPv6)
• 2026-08-06 ^11:33 15% of IBM Staff Marked for Layoffs ("RAs"), the Workers' Objective is to Find Another Employer and Leave
• 2026-08-06 ^12:09 In Brunei, GNU/Linux Approaches International Average of 8.5%
• 2026-08-06 ^12:22 Removing Gender Barriers in Computer Science
• 2026-08-06 ^12:32 New Conference Paper (Science of Cyber Security) Credits RMS With Delaying Passwords
• 2026-08-06 ^12:51 They Call Occupations "Professions" Because the "Pro" Means Something
• 2026-08-06 ^13:54 Many GNU/Linux PCs Are Not Connected to the Net or Don't Use the Web
• 2026-08-06 ^14:07 Start of September 2026 'Voluntary' Mass Layoffs at IBM, Start of October Red Hat Employees Forced Into the 'Bloodbath' (After Collapse of IBM's Shares)
• 2026-08-06 ^14:41 IBM Mass Layoffs Began Yesterday, They're Sold as "Voluntary", the "Offer" Runs for Two Weeks (Last Day August 19th 2026)
• 2026-08-06 ^16:11 Links 06/08/2026: Disney and Fentanylware (TikTok) Deal, "Hearing Aids Shenanigans"
• 2026-08-06 ^17:24 Daniel Pocock on a "metre-long ballot paper"
• 2026-08-06 ^17:41 A Long Break and What's Coming Next Year
• 2026-08-06 ^20:46 Links 06/08/2026: Billboard Chart Contaminated by Slop Plagiarists, Sheinbaum Blasts Social Control Media
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• 2026-08-07 ^04:23 Gemini Links 07/08/2026: Radio Amateurism, Summer Updates, and Programming "Taste"
• 2026-08-07 ^04:24 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 06, 2026
• 2026-08-07 ^04:26 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-08-07 ^04:37 GNU/Linux Approaching 20% in Georgia (the Country)
• 2026-08-07 ^04:50 The Register MS Took Money From Broadcom to Publish Fake 'News' With "AI" Mentioned 35 Times
• 2026-08-07 ^05:21 IBM Insiders Explain Why IBM is in Very Serious Trouble
• 2026-08-07 ^05:47 At Clacton by-election Hustings Event Daniel Pocock Says "Social [Control] Media Has Contributed to Some of the Anti Social Behaviour."
• 2026-08-07 ^06:02 The GNU/Linux Anniversary is Next Month, Not This Month
• 2026-08-07 ^06:23 Some Malware is Legal Because It's Made and Distributed by Politically-Connected GAFAM
• 2026-08-07 ^06:38 Social [Control] Media Needs to Die
• 2026-08-07 ^06:55 IRC Networks Show No Signs of Going Away, IRC Enters Its 39th Year
• 2026-08-07 ^07:27 What We Said About Red Hat's Fate Under IBM Turned Out to be Right on the Money (That IBM Lacks)
• 2026-08-07 ^08:06 Links 07/08/2026: "BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat", Software Patents on Drones
• 2026-08-07 ^15:58 Links 07/08/2026: UMG and Anthropic in Trouble Over Copyright Infringements Sold as "Training" (Slop)
• 2026-08-07 ^16:37 Microsoft: Our August 2026 Layoffs Are Not Layoffs Because... Reasons
• 2026-08-07 ^17:39 SLAPP Censorship - Part 142 Out of 200: GemText is Not a Webpage, Gemini Protocol is Not the Web, and Capsules Are Not Websites
• 2026-08-07 ^18:52 Daniel Pocock 'Punching' Nazis in the UK
• 2026-08-07 ^18:58 Kai Stephens (Barkley Walsh) & British Democrats in Clacton by-election hustings
• 2026-08-07 ^19:30 Legal Attacks on Techrights Have Made Techrights More Popular and More Widely Read
• 2026-08-07 ^20:03 RA-pocalypse: IBM Tells Workers "Taking a Hike" is Their "Next Step" ('Voluntary' Layoffs), Now It Prepares to Sack Lots of Contractors
• 2026-08-07 ^21:35 analytics.usa.gov: GNU/Linux Up Some More This Week
• 2026-08-07 ^21:53 Microsoft Uses Slop to Find Defects and Then Uses Slop to Replace Code, What Could Go Wrong?
