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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 22, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. IBM: We Can't Make 'AI' (Voice Recognition) Do the Work of a McDonald's Teenager, So Let's Try the Same on Saudi Planes

   IBM is lost. It's truly lost.

2. The General Public License (GPL) Inspired the Web's Original Openness/Freedom, According to Tim Berners-Lee

   "During the preceding year I had been trying to get CERN to release the intellectual property rights to the Web code under the General Public License (GPL) so that others could use it."

   New

3. Why?

   Why write articles?

4. Microsoft-Connected Publisher Spinning XBox's Death Spiral (It's Dying Fast) as a Strength and Something Deliberate

   "Microsoft’s big gaming pivot"

5. Slop is Rare by Now

   A year ago slop was so abundant that we did a whole series about it, and it was daily

6. Links 21/12/2025: U.S. Strikes in Syria, "Epstein Files Photos Disappear From Government Website"

   Links for the day

7. Gemini Links 21/12/2025: Labrador Retriever of Lagrange's Developer Dies From Cancer, Political Philosophy, and "Getting to Inbox Zero"

   Links for the day

8. Microsoft is Becoming Irrelevant: The Case of Georgia

   Not Georgia Tech

9. Sirius Open Source is Now Imminently Dead (Struck Off)

   compulsory strike-off

10. Dr. Richard Stallman, Invited by LibreTech Collective, is Giving a Public Talk in Georgia Tech Next Month (Scheller College of Business)

    They can probably squeeze about 400 people into this room

11. 25 Years of Activism for GNU/Linux

    My passion for GNU/Linux brought a lot of contentment

12. Africa, Where Microsoft Used De Facto Slaves to Pretend to be "AI", Chatbots Usage is 0.2% of Measured Online Traffic

    Judging by recent trends in Africa, many "Windows PCs" are being converted into GNU/Linux computers

13. New Drone Footage Shows IBM is Dead (Parts of It)

    The people who participated in IBM when IBM actually mattered probably have boasting rights, unlike people who work for IBM today

14. Michael Larabel Adds Slop Category to Phoronix, Quickly Realises That It's Worthless

    Phoronix nowadays gets carried away; it made a new category to talk about slop and it decided to call it "intelligence" with some caricature of a brain (that's misleading)Phoronix nowadays gets carried away; it made a new category to talk about slop and it decided to call it "intelligence" with some caricature of a brain (that's misleading)

15. After 35 Years the World Wide Web, HTML, and HTTP Are Proprietary

    HTTP/2 added a lot of complexity (it's just a Google protocol, based on SPDY originally), many image formats are proprietary and patented, HTML got 'replaced' by Java-Scripts [sic], and many URLs (the URL system was created in the early 90s) are just long strings for proprietary 'webapps'

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, December 20, 2025

    IRC logs for Saturday, December 20, 2025

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