[Meme] Sirius AstroTurfing
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2023-04-10 15:46:21 UTC
- Modified: 2023-04-10 15:46:21 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- What EPO Staff, the Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO), and Europe Want and Need
- Who should be served by patents?
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 49 Out of 200: Two Americans, One Case, Recycled for Low Budget at Brett Wilson LLP and 5RB Barristers
- Change one character, bill the client tens or hundreds of thousands of US dollars
-
- Nothing But Vapourware Since XBox Leadership Ousted and Mass Layoffs Will Come Soon
- We just don't know the exact date/s... yet
- Gemini Links 18/04/2026: Guix and WikiReader
- Links for the day
- Network Maintenance Next Friday
- We must be doing a terrific job so far given how much money gets spent trying to silence us
- "The Work-to-rule is Having Effect" at the European Patent Office (EPO)
- The media knows how to contact SUEPO, but it's clearly not doing it
- Improving the Sites, Not Bloating Them
- Sites need to evolve over time. Many conflate evolution with bloat (as if more complexity is desirable).
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 50 Out of 200: The Time Staff of Law Firm Burgess Mee Was Showing Up in Letters Sent for a Serial Strangler From Microsoft
- Family-friendly? No.
- Next Week the Star of the "EPO Reality TV Show" Will Likely be Absent (Absconding the Tough Reality of Widespread Unrest)
- He tarnishes the legacy of that surname and the country's image by spouting out lies and hurling abusive insults (lots of the "f word") at staff
- Speculations That IBM's CEO is on His Way Out
- IBM has mass layoffs, but the media is not covering this [...] IBM is a company in the loo, a firm in a state of rapid disintegration
- Slopwatch Was Deprecated, It's Not Coming Back
- LLMs that produce many words very fast (and waste a lot of energy in the process) cannot compete with authentic news sites
- WELCOME to The Cyber|Show @ Geminispace!
- Andy set things up this past week
- Links 18/04/2026: Microsoft's PR Department (Waggener Edstrom) and CEO's Wife Buys NPR (BillPR, Now BallmerPR) as Independent/Public Service Media Dims Down
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 18/04/2026: Chronic Pain and CodingFont Game
- Links for the day
- Links 17/04/2026: "I Hate the Internet" and Fake Wallet in Apple App Store
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 17, 2026
- IRC logs for Friday, April 17, 2026
- European Patent Office (EPO) Strikes and Other Industrial Actions Are Working: Patent Application Grants Have Collapsed
- Even before the strikes happened any day of the week
- Pension Contribution Increases as Another Attack on Compensation for EPO Staff (Mostly Patent Examiners)
- Pension contribution increases!
- Almost 1,000 IBM Layoffs Not Newsworthy (Nobody Covers It), Unlike When Snap Does It and Mentions a Celebrated - or Reviled - Buzzword
- not a word regarding IBM layoffs
- Behind the Scenes With Richard Stallman
- If you support his ideas, even if you dislike him as a person, then you'll welcome his ability to speak about those ideas
- Gemini Links 17/04/2026: "Many Problems and Inequities in the Legal System", "No Place to Hide"
- Links for the day
- Links 17/04/2026: SRA Breaks Its Own Rules as Solicitor Attempts Suicide, IPv6 Barely Hits 50% After 20+ Years
- Links for the day
- ActBlue former IT boss disappearance: Decklin Foster & Debian, Harvard suicide lab, Chris Gleason is wife, whistleblower or both?
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Gemini Links 17/04/2026: Getting competent in NixOS and Alhena 5.5.6 Released
- Links for the day
- Links 17/04/2026: "We Cannot Lose Sight of Ukraine" and "When Leaders Should Resign"
- Links for the day
- GizChina Appears to Have Become a Slopfarm, I.e. Fake News Site With Fake Text
- Don't waste a moment reading LLM slop, as at the very least it rewards plagiarism [...] Deemed to be slop also by two human beings, not just two scanners
- Massive, Cross-Site Strike at the EPO Today
- There's coordination across sites for maximal pressure
- Dr. Andy Farnell Says "AI" is "Only a Marketing Term" for Things That Exist for "Entertainment Purposes Only"
- distortion or misuse of the term (now buzzword/s) "AI"
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 16, 2026
- IRC logs for Thursday, April 16, 2026
- Strikes at the EPO Carry on, Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Increases Pressure Ahead of Technical and Operational Support Committee (TOSC) Meeting Next Week
- the local section The Hague (or SUEPO TH) wants to rally many staff members
- Gemini Links 16/04/2026: LLM Nuisance, Identity Systems (Surveillance), and Why Windows is Failing
- Links for the day
- 'Going Offline' is Not Primitivism
- Computers are good at automation, but people are not robots
- The Register MS Has Published Article With "AI" 18 Times in it, "Cloud" 9 Times. It Got Paid to Do This.
- What happened to journalism?
- In Europe, More People Turn to Russia for Answers, Not Microsoft
- The future of computing doesn't look pretty
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 48 Out of 200: Brett Wilson LLP and 5RB Copy-Pasting Bogus Claims for Violent Americans (Microsoft) Who Tell Women to Kill Themselves
- Microsoft's Graveley telling his partner to kill herself is probably a crime
- The EFF Is Hardly Doing Anything Anymore
- Our series about the EFF has been brewing for over 2 years already
- Microsoft Uses Slop to Bribe (at No Cost) Nations That Otherwise Would Move to GNU/Linux and IBM is Forcing Red Hat Staff to Use Slop
- Life it too short to waste "consuming" slop
- Links 16/04/2026: Roblox Launching ‘Roblox Kids’ Accounts and "Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools"
- Links for the day
- Red Hat Staff: IBM Red Hat Laid Off About 400 Engineers, the Media Did Not Cover This
- The media is not doing its job or doing a really shoddy job
- Gemini Links 16/04/2026: Nocturnal Pulse, Unpersoned Outlaws, and Monaspace Lagrange Fontpacks
- Links for the day
- Richard Stallman Lecture in GDC Auditorium in Austin, Texas
- corporate power could not 'cancel' the man
- It's Not About the Head, It's About the Masters (and Funding)
- Regardless of who the OSI claims to be its leader, its masters are Microsoft, just follow the money
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 15, 2026
- IRC logs for Wednesday, April 15, 2026
