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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 30, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Energy shock: €17,000 circuit court claim, threat of judgment for fraudulent charges
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  2. Fentanylware (TikTok) Just Doing Exactly What It Was Supposed to Do
    A senior official at Romania's telecoms watchdog called for Fentanylware (TikTok) to be suspended
  3. Links 29/11/2024: China Tensions and Big Bounties for Invalidation of Software Patents
    Links for the day
  4. More Microsoft Corruption and Cover-ups
    The key point here is that Microsoft is a corrupt company that bribes officials and breaks every law in the books, then lies about it, covers things up, even bribes publishers to participate in the cover-up
  5. Microsoft Fired Hundreds of Workers Days Before Thanksgiving
    Maybe it's time for Microsoft shareholders to reassess the true wealth and well-being of Microsoft as a company
  6. Ireland Goes to Polls, Here's Daniel Pocock's Leaflet (Running as Independent in Dublin Bay South)
    He seems to be the only geek running for Office

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  7. Links 29/11/2024: Hike at Potato Creek and Best SSG
    Links for the day
  8. Brigid Purcell (PBP): generation Z, unteachable children, how will they govern in ten years?
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  9. Links 29/11/2024: Smithfield Market in London Shutting Down, BRICS (China) Accused of Validating Undersea Cables Based on New Evidence
    Links for the day
  10. Daniel Pocock Explains Why People Should Vote for Him Today (General Election 2024)
    Polling day in Ireland
  11. [Meme] Microsoft and Bill Gates Controlling Media Coverage
    Cautionary tale
  12. Typical Microsoft Bully (Paid by Microsoft)
    Some Microsoft staff doesn't know boundaries
  13. Threats, Attacks on Women, and Other Tactics of Microsofters Will Always Backfire
    California: An Epicentre of Psychosis Influenced by Silicon Valley?
  14. Rejecting Fake Holidays
    In the US, today is the day after Thanksgiving and nothing els
  15. 8GB Swiss Archive offered to Irish voters by Dáil candidate
    Mr Pocock doesn't take orders from cyberbullies
  16. Daniel Pocock: Why you should follow my RSS or Atom feed, Irish elections, everybody wins
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  17. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  18. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 28, 2024
    IRC logs for Thursday, November 28, 2024
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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

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    1754 /n/2024/11/27/There_Are_More_Devuan_Based_Distros_of_GNU_Linux_Each_Year.shtml
    1725 /n/2024/11/24/ESET_Finds_Rootkits_Does_Not_Explain_How_They_Get_Installed_Med.shtml
    803 /n/2024/11/25/BetaNews_is_Run_and_Written_by_Bots_That_Make_Clickbait.shtml
    588 /n/2024/11/24/Google_Can_Kill_Mozilla_Any_Time_It_Wants.shtml
    560 /n/2024/11/24/Links_24_11_2024_More_IMF_Bailouts_and_Net_Client_Freedom.shtml
    546 /n/2024/11/24/apple_com_Traffic_Down_Over_7_Says_One_Spyware_Firm_Apple_s_Lia.shtml
    517 /n/2024/11/24/Techrights_Statement_on_Code_of_Censorship_CoC_and_Kent_Overstr.shtml

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