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Intercontinental Brigading - Part VI - Racism Against Blacks
Systems don't always work as intended
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Trillions of Dollars in Debt Are Not "Investment", More People Realise This Now
"Investors started offloading shares on Wednesday in response to an X post about the debt load of CoreWeave Inc..."
New
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Gemini Links 17/10/2026: Big Glowing Advertising Screens, Busy October, and Art
Links for the day
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The First Casualty: The Reputation of Linux Developers (and of Linux)
The last thing you can take from a person is pride
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Links 17/10/2026: Europe Divorcing US President Putin (Kompromat), MElon and Kapo-berg ("Meta") Buying US Elections Again
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GAFAM LLMs Seem to be Causing Veteran, Experienced Linux Developers to Quit, Only to be Replaced With GAFAM Bots and Unaudited Slopfest 'Code'
Better than 'pulling a SCO'?
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30 Years of KDE and "Project Banana"
KDE recently turned 30 (many blog posts about it this past week)
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Inevitable Things
"Bitbucket was Inevitable"
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Andy's Passing Thoughts on Media Dying, Not Reporting News (Even Critical News About Itself)
No more news
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Stallman Was Right About Torvalds
The crowd/audience Linus Torvalds panders to is paid by GAFAM to go attend and dominate (speak at) LF events. They're people whose employer forces them to use slop, it's inorganic.
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Links 17/10/2026: "Why Math Dumped OpenAI", US Third Circuit Has Confirmed LLMs and Other Slop Constitute Plagiarism or Copyright Infringement
Links for the day
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GPL Was Right (About Hoarding, Now Automated With Plagiarism Blenders)
Some time next year the UK's High Court might listen to arguments related to this
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Microsoft Allegedly Asks Many Workers to Leave at the End of This Year (or Get the Boot), It's Called Voluntary Exit Program a.k.a. Voluntary Early Retirement Program (or VEP) Even for People Far Too Young to Retire
"Everyone at Microsoft knows what those acronyms mean."
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The Torvalds-led Slopfest as a Reminder to Pursue Software Freedom, Not Plagiarism Endorsed (for Money) by 'Linux' Foundation
What's happening this month moreover proves that he is not in control of important decisions in his project
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Why We Never Got Back to IPFS
Practically speaking, we could get back to IPFS any time
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Red Hat Silent Layoffs: October 1 Bluewashing, Then Leaving IBM Altogether
It's said that weeks from now there will be another "round" (of "RAs")
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Gemini Links 16/10/2026: Metrovision, Smartwatches, and Rekindled Love for Geminispace
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Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
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IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 16, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, October 16, 2026
The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):