LibreOffice Conference 2022, As Before, Puts the Keynotes on Sale (the Rich Buy Influence, the Price Doubles)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-05-24 00:46:38 UTC
- Modified: 2022-05-24 00:46:38 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
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- knocking salaries down some more
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- Python is Attempting an Outreach to African-Americans, Microsoft Lunduke Has a Problem With That
- Did he manage to brainwash himself into this ideology wherein bigotry is in fact tolerance, inclusion, equity?
- IBM is Googlebombing Its Way Out of Trouble and Criticism
- IBM is a dying giant
- After Denial (of the Issues) Comes Censorship
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- Intel, Facing Mass Layoffs (Including Many Key Engineers Who Work on Linux Kernel), is Pushing for Slop Inside Linux
- replacing proper, well-tested code (and documentation thereof) with slop
- More People Want to Quit Windows (Vista 10 is "End of Life"), Restricted Boot (UEFI) Makes That Harder
- It's widely agreed (a consensus) that Restricted Boot is a bad thing for GNU/Linux
- How We Managed to Make IRC Inclusive and Free Speech-Tolerant Without Banning People
- People in IRC seldom agree on everything, more so if politics are aired and especially in the wrong context/s
- Germany-Based Focus Online is Apparently Covering Up Cocaine Use at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the European Patent Office
- More contact details for the German press - Focus online
- Photos From Richard Stallman's Talk in Argentina Earlier Today (Remote Talk)
- Dr. Stallman's talk went ahead
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- The "Nazi Bars"
- We don't condone or condemn the label "Nazi Bar"
- Thailand: Windows Down Sharply, Microsoft Loses Share to GNU/Linux
- the Thai economy is strategic and relatively important in the region
- Gaming Journalist and Guru Jason Schreier Says Microsoft is Indeed Behaving Like It Exits the Console Market
- Remember that many shops no longer sell or stock XBox
- Links 17/11/2025: ‘Agentic OS’ Backlash and Facebook ('Meta') Loses Yann Le Cun
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 17/11/2025: Technology's Harm in Schools, 3D Printer Blurb
- Links for the day
- Coming Soon: EPO Trip in Spain
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- Links for the day
- The Register MS: Slop is "FOMO" (Fear of Missing Out), FOMO is Funding Us
- even former management (Editor in Chief of The Register MS) admitted to me it was aware of this issue
- Difficult to Win Arguments When the Simple Facts Are Not on One's Side
- Starting arguments over things when you know the facts (unlike money!) aren't on your side is a dumb move that can only ever result in severe loss of credibility
- Tribalism Injures Projects
- In Free software communities, there are many species and "breeds". Some developers are happy to work with everyone else based upon technical merit
- No, There is Nothing Impressive About Slop Plagiarism-Enabled, Computer-Generated Images in Your Web Site...
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- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 16, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, November 16, 2025
- IRCNow Helped Techrights
- If you want to gain more independence or "sovereignty" over your communications and need help setting things up (no prior experience setting up/configuring IRC), go to IRCNow
- UEFI 'Restricted Boot' Will Usher in Rootkits Into Linux
- Those of us who understand and value what it means to truly own our devices should definitely be alarmed by these trends
- Plan for European Patent Office (EPO) Coverage This Month, Next Month, and Next Year
- How much longer can European politicians ignore all this corruption?
- opensource.net Dead Since Middle of Summer, opensource.org (OSI) Still Leaderless
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- Slopwatch: Google News Full of Slop
- Google News has serious problems
- Gemini Links 16/11/2025: The Cure for Slop, Rapsberry Pi Zero 2 W, and POSIX from Ada
- Links for the day
- NHS Data Breach Caused by Proprietary Software, as Usual, The Register MS Blames "Hackers" and "Cybercriminal Gang"
- Nothing will get solved unless we have a rethink and media quits using the "hacker" narrative, which shifts blame from the holes to those who merely exploit them
- IBM is Vanishing (First Moving, Then Going Away Completely)
- Salary reduction is only the first step
- Links 16/11/2025: Japan-China Tensions Grow, Surveillance Giant Google Checked for Breach of the Digital Markets Act (DMA)
- Links for the day
- Links 16/11/2025: Censorship Battles and Margaret Sullivan Speaks
- Links for the day
- German Media and German Politicians: Working for the Public or Manipulating the Public?
- The "common person" does not have printing presses
- Informing the Public of Suppressed Facts
- We are all in this together
- Canadian Linus Meets Finnish-American Linus
- LTT does have a very large audience, which it can steer away from Microsoft and Windows
- The UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) Discourages Technological Entities, Including Free Software Projects, Being Based in or Near the UK
- When it comes to IRC hosting, we never had any serious speech restrictions imposed upon us by the UK
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 15, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, November 15, 2025
- Father of GNU Giving Keynote Talk Today, Father of Linux Collaborating With Linus Tech Tips (LTT)
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- Gemini Links 16/11/2025: Emacs Font Fun and UI x TUI x CLI
- Links for the day
- Flagging or Labelling LLM Slop Meaningfully to Discourage the Practice
- We're still refining the annotation for better contrast
- LLM Slop is an Addiction One Can Quit
- Sites that crossed over to "the dark side" (slop) can still return, and even fully regain the trust lost by betraying people with 'botspew'.
- BILD is Apparently Covering Up Cocaine Use at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the European Patent Office, as It's Based on Germany
- Journalist contact details
- Techrights Site Search Pushed to 'Stable'
- we've just added it to the navigation menu and footer
- Situation Publishing's DevClass (Sister Site of The Register MS, Run by MS Tim) Has Been Abandoned, Microsoft's MS Tim Now Interjects Anti-Linux Directly Into The Register MS
- Not only does this sell Microsoft; it's also googlebombing - as before - the real "maui" (or "MauiKit" in Linux).
- Many IBM Workers to Become Unemployed a Few Weeks - Maybe Just Days - Before Christmas
- as one last humiliating exercise IBM pimps/trots them out in social control media, telling "happy" stories
- Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, WebProNews, and Linux Journal (Slopfarms)
- More fake articles about "Linux"
- Links 15/11/2025: Openwashing of Kubernetes and Austerity Planned for Canada
- Links for the day
- Links 15/11/2025: "Small Web, Big Voice" and China Cracking Down on Slop
- Links for the day
- Links 15/11/2025: Science, Conflicts, and International Politics
- Links for the day
- Annus Horribilis at the European Patent Office (EPO)
- The article explains how the EPO "Cocainegate" scandal is turning 2025 into an Annus Horribilis for Campinos
- Links 15/11/2025: Latest in "Component Abuse Challenge" and Qt Keeps Promoting LLM Slop
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 15/11/2025: Egoism, Misunderstood Universe, DeX, and "Why desktop Linux is growing"
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, November 14, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, November 14, 2025
- Richard Stallman Talk Tomorrow in Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress 2
- It's not clear if a livestream of some kind will exist
- Many "Last Days" at IBM on Allegedly the "Last Day" for IBM to RA People This Quarter
- "Last day" is "social media code" for "got laid off", more so at IBM because they compel people to act like it's a happy departure with gratitude, photos and so on
