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2009-01-02 Gary M. Stewart (aka “Flatfish”) About Microsoft AstroTurfing: “It's made me A LOT of money....”
2010-09-13 AstroTurfer Against Google Wants to Buy Google Real Estate, Old Anti-Google AstroTurfers (Hired by Microsoft) Recalled
2015-06-18 Amid Microsoft Collapse Stephen Elop is Finally 'Fired', But Not Before He Cost Many Thousands of People (at Nokia) Their Job, Destroyed Linux-based Platforms, and Spread Patents to Patent Trolls
2019-09-03 Openwashing Report: Buzzwords for Lock-in Are Getting Out of Hand and It's Not Funny
2019-09-08 Openwashing Report: G.A.F.A.M. Surveillance and Military/Imperialism as 'Open' and 'Sharing'
2019-09-14 Microsoft Targets GNU/Linux Advocates With Phony Charm Offensives and Fake 'Love'
2020-02-15 Microsoft Views 'Open Source' as a Zero-Cost Heist Opportunity (Making Proprietary Software/Spyware Using Other People's Free Labour)
2020-05-02 Who Owns Your Computer? The Free Software Fallacy
2020-05-29 Microsoft-Connected CloudGuru Doesn't Care About GNU/Linux and Now It's Gradually Killing the BSD/Linux-Centric Jupiter Broadcasting (Bought by Linux Academy)
2020-06-06 The Faces of 'The Cloud' (Surveillance in Clown Computing/Clothing)
2020-06-08 The Different Types of Advocates and Why Their Goals May Vary
2020-06-09 [Humour] The False Choice Between Two Proprietary Software 'Cloud' Giants That Act as 'Hosts' (for Users as Hostages)
2020-06-09 With WSL Microsoft is Attempting to Leverage Its Dying Windows Monopoly Against GNU/Linux (to Control It)
2020-06-10 AWS is Not GNU/Linux and AWS Certification is a Bezos-Leaning Ploy That Rewards People for Memorising Proprietary Interfaces (Vendor Lock-in)
2020-06-15 The Story About Microsoft's Plan for GitHub Says a Lot About the Motivations and the Lies Told to Us for Over Half a Decade
2020-07-19 Microsoft Lays Off Azure Staff and Much More, Spins These Layoffs as “Optimization Strategy”
2020-07-20 How Google 'Reads' Your Mail and Repository of Files, Then Informs the Police
2020-07-21 In Microsoft Windows the Police May Get Access to All the Files (and That's Almost Impossible to Stop, It's Very Difficult to Prevent This)
2020-07-27 Calling 'Bullshit' on the 'Hey Hi' (AI) Marketing Hype
2020-08-23 Leak: FSFE Incurred Over €10,000 in Projected Losses Due to Outsourcing
2020-09-06 More People Should Get Involved in the Fight for Software Freedom (in a World Where Software Increasingly Manages or Mismanages Everything)
2020-09-26 Response to Eric Raymond (ESR) on “Last Phase of the Desktop Wars”
2020-10-11 Remembering That Free Software Does Not Mean 'Free' Market (Deregulation) and It's Typically a Response to Obscenely Deregulated and Monopolised Markets (Overt Concentration of Power and Therefore Wealth)
2020-11-17 Regaining Control Over Infrastructure With Decentralisation and Trusted Encryption
2021-02-03 The Bubble of Outsourced Services Should Be Called Bubble Computing, Not Clown (or 'Cloud') Computing
2021-03-12 EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part I (Start of Series): Enter the “Cloud of Unknowing…”
2021-03-15 European Patent Office as Apparatus of American/Corporate Imperialism (by Surveillance and More)
2021-03-16 Response to the EPO's Response to Techrights About Microsoft 'Cloud' (Still Failing to Justify the GDPR Violations)
2021-06-03 Red Hat is Becoming Somewhat Like SUSE, Stranded Inside a Company That Doesn't Get Free Software (Pushing Proprietary Software for Money)
2022-02-21 'European' Patent Office (EPO) Accelerates Outsourcing of Its Operations to the United States of America, Quite Likely in Defiance of GDPR and Basic Common Sense
2022-05-10 IBM/Red Hat Promoting Microsoft Surveillance and Proprietary Software Instead of Freedom-Centric, Self-Hosted, Privacy-Respecting, and 'Real' GNU/Linux Servers
2022-07-23 The SeaMonkey Internet Suite is Still Developed. Is it Right for You?
