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WordPress Becoming What We Feared It Would Become
WordPress and other such bloatware (WordPress used to be fast and light) are moving in the same trajectory that GAFAM leads
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Call for European Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowers
The European Patent Organisation (EPO) might not reform the Office
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Sirius Open Source's Latest Report: Fake (False) Number of Staff, Almost No Money in the Bank, Overdraft, and Growing Debt (About £100,000 More Borrowed)
massive (and still growing) debt
New
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Getting Skyped: Closure of Studios Microsoft Bought
wait till July and the mass layoffs outside XBox
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Several Waves of Red Hat Layoffs This Year, Is This Still Going on Under IBM?
The PIPs and NDAs hard to get a clear picture
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Sabine Hossenfelder Versus IBM Scamming Shareholders
IBM has become a garage of BS
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Some XBox Layoffs Underway, At Least Five Studios to be Shut Down
Insiders are in a state of panic
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Gemini Links 30/06/2026: Music Theory, Addiction, Clown Computing
Links for the day
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Links 30/06/2026: France Recorded 1,000 Excess Deaths During Heat Wave, Slop Replaced by Human Staff
Links for the day
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People Given the Totally Wrong Idea That "Secure Boot" is About Security (It's the Opposite, It's About Handing Control Over to NSA/Microsoft)
"Secure Boot" with capital "B" is conflating compromise with security.
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Today The Register MS is Publishing Fake Articles About "AI", 100% of All "Content"
Maybe the media is dying because it is selling its soul [...] The Register MS has no standard
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America Has Cost Europe Too Much
Countries ought to be controlling all their own systems
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GAFAM Debt Will Surge, in July We'll Know by How Much
Do not fall for slop or sloppy narratives
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Too Many "Marketers on the Payroll" at IBM, Selling Impossible Products That Cannot be Delivered or Will Never Deliver
IBM is rotting away
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Media Says Microsoft's (XBox) Layoffs May be Record-Breaking
think somewhere in the range of ~5000 for gaming/XBox alone
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Links 30/06/2026: What's Wrong With EU Age Verification, RSA Keys with Many Zeros
Links for the day
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This is Not a Security, This is a Circus
Security does not mean "asked Microsoft for permission"
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Communities Need Strong Leadership, Not Dictators Like IBM
Leadership in Free software is not ownership [...] Fedora will only last as long as IBM can somehow make some money out of it or leverage it to attract sharecropping
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Patents Are Not "Cash Cows"
People who deliberately don't understand patents (or believe lies about them) will fail to understand how the world works (or does not work)
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Sad Lives of People Who Think Women Are Just Sexual Toys (All They Have is Money)
money is still a man-made concept and life is finite
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SLAPP Censorship - Part 123 Out of 200: Why Violence Against Animals Matters
Starting tomorrow (Wednesday) we'll begin telling stories about what happened last week
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EPO Staff Union's (SUEPO) The Hague Committee, With Help of Lawyer, Challenges Lack of Rewards for Hard Work
The EPO is not about granting valid patents anymore. The horse-trading corrupt officials just see the EPO as some thing that "prints money"
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Massive EPO Demonstration Today
It'll start in about 6 hours
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More Layoffs in Microsoft's PR Department, Even Ahead of 'D-Day'
Notice they are not even waiting for the official date (nor week)
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European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Photo-Ops Galore and Suspicions of Influence-Peddling
coverage of the EPO's Croatian junket
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Gemini Links 30/06/2026: Music and Broken Hearts
Links for the day
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Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
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IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 29, 2026
IRC logs for Monday, June 29, 2026
The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):