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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 27, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. IBM Insiders Say That IBM is Outsourcing to "AI" But in Reality It's Actually Offshoring to India
    There are some comments about offshoring or regarding the real expansion of the acronym "AI"
  2. Vista 11 Sales Have Been Catastrophic, Says The Register MS, But It Then Starts Boosting a Ponzi Scheme, "Hey Hi" (AI)
    "PC sales have stalled" says the headline

    New

  3. Links 26/11/2025: China Debt-Trapping Nations, GAFAM Datacentre "Wreaking Havoc on a Louisiana Town"
    Links for the day
  4. The Year of the "Agentic OS"
    Get out of here, Copilot!
  5. Why We Focus on the EPO and IBM So Much
    The harder they push back, the more eager we become to say more about the topics which they deem a taboo
  6. Without Explanation and With Thanksgiving Imminent, More Red Hat and IBM RAs (Layoffs)
    IBM continues to refuse to say how many people it is laying off
  7. If European Media Refuses to Even Mention European Patent Office (EPO) Cocainegate, It'll Say More About European Media Than About EU Institutions Like EUIPO (and EPO)
    If there are no takers, we'll have something to report
  8. Don't Use Chatbots, Don't Communicate With People Who Use Chatbots, Don't Read Sites That Utilise Chatbots in Any Way Whatsoever
    The supposedly "AI" stuff isn't intelligence, it's just noise
  9. Microsoft Begins Recognising That the "Hey Hi" (AI) Bubble Will Cause the Company to Implode (Already Mass Layoffs Every Month and Massive Debt)
    It is simply not sustainable
  10. Writing About Corruption
    Writing about corruption is never easy
  11. Links 26/11/2025: BBC Self-Censoring on Convicted Felon and Putin Finds Allies in the White House
    Links for the day
  12. Gemini Links 26/11/2025: Poetry and Games
    Links for the day
  13. At the European Patent Office (EPO) High-Level Managers on Cocaine Are Apparently Allowed to Take Fake 'Sick Leave' and Collect Payments While Doing Nothing
    On Cocainegate/Luis Berenguer's reputation
  14. What is "AI" (and What It Isn't)...
    LLMs do not contain and thus cannot convey any actual form of intelligence
  15. More Exits in Kyndryl/IBM Reported Today, Probably Part of Company-Wide RAs, India Apparently Impacted Also
    Wishing or excusing this away won't be trivial
  16. Links 26/11/2025: Windows TCO and GAFAM Hurting "British Economic Security", "Data Center Boom Creating a Water Crisis"
    Links for the day
  17. Why People Should Quit Using the Word "Woke" (It's Meaningless and Divisive Nonsense)
    There is an ideological war waged online and the warfare is controlled "from above" by oligarchs who stand to gain from a divided and fractured populace
  18. "Rust For Linux" Was a Mistake
    Oh, if only somebody warned us that this would happen...
  19. IBM/Red Hat Seems to be in "State of Crisis" and "Now Truly an out of Control 6 Alarm Dumpster Fire."
    they speak about the dates of layoffs
  20. Apple: Mass Layoffs, Surging Debt, and No More "Goodwill" Value. CEO is Being Ousted (Pushed Out Before Retirement Age).
    What is the future of Apple looking like at this point?
  21. Twitter Became a Very Dangerous (to Its Users) Site
    Many people who are still "in Twitter" or "active in X" or whatever are saying a lot about themselves
  22. IBM Red Hat is Still Developing X Server
    My laptop is approaching 750 days of uptime and it uses X. It's stable because of mature components, not in spite of them.
  23. Slopfarms Seem to be Slowing Down a Lot This Month
    The Serial Slopper, UbuntuPIT and all those other sloppers seem to have been inactive lately. Have they given up?
  24. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  25. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 25, 2025
    IRC logs for Tuesday, November 25, 2025

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

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