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            Links 05/03/2025: Prioritising Science, Patents SquashedLinks for the day 
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            New Short Clip of Richard Stallman's Thoughts on the "Hey Hi" (AI) Hype, Courtesy of Manuel Cuda Newsabout 6 hrs ago 
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            What Microsoft and GitHub Really, Really, REALLY Do Not Want You to See or Know AboutThey're trying to misuse law in a completely different continent or to allege that reporting important facts is in breach of privacy law 
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            Just Because Common Currencies (Including the US Dollar) Are Considered Uncertain Doesn't Mean People Should Adopt Volatile Multi-Level (Pyramid) Schemesthe scammers are trying to "go mainstream" New
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            Gemini Links 05/03/2025: News Processing, Misbehaving, and GitLinks for the day 
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            GNU/Linux Cracking Past the 4% Barrier in HungaryThere are still quite a few very famous developers and Free software projects from Hungary 
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            Meanwhile in the Matrix Room #dei:fedoraproject.orgRemember that IBM does a lot of perception manipulation 
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            Rumour About Red Hat Layoffs YesterdayCan somebody from Red Hat or someone who knows someone there (impacted or not) confirm that there are layoffs this week at Red Hat? 
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            What is fixated behavior? Stalker or just a fan of Emma Raducanu?Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock 
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            In Iran, GNU/Linux Reaches New Highs, According to statCounterDoes that make sense? In light of geopolitics? Probably. 
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            Always Safety FirstWe have some reasons to suspect that one of several parties (possibly not in the UK but having connections here), having suffered major and very expensive setbacks, may look to harm the messenger one way or another 
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            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 
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            Canonical's Latest Love Letter to Microsoft (Ubuntu Promoting Proprietary Spyware With Back Doors)Typical Canonical, promoting Microsoft (and sometimes Windows) instead of competing against them 
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            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? 
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            Gemini Links 05/03/2025: Living in Interesting Times, Font, and Social Control Media with Gos v1.0.0Links for the day 
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            Use RSS Readers Instead of Social Control MediaRSS readers were designed to save time. Social Control Media was designed to waste time. 
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            The 'Windows Era' Already Came to an EndMicrosoft said to shareholders everything would be alright because of "clown computing" and then "hey hi" 
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            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 PayrollLLMs don't make GPL violations any more noble or acceptable; it's not hard to see what OSI was paid by Microsoft for 
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            Social Control Media as a Rapid Race to the Bottom - Part II - Think Before You TalkThe 'socmed' nonsense does not exist in our home 
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            Links 04/03/2025: Hardware, Health, Data Breaches, PoliticsLinks for the day 
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            Over at Tux Machines...GNU/Linux news for the past day 
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            IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 04, 2025IRC logs for Tuesday, March 04, 2025 
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