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Search @ Techrights: Almost There Now (Maybe an Anniversary Gift)
Just to be very clear, search would not be unprecedented at Techrights
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At IBM, Layoffs Start at 1AM (at Night)
not a single English-speaking site covers the news about the layoffs
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Envy Makes People Do Self-Harming Things (and Harm to Others)
Online communities that can be deemed successful are built around trust, mutual respect, and collective accomplishment
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What Julian Darley Wrote About the Stallman Talk Regarding "AI" in Oxford (2025)
From LinkedIn (Microsoft)
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"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." -Galileo Galilei
This site is educational
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Many People Have Said That They "Leave" IBM in Recent Days (Ahead of Mass Layoffs)
So the real extent of layoffs is greater than what's publicly stated (there are silent layoffs) [...] Whatever IBM says about the scope, scale, or magnitude of the "RAs", it doesn't tell the full story
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Techrights Will Contact German Media About the EPO's Substance Abuse
This scandal won't "go to waste"
New
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Richard Stallman's 2005 Article on Why Patents on Software Should be Denied
If patent law had been applied to novels in the 1880s, great books would not have been written. If the EU applies it to software, every computer user will be restricted, says Richard Stallman
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"Last Day" at IBM and Red Hat as "Stealth Layoffs" (They Force People to Pretend It's Wilful)
So the real extent of the layoffs is being kept 'undercover'
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Slopwatch: The WebProNews Slopfarm and the Serial Slopper
The Web is ill
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Links 04/11/2025: Tensions Around Belarus Grow, Turkey’s Hype-inflation Continues
Links for the day
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Corporate Media That Fails to Report Cocaine at EPO is Totally Failing to Report Mass Layoffs at IBM
How come nobody anywhere writes about this week's RAs?
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Links 04/11/2025: Google Cloud Account Engages in Censorship of the Innocent, arXiv Spammed by LLM Slop
Links for the day
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EPO Cocaine Chronicles: Our Aim Will be to Ensure This Becomes a Mainstream Media Topic, Not a Suppressed Scandal (Which the German State Deems Embarrassing and Detrimental to Its Pan-European Patent Franchise)
At the EPO, and perhaps in German media as well, people "fall upwards" (they get rewarded for bad things)
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Static Site Generators (SSGs) Made Techrights Better, Faster, Easier to Manage
Consider adopting SSGs if you still use a CMS such as WordPress
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But he Was Born in Manchester! (Origin Stories)
Borussia Dortmund does not exist!
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GNU/Linux is American, Not Finnish
It started in Boston, not in Helsinki
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'Hacker' 'News' Makes Dumb Assertions Against Smart People
A logical fallacy
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We Turned Down Every Settlement Offer Because Truths Aren't Determined in Bank Accounts
Without free press, there won't be free society
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Why I'm Always Proud of the Site I've Devoted My Life to
As a graffiti around the corner from our home says, "be a better person"
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Standing Up or Standing for What's True But Inconvenient
Bad actors need to be called out
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Media Coverage Regarding IBM is Vapourware and LLM Slop
With slop images, too
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statCounter Says GNU/Linux Rose to 4% in the Russian Federation
Adoption of Vista 11 has been embarrassingly weak
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Corruption is Not a Joke
we'll try to limit our use of humour to avoid misunderstandings or misinterpretations
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The Slopfarm WebProNews is Overwhelming "linux" Results in Google News
Google News is slop
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The Fall of IBM: What Happened?
Just like the EPO continues riding some old reputation acquired in the 1970s IBM relies on old myths like, "nobody gets fired for buying IBM."
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IBM's CEO Already Has the Excuse for the Latest Wave of Mass Layoffs
Only days ago the CEO told a bunch of nonsense
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Links 04/11/2025: Conflicts, Politics, and IPv6 at Home
Links for the day
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Gemini Links 04/11/2025: Entering WiFi Passwords and Programming Rambles
Links for the day
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Arch Linux Seems Like the New Debian
Arch users (btw!) are growing in relative and absolute share
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Analytics From US Government Affirm a Trend: Microsoft's "Market Share" in Search is Falling
the data set is large
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Holding Institutions Such as the EPO Accountable Through Public Information
Speaking truth to power is never easy
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EPO Staff Losing Holidays, as Usual, as the Office Increases Profits by Illegally Granting Invalid Patents While Reducing Salaries
How much more can the staff endure and generally tolerate?
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Free Software Does Not Always Speak for Itself, It Needs Advocates
Legal matters that relate to sharing of code will be discussed
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Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
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IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 03, 2025
IRC logs for Monday, November 03, 2025
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The Register MS Continues Looking for Money in Promotion of the "AI" Ponzi Scheme
That The Register MS participates in this deceit rather than tackle/debunk it says a lot about The Register MS
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IBM Layoffs in "Software", This Likely Impacts Red Hat as Well
Many people say "software" people are impacted
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Escaping Proprietary Software, Not Just Escaping Microsoft
To take control of your life adopt GNU/Linux
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A Lot of Fake News About Microsoft Headcount (Also: Microsoft's Debt Rose by About 24 Billion Dollars in Past 12 Months)
If you see some headline about Microsoft's CEO making claims about hirings, look away
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Techrights Turns 19 in Three Days
It would be nice to meet for a chat
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