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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 23, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. The FSF Board and FSF Beard

   So the FSF's Board has grown

2. Law Firms Facing the Consequences for Patently Abusive Litigation on Behalf of Microsoft Employees Who Got Arrested for Strangulation and Had Done Even Worse Things

   Having spent 1.5 years bullying me with patronising letters on behalf of Microsofters, last week they got served a massive bill and, in effect, lost the Hearing

   New

3. Links 22/06/2025: Giving Up on Smartphones and 'Jaws' at 50

   Links for the day

4. Gemini Links 22/06/2025: Furniture Construction and Bubble for Comments

   Links for the day

5. Links 22/06/2025: Windows TCO Tales and YouTube Getting More Hostile to Users

   Links for the day

6. New Report From the EPO's Staff Representatives in The Hague (LSCTH) Reveals Many Unsolved Issues

   Local Staff Committee The Hague (LSCTH) wrote to staff just before the weekend

7. LLMs Breaking Everything

   Computing and the Net became a playground for scammers and "bros", like people who "invented" fake currencies and also try to tell us that LLMs spewing out things will have some real value

8. Links 22/06/2025: More Slop Lawsuits (Copyrights) and "America’s Oligarch Problem"

   Links for the day

9. Gemini Links 22/06/2025: Gigantic Toolchest and Annoying Bots

   Links for the day

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