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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 01, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. SCO's Darl McBride Dead at Age 64
    There's hardly any information about it, except we know he reached bankruptcy and 3 years later he died at a relatively young age

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  2. [Meme] Probably the Worst Possible Time to Get Information From Social Control Media
    Musk does not want to prevent disinformation from spreading and the same is true for Facebook and TikTok; they have their own interests
  3. Update on Litigation Against the European Patent Office (EPO) at the ILO Administrative Tribunal (ILOAT)
    Rewards and compensation for staff have long fallen, resulting in many experienced colleagues leaving and causing further declines in quality and compliance
  4. Gemini Links 31/10/2024: NNCP, Declutter the Web, Cost of Community
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  5. Links 31/10/2024: Supermicro Plummets 33%, Block and Dropbox Mass Layoffs
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  6. Links 31/10/2024: Environmental Anxiety, Profound Changes in Hardware Market
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  7. Facebook is for Zombies
    Social control media is for fools
  8. Microsoft Now Has $235,290,000,000 in Liabilities, They Grow Over Time in Spite of Mass Layoffs (So Expect More Layoffs)
    expect more mass layoffs
  9. Links 31/10/2024: DST Woes, War Updates, Amazon RTO Backlash
    Links for the day
  10. Gemini Links 31/10/2024: Attention Economy and Gemlogs
    Links for the day
  11. Happy Halloween
    October is nearly over
  12. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  13. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 30, 2024
    IRC logs for Wednesday, October 30, 2024
  14. For the Record: Linux is Controlled by the United States of America
    "This is going to make many question the openness and inclusivity of the work done by Linux Foundation"
  15. Microsoft: XBox Hardware Revenues Down About 30% (Ignore the Buzzwords and Activision Activity Dressed Up as "XBox")
    For context, in a previous quarter XBox hardware sales were down by about 50%
  16. Cooking the Books With "Cloud" And "AI" Was Not Enough to Fool Microsoft Investors
    "Microsoft Shares Drop on Disappointing Azure Growth Forecast"
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