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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 20, 2024

Cats Hate Water

Updated This Past Day

  1. [Meme] Mentality of a Loser
    "There is someone who created a project used by billions; I failed to create project used by billions, so I'll take down someone who did"
  2. [Meme] Plundering the Commons
    Free software is licensed to restrict privatisation and hoarding

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  3. [Meme] How 'Editorial Control' and/or 'Fact-Checking' Work in Social Control Media
    "I saw a link with many 'likes' on it, so it must be accurate"
  4. IBM: RMS Asked a Girl on a Date. We at IBM Are Bribing and Receiving Bribes. Cancel RMS.
    The FSF is half female now
  5. "The Definition of Insanity"
    We've seen this and been through all this before
  6. The 'New' Laptop as a Reminder of Why I Love GNU/Linux
    days ago we acquired a 'new' (used) laptop
  7. [Meme] The Way Things Used to Be...
    UNIX is 55 already
  8. Fun Weekend, But Very Slow News
    we welcome topic suggestions/recommendations
  9. 2021 Deja Vu: The 'Counter-Petition' Defending Richard Stallman (RMS) Gets a Lot More Support Than the Hateful Screed
    Don't listen to the RMS haters
  10. x86 Drowning in Competition, Bug Doors, Complexity, and Bloat
    Making defective chips for a number of decades was sheer Hubris; they just assumed people would continue buying Intel machines forever
  11. Links 19/10/2024: Nokia Lays Off 2,000 Employees, IMF Loans, Lammy to China
    Links for the day
  12. Links 19/10/2024: OpenAI, Microsoft Going Deeper Into Debt; FTC Rules Make It Easier To Cancel Services
    Links for the day
  13. Gemini Links 19/10/2024: Against Books as Only Possible Legitimation, Megacorporate Copyright Pirates
    Links for the day
  14. Links 19/10/2024: European Perspective, Windows TCO, and Google Woes
    Links for the day
  15. [Meme] When Hatred (or Envy) Comes First
    A lot of attacks on Torvalds and Stallman (Linux and GNU founders, respectively) fall under this category
  16. What "Ethical Source" Looks Like in Practice
    People ban people or deny them service (or prevent them running a program) for merely not agreeing with them
  17. The State of GAFAM and the I's (IBM and Intel)
    Technology and "tech giants" will continue to exist, but they won't be what they once were
  18. The Drew DeVault Report: Taking Out His Frustration on Other People While Doing Drugs
    Be more like Fabrice Bellard
  19. Links 19/10/2024: Riot and Intel Layoffs, Attacks on Journalists
    Links for the day
  20. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  21. IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 18, 2024
    IRC logs for Friday, October 18, 2024
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-10-13 to 2024-10-19
    2535 /n/2024/10/14/Microsoft_s_GitHub_is_Losing_Traffic_Based_on_an_Extensive_Web_.shtml
    1422 /n/2024/10/16/Perfectl_is_Not_New_It_s_Not_News_About_Linux_Outdated_Apache_R.shtml
    843 /n/2024/10/14/Disputing_the_Achievements_of_IBM_s_CEO_Who_Already_Terminated_.shtml
    738 /n/2024/10/14/How_to_Follow_Our_Updates_About_EPO_or_Everything_Else_for_That.shtml
    734 /n/2024/10/16/4_Years_Since_We_Started_a_Plain_Text_Edition_of_Techrights_The.shtml

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