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EPO General Consultative Committee (GCC) Agenda: Reduction of Staff's Salaries (Compared to Inflation)
knocking salaries down some more
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What's 4Chan and Why It's So Problematic
Incels and losers converge around online echo chambers
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Python is Attempting an Outreach to African-Americans, Microsoft Lunduke Has a Problem With That
Did he manage to brainwash himself into this ideology wherein bigotry is in fact tolerance, inclusion, equity?
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IBM is Googlebombing Its Way Out of Trouble and Criticism
IBM is a dying giant
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After Denial (of the Issues) Comes Censorship
Every critic of the status quo is "racist" and every criticism is "racism"
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Intel, Facing Mass Layoffs (Including Many Key Engineers Who Work on Linux Kernel), is Pushing for Slop Inside Linux
replacing proper, well-tested code (and documentation thereof) with slop
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More People Want to Quit Windows (Vista 10 is "End of Life"), Restricted Boot (UEFI) Makes That Harder
It's widely agreed (a consensus) that Restricted Boot is a bad thing for GNU/Linux
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Spanish Focus Coming Soon and Maturity of Site Search
We'll soon be focusing on Spain
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Slopwatch: LLM Slopfarms Seem to be Slowing Down Somewhat
LLM addiction is a very unhealthy addiction
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The "Nazi Bars"
We don't condone or condemn the label "Nazi Bar"
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Thailand: Windows Down Sharply, Microsoft Loses Share to GNU/Linux
the Thai economy is strategic and relatively important in the region
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Gaming Journalist and Guru Jason Schreier Says Microsoft is Indeed Behaving Like It Exits the Console Market
Remember that many shops no longer sell or stock XBox
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Links 17/11/2025: ‘Agentic OS’ Backlash and Facebook ('Meta') Loses Yann Le Cun
Links for the day
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Gemini Links 17/11/2025: Technology's Harm in Schools, 3D Printer Blurb
Links for the day
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Coming Soon: EPO Trip in Spain
António Campinos being 'Marcosed'
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Links 17/11/2025: "You Don't Need Animations" and Blocking Copyright-Infringing Sites Inevitably Goes Wrong
Links for the day
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The Register MS: Slop is "FOMO" (Fear of Missing Out), FOMO is Funding Us
even former management (Editor in Chief of The Register MS) admitted to me it was aware of this issue
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Difficult to Win Arguments When the Simple Facts Are Not on One's Side
Starting arguments over things when you know the facts (unlike money!) aren't on your side is a dumb move that can only ever result in severe loss of credibility
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Tribalism Injures Projects
In Free software communities, there are many species and "breeds". Some developers are happy to work with everyone else based upon technical merit
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No, There is Nothing Impressive About Slop Plagiarism-Enabled, Computer-Generated Images in Your Web Site...
When people use slop they do not broadcast an embrace of innovation; they merely signal they're lazy, unethical, and unscrupulous
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Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
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IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 16, 2025
IRC logs for Sunday, November 16, 2025
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IRCNow Helped Techrights
If you want to gain more independence or "sovereignty" over your communications and need help setting things up (no prior experience setting up/configuring IRC), go to IRCNow
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How We Managed to Make IRC Inclusive and Free Speech-Tolerant Without Banning People
People in IRC seldom agree on everything, more so if politics are aired and especially in the wrong context/s
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UEFI 'Restricted Boot' Will Usher in Rootkits Into Linux
Those of us who understand and value what it means to truly own our devices should definitely be alarmed by these trends
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Plan for European Patent Office (EPO) Coverage This Month, Next Month, and Next Year
How much longer can European politicians ignore all this corruption?
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Germany-Based Focus Online is Apparently Covering Up Cocaine Use at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the European Patent Office
More contact details for the German press - Focus online
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opensource.net Dead Since Middle of Summer, opensource.org (OSI) Still Leaderless
At the moment the brand "Open Source" is misused so heavily that we have considered adding a new category to our Daily Links, focusing a lot less on "Open" and more on software freedom as a concept
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