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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 31, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. The LLM Bubble is About to Implode, Gimmicks and Financial Shell Games Cannot Prevent That, Only Delay It

   To inflate the bubble MElon is now doing the classic trick of buying from oneself for a fictional value

   New

2. Links 30/03/2025: Security Breaches, Crackdowns on Dissent/Rival Politicians

   Links for the day

3. Gemini Links 30/03/2025: London Soundtrack Festival, Superbloom, gmiCAPTCHA

   Links for the day

4. Phasing Out Vista 10 in Nations Where ~90% of Windows Users Still Rely on It

   Recipe for another Microsoft disaster

5. The Cost of Pursuing the Much-Needed Reform/Shield Against Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs)

   “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”

6. Links 30/03/2025: Contagious Ideas, Signal Leak, and Squashing Lousy Patents

   Links for the day

7. Links 30/03/2025: "Quantum Randomness" and "F-1 Visa Revoked" in US

   Links for the day

8. Gemini Links 30/03/2025: US as a Threat, Returning to the WWW

   Links for the day

9. Links 30/03/2025: Judge Blocks Dismantling Of VOA, Turkey Arrested Many Journalists

   Links for the day

10. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

11. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 29, 2025

    IRC logs for Saturday, March 29, 2025

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