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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 31, 2026

The Splash of a Drop

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  1. Why Would Anybody be Afraid of Talking to Richard Stallman?
    We need to get rid of the baseless stigma
  2. EPO on Strike
    organisation operating outside the Rule of Law
  3. Affirming What We Already Know: Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is Profoundly Incompetent
    "SRA ordered to pay solicitor £50k in costs after failed prosecution"

    New

  4. Gemini Links 30/01/2026: Love and Cultivation, Gemtext Anchors
    Links for the day
  5. Will Jim Zemlin Also Sell His Daughter or Only the "Linux" Brand (and Linux Foundation) to Bill Epsteingate?
    Torvalds "ate a bug"
  6. The Epstein Files Don't Say the Ages of Those "Russian Girls" Bill Epsteingate Exploited
    This E-mail was sent around the time an arrest was made for pedophilia
  7. Only One in 33 EPO Staff Voting on the Strike Opposed It
    Kudos to all those who participated in the strike
  8. Still Hoping for "Slop Zero" in 2026
    We've also noticed that linuxiac.com shows a glimmer of hope this week
  9. Links 30/01/2026: Waymo Crashing Into 'Small People' (Children), Microsoft at Risk Due to Slop Debt
    Links for the day
  10. Amutable’s Management and Founders Are 100% Microsoft!
    It'll be focused on promoting Microsoft's agenda in everything it does
  11. IBM Tries to Get Rid of Workers Without Paying Them (and It Appears to be Working)
    be sure to speak to people who actually work there
  12. He Has No Money, But He Has Power, He Has a Voice
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  13. Free Software in Swiss Media This Week
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  14. TV Programs Disseminate False Numbers of Microsoft Layoffs (About 31,000 Laid Off Last Year, Not Including PIPs, Contractors and so on)
    large-scale layoffs are inevitable, no matter how long Microsoft delays or procrastinates
  15. Links 30/01/2026: Microsoft's "OpenAI Is Headed For Bankruptcy" and Bitcoin Crashes
    Links for the day
  16. Amutable is a Microsoft Proxy Like Xamarin, With Some IBM/Red Hat Staff Added for Good Measure
    Amutable chasing money and trying to impose TPM etc. on everybody
  17. The Letter Sent to the Ringleader of the Alicante Mafia This Week
    Call for industrial actions to stop the salary erosion of EPO staff
  18. Oracle's Debt Exploded by 22 Billion Dollars in 6 Months, the Ponzi Scheme With Scam Altman Was Classic 'Pump and Dump'
    The founder of Oracle now uses his wealth for right-wing ideological reasons, nothing else
  19. Facebook ('Meta') is Dead Meat, This GAFAM Company's Debt Exploded by Almost 33 Billion Dollars in Just 3 Months (11 Billion Per Month)
    we can expect many sales/contracts to get canceled
  20. Australia's top nurse takes on Musk, Zuckerberg & rogue health influencers, birthkeepers
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  21. The "Alicante Mafia" - Part XVI - The Associates of Mr. Cocainegate Don't Want to Talk About Cocainegate (Right of Reply)
    Nobody wanted to talk about cocaine at the EPO
  22. The "Open Source" (Corporate Openwashing) Fake Community Rejects Democracy, Open Source Initiative is in Effect Dead
    This is basically the end of the OSI
  23. Cracks and Holes in Microsoft's Slop Bubble (Also, Windows is Declining)
    "More Bad News For Xbox As Microsoft Blames Gaming For An Annual Decline In Its PC Business"
  24. Microsoft's Debt Exploded by More Than 20 Billion Dollars This Past Year, Says Microsoft
    Expect more mass layoffs
  25. Strike at the EPO Today
    Next month we'll start a new EPO series
  26. State of the Slop and The Register MS Runs Ads as 'Articles'
    Yesterday we could not find much slop about "Linux"
  27. Gemini Links 30/01/2026: Announcing Crossyword and SYN Attack
    Links for the day
  28. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  29. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 29, 2026
    IRC logs for Thursday, January 29, 2026

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