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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 10, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. "Victory Day" - Part II: Abject Defeat to Hypocrites and Objectionable People Who Strangle Women Whilst on Microsoft's Payroll
    Someone is going to have to pay for this; it won't be us
  2. Rust Propaganda Now Amplified by Slopfarms Powered by Microsoft LLMs, Encouraging the Outsourcing of GNU/Linux Distros to Microsoft/GitHub/NSA (and a Shift Away From GPL/Copyleft)
    Moving to Microsoft GitHub and adopting unfinished, untested code for highly critical bits
  3. IBM is Rotting With "Zero Internal Jobs" and Many PIPs (Performance Improvement Plans) on the Way, Typically a Fast Track Towards Layoffs Without Severance
    At risk of giving air(time) to tribal sentiments, the internal joke at IBM is that to IBM "AI" stands for "All Indian"
  4. The Gerstnerisation of Microsoft: Seventh Wave of Microsoft Layoffs (Over 20,000 to be Cut) Allegedly Going to Start Shortly, Probably Start of Next Week, Microsoft Spreads Chaff and Noise Before the Big Axes Fall
    we might be looking at about 50,000 people that Microsoft gets rid of this year
  5. GNU (and the FSF) Still Changing the World
    Today, in 2025, GNU powers almost everything

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  6. Links 09/05/2025: Inflation Rising and Rights to Protest Curtailed Some More
    Links for the day
  7. Gemini Links 09/05/2025: Good and Evil, LLMs Made the Web Worse Yet Again
    Links for the day
  8. European Patent Office (EPO) Faked "Revenue Expansion" by Granting Loads of Invalid, Illegal Patents; Staff Still Wants to Know Where That Money Went
    Only about 30% of the EPO's patents are for EU entities/people
  9. Links 09/05/2025: TeleMessage Blunder, More Distractions From Impending Mass Layoffs at Microsoft
    Links for the day
  10. Military-Grade Anti-Linux Microsoft Propaganda Using Microsoft LLMs in Fake 'News' Sites (Slopfarms)
    This is part of a pattern
  11. Links 09/05/2025: Analog Computer and First time at FOSDEM
    Links for the day
  12. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  13. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 08, 2025
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