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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 02, 2026

Eiffel Tower And Ferris Wheel

Updated This Past Day

Updates:

  1. August 2026 Microsoft Layoffs Are "Secret Layoffs" or "Silent Layoffs"
    It's all about secrecy, isn't it?
  2. Newer Not Better: Treadmill Updates Cause Problems
    after 2 years the un-updated machines still fine
  3. SLAPP Censorship - Part 136 Out of 200: Lawyers That Get Paid to Mess About
    They were already outnumbered and understaffed

New:

  1. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 01, 2026
    IRC logs for Saturday, August 01, 2026
  2. Gemini Links 02/08/2026: Older Books, Esperanto Music History, and Slop Making Things Worse
    Links for the day
  3. Sharing and Empathy
    Be more like Stallman, not Linus
  4. Fedora 'Community' Became 100% IBM Staff, Drawing Up Policies Like CoC and CoI (Where the IBM is Excepted From Conflict of Interest Policies)
    IBM has in effect killed Fedora
  5. Gemini Links 01/08/2026: Planner Season is Upon Us, Slop "Apocalypse", and USENET
    Links for the day
  6. Cuts at IBM, Allegedly More Shutdowns to Come, CEO Visits Complicit Media to Promote Lies and Products That Will Never Exist (Misleading Shareholders)
    IBM is collapsing
  7. Links 01/08/2026: GAFAM Falling Deep Into Trillion in (Secret) Debt to Keep the Slop Bubble From Popping Already, Anger Over "FIFA’s World Cup Privatisation Plan"
    Links for the day
  8. The Cyber Show on the Slop Bubble
    new article about the implosion of the slop bubble
  9. Links 01/08/2026: New York Times Trying to Inflate the Slop Pyramid Scheme (at Cost to Its Own Reputation) and "Iran Appears to Be Blasting Amazon Data Centers Off the Map"
    Links for the day
  10. Positive Political Momentum
    Daniel Pocock is taken seriously by many people who contact us privately
  11. Google "AI" is Plagiarism, the Case of Richard Stallman (RMS)
    Why would anyone choose LLM slop over the originals, curated and fact-checked by domain experts?
  12. Explaining That Software Patents Are Neither Legal Nor Desirable
    Many of our readers work in the legal sector
  13. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  14. IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 31, 2026
    IRC logs for Friday, July 31, 2026
  15. Gemini Links 01/08/2026: Retirement, Bike Trips, Quake Stuff, Usenet Reborn
    Links for the day

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