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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 17, 2025

Fastening A Car Seatbelt

Updated This Past Day

  1. Lies Need to be Corrected
    the Court never invited us

    New

  2. EPO Staff Representation Lacks Social Dialogue With Relevant Management, Controversial and Sometimes Illegal Policies Implemented Without Necessary Input
    "In this open letter, the CSC requests that the President submits an agenda item in the next available General Consultative Committee (GCC) meeting on setting up regular meetings between the CSC and the higher management of DG1."
  3. Links 16/10/2025: Political Leftovers and Gemini Protocol Links
    Links for the day
  4. Slopwatch: Guardian Digital (linuxsecurity.com), Slashdot, Google News, and More
    Maybe one day, once the bubble pops completely, Google News will just outright delist all slopfarms
  5. Lufthansa Modern Slavery, Joerg Jaspert (ganneff) & Debian NSB Softwareentwicklung charade
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  6. Links 16/10/2025: US Starting More Trade Wars With China, CIA War on Venezuela
    Links for the day
  7. SUSE Blog is Still LLM Slop, Marketing Manager at SUSE Cannot Write
    Would you buy from a company or seek support from a company that cannot even write (or fakes writing)?
  8. Pretend You're Not Dead: Microsoft Spent Almost Two Decades Rebranding Things as "Cloud, Then "AI", Now "XBox" and "Quantum"
    "AI" bubble pops, Microsoft harping about "quantum" already
  9. IBM Allegedly Found New Tricks for Silent Layoffs: LPI, Then MIS (Not PIP)
    Remember that "Red Hat layoffs" won't be reported after the bluewashing
  10. Links 16/10/2025: Red Lines and Feeding of Microsoft Trolls
    Links for the day
  11. MIT as a Propaganda Mill of GAFAM, Paid by GAFAM
    "the news" today
  12. Links 16/10/2025: Lies Euphemised as ‘Dueling Versions of Reality’ and Microsoft "Open" "Hey Hi" Resorts to Porn as No Business Model Was Found
    Links for the day
  13. The Local Staff Committee Munich (Representation of the EPO's Staff) Explains When Cluster of Pregnancies May Result in Reduced Pay
    "...even one week of part-time working is sufficient to reduce the salary you perceive during the entirety of your maternity leave."
  14. Another Black Eye for 'Secure Boot', Microsoft Media Tries to Blame "Linux"
    It enables Microsoft to remotely control computers, even computers that don't run Windows and never had any Microsoft software installed
  15. Slopwatch: UbuntuPIT, linuxsecurity.com, and Various Slopfarms in Google News Attacking "Linux"
    A new survey of the Web said that the majority of the Web is now slop (that's being said in the news this week)
  16. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  17. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
    IRC logs for Wednesday, October 15, 2025
  18. Links 16/10/2025: Increased Use of Social Control Media Surveillance in US, French Rage Over Pensions
    Links for the day
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