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1 readyPushers of systemd Rewrite History (Richard Stallman Said UNIX "Was Portable and Seemed Fairly Clean") (updated)

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2 readyTrajectory of The Register: From News Site/s Into "B2B"... and Into Microsoft Salespeople (updated)

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

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4 readyLinks 27/07/2025: FSF Hackathon and "Hulk Hogan Was a Very Bad Man"

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5 readyGemini Links 27/07/2025: DAW Mixer Chains and Simple Software

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6 readyThe Register MS is Inventing or Giving Air Time to New Conspiracy Theories so as to Distort the Narrative As High-Profile Agencies Fall Prey to Microsoft Holes

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7 readyWhen You Tell You It's Free, Does That Mean No Charges (If So, Who's Paying and Why)?

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8 readyMost Editors at The Register Are American, Including the Editor in Chief, a Decade-Long Microsoft Stenographer (Writing Prose to Sell Microsoft)

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9 ready"New Techrights" Soon Turns 2 (A Few Days Before the FSF Turns 40)

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10 readyWhen Silence Says So Much

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11 readyThe Register in Trouble

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12 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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13 readyIRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 26, 2025

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14 readyMisinformation in Social Control Media

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15 readySlopwatch: Fake Linux 'Articles' and Slopfarms With "Linux" in Their Names/Domains

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16 readyLinks 26/07/2025: Amazon Shutdown in China, Russian Economy Slows

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17 readyGemini Links 26/07/2025: History of Time (1988) and Gemini Games

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

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

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20 readySlopwatch: Fakes, FUD, Duplicates, and Charlatans Galore

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

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

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

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24 readyMicrosoft Finally Finds a Use Case for Slop?

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

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26 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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27 readyIRC Proceedings: Friday, July 25, 2025

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

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

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

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

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32 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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33 readyNew US Editor in The Register is 84% Microsoft/Windows Booster

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

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

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36 readyLinks 25/07/2025: NOAA Cuts Endanger Lives, "Europe's Self Inflicted Cloud Crisis"

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37 readyThey Try to Lecture Us on Ethics

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

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

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

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41 readyWe Don't Do JavaScript and Pages Are Small

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42 ready'Tech' is Not Technology

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

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44 readyYes, Master

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

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46 readyMaking Backups Quickly and Reliably

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

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

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49 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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50 readyIRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 24, 2025

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

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52 readyVanishing Faces of GNU/Linux

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53 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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54 readySlopwatch: LinuxTechLab, linuxsecurity.com, LinuxIac, and More

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

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