Chronological Index, Page 153

• 2026-08-10 ^01:56 Gemini Links 10/08/2026: A Mild Monday, Sleepy Saturday, OUYA, and Moving to GNU/Linux
• 2026-08-10 ^01:59 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-08-10 ^01:59 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 09, 2026
• 2026-08-10 ^02:13 DebConf6 fight denied by Google artificial intelligence
• 2026-08-10 ^03:01 Microsoft's "XBOX Ranks Last", IBM is Headed for Extinction
• 2026-08-10 ^03:16 Explaining How Someone Attempted to Cancel RMS This Year (and Failed)
• 2026-08-10 ^03:29 statCounter: GNU/Linux Up to 8.95% Globally
• 2026-08-10 ^03:58 SLAPP Censorship - Part 145 Out of 200: They Tried Hard to Hide the Fact Their Client Had Been Sued, Twice Even
• 2026-08-10 ^04:32 Google's "AI Overview" as Proprietary Censorship Engine and Gatekeeper
• 2026-08-10 ^04:56 Microsoft Killing Morale
• 2026-08-10 ^05:09 When You're Evil and You're Publicly Attacking Something, That Something Will Become More Popular
• 2026-08-10 ^05:23 When the LLM Chatbots Industry (Trillions in the Red) Quits Paying the Media for FOMO
• 2026-08-10 ^06:06 Social Control Media Deathwatch: After Nearly a Million Posts Sent EchoFeed Shuts Down
• 2026-08-10 ^07:04 Links 10/08/2026: "Against Oligarch" and "The Invisible Women"
• 2026-08-10 ^07:57 Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Does Not Support Women, It Imitates Authentic Organisations, Embraces Misogynists, Then Projects
• 2026-08-10 ^14:06 Links 10/08/2026: "Long COVID Linked to Lasting Damage in The Brain's Dopamine System", Microsoft’s Weather App Uses Over 1,000 Megabytes of RAM
• 2026-08-10 ^14:24 Rumours of Impending Mass Layoffs in IBM's Yorktown Office, Impacting the LLM (Slop) Staff
• 2026-08-10 ^14:49 statCounter Now Sees GNU/Linux "Market Share Worldwide" at 9.21%, Soon 10%
• 2026-08-10 ^15:00 Nigel Farage crisis: Taylor Swift & Jeffrey Epstein both shunned cryptocurrency bosses
• 2026-08-10 ^15:24 Microsoft/GAFAM Operating at a Loss
• 2026-08-10 ^15:54 For Second Year in a Row Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Loses Money (Over $3,000,000 Lost in 2 Years), Bradley M Kuhn Steps Down as Treasurer
• 2026-08-10 ^16:32 Escaping Ads
• 2026-08-10 ^17:07 Microsoft and Apple Lose Ground to GNU/Linux in the United States
• 2026-08-10 ^18:02 The Slop Bubble (Pyramid Scheme) is Becoming Bigger and Everyone Should be Terrified (Its Implosion Will Cause More Damage)
• 2026-08-10 ^18:17 Claims of Mass Layoffs at IBM (in Finance)
• 2026-08-10 ^19:44 Gemini Links 10/08/2026: Recollections and Washing Machine That Only Last a Few Years
• 2026-08-10 ^19:52 Tell Me Something I Don't Know
• 2026-08-10 ^20:36 The Open Web Is Not Coming Back
• 2026-08-10 ^21:13 Clownflare Affirms Disturbing Trend of Web Monoculture (Which Extents to Clownflare Itself)
• 2026-08-10 ^21:30 If Your Software Project Welcomes Bots, Then All You'll Have Left at the End Is Bots (Same for Sites Which Permit LLM Slop; They End up as Slopfarms and No Human Wants to Contribute Anymore)
• 2026-08-10 ^21:55 IBM's Age Discrimination Leads Workers to Contemplate Suicide While the CEO Becomes Billionaire for Lying to the Press and Faking Performance (Fraudulent Accounting)
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• 2026-08-11 ^06:07 Links 11/08/2026: "The Enemy Is the Platform" and 'Vibe' 'Coding' Shown to be Little But Plagiarism
• 2026-08-11 ^06:19 Gemini Links 11/08/2026: Waking Up Earlier, Whining About LLMs as Destructive Plagiarism
• 2026-08-11 ^06:26 5.1k Capsules Known to Lupa, Gemini Protocol Crawler
• 2026-08-11 ^06:29 IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 10, 2026
• 2026-08-11 ^06:31 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-08-11 ^07:29 SLAPP Censorship - Part 146 Out of 200: An Industry of Plagiarism, 'Normalised'
• 2026-08-11 ^08:21 IBM Won't Hire (or Hardly Hire) This Year
• 2026-08-11 ^08:29 "SPONSORED EXPLAINER" at The Register MS is Just More SPAM "Sponsored by HPE."
