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2022-02-18 Links 18/2/2022: Bottles 2022.2.14 and RedNotebook 2.23
2022-02-19 Links 19/2/2022: Libinput 1.20.0 and Fedora Woes
2022-03-25 Links 24/03/2022: Steam on ChromeOS
2022-07-27 Links 27/07/2022: Twenty Years of Valgrind and Tor Browser 11.5.1
2022-09-09 Links 09/09/2022: messenger-cli 0.1.0 and General News
2022-09-12 Links 12/09/2022: rpki-client 8.0 and Game of Trees 0.75
2022-11-18 Links 18/11/2022: GIMP 2.99.14 Released
2022-11-29 Links 29/11/2022: Bodhi Linux 7.0.0 Coming
2022-11-30 Links 30/11/2022: More Twitter Trouble and Tor Browser 11.5.10 (Android)
2022-12-01 Links 01/12/2022: NixOS 22.11 Released and Genode OS 22.11 is Ready
2022-12-16 Links 16/12/2022: Much About Raspberry Pi and Steam Deck
2022-12-17 Links 17/12/2022: PeerTube Version 5
2022-12-20 Links 20/12/2022: Epic Games Fined Over Privacy Abuse, Tails 5.8 Released
2023-02-21 Links 21/02/2023: OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 Beta and Tor Browser 12.5a3
2023-04-17 Links 16/04/2023: Trisquel GNU/Linux 11.0 Reviewed and World IP (International Propaganda) Day 2023 Approaching
2023-05-03 Links 03/05/2023: New Fedora 38 ISOs, U.S. Solicitor General Meddling for Software Patents
2023-05-04 Links 03/05/2023: More Predictions of Xbox Demise/Doom and More Dirty Tricks From Microsoft
2023-05-04 Links 04/05/2023: OpenWrt 22.03.5 and OSMC's May Update
2023-05-05 Links 05/05/2023: Years After Dieselgate (Proprietary Software Abuse) Audi CEO Rupert Stadler Pleads Guilty
2023-05-13 Links 13/05/2023: Ruby 3.3.0 Preview1, Wine 8.8, and Kdenlive 23.04
2023-05-25 Links 25/05/2023: IBM as Leading Wayland Pusher
2023-06-08 Links 08/06/2023: Istio 1.18 and FreeIPMI 1.6.11
2023-07-20 Leftover Links 19/07/2023: Smartphone Sales Plunge Again
2023-07-22 Leftover Links 22/07/2023: Shocking Details Emerge of Microsoft's 'Clown Computing' Breach
2023-07-23 Links 23/07/2023: Microsoft 360 Breach is Universal After All
2023-07-26 Links 26/07/2023: More on This Week's Microsoft Layoffs, WordPress 6.3 Almost Here
2023-07-27 Leftover Links 27/07/2023: Google Pushes “Web Integrity API” (DRM) Into the World Wide Web
2023-07-28 Links 28/07/2023: Happy SysAdmin Day
2023-07-29 Gemini Links 29/07/2023: Communications Secretaries and Godwin’s Law
2023-08-04 Leftover Links 04/08/2023: 10 Years of Let’s Encrypt, UEFI Security Chaos Again
2023-08-10 Links 09/08/2023: Indian Defense Services Moving to GNU/Linux, WordPress 6.3 “Lionel” Released
2023-09-27 Links 27/09/2023: 3G Phase-Out, Monopolies, and Exit of Rupert Murdoch
2023-09-29 Links 29/09/2023: Disinformation and Monopolies
2023-10-06 Links 06/10/2023: 'Cellphone' Crunch and Spoofing Alerts in 4G LTE Networks
2023-10-09 Links 09/10/2023: Brave Layoffs and War Updates
2023-10-16 Links 16/10/2023: India's Import Bans Revised, One Week of Nothing to Do
2023-10-21 Links 21/10/2023: Fakecoin Prosecutions and Growing Tensions Near China
2023-10-28 Links 28/10/2023: Clown Computing, Brain on Zoom, Google's Bought Monopoly
2023-10-30 Links 30/10/2023: Misinformation/Disinformation and Digital Restrictions (DRM) in Cameras
2023-10-31 Links 31/10/2023: Bungie Layoffs, Apple Trouble in China
2023-11-05 Links 05/11/2023: Sanctions and Thawing Ties
2023-11-10 Links 10/11/2023: Jezebel and Omegle Shut Down
2023-12-05 Links 05/12/2023: Microsoft's Chatbot as Health Hazard
2023-12-06 Links 06/12/2023: Many More December Layoffs
2023-12-29 Links 29/12/2023: Arrests of Dissents and Software Patent Problems
