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1 readyDoing My Share to Tackle Online Slop and SPAM (updated)

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2 readySlopwatch: Fakes, FUD, Duplicates, and Charlatans Galore (updated)

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3 readyThe Register UK Seems to Have Become American and Management is Changing (Microsofter as Editor in Chief) (updated)

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4 readyMicrosoft Windows Lost 400 Million Users in a Few Years, Why Does The Register Double Down on Windows With New US Editor? (updated)

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5 readyLinks 25/07/2025: NOAA Cuts Endanger Lives, "Europe's Self Inflicted Cloud Crisis" (updated)

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6 readyLinks 26/07/2025: 50 Percent Tariffs in Amazon, Dying Intel Offloads Network and Edge Group (NEX)

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7 readyBlaming Programming Languages for Users' and Developers' Bad Practices

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8 readyMany People Still Read Techrights Because It Says the Truth, Produces Evidence, and Does Not Self-Censor

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9 readyThe Register is Desperate for Money, According to The Register

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10 readyMicrosoft Finally Finds a Use Case for Slop?

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11 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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12 readyIRC Proceedings: Friday, July 25, 2025

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13 readyFor Libel Reform One Must First Bring (or Raise) Awareness to the Issues and Their Magnitude

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14 readyLinks 26/07/2025: Rationed Meals in the US and TikTok Repels Investments (Too Toxic)

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15 readyGemini Links 26/07/2025: "Bloody Google" and New People in Geminispace

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16 readyResponse to Solderpunk (Father of Gemini Protocol) About the Gemini Community

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17 readyHTML and the Web Used to be Something a Child Could Learn, "Modern" Web is a Puzzle of Frameworks, Bloat, and Worse

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18 readyNew US Editor in The Register is 84% Microsoft/Windows Booster

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19 readyLinks 25/07/2025: Slop Blunders and China Has Code of Conduct for Lawmakers in HK

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20 readyGemini Links 25/07/2025: Some Books and Babies and Capital

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21 readyThey Try to Lecture Us on Ethics

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22 readyThe Future of the Web is One Rendering Engine or 'Flavours' of Chrome

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23 readyBest Sites Are Not Optimised for Any Browser, They Work Equally Well With All of Them

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24 readyYouTube is a Spamfarm, Slopfarm, and Clickfarm (a Lot of Numbers There Are Fake)

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25 readyWe Don't Do JavaScript and Pages Are Small

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26 ready'Tech' is Not Technology

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27 readyIBM's Debt Rose by Almost 10 Billion Dollars in the Past 6 Months Alone

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28 readyYes, Master

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29 readyMicrosoft Bribes and Buys Politicians to Tell Europe What to Do About Free Software (Which It's Attacking)

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30 readyMaking Backups Quickly and Reliably

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31 readyTechrights Investigation: Estimating the Point in Time LinuxIac Turned Into LLM Slop (Part of the Time)

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32 ready10th Month, Ten Weeks From Now, at Ten AM

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33 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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34 readyIRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 24, 2025

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35 readyA Nadella Memo Distracts From Microsoft's Cheapening Of the Workforce

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36 readyVanishing Faces of GNU/Linux

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37 readyMicrosoft Says It Lost 400 Million Windows Users, Now It's Waiting for GNU/Linux to Stop Booting on 'Old' PCs

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38 readySlopwatch: LinuxTechLab, linuxsecurity.com, LinuxIac, and More

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39 readyGemini Links 25/07/2025: Gemtext Aware Titan Editor and Gemini Protocol Comeback

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40 readyLinks 24/07/2025: Convicted Felon Quits UNESCO, "Vibe Coding Goes Wrong", and Signalgate Gets Worse

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41 readyGemini Links 24/07/2025: Forgejo Woes and Smolnet Directory Week

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42 readyMisinformation is Not Intelligence

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43 readyLinks 24/07/2025: Storage Tapes Still Kicking, Windows TCO 'on Steroids' (Microsoft-Induced Catastrophes)

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44 readyBobby Borisov (LinuxIac) Has Apparently Begun Experimenting With LLM Slop, So We Cannot Trust LinuxIac Anymore

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45 readyInforma TechTarget's ITProToday is Becoming a Slopfarm Generated by Microsoft Chatbots

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46 ready'Tech' Gimmicks Are for Advertising, Not for Usability

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47 readyBetaNews Sacked Brian Fagioli and Deleted His Comments, But He Still Tries to Use the "BetaNews" Brand for Self-Affirmation

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48 ready[Meme] Hard to Be a Better Person?

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49 readyThe LLM Con Artists Are Highly Destructive

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50 readyToo Bribed by Microsoft to Move to Free Software?

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51 readyNew US Editor for The Register is a Microsoft Booster

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52 readyMicrosoft Hiring European Politicians is Another Form of Bribery; There Should be a European Investigation

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53 readyReda Demanded That FSF Removes Its Founder, Now Reda Works Directly for Microsoft

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54 readyPCLinuxOS is Raising Money to Support Development After Fire Incident at the Host

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55 readySpeed of the Site Should be Better Now

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56 readyGetting More From AnalogNowhere

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57 readyMicrosoft, Microsofters and 'Secure' Boot Shills Already Storming the LWN Report About Expiring Certificate, Shooting the Messenger

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58 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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59 readyIRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 23, 2025

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60 readyDisable "Secure" Boot Today (the Only Better Time to Do So Was Yesterday)

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61 readyLinks 23/07/2025: Windows Killed Company After 150+ Years, US Government Mimics Russia's Attacks on the Media

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62 readyFreedom Generally Wins at the End, History Shows (But It's Constantly Attacked, Too)

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63 readyOver 3 Months Later Brett Wilson LLP Still Unable to Recruit a Media Lawyer?

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