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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 08, 2025

Renaissance Castle, Building

Updated This Past Day

  1. All the Latest 'Articles' in This Fake 'News' Site Are SPAM, LLM Slop, or Both (to Googlebomb CES)
    These people destroy the Web
  2. LLMs Destroy the Web Not Just by Filling It With Cruft and Chaff (Slop)
    It'll destroy many sites or increase the cost of running them
  3. Who Says Microsoft Is Actually Succeeding as a Business? (It's Faking a Lot)
    Microsoft has been cooking the books for a long time
  4. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Turns 40 This Year, Now It Shows Possible Logos for the Special Event That Celebrates Sharing
    FSF's options in a nutshell
  5. President Biden Has Less Than a Fortnight Left to Pardon Julian Assange (Donald Trump's Regime Plotted to Assassinate Assange)
    Don't try to lecture/explain/preach to people that exposing corruption, resisting corruption, and merely covering corruption is "bad" because crime "is everywhere"

    New

  6. Microsoft Has a Google Problem (and GNU/Linux Problem) in Sweden
    Sweden likes Chromebooks, Web access data suggests
  7. Less Than a Tenth of a Second
    Look ma, static pages!
  8. [Meme] The LLM Salesperson
    LLMs are net liability (loss)
  9. Links 06/01/2025: 10 Years Since Terrorism Against Satire in France
    Links for the day
  10. Gemini Links 07/01/2025: Praise of E-mail and App Store 'Invention'
    Links for the day
  11. [Meme] Removing Correct Information
    publish what's true
  12. From 92% to Less Than 25%: How Microsoft Lost Norway (and Still Loses What's Left)
    just like in most countries
  13. Matt Birchler: "This is why it’s important for people to own their presence on the web, especially when it comes to government agencies that need to communicate with people."
    hours ago
  14. Microsoft Continues to Attack Users' Choice
    We're being herded into uniformity
  15. Diversity of Views, Diversity of Sources
    We want diversity, not monopoly
  16. With 10 Days Left the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Looks to Raise Just Over $50,000 More
    More than 10 days in Boston (eastern coast)
  17. In Europe, Russia's Yandex About to Become Bigger Than Microsoft's Bing, Google Search Estimated to Have Grown Since the LLM Hype Began
    Remember that Bing had many layoffs in the past 2 years, the corporate media barely reported on those
  18. The Google Exodus That Wasn't
    Search engines exist to serve their masters, not their users
  19. Google (Blogger) is Already Disintegrating and It's a Reminder of the Great Dangers of Outsourcing Blogs to Companies (Including Automattic or WordPress.com)
    Plus, Phoronix admits that using PHP - and not static pages - causes the Web site to be DDOSed, sort of
  20. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  21. IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 06, 2025
    IRC logs for Monday, January 06, 2025

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

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

    Span from 2025-01-01 to 2025-01-07
    2309 /n/2025/01/06/Fedora_Seems_to_be_Dying_of_Neglect_by_IBM.shtml
    1880 /n/2025/01/02/For_Software_Freedom_and_for_Broader_Personal_Freedom_the_Goalp.shtml
    1790 /n/2025/01/01/GNU_Linux_Gained_About_0_5_Last_Year_According_to_StatCounter.shtml
    1726 /n/2025/01/04/What_Would_Dennis_Ritchie_Say_About_the_Memory_Safe_Hype_or_Car.shtml
    702 /n/2025/01/05/Links_05_01_2025_Math_On_Checkerboard_and_Nazi_linked_accounts_.shtml
    686 /n/2025/01/03/Canada_Windows_at_All_Time_Lows_ChromeOS_and_GNU_Linux_Rise_to_.shtml
    595 /n/2025/01/06/British_Police_Register_a_New_Account_With_Unscrupulous_America.shtml
    582 /n/2025/01/03/In_Mexico_Windows_Down_to_All_Time_Low_GNU_Linux_Up_to_All_Time.shtml
    559 /n/2024/12/21/On_BetaNews_Latest_Technology_News_We_are_moderately_confident_.shtml
    545 /n/2025/01/04/Links_04_01_2025_Demolition_of_IBM_Building_Its_Birthplace_Micr.shtml
    529 /n/2025/01/02/When_Your_Get_Your_Latest_Technology_News_From_an_LLM_Slop_Farm.shtml
    521 /n/2025/01/01/Meme_The_Microsoft_Syndrome.shtml
    517 /n/2024/12/30/In_2024_Under_Linux_Foundation_Management_Linux_com_Produced_an.shtml
    513 /n/2025/01/04/Phoronix_in_Past_Years_X_is_Dead_Phoronix_Days_Ago_Oh_Never_Min.shtml
    510 /n/2025/01/05/Credit_to_Jessica_Lyons_at_The_Register_for_Covering_the_Commun.shtml
    504 /n/2025/01/04/Links_04_01_2025_Social_Control_Media_Deemed_Very_Unhealthy_Nic.shtml
    500 /n/2025/01/04/Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Almost_85_Funded.shtml

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