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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 07, 2026,
updated Jun 07, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. European Patent Office (EPO) Crisis: Huge EPO Strikes, Profound Corruption, and Cocaine Use by Managers Tolerated
    These strikes won't be ending any time soon
  2. 25 Years With PalmOS
    That my Palm PDA still works in 2026 (not in mint condition but close to that) says a lot about the "build quality" of gadgets 20+ years ago
  3. Microsoft Has Spent Months Preparing Lists of People to Cull in Massive Wave of Layoffs (Allegedly Start of July)
    There is some consensus that we're weeks away from mega-layoffs at Microsoft
  4. Gemini Links 06/06/2026: "Competing" With LLMs and "Automation of Any Kind"
    Links for the day

    New

  5. Links 06/06/2026: 'Epstein Problem' in Board of Directors of Microsoft, Surveillance Giant Google Under Legal Threats for Online Misuses
    Links for the day
  6. Banning Things Versus Teaching People the Reason/s to Shun/Boycott Those Things
    Prohibition has its limits
  7. Software Freedom Takes a Lot More Than Coding
    some of the roles in the Free software community that don't receive (m)any grateful words
  8. Ubuntu is Losing to Other GNU/Linux Distros
    "Linux Mint"
  9. Old Articles Explaining That Patents - Especially Software Patents - Are Bad for Innovation
    We've omitted more than 50% of the articles we had gathered as candidates for inclusion
  10. Why GNU and FSF Will Choose AV1 Over AV2 (It's More Widely Supported)
    for the foreseeable future they'll stick with AV1
  11. Mass Layoffs (RAs) and PIPs (Excuses to Sack) at IBM: Insiders Tell No Relation to Actual Performance
    If many thousands are impacted by this, then certainly it is newsworthy
  12. Links 06/06/2026: LinkedIn Infested With Spies, Ethernet WiFi Router On Pi Pico 2W
    Links for the day
  13. Why We Dumped Online Shopping (Groceries)
    subsidies kept the "online" stuff artificially cheap
  14. Microsoft Fell to All-Time Low in Monaco Last Month
    So says statCounter anyway
  15. Lawsuits That Don't Work
    Not as expected anyway
  16. SLAPP Censorship - Part 99 Out of 200: Graveley and Garrett Seem to Have Crashed Brett Wilson LLP (Worse Than Taking Russian Oligarchs as SLAPP Clients)
    a state of disarray
  17. Links 06/06/2026: 'Linux' Foundation Openwashing Slop on Microsoft's Payroll, Ukraine Wants Permanent Ceasefire With Russia
    Links for the day
  18. 50% of the 'Gains' Made by "Quantum" Hype Already Evaporated
    "It was all hype about quantum nonsense. Heading back to reality now. Expect sub-$220 after earnings release next month."
  19. Heap of Trash Online, Not Just the Fault of LLM Slop But Enabled by Slop
    Google News has just promoted a pair of prolific slopfarms
  20. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  21. IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 05, 2026
    IRC logs for Friday, June 05, 2026
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

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