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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 29, 2025

Updated This Past Day

Richard Stallman (RMS) Talk in Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress Will be Remote

This past week RMS received lots of accolades online
Links 28/08/2025: Chatbots Distorting/Fabricating History and Also Driving Suicide

Links for the day
Open Source Initiative (OSI) Resists Software Freedom, Even by Attacking Its Own

The OSI is compromised

New
Links 28/08/2025: Greenland 'Interferences' by US and Skinnerboxes to Get Banned in Korean Schools

Links for the day
The Register MS (Run by Microsoft Operatives): Free Software is Putin, Hence Evil and Dangerous

The current editor in chief is an American Microsofter, the previous one went to work for Google (US)
Gemini Links 28/08/2025: Back in Japan and Why "Hacker News" Sucks

Links for the day
A Much-Needed Wake-up Call to Users of Wordpress.com, Blogspot, Substack and All Those Other Outsourced (and Centralised) Platforms

There are several lessons in there
The UEFI 9/11 - Part II - Campaign of Censorship and Defamation Against Critics

In dictatorships, humour serves an important role. It's tragic.
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IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 27, 2025

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Some readers of ours end up sending us links that are from slopfarms, not realising those are slopfarms

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