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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 31, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

Updates:

  1. Salaries Are Counted in Money, Not in Participation in the Employer's Scheme
    articles greatly exaggerating GAFAM salaries
  2. Even Linux Cannot Cope With Slop
    Bots on the Web are truly obnoxious
  3. GNU/Linux Has Become More Mainstream in the United Kingdom
    It's a long weekend here and we guess some people dabble in GNU/Linux migrations, at least at home

New:

  1. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 30, 2026
    IRC logs for Sunday, August 30, 2026
  2. Gemini Links 31/08/2026: Holidays, Stream of Consciousness, and Posting Online
    Links for the day
  3. Anniversaries Next Month
    The month should be otherwise quiet and uneventful for us
  4. Coding is Not Obsolete
    we drown ourselves in chaff to meet "LOC" objectives while ignoring everything else
  5. Microsoft Layoffs Perpetual But Silent, People Pushed Out Using Pressure or Incentive Schemes
    Earlier this month we named some of the programs
  6. Links 30/08/2026: Apple Rant and LLM (Slop) Scrapers Target Gemini Protocol and Gopher
    Links for the day
  7. Walls in Free Software
    mind your own business and move on
  8. What a Summer!
    Tomorrow is the last day of this month
  9. Links 30/08/2026: Soldiers in Niger Attack Presidential Palace and Airport, Nepali City Struggles to Handle the Many Dead Bodies
    Links for the day
  10. Clownflare Sees GNU/Linux Rising to 11% This Past Week
    Is it the year of "Linux in China"?
  11. Links 30/08/2026: Russian Strike on a Ukrainian Warehouse and Rhetoric Escalations
    Links for the day
  12. Gemini Links 30/08/2026: Photography, Paper Books, Linux Kernel and the Debian Projects Permitting Slop Plagiarism
    Links for the day
  13. Imagine a World Where Nobody Fights for Software (and Computing) Freedom
    The community keeps fighting back, so some of these ambitions are delayed or watered down
  14. FSF Has Grown (More Staff) After a Year of Financial Growth
    On October 4 the FSF turns 41
  15. SLAPP Censorship - Part 166 Out of 200: Garrett Wasn't Found Innocent Per Se, the Court Wanted More Evidence of Who Was Behind Particular Accounts Using Tor
    It's complicated
  16. Criminals Don't Obey Laws, California Does Not Enhance Online Safety
    It has been a while since we last mentioned so-called 'age-verification' laws
  17. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  18. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 29, 2026
    IRC logs for Saturday, August 29, 2026

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