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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 27, 2025

Galapagos, April 2011

Updated This Past Day

  1. What's Very Vexing to GAFAM, EPO and Others Is That It's Incredibly Hard to Censor Us (and Nobody Ever Successfully Did That Before)
    resist, do not capitulate
  2. Receiving SLAPPs and Collecting Them Like Trophies (the SLAPPs Always Fail)
    People who file lawsuits bring even more attention to themselves (or to embarrassing statements about them)
  3. Year of GNU/Linux on the Laptop?
    It's not happening only in Lenovo
  4. What People Must Understand About the Open Source Initiative (OSI)
    some facts about the Open Source Initiative (OSI)
  5. More Copyright Lawsuits Against LLM Slop Providers and Suppliers of LLM Slopfarms Would Benefit Society
    It's not just bad for the Web and for society; it's also legally dangerous
  6. In defence of JD Vance, death of Pope Francis
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  7. Three Years in Prison for Disney Employee’s ‘Menu Hacking’: The Economic Fallout of Digital Menus
    Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer

    New

  8. Microsoft Isn't on the Map in USSR
    To them, it's either Google or Yandex
  9. In Central America Windows Became a Small Force
    These are countries where Windows used to have well over 95% of the "market"
  10. Site May be Even Faster Now
    It basically takes less than a tenth of a second to serve the page
  11. Many of the Scandals Are Interconnected (Overlapping People and Corporations)
    We're only getting started
  12. Links 26/04/2025: General Assassinated in the Town of Balashikha, US Promoting Seafloor Mining
    Links for the day
  13. Links 26/04/2025: Facebook Layoffs Again, Remembering What's Real, and Say No to Mass Surveillance
    Links for the day
  14. Links 26/04/2025: NOAA Budget Cuts and "Dog Days Ahead"
    Links for the day
  15. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  16. IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 25, 2025
    IRC logs for Friday, April 25, 2025

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

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