Chronological Index, Page 69

• 2025-01-06 ^04:41 Gemini Links 06/01/2025: End of Christmas, New Leaves and Fresh Starts
• 2025-01-06 ^04:43 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 05, 2025
• 2025-01-06 ^04:45 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-01-06 ^06:10 Links 06/01/2025: Leftover General News and Dangers of US Debt Default
• 2025-01-06 ^06:38 British Police: Register a New Account With Unscrupulous American Companies (Microsoft and MElon X) to "Follow" Us
• 2025-01-06 ^07:35 Fedora Seems to be Dying of Neglect by IBM
• 2025-01-06 ^08:23 [Meme] A Corporate Wolf in Sheep Clothing
• 2025-01-06 ^08:59 TRILLIONS! And TRILLIONS and TRILLIONS and TRILLIONS! Invest today!
• 2025-01-06 ^09:20 [Meme] Don't Worry, They Say There's 7 Trillion Dollars Waiting at the Top
• 2025-01-06 ^15:33 Links 06/01/2025: Security Theatre and BBS Archives
• 2025-01-06 ^15:36 Links 06/01/2025: Cyber Security in 2025 Still a Joke (Undermined by Authorities Themselves), US Layoffs 2025 Commence Today
• 2025-01-06 ^18:14 BetaNews Has Basically Become a Spamfarm, All the Latest 'Articles' Are SPAM and LLM Slop
• 2025-01-06 ^20:18 On BetaNews Latest Technology News: "We are moderately confident this text was [LLM Chatbot] generated" [updated]
• 2025-01-06 ^20:38 Links 06/01/2025: Presidential Arrest and Kursk as Bargaining Card
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• 2025-01-07 ^04:21 IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 06, 2025
• 2025-01-07 ^04:23 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-01-07 ^05:35 Google (Blogger) is Already Disintegrating and It's a Reminder of the Great Dangers of Outsourcing Blogs to Companies (Including Automattic or WordPress.com)
• 2025-01-07 ^06:53 The Google Exodus That Wasn't
• 2025-01-07 ^07:20 In Europe, Russia's Yandex About to Become Bigger Than Microsoft's Bing, Google Search Estimated to Have Grown Since the LLM Hype Began
• 2025-01-07 ^07:39 With 10 Days Left the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Looks to Raise Just Over $50,000 More
• 2025-01-07 ^08:00 Diversity of Views, Diversity of Sources
• 2025-01-07 ^08:57 Microsoft Continues to Attack Users' Choice
• 2025-01-07 ^09:25 Matt Birchler: "This is why it’s important for people to own their presence on the web, especially when it comes to government agencies that need to communicate with people."
• 2025-01-07 ^09:58 From 92% to Less Than 25%: How Microsoft Lost Norway (and Still Loses What's Left)
• 2025-01-07 ^10:35 President Biden Has Less Than a Fortnight Left to Pardon Julian Assange (Donald Trump's Regime Plotted to Assassinate Assange)
• 2025-01-07 ^11:04 [Meme] Removing Correct Information
• 2025-01-07 ^16:29 Gemini Links 07/01/2025: Praise of E-mail and App Store 'Invention'
• 2025-01-07 ^16:31 Links 06/01/2025: 10 Years Since Terrorism Against Satire in France
• 2025-01-07 ^17:13 The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Turns 40 This Year, Now It Shows Possible Logos for the Special Event That Celebrates Sharing
• 2025-01-07 ^17:18 Who Says Microsoft Is Actually Succeeding as a Business? (It's Faking a Lot)
• 2025-01-07 ^17:44 LLMs Destroy the Web Not Just by Filling It With Cruft and Chaff (Slop)
• 2025-01-07 ^18:24 [Meme] The LLM Salesperson
• 2025-01-07 ^18:34 Less Than a Tenth of a Second
• 2025-01-07 ^18:48 Microsoft Has a Google Problem (and GNU/Linux Problem) in Sweden
• 2025-01-07 ^19:04 All the Latest 'Articles' in This Fake 'News' Site Are SPAM, LLM Slop, or Both (to Googlebomb CES)
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• 2025-01-08 ^03:14 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 07, 2025
• 2025-01-08 ^03:16 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-01-08 ^04:44 Gemini Links 08/01/2025: Why Mastodon Sucks and Fake Code Generated by Scanning Real Code
• 2025-01-08 ^04:47 Links 08/01/2025: Arrest of Yoon Suk Yeol Still Due, Prime Minister of Canada Stepped Down
• 2025-01-08 ^04:52 Microsoft Starts 2025 Like 2024: Mass Layoffs Every Month!
• 2025-01-08 ^05:22 [Meme] Microsoft's January 6th
• 2025-01-08 ^05:57 Why Government Data on "Job Openings" is Typically a Lie (Perpetrated in Part by Corporations)
• 2025-01-08 ^06:26 Engagement in Microsoft GitHub Falls, Expect More Layoffs and Office Closures
• 2025-01-08 ^06:45 Will 2025 Bring Recovery of News Sites or Just More LLM Slop? Probably the Latter.