• 2026-08-11 ^08:55 Not Allowing Misogyny and Misogynists to Run the World
• 2026-08-11 ^09:09 FOSSY (SFC) Platforming GAFAM, Sells Endorsement
• 2026-08-11 ^09:27 Oligarchs and Their Footsoldiers Are Most Enthusiastically Loud About the Things They're Attacking
• 2026-08-11 ^10:03 Blocking Tor Is Not a Solution, It's Paranoia
• 2026-08-11 ^10:24 Paying With Cash in 2026
• 2026-08-11 ^12:18 Confirmed: Microsoft Layoffs in August 2026, Entire Operations Shut Down Too
• 2026-08-11 ^12:56 Keumars Afifi-Sabet Produces Useful, Informative Coverage Regarding Privacy
• 2026-08-11 ^13:20 The Slop ('Linux') Foundation Celebrates 35 'Linux' Years a Week After GNU/Linux Turns 43
• 2026-08-11 ^13:52 Gemini Links 11/08/2026: Stargate, Stargazer, Air-gapped Environments, and SystemVerilog Simulator
• 2026-08-11 ^16:51 The Independent (UK) Today: "Independent candidate Daniel Pocock is concerned about media issues."
• 2026-08-11 ^17:42 Links 11/08/2026: Tensions South of China and Stingy "YouTube Doubles the Eligibility Requirements" (to Get Paid)
• 2026-08-11 ^17:48 Summer Layoffs and 'Redundancies' (Cost-Cutting) at Microsoft and IBM
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• 2026-08-12 ^01:15 Gemini Links 12/08/2026: Sophomore Slump, Mandatory Phone Addiction, and Vintage Web Game Gallery
• 2026-08-12 ^01:47 Microsoft Layoffs and Shutdowns Continue This August, Morale Low, Employees Set Up Giant Inflatable Rat to Protest Against CEO
• 2026-08-12 ^01:55 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 11, 2026
• 2026-08-12 ^01:56 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-08-12 ^02:09 Even ZDNet Accepts That "Market Share" of GNU/Linux May Have Doubled on Desktops and Laptops
• 2026-08-12 ^03:17 SLAPP Censorship - Part 147 Out of 200: The SLAPP Series is 'Slow' Because Timing Matters
• 2026-08-12 ^04:02 Company-Wide 'Reorg' ('Redundancies') at IBM, Mark October 1st 2026 in the Calendar
• 2026-08-12 ^04:37 GNU in 1991 (35 Years Ago): Compiler and Lots More Ready, Linux Now Becoming 'Vibe Heap' (Slop Replaces Real Code)
• 2026-08-12 ^05:06 Enshittification More Than a Century Ago
• 2026-08-12 ^05:13 METRO Interviews Daniel Pocock a Day Before Election
• 2026-08-12 ^05:38 More Mass Layoffs Due to Monumental Debt Excused as "Investment" (in Slop)
• 2026-08-12 ^06:07 Clownflare: In Finland, Birthplace of Linux Kernel, GNU/Linux Now Bigger Than Apple's MacOS
• 2026-08-12 ^06:32 In Defence of Hoarding CDs, More So When Digital Restrictions (DRM) Come to More 'Content' and Even Offline/Physical Media Won't Work When Some Remote Server Says "No" (or Goes Offline)
• 2026-08-12 ^06:56 Before the "Big Tech" (That Almost Everybody is Forced to Use) Was Controlled by Men Who Hate Women
• 2026-08-12 ^07:40 Lack of Empathy Rampant in the Sector
• 2026-08-12 ^07:58 Links 12/08/2026: "X’s Advertising Business Continues to Tank", "Stop Feeding the Billionaires"
• 2026-08-12 ^14:10 The Register MS Has Just Published Fake Article About Replacing Linux With Proprietary Google System, "Sponsored by ASUS."
