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- Big Blue's Quiet Axe - Poem Regarding IBM "RAs"
No idea who posted this, but it is profound - Growing Proportion of Linux Commits Being Made by LLMs Not a Sign of LLMs Working, It's a Sign of Linux Development Being Shifted From Community to GAFAM and Other Slop Pushers
antagonist became apologist - Worse Than "Taking Your Job", the Slop Pyramid Scheme Will "Take Your Pension"
This will not end well - Rumours of Further IBM Shutdowns
IBM is going out of existence - Many Anniversaries
Many anniversaries in quick succession
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- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 04, 2026
IRC logs for Tuesday, August 04, 2026 - Gemini Links 05/08/2026: Being Good, Tildeverse and Tilde.pink, Games
Links for the day - Links 04/08/2026: GAFAM Expressing Concerns About Dangerous Disinformation by Slop, Bill Epsteingate-Connected Litigation Firm Salivating Over Europe
Links for the day - Gemini Links 04/08/2026: Root Shell and "Duty of Care"
Links for the day - Alternate Data (Not IBM's Headcount) to Show Mass Layoffs' Effect at IBM (Despite Many Acquired Workers Via M&A)
mass layoffs at Hashicorp and at Confluent this year (media did not cover either). - Abundance of Fake (Sometimes Paid-for) 'News' About IBM Will Discredit the Media as a Whole
In 'the news' today - Microsoft is Trying Vapourware Again (to Keep Developers and Gamers From Fleeing)
For XBox, the main thing over the horizon is additional layoffs - statCounter Reckons 12.33% of Web Traffic in Gambia Can be Attributed to GNU/Linux, Even 15% If Adding ChromeOS
Will this be sustainable? - Reminder: The Pedophilia Problem Comes From the Accusers
Attacks on Richard Stallman are a distraction; his accusers are themselves the culprits - SLAPP Censorship - Part 139 Out of 200: Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Needs More Public Scrutiny (New Management Changed Nothing, It's Costing a Lot of Taxpayers' Money)
millions or maybe billions of pounds wasted - Brigading Against Women - Part II - Threatening Women Using the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) and Then False Threats Miscarrying the Name of a Court
In this series we intend to show the threats, the outcomes of those threats, the response to those threats - Collapse of MElon Companies a Taste of What's to Come for Slop Bubble and GAFAM (Trillions in Debt, Justified as Slop "Investments")
One good example of this was SpaceX - The 'Hyperinflation' in Hardware Dooms Video Hosting (Very Large Files)
a terabyte of video files would be expensive - Rumours of Silent Layoffs in Microsoft This Month (August 2026), PIPs and Global Voluntary Separation Agreement (GVSA), aka "Buyouts"
Will any investigative journalism follow or just shallow puff pieces and LLM trash from slopfarms? - Links 04/08/2026: "Framework for Musician Burnout" and Alexa+ "is a Buggy Embarrassment"
Links for the day - Signs That XBox as a Console is Coming to an End, Windows Gaming Will be Called "XBox"
"XBox" is the next "Surface" - Microsoft's Share in Search Falls Sharply in Europe
The layoffs at Microsoft's Bing will carry on - Romania: GNU/Linux Reaches 4% (Less Than EU Average)
We expect this same upward trend to carry on - Microsoft Sites or Sites Sponsored by Microsoft Angry That GNU/Linux is Gaining
The Microsofters cannot easily dismiss reports of GNU/Linux growth as "bots" or just allege that statCounter alone is wrong - Ableism in the Free Software Movement Typically Comes From GAFAM Operatives and Proprietary Software Apologists
And their hired guns - Afghanistan: GNU/Linux Steadily Rises to 9%
Windows is steadily declining - IBM Innovation: It Has Invented New Methods of Silent Layoffs or Secret RAs
How IBM disguises mass layoffs now - LLM Slop Won't Replace People and Jobs (in the Long Run)
At the end of the day, people who know their job offer more useful information, whereas LLMs waste people's time (typically an 'externality' to the entity deploying chatbots) - Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day - IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 03, 2026
IRC logs for Monday, August 03, 2026 - Over 3,500 Known Gemini Capsules Accessible and Active According to Lupa
It finally happened this morning - Gemini Links 04/08/2026: Library Cards, Dead Ends in Software Development, and DOS on USB Key
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