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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 16, 2026

A dog is peacefully relaxing in the sun. This photo was taken on top of a Buddhist school in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Updated This Past Day

  1. Linuxiac May Have Reverted Back to LLM Slop (Updated Same Day)
    Is he back off the wagon?
  2. Links 15/01/2026: Internet Blackouts, Jackboots Society in US
    Links for the day
  3. GAFAM is a National and International Threat to Everybody
    GAFAM is just a tentacle in service of imperialism
  4. Don't Cry for Gaslighting Media in a Country Which Loathes the Press
    my wife and I received threats for merely writing about Americans

    New

  5. Links 15/01/2026: Starlink Weaponised for Regime Change (by Man Who Boasted About Annexing South American Countries for Tesla's Mining), Corruption in Switzerland Uncovered by JuristGate
    Links for the day
  6. GAFAM and IBM Layoffs Outline
    a lot of the layoffs happen in secrecy and involve convincing people to resign, retire, relocate etc.
  7. Coming Soon: Impact With EPO Cocainegate
    Will Campinos survive 2026?
  8. The Creator of Git Probably Doesn't Know How to Install and Deploy Git
    Nobody disputes this: Mr. Torvalds created Git
  9. Slop is a Liability
    Slopfarms too will become extinct because people aren't interested in them
  10. EPO People Power - Part XXXVI - In Conclusion and Taking Things Up Another Notch
    They often say that the law won't deter or stop criminals because it's hard to enforce laws against people who reject the law
  11. Running Techrights is Fun, Rewarding, and Gratifying
    In Geminispace we are already quite dominant
  12. Red Hat is Connected to the Military, Its Chief Comes From Military Family (From Both Sides)
    The founder of Red Hat's parent company literally saluted Hitler himself (yes, a Nazi salute)
  13. Red Hat (IBM) is Driving Away Remaining Fedora Users
    I've not used Fedora since Moonshine
  14. Robert X. Cringely Has Already Explained IBM's Bullying Culture (Towards Its Own Staff)
    IBM is a fairly nasty company
  15. Proton Mail compromise, Hannah Natanson (Washington Post) police raid & Debian
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  16. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  17. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 14, 2026
    IRC logs for Wednesday, January 14, 2026
  18. Gemini Links 15/01/2026: "Ode to elinks", envs.net Pubnix and Downtime at geminiprotocol.net
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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