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OpenSSL 3.6 Officially Released with LMS Signature Verification Support, More

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 13, 2025

Daffodil In The Snow

Updated This Past Day

  1. Macho Patent Office
    At the EPO there's always room for women in top roles
  2. Gemini Links 12/02/2025: "Bream Gives Me Hiccups", Making Chinese Tea, and More
    Links for the day
  3. This is Why Codeberg Issues an Apology Today
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  4. Destruction and Distortion of Information, Including Facts About Linux (Bonus: This is Destroying the Planet)
    All that LLMs have going for them is hype, and moreover media that intentionally misrepresents them and their supposed capabilities
  5. Google Seems to Have Just Killed All Instances of Invidious
    YouTube is rapidly becoming just "another Neflix"

    New

  6. Links 12/02/2025: Crytek Layoffs, Security Holes, and Giving Ukraine to Russia
    Links for the day
  7. Relaying GAFAM Talking Points and Lies Using GAFAM LLMs, or Slop Pasted in by Brittany Day
    linuxsecurity.com is relaying slop, i.e. misinformation
  8. Photos From This Evening's Talk by Dr. Richard Stallman in Torino, Maybe a Video Soon
    The talk that Dr. Richard Stallman gave today (a few hours ago) was recorded and streamed
  9. IlSoftware.it Covers Richard Stallman's Visit to Give Talks in Italy
    The publication is in Italian, the talk was in English
  10. EPO Staff Representatives Confront the President Who Says 'F

    New

    king' in Front of Female Workers Over Measurable Discrimination Against Female Colleagues
    Central Staff Committee versus Lukashenko's sponsor
  11. The Register Studies (to Affirm) Reports of IBM Layoffs "at the Finance and Operations business unit"
    something about that specific unit
  12. Links 12/02/2025: SSL FUD, DEI Phase-out, Felonies Committed by MElon (Data Breaches)
    Links for the day
  13. Italian Media Covers Richard Stallman's English Talk Ahead of Tonight's Public Appearance
    article in La Stampa
  14. Microsoft Skype in a Freefall: About 20% Decrease in Site Traffic in 3 Months (Amid Microsoft Phasing Out Credits)
    Microsoft axing more services/features may mean that now they scrape the bottom of the barrel and Skype will simply die, discontinuing service (like ICQ) in a matter of years
  15. Gemini Links 12/02/2025: Depression, Gabbro, WikiTok, and More
    Links for the day
  16. Links 12/02/2025: Health, Security, and Monopolies
    Links for the day
  17. Gemini Protocol is Increasingly Important to the Net
    Gemini Protocol will turn 6 this summer
  18. Former EPO Manager Warns That the Illegal 'Court' for "Unitary Patents" Enables “Law Shopping”
    Daniel X. Thomas opposed the very existence of the UPC, which any honest person could recognise was both illegal and unconstitutional
  19. Like GAFAM, the EPO is Passing the Financial Pains to Staff
    the EPO is operating illegally at this point
  20. Morale at Microsoft Ruined by the Company Labelling Thousands of Workers 'Low Performers', Sacking Them on the Spot and Denying Them Basic Benefits
    people laid off as "low performers" go to social control media to bemoan the label
  21. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  22. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 11, 2025
    IRC logs for Tuesday, February 11, 2025

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2025-02-06 to 2025-02-12
    2893 /n/2025/02/06/Tons_of_Anti_Linux_Articles_Published_by_Bots_LLMs_Maybe_Micros.shtml
    1504 /n/2025/02/08/Today_s_IBM_Red_Hat_Isn_t_the_Company_That_Fought_a_Microsoft_S.shtml
    1278 /n/2025/02/10/If_Matthias_Kirschner_Loves_Free_Software_He_ll_Change_the_Name.shtml
    838 /n/2025/02/06/New_Rumours_of_IBM_Layoffs_in_2025_IBM_Consulting_Still_Struggl.shtml
    702 /n/2023/11/28/Professor_Eben_Moglen_on_How_Social_Control_Media_Metabolises_H.shtml
    696 /n/2025/02/05/European_Internet_Forum_EIF_is_Dominated_by_American_Corporatio.shtml
    655 /n/2025/02/02/Yandex_Has_Nearly_Caught_Up_With_Microsoft_Internationally_Bing.shtml
    654 /n/2025/02/10/Soylent_News_Lessens_the_Scope_of_Discussion_Due_to_Persistent_.shtml
    595 /n/2025/02/09/Debian_s_Human_Rights_violations_Swiss_women_Nazi_symbolism.shtml
    569 /n/2025/02/10/New_Paper_From_the_EPO_Highlights_Large_Scale_Discrimination_at.shtml
    567 /n/2025/02/07/Links_07_02_2025_Amazon_s_Stock_Collapses_and_US_Government_Bei.shtml
    560 /n/2025/02/10/Macao_is_Leaving_Microsoft_Behind.shtml
    512 /n/2025/02/10/Activism_in_Times_of_War_and_a_Coup.shtml

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