2024-01-18 Links 18/01/2024: IBM's "Invention (Patent, Monopoly) Achievement Award Plan" No More, Apple Gadgets Banned Due to Software Patents
2024-01-26 Links 26/01/2024: More Information on Microsoft Layoffs (Units Being Shut Down) and Now Salesforce Layoffs
2024-02-02 Links 02/02/2024: Okta and Zoom Layoffs, Software Patents From the EPO Thrown Out Again
2024-02-03 Links 03/02/2024: Unified Patents Killing More Software Patents, Google Cache Phased Out
2024-02-16 Links 16/02/2024: Further Strikes and War Updates
2024-02-21 Links 21/02/2024: Encryption Backdoors Deemed Not Legal, Decentralised Web Under Attack
2024-02-21 Links 21/02/2024: China Working on West-less Tech Future, More Bounties on Patent Troll Leigh M. Rothschild (Which IBM et al Failed to Dismantle at the Root)
2024-02-23 Links 23/02/2024: Feed Aggregator and 2 Years of Invasion, Alexei Navalny’s Mother Blackmailed
2024-02-26 Links 26/02/2024: Suicide Crisis and Doctor Walkouts in South Korea
2024-03-05 Links 05/03/2024: More Gaming Layoffs, Apple Trouble in EU
2024-03-11 Links 11/03/2024: TikTok Bans May be Imminent, Social Control Media's Harms Increasingly Recognised
2024-03-12 Links 12/03/2024: Russia's Lost Momentum, Reddit is Offloaded to Gamblers
2024-03-16 Links 16/03/2024: TikTok Issues and Censorship Stories
2024-03-23 Links 23/03/2024: Gershkovich at 1 (Detention in Russia), WikiLeaks Rumours
2024-04-07 Links 07/04/2024: Apple Suing Its Own Staff, EPO (and UPC) Still Utilises Fake (Kangaroo) Courts for Patents
2024-04-15 Links 15/04/2024: Navartis, AWS and Tesla Layoffs
2024-04-23 Links 23/04/2024: Escalations Around Poland, Microsoft Shares Dumped
2024-06-21 Links 21/06/2024: Matrimony Perils and US-Sponsored COVID-19 Misinformation
2024-06-23 Links 23/06/2024: Twitter/X Wants Your Money, Google Reports a Billion DMCA Takedowns in Four Months
2024-06-27 Links 27/06/2024: Microsoft's Chief Brand Offices Kathleen Hall to Leave, The Beauty of Blogging, Ukraine Updates
2024-07-22 Links 22/07/2024: Internet Optimism and Kamala Harris Policies Debated
2024-07-24 Links 24/07/2024: Many New Attacks on Journalists, "Private Companies Own The Law"
2024-07-25 Links 25/07/2024: Talks of Increased Pension Age and Biden Explains Dropping Out
2024-07-26 Links 26/07/2024: "AI" Hype Debunked and Elon Musk's "X" Already Spreads Political Disinformation
2024-07-27 Links 27/07/2024: Quicket Scooped up by Ticketmaster, Microsoft Uses Windows' Global Outage as Excuse to Loosen Antitrust Enforcement
2024-07-28 Topics to Cover (Including Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and Encryption)
2024-07-31 Links 31/07/2024: Facebook Privacy Violations, Microsoft Ads Full-screen Adverts to Vista 11
2024-08-02 Links 02/08/2024: ‘Lifetime’ Price Guarantee That Wasn’t, Security Researchers and Journalists at Risk
2024-08-02 Links 02/08/2024: US Presidential Race Becomes More Racist, So-called 'Crypto' 'Currency' Interfering in Elections
2024-08-06 Links 06/08/2024: Google in Hot Waters, Journalists Killed by Police
2024-08-12 Links 12/08/2024: Bracing for More Mass Layoffs at Microsoft, Hey Hi ("AI") Bubble Continues Popping
2024-08-16 Links 16/08/2024: UK Skills Deficit and Kim Dotcom to be Extradited to the US (for Doing the Same Stuff GAFAM Does)
2024-09-18 Links 18/09/2024: Gaming Layoffs and New Openwashing by Linux Foundation
2024-11-15 Links 15/11/2024: The Onion Buys Crank's Site, More Publications Quit Twitter/X
2024-11-19 Links 19/11/2024: War on Cables?
