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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 19, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. "How Many Friends Do You Have?"
    "Do bots count?" "Friends in Facebook?" "Does a girlfriend chatbot count as a friend?"
  2. Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Responds to Crises Only After It's Way Too Late
    The SRA does not do its job. The new chief's job is face-saving PR in the media.
  3. The Techrights Team Makes the Platform Faster
    The infrastructure is already fast
  4. France Does Not Need Digital Weapons Disguised as Social and as Media
    French people lost interest in Social Control 'Media' (or Networks)

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  5. Links 18/02/2026: DMCA Weakened, Anna’s Archive Still Thriving
    Links for the day
  6. Links 18/02/2026: Gig 'Economy' Condemned, Microsoft Insulting/Stressing People With False Slop Predictions
    Links for the day
  7. Twitter Falling to 1% in Africa's Largest Nation (Algeria)
    About 15 years ago the regime in Egypt got toppled (and others had been too) partly because of social control media such as Twitter
  8. Mozilla Firefox Died in Afghanistan
    Mozilla has been a complete disaster
  9. Gemini Links 18/02/2026: Astronomy and Texinfo
    Links for the day
  10. Are IBM CEO and IBM CFO Ready for Financial Audit That Topples the Shares by 50% in One Day?
    The same "chefs" that cooked up Kyndryl Holdings Inc are still in charge of the IBM kitchen
  11. "Senior AI Reporter" at Slop Technica/Ars Sloppica Has Written Nothing in Nearly a Week, Did Conde Nast Suspend Him for Fake Articles With Fake Quotes?
    Slop Technica/Ars Sloppica is having a serious credibility issue right now
  12. Linux Foundation Puts Slop Images, Not Just Slop Text, in Linux.com
    More of the same then
  13. The Register MS Paid-for 'Articles' (Ads) Seem to be LLM Slop Again
    If it's true that The Register MS is resorting to these marketing tactics, will they later delete the evidence (as they did months ago)?
  14. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  15. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 17, 2026
    IRC logs for Tuesday, February 17, 2026
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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