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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 21, 2025

Reading book in public, Toronto

Updated This Past Day

  1. Deja vu: Hitler's Birthday, Andreas Tille elected Debian Project Leader again
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  2. Microsoft's 'Lawsuit Diplomacy' (SLAPPs Riding UK Libel Law and Piggybacking UK GDPR, Inapplicable!) Will Only Give a Worse Image to Microsofters (and Microsoft), Give Exposure to Even More Suppressed Facts and Scandals
    Microsoft came to dominate some sectors because of (or owing to) crimes; Microsoft won't just go away without some more crimes.
  3. Five (or Three) Years Without Social Control Media
    Glyn Moody quit X (Twitter)

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  4. Links 20/04/2025: Partly Assorted Scientific and Political Leftovers
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  5. Links 20/04/2025: Many Data Breaches and Growing Censorship Wave
    Links for the day
  6. Gemini Links 20/04/2025: Canadian Elections and "Use the Best Tools You Have for the Current Environment"
    Links for the day
  7. Links 20/04/2025: Bleeding Constitution and ChatGPT Infuriates Users Some More
    Links for the day
  8. Chinese OEMs (and World's Largest) Pave a Path Out of Microsoft Windows
    So Microsoft now values (or prices) Vista 11 at just $140?
  9. Gemini Links 20/04/2025: Contradictions of Mark Carney and Blog Questions Challenge
    Links for the day
  10. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  11. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 19, 2025
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  12. Electronics in People's Bedrooms
    Modern technology not only blurred the gap between "functions" of rooms
  13. Why GNU/Linux is Growing
    There's growing interest in GNU/Linux right now because people do not fancy buying a new PC just to 'upgrade' (more spying) Windows

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