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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 26, 2025

Galapagos, April 2011

Updated This Past Day

  1. Approaching 10,000 Articles/Pages Since Going Static
    Trying to silence or derail the site was always a dumb strategy
  2. Microsoft is Shedding Off Loads of Staff and That Can be Dangerous Too
    Working for Microsoft is a choice; nobody forces you to do it
  3. Richard Stallman and the Unix Philosophy
    When asked about systemd people must remember that RMS speaks as an active Board member of the FSF and also the founder of the FSF
  4. Serial Sloppers Are Killing the Web (They Probably Don't Care, Either)
    Slop is a disease on the Web
  5. IBM's Debt Ballooned by 8.5 Billion Dollars in Just 3 Months!
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  6. Big Trouble in GNOME
    even GNOME people admit the CoC went wrong

    New

  7. Links 25/04/2025: Slop Fatigue and Patent Judges Flocking to Fake, Unconstitutional and Illegal Kangaroo Court (UPC, Captured 'Justice')
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  8. Gemini Links 25/04/2025: Night Manager and Devuan in Hosting
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  9. Windows Falls to New Lows in Nicaragua, Now Below a Quarter (It Used to be Almost 100%)
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  10. The Cost (to Linux) of LLM Slop
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  11. Links 25/04/2025: Ubisoft Spyware, Hegseth Fails at Tech on Every Level
    Links for the day
  12. Gemini Links 25/04/2025: Food Forest Update and Facebook Destroying the Net
    Links for the day
  13. Streaming Apps Are “Investor Fraud” That Kills the Planet
    Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
  14. Things Get Increasingly Nasty at Microsoft Ahead of the Fake Results and May's Mass Layoffs Wave
    They try to get people to 'resign' so that they won't count as layoffs and the company's 'wellbeing' will seem better
  15. Slopping the Trough: Disney Plus Loses Billions and the Decline of Physical Media in America
    Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
  16. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  17. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 24, 2025
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