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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 16, 2026

In the greenery the playground for children

Updated This Past Day

  1. unixcop.com is the Latest "Linux" Site to Have Become a Slopfarm After 2 Years of Death (Inactivity)
    Not a way to stage a comeback
  2. While GAFAM/Microsoft Disguise Financial Crisis as "Investment in AI" the Slop Giants Make Up a Narrative of Wilful Slowdown
    A BS artist is good at the art of BS when the artist's failures or weaknesses get twisted as moral or professional leadership

    New

  3. Microsoft Layoffs in September 2026 Are Silent, Hidden
    Expect the same next month ahead of the fake results
  4. Links 15/09/2026: 'Smartphone', Android TV Box, Stockholm Syndrome of [Slop Plagiarism] Acceptance
    Links for the day
  5. Carmen-Lisandrette Maris Prepares Audiobook to Explain Software Freedom/Digital Rights to Adolescents, Needs Help From Volunteers
    needs help with narrating
  6. Links 15/09/2026: Putin-Connected Money for The Insurrectionist Jr. and Turkey's Crackdown on Activists
    Links for the day
  7. publicdomainpictures.net Seems to Have Become Fed Up With Slop Contaminating Its Database (Wasting Storage, Bandwidth), Now It's Suitably Flagged, Should Be Demoted/Delisted
    The site was redone, suffered some hours of downtime, then 'relaunched' with a new interface this week
  8. Gemini Links 15/09/2026: Hiking in Munții Făgăraș, Scams, and Slop Plagiarism Considered Unethical
    Links for the day
  9. Linux Kernel Becoming a Slopfest - Part 1 - At the Beginning (Torvalds Knew It Was Trouble)
    We still wonder if we should make and actively maintain a shame list (developer/employer) for the people who contaminate Linux the most with slop plagiarism
  10. EPO Staff is Preparing to Take Up a Notch the Strikes and Other Industrial Actions Ahead of October's Meeting (It Can Help Oust the Corrupt Leadership)
    mobilising perhaps thousands of workers at a critical time in the history of the Office
  11. Allegedly Many PIP Layoffs in Nepal, IBM Does This Before a Known Death Toll in Avalanche (Caused by China-, Europe-, and US-Induced Global Warming)
    Fresh wounds, before the bodies are even recovered (thousands still missing)
  12. "Wail" by Alexandre Oliva
    This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License BY-SA (Attribution ShareAlike) 4.0 International
  13. This Morning The Register MS Published a Page With "AI" 83 Times in it. The Register MS Got Paid to Do This.
    The Register MS is not a serious publisher and a lot of the stuff about "AI" on the Web isn't journalism but paid-for SPAM
  14. SLAPP Censorship - Part 184 Out of 200: A Tiny Law Firm That Knows Nothing But Microsoft (But Merely Pretends to Understand "IT")
    They've managed to trick some mainstream media into thinking they're "Tech" experts or "Social [Control] Media" gurus; nothing could be further from the truth
  15. Links 15/09/2026: Sweden’s Far Right Perishing and "Iceland Just Got Played"
    Links for the day
  16. It's Not About How Developers Vote
    This isn't about politics, it's about users being in control of their own computers and computing
  17. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  18. IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 14, 2026
    IRC logs for Monday, September 14, 2026
  19. Gemini Links 15/09/2026: Poetry, Enshittification of Ebay, and Mecha System
    Links for the day
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