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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 21, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Links 20/12/2024: Security Patches, Openwashing by Open Source Initiative, Prison Sentence for Bitcoin Charlatan and Fraud
    Links for the day
  2. Another Terrible Month for Microsoft in Web Servers
    Consistent downward curve
  3. LLM Slop Disguised as Journalism: The Latest Threat to the Web
    A lot of it is to do with proprietary GitHub, i.e. Microsoft
  4. Gemini Links 20/12/2024: Regulation and Implementing Graphics
    Links for the day
  5. Links 20/12/2024: Windows Breaks Itself, Mass Layoffs Coming to Google Again (Big Wave)
    Links for the day
  6. Microsoft: "Upgrade" to Vista 11 Today, We'll Brick Your Audio and You Cannot Prevent This
    Windows Update is obligatory, so...
  7. The Unspeakable National Security Threat: Plasticwares as the New Industrial Standard
    Made to last or made to be as cheap as possible? Meritocracy or industrial rat races are everywhere now.
  8. Microsoft's All-Time Lows in Macao and Hong Kong
    Microsoft is having a hard time in China, not only for political reasons
  9. [Meme] "It Was Like a Nuclear Winter"
    This won't happen again, will it?
  10. If You Know That Hey Hi (AI) is Hype, Then Stop Participating in It
    bogus narrative of "Hey Hi (AI) arms race" and "era/age of Hey Hi" and "Hey Hi Revolution"
  11. Bangladesh (Population Close to 200 Million) Sees Highest GNU/Linux Adoption Levels Ever
    Microsoft barely has a grip on this country. It used to.
  12. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  13. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 19, 2024
    IRC logs for Thursday, December 19, 2024
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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    507 /n/2024/12/16/A_Birthday_Wish.shtml
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