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06/08 His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Not Responding After 20 Days (Well-Founded Report of Tax Fraud) and British Police Pretending Not to Exist

06/09 Gemini Links 09/06/2023: Thoughts on Flatpak and Apple Cultists

06/09 HMRC 3 Weeks Later: No Action, Same as ‘Action Fraud’ (Your Tax Money ‘at Work’)

06/09 Trying to ‘Finish the Job’ of Bully de Blanc and Deb Nicholson by Rewriting History (and Even Terms) for Microsoft

06/09 GNU/Linux Decade in India: From 1.5% to 13.5%

06/09 HMRC is Just Taking Taxpayers’ Money and Not Enforcing the Law (or Selectively Enforcing It for the Political Masters)

06/09 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 08, 2023

06/09 Links 09/06/2023: JDBC FDW 0.3.1 and Godot 4.1 Beta

06/09 What Will Happen After All Major News Sites Die Isn’t Pretty

06/09 Links 09/06/2023: Microsoft’s ‘Online’ (“Clown”/OneDrive) Storage Goes Down Again, Files Cannot be Reached

06/09 Links 09/06/2023: Tor Browser 12.0.7 and Many Linux Devices

06/09 Linux Foundation Demotes Mr. Linux, Linus Torvalds, to Third (in Salaries), Only Uses Him for the Name

06/10 Gemini Links 10/06/2023: Cob(WW)Webs, Client Certificates in Gemini, and Zig

06/10 Links 10/06/2023: Debian 12 “Bookworm”

06/10 IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 09, 2023

06/10 Jim Zemlin Boasting in 2022: Linux Foundation Has Revenue of Over 200 Million Dollars; IRS in 2022: Linux Foundation Has Revenue of 139 Million Dollars

06/10 Links 10/06/2023: libei 1.0.0 and Qt Creator 11 Beta

06/10 ‘Linux’ Foundation: Spendings on Salaries Increased More Than 20% in One Year

06/10 Links 10/06/2023: Wine 8.10

06/10 Gemini Links 10/06/2023: Wordle for Gemini

06/11 Links 11/06/2023: A4PDF Becomes CapyPDF, EasyOS 5.4 Released

06/11 New Series: The End of Sirius Open Source

06/11 Gemini Links 11/06/2023: Google in Gemini?

06/11 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 10, 2023

06/11 New Series: Why People Everywhere Should Quit YouTube

06/11 Links 11/06/2023: ROS 2 End of Life

06/11 Supporting the Work We Do at Techrights

06/11 New Series: Inside the Real Linux Foundation

06/12 Why You Should Quit YouTube – Part 3: Google Exploits Creators, It’ll Get Even Worse

06/12 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 11, 2023

06/12 Links 12/06/2023: Linux 6.4 RC6 and Ultramarine Linux 38 is Out

06/12 What the 2022 Tax Filing (From 7 Months Ago, for Tax Year 2021) Teaches Us About the Linux Foundation

06/12 The Real Linux Foundation – Part 3: How It Splits Into Subgroups, Including New Ones

06/12 Sirius Open Source Cannot Retain Staff and Clients (Many of the Remaining Ones Leave the Company)

06/12 Gemini Links 12/06/2023: Opal 1.7.0 and More

06/12 Police Out of Control (or Oversight) – Part 3: Action Fraud and Reports of Sirius Fraud

06/12 Links 12/06/2023: Lagrange 1.16.4 and scikit-survival 0.21.0

06/12 Juggling Topics This Month

06/12 YouTube’s New Management: Time’s Up, Start Paying and Watch Ads, Don’t Use Free Software

06/13 Links 13/06/2023: Curl FUD and Tails Release

06/13 EPO (European Patent Office) Central Staff Committee on NO-Career System, Education, Boards of Appeal, and Update to Staff Changes List (More Secrecy)

06/13 Why You Should Quit YouTube – Part 4: Financial Crunch Time

06/13 IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 12, 2023

06/13 The Real Linux Foundation – Part 5: The Annual Cost of the Office Has Jumped to Almost 8 Million Dollars for Just 261 Employees (About $30,000 Per Employee Per Year)

06/13 The Real Linux Foundation – Part 4: How the Foundation Makes Its Money

06/13 Police Out of Control (or Oversight) – Part 4: The Pokémon Village of Sirius ‘Open Source’ and British Government

06/13 Police Out of Control (or Oversight) – Part 5: What’s Left of the Company is a Skeleton Crew (While Police is Dragging Its Heels)

