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  1. Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.4 Released
    Proxmox VE 8.4 is out now, featuring live VM migration with NVIDIA vGPU, API for backups, virtiofs, and updated open-source tech
  2. Sparky 7.7
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  3. FreeDOS 1.4 Now Available — A Major Update for the Beloved DOS Revival
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  11. OpenSSH 10.0 released
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  15. today's leftovers
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  18. Mozilla Advancing Social Control Media Again
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  21. Games: DUCKSIDE, Sonic Rumble, and More
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  27. CAINE – live Linux distribution for digital forensics
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  28. Wesley Gardner presents: Draw and Paint Better with Krita
    Some time ago we reached out to Wesley Gardner because, a bit belatedly, we saw he has published a great book on Krita, titled Draw and Paint Better with Krita
  29. The easiest way to try out Ubuntu Linux
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  30. We’re in Kenya. Fedora at Murang’a University
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  31. today's leftovers
    misc. picks for today
  32. Security Leftovers
    Security news and such
  33. LWN on 6.15 merge window and the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit
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  34. Making the OpenWrt One
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  36. Today in Techrights
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the slop frenzy played a role in the Microsoft meltdown
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXX - Pyramid Schemes (Planned Plunder) and Canceled/Botched Surgeries Aren't "Funny", They Cause Serious Harm and Distress
We were right about Microsoft
The Real Issue With The Register MS is Not the Politics of Some Staff's "Tweets", It's That The Register MS Publishes Fake Articles for Sponsors (50,000 Pounds Minimum)
AWS and Google each pay millions for fake articles which beget journalistic bias too (they literally pay the salaries of the 'reporters')
Microsoft Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): We Need Accountability Because Many People Die and It's Because of Microsoft Diehards or People Bribed by Microsoft to Deploy Microsoft Where Lives Are at Risk
They're trying to save face right now
What the Media Misses: It's Not an NVIDIA Issue, Super Micro Computer Inc Also Fell From $45 to $26 in the Period NVIDIA Lost 33% of Its Faked 'Value', NVIDIA is Collapsing Like Intel
History goes in circles
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Shame in SRA
 
Links 14/11/2026: "The Claude Delusion" and "The Microsoft Outage is a Warning for the World"
Links for the day
Richard Stallman (RMS) at Universidad Central del Ecuador (Guayaquil), Cuenca, Campus Sur Universidad Politecnica Salesiana (Quito), and Ohio State University
Long live the message and mission of RMS
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IRC logs for Friday, November 13, 2026
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We've noticed a lot of this lately in "It's FOSS" and to a lesser degree in "FOSS Force"
Gemini Links 13/11/2026: Productivity Metrics and Antenna Outage
Links for the day
It's Not About China or Sex, It's About Corruption at NVIDIA and a Pyramid Scheme Perpetrated Under the Guise of "Hey Hi Revolution" (That Wasn't, It's Manufactured and Hyped by Bribes, Subsidised by Multi-Trillion-Dollar Loans, People's Pension Funds and More)
What's at stake here is a lot bigger than the "Ponzi hub" of Jensen Huang
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Still down, still no explanation (maybe they too aren't sure)
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Our position as stated in early 2022 has not changed
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That helps put in perspective Microsoft's attempt to discard almost 30% of its remaining workforce
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Microsoft increasingly looks like the "next NVIDIA"
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cushioning "assets" by helping them fake "value"
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Remember that it all began with trust
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This coming week will be very, very entertaining for slop critics/sceptics to watch
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From what we are able to gather, many people are leaving Microsoft 'voluntarily'
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Will NDAs prevent people talking or journalists finding out the true cause?
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Linus caught the 'brain virus'
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IBM's CEO is "a Palliative Care Doctor Who Slides [IBM] Gently Into the Night"
Microsoft Asks 60,000 Workers to Leave, Some Leave, Services Go Down
Microsoft laid off about 40,000-50,000 people in past years
Gemini Links 13/11/2026: Roku Exits the Smart Home Market and Poor Reporting/Journalism Regarding Slop Plagiarism
Links for the day
Links 13/11/2026: "Apple Support Community Forums to Permanently Close" and "The Slop Market is Getting Nervous"
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Imagine how many pension funds are tied to this NVIDIA pyramid scheme
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Anything to inflate the bubble
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Links for the day
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It started in 2012
Photo Ops Are Liabilities
NVIDIA is not a "family business" and its CEO isn't some modest genius
NVIDIA’s Total Debt Trebled in Three Months!
Not the hallmark of a rich company unless its accounting is fraudulent
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The "slop bros" have long relied on patience and blind faith
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Suicide (in the literal sense) is also linked to adoption of chatbots
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A "Second SCO" waiting to happen
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"cultural erasure" by slop
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXVIII - Keeping Both Eyes on the Ball
One upside of these disputes is that they raise at least two very important issues concerning the law
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