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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 18, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. 43rd Anniversary of the GNU Project Announcement
    Coming soon
  2. SLAPP Censorship - Part 187 Out of 200: Reminding Ourselves of the Great Damage Garrett Did to Linux (for Microsoft)
    he rejects freedom

    New

  3. Links 17/09/2026: Studio Closures and Negative Rumours About Microsoft XBox Again
    Links for the day
  4. What's Wrong with Microsoft's GitHub, New Article by Jacob Bachmeyer and Richard Stallman
    licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
  5. EBay is Going to Die Soon
    Users will flee
  6. Red Hat PIPs. The Only Question is, How Many?
    Insiders know what's coming soon
  7. This Week The Register MS Published a Page With "AI" 34 Times in It and It Was, as Usual, Paid SPAM!
    Does The Register MS understand that it is doing harm to its audience (for temporary gains)?
  8. General Assembly (Meeting of All Staff) Starts in Hour Ago to Discuss Strikes at Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO), Strikes to Last Until End of 2026 (If Not Further)
    The media absolutely does not cover this and that's intentional
  9. Cancel Culture is a Cancer That Harms Democracy, Justice, and Science. It's Designed to Help Corporations Vanish Their Critics.
    "Codes of Conduct" sounds benign; in practice, however, it is not
  10. Links 17/09/2026: Class Action Lawsuit Over GAFAM's "NameTag" and Automattic Hides What It Did to CEO Mullenweg (or Why)
    Links for the day
  11. Gemini Links 17/09/2026: Google Signals the End, ROOPHLOCH Coverage, EBay Uses Offensive Bots to Falsely Accuse Users of Stuff
    Links for the day
  12. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  13. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 16, 2026
    IRC logs for Wednesday, September 16, 2026
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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