06/13 Gemini Links 13/06/2023: GPL and Upgrading Debian Bullseye

06/13 Why You Should Quit YouTube – Part 5: The Real Enemy Has Become Sanity of Users

06/14 Flatpak Should Really Have Been Named Fatpack

06/14 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 13, 2023

06/14 The Real Linux Foundation – Part 7: Giving Large Contracts to Former Staff (Yes, Corruption and Graft)

06/14 The Real Linux Foundation – Part 6: Raising Money From Monopolies, Living Extravagant Lifestyles, Crushing Software Communities

06/14 Links 14/06/2023: Reddit Latest Social Control Network to Wane, Microsoft Targeted by FTC

06/14 Gemini Links 14/06/2023: The Need for Proper Keyboards

06/14 Links 14/06/2023: LibreOffice 7.6 Beta 1 and Plans for Debian 13

06/14 Police Out of Control (or Oversight) – Part 6: This Scandal Has Become a Lot Bigger Than Sirius ‘Open Source’

06/14 Police Out of Control (or Oversight) – Part 7: Six Months After Sirius ‘Open Source’ Gave the Victims of Its Crimes a Chance to ‘Cool Off’

06/14 Gemini Links 14/06/2023: Flatpak’s Sandboxing Works and Social Web

06/14 Why You Should Quit YouTube – Part 6: The ‘Audiences’ as the Enemies of YouTube

06/15 Why You Should Quit YouTube – Part 8: YouTube, Google, and Alphabet as the West’s Political Opportunists and Enemies of Public Health

06/15 Gemini Protocol: Always Growing (the Reach, Not the Complexity)

06/15 Links 15/06/2023: Big Browser Update in PCLinuxOS

06/15 Police Out of Control (or Oversight) – Part 8: Working as Contractor for the Public Sector While Defrauding and Stealing From Staff

06/15 Links 15/06/2023: FSF Against Clown Computing

06/15 HMRC: 4 Weeks Have Passed and It Did Not Even Respond to Report of Tax Fraud at Sirius ‘Open Source’, a UK Government Contractor

06/15 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, June 14, 2023

06/15 The Real Linux Foundation – Part 8: Example of Outsourcing to Contractors (Likely Without Tender/Bidding)

06/15 The Real Linux Foundation – Part 9: Use of Contractors Soared From 12 to 29 in Just Three Years, Value of Contracts Has Gone Up by a Lot

06/15 Gemini Links 15/06/2023: Social Post Angst and New GmCapsule Home Page

06/15 Gemini Links 15/06/2023: Reddit Backlash and More

06/15 Gemini Links 15/06/2023: Solaris and Deliberate Practice

06/15 Links 15/06/2023: Void Linux Top of DistroWatch

06/15 Why You Should Quit YouTube – Part 7: The ‘Creators’ as the Enemies of YouTube

06/15 Why You Should Quit YouTube – Part 9: Name Your Poison

06/16 Links 16/06/2023: PL/Java 1.6.5 and Citus 11.3 Released

06/16 Government Contracting/Collaboration With the Private Sector is Neither an Excuse Nor Cover for Defrauding Workers

06/16 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 15, 2023

06/16 Links 16/06/2023: 30th Birthday of FreeBSD and Kdenlive 23.04.2

06/16 After Microsoft GitHub Sells (Shuts Down) Key Offices LinkedIn Does the Same

06/16 Gemini Links 16/06/2023: OpenKuBSD, s/FreeBSD, and Privacy in Gemini Revisited

06/16 Gemini Links 16/06/2023: Reddit Alternatives

06/16 Self-Hosting of Videos is the Way Forward

06/16 The Name Linux Misused by People Who Never Even Used It

06/16 The Real Linux Foundation – Part 10: An ‘International’ Collaboration Organisation (for ‘International’ Projects) Where 90% of the Money is Spent in the United States

06/16 Police Out of Control (or Oversight) – Part 9: Waiting for Godot

06/17 The Cost of Overselling and Falsely Marketing a Chatbot (Also: Billions in Losses or Budget Deficit at ‘Open’ HEY HI)

06/17 When We Don’t Have Independent Media COVID-19, Nord Stream Etc. Become the ‘Next JFK’ (a Mishmash of Theories, No Definitive Answers)

06/17 Facebook/Fakebook in the Mass Layoffs Era: Fakes, Misinformation, and Global Outages

06/17 Free Speech Rejected by Opponents of Free Software

06/17 [Meme] Their Power is Your Wasted Time

06/17 Many Fake Patents Are Still Being Squashed and Patent-Centric ‘Media’ in Europe is Mostly Sockpuppets of the EPO

