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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 08, 2025
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Layoffs and Shutdowns at IBM, Not Just Microsoft
↺ Layoffs and Shutdowns at IBM, Not Just Microsoft
Same as Microsoft
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With Workers Back From a Holiday Weekend, Microsoft Layoffs Carry on, More Waves to Come
↺ With Workers Back From a Holiday Weekend, Microsoft Layoffs Carry on, More Waves to Come
Now it's Monday and people are bad to work, even some journalists
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You Need Not Wave a Rainbow Flag This Month to Basically Oppose Arseholes Looking to Disrupt and Divide the Community
Don't fall for it
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What Miguel de Icaza and Microsoft Lunduke Have in Common
↺ What Miguel de Icaza and Microsoft Lunduke Have in Common
Similar aims, different methods
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The 'Corporate Neckbeard' is Not the "Good Guy"
↺ The 'Corporate Neckbeard' is Not the "Good Guy"
Works for IBM
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Microsoft's Nat Friedman Became Unemployed the Same Time the SLAPPs Against Techrights Started Coming From His Friends (Weeks After We Had Exposed Scandals About Him and the Serial Strangler, His Best Friend, Who Got Arrested a Few Days Later)
Nat Friedman is not "Investor, entrepreneur"
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Weeding Out Extremism in Our Community
↺ Weeding Out Extremism in Our Community
To me it seems like Microsoft Lunduke is rapidly becoming like a "hate preacher" who operates online, breeding an extremist ideology or trying to soften its image
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Censorship Versus Fact-Checking and Quality Control
↺ Censorship Versus Fact-Checking and Quality Control
It's not censorship but a matter of quality control
New
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The FSF's (Free Software Foundation, Inc.) 2025 Summer Fundraiser Already Past Halfway Line
↺ The FSF's (Free Software Foundation, Inc.) 2025 Summer Fundraiser Already Past Halfway Line
This is where GNU/Linux actually started
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Mozilla Had No Good Reason to Outsource Firefox Development to Microsoft
↺ Mozilla Had No Good Reason to Outsource Firefox Development to Microsoft
What does Mozilla plan to do when GitHub shuts down?
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Mozilla Firefox Did Not Die, It Got Killed
↺ Mozilla Firefox Did Not Die, It Got Killed
To me it'll always look like Mozilla got killed by its sponsors, especially Google, which had a conflict of interest as a sponsor
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Dalai Lama Succession as Evidence That Determined, Motivated People Can Reach Their Nineties
↺ Dalai Lama Succession as Evidence That Determined, Motivated People Can Reach Their Nineties
And we need to quit talking about their death all the time
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Dan Neidle, Whom Brett Wilson LLP SLAPPed (on Behalf of Corrupt Rich Tax Evaders), Still Fighting the Good Fight
Neidle fights for the poor people
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Wayland Should Start by Dumping Its Very Ugly Logo
↺ Wayland Should Start by Dumping Its Very Ugly Logo
Wayland wins the "ugliest logo" award every year
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Stop Focusing on Hair Colours, Focus on Corporate Agenda
↺ Stop Focusing on Hair Colours, Focus on Corporate Agenda
If someone commits a crime, it does not matter if his or her hair was mostly white or there was no hair or a wig or whatever
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Links 07/07/2025: Science, Conflicts, and a Fictional K-pop Group
↺ Links 07/07/2025: Science, Conflicts, and a Fictional K-pop Group
Links for the day
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Gemini Links 07/07/2025: Being a Luddite and Announcement of Gotify
↺ Gemini Links 07/07/2025: Being a Luddite and Announcement of Gotify
Links for the day
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Links 07/07/2025: XBox Effectively 'Dead', DMCA Subpoena Versus Registrar
↺ Links 07/07/2025: XBox Effectively 'Dead', DMCA Subpoena Versus Registrar
Links for the day
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The Nasty Smear (and Stereotype) of "Neckbeard" or "Greybeard" is Ageism
↺ The Nasty Smear (and Stereotype) of "Neckbeard" or "Greybeard" is Ageism
This is the sort of stuff they might try to volley at critics of Wayland
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Why Many of Us Use X Server and Will Continue to Use It For Many Years to Come
↺ Why Many of Us Use X Server and Will Continue to Use It For Many Years to Come
Don't make this about politics
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Brett Wilson LLP Uses Threats to Demand Changes to Pages or Removal of Pages Without Even Revealing Which Staff Member Does That (Sometimes People From Another Firm!)
This has been in the public for years
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Dan Neidle Said "It Really Then Became a Job of Tormenting" Lawyers Like Brett Wilson LLP (Who Threatened Him for Exposing Crimes, Just Like They Threatened My Wife a Few Months Later)
he and his wife decided to take on the evil people and their evil lawyers
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Large Language Models (LLMs) Externalise Their Cost to the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
↺ Large Language Models (LLMs) Externalise Their Cost to the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
"The forty-sixth Free Software Bulletin is now available online!"
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Reinforcing the Allegations Some More, Bryan Lunduke Digs His Own Grave
↺ Reinforcing the Allegations Some More, Bryan Lunduke Digs His Own Grave
In his latest episodes he merely repeats his own lies, which I debunked using evidence right from his own mouth
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Global Warming and Free Software as a Force of Mitigation
↺ Global Warming and Free Software as a Force of Mitigation
we'll need to think about Software Freedom, not just brands like "Linux"
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Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
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IRC Proceedings: Sunday, July 06, 2025
↺ IRC Proceedings: Sunday, July 06, 2025
IRC logs for Sunday, July 06, 2025
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Gemini Links 07/07/2025: BaseLibre Numerical System and TUI Rant
↺ Gemini Links 07/07/2025: BaseLibre Numerical System and TUI Rant
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