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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 28, 2026

Hands

Updated This Past Day

Updates:

  1. Mainstream Media is Paid to Link "AI" Criticism/Boosting to Jeffrey Epstein Enablers, in Effect Showing How Corrupt This Media Became
    Many readers will have noticed what was a paid-for PR campaign of a global scale
  2. GNU/Linux Does Not Need Social Control Media to Succeed
    When it comes to Social Control Media, Richard Stallman was right
  3. SLAPP Censorship - Part 163 Out of 200: Attack on Computer Science and on Computer Security (or Associating Back Doors and Kill Switches With "Security")
    Nowadays there are many who pretend to be security professionals

New:

  1. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 27, 2026
    IRC logs for Thursday, August 27, 2026
  2. After Many Waves of PIPs (Silent Layoffs) IBM Makes Non-Silent Layoffs, Effective Next Week (September)
    What we heard is turning out to be true
  3. Gemini Links 27/08/2026: Oklahoma, Tennessee, Haiku OS, Digital Resistance, and Staying Offline
    Links for the day
  4. Links 27/08/2026: Facebook to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion to Cover Up Known Harms, Nepal Landslide Kills Many
    Links for the day
  5. The Register MS Has Just Published Paid Spam That Says "AI" 19 Times
    1.5 hours ago
  6. RSS is King: Why Having Subscribers or Followers in Sites You Neither Own Nor Control is Loss of Autonomy and Search is Mostly Slop (Plagiarising Sites, Not Linking to Them)
    Because digital connections in third parties aren't assets; they endow another party with tremendous power over people (e.g. MElon getting to decide who can and cannot reach people or what messages to "dim down")
  7. Claims of Tens of Thousands of 'Silent Layoffs' at IBM (and Red Hat)
    Looking at recent activity in thelayoff.com, about 80% of the comments and posts are about PIPs
  8. Links 27/08/2026: "Flock’s CEO Is Lying to Cops" and Microsoft's GitHub Actions Breaks Down Again (Too Many Layoffs, Loss of Knowledge)
    Links for the day
  9. Clownflare Sees GNU/Linux and ChromeOS at Over 13% in Bahamas
    Narrowing down to desktops and laptops, and judging by Web requests that go through Clownflare, many people there use GNU/Linux or Google's 'bastardised' version of it (with spyware preloaded)
  10. Richard Stallman Complains That Linux Gives a Bad Name to GNU and Asks for Feedback on What's Wrong with Systemd (and Wayland)
    Maybe some people want to send him a detailed, polite explanation
  11. Increasing Focus on Patent Injustices
    We'll soon cover the EPO a lot more
  12. There's No "Next XBox"
    Nothing comes ahead except layoffs and price hikes
  13. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  14. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 26, 2026
    IRC logs for Wednesday, August 26, 2026
  15. Gemini Links 27/08/2026: Conditioning, Lagrange 1.21, and Computer Games
    Links for the day

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