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Happy 34th Birthday, Linux!

It was on August 25th, 1991, when the 21-year-old Finnish student Linus Benedict Torvalds made his now-famous announcement on the comp.os.minix newsgroup that he was working on a free operating system for 386(486) AT clones, just as a “hobby”.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 30, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Before the OSI Was Bribed and Hijacked by Microsoft via GitHub and Compromised Management...
    The OSI isn't even remotely "woke"
  2. The OSI Has Been Silent for Over 3 Weeks, It Has a Severe Trust Issue After Promoting Microsoft and Proprietary GitHub
    OSI took a lot of money from Microsoft to become a Microsoft lobbyist
  3. Bribery is OK If You Work for Microsoft (No Punishment Expected)
    It's very troubling and a symptom of a broken society/system when particular laws or rules are applied and enforced against some people but not against others
  4. Someone Should Remind Microsoft Lunduke That Microsoft Hires Many Sexual Criminals and Pedophiles as Well
    Microsoft Lunduke on an "expedition" to find one or more perverts, then generalise to everyone in the "community"
  5. Cash Machines (ATMs) Make Mistakes and They're Proprietary Software
    Correcting mistakes is a colossal challenge
  6. Yes, Microsoft is the Problem
    "I am no MS shill."
  7. Another Failed Use Case for Chatbots (LLM): Legal Advice and Analysis
    They're just some self-discrediting toy that costs way too much to operate

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  8. Gemini Links 29/07/2025: Wayland Unfit for Use and LLM Slop Faking One's Language Skills With Robot Communications
    Links for the day
  9. Nailing the "Hey Hi" (AI) Hype Bubble
    So-called "hey hi" as they define it now is all about large companies or regimes remotely controlling the processes running on your machine and even your very own behaviour on your machine, which is in effect no longer your machine but some remotely controlled apparatus
  10. "Four decades; Four freedoms; For all users" Now as a T-shirt
    That's shown along the sidebar
  11. Links 29/07/2025: Bad Climate and "Fair Software Licensing" Blasts Microsoft
    Links for the day
  12. Links 29/07/2025: Data Brokers Gone Wrong/Rogue and "Copyright Thicket"
    Links for the day
  13. Slopwatch: Linuxconfig.org, Linuxsecurity.com, Fagioli, The Register
    Today's "Slopwatch" isn't the first article about LLM slop
  14. We Cover Topics Other Sites Are Too Afraid to Cover (Even When They Know the Facts)
    It's not that they doubt the truth, they just realise there may be consequences for talking about it
  15. They Try to Tell Us the Free Software Foundation Inc is Dying, But Its Revenue Doubled Since the Dot-Com Bubble Burst
    Being in "Activism" is never easy; but it does positive things for society
  16. It's About the Cost of Workers, Not the Fictional Skills Shortage (That Does Not Exist, the Media Spreads False and Sometimes Self-Fulfilling Narratives)
    This issue isn't limited to computing, some dub it "globalism"
  17. Links 29/07/2025: More Pushbacks Against Slop and More Praises of Tom Lehrer
    Links for the day
  18. Gemini Links 29/07/2025: Purple Yarrow and Understanding Op Amps
    Links for the day
  19. This Monday WebProNews Absolutely Flooded the Web With Fake (LLM Slop) 'Articles' About "Linux", Google News Promoted Them as Legitimate
    All of the following are fake articles attributed to pseudonyms or authors that don't exist; the images are also slop. Why does Google promote these?
  20. Linuxiac is Not a Slopfarm, But at Least Some of Its Articles Are Machine-Generated Fakes
    what we said about it was correct
  21. Expect More Microsoft Layoffs
    "Are more job cuts coming?"
  22. Microsoft Behaving Like It's Running Out of Money to Pay Salaries
    Does that seem like the behaviour expected from a company which claims it is "worth" trillions?
  23. LWN Downtime Due to Linode, Not LLM Bots
    "I’ve received an email letting me know that there is a potential for data loss."
  24. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  25. IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 28, 2025
    IRC logs for Monday, July 28, 2025

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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