2024-11-23 Links 23/11/2024: "Real World" Cracked and UK Online Safety Act is Law
2024-12-08 Links 08/12/2024: Boeing Leaks and Bluesky’s Business Model Dilemma
2024-12-09 Links 09/12/2024: UnitedHealthcare C.E.O.'s Killer Still Unknown, Syrian Regime Change Completed
2024-12-13 Links 13/12/2024: British Journalism Awards and Censorship by Copyright Misuse
2024-12-21 Links 21/12/2024: "Hey Hi" (AI) or LLM Bubble Criticised by Mainstream Media, Oligarchs Try to Control and Shut Down US Government
2024-12-23 Links 23/12/2024: North Korean Death Toll in Russia at ~1,100, Oligarch Who Illegally Migrated/Stayed (Musk) Shuts Down US Government
2025-01-02 Links 02/01/2025: OpenAI Whistleblower Suchir Balaji Alleged to Have Been Murdered, Islamic Terrorism in New Orleans
2025-01-15 Links 15/01/2025: Social Control Media Spreading Lies, TikTok Banned in 4 Days
2025-02-08 Unlike GAFAM, Free Software Serves You, It Does Not Serve Governments and MElons (Overlapping Forces)
2025-02-08 Links 08/02/2025: MElon Coup, Mass Layoffs at Facebook, and PlayStation Network Down
2025-03-05 Links 05/03/2025: Prioritising Science, Patents Squashed
2025-03-06 Links 06/03/2025: Trade Wars, Trademarks, Attacks on (and by) the Media, Digg to Relaunch
2025-03-08 Links 08/03/2025: Climate Change Causing Food Shortages, Selling Off Chrome Still in the Cards
2025-03-29 Links 29/03/2025: More Crackdowns on Science, "Hey Hi" Slopping is Flopping
2025-04-30 Links 30/04/2025: Censorship in the Guise/Clothing of "Combatting Deepfakes", Mass Surveillance Increasingly Framed as Catchphrase "AI"
2025-05-02 Links 02/05/2025: Mineral Selloff and Chinese Sanctions
2025-05-02 Links 02/05/2025: Expedia Group Undergoes Layoffs, Twitter Exodus in Europe
2025-05-03 Links 03/05/2025: UK Arrests for Bribery Connected to Microsoft Datacentres
2025-05-16 Links 16/05/2025: Microsoft Sacks Pregnant Women, People Fired on Their Birthday; Adobe Censorship Failing
2025-05-17 Links 17/05/2025: Stabber of Salman Rushdie Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
2025-05-17 Links 17/05/2025: Microsoft Kills "Surface Laptop Studio" (More Canceled Products/Units), Groups Caution About Harms of Social Control Media
2025-05-18 Links 18/05/2025: Decreased Prospects of Science Careers, Disappearance of Journalists
2025-05-23 Links 23/05/2025: Tax Audits of Hong Kong's Independent as ‘Intimidation Tactics,’ Why "Regulating X Isn’t Censorship"
2025-07-12 Links 12/07/2025: Birdwatching and Fake/Misleading Wall Street 'Valuation' Figures
2025-07-19 Links 19/07/2025: Microsoft Cuts in China and Wall Street Journal Sued for Reporting on Jeffrey Epstein
2025-07-21 Ofcom Online Safety Group Speaks of Protecting Women Online, Will Brett Wilson LLP Ever Listen?
2025-07-24 Links 24/07/2025: Convicted Felon Quits UNESCO, "Vibe Coding Goes Wrong", and Signalgate Gets Worse
2025-07-26 Gemini Links 26/07/2025: "Bloody Google" and New People in Geminispace
2025-07-28 Links 28/07/2025: COVID-19 Sped up Brain Aging, "Circumvention is More Popular Than Compliance"
2025-07-29 Links 29/07/2025: More Pushbacks Against Slop and More Praises of Tom Lehrer
2025-07-30 Links 30/07/2025: Tea Class Action and Google Killing the Web With Slop
2025-07-31 Links 31/07/2025: Spotify Collapses and Spotify Now Forcing Some Users to Undergo Face-Scanning
2025-08-01 Links 01/08/2025: "The Great British Firewall" and U.S. Army Sponsors Palantir
2025-08-03 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a Billionaires' Lobby
2025-08-03 Online Safety Act Tries to Accomplish the Impossible
2025-08-03 Links 03/08/2025: Microsoft Exchange 0-day Exploited and Avoidable Nuclear Escalation
2025-08-05 Links 05/08/2025: Samsung and Microsoft Layoffs
2025-08-06 Links 06/08/2025: Faked Values of Slop Companies and Government Bailouts
2025-08-07 Links 07/08/2025: Apple Makes False Promises, More Trouble for Microsoft
