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Further Media Cut-downs
media reporting about the media being cut
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Gemini Links 09/09/2025: Moon Eclipse and ROOPHLOCH Reports
Links for the day
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Official SUSE Blog Still Uses LLM Slop (Bots) to Make Fake Articles (Marketing)
The company is all about sound bites
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Companies Realise That Slop Doesn't Work as Advertised, Accordingly Dump It
"Hype dims as a country-wide survey of US corporations shows a sudden drop-off in AI use among firms with more than 250 employees."
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Microsoft-Funded Lawsuits Against Critics of UEFI 'Secure Boot'
Remember that no company (or law firm) ever survives collaborations with Microsoft
New
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statCounter Sees GNU/Linux Exceeding 10% in Bulgaria This Month
What can Microsoft still do to stop GNU/Linux?
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Dark Patterns
Microsoft saying "security" is like a Convicted Felon in the White House saying "law and order".
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It's Almost Fall (Autumn)
To "Facebook prison" you are bound
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Bruce Schneier About "Secure Boot"
Bruce Schneier isn't a fan of "Secure Boot"
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Links 09/09/2025: Microsoft Mass Layoffs Again and "RTO" (Timed Like It Serves as a Distraction From the Mass Layoffs)
Links for the day
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RMS Told Microsoft to Stop 'Secure Boot' (He Even Went There to Say That), But They Didn't Listen
Dr. Stallman (RMS) assumed that speaking to sociopaths would work
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What Richard Stallman Told Me About 'Secure' Boot in 2012
"if the user doesn't control the keys, then it's a kind of shackle"
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Those Who Helped Microsoft Weaponise "Secure Boot" Against GNU/Linux and BSDs Are Fleeing
Microsofters doing what they do best: they evade accountability
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Simple is Better, Simplicity is Power
That is "the advantage of having commodity GNU/Linux systems," an associate notes
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Much Ado About Nonsense
Microsoft Lunduke is still all dramatisation and sensationalism
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Current Events in France
It needs to dump Microsoft and other GAFAM (US) giants, move to Free software
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Links 09/09/2025: US-Korea Tensions and Meta Whistleblowers
Links for the day
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Links 09/09/2025: “Torrents of Hate” and Political Crisis in France
Links for the day
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Gemini Links 09/09/2025: "Dedigitizing" and Forgejo on FreeBSD
Links for the day
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Google News (Not Just Google Search) Lets Itself by Gamed by One Slopfarm - to the Point Almost Half of "Linux" News is Bot-Produced Plagiarism (LLM Slop With Slop Images)
That says a lot about what Google thinks of quality, even in Google News
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Bill Gates-Funded Media Inadvertently Refutes the Microsoft Lie That in 2025 Microsoft Had Just Two Waves of Layoffs
There were about 12 rounds of layoffs so far in 2025
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From theregister.co.uk to theregister.com (US) to The Register MS (Run by Microsoft Operatives) and theregister.ai
The best way to break this racket (or cycle of hype and harm) is to break the chains of funding
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Open Source Initiative (OSI) Culture of Censorship Necessitates More Speech
The OSI bans dissent or people who merely point out that the OSI is abusive
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How to Reach Us Discreetly (Other Than Encrypted E-mail)
We're still managing to maintain a 100% source protection record. We soon turn 19.
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LLMs Are Vastly Worse Than a Waste of Energy and the Externalities Are Huge
Worse than just higher power bills for everybody
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LLMs Versus Search (Not Replacing Search But Engaging in DDoS Attacks Against Web Sites That Permit Searching)
The state of the Web isn't just bad; it's utterly terrible
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Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
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IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 08, 2025
IRC logs for Monday, September 08, 2025
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It's Only the Second Week of September and Already Two Waves of Layoffs at Microsoft, Slopfarms and Microsoft-Funded Sites Spin It as "AI Investments" Rather Than Commercial Failure
A very large third one expected next week
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The UEFI 9/11 - Part IX - Shunning Old Computers (in 2023 the Certificate Was Updated/Overridden, Underlying Aim May Be Herding/Forcing People to Get TPM and Other 'Novel' Restrictions)
the "upgrade treadmill"
The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):