• 2025-01-08 ^07:06 Microsoft LinkedIn Going 'the Way of the Epstein'
• 2025-01-08 ^07:21 [Meme] Real Money and Fake (Speculative, Fictional) Money
• 2025-01-08 ^09:12 IBMers Question IBM's Decision to Send Money to "Chinese Military Companies" in Spite of US Sanctions
• 2025-01-08 ^15:22 Links 08/01/2025: HMPV Concerns and UK Deaths Soared in 2024
• 2025-01-08 ^15:36 Amid Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (2025) Executives Flock to Google
• 2025-01-08 ^15:59 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) is a Far Bigger Problem Than Some Unintentional Bugs (Not Back Doors) in Software
• 2025-01-08 ^16:18 [Meme] Blindly Trust Rust
• 2025-01-08 ^16:26 There Used to be an Actual Community in SUSE (OpenSUSE is Dying)
• 2025-01-08 ^18:50 Gemini Links 08/01/2025: Minimalism and Efficiency With Gemini Protocol and tilde.cafe "May be Shutting Down"
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• 2025-01-09 ^02:52 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 08, 2025
• 2025-01-09 ^02:55 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-01-09 ^03:01 Gemini Links 09/01/2025: Chants of Sennaar and Security Theater
• 2025-01-09 ^03:44 Links 09/01/2025: Software Patents Squashed, Meta Becomes "MAGA" Booster
• 2025-01-09 ^03:55 Beta'News' Still a Spamfarm Run by Bots
• 2025-01-09 ^04:18 Sometimes the EFF Prefers to Talk About Sex, Not Tech (or Unnecessarily Conflate the Two Things)
• 2025-01-09 ^04:42 [Meme] GAFAM Buying Shares in NYSE:EFF
• 2025-01-09 ^05:04 statCounter Has Outdated and Unfit-for-Purpose User-Agent Parsers
• 2025-01-09 ^05:19 Microsoft Windows Continues to Sink in India
• 2025-01-09 ^09:25 Microsoft Says Scale of Layoffs in January 2025 is Several Thousands
• 2025-01-09 ^09:57 Interest in Microsoft Waning, Company Deep in Debt and Mass Layoffs Implemented Every Month Since 2023
• 2025-01-09 ^10:27 [Meme] Microsoft's Scam Altman, Bigger Scammer Than 'Crypto' 'Currency' 'Exchanges'
• 2025-01-09 ^15:51 Links 09/01/2025: X-Book (Facebook) Follows the MElon (Musk) Model and X Comes Under EU Investigation for Inciting
• 2025-01-09 ^16:07 Gemini Links 09/01/2025: Domain Changes, Dirty Links, and OpenWRT
• 2025-01-09 ^17:04 When They Insist That Getting Rid of Paper Receipts and Paper Trail of All Kinds is Better (Manchester City Council and the "Smart" or "App" Mindset)
• 2025-01-09 ^18:29 Computers as a Heat Source
• 2025-01-09 ^18:47 Draft About Drafts
• 2025-01-09 ^18:48 [Meme] Just a Draft, Nothing Professional Like GNU
• 2025-01-09 ^20:33 No, There's No "Age Of AI" or "Era Of AI" or "AI Revolution" or "AI Arms Race", It's Just a Dying Tech Industry Looking to Prop Up Its Valuation Using Hype and False Marketing of Mostly Dysfunctional Tools
• 2025-01-09 ^20:52 Free Software Cannot Rely on Politicians, They Don't Even Care About Software, They Only or Mostly Care About Money
• 2025-01-09 ^21:10 Using Microsoft Chatbot to Generate Microsoft FUD Against SSH/OpenSSH
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• 2025-01-10 ^05:42 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 09, 2025
• 2025-01-10 ^05:45 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-01-10 ^06:09 More IBM Layoffs (2025)
• 2025-01-10 ^06:14 Microsoft Gives Money to Trump, Poor or Even Sluggish Adoption of "Hey Hi" (AI) Reported Amid Mass Layoffs
• 2025-01-10 ^06:46 Social Control Media and 'Linux' Foundation Accelerate the Death of the Web
• 2025-01-10 ^07:05 LLM Slop and Bot-Generated Marketing for the Linux Foundation and Its Openwashing
• 2025-01-10 ^07:21 Colombian Trends Help Explain Why Microsoft Rushes to Start the Year With Mass Layoffs (Before Some Staff is Even Back to Work!)
