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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 31, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Wall Street Does Not Care About Microsoft's Impending (August) Layoffs, It Believes Lies From Microsoft, Whose Debt Grows Rapidly
    If Microsoft is doing so well and swimming in money, why so many cuts (about 29,000 layoffs so far this year)?
  2. Riot for peace & Love: Catholic Influencers and Digital Missionaries welcome Jubilee of Youth
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  3. Google 'Search' is Fast Becoming No Better Than Social Control Media Infested With Bots
    Google emerged almost 30 years ago as a company looking to organise the Web and direct people towards informative pages. That Google is dead.

    New

  4. How to Report Apple Layoffs Without Saying the "L" Word
    don't look for the "L" word
  5. Wayland Considered Harmful (to GNU/Linux Adoption)
    it's not limited to games
  6. My Experience With Judges Has been Positive, But We Must Still Pursue SLAPP Reform in the United Kingdom
    We believe it'll be a "feather in the cap" if we can help change laws in the UK to better protect investigative reporters
  7. Slopwatch Makes the Web Better
    Remember what happened to BetaNews?
  8. Slopwatch: Google News is Pumping in Lots of Web Traffic Into Fake Sites That Say "Linux"
    somewhere between 30% and 40% of today's "news" about "Linux", as seen by Google News, is LLM slop
  9. Links 30/07/2025: Climate Calamities Highlighted, Kyrgyzstan Crackdown on Expression/Freedoms
    Links for the day
  10. Gemini Links 30/07/2025: Watson’s List of Limits, Lysenko 2000
    Links for the day
  11. Some People See What Others See... But Only 40 Years Later
    When people deviate from "the norm" they typically get ridiculed and dismissed as "crazy"
  12. Links 30/07/2025: Tea Class Action and Google Killing the Web With Slop
    Links for the day
  13. Last Month Our IRC Community Turned 17
    Funnily enough we never missed a single day when it comes to logging
  14. "The Unix Kernel"
    Linux was inspired by MINIX
  15. The Register Relays Microsoft Marketing, Dubs That Marketing "Research"
    Hours ago they did a "Microsoft sez" piece
  16. Dealing With Sociopaths, Liars, and Cranks
    A dysfunctional society such as this would never develop
  17. Not Owning Mobile Phones
    It's not about resistance; it's common sense
  18. PCLinuxOS Had Functional Backups Before the House Fire, the Site Will be Restored in New Webhost
    This is the direction we want for GNU/Linux, not some IBM sales strategy
  19. Gemini Links 30/07/2025: Two Sides of Me and "Hooked on Cosmic Voyage"
    Links for the day
  20. Microsoft Will Continue Resorting to Crimes in Order to Keep GNU/Linux Usage Down
    It is a real problem and we'll revisit it later this week
  21. GAFAM 'Revolving Doors' at The Register and a "Bribe Price List"
    "an analyst at Microsoft"
  22. Microsoft Rapidly Shrinking (No, It's Not About Efficiency, It's About Unbearable Debt)
    We'll soon see how much debt grew in the past quarter
  23. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  24. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 29, 2025
    IRC logs for Tuesday, July 29, 2025
  25. Corruption is the Standard Operating Procedure at the European Patent Office (EPO)
    The EPO is a dictatorship that stains Europe
  26. Local Staff Committee Munich (LSCMN) at the European Patent Office (EPO) Requests an Urgent Meeting to Avoid Abolishing the Office
    This is dictatorship led by the most corrupt
  27. Slopwatch: Fake 'Linux' 'Articles' and Spamfarms/Slopfarms
    at least 5 fake articles in one day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2025-07-24 to 2025-07-30
    3341 /about.shtml
    2178 /n/2025/07/28/Richard_Stallman_is_Usually_Right_Because_He_Thinks_Outside_the.shtml
    1956 /n/2025/07/26/The_Register_UK_Seems_to_Have_Become_American_and_Management_is.shtml
    1706 /n/2025/07/29/This_Monday_WebProNews_Absolutely_Flooded_the_Web_With_Fake_LLM.shtml
    1346 /index.shtml
    974 /n/2025/07/24/Links_24_07_2025_Storage_Tapes_Still_Kicking_Windows_TCO_on_Ste.shtml
    894 /irc.shtml
    805 /n/2025/07/25/The_Future_of_the_Web_is_One_Rendering_Engine_or_Flavours_of_Ch.shtml
