TechBytes Episode 36: “Come to Take Me Away”

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 1: Brandon from Fedora	TechBytes Episode 1: Apple, Microsoft, Bundling, and Fedora 14 (With Special Guest Brandon Lozza)	1/11/2010
Episode 2: No guests	TechBytes Episode 2: Ubuntu's One Way, Silverlight Goes Dark, and GNU Octave Discovered	7/11/2010
Episode 3: No guests	TechBytes Episode 3: Games, Wayland, Xfce, Restrictive Application Stores, and Office Suites	8/11/2010
Episode 4: No guests	TechBytes Episode 4: Fedora 14 Impressions, MPAA et al. Payday, and Emma Lee's Magic	9/11/2010
Episode 5: No guests	TechBytes Episode 5: Windows Loses to Linux in Phones, GNU/Linux Desktop Market Share Estimations, and Much More	12/11/2010
Episode 6: No guests	TechBytes Episode 6: KINect a Cheapo Gadget, Sharing Perceptually Criminalised, Fedora and Fusion 14 in Review	13/11/2010
Episode 7: No guests	TechBytes Episode 7: FUD From The Economist, New Releases, and Linux Eureka Moment at Netflix	14/11/2010
Episode 8: Gordon Sinclair on Linux Mint	TechBytes Episode 8: Linux Mint Special With Gordon Sinclair (ThistleWeb)	15/11/2010
Episode 9: Gordon Sinclair returns	TechBytes Episode 9: The Potentially Permanent Return of ThistleWeb	17/11/2010
Episode 10: Special show format	TechBytes Episode 10: Microsoft FUD and Dirty Tactics Against GNU/Linux	19/11/2010
Episode 11: Part 2 of special show	TechBytes Episode 11: Microsoft FUD and Dirty Tactics Against GNU/Linux - Part II	21/11/2010
Episode 12: Novell special	TechBytes Episode 12: Novell Sold for Microsoft Gains	23/11/2010
Episode 13: No guests	TechBytes Episode 13: Copyfight, Wikileaks, and Other Chat	28/11/2010
Episode 14: Patents special	TechBytes Episode 14: Software Patents in Phones, Android, and in General	29/11/2010
Episode 15: No guests	TechBytes Episode 15: Google Chrome OS, Windows Refund, and Side Topics Like Wikileaks	30/11/2010

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 16: No guests	TechBytes Episode 16: Bribes for Reviews, GNU/Linux News, and Wikileaks Opinions	3/12/2010
Episode 17: No guests	TechBytes Episode 17: Chrome OS Imminent, Wikileaks Spreads to Mirrors, 'Open' Microsoft	5/12/2010
Episode 18: No guests	TechBytes Episode 18: Chrome OS, Sharing, Freedom, and Wikileaks	11/12/2010
Episode 19: No guests	TechBytes Episode 19: GNU/Linux Market Share on Desktop at 4%, Microsoft Declining, and ChromeOS is Coming	16/12/2010
Episode 20: No guests	TechBytes Episode 20: GNU/Linux Gamers Pay More for Games, Other Discussions	18/12/2010
Episode 21: No guests	TechBytes Episode 21: Copyright Abuses, Agitators and Trolls, Starting a New Site	20/12/2010
Episode 22: No special guests	TechBytes Episode 22: Freedom Debate and Picks of the Year	27/12/2010

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 23: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 23: Failuresfest and 2011 Predictions	2/1/2011
Episode 24: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 24: Android, Microsoft's President Departure, and Privacy	10/1/2011
Episode 25: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 25: Mono, Ubuntu, Android, and More	14/1/2011
Episode 26: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 26: €£98 GNU/Linux Computer, Stuxnet's Government Roots, and More	18/1/2011
Episode 27: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 27: Linux Phones, Pardus, Trusting One's Government-funded Distribution, and Much More	22/1/2011
Episode 28: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 28: The Weekend After Microsoft's Results and LCA	30/1/2011
Episode 29: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 29: KDE, Other Desktop Environments, and Programming	31/1/2011

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 30: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 30: Microsoft at FOSDEM, Debian Release, and Anonymous	7/2/2011
Episode 31: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 31: Nokiasoft and Computer Games	13/2/2011
Episode 32: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 32: Desktop Environments, Computer Games, Android and Ubuntu as the 'New Linux', Copyright Mentality	22/2/2011

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 33: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 33: Patent 'Thieves' and News That Deceives	6/3/2011
Episode 34: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 34: Done on a Dongle	13/3/2011
Episode 35: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 35: You Can't Please Some People	19/3/2011

