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updated Apr 27, 2024

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  1. CISA Has a Microsoft Conflict of Interest Problem (CISA Cannot Achieve Its Goals, It Protects the Worst Culprit)
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  2. [Video] Time to Acknowledge Debian Has a Real Problem and This Problem Needs to be Solved
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  3. Daniel Pocock elected on ANZAC Day and anniversary of Easter Rising (FSFE Fellowship)
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  4. Ulrike Uhlig & Debian, the $200,000 woman who quit
    Reprinted with permission from disguised.work

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  5. Microsoft Claims "Goodwill" Is an Asset Valued at $119,163,000,000, Cash Decreased From $34,704,000,000 to $19,634,000,000 and Total Liabilities Grew to $231,123,000,000
    Earnings Release FY24 Q3
  6. More Microsoft Cuts: Events Canceled, Real Sales Down Sharply
    So they will call (or rebrand) everything "AI" or "Azure" or "cloud" while adding revenues from Blizzard to pretend something is growing
  7. Links 25/04/2024: South Korean Military to Ban iPhone, Armenian Remembrance Day
    Links for the day
  8. Gemini Links 25/04/2024: SFTP, VoIP, Streaming, Full-Content Web Feeds, and Gemini Thoughts
    Links for the day
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  10. [Meme] Arvind Krishna's Business Machines
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  11. [Video] Debian's Newfound Love of Censorship Has Become a Threat to the Entire Internet
    SPI/Debian might end up with rotten tomatoes in the face
  12. Joerg (Ganneff) Jaspert, Dalbergschule Fulda & Debian Death threats
    Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
  13. Amber Heard, Junior Female Developers & Debian Embezzlement
    Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
  14. [Video] IBM's Poor Results Reinforce the Idea of Mass Layoffs on the Way (Just Like at Microsoft)
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  15. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 24, 2024
    IRC logs for Wednesday, April 24, 2024
  16. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-04-19 to 2024-04-25
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    2026 /n/2024/04/22/Video_Online_Brigade_Demands_That_the_Person_Who_Started_GNU_Li.shtml
    1152 /n/2024/04/19/Sven_Luther_Thomas_Bushnell_Debian_s_September_11_discussion.shtml
    1119 /n/2024/04/23/Bruce_Perens_Debian_swiping_the_Open_Source_trademark.shtml
    983 /n/2024/04/18/Sven_Luther_Lucy_Wayland_Debian_s_toxic_culture.shtml
    957 /n/2024/04/20/David_Graeber_village_wives_Debian_Outreachy_internships.shtml
    862 /n/2024/04/20/Neil_McGovern_Ruby_Central_part_ways.shtml
    850 /n/2024/04/19/The_Latest_Wave_of_Microsoft_Crime_Bribes_and_Fraud.shtml
    832 /n/2024/04/23/Amaya_Rodrigo_Sastre_Holger_Levsen_Debian_DebConf6_fight.shtml
    822 /n/2024/04/19/Chris_Rutter_ARM_Ltd_IPO_Winchester_College_Debian.shtml
    821 /n/2024/04/18/Coroner_s_Report_Lucy_Wayland_Debian_Abuse_Culture.shtml
    817 /n/2024/04/21/Paul_Tagliamonte_Debian_Outreachy_OPW_dating.shtml
    797 /n/2024/04/22/An_Unfortunate_Miscalculation_Of_Capital.shtml
    791 /n/2024/04/19/Russell_Coker_Debian_September_11_Islamist_sympathy.shtml
    765 /n/2024/04/20/Matthew_Garrett_Cambridge_Debian_female_colleague_was_afraid.shtml
    763 /n/2024/04/22/List_of_Debian_Suicides_Accidents.shtml
    749 /n/2024/04/22/UDRP_Legitimate_interests_EU_whistleblower_directive_workplace_.shtml
    743 /n/2024/04/22/Jens_Schmalzing_Debian_rooftop_fall_inaccurately_described_as_a.shtml
    729 /n/2024/04/23/Chris_Lamb_Debian_demanded_Ubuntu_censor_my_blog.shtml
    724 /n/2024/04/23/Ean_Schuessler_Branden_Robinson_Debian_SPI_accounting_crisis.shtml
    718 /n/2024/04/23/Ean_Schuessler_Debian_SPI_OSI_trademark_disputes.shtml

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