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Links 02/02/2025: Union-Busting and Censorship by Executions: Links for the day
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Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
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Links 01/02/2025: Chinese and American Censorship, Cloud-[sic]Native Targeted by Software Patents: Links for the day
Links 01/02/2025: Belated Happy New Year 2025 and Gabbro 0.1.2: Links for the day
Links 01/02/2025: Administrative Chaos and Aviation Disasters Persist: Links for the day
Arrested: Albanian Outreachy whistleblowers, Sonny Piers GNOME & Debian connections: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Links 1/2/2025: LLM Hype Revisited, Linuxwashing by Oumi: Links for the day
Growing Evidence That the Patent Industry Has Become a Major Scam: Seeing that the patent "industry" has turned to serious crimes (sometimes to cover up corruption) and seeing that the net negative is clearer for all to see, people who argue for abolition of all patents will have a field day
Planet Ubuntu Overrun by LLM Slop? Faizul "Piju" 9M2PJU Seems to be Publishing Fake Articles About "Linux"...: Maybe it is "assisted" by LLM slop, but slop is slop and it introduces many problems
Gemini Links 01/02/2025: LLMs, Analog Computer, and BorgBackup: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 31, 2025: IRC logs for Friday, January 31, 2025
Links 31/01/2025: Mass Layoffs at Amazon and Microsoft, Sweden Again Fails to Protect Critics of Violence: Links for the day
Slopwatch: Fake Articles About "Linux" and More (Latest Roundup Featuring BetaNews, Janus Atienza, and Brittany Day From Guardian Digital, Inc): LLM slop season
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Gemini Links 31/01/2025: "Bulletin Buble" and "Why Blog?": Links for the day
Static Site Generators (SSGs) Pay Off: Vastly Faster Sites, Much Smaller Hosting Bills: success story for SSGs
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Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 30, 2025: IRC logs for Thursday, January 30, 2025
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The Sheer Irony of Microsoft Proxy Accusing Others of 'Stealing': Wherever DeepSick's data came from, Microsoft (or its proxy) is in no position to issue criticism.
The Difference a Decade (and GAFAM Money) Makes: Credibility cannot be purchased
[Meme] The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Critics Because Its Message is Effective: Applying to others the same standards one is willing to violate?

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G. Michaels

2008-12-06 06:30:05

Is this the same company that was a subsidiary of a company that Microsoft bought recently?

LAYOFFS AT MICROSOFT, WALRUS LOSES BUKKET, NEWS AT 11

Stay classy.

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