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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 03, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Submit Your Suggestions for EU's Embrace of Software Freedom by Tomorrow
    Time to leave GAFAM (US) hegemony behind
  2. Slopless Weekend
    This is not sustainable

    New

  3. Microsoft Lost 20% of Its Money in the Past 6 Months
    Microsoft is hiding what's really happening while mocking critics
  4. Great News, IBM 'Gained' Almost 10% in "Goodwill" Value After Firing Tens of Thousands in 2025
    "goodwill" will be inflated despite IBM staff getting sick of IBM
  5. Americans Move to GNU/Linux
    some of the biggest American populations
  6. I Still Like Drawing and Various Other Arts (They Help My Activism and Journalism), Slop is an Enemy of Creative People
    Recognise that slop isn't intelligence; it's a generational excuse for plagiarism and privatisation of not only the Commons but also proprietary knowledge (without authorisation)
  7. Carmen-Lisandrette Maris (Mission:Libre) Explains to Adolescents and Young Adults How Free Software Improves Privacy
    Based on what we've seen and read, Mission:Libre has a solid grasp of Software Freedom
  8. Chatbots Didn't Do Any Good for Microsoft
    Google "AI" = search + copypasta
  9. Links 02/02/2026: Cultural Cleansing by China and 'Living Behind Firewalls" in Iran
    Links for the day
  10. GNU/Linux Measured at More Than 4% in Russia
    growing adoption of GNU/Linux in Russia
  11. Gemini Links 02/02/2026: Stages of Age, Workflows, and Counting Capsules
    Links for the day
  12. Oracle's Debt Rose Over 20 Billion Dollars in Just 3 Months
    Is "hey hi" becoming a synonym for debt?
  13. Oligarchs' 'Speech Zones' Are Not the "Public Square"
    The apologists of social control media, including press that got "addicted" to such fake "media", are helping dictators and oligarchs grab the public attention away from the real press
  14. Links 02/02/2026: 'Melania' a Horror Movie "Will They Inherit Our Blogs?"
    Links for the day
  15. Doing More Detailed Series (Long-Form Works)
    Long readings or book-like reading binges are only possible when parts are suitably labeled (name and numbers) if not interlinked
  16. Mobbing at the European Patent Office (EPO) - Part II - Racism, Cocaine Use and White-Collar Corruption
    When you hire people illegally, to work for cocaine users and keep quite about the cocaine use, what will be the impact on the reputation of an institution?
  17. A Can of WORMS - Part II - Darkening the Name of RMS, Associating It With Crime
    Beware projection tactics
  18. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  19. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 01, 2026
    IRC logs for Sunday, February 01, 2026
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

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