Julian Assange on Fake Activists in Silicon Valley: Julian Assange on Fake Activists in Silicon Valley
EPO People Power - Part VI - Criticism Not Permitted, Media Subjected to Contempt by Cocaine Addicts Who Manage the Press for the EPO: Why won't any large publisher in Europe cover this? What does that say about the state of journalism in Europe?
"Smart" or "Intelligent" Agents and "Vibe Coding" Deletes Everything You Have: A high price to pay, no?
Links 12/12/2025: GAFAM Now Trying to Settle With Remaining News Sites It Plagiarised, "NATO's Rutte Says Alliance Is 'Russia's Next Target'": Links for the day
Gemini Links 12/12/2025: Bad Joke, Western Union Blues, and More: Links for the day
Life Began at 40: This is what I wanted to do all along
To Linus Torvalds, the Microsoft Linux Foundation is Increasingly a Liability and Risk to the Brand: If Torvalds is no longer in control or "in charge", then somebody else is
EPO People Power - Part X - Together, We Can Fix the EPO: every call for action matters
IBM Layoffs in Europe as Well: IBM is a collapsing, dying old brand
EPO People Power - Part IX - Insiders Say the EPO's Chief Propagandist Effectively Ousted (on Fake 'Sick Leave') Because of Reporting by Techrights: So the EPO is in effect rewarding a cocaine addict
Litigation Transparency Until 2030 or 2031: The ultimate goal is to 1) improve the British legal system and 2) raise awareness of how this system works
Links 12/12/2025: Thunderbird Adds Proprietary Plug, "Catch-22 of Canadian Digital Sovereignty" Explained by Michael Geist (About GAFAM/US): Links for the day
Developing Some New Software for the Sites: Sites that are static are in more control over their future and present direction
"In a modern economy it is impossible to seal oneself off from injustice.": ― Julian Assange
EPO People Power - Part VIII - The Chipmunk on Cocaine, Now Deleting Videos: video has been removed
What If the Economy Isn't "Down" But Mostly Diverted? (While "AI" Fills a Gap for Capital That No Longer Exists in Tech): "AI" is an "Arms Race", because they need to be bailed out by taxpayers' money
Techrights Site Search Was a Success After All: A few hiccups dealt with, ironed out
Valve's SteamOS, Microsoft Canonical's Ubuntu, and Other Platforms That Only Leverage Free Software (But Won't Protect It): Ubuntu "took off" not because it was very good or very easy. Ubuntu "took off" because of ShipIt, i.e. because of a multi-millionaire subsidising its mass distribution (at a personal cost).
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Paid Respect to Its Founder This Year, Now It Wants You to Join: We're glad to see the FSF paying respect to its founder in its Web site
2026 Guaranteed to Give Us Compromised Media Funded by "AI" Boosters to Promote "AI" and Sometimes be Composed by "AI" (Chatbots): follow the money of the Ponzi scheme
Under IBM, Things Culminate at "AI-Equipped Customer Experience Transformation" at Red Hat: Whatever that even means
Andy Farnell and Helen Plews Now at the Wheel in Cybershow: Cybershow (Cyber|Show) has very good blog posts and episodes
Microsoft Trims More Jobs: The worst layoff year in 20 years, by the numbers
EPO People Power - Part VII - The Corporate Media and the Reference Sites (e.g. Wikipedia) Are Already Compromised and Complicit: Looking back at the whole thing, it's clear to me that Europe does not really have free press
New Paper Shows That EPO "Growth" is Dictated From Above, Not Earned (More Monopolies Granted by Breaking Rules, Laws, Conventions): "Targets for 2026 are currently being handed down to individuals."
EPO People Power - Part V - The European Media is Practically Dead When It Comes to Covering European Patent Office (EPO) Corruption: That sort of sums up where European media/press stands
Datacentre and Server Maintenance Next Week: The last time we rebooted into the latest stable kernel was 96 days ago
Afraid of Words, Not Afraid of Actions: Those corporations want us to bicker over words, not their actions
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 11, 2025: IRC logs for Thursday, December 11, 2025
IBM Workers Still Blast IBM Management for Firing Loads of Workers While Overpaying to Buy Useless Companies: IBM's CEO is killing the cow
LLM Slop About Linux Still Seems Scarce: LLMs aren't dead, but metrics published online say that their usage is fast declining
Links 12/12/2025: Oracle Shares Collapse After Slop Bubble Inflated (Circular Funding/Financing One's Own 'Clients'), "Trials by Jury" in UK Considered: Links for the day
Gemini Links 12/12/2025: 'Kinetic Energy' and Browsing Geminispace With a GUI, TUI, or CLI Client: Links for the day
Links 11/12/2025: Escalations Around Japan, Software Patents Found Invalid: Links for the day
Killing the IBM Cash Cow, Raising Massive Debt Instead: In a healthy company, the CEO and CFO would get sacked on the spot for doing so. But IBM is not a healthy company, it's just a sick cow being milked to death.
Links 11/12/2025: Dangerous Flukes by Slop and Bottled Water as 'Placebos': Links for the day
Gemini Links 11/12/2025: Repairs, Wisdom of the Crowds, and AC Explorations: Links for the day
Those of Us Who Grew Up Playing Doom Must Remember What Microsoft Did to Its Creator: Doomed by Microsoft
We Need Your EPO Insider Stories: To date, the EPO and any other company/institution hasn't managed to remove even a single public page that we published
Yes, IBM is Also Laying Off Indians (Even in India): that goes against the popular/hot narrative of "jobs moving to India"
