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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 27, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Gemini Links 26/05/2026: A Year of Composting, Fedora Bricks Itself and Infuriates Users With Slop and Wayland (Not What Users Want, What IBM Wants), Crawlers on Geminispace a Nuisance

   Links for the day

2. Good Thing When Home Appliances Are Ancient Antiques

   dealing with the alarm has cost only time

3. The Bloating of the Web Contributes to Global Warming and Causes Burnout (Slowdown, Hardware Erosion, Waste)

   This problem isn't limited to weather sites or subsites

4. Why It's Ludicrous to Call Us "Microsoft Haters"

   Even if clustered together, news items still cover a broad spectrum (or spectra) of issues

5. The Old Ways of Computing Were Objectively Better

   Not as fast, but certainly much better

   New

6. Google: We Are Locking You Out of Your Account (Since 15+ Years Ago) Because You Don't Have a Spyphone We Remotely Control

   Google (GAFAM) is an evil company deep in debt

7. Red Hat: Bluewashing by IBM, Followed by RAs (Layoffs)

   We could use some hints or evidence related to this

8. Links 26/05/2026: "Making the Digital Physical"; "The Medical System Abandons Women When They Are Most Vulnerable"

   Links for the day

9. While US Government Greenlights (or Bluelights) Bailouts for IBM Some Foreign Governments Blacklist It

   "Albany leadership doesn’t know what they are doing but are damn good at pretending they do."

10. IBM Bailouts and the IBM People Inside the Administration

    It seems possible/plausible that it is bailout money down the drain or that this money will never arrive at all

11. Links 26/05/2026: Lithium Batteries Causing Fires (Even on Planes), 'Timmy' the Whale Dies

    Links for the day

12. Pursuing Facts in an Age of Lies and 'Hallucinations' (Falsehoods Without Anyone Accountable, They Try Calling Computer-Generated Lies or Forgeries "Intelligence").

    Our aim is to relay information while bypassing gossip networks like social control media and slop in "search" clothing

13. Computer-Generated Legal Filings Get You Reported to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)

    We'll write a lot more about this in the future

14. EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part XII - In the Second-Largest Institution in Europe One Can Take Paid 'Sick Leave' for Doing Cocaine, Then Come Back

    Cocaine addicts in the management were bullying colleagues. They're still in charge.

15. Sites in Their Twenties

    We currently run concurrently a handful of series and have a lot more in the backlog

16. SLAPP Censorship - Part 88 Out of 200: Brett Wilson LLP is Defaming Trans People in America Because Garrett Pays Hired Guns to Silence Them

    Garrett is scoring many own goals this year

17. Sloppy "Resource Action," (RA) or IBM Layoff, Leads to Another IBM Lawsuit, Alleging IBM Tries to Pass Liability to Algorithms

    IBM is meanwhile resorting to slop to gaslight its remaining shareholders

18. The Latest IBM Layoff Rumours

    What has happened to the company that invented so much of modern computing?

19. Holy See Recognises the Threat of GAFAM and Slop

    Will the Holy See move away from GAFAM?

20. Social Control Media is a Giant Waste of Time (and There Are No Future Remedies for This)

    Social Control Media is considered unhealthy to young people, but it is also collectively unhealthy to nations and nation-building

21. Codecs and Software Patents - Part X - Florian Müller Still Muddying the Waters for FOSS, Using Software Patents

    Some things never change...

22. Gemini Links 26/05/2026: Slop Bug Reports and Crawlers Considered Evil

    Links for the day

23. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

24. IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 25, 2026

    IRC logs for Monday, May 25, 2026

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