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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 09, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The Brotherhood of São Bento

   The Palácio São Bento – or São Bento Palace – is the seat of the Portuguese National Assembly in Lisbon

2. Brett Wilson LLP Reported to Police for Trying to Throw Large Parcel Into Our Home

   This morning the campaign of intimidation...

3. The Cyber Show Has "Exciting Guests Coming" and a Gemini Capsule

   "Site development is ongoing but now settling into a more stable form"

   New

4. IBM's Quantum Bubble Already Deflating

   Shares down over $55 in a few days

5. SLAPP Censorship - Part 101 Out of 200: Women Come to Realise They Don't Wish to Participate in Attacking Vulnerable Women

   It relates to another topic that we shall be covering in the coming weeks

6. Links 08/06/2026: Proprietary Loaded With Security Holes, Armenia Defies Russia

   Links for the day

7. Gemini Links 08/06/2026: NetHack 5.0.0 and Slop as Cannibalism

   Links for the day

8. Links 08/06/2026: "Rising Emissions, Depleting Water" Due to the Pyramid Scheme of Slop; "Canada Needs to Rebuild Public Telecoms"

   Links for the day

9. GAFAM Bots Are Not "Good Bots"

   There's nothing "Good" about Google

10. Links 08/06/2026: Criticism of Microsoft Trying to Criminalise Pointing Out Bug Doors, TikTok Now "Climate-Denying Social Media App"

    Links for the day

11. GNU/Linux Measured at 10% in Liechtenstein This Month

    it seems like statCounter wrongly classified some GNU/Linux clients as Mac clients and is now issuing a correction

12. Communicating With Freedom - Part III - Quibble Envisioned as a New and Easily Accessible Communications Platform Based on LibreJS

    the FSF really needs to become more active if not proactive in promoting those sorts of things

13. Clownflare Says Majority of Web Traffic is Now Bots, But the Net is Another Story

    Bots are to Clownflare what lawsuits are to lawyers

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 07, 2026

    IRC logs for Sunday, June 07, 2026

16. The Strikes at the European Patent Office Planned to Carry on for the Entire Year, Maybe Future Years as Well

    There's a cautionary tale somewhere

17. Number of Patent Grants Has Plunged 23% Amid Strikes at the European Patent Office, Today There Are More Strikes (Strike Participation at Over 3,000, More Than Doubled Since Winter)

    There is a growing crisis at the European Patent Office

18. E.E.E. Still Ongoing, the War on Copyleft/GPL Enables That

    It also imperils security.

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