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• 2026-08-08 ^05:02 IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 07, 2026
• 2026-08-08 ^05:03 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-08-08 ^05:20 Gemini Links 08/08/2026: Tribute to Lloyd Center, Radio Amateurism, Homeworlds
• 2026-08-08 ^05:28 Is the Future of IBM Red Hat Temporary Staff, Contractors?
• 2026-08-08 ^05:38 What Will it Take for Mainstream Media to Report Silent or Secret Layoffs at IBM?
• 2026-08-08 ^06:04 More Mass Layoffs Coming IBM's Way (Ones IBM Cannot Hide, Cannot Convince Enough People to Leave or Unjustifiably PIP Them When They Say No)
• 2026-08-08 ^07:09 IBM's 'Final Solution': Censor Sites Not Controlled by IBM, Sites Where Dissent is Expressed
• 2026-08-08 ^07:15 Retained: The Time IBM's Red Hat Tried to Hijack or Take Offline Site of Critics, Failed on All Grounds (Meritless Action Intended to Harass Critics)
• 2026-08-08 ^08:00 Links 08/08/2026: "Palantir Paid No Federal Income Tax" and "Who's Responsible for This Mess?"
• 2026-08-08 ^16:00 Links 08/08/2026: GAFAM Colonialism "Paved Over Protected Wetlands", Slop Companies Hoard Software Patents as Debt Soars to Trillions
• 2026-08-08 ^16:31 GNU/Linux Turns 43 Next Month, Many Distros Actively Maintained
• 2026-08-08 ^17:06 20 Years and 43 Years
• 2026-08-08 ^17:35 SLAPP Censorship - Part 143 Out of 200: After Nearly 10 Attempts to Settle With Us and Over a Million Pounds Spent on Lawyers and Barristers
• 2026-08-08 ^18:17 Kompromat Tactics in GNU and Linux
• 2026-08-08 ^18:34 If GNU/Linux Rising is Just "Bots" (It's Not, Many Surveys Show the Same), Why Does Microsoft Rush to Lie About System Requirements of Vista 11?
• 2026-08-08 ^18:53 Gemini Links 08/08/2026: Gigs, Poems, SREs, and Shared Passion
• 2026-08-08 ^19:46 Red Hat is in Need of a 'Jolla', as an IBM-Controlled Red Hat is Becoming Like the Microsoft-Infiltrated Nokia
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• 2026-08-09 ^03:39 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 08, 2026
• 2026-08-09 ^03:40 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-08-09 ^03:48 Gemini Links 09/08/2026: Meatballs (1979), Gopher, RSS Experiment
• 2026-08-09 ^04:03 XBox is Rotting Away, Technical Issues for Second Time in Two Weeks
• 2026-08-09 ^04:19 IBM's "Next Step" Program
• 2026-08-09 ^04:42 2026: The Year Richard Stallman Came Back to American Campuses
• 2026-08-09 ^05:47 Improving the Static Site Generator (SSG), Fixing Bugs
• 2026-08-09 ^12:34 Controlling One's Platform
• 2026-08-09 ^13:13 Daniel Pocock in the Sunday Times (Today)
• 2026-08-09 ^13:32 Freenode Continues to Shed Off Servers and Users, Good Thing We Abandoned It
• 2026-08-09 ^13:58 10 Days Ago Red Hat Formally Terminated Employment of About 500 Technical Workers (the Media Didn't Mention This)
• 2026-08-09 ^14:36 SLAPP Censorship - Part 144 Out of 200: The "Hired Guns" ("Media" at BW) Shrank Almost Three-Fold Since They Sued Us in 2024
• 2026-08-09 ^16:27 Links 09/08/2026: Social Control Media Weaponises Immigration, Europe Suffers Severe Drought, and "Internet of Stuff" Explained
• 2026-08-09 ^18:28 Gemini Links 09/08/2026: Parakeets in Britain and Rant About 'Modern' Washing Machines
• 2026-08-09 ^18:30 Links 09/08/2026: US Blackouts (Energy Wasted), Slop to Evade Accountability, and Software Patents Framed as "Hey Hi"

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