2022-08-11 Microsoft Firing 10%, Not 1%, of Staff (Microsoft Lies to the Media, Figures One Order of Magnitude Off)
2022-09-28 Get Away From Clowns (Clown Computing), They Will Only Betray and Hurt You at the End
2022-12-11 Sirius Open Source: Secure Only 'on Paper'
2023-01-11 When the Employer Doesn't Understand or Grossly Underestimates AWS Capacity Issues (and a Story of Lost E-mail in Clown Computing)
2023-01-18 Microsoft Azure is So Amazingly Successful That Every Year Since 2020 It Has Layoffs (Even This Year)
2023-03-21 Rumours of More Microsoft Layoffs Tomorrow (Including Managers!), Probably Azure Again (Many Azure Layoffs Every Year Since 2020)
2023-04-25 The 'Clown Computing' and 'AI' Bubble
2023-05-24 SiliconANGLE: Sponsored by Microsoft and Red Hat to Conduct the Marriage Ceremony
2023-07-22 Leftover Links 22/07/2023: Shocking Details Emerge of Microsoft's 'Clown Computing' Breach
2023-08-11 Matrix.org Mess. IRC Bridges Down, Again.
2023-08-12 Leftover Links 12/08/2023: More Microsoft Security Breaches
2023-08-13 Links Leftover 13/08/2023: Microsoft Cortana's Death
2023-08-16 IBM Still in Control of Fedora-Legal and FESCo Despite Unpaid Volunteer Labor Picking Up More Fedora Grunt Work
2023-08-21 Leftover Links 21/08/2023: Education Crisis and Demise of Robotaxis
2023-09-02 Azure Stagnating, Partners Have Layoffs
2023-09-10 Microsoft's Many Waves of Mass Layoffs Have Caused Major Downtimes, Very Slow Recovery
2023-09-15 Clown Computing is a Joke and Guess Who Has the Last Laugh
2023-09-24 Red Hat Pretends to Have "Community Commitment to Open Source" While Scuttling the Fedora Community (Among Others)
2023-09-25 Linux Too Big to Be Properly Maintained When There's an Incentive to Sell More and More Things (Complexity and Narrow Support Window)
2023-09-25 IBM is Selling Complexity, Not GNU/Linux
2023-09-26 Real Life Should be Offline, Not Online, and It Requires Free Software
2023-09-28 Google (and the Likes Of It) Will Cause Catastrophic Information Loss Rather Than Organise the World's Information
2023-09-30 A Lot of Technological 'Progress' Has Been Nothing But Buzzwords
2023-10-04 Clown Computing Means Security/Data Breaches, Not Just the Outsourcing Itself (They Get Cracked, Too!)
2023-10-15 New Public Talk by Helen Plews and Andy Farnell About 'Clown Computing' (at Cloud Native Media)
2023-10-24 Microsoft Apparently Has Another Wave of Layoffs (Not Related to Last Week's), "Clown Computing" Again
2023-10-25 Even Worse Than Last Quarter: Devices at Microsoft (and Windows) Down Sharply
2023-10-29 Rejecting Terms Designed to Confuse and Bias People's Perception
2023-10-29 Also Over at Tux Machines...
2023-11-24 Musical Chairs Melodrama and 'Extinction' BS (Sensationalist Doomsday Scenarios) Help Distract From What Chatbots Are Truly About: Plundering Other People's Work by Automated Plagiarism
2023-11-25 Not The Onion: Canonical Presents Outsourcing to Microsoft as 'Security'
2023-12-21 Microsoft Dismantled Before Christmas: Layoffs and Even Wholesale Shutdowns
2024-01-07 Software Defaults
2024-01-24 Klara Systems is Wrong About the GNU General Public License (GPL) and Here's Why
2024-01-29 The Great LLM Delusion - Part I: How Microsoft is Looking to Distract From Profound Erosion of Real Value (Not Pump-and-Dump)
2024-01-30 Microsoft's Revenue From the Desktop/Laptop/Device Market Continues to Fall, Now for Over a Year in a Row (This Time Down 10%, Income Even Worse)
2024-02-22 Microsoft's Chatbot Strategy Resulted in Massive Losses, So Now It's Trying to Reinvent Itself as 'Hardware Company' (Once Again, Years After XBox, KIN, Windows Phone and Surface Failed Miserably)
2024-03-18 'Clown Computing' Businesses Are Waning and the Same Will Happen to 'G.A.I.' Businesses (the 'Hey Hi' Fame)
2024-03-26 Former Red Hat Chief (CEO), Who Decided to Leave the Company Earlier This Month, Talks About "Cloud Company Red Hat" to CNBC
2024-03-27 We Need Open Standards With Free Software Implementations, Not "Interoperability" Alone
2024-04-03 IBM is Leaving Money on the Table by Paying Massive Salaries to Its CEO While Culling Workers and Neglecting GNU/Linux