• 2026-08-12 ^14:16 statCounter Today: ChromeOS + GNU/Linux Measured at 10.98% Globally (Desktops and Laptops)
• 2026-08-12 ^14:31 Clacton manifesto: Reform UK hacking, leaks, raw sewage & 8GB Swiss Archive
• 2026-08-12 ^15:39 The Slop Debt (Trillions of Dollars, Money That Does Not Exist) is Causing the Collapse of GAFAM et al
• 2026-08-12 ^15:45 Social Control Media is the Opposite of Information
• 2026-08-12 ^16:10 Clownflare and statCounter See GNU/Linux at ~8% in Norway
• 2026-08-12 ^16:35 Simpler Means More Reliable
• 2026-08-12 ^17:08 The Register MS Has Just Published Slop Spam for NVIDIA and HP, It Says "AI" 43 Times
• 2026-08-12 ^19:41 Daniel Pocock in National News in Australia the Day of the Election
• 2026-08-12 ^19:45 Links 12/08/2026: Trouble in Proprietary Chaffbot Company 'Open' 'AI' and Slop "Investors Are Suddenly Quaking in Their Boots"
• 2026-08-12 ^19:54 Voluntary' Layoffs and 'Proper' Layoffs at IBM This Year
• 2026-08-12 ^20:13 Gemini Links 12/08/2026: Losing a Child, "The OpenWeb Needs Diversity", and Gmail Woes
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• 2026-08-13 ^05:44 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 12, 2026
• 2026-08-13 ^05:45 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-08-13 ^05:55 Daniel Pocock on Australia's 9News (Nine Entertainment)
• 2026-08-13 ^06:45 Links 13/08/2026: "The Rise of the Measles-Industrial Complex" and Spotify Curbs Slop
• 2026-08-13 ^07:27 15% of IBM Marked for Potential Termination, PIPs are the "New Layoffs" (or RAs) at IBM
• 2026-08-13 ^07:58 GNU/Linux Reaches 10% "Market Share" in statCounter
• 2026-08-13 ^08:20 Gemini Links 13/08/2026: Health, Partial Eclipse Sketches, and Guilelessness
• 2026-08-13 ^08:43 SLAPP Censorship - Part 148 Out of 200: The Manosphere
• 2026-08-13 ^09:31 Why Support Daniel Pocock
• 2026-08-13 ^10:38 Daniel Pocock in The Nerve
• 2026-08-13 ^10:56 'Cancel Culture' Isn't About Empathy, It's About Making Good People Homeless
• 2026-08-13 ^14:38 Links 13/08/2026: K-pop Suicide Due to Social Control Media, Legal Problems for Facebook Over Safety
• 2026-08-13 ^16:51 Headlines About Microsoft and Ransomware, But They're "SPONSORED FEATURES" at The Register MS
• 2026-08-13 ^17:20 IBM's Bluewashing of Confluent Carries on, More Layoffs Coming, Same Likely Applicable to Red Hat
• 2026-08-13 ^17:40 Swiss army to attack 2,900 domain name owners? Cult of ETH Zurich & Debian
• 2026-08-13 ^17:46 Counters in Clacton Commence in 3 Hours at Clacton Leisure Centre
• 2026-08-13 ^18:13 The Legacy of Gerstner (Rapid Destruction) Continues at IBM
• 2026-08-13 ^18:50 Racing Towards "Woman Zero"
• 2026-08-13 ^19:13 Microsoft Sees Windows on Fire, Pours Gasoline Over It
• 2026-08-13 ^19:40 'Voluntary' Layoffs (a Form of Silent Layoffs): Microsoft Global Voluntary Separation Agreement (GVSA) in August 2026 and September 2026
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• 2026-08-14 ^03:12 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 13, 2026
• 2026-08-14 ^03:13 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-08-14 ^03:44 Gemini Links 14/08/2026: 32-bit RISC-V and BlackBerry
• 2026-08-14 ^05:32 SLAPP Censorship - Part 149 Out of 200: It Took a Long Time to Show What Jason Arday (at Cambridge) and Harvey Weinstein (in Hollywood) Really Were
• 2026-08-14 ^06:07 Explanation of What Will Happen to Red Hat (and Other Acquired Companies) After August
• 2026-08-14 ^06:43 Planet Fedora ("Fedora People") is Just IBM Staff, Former IBM Staff, and LLM Slop
• 2026-08-14 ^06:50 Microsoft's Mass Layoffs (Including 'Voluntary' Secret Layoffs) Take Their Toll on Seattle
• 2026-08-14 ^06:58 statCounter: Windows Down to All-Time Low of 25%, Android Leads the Pack, GNU/Linux About to Leapfrog Apple, Overtaking MacOS
• 2026-08-14 ^07:13 Fake Growth of Social Control Media is Misleading
• 2026-08-14 ^08:29 Links 14/08/2026: Slop 'Music' Causing Problems, Slop Data Centre Contractor Unpaid (Massive Debt), and The Cyber Show Says We're "Colonised By Wankers"
• 2026-08-14 ^15:50 Chatbots/LLMs Are the Next "Clown Computing", Pure Hype, a Serious Mistake
• 2026-08-14 ^16:11 GNU/Linux and ChromeOS Beyond 11%
• 2026-08-14 ^16:27 It's Friday. A Ton of People Departing From IBM and Red Hat.
