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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 09, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Slopfarms Marginalised, Some Suspend Operations

   some people who become lazy and prompt LLMs are just signalling that they throw in the towel

   New

2. Countries Where Windows is Measured Below 1%

   Windows' monoculture is going away

3. SLAPP Censorship - Part 39 Out of 200: Recycled Text for Garrett and Graveley (Buy One, Get One Free?)

   perhaps thousands of pounds per hour

4. Microsoft Azure is Now “Perpetually on Life Support”, Even Microsoft Sites Express Concerns

   Less than a decade ago Microsoft-connected sites kept saying that AWS was doomed and Microsoft would replace AWS with Azure

5. IBM's Fedora Project Sees Sharp Increase (Over 25%) in Code of Conduct Complaints, i.e. Censorship Demands

   Remember that IBM lawyered up against its own community in an effort to shut down a site critical of it

6. Malicious Bots

   Tackling corruption in the world is never easy

7. Gemini Links 08/04/2026: "Managing Dotfiles with GNU Stow" and "Observations on Blocking Various Webbots"

   Links for the day

8. Links 08/04/2026: GAFAM "Abandons Multi-Billion Dollar Data Centres in US as Investors Demand Energy, Water Usage"; Artemis II Astronauts Updates

   Links for the day

9. Links 08/04/2026: Dems Call for 25th Amendment Remedy, Bill Epsteingate Summoned in Jeffrey Epstein Investigation

   Links for the day

10. A Lot of Law Firms Are Collapsing

    There has been a lot of discussion about this lately

11. IBM Red Hat Profited From 5+ Weeks of War in Iran

    remember that IBM's current CEO comes from a military family (on both sides)

12. Associated Press Failed Financially, Now It's Offloading What's Left to Slop (How Sites Die 'Cheaply')

    LLMs are not intelligent or any form of intelligence, they are just falsely marketed as such

13. Microsoft Shares Down 35% in 5 Months, Executives Leave Microsoft

    Many people leave (or flee) Microsoft because, seeing what goes on insider, they know what's coming

14. Are Some Obscure or Chinese Operating Systems (Like Huawei's) Taking Over in "Unknown" Clothing?

    statCounter still cannot detect many operating systems

15. SLAPP Censorship - Part 38 Out of 200: Advertisement or £10,000+ Classified Ad in the Form of Court Filing in Another Continent

    Graveley fancies himself some world-renown something

16. Software Freedom is Closely Connected to Privacy

    privacy can be a matter of life and death

17. What Communities Mean and Look Like (If They're Effective and Focused)

    Last week we wrote about this in the context of distros and alleged "inclusion"

18. April 2026 FSF LibreLocal Concludes in Atlanta

    Happy Hacking

19. Gemini Links 08/04/2026: GPG Symmetric Encryption and Slop in USENET

    Links for the day

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 07, 2026

    IRC logs for Tuesday, April 07, 2026

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