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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 13, 2026

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1. IBM Cannot Even Do Payroll, Now a "Legitimate Target" of Iran

   Missiles or not, it seems like IBM systems will be targeted more by cybercriminals

2. Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 10 Out of 200: Showing Public Tweets is Not a Privacy Violation, But This Isn't About Justice, It's About Censorship

   It's time to put a stop to this abuse of process (which is what the Judge deemed it to be last year)

   New

3. By Expanding to Advocacy of Ponzi Schemes and Bill Epsteingate (Sex Trafficking), Linux Foundation Revenue Grew to $220,730,594, But Salary of Linus Torvalds Not Even in Top 10 Anymore!

   true!

4. In the Name of Transparency, Today We Show Our Defence and Counterclaim

   already uploaded by the other side

5. Links 12/03/2026: Heating Bills to Soar, "Banks in Gulf Evacuate Their Offices"

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Links 12/03/2026: On Phone Anxiety and Bjorn "Looking for Someone to Take Over Antenna"

   Links for the day

7. Cultification: best candidates avoiding Debian leader elections

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

8. Richard Stallman (RMS) et al Cited in 'Nature' (Journal/Site) Today, "CODE beyond FAIR"

   Under Open Access

9. The Register MS, on Verge of Collapse, Keeps Promoting a Ponzi Scheme for China

   Publishers that participate in this simply don't care about their readers

10. Overview of False Narratives and Lies Used to Lower Salaries at the European Patent Office (EPO), Abandoning Patent Quality and the EPC

    Many of the latter slides are the same as Munich's

11. Links 12/03/2026: Atlassian Layoffs, GAFAN Covering up Slop-Induced Outages, "Age-verification in Operating Systems and the Internet"

    Links for the day

12. The EPO's President, Who Covers Up Cocaine Use, is Trying to Suppress Communication Between EPO Staff Under the Guise of 'Privacy' (and in Defiance of a Court Ruling)

    Why does Europe's second-largest institution: 1) curtail communication among staff (including union) and 2) go out of its way to avoid obeying a court order from ILOAT in Geneva?

13. Exactly One Week Before Next EPO Strike, Media Intentionally Not Mentioning EPO Strikes

    One form of propaganda technique/s involves the systematic suppression of certain topics, or of particular "narratives"

14. Suicide of disgruntled employee? Bus fire at Kerzers / Chiètres, Switzerland, at least six dead

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, March 11, 2026

    IRC logs for Wednesday, March 11, 2026

17. Gemini Links 12/03/2026: "on Urbit" and the True Cost (or Criticism) of "Social Control Media"

    Links for the day

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