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[Meme] 9AM Meeting at Brett Wilson LLP
Brett Wilson LLP in space
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Links 18/07/2025: Peace With PKK and Connie Francis Dies
Links for the day
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Gemini Links 18/07/2025: Alhena 5.1.8 and Bornhack 2025
Links for the day
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How to Top Up a "Limited Liability" With Even More Limitations (Dodging Accountability in the UK)
Some people call it a "shell game". Sometimes it's done for tax evasion purposes.
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Free Software Foundation, Inc. (FSF) Inches Towards 75% of Fund-Raising Target
Will the cutoff date be extended again?
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Gemini Space (or Geminispace) Grows, But Usage of Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Drops Further
Ideally, all Gemini capsules should use self-signed certificates
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Links 18/07/2025: More Microsoft Layoffs in Activision, The New Stack (Sponsored by Microsoft) Complains About Openwashing
Links for the day
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Gemini Links 18/07/2025: OCC25 Gnus for Reading Usenet and RSS Feeds, Small Web Updates
Links for the day
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Listing as Staff People Who Left the Company More Than Six Years Earlier
There are apparently no laws against that
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Brian Fagioli Shovels Up LLM Slop (Plagiarism) Onto Slashdot, Then Uses Slashdot for Affirmation or as Badge of Honour
Notice how some of his latest slop is presented ("as featured on Slashdot")
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Social Control Media Productivity
Snapping photos of the bone
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The Law Firm SLAPPing Us For the Microsofters Lost 72% of Its Tangible Assets in the Past Year, According to Its Own Reports
That might help explain why they're willing to tolerate serial stranglers from Microsoft as clients
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Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity.com Slopfarm and Slopfarms Propped Up by Google News
"As LLM slop is foisted onto the WWW in place of knowledge and real content, it now gets ingested and processed by other LLMs, creating a sort of ouroboros of crap."
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Links 18/07/2025: Weather Events and Health Hazards
Links for the day
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Microsoft's All-Time Low in Finland
Microsoft is in a freefall
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Security: Shane Wegner & Debian statement of incompetence
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
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IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 17, 2025
IRC logs for Thursday, July 17, 2025
The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):