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Encryption Making Africa Safer: Internet Society Hosts Encryption Advocacy Workshop for African Civil Society

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 02, 2025

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  1. Microsoft Uses LLM Slop to Defraud (or Rob) Shareholders
    Microsoft is basically defrauding its shareholders by LLM slop
  2. The "Davos Effect": Tarnishing the Reputation of Places Not by Overtourism But by Oligarch Infestation
    The last Venice needs is an affiliation with Venetian oligarchs

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  3. Links 01/07/2025: "Independence Day in Taiwan", Bounties on Software Patents
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  4. What Happens When Your Law Firm is Preoccupied With Harassing and Trying to Extort a Humble Couple in Manchester, Even on Behalf of Violent Microsoft Staff From Another Continent
    It's good to see that law firms which operate in bad faith are perishing
  5. Lawyer X, Law Firm X and Elon Musk's X: scandals linked by Old Xaverian
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  6. Gemini Links 01/07/2025: Distraction-Free Writing and Hytale Mismanagement
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  7. Links 01/07/2025: "Beauty of Blogging" and "Etiquette of Collapse"
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  8. The Web is a Dead End
    We need to adopt alternatives
  9. When Words Lose Their Intended Meaning
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  10. People Who Disagree With You on Technical Matters May or May Not Agree With You on Political Things (But Usually They Do)
    What bothers me a great deal is seeing left-leaning people accusing other left-leaning people of being "nazis"
  11. "Too Much Choice" and "Too Many Programming Languages"
    What IBM and its apologists aim for was attempted in the 1930s and it failed
  12. Microsoft Lost 400,000,000 Windows Users, According to Microsoft
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  13. Half a Year Gone, What's to Come Next
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  15. IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 30, 2025
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  16. People at the Very Top of Microsoft Know How Bad Things Really Are
    There's no product that can replace the former profitability of Windows licensing and stuff that went on top of Windows
  17. Gemini Links 01/07/2025: Mid Year and a Tour of Old Languages
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