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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 15, 2024,
updated Nov 15, 2024

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  1. Debian GNU/Linux and Free Software Developer Daniel Pocock in Irish Elections This Month (Dublin Bay South)
    Polling day in 15 days

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  2. Alexander Wirt (formorer), Wayward people & Debian censorship
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  3. Gemini Links 14/11/2024: Infocalypse and "Multiple Monitorings"
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  4. Links 14/11/2024: The Web We Lost Coming Back, X/Twitter Crashing
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  5. Links 14/11/2024: Politics, Climate, and Instability
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  6. Links 14/11/2024: EmacsConf and Flounder
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  7. Links 14/11/2024: Science and the Demise of Microsoft-Connected USPTO Director
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  8. For "X" to Die the Media and Politicians Will Need to Quit (Then, Advertisers Will Lose Interest, Even for Political Ads)
    Fewer people are still there anyway
  9. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  10. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 13, 2024
    IRC logs for Wednesday, November 13, 2024
  11. Bob Should Tell Alice About What GitHub (Which Linux Foundation Outsources Code to) Does to Entire Nations, Following Donald Trump's Policies
    "What's next, preventing access to Linux from non-NATO countries? Putting NSA backdoors in the kernel?"
  12. Layoffs as Happy Stories in the Corporate Media
    It's based on a longstanding pattern
  13. It Took The Guardian More Than 2 Years of Musk to Realise What Twitter Was and It Took Twitter 4 Years of a President Trump to Realise What Trump Was
    Trump was deplatformed only a fortnight before Biden became president anyway
  14. [Meme] Google 80%, Windows 2%
    "I'm going to f-ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f-ing kill Google."
  15. Microsoft's Market Share Falls to 2% in Haiti
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