Series Index: “Doyen” for a Yen
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2020-03-16 08:27:04 UTC
- Modified: 2020-03-16 08:27:04 UTC
Summary: Series about the Croatian "doyen" Željko Topić, who skips the exams and just gets the awards (licence to print money)
Recent Techrights' Posts
- LLM Slop is Now Filling the Web With Pure Fiction/Fabrication/Misinformation About Linux
- The timing of this lie/fiction is curious because Torvalds is being brigaded for defending C
- FUDZilla Has Turned Into LLM Slop and Machine-Generated FUD (New York Times Has Also Just Admitted Moving in That Direction)
- Failing news sites, instead of calling it quits with some remaining dignity, are handing control over to LLM slop (pretending to still be active)
- By Buying Twitter, MElon and Cheeto Now Control EU Politicians, Even at the Highest Levels
- "the top level politicians make the egregious mistake of trying to treat Xitter as if it were a communications medium"
- How to 'Sell' Software Freedom to People
- In my experience, it helps when one speaks about control, not freedom, including confidentiality
- The "Cool Kids" Are Already Using GNU/Linux, Microsoft is Just Cheating
- The future and the present are Linux
- IBM Going International (and India)
- It's Monday and a national holiday
- Microsoft Lunduke Belongs in 4Chan
- Assuming Microsoft Lunduke is aware of the full context, he is now trolling not one but two decent organisations
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- Swiss police TIGRIS unit, World Cat Day, Swiss-corruption.com & Debian
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Links 18/02/2025: “Hey Hi Video Surveillance” and YouTube at 20
- Links for the day
- The Washington Post (Jeff Bezos) Dies in Darkness
- spread it on
- Gemini Links 18/02/2025: Downloading Gemini Files with Emacs and Elpher, Gopher on Devuan
- Links for the day
- Richard Stallman Confirms His Next Talk, "Free/Libre Software and Freedom in the Digital Society" (Next Monday in Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
- He could already advertise this more than a week ago
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 17, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, February 17, 2025
- IBM's Chronic Neglect Won't Save Anything and It Might Even Get IBM Sued
- The problem is likely a lack of manpower, not deliberate shoddiness
- Gemini Links 17/02/2025: Ideal OS, AuraRepo Alpha, and Simple Code
- Links for the day
- Links 17/02/2025: War on Dissent and Bloggers, Nationalism a Growing Theme
- Links for the day
- GeekWire: Microsoft Bribes Us While We Cover Microsoft Affairs (Spin Doctoring), Hence We Are "Independent"
- What good is a "journalist" sponsored by the very same company he or she writes about?
- The Attacks on LinuxQuestions.org
- Going to Clownflare only worsens the problem
- The GNU Manifesto Turns 40 Next Month
- The guardian of Free software (definition, licences, philosophy, hosting and so on) has managed to endure and persevere for 40 years. Very few others can say the same.
- In Europe and in India Richard Stallman Need Not Duck Anymore, People Trying to Cancel His Talk Have No Sway
- the last time a talk by Dr. Stallman got canceled was about a year ago
- Back From a Short Break
- We can now resume and try to stick to the usual pace
- Links 17/02/2025: LLMs Failing and Patreon Support Becoming a Burden to Bloggers
- Links for the day
- Links 17/02/2025: Blogroll Conundrum; Research, Scientists Under Siege
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 16, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, February 16, 2025
- Links 16/02/2025: Nostalgia for Physical Media and the US Government Actively Promotes Pro-Kremlin Politicians in the EU
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 16/02/2025:Life, Cynicism, and languages
- Links for the day
- Links 16/02/2025: Oligarchs "Collect Your Data and Control Your World", Global Temperatures Shoot Up
- Links for the day
- Promoting Microsoft Windows With LLM Slop
- What is the policy at BetaNews regarding LLM slop?
- Alex Oliva, the Potential 'Successor' of RMS, Has a New Web Site
- More freedom for Alex Oliva
- Links 16/02/2025: "Microsoft Is Laying Off Employees" and Internal Dissent Brewing at Facebook Over Regime Complicity
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, February 15, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, February 15, 2025