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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 11, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Mass Layoffs at Microsoft, March 2026
    When will the media properly investigate this?
  2. An American War on GNU/Linux, Software Freedom, and British Investigative, Science-Based Reporting - Part IV - Escalating to Ministers, Explaining the Severity of These Matters
    British Sovereignty at Stake
  3. Garrett Announces LibreLocal Instance in Northampton, Massachusetts (USA)
    his message was the only one last month

    New

  4. Geminispace Continues to Grow
    Geminispace Will Soon Have 5,000 Capsules
  5. Very Little Slop About "Linux"
    We hope to see slop eradicated by year's end
  6. BBC Lied for Its Longtime Sponsor (Bribes for 15+ Years) Bill Epsteingate, in Effect Covering Up Sex Trafficking of Underage Girls
    The state of the media is truly awful
  7. Microsoft GitHub is Not Free Hosting and It Won't Last
    Not for much longer [...] Microsoft is afraid to say that it is pulling the plug, but it seems inevitable
  8. "The Lost Generation" Came Back, This Time Literally
    Based on my limited experience with young people ("alphas"), they're lost
  9. IBM is Not Likely to Survive Another Decade
    Despite having already survived over a century [...] Last week we saw claims that some company would likely acquire IBM for its remaining assets
  10. IBM Has Just Been Sued Again by Its Own Staff (This Time a Manager, Stephen P. Gutierrez)
    IBM's behaviour towards its staff can prove costly
  11. When a Company Says Its Layoffs are "Due to AI" Check the Debt (Typically the Real Reason for Mass Layoffs)
    The mass layoffs at Microsoft continue, but Microsoft hides those in some of the same ways IBM does
  12. Doing More With Less
    primacy of concepts rather than bells and whistles
  13. Andy and Helen in Cybershow on Divesting From the United States' Technology and Politics
    It is no longer considered a taboo to say this and it's not "anti-American" because many Americans can relate to and agree with such criticism
  14. Links 10/03/2026: "GEMA v. Suno Copyright Case" and "Valve Faces PRS Lawsuit Over Allegedly Unlicensed Steam Music"
    Links for the day
  15. Gemini Links 10/03/2026: Woods in UK, Slop Laziness, and "Small Technology and Small Economic"
    Links for the day
  16. Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 8 Out of 200: Gross Misuse of UKGDPR to Protect the Agenda of American Back Doors (Mass Surveillance)
    Responding to bunk claims regarding UKGDPR and claims of 'analytics' in our sites
  17. Links 10/03/2026: Oil Prices Rising, South Korean/US Military Assets Redirected
    Links for the day
  18. Links 10/03/2026: Rust Rewrites by Slop "20,171 Times Slower", "You MUST Review LLM-generated Code"
    Links for the day
  19. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  20. IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 09, 2026
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