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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 15, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. The Last 'Dilberts' or Some of the Last Salvaged (Comic Strips Which Disappeared Shortly After They Had Been Published)

   Around the time the creator of Dilbert went silent he published some strips mocking TikTok and usage of it

2. IBM Paying the Price for Treating Workers Badly and Discarding Real Talent (Because It's "Expensive")

   IBM is dead man walking

3. Projection Tactics - Part III: Silencing Inconvenient Voices Online

   If X gets banned in the UK, it'll be hard to see what the spouse says in public

4. Reminder That Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Is Not Free, And It's Because of IBM

   software freedom just 'gets in the way'

5. Under IBM, in Order to Game the Stock Market, Red Hat Resorted to Boosting the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in Human History

   This is what IBM turned Red Hat into

6. What Will Happen to GAFAM After the US Defaults Rather Than Bails Out the Market?

   Or tries to topple every government that doesn't play by its rules?

7. EPO People Power - Part XXXIV - Bad Optics for the European Union (for Failing to Act and Tolerating Cocaine Use in Europe's Second-Largest Institution)

   There are principles in laws which tie awareness with complicity

   New

8. Still Condoning Child Labour and Exploiting Unpaid Children Developers as PR Props (to Raise Monopoly Money)

   These people lack morals. So they project.

9. "Security, AI or Quantum" on "the IBM Titanic"

   Who's RMS?

10. Hours Ago The Register MS Published Microsoft Windows SPAM "Sponsored by Intel." The Fake 'Article' Says "AI" 34 Times.

    The Register MS isn't a serious online newspaper

11. EPO People Power - Part XXXV - Where Else Will Corruption and Substance Abuse be Tolerated?

    We need to raise standards

12. Status and Capital

    People who do a lot are too busy to boast about it and wear fancy garments

13. Turbulence Ahead

    I last rebooted my laptop in 2023

14. Google News Rewards Plagiarism With LLMs (About Linux, Too)

    Google is in the slop business now

15. Links 14/01/2026: Failing Economy and Conquest Abroad as a Distraction From Domestic Woes

    Links for the day

16. Gemini Links 14/01/2026: The Ephemerality of Our Digital Lives and "Summer of Upgrades"

    Links for the day

17. Outsourcing on Microsoft's Agenda, Offshoring Also

    "In some cases, India hiring is poised to replace certain roles previously based in the U.S."

18. Links 13/01/2026: 'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams Passes Away With Cancer, Ban on X/Twitter Considered for CSAM Profiteering

    Links for the day

19. The Goal is Software Freedom for All

    Anything to do with "Linux Foundation" is timewasting

20. Revision handed Microsoft the keys to the distortion of the past/history

    This isn't the first time The Register MS rewrites computing history in Microsoft's favour, as we pointed out several times in past years

21. EPO's Central Staff Committee is Now Redacting (Self-Censoring) Due to Threats From the EPO "Mafia"

    "On the agenda: salary adjustment procedure for 2025 (as of January 2026)"

22. "AI" (Slop) 'Demand' Isn't Growing, It's Fake, It's a Pyramid Scheme

    They try to resort to 'creative' accounting (fraudulent schemes like circular financing)

23. Difficult Times at IBM and Microsoft Ahead of Mass Layoffs (Probably Before This Month's Results Unless Postponed to 'Prove' Rumours 'Wrong')

    IBM and Microsoft used to be tech giants. Nowadays they mostly pretend by pumping up their stock and buying back their own shares.

24. Canonical: Make Ubuntu Bloated (Debian With Snaps), Then Sell the 'Debloated' Version for a Fee

    If people want a light distro, then they ought not pay Canonical but instead choose a light (by design) GNU/Linux distro

25. People Don't Want "Just Enough", They'll Look for Quality

    That's why slopfarms will go away or become inactive

26. Gemini Links 14/01/2026: 3D and Tiny Traffic Lights Pack

    Links for the day

27. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

28. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 13, 2026

    IRC logs for Tuesday, January 13, 2026

29. Slop Waning Whilst Originals Perish

    Slop is way past its "prime"

30. XBox's 'Major Nelson' Loses His Job Again, This Time in a Microsoft Mono Pusher

    Microsoft hasn't much of a future in gaming. XBox's business is in rapid decline and people who push Mono to game developers are the same

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