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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 26, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Links 25/03/2026: Nations Return to Russian Oil and Burning Wood
    Links for the day
  2. Gnome Foundation Inc is in Trouble
    the agenda is set GAFAM and IBM rather than donors

    New

  3. Gemini Links 25/03/2026: Resisting Authoritarianism and Why Slop Needs to Go Away
    Links for the day
  4. Fedora Maintainer-ship Using Slop (Mistakes) Would Make Fedora Less Reliable
    It won't produce reliable code or stable systems one can rely upon
  5. IBM's "Legacy Employees" (Experienced Workers, IBM Management Dubs Them 'Dinobabies')
    This notion of "legacy employees" seems like something overlapping with "expensive" (well paid) staff, even if not entirely equivalent
  6. EPO's "Current Industrial Actions Are Likely to Intensify Further."
    There is another strike in 5 days
  7. This Morning The Register MS Published Slop Promotion With the Term "AI" 15 Times In It. The Register MS Was (As Usual) Paid to Do This
    This is not a serious publisher
  8. SLAPP Censorship - Part 23 Out of 200: We Were Right All Along (for 2 Years) About Third Party Funding and Willingness to 'Break the Bank' in Pursuit of "Revenge"
    How much damage can a person do to oneself in pursuit of cover-up of legitimate technical concerns?
  9. Links 25/03/2026: Airports Further Militarised, "Slopification and Its Discontents", Microsoft 'Open' 'Hey Hi' Shutting Things Down
    Links for the day
  10. Gemini Links 25/03/2026: Blogging Fright and Absolutely Useless 'Apps' Made by Slop Machines
    Links for the day
  11. Rise in Energy Prices Will Significantly Accelerate the Death of So-called "AI Companies"
    It should be noted that fake news about Microsoft OpenAI doubling workforce (mere words, not actions) can serve as a nice distraction from the death of Sora due to divestment
  12. It's Always a Question of Trust
    There's a widespread stigma of lawyers being manipulative and chronically dishonest
  13. Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Must More Carefully Investigate or Assess the Financial State of Law Firms in the UK
    We'll cover this in depth in the future
  14. GAFAM Mozilla Removes Theora Support, Now GNU Needs to Re-encode Videos
    Mozilla used to mean something to Free software advocates
  15. An Open Admission Profits Depend on Addiction
    Proprietary software tends to be like this
  16. IBM Americas President Ayman Antoun Comes to OpenText, Weeks Ahead the Mass Layoffs Begin
    Is that what IBM will be good at?
  17. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  18. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 24, 2026
    IRC logs for Tuesday, March 24, 2026
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