Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 01, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Slop-Posting is a New Form of S

   New

   -posting

   We recently caught several more "linux" sites (with "linux" in their domain name) turning to slop

2. Losses From Slop Are "Investment", Hundreds of Billions in Debt Are "Growth Opportunity", Layoffs Are "Great to See", and Loss of Business Means "We Need a Slowdown" (for "Safety")

   Microsoft is removing staff, as investment is apparently the act of shrtinking

3. Brigading Against Women - Part XII - Toxic Masculinity, Hunting Women, Will Code for Sex

   Who says things like these?

4. The Microsoft Lunduke Slop Problem

   Microsoft Lunduke does not support Software Freedom; he serves to discredit many ideas championed by Free software or ideals articulated which are apolitical for the most part

5. CDMAG Covers Free Software, New Magazine From Decent People

   If enough people accessed their site, they would not rely on social control media (third parties, censorship platforms)

6. Brigading Against Women - Part XI - An Abject Lack of Social Skills (and Not Knowing How to Handle Women)

   GGG enjoy - if that's the right term - very bizarre or esoteric sex life

   New

7. Gemini Links 30/09/2026: Fish Leather, Slop Formation, and ROOPHLOCH

   Links for the day

8. In a Lot of Europe (or EU) Android (With Linux) is Bigger Than Windows

   For example in Greece

9. EPO Cocainegate: Lots of Money (Over a Million Euros) for Cocaine Addicts, Not for Children With Special Needs

   Next month we'll bring out some more Campinos scandals

10. High Court victory: Nigel Farage is 'the Company's own candidate'

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

11. It Took GNOME's Code of Conduct Committee (CoCC) Over 8 Months to Realise CoC Reports Went Into /dev/null/

    It would be ironic if the blunder's culprits were punished for it, would it not?

12. Links 30/09/2026: Microsoft "OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely" and "Pentagon Personnel Agency Data Breach Impacts 3 Million People"

    Links for the day

13. The Register MS "Events" As Paid Spam That Promotes and Keeps Afloat Hype About Slop

    This dreary sort of media reads like a soup of words, i.e. like the thing it is advertising

14. Digital Independence in the UK and in Western Europe

    We have the technical capacity and skilled personnel to achieve this

15. IBM's Anderon as a Mass Layoffs Ritual With a Bailout (From US Taxpayers to IBM) and Other Perks

    Like those empty promises in the first term of the Cheeto dictator

16. Gemini Links 30/09/2026: David Bowie, Web Rendering Proxy, Ink and Letters, Gemlog Nostalgia

    Links for the day

17. EPO Annual General Meeting (AGM) Will Speak of Financial State of the EPO's Union

    Their work is needed because the EPO breaks the law

18. Rust Causes Upgrade Issues in Ubuntu

    They could just keep GNU coreutils in place (nothing was broken about it) and avoid Microsoft's back doors and TPMs

19. Links 30/09/2026: "Understanding the LLM Bubble" and "Florida Senate Threatened Legal Action Against Newspapers"

    Links for the day

20. It Looks Like Mass Layoffs at "Nordcloud, an IBM Company" Today (a Day Ahead of Red Hat)

    Expect the same from Red Hat next

21. British Prime Minister Recognises Social Control Media as National Cohesion Problem

    one has to wonder if addiction to social control media is not compatible with peace

22. The Future Isn't Social Control Media (Nothing Will be Left of It, Not Even Archives)

    "Error code: 502 Bad Gateway"

23. GNU/Linux Usage in China is Increasing

    China is leaving Microsoft and Windows behind

24. 43 Years of GNU and GAFAM's (Especially Microsoft's) Attacks On It

    GNU is very widely used (when people say "Linux commands" they typically mean "GNU programs"), hence it's being attacked a lot

25. Gemini Links 30/09/2026: Accelerationism, "The Billionaire is Wrong", Rant About LLM-generated Support E-mails

    Links for the day

26. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

27. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 29, 2026

    IRC logs for Tuesday, September 29, 2026

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