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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 10, 2024

Windswept Umbrella

Updated This Past Day

  1. Expose Corrupt Insurance Companies, Don't Kill People
    Murder gives them sympathy, makes the raiders seem like the victims
  2. [Meme] Write Code, Not Social Control Media
    don't forget to 'like'
  3. In Memory of Mike Magee (1949-2024) and Our Best Wishes to The Register, Which He Founded in the 1990s
    Months have passed since Magee died

    New

  4. EPO Salaries Reduced: EPO's “Sustainability” Clause "Cuts the Average Overall Adjustment for Staff by –41,8%."
    What does this all mean for staff?
  5. Google is Nuking Remaining Invidious Instances Again, Hoping to Force Everyone to Use Proprietary Spyware With DRM
    This issue started a few hours ago
  6. Microsoft's Grip on Armenia is Slipping, According to New Data From statCounter
    Notice what happened to Windows - an all-time low
  7. [Meme] Sloppy Plagiarism Full of Errors, Lacking Actual Comprehension
    LLMs are not "AI"
  8. More LLM Spam/Slop About LLM Spam/Slop
    This is what the Web will become unless we expose those who contribute to the problem
  9. Reforming Versus Rebooting Versus Destroying Institutions
    At the moment we strive to expose the truth or shine light on pertinent facts
  10. Microsoft's Windows is Pretty Much Dead in Haiti
    Android has eaten Microsoft's lunch, Microsoft can't even eat crow
  11. [Teaser] EPO Management Thinks Inflation in Europe is 0.2% Per Annum
    Taming inflation by entirely ignoring it is like wrongly assuming that climate change (caused by human activity) can be overcome by not studying the effect of 8+ billion humans on this finite planet
  12. Corporate Media Will Be Discarded and Eventually Die If It Keeps Doing "Bill Gates Sez" (or Similar) Pieces Instead of Journalism
    "Superintelligence" does not even mean anything!
  13. This Week We Focus Again on European Patent Office (EPO) Scandals
    Nothing can stop us, not even a party or SLAPP
  14. Links 09/12/2024: Health Care Anger and Power Vacuum in Syria
    Links for the day
  15. Links 09/12/2024: Burned, Uncertain Future, and Failure
    Links for the day
  16. Links 09/12/2024: UnitedHealthcare C.E.O.'s Killer Still Unknown, Syrian Regime Change Completed
    Links for the day
  17. Microsoft: Target the Young (Get 'Em While They're Young)
    Then they say Free software advocates are "extremists" and "rude"...
  18. As of December 8th (23 Days Remaining), the FSF (Free Software Foundation, Inc.) Already a Third of the Way Toward Ambitious Funding Goal
    FSF's memberships (or donations) drive is going a lot better than we anticipated
  19. Why Mike Magee Created and Was Involved in So Many News Sites About Technology
    British legend
  20. Tunisia is Android, Windows is Waning There
    Windows was measured below 20% in Tunisia
  21. [Meme] Jeff Bezos Working From Home
    "B**** please, publish articles in Washington Post about how working from home sucks"
  22. 'Remote' (From Home) Tech Workers Are More Productive for a Lot of Reasons
    The Bezos-owned media should disclose its conflict of interest here
  23. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  24. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 08, 2024
    IRC logs for Sunday, December 08, 2024
  25. No Wonder Microsoft's LinkedIn and Github Have So Many Layoffs, Permanent Office Closures
    Traffic down, losses, probably never going to profit

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

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