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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 15, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

New:

  1. IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 14, 2026
    IRC logs for Friday, August 14, 2026
  2. Gemini Links 14/08/2026: Slower Internet, Logging Off Made Easy, and Human Code
    Links for the day
  3. Links 14/08/2026: "Mystery of Dark Oxygen", People Despise Slop, and Backlash Grows Against Fake Currencies (Energy-Wasting Scam Like Slop)
    Links for the day
  4. Free Publicity
    They say there's no such thing as "bad press" or that every publicity is good publicity, sometimes free publicity
  5. Farage's fears, media hijacked by-election, what really happened in Clacton
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  6. It's Friday. A Ton of People Departing From IBM and Red Hat.
    A mere subset of people who announce this in public at Microsoft's LinkedIn
  7. GNU/Linux and ChromeOS Beyond 11%
    Combined with ChromeOS, it's already past and beyond 11%
  8. Chatbots/LLMs Are the Next "Clown Computing", Pure Hype, a Serious Mistake
    Programs that scan text and emit something similar (but full of errors)
  9. Links 14/08/2026: Slop 'Music' Causing Problems, Slop Data Centre Contractor Unpaid (Massive Debt), and The Cyber Show Says We're "Colonised By Wankers"
    Links for the day
  10. Fake Growth of Social Control Media is Misleading
    nowadays people look for alternatives - ones not controlled by MElon, CPC, and Kapo-Berg
  11. statCounter: Windows Down to All-Time Low of 25%, Android Leads the Pack, GNU/Linux About to Leapfrog Apple, Overtaking MacOS
    The situation was very different in past years
  12. Microsoft's Mass Layoffs (Including 'Voluntary' Secret Layoffs) Take Their Toll on Seattle
    How much longer can they hide their crises?
  13. Planet Fedora ("Fedora People") is Just IBM Staff, Former IBM Staff, and LLM Slop
    this is what Fedora boils down to now
  14. Explanation of What Will Happen to Red Hat (and Other Acquired Companies) After August
    In short, a lot will be scuttled; history shows it happens over and over again
  15. SLAPP Censorship - Part 149 Out of 200: It Took a Long Time to Show What Jason Arday (at Cambridge) and Harvey Weinstein (in Hollywood) Really Were
    Really bad when society endures abuse because the abusers silence their exposers
  16. Gemini Links 14/08/2026: 32-bit RISC-V and BlackBerry
    Links for the day
  17. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  18. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 13, 2026
    IRC logs for Thursday, August 13, 2026

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