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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 27, 2025

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  1. Doing My Share to Tackle Online Slop and SPAM
    Trying my best to 'fix' the Web
  2. Slopwatch: Fakes, FUD, Duplicates, and Charlatans Galore
    The Web as we once know it is collapsing. Some opportunists try to replace it with low-quality slop.
  3. The Register UK Seems to Have Become American and Management is Changing (Microsofter as Editor in Chief)
    The Register 'UK' is now controlled by the Directions on Microsoft guy
  4. Microsoft Windows Lost 400 Million Users in a Few Years, Why Does The Register Double Down on Windows With New US Editor?
    days ago they hired a new US editor

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  5. Links 26/07/2025: Amazon Shutdown in China, Russian Economy Slows
    Links for the day
  6. Gemini Links 26/07/2025: History of Time (1988) and Gemini Games
    Links for the day
  7. Links 26/07/2025: 50 Percent Tariffs in Amazon, Dying Intel Offloads Network and Edge Group (NEX)
    Links for the day
  8. Blaming Programming Languages for Users' and Developers' Bad Practices
    That's like blaming cars for drivers who crash into things
  9. Many People Still Read Techrights Because It Says the Truth, Produces Evidence, and Does Not Self-Censor
    Unlike so many other sites
  10. The Register is Desperate for Money, According to The Register
    I decided to check how they're doing as a business
  11. Microsoft Finally Finds a Use Case for Slop?
    Create low-quality chaff to shift the media's attention?
  12. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  13. IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 25, 2025
    IRC logs for Friday, July 25, 2025
  14. For Libel Reform One Must First Bring (or Raise) Awareness to the Issues and Their Magnitude
    I myself know, from personal experience
  15. Links 26/07/2025: Rationed Meals in the US and TikTok Repels Investments (Too Toxic)
    Links for the day
  16. Gemini Links 26/07/2025: "Bloody Google" and New People in Geminispace
    Links for the day
  17. Response to Solderpunk (Father of Gemini Protocol) About the Gemini Community
    Solderpunk responds to non-sequitur
  18. HTML and the Web Used to be Something a Child Could Learn, "Modern" Web is a Puzzle of Frameworks, Bloat, and Worse
    When the Web was more like Gemini Protocol
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

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    Span from 2025-07-20 to 2025-07-26
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