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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 29, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Links 28/03/2026: Microsoft's LinkedIn a National Security Risk, Microsoft's Slop "Ambitions Face Investor Scrutiny Amid Soaring Costs"

   Links for the day

2. SLAPP Censorship - Part 26 Out of 200: Asking for Documents and Information You Already Have, Even Letters and E-mails That You Yourself Sent!

   barristers are expensive

   New

3. Open Web Destroyed by Centibillionaires, Says Anil Dash of Blogging Fame

   Blogging was going through its 'prime years' about 20 years ago

4. "Linux" Slop Going Away, Microsoft et al Pay 'Linux' Foundation to Promote Slop

   It's a timely reminder that the Linux Foundation exists to promote whoever pays the Linux Foundation, even pedophiles and companies that attack the GPL

5. Gemini Links 28/03/2026: "Finding My Base Tone", "Astrobotany", and BugoutBack/OFFLFIRSOCH

   Links for the day

6. Links 28/03/2026: More Worldwide Bans on Social Control Media (Harms to Adolescents), Protests in US Against Dictatorship

   Links for the day

7. Gemini Links 28/03/2026: Echo Delay and 0x0.st

   Links for the day

8. Rumours of More IBM Mass Layoffs at Beginning of April

   IBM is not doing well

9. Over at Tux Machines...

   GNU/Linux news for the past day

10. IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 27, 2026

    IRC logs for Friday, March 27, 2026

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