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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 28, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Next Step: Find Out Who's Funding the 'Hulk Hogan of UEFI' to SLAPP Us

   We now have the 'Hulk Hogan of UEFI' working alongside a strangler of women, who as a Microsoft employee spent time in prison for it

2. Web Sites That Are Independent Are Also Like Software Projects (Sometimes Literally So)

   Roll out your own 'stack'

3. The Register MS (Situation Publishing) is Participating in a Ponzi Scheme

   The market in "tech" seems awful when a lot of it sells a fraud and journalism about this market is part of the fraud

4. Mass Layoffs in Starbucks... and Society Loses Nothing of Value

   Society might even be better off if Starbucks shuts down entirely

5. Matthew J. Garrett Behaved in a Similar Fashion to 4Chan and Kiwi Farms

   Opposites attract? Are they opposites at all?

6. Drew DeVault Suggests "CoC Enhancement", Starts Trolling Projects in Microsoft GitHub

   And it backfires immediately

   New

7. Links 27/09/2025: Squashing Software Patents and When Hospitals Become For-Profit

   Links for the day

8. Gemini Links 27/09/2025: Young Feet and Online Bots

   Links for the day

9. GNU Project Turns 42

   In 2033 it'll be 50

10. Pieter Hintjens on Codes of Misconduct a Decade Ago

    original is still online

11. Links 27/09/2025: Australia Might Ban Microsoft GitHub for Young People, Likely Illegal Executive Order Turns TikTok Into Cheeto Propaganda

    Links for the day

12. Repeating the Lies to Promote a Ponzi Scheme is Not OK Because "Many Other Sites Do This" (Including Slopfarms)

    They already work on the next Ponzi scheme

13. Glimmer of Hope: More People Realise and Come to Accept "AI" is Just a Giant, Elaborate Ponzi/Pyramid Scheme That Will Leave Everyone Worse Off (Except the "Top of the Pyramid")

    quoting Einhorn and some comments

14. Do Your Job and Demand Your Compensation - But in That Order.

    We'll do our best to convince the Judge to award all costs to us (lawyers, barrister, LIP bills etc.) plus judgements against them, for abusive litigation and needless suffering associated with that abuse

15. Like Nazi Germany and Volkswagen

    Tell us all about "freedom" when your government runs a Ponzi scheme

16. Microsoft Sponsored This Man, Microsoft Sponsored His Behaviour (and He Controls Microsoft)

    They get what they paid for

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 26, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, September 26, 2025

19. He Talks Too Much, He Says Dumb Things

    only British when that suits him

20. Slopwatch: FUD and Plagiarism (Working Against Linux) Promoted and Rewarded by Google News

    Shame on Google News

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