2024-04-30 Federal News Network is Corrupt, It Runs Propaganda Pieces for Microsoft
2024-05-17 Linux.com Made Its First 'Article' in Over and Month, It Was 10 Words in Total, and It's Not About Linux
2024-06-18 Hostageware: The Threat of Clown Computing (or 'SaaS', Another Misnomer or Buzzword) to Computer Users Everywhere
2024-07-09 Why There Are Mass Layoffs in Azure, Thousands Have Been Fired Several Times So Far This Year (and Every Year Since 2020)
2024-08-06 [Meme] 'Clown Computing' is Hosting by the Pentagon (by Proxy)
2024-08-14 Tivoisation and Decommodification in Clown Computing
2024-08-16 Clown Computing
2024-08-22 Microsoft Cooking the Books to Hide the Losses and Disguise the Failure of Its Clown Computing Ventures
2024-08-31 Red Hat is Reselling Microsoft Azure (Proprietary, Surveillance, Complete With Back Doors)
2024-09-11 More "Linux" SEO SPAM, Wrapped Up as Clown Computing, Composed by a "Bullshit Generator" (LLM)
2024-09-13 Dr. Richard M. Stallman (RMS) Explains That a Free/Libre Program Running on Somebody Else's Server (e.g. Clown Computing) Leads to Freedom Deficit
2024-09-23 Finding Hosts That Are Robust to Censorship, Not Just Boasting Decent Uptime Record
2024-10-09 Microsoft is Acting Like a Company That's Running Out of Money (But Still Pretends to be Wealthy in Order to Attract or Retain Shareholders)
2024-10-31 Cooking the Books With "Cloud" And "AI" Was Not Enough to Fool Microsoft Investors
2024-11-28 Microsoft Canonical: Proprietary Spyware in 'Community' Clothing
2025-01-11 Microsoft in Trouble as Azure Breaks and Only Days After Promising Investment in "Datacentres" Construction of Actual Datacentres Paused (Expect More Azure Layoffs Very Soon)
2025-01-16 Total Lock-down Ambitions - Part II - Down to the Very Core, Including the Hardware (CPU, GPU, Peripherals, and More)
2025-01-19 What's Running on the Laptops
2025-01-24 Rumour of IBM 'Bloodbath' in Clown Computing
2025-02-08 Unlike GAFAM, Free Software Serves You, It Does Not Serve Governments and MElons (Overlapping Forces)
2025-02-08 When You Simply Rebrand Almost Everything as "Hey Hi" ("AI"), "Hey Hi Workloads", "Hey Hi Datacentres" and Whatnot
2025-04-04 Why Microsoft's Shares Sank Almost 20% in Recent Months (the Bubble is Imploding)
2025-04-11 IBM Pays IDG's IDC to Market Proprietary Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Under the Guise of "Research"
2025-04-25 Richard Stallman and the Unix Philosophy
2025-07-29 LWN Downtime Due to Linode, Not LLM Bots
2025-09-08 Multiple Undersea Cable Cuts and We're Still OK
2025-09-16 The Oracle Ponzi Scheme
2025-10-06 When the Slop Bubble Pops People Will Say Richard Stallman Was Right (Again)
2025-10-06 When Things Become So Ubiquitous That They're Almost Nameless
2025-10-21 Richard Stallman is Having a Good Week Already (Stallman Was Right About 'Clown Computing')
2025-10-22 "Cloud Computing" Was Always a Joke, But This Week Was the Punchline
2025-10-22 Worrying and Amusing Stories of "Clown Computing" Gone Awry
2026-01-06 Internet Policy/Net Reality: You Must Never Ever Rely on Google (no "S.E.O." Either)
2026-01-18 Eventually the Joke (and Financial Fraud) is on Microsoft, Stigmatised for Slop
2026-03-11 GAFAM Datacentres Are Facilities of War, So Risk of Downtime by Missiles or State-Sponsored Cracking Has Vastly Increased
2026-03-24 New Example of Pentagon in "Feminist" Clothing Inside Fake News of Publishers Paid to Promote Outsourcing to US ("Clown Computing") and American Slop
2026-04-05 Cloud Computing as a Cloud of Smoke (Your Hosting Provider is a "Legitimate" Military Target)
2026-05-12 GAFAM (Microsoft) "Cloud Computing" Means Another Country's Military Accesses All Your Data
2026-05-26 While US Government Greenlights (or Bluelights) Bailouts for IBM Some Foreign Governments Blacklist It
2026-06-05 IBM is "Making an Exit". Only the Executives Will Get Rich.
2026-06-30 Sabine Hossenfelder Versus IBM Scamming Shareholders
2026-08-17 Clown Storage Without Backups
2026-08-19 Microsoft's Active Directory ("AD") and "Entra" Are National Security Threats
2026-09-18 Iran Has Debunked GAFAM and Cloud Computing as Safety of Data