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New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.22

This version includes important security updates to Tor.

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Quotas Are Not Common Sense

Quality matters

Long Ago (And Far Away)

Simple, but still brilliant, still one of my favourites.

Cheap But Unfit for Purpose and Unsafe

Appliances have gotten worse (less safe, less reliable), even branded goods from NIMA [1, 2] because people like “cheap” and companies are cheapening the production processes, materials, quality control

A Fishy Week

So far, so good

Enzo Has Started Better Than Pep

EnzoFC seems to be getting better over time

Linus Torvalds Again Complains That LLM Slop (That Nobody Audits) Overwhelms the Linux Kernel

could not help but notice the wordings of Torvalds, as uttered in writing this past Sunday. This is not the first time he expresses (apprehensively, his boss is the Linux Foundation, bribed by the slop industry) concerns about Linux slipping out of developers’ control only to become a bloated pig that few people understand.

Art, Not Slop

used to find it disturbing when some football clubs shared slop, especially in social control media, about their squad.

Always Pleased With Manchester Pets & Aquatics at Ardwick

had a very productive day today, especially all the “fish tank” stuff. At one point we discussed the options available to us, then I left home just in time to reach the pet store at 9AM (when it opens). I spent a long time looking at all the animals and could see the people who ran the shop really love animals. One was hugging the lizard while cleaning its cage; the lizard would not let go when he came to the fish section to help and advise me. They also checked things on a computer system to give me expert advice when I asked questions.

999

think I won’t remember to check this again in 3 hours, but it’ll soon be 999 days and 9 hours, 9 minutes, 9 seconds since last reboot.

Two Tanks

Black and pink (blackpink?)

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OpenVPN 2.7.7 Released with Various Improvements, Bug and Security Fixes

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 25, 2026

William Pynchon

Updated This Past Day

  1. Father of XBox Says What Microsoft Does Not Want to Hear About XBox (They All Know It's Dead)
    Microsoft just worried shareholders will find out Sharma is "just a face" and an undertaker
  2. France Needs to Focus on Software Freedom, Not Flags
    We need more SIP advocacy!
  3. Combatting Censorship in the "Civilised World": The Media Blackout Surrounding EPO Strikes and Other Large-Scale Actions
    We - collectively speaking - cannot afford to keep the Office in the hands of a "Mafia"
  4. EPO Strike Actions and Other Industrial Actions Are Effective When Management Fears the Staff and Staff No Longer Fears Any Managers
    'António the unready' should get ready to be ousted
  5. IBM Did Not Fall Because of COBOL Vapourware, IBM Still Collapses Because It's Worthless, Way Overvalued, and Very Likely Cooks the Books
    language-to-language conversion (in the context of programming) is nothing new
  6. Links 24/02/2026: Telephone Turns 150, Political News Catchup, and Rearmament
    Links for the day

    New

  7. HR Blunder at IBM or IBM Struggling With Money?
    Weird for such an allegedly rich company to be so stingy
  8. Gemini Links 24/02/2026: x86 Computer In-Browser and Administration
    Links for the day
  9. Envy is the #1 Enemy of Richard Stallman
    Whenever you see someone mocking Richard Stallman, ask yourself: does this person have a reason to be jealous of Richard Stallman?
  10. Life is Sweeter When Less Means More
    People need to think "small", not "big" (as in capital)
  11. Championing a Cause
    Probably over 100 million GNU/Linux users on laptops/desktops
  12. Balmoral rape cult & Debian suicide cluster indifference, community
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  13. Can Much Longer Can the Financial 'Press' (Pump-n-Dump Megaphone) Cheer for IBM's Accounting Enigma?
    IBM has fallen almost 25%
  14. Religious or Not, Consider Quitting Social Control Networks (All of Them) This Season
    Lent is a good time to quit addiction such as social control media
  15. Liberating the Self From the Invisible Prison of Plutocrats-Controlled Media and Social Control Media
    Can you always see the full picture or does something (someone powerful) obstruct it?
  16. Links 24/02/2026: Drug Cartel Decapitated, Jeffrey Epstein-Connected 'Linux' Foundation Promotes Slop and Buzzwords at MWC Barcelona 2026
    Links for the day
  17. 2023: Layoffs Are Because of "AI". 2024: Shares Up Owing to "AI". 2025: Shares Recently Fell Due to "AI". 2026 Forbes (Paid by IBM): Shares Falling is Good!
    "AI" is smoke and mirrors
  18. Bitcoin: Code of Conduct stifled open source concerns
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  19. Slop Boosters and 'Hype Agents' Render Themselves Irrelevant and the General Public Becomes Incredulous Due to "Bros Who Cry Wolf!"
    It won't age well
  20. "Half-baked Vibe Code Shipped Full of Errors"
    Seems timely after our latest article
  21. Links 24/02/2026: Copyright Litigation Over Anne Frank’s Diary, "Arrogance of Developers"
    Links for the day
  22. Another New Low for Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA): Authorising Slop Disguised as "Legal Advice"
    SRA is a lapdog - not a watchdog - of the "litigation industry"
  23. EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part IV - "Many Jobs Were Given to Spanish Employees for No Related Skills At All"
    The EPO's fate might be similar to that of the XBox
  24. Gemini Links 24/02/2026: Hardware Tinkering and Slop Bots Attacking the "Small Web"
    Links for the day
  25. IBM is the World Champion at Layoffs and There Are Reportedly More Layoffs in IBM This Month (EU)
    IBM fired 60,000 in 1993
  26. Free Software is for Everyone
    Young and old, rich and poor etc.
  27. Gemini Links 24/02/2026: Voltage Divider on Slide Rule and Many Raspberry Pi Projects
    Links for the day
  28. Asha Sharma "a Palliative Care Doctor Who Slides Xbox Gently Into the Night"
    2026 will probably be the last year of XBox
  29. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  30. IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 23, 2026
    IRC logs for Monday, February 23, 2026
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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