06/17 Reddit is the Next Twitter, Going Down the Drain

06/17 SpyHome: Enemy of Your Freedom

06/17 Links 17/06/2023: Daniel Ellsberg Dies, SparkyLinux 7.0 is Out

06/17 Techrights Statement on State of the News Industry Online

06/17 TikTok is a Chinese Weapon Controlled by a Dangerous Company (ByteDance) and We Must Treat It Like a Chinese Weapon for Our Own Sake

06/17 Twitter is Still Very Deep in Debt, the Interest Payments on the Debt Are Massive ($300,000,000), and It’s Still Losing Money After Discarding Most Staff

06/17 Judges of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Are Resigning Before It Even Starts and Team UPC Sprinkles Candy on This Illegal and Unconstitutional ‘Court’ (Rigged Kangaroo Court Designed to Authorise the EPO’s Abuses Against the EPC)

06/18 AMD is Not a Community and Michael Larabel Is Not Objective

06/18 Gemini Links 18/06/2023: Division, remainder, mod…

06/18 Gemini Links 18/06/2023: Gemini vs Ads and GmCapsule 0.5

06/18 IBM Responds to Techrights Report (Citing Inside Sources): No, We Did Not Kill OpenSource.com, We Cannot Explain What We Did

06/18 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 17, 2023

06/18 There is No Such Thing as ‘Cryptocurrency’ and Please Stop Referring to It as Cryptocurrency

06/18 Links 18/06/2023: Slow News Weekend

06/18 Links 18/06/2023: More Microsoft Spyware and Windows Breaches

06/18 Daniel Ellsberg Taught Us That Making Powerful People Angry and Anxious is Good For Society at Large

06/18 Techrights Statement on Paths Ahead in the Era of News Drought and Widely-Waning Web

06/19 [Meme] ‘Independent’ EPO/EU Courts for Patents

06/19 Links 19/06/2023: Cinnamon 5.8 and Alpine Has New ISOs

06/19 Buying the News and Gutting the News: How Information Online is Increasingly Controlled by the Few, for the Few

06/19 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 18, 2023

06/19 Gemini Links 19/06/2023: “We Need More of Richard Stallman, Not Less”

06/19 The EPO’s NO-Career System Will be Scrutinised by a Tribunal, the ILOAT, 3 Weeks From Now

06/19 Gemini Links 19/06/2023: Tale Of Two Unknowns and Perfect Home Lab

06/19 Young People Who Understand That Richard Stallman (RMS) Was Right, Even Long Before They Were Born

06/19 After Promoting Azure Every Day This Past Week Red Hat Exposes a Severe Weakness

06/20 Code of Conduct: Still Falsely Advertised by Online Bullies and Serial Defamers Who Rely on Corporate Enforcers for Gate-keeping

06/20 Gemini Links 20/06/2023: De-federating and Computer Challenge

06/20 Gemini Links 20/06/2023: Gemini’s Fourth Anniversary is Today

06/20 The Collapse of Reddit Helps Gemini Grow and the Message About Gemini Protocol Spread

06/20 [Meme] Media Going Down the Drain

06/20 IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 19, 2023

06/20 Links 20/06/2023: DeVault Promising a ‘Reform’, Libreboot Promising No-microcode ROMs

06/20 ‘Linux’ Foundation Increases Number of Microsoft Employees in the Board of Directors to THREE, the Only Geek in the Board Has Left (or Got Removed)

06/20 Links 20/06/2023: Windows TCO on Steroids (Microsoft Incidents/Breaches and Resort to Political Scapegoating)

06/20 The World Wide Web ‘Blender’

06/21 Links 21/06/2023: Rusty Gophers and Back from Web3

06/21 EPO Staff Points Out That as the European Patent Convention Turns 50 It is Grossly Being Violated by Corrupt EPO Management

06/21 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 20, 2023

06/21 Links 21/06/2023: Titanic Darwin Award and Juneteenth

06/21 Links 21/06/2023: KDE Plasma 5.27.6 and Linux Mint 21.2 Beta

06/21 [Meme] European Union (EU) and Commission (EC) Talking a Lot About Poland, Not About the EPO, Which Obliterated the Rule of Law

06/22 Gemini Links 22/06/2023: Self-hosting and Belated Happy Birthday to Gemini

06/22 Gemini Links 22/06/2023: Cool Capsules of the Week and What Dystopia?

