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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 20, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. SLAPP Censorship - Part 189 Out of 200: A Terrible Idea to Condemn Projects for Using Slop 'Code' When Your Own Employer Does This (and Profits From Every Company Doing So) or to Call Distros 'Not Secure' While You Advance Back Doors
    "I don’t want a back door. I want a front door."

    New

  2. Links 19/09/2026: Many Patents Become Candidates for Annulment and Linux [sic] Foundation Takes More Slop Money to Promote Malicious Bots
    Links for the day
  3. Gemini Links 19/09/2026: The Fundamental Human Assets, The History of Gopher's "i" Type, and ROOPHLOCH 2026
    Links for the day
  4. Links 19/09/2026: "OpenAI and Microsoft Knew They Were Starting a ‘Doom Loop’ [of Mass Plagiarism 'Normalised' by Brute Force] for the web", Calling It "Hey Hi"
    Links for the day
  5. 8 Series Going on at the Moment in Techrights
    4 series about SLAPPs and related matters
  6. Linux Kernel Becoming a Slopfest - Part 4 - Outsourcing to Microsoft, Approaching 10 Gigabytes
    Can we blame Microsoft for those DDoS attacks? Partly.
  7. Software Freedom Day 2026 is Today, Week-long Celebration in Brazil
    In Brazil, Clownflare reckons about 1 in 20 laptops/desktops might use GNU/Linux already
  8. Red Hat Lost 2,000 Staff (Net Loss)
    Maybe by year's end it'll be a 20% reduction
  9. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  10. IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 18, 2026
    IRC logs for Friday, September 18, 2026
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2026-09-13 to 2026-09-19
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