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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 23, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. [Video] Richard Stallman on What Patents Would Have Done to Music (Covered by Copyrights)
    Our WebM version can be played using Free software, independently of the availability of Invidious mirrors
  2. Our IRC Community Turns 17 Very Shortly
    A few years from now our IRC community will turn 20
  3. Linux Foundation Buys Misleading Puff Pieces About Itself, Earns Some LLM Slop to Accompany the PR (Openwashing and Propaganda as a Service, With the Brand "Linux" Needlessly Borrowed)
    Isn't it funny that after the "LF" (misusing the brand "Linux") flooded the Web with press releases and fake articles (that it had paid for) it now gets some LLM slop doing the same?

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  4. Gemini Links 22/03/2025: "Ukay Ukay", Microplastics in Tea, Jujutsu, and More
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  5. Links 22/03/2025: Johor Flooded, Ador Traps Young Musicians With Contract
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  6. Microsoft Destroys and Exploits, It Does Not Create
    A race to nowhere
  7. It's About So Much More Than 2 Microsofters, It's About Freedom to Speak About Crimes at Microsoft
    Suffice to say, if some people related to our professional field attack women and get arrested for it, then there's nothing immoral about relaying this information
  8. Links 22/03/2025: Social Security Attacks and More Attacks on the Press
    Links for the day
  9. Gemini Links 22/03/2025: INTERPOL, DDoS by "Hey Hi" Hype, and RSS/Feed Readers
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  10. Links 22/03/2025: Alzheimer Research and Mega-breaches in the US
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  11. Over at Tux Machines...
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