Links 15/05/2008: GNU/Linux on Over 12,000,000 ASUS Motherboards Per Year, Verizon Elects Linux
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-15 06:58:10 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-15 06:58:10 UTC
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- GAFAM "doesn't depend on any sort of lock-in, humans just don't want to be free anymore," according to MinceR
- As many readers are aware, our criticism of UEFI (restricted boot in particular) attracted a lot of online harassment against us, including stalking and libel
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- EPO People Power - Part XIII - If the EPO's Chief Propagandist (Berenguer) Told the Police He Was a Spanish Tourist (or Similar) or That He Does Not Reside in Munich, Then He May Have Lied to the Police (in Addition to Doing Cocaine in Public)
- Lying to the police in Germany is a criminal offense
- Links 15/12/2025: Chromebooks as Work Machines, "Americans [Who] Moved to Australia" to Avoid Cheeto
- Links for the day
- Breaking Your Proprietary Router in the Name of "Security"
- Each time they "patch" the router something that previously worked OK is likely to just break
- IBM May be Breaking the Law to Silence Staff It Laid Off
- Observation to add regarding IBM layoffs
- Demonisation Attacks on Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS) - Including Antisemitic Attacks - Have Not Worked
- Name-calling doesn't work
- Slop ("AI") Will Replace People and Take Away Jobs, Say the Slopfarms With Fake (LLM-Generated) Text and Slop Images
- "AI" often means slave labour in a poor country
- More Than a Million Bytes Should be Enough for Most Computer Programs
- Who said computing would improve over time?
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 14, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, December 14, 2025
- Another "AI" (Slop) Use Cases Turns Out to be a Fraud
- Those who talk about this fraud get SLAPPed
- They Say Rules Are Made to be Broken, at Microsoft That Became an Imperative (e.g. Accounting Fraud, Bribery and So on)
- Its biggest client is itself
- In Russia, Microsoft is Already a Dying Breed Online
- A lot of Europe also dumps Microsoft. Europe is a big revenue source of Microsoft.
- The Future of News on the World Wide Web
- No "greener pastures" on the Web
- 𝐈𝐁𝐌 𝐂𝐄𝐎 𝐀𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐧𝐚: Proof That at IBM People Fall Upwards
- IBM is collapsing
- EPO People Power - Part XII - The Mobbing Got So Bad People Were Unable to Work
- What's at stake here isn't just the EPO or the patent system
- Links 14/12/2025: "Chile to ban smartphones in classroom" and "Portugal updates cybercrime law to exempt security researchers"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 14/12/2025: "GUI TUI CLI" and EmacsConf 2025 Video
- Links for the day
- Links 14/12/2025: Tensions in Asia, US Making Deals With Belarus
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- A Utopian and Very Dumb Vision of Technology, Based on Accounting Fraud
- the "industry" has become insane and a lot of "the media" is going along with it
- Links 14/12/2025: "The Slop of Things to Come", Goldman Sachs Nervous About Slop Bubble
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, December 13, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, December 13, 2025
- Google News is Google Noise
- Google News is really hopeless, even on weekends
- IBM: We Pay You to be Obedient or Deny You What You're Entitled to If You Don't Act Obediently
- Good luck starting legal battles with a company that has almost as many lawyers (including aggressive patent lawyers) as it has geeks
- Links 13/12/2025: Jimmy Lai and Media Freedom on Trial, "OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Hiding the Truth"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 13/12/2025: Extensive Catchup With Gopherholes
- Links for the day
- Deliberate Lies or Glaring Distortions
- Calling Torvalds anything "Soviet" or "Russian" would overlook the fact he comes from Finland and has Swedish roots
- Canonical and Ubuntu: Working for Microsoft, Promoting Proprietary Surveillance (Dis)Services
- Canonical started with a rich and overambitious Debian Developer. He wanted to become richer.
- Russian "Hybrid Attacks" Are Typically Microsoft TCO and/or Windows TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)
- Information-related warfare relies a lot on computer systems
- EPO People Power - Part XI - The Media in Europe is Ill and Complicit in Ills
- We must all recognise that there's a problem here
- Running With Technology
- At least they always run Linux (all of them, since 2015)
- Dealing With "Tech Cults"
- If you think you identified a "Tech Cult", walk away
- It Seems Like IBM is Firing 'Everybody' (Anywhere, Any Age, No Matter What Team)
- Healthy companies would sack IBM's management (sacked by Board, bylaws etc.) but IBM is a sick company
- Latest Stallman Talk (Event in Argentina) Published
- Less than a day ago they released his talk
- GAFAM is a Financial Problem and Sovereignty Risk, a Policy-Level (National Level) Boycott is Needed
- Europe has plenty of skilled computer engineers
- LLM Slop Becoming Rarer
- Today we've found no LLM slop in our RSS feeds regarding "Linux"
- 2026 Could Very Well be Last Year of XBox, Microsoft Dropped the Ball
- It would be shocking is XBox can stage any kind of comeback
- Links 13/12/2025: Social Control Media Bans and "Could Finland be Hiding a Blue Zone?"
- Links for the day
- Expecting Mass Layoffs, More Microsoft Workers Join Unions
- they see tough times ahead
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 12, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, December 12, 2025