• 2026-08-14 ^17:10 Farage's fears, media hijacked by-election, what really happened in Clacton
• 2026-08-14 ^17:22 Free Publicity
• 2026-08-14 ^19:54 Links 14/08/2026: "Mystery of Dark Oxygen", People Despise Slop, and Backlash Grows Against Fake Currencies (Energy-Wasting Scam Like Slop)
• 2026-08-14 ^20:09 Gemini Links 14/08/2026: Slower Internet, Logging Off Made Easy, and Human Code
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• 2026-08-15 ^04:45 IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 14, 2026
• 2026-08-15 ^04:46 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-08-15 ^05:29 IBM's PIPs and RAs (Layoffs) Going on, Interns as 'Scabs'
• 2026-08-15 ^05:56 Gemini Links 15/08/2026: Gratitudes, "Microflier" Drones, and Literate Programming
• 2026-08-15 ^07:06 Links 15/08/2026: "There Is No A.I." (Slop Plagiarism Isn't Intelligence) and Its "Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying"
• 2026-08-15 ^07:59 SLAPP Censorship - Part 150 Out of 200: Always Independently Verify What People Claim to Be (or Find Yourself in a Jason Arday-Type Moment/Dilemma)
• 2026-08-15 ^14:01 Links 15/08/2026: XBox Rotting Further, "France’s Top Court Strikes Down Ban on Social Media for Children"
• 2026-08-15 ^14:23 Gemini Links 15/08/2026: Stress, Jetlag, and GPU Hype (Waste of Energy for Amusement, Fake 'Currencies', and Now for Mass Plagiarism)
• 2026-08-15 ^14:59 Windows is Burning
• 2026-08-15 ^15:14 Omarchy is Already Dying
• 2026-08-15 ^15:30 A Vortex of Beacons (or "Bluetooth Everywhere" Vision)
• 2026-08-15 ^16:21 Clacton's Election Was a 'Show Election'
• 2026-08-15 ^16:38 Microsoft Silent Layoffs This Month (PIPs and More "Buyouts", Driving Out the Workforce), According to Insiders
• 2026-08-15 ^16:52 Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on Gym Equipment Can Endanger Several Parties
• 2026-08-15 ^17:52 Too Many Chiefs (or Chefs) at IBM, They Don't Know How to Run a Company (With a 100+ Year or Century-Old Brand Recognition Advantage)
• 2026-08-15 ^18:09 WordPress is Bloatware and Bloated Software Guarantees Security Incidents
• 2026-08-15 ^18:19 What I Learned in London
• 2026-08-15 ^19:33 Germany's National Broadcaster (DW English) to Air Julian Assange Film This Coming Week
• 2026-08-15 ^19:42 EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part XVI - The German State Does Not Enforce the Law Against European Patent Office Officials
• 2026-08-15 ^20:03 At IBM, Workers 'Expire' Early ("Next Step" is 'Voluntary' Layoffs Decades Before Retirement Age)
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• 2026-08-16 ^04:15 Gemini Links 16/08/2026: Sterrenkijker Releases, Solar Gemini Server
• 2026-08-16 ^04:16 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 15, 2026
• 2026-08-16 ^04:18 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2026-08-16 ^04:37 SLAPP Censorship - Part 151 Out of 200: Dealing With Sleazy People and Companies That Steal (While Employing These Sleazy People)
• 2026-08-16 ^05:10 We Need Rain, Not Chatbots
• 2026-08-16 ^05:23 GNU/Linux is a Platform for Work (Usage Surges in Daytime)
• 2026-08-16 ^11:20 Links 16/08/2026: Europe in Crisis of Droughts While Energy- and Water-Consuming, Pollution-Emitting Chatbots Are Spread by GAFAM (US) to Keep a Ponzi Scheme Going
• 2026-08-16 ^14:22 Links 16/08/2026: Ceuta Reports Social Control Media Used as a Weapon
• 2026-08-16 ^16:13 IBM May be Sued for Mass Layoffs Via PIPs
• 2026-08-16 ^16:30 The Question of Patience
• 2026-08-16 ^17:06 Links 16/08/2026: Reading Outside, Going Offline More, and Art of Computer Programming
• 2026-08-16 ^17:32 Falkland Islands: GNU/Linux Elevated to 6%
• 2026-08-16 ^20:23 A Vortex of Beacons (or "Bluetooth Everywhere" Vision) [updated]

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