• 2025-01-10 ^07:31 Entire News Sites Have Become Just the Output of Bots (or Chatbots Disguised as "Authors")
• 2025-01-10 ^07:44 Starting 2025 on a Strong Note
• 2025-01-10 ^08:09 Gemini Links 10/01/2025: Internet Archive Gopher Search Interface and Falling "in Love With the Small Web"
• 2025-01-10 ^11:17 Linux Foundation Increasingly Reliant on Paid Press Releases, Paid-for Stenography, and Even LLM Slop (Fake 'Articles')
• 2025-01-10 ^11:37 Links 10/01/2025: Scam Altman’s Younger Sister Files Lawsuit Claiming He Sexually Abused Her, Apple Faces Embargo
• 2025-01-10 ^13:43 Links 10/01/2025: Disinformation Sold as "Artificial Intelligence (AI)" and as "Social Media" Now Facing Growing Scrutiny
• 2025-01-10 ^15:49 Unix Men (or UnixMen) Has Turned Into LLM Slop With Embedded Linkspam, Piggybacking "Linux" for SEO
• 2025-01-10 ^16:41 Guardian Digital, Inc (linuxsecurity.com) is Again Spamming or Googlebombing "Linux" and "Security" Using LLM Slop
• 2025-01-10 ^18:11 Search Engine-Optimised (SEO) Googlebombs Target "Linux", "Ubuntu", and "RISC-V", Still Composed by Bots
• 2025-01-10 ^18:57 Using a Popular Ponzi Scheme to Sell Expensive Hardware Mislabelled as "Hey Hi" (AI)
• 2025-01-10 ^19:25 statCounter Sees GNU/Linux Tripling in Share in 3 Years in Iran
• 2025-01-10 ^19:41 [Meme] Donald Trump Will Pay Microsoft Back
• 2025-01-10 ^20:10 Gemini Links 10/01/2025: Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Linux Desktop Setup
• 2025-01-10 ^20:12 Links 10/01/2025: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Shrinking, "Not every user owns an iPhone"
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• 2025-01-11 ^04:41 IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 10, 2025
• 2025-01-11 ^04:43 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-01-11 ^05:29 Gemini Links 11/01/2025: Wildfire, Militia and the Mole, IRC vs Social Control Media
• 2025-01-11 ^05:53 Microsoft in Trouble as Azure Breaks and Only Days After Promising Investment in "Datacentres" Construction of Actual Datacentres Paused (Expect More Azure Layoffs Very Soon)
• 2025-01-11 ^06:42 Microsoft's "Donald Trump First" Doctrine
• 2025-01-11 ^08:01 GNU/Linux Surges to All-Time Highs in Greenland, Windows Sinks to All-Time Lows
• 2025-01-11 ^08:19 Free Software Foundation: Anchoring the FSF in its values
• 2025-01-11 ^08:47 [Meme] Real and Fake (or "several influential "open source" organizations [which] have come to be dominated by large companies")
• 2025-01-11 ^10:16 Hazem Abbas of medevel is Ruining His Site With LLM Slop
• 2025-01-11 ^13:25 BetaNews is Now Officially a Spamfarm With Phantom Authors and Fake Text (SPAM and Linkspam Made With LLM Slop)
• 2025-01-11 ^15:14 When It Comes to Fentanylware (TikTok), a Digital Weapon of a Hostile Entity, Common Dreams is Jumping the Shark Again (Years After It Ran Out of Steam or Money)
• 2025-01-11 ^15:34 An Important Lesson About Patents and Patent Maximalism (They Drive People and Companies Away)
• 2025-01-11 ^16:16 After a Year of Layoffs in Microsoft Nigeria (and Microsoft in Africa at Large) Windows Falls to New Lows and Bing Falls to 0.46% "Market Share"
• 2025-01-11 ^16:59 If TikTok (China) Has the Rights of American Persons, Then ByteDance Can be Sentenced to Death
• 2025-01-11 ^18:00 Links 11/01/2025: Social Control Media Facing Sanctions, Carter Respected at Funeral
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• 2025-01-12 ^01:21 Gemini Links 12/01/2025: DHL Express Does Not Deliver, Oddmuse Update
• 2025-01-12 ^02:43 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 11, 2025
• 2025-01-12 ^02:48 Over at Tux Machines...
• 2025-01-12 ^03:31 Microsoft Azure-Only Bugs in "Linux" Can "Compromise the System."
• 2025-01-12 ^04:13 [Meme] A Jihad Against Servers the User Controls
• 2025-01-12 ^05:16 Links 12/01/2025: More Sanctions Against Russia, SCOTUS Signals Fentanylware (TikTok) Ban Will Stay
• 2025-01-12 ^05:49 Slopwatch: Brittany Day and Brian Fagioli Are Still at It, Googlebombing "Linux" With LLM Slop (Taking Away Traffic From the Articles They're Plagiarising)
• 2025-01-12 ^13:52 [Meme] They Say That RMS Says the "F" Word (Freedom) Too Much...
• 2025-01-12 ^14:26 [Meme] Being High on Drugs Isn't Happiness (Likewise, Being a "Star" in Social Control Media is Temporary)
• 2025-01-12 ^15:18 Links 12/01/2025: Microsoft Admits It's Laying Off Staff Only Where Staff is "Expensive" (Race to the Bottom)
• 2025-01-12 ^20:13 Gemini Links 12/01/2025: No Country For Old Men, Burned Homes, and "Planet P is Clean"
• 2025-01-12 ^20:20 Bots Covering Debian Releases

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