At The Register MS, Fake 'Articles' Sponsored by WIntel (Windows+Intel): We've meanwhile noticed that there's new sponsored spam in at The Register MS and it might be slop
Microsoft-Sponsored Wikipedia Spam About "AI", Added by Microsoft Operatives: When it comes to Wikipedia, follow the money (sponsors)
Keep on Pushing, EPO Management is in a State of Panic This Week: Contact your representatives today
In Addition to National Delegates, Contact the French or Portuguese Governments (Politicians) Regarding António Campinos: Someone needs to step into the EPO and open up all the closets
EPO People Power - Part IV - Sexism, Chauvinism, and Lines of Cocaine at Europe's Second-Largest Institution: Recently, one reader told us about Berenguer, who made the "mistake" of using cocaine in the open market
If You Want Freedom, Follow Richard M. Stallman (RMS): To be clear, I like Linux, I like its founder
EPO People Power - Part III - Challenging Corruption: The media - as in the national press - isn't interested in writing about it
The Flawed Notion of Criticising for Criticism's Sake: People who are highly critical of things are not "toxic"
A Lot More Than Techrights: you probably also want to follow the RSS feed of the sister site
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 10, 2025: IRC logs for Wednesday, December 10, 2025
The Web Has Become Extremely Rude: If you cannot behave, go offline
Slopfarms Parrot Any Number That GAFAM Throws at Them, Even Totally Fictional Figures That Merit Fact-Checking: fake from Microsoft
Microsoft Lunduke Tailors His 'Content' for 4Chan: The latest from Lunduke "Journal"
Richard Stallman Was Also Right About Microsoft GitHub (It's Becoming a Botfarm): trashing the platform
Democracy and Buzzwords: and hype
Five Years in Gemini Protocol: One might say we escaped to Geminispace 2 years before the deluge of slop on the Web
Keeping Up the Pressure on EPO Management: We want to thank our European readers who contacted their representatives
Like Clickfraud Spamnil (Swapnil Bhartiya) But for Hate Mongering: What Twitter Has Become: If you still waste time in Social Control Media, consider changing course
For New PCs and for Old (or Retro) PCs the Increased Cost of System Memory Benefits GNU/Linux and BSDs: GNU/Linux does not have this problem or barely has this problem
Gemini Links 10/12/2025: "Thousand Mile Journey" and The Art Of Chilling: Links for the day
Moving Away From Content Management Systems (CMSs) and Flocking to Static Site Generators (SSGs): The SSG 'hype' is not based on marketing but a simple reality
IBM is Laying Off Workers in India (While Spending a Fortune Buying a Company for Buzzwords, a Box-Ticking Exercise): So what is the overall strategy?
EPO People Power - Part II - Talking About Corruption: European media must "grow a pair" and start writing about EPO corruption
Just a Little Slop About "Linux": Slop about Linux isn't that common anymore
Links 10/12/2025: McDonald’s Latest Slop Gaffe (After Dumping IBM's Slop) and "Scam Altman’s Panic Sweats": Links for the day
Circular Funding: Passing around capital that does not exist (for PR's sake, but there are ramifications)
Links 10/12/2025: Ransomware (Windows TCO) Has Crippled Economies, Slop (Fake) "Videos Have Flooded Social (Control) Media": Links for the day
Y Combinator (YC) Funds Scams, Run by Scammers: Including Scam Altman
EPO People Power - Part I - Identifying Corruption: The EPO, at this stage, is a boat full of holes
IBM Has Become a "Plantation": IBM is basically being destroyed for some cash at this point
It's Not Too Late to Send an E-mail to Your European Representative Regarding European Patent Office Abuses: If you live in Europe and have not done so already, please contact your national delegates, whose job is (at least on paper) to represent you
Almost a Thousand EPO Workers Have Voted for Industrial Action: Mandate given to SUEPO for action plan to stop the salary erosion of EPO staff
Why So Many Software Projects Are Quitting Microsoft and GitHub: Be more like LibreWolf. Move away from Microsoft and GitHub.
Many of the Attacks on Us Apparently Boil Down to Jealousy: Envy is a negative trait that leads people to self harm
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 09, 2025: IRC logs for Tuesday, December 09, 2025
Valuing One's Work by the Effort or Budget Taken to Undermine It: As long as what we publish is factual, nothing prevents its publication
IBM Says It Buys Another Company for "AI", So Why Does IBM Fire Its Own "AI" Experts?: As people rightly point out, this has nothing to do with "AI"
The Boundaries of Criticism: The harder the EPO will push back, the better the job we must have done
New EPO Series: Mafia Culture, Mobbing, Nepotism, and Illegal Drugs: The series shall start later today
Richard Stallman Was Right About "AI": "Considering Stallman worked in the MIT AI lab in the era of symbolic AI, and has written GCC (an optimizing compiler is a kind of symbolic reasoner imo), I think he has a deeper understanding of the question than most famous people in tech."
With 3 Weeks Left (Sans Extensions) the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Already Raised About Half of the Money Set as Fund-Raising Goal: “Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it.” — Richard Stallman
Gemini Links 10/12/2025: Cranberry Juice and Gramophones: Links for the day

TechBytes Episode 36: “Come to Take Me Away”

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