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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 05, 2026

An old Welsh woman made out of a banana with a nut for her head. The cat is made from two nuts and some matches

Updated This Past Day

  1. You Know Microsoft's "Value" is 100% Fictional When in One Single "Trading" Day in Wall Street It Loses THREE TIMES More in "Value" Than It Was 'Worth' in 2009
    Microsoft does not behave like a company riding trillions but like a company that struggles with payroll
  2. Better Outcomes When Facing the Discomfort of Conflict
    Don't take the easy way out when the "hard way" is the right way and it can result in positive revelations
  3. Leaving the United States 3 Years Ago Was the Best Decision We Made
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  4. BillBC (BBC) Covered Up Pedophilia, Now It's Covering Up for Its Sponsor Bill Gates by Reprinting His Lies, Which His Own Wife Disputes
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    New

  5. Links 04/02/2026: Extreme Malice in Microsoft's Visual Studio Code on GNU/Linux, More Hey Hi (AI) Chaos
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  6. Sexism & GNOME: shaming men, hiding women, Sonny Piers update
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  7. Gemini Links 04/02/2026: Humanity and Animality, systemd (Controlled by Amutable, a Proxy of Microsoft) Moves on to "Extinguish" Phase
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  8. Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Used to be Widely Used in Geminispace, Now It's Down to Just 0.2% of the Whole
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  9. What IBM Does Is Clearly Illegal in the US: Tying Severance Packages to NDAs (Non-Disparagement Agreement/Clause)
    The NDAs make things worse; they keep people isolated and silent
  10. Microsoft's Giant Snowball of Layoffs and PIPs (in 2026)
    They would delay until March or April if they wanted to, but then we can expect numbers exceeding 10,000 layoffs (Microsoft always low-balls the real figure/s)
  11. Mozilla Turned Firefox Into Shovelware, Adding 'Kill Switch' for Slop Still Means Mozilla is Participating in a Pyramid Scheme, Plagiarism, Grifting
    Mozilla is still a slop pusher
  12. Links 04/02/2026: "Laws of Succession" and Microsoft's VS Code as Code-Stealing Malware
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  13. Phoronix Swims With the Real Trolls, People Who Fancy Proprietary Software and Back Doors
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  14. They Know Microsoft Layoffs Are About to Hit Them Hard
    The gaming division at Microsoft is a complete catastrophe, lots of money (debt) down the drain [...] Buying Activision was all about misleading shareholders or hiding the deep trouble/problems XBox was having
  15. Red Hat is Not a Linux Company, It's IBM's Ponzi Scheme Enabler
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  16. Keep Grinding
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  17. Mobbing at the European Patent Office (EPO) - Part III - Who's Going to Pay for the EPO's Corruption? (Aside From European Citizens)
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  18. "Investors Are Concerned About an AI Bubble" (That GAFAM and IBM Ride)
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  19. EPO Staff Union: "Very High Strike Participation on Friday 30 January", Another Strike Starts 19 Days From Now
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  20. Censorship/Free Speech and Social Control Media
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  21. Google News as Slop Booster
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  22. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  23. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 03, 2026
    IRC logs for Tuesday, February 03, 2026
  24. Gemini Links 04/02/2026: "Raspberry Pi Relaxes the Rules for Its RP2040 Hacking Challenge" and "Long Web Society"
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