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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 06, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. “Twibel” Actions Against Comedians (and Why It's a Truly Low Blow)
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  2. Rewriting Things in Rust
    How far would you go?

    New

  3. Linux Foundation Apparently Flirting With Slop (Marketing by LLM-Generated SPAM)
    The Web is in a really bad state!
  4. COVID-19 Sped Up Site Improvements in Techrights
    A few months later we created our very own IRC network
  5. Gemini Links 05/07/2025: Negative Questions and 'Touching Grass' (Going Outside)
    Links for the day
  6. Links 05/07/2025: Dalai Lama Succession as 90th Birthday Approaches, 40 deg C in China
    Links for the day
  7. Links 05/07/2025: Hungary and US Defecting to Russia, "Google's Hotseat Hypocrisy"
    Links for the day
  8. Gemini Links 05/07/2025: 4th of July 2025 and "Zig Roadmap 2026"
    Links for the day
  9. How to Combat the Exploitation and Abuse by Microsoft GitHub
    Not to mention corruption and crimes against women
  10. Bryan Lunduke is Actually Sending His Audience to Attack People
    "[Lunduke] is actually sending his audience to attack people."
  11. Even The Right Wing is Rejecting Bryan Lunduke
    no wonder he became so irrelevant and marginal
  12. Microsoft's MSN Helps Microsoft Spread Lies About the Layoffs' Scale (Well Over 25,000 People Laid Off This Year)
    There seem to be monopolies on lies and on truth
  13. The Death of X Has Been Greatly Exaggerated (by Compromised Media)
    X.Org Server is alive and well
  14. In 2025 Everything is "AI". Remember Blockchains?
    Talk about what companies and things (services, products, software) actually do, not the labels they use
  15. Julian Assange Has Been Free for a Year
    Julian Assange and I disagreed on some things
  16. Monopolies and Scalping
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  17. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  18. IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 04, 2025
    IRC logs for Friday, July 04, 2025
  19. Microsoft's August Layoffs Wave: "August is Confirmed for Additional Performance Based Cuts"
    "August is confirmed for additional performance based cuts from the recent connects along with additional organizational cuts."
  20. What Microsoft Reputation Laundering (With a Weaponised Law Degree) Looks Like in a Foreign Continent
    You would expect this in uncivilised and primitive countries
  21. Slopwatch: LLMs 'Write' Fake or Distorted 'News' About "Linux"
    LLM slop disguised as news

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

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    508 /n/2025/06/29/Summer_Plans_in_Techrights_and_Elsewhere.shtml
    502 /n/2025/06/18/Links_18_06_2025_SCOTUS_Decision_on_Fentanylware_TikTok_Still_I.shtml
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