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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 11, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. A "horrible week (hebdomada horribilis?) for the Solicitors Regulation Authority" (SRA)

   The SRA is part of the SLAPP problem

2. EPO's Central Staff Committee (CSC) on EPO Social Dialogue

   They've refrained from mentioning the industrial actions

3. The Register MS is Promoting Ponzi Scheme for Financial Fraud/Accounting Fraud Company, The Register MS Gets Paid to Do This

   Published 6 hours ago

4. IBM's Kyndryl Managed to Fall to Less Than a Quarter of Its Past Year's High

   Imagine IBM falling to $75

5. Links 10/02/2026: Media Freedom Feels Dead in Hong Kong and Grammys, Superbowl Becoming Politics

   Links for the day

6. IBM RAs (or PIPs) in London, England?

   They try to keep the lid on it

7. Brett Wilson LLP Seems to Have Done for Roberto Foa What It Did a Year Earlier for the Serial Strangler from Microsoft

   Repeat abusers (of the legal system) will misuse it as long as regulators do nothing

8. Where We Stand With the Winter Series

   We'll need to protect names and sources

   New

9. Google Still Helping the Slop Pyramid Scheme, Encouraging Plagiarism Too

   Google is a plagiarism company and it wants public solidarity for plagiarism by LLMs

10. Gemini Links 10/02/2026: "The Luminous Dead", Matrix, and Containers

    Links for the day

11. Kyndryl CFO Harsh Chugh Comes From IBM (17+ Years)

    Who would want such a position?

12. International Buybacks Machines

    Will the current US administration/regime look into IBM's accounting or only its mini me's?

13. IBM Could be the Next Kyndryl, a Dinosaur With Accounting Fraud

    Many shareholders (or even pension funds) are taking a big hit today

14. Ian Murdock Died in San Francisco 10 Years Ago. Cops Led to His Death.

    10 years ago Ian Murdock died after cops had messed him up

15. US/Europe divergence: health & safety, criminality & Debian harassment culture: Open Digital Ecosystems submission F33370170

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

16. Links 10/02/2026: Splinternets and "Meta Goes to Trial in a New Mexico Child Safety Case"

    Links for the day

17. Russia and China Best Off Without GAFAM

    What if they abandoned GAFAM?

18. Will Finns Put Out the Online Cigarettes?

    More people recognise that the child porn site formerly known as "Twitter" and Cheeto/Pooh-tin controlled TikTok are no longer trustworthy

19. As the US Economy Sags Microsoft Layoffs Carry on (Now in Larger Waves Like 15,000 Per Season or 30,000+ Per Year)

    They try to avoid "negative" topics

20. GNU/Linux at 3.99% in Australia

    now that Australians can no longer keep Vista 10

21. Microsoft Windows Falling

    analytics.usa.gov Shows Rapid Erosion of Windows Market Share Since 'End of 10' (Vista 10)

22. Microsoft Windows Hits All-Time Low in The Netherlands in 2026

    Europe needs to rid itself or wean itself off GAFAM

23. SRA: SLAPPs From Russian War Criminals and American Men Who Strangle Women Are Acceptable

    The SRA, by inaction, is complicit in this

24. From Weber Shandwick (Microsoft PR) to Brett Wilson LLP (Hired Gun of the Serial Strangler of Microsoft)

    they basically tried to charge me a lot of money for a PR project of someone who strangled women

25. The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is Not a Regulator, It's Part of the Litigation "Industry" in the UK (They Overlap Each Other)

    Does nothing except talk about SLAPPs

26. In Finland, Microsoft Falls Behind Yandex (Russia)

    Bing has had many layoffs in recent years

27. Security More Advanced in Geminispace Than on the Web (Bloat)

    For real security, use Geminispace capsules, not Web sites

28. Slop at Microsoft is a Miserable Failure, Now Microsoft Takes the "Vista Route" (Paying People to Say Good Things About It)

    This is brainwash, it's meant to delay the implosion of the bubble

29. Rumours About February 2026 Microsoft Layoffs: Silent Layoffs or 30,000 Culled Tomorrow

    Sooner or later (and soon) Microsoft will need to say something and file some WARN notifications

30. GNU/Linux at 12% in Guam, Based on statCounter (Compared to 2-3% a Year Ago)

    Guam's "uptick" in GNU/Linux usage started weeks after "end of 10"

31. Fighting Slop With the Public Domain (and Why Slopfarms Perish Faster Than New Ones Appear)

    We can combat the nonsense by producing more human-made works until the slop bubble implodes

32. After Employee Reviews at IBM Staff Expects Another Large Wave of PIPs and "RAs" (Layoffs)

    From what we can see in the "public Web"

    New

33. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

34. IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 09, 2026

    IRC logs for Monday, February 09, 2026

35. Is Europe Abandoning Digital Opium?

    GAFAM-controlled social control media

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