Techrights

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1. 7 NovAt The Register MS the Net Liabilities Doubled in One Year, Tangible Assets Down About 35% in One Year
2. 7 NovIntercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXII - Running One's Mouth (updated)
3. 7 NovAnother 20 Years of Exposing Corruption
4. 7 NovEPO Budget and Finance Committee (in Very Recent Meeting) Increases Bribes to People Who Vote on Campinos Reappointment ("Cooperation Activities")
5. 7 NovLinks 07/11/2026: London's SLAPP Industry Now Targets Kirkenes (Northern Norway) at the Behest of Corrupt Thieves in Russia and Microsoft’s 'Buyout' Offer Crashes Microsoft Systems
6. 7 NovLinks 07/11/2026: "The Moon is Waning Crescent", Homeworlds, and "Can't Handle The AVIF!"
7. 7 NovOver at Tux Machines...
8. 7 NovIRC Proceedings: Friday, November 06, 2026
9. 6 NovIBM Compels Workers - Even at Red Hat - to Become "Retired-ish"
10. 6 NovLinks 06/11/2026: "XBox Is Closer Than Ever to Being Sold Off" and "BuzzFeed Stock in Free Fall"
11. 6 NovGemini Links 06/11/2026: Dao and Dreams
12. 6 Nov20 Years of Techrights
13. 6 NovLinux (and Linus Torvalds) Sleepwalking Into a Binance-Level Catastrophe With Slop 'Code'
14. 6 NovVitaly Orlov Weaponises Deep Pockets to Leverage High Court of Justice in London for Censorship and Punishment of Critics
15. 6 NovIntercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXI - What I Told British Police About Lozza the Same Month Garrett Was Preparing His First Nastygram From 'Hired Guns' Brett Wilson LLP
16. 6 NovOutsourcing at IBM
17. 6 NovThe Register MS: Turnover Fell by Over a Million Pounds (About 20%) in One Year, Administrative Expenses Rose by Almost Half a Million Pounds, The Register MS Operates at a Loss (updated)
18. 6 NovLinks 06/11/2026: Slop "Companies Race to Lock Down Oil Clients" and Salon Shuts Down
19. 6 NovOur Third Decade
20. 6 NovFreedom Is Not Free of Charge, Freedom Can be Very Expensive
21. 6 NovIntercontinental Brigading - Part XXXX - Swatting by Proxy
22. 6 NovIntel Craters at Taxpayers' Expense (Bailouts for Failing Companies Simple Don't Work)
23. 6 NovMass Layoffs at IBM, Also Outsourcing to India
24. 6 NovOver at Tux Machines...
25. 6 NovIRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 05, 2026
26. 6 NovDuring Strikes and Industrial Actions Lots of EPO Staff Organised Yesterday and Will Do the Same Next Week
27. 6 NovGemini Links 06/11/2026: Hadestown and "Where Has the Electronics Shop Gone?"
28. 5 NovLinks 05/11/2026: Rule of Law Vanishing in Turkey, Joshua Wong Still Martyred by Chinese Regime
29. 5 NovGemini Links 05/11/2026: Classical Music, Politics, and Seeed Studio
30. 5 NovLike Almost Every Slopfarm, UbuntuBuzz Seems to Have Thrown in the Towel
31. 5 NovEPO 'Midterm' Elections Should Oust the Dictator
32. 5 NovSecret IBM Layoffs and Increase in PIPs (Silent Layoffs)
33. 5 NovLinks 05/11/2026: "Voice is Underutilized" and How Data Centres Lost the Midterm Elections
34. 5 NovIntercontinental Brigading - Part XXXIX - Crime Numbers Regarding GGG (Americans) and Why Those Still Matter
35. 5 NovIntercontinental Brigading - Part XXXVIII - Telling the Police About the Defamatory Blog Where Posts Targeted My Wife and I (From Across the Atlantic Ocean)
36. 5 NovThe Register MS is Losing Money Again, Based on The Register MS
37. 5 NovThere Are No "Layoffs" Anymore, Layoffs Got Rebranded
38. 5 NovGemini Links 05/11/2026: Rivers of London, Soul Cakes, STMicroelectronics, and Slop
39. 5 NovThe Register MS Has Just Published Fake Article With "AI" 84 Times in the Page Because It Was Paid to Do This!
40. 5 NovOver at Tux Machines...
41. 5 NovIRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 04, 2026
42. 4 NovLinks 04/11/2026: Slop Helps Break Laws and Scam Altman Pretends Chatbots Are Persons (updated)
43. 4 NovGemini Links 04/11/2026: Abacus and Spare IT Equipment
44. 4 NovViet Nam and Thailand at High Adoption Levels of GNU/Linux, Other Nations Nearby Are No Exception
45. 4 NovRichard Stallman on What It's Like to be Threatened by Strangers With Software Patents
46. 4 NovIntercontinental Brigading - Part XXXVII - Tasteless, Tactless Time for "Virtue-Signalling" (When Your Actions Are Much Like the GOP's) (updated)
47. 4 NovStealth Layoffs at IBM (PIPs and Bailouts)
48. 4 NovUnited Arab Emirates: GNU/Linux at Over 8% (updated)
49. 4 NovAs XBox Goes Out of Business Helen Chiang Adds Insult to Injury (updated)
50. 4 NovSteven Vaughan-Nichols is Slop
51. 4 NovThe Register MS is "Hosting a Dinner" for Sponsors
52. 4 NovIntercontinental Brigading - Part XXXVI - A Potent Microsoft Threat to Administration of Justice Globally (Not Just Fair Elections)
53. 4 NovIntercontinental Brigading - Part XXXV - When One Does Not Understand Security (Nor Ever Pursues Security)
54. 4 NovLinks 04/11/2026: "Democratic Establishment" Wins Big and "Pentagon Sued Over Hegseth’s New “Future of Warfare” Committee Led by Musk"
55. 4 NovIntercontinental Brigading - Part XXXIV - Women as Hostages, Even Spouses
56. 4 NovA Geminispace Tally
57. 4 NovIntercontinental Brigading - Part XXXIII - Shooting the Messenger is a Presidential Tactic
58. 4 NovAndy's Latest Writings About Proton CEO Andy Yen, "JavaScript Required", and Slavery in Technology
59. 4 NovIntercontinental Brigading - Part XXXII - Malfunctions Reported in Windows Voting Machines (as Usual)
60. 4 NovGemini Links 04/11/2026: GoAccess, Adopting Gopher, and Twisty Passages
61. 4 NovOver at Tux Machines...
