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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 02, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsoft's CEO is Hyping Up 'AI' (Plagiarism) to Distract From Falling Interest in It and Missed Expectations (Investors Run Out of Patience as Reality Does Not Meet or Match Early False Promises)

   Microsoft clearly needs 1) a distraction and 2) hype about "AI"

2. No, Microsoft, Plagiarism is Not "AI"

   "Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI"

3. Microsoft Has Become Almost Extinct in Web Servers, Netcraft Now Ranks It in Only One Category (Microsoft Down Sharply), Deranked/Outranked in All the Rest

   Microsoft used to be in all categories, now it's in just one

4. What GNU/Linux Means to Us

   Linux without freedom is like becoming a vegetarian "except on special occasions"

5. Symptom or Hallmark of Ponzi Schemes: Microsoft Says It Gains Over 100 Million Dollars in "Goodwill" and Its Speculative "Value" Nearly Doubled to $119,329,000,000 in the Past Year Alone

   Total liabilities are now over $240,000,000,000

   New

6. Gopher/Gemini Links 01/05/2025: Slop/LLM Bot Troubles and Driving Angry

   Links for the day

7. Links 01/05/2025: Apple Lies to Courts, European Patents Thrown Out by British Courts Again

   Links for the day

8. Gemini Links 01/05/2025: Small Web and Going Offline

   Links for the day

9. Links 01/05/2025: Slop Blowback, Social Control Media as Vehicle of "Sextortion"

   Links for the day

10. Some of the Evidence We'll Be Relying Upon in the Lawsuits Against Matthew J. Garrett

    Finally facing the consequences for his actions

11. Gemini Links 01/05/2025: Trying OpenBSD and Usenet Reborn Released

    Links for the day

12. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

13. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 30, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, April 30, 2025

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