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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 15, 2025

Spoon And Bread Knife

Updated This Past Day

  1. The Register MS is Profiting From Pyramid Schemes Run by Americans
    We cannot help but feel disgusted by what this publisher became
  2. IBM: Hiring, Then Disposing of, Unpaid or Low-Paid European Staff to Spread or Play Up Buzzwords and Hype
    Like Google With "Summer of Code", this seems like a low-cost marketing stunt more than anything substantial
  3. The Europe Conversation: The EPO Has Cocaine at the High-Level Management and Isn't Denying It
    Now we plan to ensure the matter is properly documented in European press
  4. Corporate Media Helps IBM Relay Vapourware (Misinformation/Fake News)
    They compensate with words for a lack of compelling products
  5. Web Searches Far Too Polluted, Gamed by LLM Slop and "Plagiarised Information Synthesis Systems" (PISS)
    old articles are already getting difficult to find in mainstream search engines, even if they are still online
  6. "AI" is a Lie. It Always Was. What They Call "AI" Is Not.
    This MSM does no favours to the economy

    New

  7. Slopwatch: Almost a Majority of Google News is Now Slopfarms (Fake Sites, Fake Articles)
    Google News is noise
  8. Gemini Links 14/11/2025: Boredom, "Twenty Percent Cooler", and Moving From Windows to Artix
    Links for the day
  9. Links 14/11/2025: YouTube's Trap for Publishers, Lack of Accountability a Growing Legal Matter/Concern
    Links for the day
  10. Many Times in the Past We Said That Microsoft Lunduke Was Becoming a Spokesperson/Voice for - and Occasionally Weaponising - 4Chan. He's Proving Us Right This Week.
    Stay away
  11. Casual Reminder That We Also Publish GNU/Linux Stories and News Coverage in Tux Machines
    Without trust in our robustness (including fearlessness, not just success in protecting stories and sources) we'd not have come this far, nor would I devote my life to it
  12. Links 14/11/2025: Goddard Space Center Abused by the White House, Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Expands (Cheetos Need Distraction)
    Links for the day
  13. Hacking on Recipes
    Maybe, in due course perhaps, we can also release some of our own cooking recipes or "forks"
  14. Privacy-respecting Metasearch Engine SearX/SearXNG Still Jailed by Microsoft
    The official site and code still sadly controlled by Microsoft
  15. Our First Week of Our Twentieth Year
    My wife and I have had a very productive week here and in Tux Machines
  16. Links 14/11/2025: Sleep Research, France to Suspend Pension 'Reform' Law, and Linux Foundation's Latest Openwashing
    Links for the day
  17. Gemini Links 14/11/2025: KDE vs XFCE and Leaving the Web
    Links for the day
  18. Google Admits It Lost Control of Slop (While Google Itself is Selling Slop, Currently Under the Name "Gemini" Instead of "Bard")
    Slop is nothing to be celebrated
  19. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  20. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 13, 2025
    IRC logs for Thursday, November 13, 2025
  21. Mozilla Handed Over Control Over Firefox to Microsoft, Now Firefox is Preloaded With Microsoft Spyware and It's Proprietary
    Who would still want to download Firefox?
  22. Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, Brian Fagioli, and WebProNews
    becoming a slopfarm is a site's suicide
  23. "Sponsored Posts" in The Register MS
    That's The Register MS in 2025
  24. IBM RAs in India (Apparently)
    IBM is a bad place to work
  25. Another Richard Stallman Talk in Two Days
    His talk will be a remote talk, as he won't be travelling to Argentina
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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