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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 29, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Australia: Windows Fell to All-Time Low, Even Lower Than iOS
    There's a good reason why next week there will be so many Microsoft layoffs

    New

  2. The "News" You Saw About Canonical is Misleading, It Made Only 18 Million Dollars Last Year and Barely Paid Any Taxes
    Lies are the norm these days...
  3. Pushing Wayland Using Straw Man Arguments
    phoronix.com has long promoted the talking point of "Wayland people" (for at least a decade already)
  4. Slopwatch: Linuxsecurity, WebProNews, and Google News Boosting Slopfarms as 'News'
    People who don't recognise the slopfarms and don't know which sites are fake would struggle to understand what's really going on
  5. Links 28/06/2025: Hardware/GPU Wars, GAFAM Throws Money (Borrowed Cash) at Hopeless Slop Pipe Dream
    Links for the day
  6. Gemini Links 28/06/2025: Shellshock and Network UPS Tools
    Links for the day
  7. Links 28/06/2025: The Age of Integrity and FreeBSD Foundation Added John Baldwin as Board Member
    Links for the day
  8. Fedora 44
    IBM now does to Fedora what it did to RHEL
  9. Microsoft Already Shaved Off Costs Anywhere It Could. It Was Not Enough.
    Office and Windows aren't "selling" (licences) like they used to
  10. Scheduled Maintenance Next Week
    Our community is alive and well
  11. BetaNews: We're Publishing LLM Slop About LLM Slop
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  12. 3-Month Updates on Our Complaint to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)
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  13. IBM Red States Hat (Project 2025): Our "New Thing" Replaces This "Old Thing"
    The new replaces the old. That's how IBM frames it.
  14. Start X
    Just because something is old does not mean it is bad
  15. Slopwatch: Linuxsecurity, Google News Slopfarms, and Linux Journal (LJ)
    Today we take a quick look at 3 slopfarms
  16. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  17. IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 27, 2025
    IRC logs for Friday, June 27, 2025
  18. Links 28/06/2025: "CC Signals" Virtue-Signals to Slop Ponzi Schemes, North Korea Aims for Tourism
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