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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 16, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Many Reports About Microsoft Layoffs Are LLM Slop Based on Other LLM Slop (From Microsoft-controlled LLMs That Downplay the Layoffs or Give Badly Outdated Data)

   The LLM slopfarms also dilute/derank actual news about Linux by pushing Microsoft Azure instead; it's a spamfest!

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2. Gemini Links 15/03/2025: Sleeping in March, Headless Raspberry Pi 4

   Links for the day

3. Links 15/03/2025: Hey Hi (AI) Hype Waning, Microsoft and Apple Ridiculed for Vapourware

   Links for the day

4. When You Expose Corporate Crimes, Misconduct and Lies They Harasses and Troll You. Then You Write About the Harassment and Trolling and They Allege It's "All Personal".

   protect women's safety

5. Gemini Links 15/03/2025: Bandcamp and DST

   Links for the day

6. Links 15/03/2025: Albania TikTok Ban, No Skinnerboxes in Danish Schools

   Links for the day

7. Sierra Leone: Android Up to Record Highs, Windows Falls to Record Lows of Almost 5% (15 Years Ago It Was 100%)

   This is what happens when about 83% of Web requests come from mobile

8. Margarita Manterola (marga, Google) & Debian DebConf13 Swiss venue intrigue

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

9. Over at Tux Machines...

   GNU/Linux news for the past day

10. IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 14, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, March 14, 2025

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