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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 01, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. A Lot Less GAFAM in Scandinavia
    Are they reacting to geopolitics and risks from the US?
  2. IBM Kills Companies It Bought (Neudesic Seems Like Latest Casualty)
    Why isn't even a single publisher investigating those things?
  3. Fake "Linux" Articles
    Just because some platform has "Linux" in the domain name and/or site name does not imply that it is a news/Linux site
  4. Gemini Links 31/01/2026: "Proof Without Content" and "Technology Connections"
    Links for the day
  5. Links 31/01/2026: Microsoft "OpenAI Representatives Are Going to Critics’ Houses With Threats and Demands", Its Proprietary Chaffbot Faces More Lawsuits
    Links for the day
  6. Links 31/01/2026: "Introducing Encrypt It Already" and "Huge Cache of Epstein"
    Links for the day
  7. A Can of WORMS - Part I - Trying to Throw RMS Under the Bus at MIT and Everywhere Else
    This series won't give air to online 'trolls'
  8. Mobbing at the European Patent Office (EPO) - Part I - An Introduction
    When the series ends, some time around the second or third EPO strike of this year, we'll contact the relevant authorities and plead for intervention
  9. The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Delusion - Part I - Who Regulates This Regulator? (Only Itself!)
    We won't self-censor or prematurely terminate this series
  10. Norway Almost Trusts Russia More Than the Bill Gates (Sleeping With Young Russian Girls) Company, Microsoft
    Microsoft represents crime
  11. Riddle Us This... (Jim Zemlin and Bill Gates)
    Do these people even understand the literal meaning of "safe space"?
  12. Is "Nobel Prize for Peace" a Sick Person's 'Code Word' for Gangbanging Now? Ask Bill Gates.
    Watch all the Gates apologists getting all silenced/silent
  13. BBC Gaslights Women Sexually Exploited (Many Under Legal Age) for Its Rich Sponsor, Bill Epsteingate (Gates)
    Is this a national broadcaster or a propaganda tool "For Rent"?
  14. Microsoft 'Open' 'AI' Reportedly About to Become Bankrupt, Seeking Emergency Cash Infusion (Loans)
    the money promised to Microsoft 'Open' 'AI' failed to arrive
  15. Gemini Links 31/01/2026: Deep Ice and Slide Rules
    Links for the day
  16. Writing About Abuse
    Never ever allow misogynists to get their way if you strive to live in a decent society
  17. MIT DEDP MicroMasters online learner's blog post about cover-up linked to resignation of Swiss financial regulator
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  18. Salary Erosion Procedure (SAP) as the Primary Reason for EPO Strikes
    They focus on financials, as the corruption aspects are un-sayable or unspeakable, except in private
  19. IBM Bluewashing: Feels Like IBM is Scuttling Neudesic (and Some of Red Hat)
    We recently saw some Red Hat staff joining a Microsoft proxy
  20. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  21. IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 30, 2026
    IRC logs for Friday, January 30, 2026
  22. Microsoft Stock Collapsing Due to the Slop Bubble and Microsoft is Hiding Budget 'Black Holes'
    Microsoft does not perform like it tells "the media" and "the market"
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