2025-08-09 Links 09/08/2025: Apollo 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell Dies, Slop Future Bleak
2025-08-11 Links 11/08/2025: Data Breaches, Politics, and Climate
2025-08-12 Links 12/08/2025: More Sabotage of Underwater Cable Ahead of Russian Alaska Summit
2025-08-17 Links 17/08/2025: "The Performance of Power" and "My Undesirable Friends"
2025-08-19 Chat Control (1 and 2) in the European Union Sends the Wrong Message
2025-08-19 Online Safety Act Does Not Tackle the Worst (and Biggest) Culprits
2025-08-22 Links 22/08/2025: Lagrange 1.18.8, Wired Magazine and Business Insider Caught Resorting to LLM Slop
2025-08-24 LLM Hype is Sowing Destruction: It Contributes to DDoS Attacks and Makes the Web Less Accessible (JavaScript "R U Human?" Tests)
2025-08-24 Links 24/08/2025: GAFAM Lie About Pollution and Slop's Carbon Footprint, The Guardian Says Slop ("Hey Hi") is a Bubble That Will Send Stock Markets Into a Freefall
2025-08-25 Links 25/08/2025: Datacentres Versus Water Supplies and "The IPv6 Divide"
2025-08-28 Links 28/08/2025: Chatbots Distorting/Fabricating History and Also Driving Suicide
2025-08-31 Links 31/08/2025: Baggage Claim Scams, an Insurrectionist’s War on Culture, and a Sudden Robotics Hype
2025-09-02 Over at Tux Machines...
2025-09-07 Gemini Links 07/09/2025: Little Brother and Corporate Theatre
2025-09-11 Links 11/09/2025: Oracle Layoffs, Drunk Pilots in Japan Airlines, US-Korea Tensions Grow
2025-09-12 Links 12/09/2025: "Bad Reviews" as Extortion Weapon, "Free Speech At Risk in America’s Schools" According to ACLU
2025-09-13 Gemini and Web Links 13/09/2025: MElon's Slop Grift and "Autonomous Trains"
2025-09-20 Links 20/09/2025: Retrocomputer, Antique Phone Experience, and More
2025-09-26 Links 26/09/2025: "Digital Fatigue" and Slop Frenzy (Hype) Ruining Work Productivity, Culture, Languages
2025-10-10 Links 10/10/2025: US Judge Bars Attacks by ICE On Journalists and Protesters; “We Took The Freedom of Speech Away” Says the President
2025-10-14 Links 14/10/2025: Microsoft OneDrive Scanning Faces in Photos (Without Asking First), "OpenAI Says It Will Move to Allow Smut"
2025-11-16 The UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) Discourages Technological Entities, Including Free Software Projects, Being Based in or Near the UK
2025-11-28 Links 28/11/2025: Apple and Plagiarism, US Government 'Selling' Europe Down the River
2025-12-12 Links 12/12/2025: Oracle Shares Collapse After Slop Bubble Inflated (Circular Funding/Financing One's Own 'Clients'), "Trials by Jury" in UK Considered
2025-12-12 Links 12/12/2025: Thunderbird Adds Proprietary Plug, "Catch-22 of Canadian Digital Sovereignty" Explained by Michael Geist (About GAFAM/US)
2025-12-13 Links 13/12/2025: Social Control Media Bans and "Could Finland be Hiding a Blue Zone?"
2025-12-16 Links 16/12/2025: More GAFAM (Now Amazon) Layoffs and iRobot Chapter 11
2025-12-23 Links 23/12/2025: GNU Taler 1.3, US Regime Censors Television Again
2026-01-10 Links 10/01/2026: "Abolish ICE or GTFO", Calls to Ban X/Twitter From Apple/Google App Stores (or Implement National Blocks) Over MElon Turning It Into Non-consensual Deepfake Porn Site
2026-01-14 Links 13/01/2026: 'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams Passes Away With Cancer, Ban on X/Twitter Considered for CSAM Profiteering
2026-01-21 Links 21/01/2026: Microsoft 'Open' 'Hey Hi' in More Trouble, US Has "Brown Shirts" Problem
2026-01-27 Links 27/01/2026: "Oracle Debt and TikTok Transition Troubles Vex the Ellison Media Empire", Richard Stallman Quoted on Copyrights
2026-01-28 Links 28/01/2026: Microsoft Ordered to Stop Spying on School Children, Apple's Brand Tarnished by Its Complicity With Human Rights Abusers
2026-02-19 Links 19/02/2026: "A.I.pocalypse" Inevitable and "Butlers to LLMs"
2026-03-09 Dr. Andy Farnell on How GAFAM, NVIDIA and Others Lie to People Via the Sponsored Media to Prop Up Lies Under the Guise of "AI"