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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 06, 2025

Waterfall

Updated This Past Day

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    Links for the day
  2. New Short Clip of Richard Stallman's Thoughts on the "Hey Hi" (AI) Hype, Courtesy of Manuel Cuda News
    about 6 hrs ago
  3. What Microsoft and GitHub Really, Really, REALLY Do Not Want You to See or Know About
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  4. Just Because Common Currencies (Including the US Dollar) Are Considered Uncertain Doesn't Mean People Should Adopt Volatile Multi-Level (Pyramid) Schemes
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    New

  5. Gemini Links 05/03/2025: News Processing, Misbehaving, and Git
    Links for the day
  6. GNU/Linux Cracking Past the 4% Barrier in Hungary
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  7. Meanwhile in the Matrix Room #dei:fedoraproject.org
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  8. Rumour About Red Hat Layoffs Yesterday
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  9. What is fixated behavior? Stalker or just a fan of Emma Raducanu?
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  10. In Iran, GNU/Linux Reaches New Highs, According to statCounter
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  11. Always Safety First
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  12. Links 05/03/2025: Starbucks Debt Soars and CFO Changed, Apple Pretends to Value Privacy, "Cloudflare Blocking Privacy Focused Users From Accessing Third-Party Websites"
    Links for the day
  13. Canonical's Latest Love Letter to Microsoft (Ubuntu Promoting Proprietary Spyware With Back Doors)
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  14. GNU/Linux Climbs to Record Levels in Switzerland. Can the EU, Norway, the UK, and Switzerland Divorce GAFAM?
    Germany openly speaks about becoming independent from the US. How about Switzerland?
  15. Gemini Links 05/03/2025: Living in Interesting Times, Font, and Social Control Media with Gos v1.0.0
    Links for the day
  16. Use RSS Readers Instead of Social Control Media
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  17. The 'Windows Era' Already Came to an End
    Microsoft said to shareholders everything would be alright because of "clown computing" and then "hey hi"
  18. The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): Microsoft Committing the Largest GPL Violation in Human History, Then OSI Covering That Up on Microsoft's Payroll
    LLMs don't make GPL violations any more noble or acceptable; it's not hard to see what OSI was paid by Microsoft for
  19. Social Control Media as a Rapid Race to the Bottom - Part II - Think Before You Talk
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  20. Links 04/03/2025: Hardware, Health, Data Breaches, Politics
    Links for the day
  21. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  22. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 04, 2025
    IRC logs for Tuesday, March 04, 2025

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

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    471 /n/2025/03/03/3_Out_of_4_in_Cuba_Use_Linux_to_Access_the_Web.shtml
    463 /n/2025/03/04/If_They_Try_to_Censor_You_on_Some_Topic_Then_You_Should_Cover_T.shtml
    461 /n/2025/02/28/Links_28_02_2025_Domestic_Violence_Fatalities_Escalations_Again.shtml
    460 /n/2025/02/28/Skype_is_Dead_Microsoft_Shuts_It_Down_in_a_Few_Months_for_Good.shtml
    452 /n/2025/03/05/The_Windows_Era_Already_Came_to_an_End.shtml
    450 /n/2025/03/03/Links_03_03_2025_Monetisation_Myth_and_Microsoft_s_LLMs_Helping.shtml
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    441 /n/2025/02/19/Springtime_Layoffs_at_IBM_2025_and_Statement_From_IBM_European_.shtml
    435 /n/2025/02/27/Civil_Society_Should_Demand_Removal_of_People_Who_Sought_Remova.shtml
    428 /browse/index.shtml
    422 /n/2025/02/28/Gemini_Links_28_02_2025_offpunk_Lagrange_and_More.shtml
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    405 /n/2025/03/01/Another_Day_and_Another_LLM_Slopfest_From_Madame_Day_at_the_Slo.shtml
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    395 /n/2025/03/03/The_New_Series_About_the_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_and_the_Mic.shtml
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    340 /n/2025/03/01/Links_01_03_2025_Squashing_Software_Patents_USPTO_Facing_Additi.shtml
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