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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 06, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Weaponisation of For-Profit Dockets - Part I: Hiding Behind Lawyers (or Guns for Hire) After Abusing Many People and Even Strangling Women While Microsoft Paid Salaries

   This whole thing is very typical of the Microsoft and Bill Gates mindset

2. From EPO to "MAGA Regime": A Shift Away From Reality to Fake News and False Metrics

   Disbelief in itself isn't a bad thing; but the problem is that people are taught to believe rich people in suits more than they believe others

3. Skype is Officially Dead Today and This is Why People Should Use Free Software Instead (Goodbye, Microsoft)

   It's also a good reminder of why people should move to GNU/Linux

4. 'Simple Articles' in MyGemini Just One of Many New 'Sites' in Geminispace

   Geminispace has grown fast lately; it's turning 6 next month

5. SUSE the Company Now Uses LLM Slop to 'Write' Its Blog, What Does That Tell Us About SUSE?

   There are many giveaways

   New

6. Links 05/05/2025: TikTok Still a Romanian Woe/Foe, Signal Perils Showing

   Links for the day

7. Gemini Links 05/05/2025: Debian and GNOME and a "Welcome to Simple Articles"

   Links for the day

8. Links 05/05/2025: US Economy Shrinks, US Presidency Spreading Deepfakes

   Links for the day

9. Links 05/05/2025: Breaches, Environment, and Conflicts

   Links for the day

10. Richard Stallman is in Alicante Today to Give a Talk, Czech Republic in Two Days (Wednesday)

    Of course he can deliver the talk in Spanish

11. Gemini Links 05/05/2025: XL Bullies and Luddites

    Links for the day

12. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

13. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 04, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, May 04, 2025

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