    782 /n/2025/05/24/Free_Software_as_a_Culture_of_Resistance.shtml
    720 /n/2025/07/24/Informa_TechTarget_s_ITProToday_is_Becoming_a_Slopfarm_Generate.shtml
    697 /n/2025/07/23/Misinformation_is_Not_Intelligence.shtml
    650 /browse/latest.shtml
    595 /n/2025/07/26/Links_26_07_2025_50_Percent_Tariffs_in_Amazon_Dying_Intel_Offlo.shtml
    579 /n/2025/07/28/Links_28_07_2025_COVID_19_Sped_up_Brain_Aging_Circumvention_is_.shtml
    559 /n/2025/07/25/Links_25_07_2025_NOAA_Cuts_Endangers_Lives_Europe_s_Self_Inflic.shtml
    509 /n/2025/07/23/Our_Three_Lawsuits_Against_Microsofters_Are_About_to_Become_a_L.shtml
    509 /n/2025/07/12/Links_12_07_2025_Birdwatching_and_Fake_Misleading_Wall_Street_V.shtml
    503 /n/2025/07/24/New_US_Editor_for_The_Register_is_a_Microsoft_Booster.shtml
    496 /n/2025/07/26/Blaming_Programming_Languages_for_Users_and_Developers_Bad_Prac.shtml
    494 /n/2025/07/26/Doing_My_Share_to_Tackle_Online_Slop_and_SPAM.shtml
    486 /n/2025/07/28/LWN_Has_Been_Down_for_a_Long_Time_Another_Casualty_of_LLM_Bots.shtml
    462 /n/2025/07/27/The_Register_in_Trouble.shtml
    458 /n/2025/07/29/Yes_Microsoft_is_the_Problem.shtml
    458 /n/2025/07/27/Trajectory_of_The_Register_From_News_Site_s_Into_B2B_and_Into_M.shtml
    455 /browse/index.shtml
    453 /n/2025/07/26/The_Register_is_Desperate_for_Money_According_to_The_Register.shtml
    453 /n/2025/07/27/LLM_Slop_Has_Only_Been_a_Boon_for_Misinformation_Online.shtml
    450 /n/2025/07/24/BetaNews_Sacked_Brian_Fagioli_and_Deleted_His_Comments_But_He_S.shtml
    445 /n/2025/07/27/Pushers_of_systemd_Rewrite_History_Richard_Stallman_Said_UNIX_W.shtml
    443 /n/2025/07/27/When_You_Tell_You_It_s_Free_Does_That_Mean_No_Charges_If_So_Who.shtml
    442 /n/2025/07/28/Nonfree_Software_in_My_Bank_by_Richard_Stallman.shtml
    438 /n/2025/07/24/Links_24_07_2025_Convicted_Felon_Quits_UNESCO_Vibe_Coding_Goes_.shtml
    435 /n/2025/07/26/Microsoft_Windows_Lost_400_Million_Users_in_a_Few_Years_Why_Doe.shtml
    433 /n/2025/07/28/Gemini_Links_28_07_2025_Bila_Yarrudhanggalangdhuray_and_Running.shtml
    432 /n/2025/07/28/The_Register_MS_The_Register_US.shtml
    427 /n/2025/07/27/Links_27_07_2025_Political_Affairs_Data_Breaches_Attacks_on_Fre.shtml
    426 /n/2025/07/25/YouTube_is_a_Spamfarm_Slopfarm_and_Clickfarm_a_Lot_of_Numbers_T.shtml
    425 /n/2025/07/25/Yes_Master.shtml
    424 /n/2025/07/25/Tech_is_Not_Technology.shtml
    423 /n/2025/07/24/Links_23_07_2025_Windows_Killed_Company_After_150_Years_US_Gove.shtml
    422 /n/2025/07/26/Gemini_Links_26_07_2025_Bloody_Google_and_New_People_in_Geminis.shtml
    422 /n/2025/07/25/10th_Month_Ten_Weeks_From_Now_at_Ten_AM.shtml
    422 /n/2025/07/27/Gemini_Links_27_07_2025_DAW_Mixer_Chains_and_Simple_Software.shtml
    419 /n/2025/07/24/Getting_More_From_AnalogNowhere.shtml
    417 /n/2025/07/25/Links_25_07_2025_Slop_Blunders_and_China_Has_Code_of_Conduct_fo.shtml
    414 /n/2025/07/26/Links_26_07_2025_Amazon_Shutdown_in_China_Russian_Economy_Slows.shtml
    414 /n/2025/07/27/The_Register_MS_is_Inventing_or_Giving_Air_Time_to_New_Conspira.shtml
    411 /n/2025/07/26/Slopwatch_Fakes_FUD_Duplicates_and_Charlatans_Galore.shtml
    407 /n/2025/07/27/Links_27_07_2025_More_Microsoft_Layoffs_Coming_Science_and_Hard.shtml
    406 /n/2025/07/27/When_Silence_Says_So_Much.shtml
    406 /n/2025/07/26/HTML_and_the_Web_Used_to_be_Something_a_Child_Could_Learn_Moder.shtml
    404 /n/2025/07/27/We_re_Going_to_Focus_Less_on_the_Molotov_Cocktail_Throwing_Micr.1.shtml
    404 /n/2025/07/25/A_Nadella_Memo_Distracts_From_Microsoft_s_Cheapening_Of_the_Wor.shtml
    404 /n/2025/07/24/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    402 /n/2025/07/25/Microsoft_Says_It_Lost_400_Million_Windows_Users_Now_It_s_Waiti.shtml
    401 /n/2025/07/27/Links_27_07_2025_FSF_Hackathon_and_Hulk_Hogan_Was_a_Very_Bad_Ma.shtml
    400 /n/2025/07/28/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    396 /n/2025/07/26/Links_26_07_2025_Rationed_Meals_in_the_US_and_TikTok_Repels_Inv.shtml
    394 /n/2025/07/24/Microsoft_Microsofters_and_Secure_Boot_Shills_Already_Storming_.shtml
    394 /n/2025/07/24/Reda_Demanded_That_FSF_Removes_Its_Founder_Now_Reda_Works_Direc.shtml

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