06/22 EPO and EPC Violations: With Unified Patent Court (UPC), Even the European Union and Commission Are Fully Culpable

06/22 Links 22/06/2023: GTK Evolving Accessibility

06/22 IBM/Red Hat Adds Code of Censorship to an Important GNU Project, GCC (the Compiler), Despite Longstanding Opposition From RMS and FSF (the Origins of GNU)

06/22 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, June 21, 2023

06/22 Linux Foundation Has New Report About ‘Open’… But It Uses Proprietary Software on Proprietary Platform

06/22 [Meme] EPO Mansplaining to the European Union and Commission

06/22 I Did Yet Another Rebuttal to FUD Against Linux and SSH. But Microsoft FUD on a Microsoft-Sponsored Web Site Kept Crashing OBS Studio, So I Had to Record Thrice.

06/22 Links 22/06/2023: Red Hat Obstructing RHEL Code Access

06/22 Holding the British Government Accountable for Pension Fraud With Many Victims: The Next Steps

06/22 [Image/Meme] If the Glove Fits. European Commission (Battistelli’s Friend, Mr. Breton), the EPO’s ****ing President, and Mr. UPC (Who Issues Threats to Techrights).

06/22 Gemini Links 22/06/2023: Zond 0.4.0

06/23 Gemini Links 23/06/2023: Amiga Archaeology and How to Kill a Decentralised Network

06/23 Links 23/06/2023: 25 Years of KDE Free Qt Foundation and Go 1.21 Release Candidate

06/23 Links 23/06/2023: SDL 2.28.0 Released, IBM Angers the Community

06/23 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 22, 2023

06/23 Sceptical of Cancel Artists in Corporate Press

06/23 Social Control Media is Going Away Gradually and People Need to Return to Self-Hosting, Blogs, RSS, Truly Independently News Sites

06/23 The IBM ‘Community’ is Very Busy, and They’re Not Even Telling Us All What This ‘Community’ Has Been Doing for 2 Months Already

06/23 Police Out of Control (or Oversight) – Part 10: A Month Has Passed, British Member of Parliament Snubbed by Action Fraud (UK Police)

06/23 What IBM Does to RHEL is Neither Surprising Nor Acceptable

06/24 Gemini Links 24/06/2023: A Brief History of Internet E-mail

06/24 Links 24/06/2023: Ardour 7.5 and Xonotic 0.8.6 Released

06/24 Links 24/06/2023: EasyOS 5.4.3 and antix 23 Beta 2

06/24 Gemini Links 23/06/2023: Galaxy Chat and Some New Projects

06/24 IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 23, 2023

06/25 Links 25/06/2023: Darktable 4.4.0 and firewalld 2.0.0

06/25 Links 25/06/2023: Godot Community Poll, More Discussion About RHEL

06/25 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 24, 2023

06/25 Police Out of Control (or Oversight) – Part 11: The Anatomy of Police Ignoring Fraud and Then Ignoring Politicians Who Inquire About That

06/25 Gemini Links 25/06/2023: Cold Start and Reducing Scope Creep

06/25 “The Times Said It Carried Out the Undercover Investigation After Hearing of Concerns That Reports to Action Fraud Were Not Being Investigated.”

06/25 [Meme] Upcoming Series Finale: Action Fraud (UK Police) Does Not Even Bother Responding to Elected Officials, Members of Parliament (Cops Accountable to Nobody, Not Tackling Government-Connected Crime)

06/26 Techrights Tackles DDOS Attacks

06/26 Things Looking Grim for Media Online and Even for Social Control Media

06/26 Not Business, Pleasure (Sharing Good Books, Good Food and So On)

06/26 Gemini Links 26/06/2023: Four Years’ Reflections

06/26 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 25, 2023

06/26 Linux Foundation Openly Disrespectful of Linux and Its Founder

06/26 Links 26/06/2023: Libreboot 20230625 and GNU Linux-Libre 6.4

06/26 Linux Foundation ‘Erased’ Linux From Linux.com

06/26 Links 26/06/2023: Linux (Kernel) 6.4 and Antitrust Catchup

06/26 Gemini Links 26/06/2023: Cypherpunk and Praise of elinks

06/26 Richard Stallman Explains Why Chatbots Are Not Artificial Intelligence (June 2023 Talk)

06/26 GNU/Linux in BRICS This Month: Almost 2.5% in Brazil and Russia, 14% in India, Growing in China, and Over 3% in South Africa (Not Counting ChromeOS)

06/27 On Top of Setting Up Kangaroo Courts for Patents, EPO is Working to Drive Out the Best Patent Examiners to Lower Quality and Grant More Fake (Invalid) European Patents Which Kangaroos Can Then Endorse

06/27 Gemini Links 27/06/2023: Gemini Communities and errno

06/27 Links 27/06/2023: Gentoo Improvements, Jeff Geerling is Done With Red Bait (IBM)

