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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 17, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. The "Alicante Mafia" - Part II - Breakout of Discontent This Winter in Europe's Second-Largest Organisation

   So far we've caused a lot of panic and stress inside Team Campinos

2. The "Alicante Mafia" - Part I - An Introduction to the Mafia Governing the EPO

   Are some people 'evacuating' themselves to save face?

3. At Microsoft, "Firing People is a "Cheat Code" to Pump the Stock Short-term But They Are Literally Destroying the Company's Soul Long-term."

   They frame layoffs as a "success story"

4. Google News Poisons Its Own Index With More Slopfarms (Including "filmogaz")

   Naming and shaming lazy slobs who rip off other people using LLMs can work, eventually

5. Naming Culprits in Switzerland

   Switzerland is highly secretive about white-collar crime

6. Sanitised Plagiarism as "AI" (How Oligarchy Plots to Use Slop to Hide or Distract From Its Abuses, or Cause People Not to Trust Anything They See/Read Online)

   This isn't innovation but repression

7. Recent Layoffs at Red Hat (2026 the Year of Ultimate Bluewashing)

   I found it amusing that Red Hat's CEO has just chosen to wear all blue, as if to make a point

   New

8. Great Reset at IBM, the Company That Pulps Red Hat

   In 2026 many workers are RTO'ed, PIP'ed, and at Red Hat many have effectively 'left the company' and now start afresh as "IBM" staff

9. J.H.M. Ray Dassen & Debian, Red Hat, GNOME unexplained deaths

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

10. Gemini Links 16/01/2026: "Porting My Main Website Over to Gemini" and Seeed Studio DevBoard

    Links for the day

11. IBM Stacked and Ranked Badly, Maladministration Dooms the Company

    Now they stack people up for PIPs and layoffs ("RAs")

12. Links 16/01/2026: UK Royal Family's "Legal Team Accused of Dishonesty, Fraud and Misconduct", OSI Still Controlled by Microsoft (the OSI's Spokesperson is on Microsoft's Payroll, Not Interim Executive Director, Deborah Bryant)

    Links for the day

13. Writing About Corruption

    Fraud is everywhere

14. The B in IBM is Brown-nosing and Buzzwords (or Both)

    International Buzzwords Machines

15. IBM's 'Scientific-Sounding' Tech-Porn Won't Help IBM Survive (or Be Bailed Out)

    Who's next in the pipeline?

16. IBM Was Never the Good Guy

    its original products were used for large-scale surveillance, not scientific endeavours

17. The Bluewashing is Making Red Hat Extinct (They All Become "IBM", Little by Little)

    IBM does not care what's legal

18. Slopfarms Push Fake News About Microsoft Shutdown, 30,000+ Microsoft Layoffs Last Year Spun as Only "15,000"

    The Web is seriously ill

19. Countries Take Action Against Social Control Media and 'Smart' 'Phones', Not Slop (Plagiarised Information Synthesis Systems or P.I.S.S.)

    None of this is unprecedented except the scale and speed of sharing

20. Sites That Expose Corruption Under Attack, Journalism Not Tolerated Anymore (the Super-Rich Abuse Their Wealth and Political Power)

    Sometimes, albeit not always, the harder people try to hide something, the more effective and important it is for the general public

21. Links 16/01/2026: Social Control Media Curbs in Australia Underway, MElon Still Profiting by Sexualising Kids 'as a Service'

    Links for the day

22. More People Nowadays Say "GNU/Linux"

    We still see many distros and even journalists that say "GNU/Linux"

23. LLM Slop on the Web is Waning, But Linuxiac Has Become a Slopfarm

    I gave Linuxiac a chance to deny this or explain this; Linuxiac did not

24. More Signs of Financial Troubles at Microsoft, Europe Puts Microsoft Under Investigation

    The end of the library is part of the cuts

25. Team Campinos Talks About SAP Days Before EPO Industrial Actions and a Day Before the "Alicante Mafia" Series (About Team Campinos Doing Cocaine)

    EPO staff that isn't morally feeble will insist on objecting to illegal instructions

26. Pedophilia-Enabling Microsoft Co-founder Cuts Staff

    Compensating by sleeping with young girls does not make one younger

27. Microsoft Shuts Down Campus Library, Resorts to Storytelling About "AI" to Spin the Seriousness of It

    Microsoft is in pain

28. Free Software Foundation (FSF) Back to Advertising the Talks of Richard Stallman

    A pleasant surprise

29. Stack(ed) Rankings and Ongoing Layoffs at Red Hat and IBM (Failure to Keep Staff Acquired by IBM)

    IBM is mismanaged and its sole aim is to game the stock market (by faking a lot of things)

30. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

31. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 15, 2026

    IRC logs for Thursday, January 15, 2026

32. Gemini Links 16/01/2026: House Flood and Pragmatic Retrocomputing Dogfooding

    Links for the day

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