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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 14, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. In Switzerland, GNU/Linux Reaches Record Highs, But What About the Corruption?
    Pocock is a disappointed citizen of Switzerland
  2. At BetaNews, "Most Commented Story" Is Not a Story But LLM Slop! (Readers Talking to Bots)
    They make fake stories with provocative headlines and then boast that these get many comments
  3. [Meme] Swiss Lawyers/Attorneys Who Fake Qualifications and Rob People
    Switzerland mostly guards its reputation by censorship of media
  4. Just How Slow Has the News Industry Become?
    We're drowning in garbage from fake publishers

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  5. Gemini Links 13/11/2024: Magic of Walking and Lest We Forget
    Links for the day
  6. Links 13/11/2024: USPTO Director Kathi Vidal ('Former' Microsoft Rep) Resigning, Censorship After Car Ramming Attack in China
    Links for the day
  7. Microsoft: Layoffs, Outsourcing, and R.T.O. as Cover for Mass Layoffs Without Severance Pay
    Microsoft had mass layoffs pretty much every month this year
  8. [Meme] The Addicted Lolicon Throwing Stones
    "They've found my RMS attack site"
  9. Jonathan Carter & Debian betrayed Joel Espy Klecker
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  10. Links 13/11/2024: Red Tape War and Programming Experiences
    Links for the day
  11. Links 13/11/2024: "Make Your Laptop Last FOREVER" With GNU/Linux, 23andMe Mass Layoffs, Intel 'Resignations' Layoffs Loophole
    Links for the day
  12. More Than 3 Years After Vista 11's Release More Chinese Computer Users Still Use Vista 7 (Than "11")
    it was "officially" released October 5, 2021
  13. Things That Still Work OK (But We're Being Shamed for Using)
    Using old stuff is nothing to be shamed of (or afraid to do)
  14. Free Software is About Collaboration
    WordPress limits it
  15. Even the Managing Editor of BetaNews is Doing Slop and Spam
    A Fish Rots From The Head Down
  16. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  17. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 12, 2024
    IRC logs for Tuesday, November 12, 2024
  18. PERA Bill in US Senate Strives to Crush Caselaw, Making Patents on Mathematics and Algorithms 'Great Again'
    Follow the money
  19. BetaNews is Beta-Testing the Site as LLM Slop With Microsoft Propaganda Thrown In
    Many of the people there are Microsoft boosters and they use slop as "filler" (for marketing)
  20. Evolution of euthanasia & WIPO UDRP similarities exposed by W. Scott Blackmer
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  21. Gemini Links 13/11/2024: Phasing Out 3G, Brian Kernighan Books, Tcl/Tk, Time to Ditch x86
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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    1562 /n/2024/11/09/Linux_Foundation_is_a_Scam_Like_Crypto_So_is_the_Company_of_Jim.shtml
    1518 /n/2024/11/07/Microsoft_Connected_Publishers_Want_Us_to_Think_That_Linux_is_S.shtml
    1468 /n/2024/11/12/It_s_Morbid_to_Talk_About_Living_People_as_If_They_re_Dead.shtml
    1213 /n/2024/11/09/Joel_Espy_Klecker_unpaid_terminally_ill_youth_labor_Debian_knew.shtml
    974 /n/2024/11/13/Free_Software_is_About_Collaboration.shtml
    892 /n/2024/11/11/WordPress_is_Unfit_for_Purpose_in_2024.shtml
    650 /n/2024/11/08/Donald_Trump_as_Censor_in_Chief_Can_Now_Leverage_Censorship_Com.shtml
    626 /n/2024/11/10/Gemini_Links_10_11_2024_A_Writer_s_Block_VIM_Tips_and_Tricks.shtml
    625 /n/2024/11/11/Trans_People_Misused_to_Attack_a_Project_or_Developer_Who_Has_N.shtml
    609 /n/2024/11/09/Teaser_Meme_Central_Occupational_Health_Safety_and_Ergonomics_C.shtml
    594 /n/2024/11/09/Linux_Foundation_is_Rebuilding_the_Berlin_Wall_to_Keep_Russians.shtml
    569 /n/2024/11/09/EPO_is_Blasting_Its_Own_Foot_There_Will_be_No_EPO_Left.shtml
    540 /n/2024/11/08/Apple_Tax_funds_railways_defective_concrete_blocks_in_Ireland_s.shtml
    534 /n/2024/11/11/ChromeOS_and_GNU_Linux_Growing_in_Spain_Almost_10_Now.shtml
    526 /n/2024/11/11/Meme_It_Takes_Only_Words_to_Destroy_Malicious_People_and_Pathol.shtml
    523 /n/2024/11/13/In_Switzerland_GNU_Linux_Reaches_Record_Highs_But_What_About_th.shtml
    516 /n/2024/11/07/Who_Next_on_the_Linux_Foundation_s_Kill_List.shtml
    516 /n/2024/11/07/Anti_Linux_FUD_Now_in_LLM_Form_Thanks_to_Brittany_Day.shtml
    513 /n/2024/11/07/Today_We_Got_an_Early_Birthday_Gift.shtml
    510 /n/2024/11/08/Security_Advisory_Debian_falls_for_social_engineering_hacks.shtml
    509 /n/2024/11/07/FSF_Expressed_No_Preference_Regarding_Presidential_Candidates_I.shtml
    509 /n/2024/11/12/WordPress_is_for_the_Old_Web_the_New_Web_Necessitates_Static_Pa.shtml
    508 /n/2024/11/07/Links_07_11_2024_Online_Manipulation_in_Social_Control_Media_El.shtml
    503 /n/2024/11/08/Many_Applications_Labelled_as_Cybersecurity_and_Given_a_Veneer_.shtml
    502 /n/2024/11/09/There_s_No_Free_Lunch_in_Video_Hosting.shtml

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