06/27 Links 27/06/2023: Graphics Work and Face-Saving Red Bait (IBM) Spin

06/27 IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 26, 2023

06/27 Gemini Links 27/06/2023: The Gemini PDA, Leadership and Management

06/27 Free Software Communities Make Red Bait (IBM), Google, Microsoft (GAFAM) and Others Obsolete, But They’re Fighting Back Viciously and Mercilessly

06/27 [Meme] Vladimir Putin’s Cousin From Germany

06/28 Quick Update on Sirius ‘Open Source’ Fraud: Matter Escalated to City of London Police

06/28 Almost 2,500 Known Gemini Capsules That Are Working, But There Are More

06/28 [Meme] The Hidden Cost of Governments Outsourcing to Private Companies

06/28 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 27, 2023

06/28 LibrePlanet Mailing List Censored Questions About Ukraine. Now It’s Not Willing to Talk About IBM’s Red Bait (RHEL) and Associated GPL Issues. (Updated)

06/28 Linux Foundation: Openwashing as a Service, Using Proprietary Software

06/28 Making Community

06/28 Free Software Foundation (FSF) Added Dr. Miriam Bastian as Program Manager to Its Staff Page Some Time Last Month

06/28 Gemini Links 28/06/2023: Many Net and Technology Musings

06/28 Links 28/06/2023: NVK Update and Ubuntu EoL

06/28 Sirius ‘Open Source’ Still Listing as Staff (‘Meet the Team’) People Who Resigned Almost HALF A DECADE AGO

06/28 Some People Who Signed a Defamatory Petition Demanding the Removal of Richard Stallman (From the FSF and Everything Else) Have Remorse

06/29 Canonical is a Microsoft Reseller

06/29 [Meme] Still Not Naming Clients of Sirius Open Source

06/29 Upcoming New Series: The Corporate ‘Cancel Culture’ Industry

06/29 Links 29/06/2023: Blender 3.6 and Godot 4.1 RC 1

06/29 Greater London Authority (London Municipality): We Don’t Know You All Once You’re the Victims of Fraud

06/29 Links 29/06/2023: Kernel Articles and InkBox OS 2.0

06/29 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, June 28, 2023

06/29 Gemini Links 29/06/2023: MIME Lies and CAPCOM Updates

06/29 MIT Technology Review, a Microsoft Propaganda Outlet

06/29 Greater London Authority (London Municipality), Which Oversees the Metropolitan Police/Action Fraud and Is Also a Sirius ‘Open Source’ Client for a Decade, Does Not Respond

06/29 [Meme] Many Months for Police to Come to the Scene of the Crime (Many Victims Confirming Crime Took Place)

06/29 Timeline of IBM Killing opensource.com Two Months Ago (Open Source Isn’t Important to IBM)

06/29 What Needs to Happen Next With Sirius ‘Open Source’

06/30 It’s Time to Boycott YouTube

06/30 This is How Phoronix Covers Microsoft’s Attack on Linux, Turning Mesa Into a Mess (Windows Code)

06/30 Links 30/06/2023: Fairphone’s CEO Leaves, Rocky Works Around IBM’s Red Bait Code Restrictions

06/30 The Google Gulag is Apparently Terminating Free Software Access to YouTube

06/30 Drew DeVault Has Lost the Plot

06/30 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 29, 2023

06/30 Microsoft is Batching the Next Round of Mass Layoffs to be Announced in a Few Weeks (While Media Makes Plenty of Noise to Distract/Divert for Microsoft)

06/30 Oops, I Did It Again (Microsoft Unveils the Failure of Azure)

06/30 The Mindset of Cops: To Avoid Getting Raped Don’t Wear a Miniskirt

06/30 You Only Had One Job, Linux Foundation Contractor (and You Blew It, for $2,500,000 a Year!)

06/30 [Meme] Remember That Revenue is Not Profit

06/30 2023 Will Be Remembered as the Year Social Control Media Was Dying

06/30 Techrights Strives to Publish Over a Dozen Posts Per Day Again, Here’s What’s to Come

06/30 Gemini Links 30/06/2023: Fingerprinting People on IRC and TOFU Ruminations

06/30 Twitter Has Just Been Unofficially Killed by Elon Musk (Date of Death: June 30 2023)

06/30 Links 30/06/2023: Wikipedia Moves to CC 4.0, Twitter Usage Sags

06/30 [Meme] To Google/YouTube, the User is the Enemy

06/30 [Meme] How to Solve Crime? Just Don’t Become a Victim. Simple.

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