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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 15, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Throwing Money at Lawyers Can't Stop Us (It Never Did)
    Even just trying to censor things can result in the opposite of the desired outcome
  2. BetaNews Has More or Less Died After Experiments With LLM Slop, Is Linuxsecurity Next?
    It doesn't seem like BetaNews knows what it's doing, let alone what it talks about

    New

  3. Links 14/06/2025: FDA Changes Priorities, Cassette Data Storage From The 1970s
    Links for the day
  4. Gemini Links 14/06/2025: Steam Next Fest and Thoughts on Gemini
    Links for the day
  5. Site/Datacentre Maintenance Next Week
    speed things up
  6. Bulgaria: GNU/Linux Near 10%
    The Bulgarian market seems to be changing
  7. I Never Spoke to BetaNews. But BetaNews Wants to Ensure I Never Will, Either.
    Sometimes just the reluctance to talk about it can say a great deal
  8. Online Search or Large Search Engines Aren't Working Anymore
    business models that directly compete with interests of Web users
  9. Holidays and Breaks
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  10. Danish OpenDocument Freedom
    "year of Linux"
  11. When Abusive Law Firms (Working for Microsofters Against Us) Assert That Someone Writing in Social Media About Himself is Confidential Information
    There was no reason to throw "GDPR" into 2 SLAPPs; they know it, but the goal was to increase the cost of a Defence and lessen the incentive to challenge the SLAPPs
  12. Links 14/06/2025: Wars and L.A. Distortion Effect
    Links for the day
  13. Gemini Links 14/06/2025: Historic Ada Design and GeminiSpace.Club to Expire
    Links for the day
  14. Links 14/06/2025: India Plane Crash and Middle-Eastern War
    Links for the day
  15. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  16. IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 13, 2025
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