62. 4 NovIRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 03, 2026
63. 3 NovIntercontinental Brigading - Part XXXI - Microsoft and Promoters of "Secure Boot" Are to Blame
64. 3 NovLinks 03/11/2026: Science Around "Near-Death Experiences" and "Do Animals Grieve?"
65. 3 NovGemini Links 03/11/2026: Guitar, 3D-Printable Electric Spinning Wheel, Against Haven Social, and More
66. 3 NovIntel Corporation Down Over 51% in One Month, the US Bailout Didn't Work
67. 3 NovMicrosoft European Development Centre (EDC) Next to be Culled?
68. 3 NovIntercontinental Brigading - Part XXX - Breaking This Year’s Election Process With Bug Doors in Restricted Boot (updated)
69. 3 NovMass Layoffs at SUSE, Over 10% of Staff Gone
70. 3 NovWhen You're a Software Developer and They Tell You That Your Occupation is Dead or Dying in Order to Sell Dysfunctional Offerings Based on Hype (and Plagiarism)
71. 3 NovLinks 03/11/2026: Slop-Tied Debt is Becoming a Crisis (Lenders Panic), "Ukrainian Journalists Urge Global Media Not to Look Away From Russian Aggression"
72. 3 NovMalaysia Seems to be Exploring Digital Independence With GNU/Linux and More
73. 3 NovMicrosoft Windows is Crashing in Republic of South Korea
74. 3 NovThink Less, Aim for Less (When It Comes to Hardware)
75. 3 NovGemini Links 03/11/2026: Stargazing, Linux-Powered Prism "Ambient Computer", and Abandoning Streaming Disservices
76. 3 NovGNU/Linux Made Big Strides in Portugal This Year
77. 3 NovGNU/Linux in Argentina Now Measured at 8% "Market Share"
78. 3 NovMicrosoft is Borrowing Loads of Money While Telling 60,000 Workers to Take the "Offer" and Leave, Microsoft Wants Bailouts From the Dictator
79. 3 NovMicrosoft and Spoilt Food
80. 3 NovIntercontinental Brigading - Part XXIX - Undermining US Election While Engaging in Lawfare in England (BBC) Against Publishers That Cover Anti-Election Violence (updated)
81. 3 NovOver at Tux Machines...
82. 3 NovIRC Proceedings: Monday, November 02, 2026
83. 2 NovLinks 02/11/2026: Bracing for US Election and New Zealand Has November 7 Election
84. 2 NovGemini Links 02/11/2026: Beginning With Gemini Protocol, Looking for CoCs, and Slop for Local Data
85. 2 NovNDA-Compatible PIPs and RAs at IBM Red Hat
86. 2 NovThe Tower of Babel (updated)
87. 2 NovWhen Large American "Tech" Companies Can No Longer Complete Payroll (updated)
88. 2 NovGNU/Linux Rises in African's Largest Population
89. 2 NovThe Register MS Has Just Published a Fake Article With "AI" 28 Times in the Page (Communist Party of China Entity Paid for That)
90. 2 NovWindows Down to All-Time Low, Says statCounter, While Microsoft Tells 60,000 Workers They're No Longer Necessary
91. 2 NovA British Uphill Battle to Eliminate Microsoft and Its American Back Doors
92. 2 NovWriting for Good (updated)
93. 2 NovTechnical Coverage of US Elections
94. 2 NovBy Killing the "Linux News Section" in Softpedia (the Most Popular Section, Based on Its Editor) Softpedia Killed Itself
95. 2 NovLinkspam in "It's FOSS" Today (and It's Not Even FOSS)
96. 2 NovLinks 02/11/2026: Slop Destroying Mathematics and "Democracy is Not on the Ballot" (in US)
97. 2 NovCelebrating Photography, Celebrating Life, Celebrating Magnificent Humanity, Not Plagiarism Disservices
98. 2 NovYear-Long Celebration Starts on Saturday
99. 2 NovIntercontinental Brigading - Part XXVIII - Microsoft Doesn't Want People to Speak About Microsoft-Controlled Restricted ('Secure') Boot, a Silent Injustice and Back Door/Kill Switch (updated)
100. 2 NovOn Desktops/Laptops, Clownflare Sees Windows at Under 60% and GNU/Linux at 15% This Past Weekend
101. 2 NovMicrosoft Lunduke is Slop
102. 2 NovIntercontinental Brigading - Part XXVII - Shooting the Messengers (People Who Oppose Microsoft Back Doors), Even Across the Atlantic
103. 2 NovMicrosoft Wants 60,000 Employees Gone (One Way or Another)
104. 2 NovOver at Tux Machines...
105. 2 NovIRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 01, 2026
106. 2 NovJean-Claude Van Linus
107. 1 NovGemini Links 01/11/2026: OpenBSD, Broken MicroHDMI, Nextcloud, and More
108. 1 NovIBM Vapourware on a Budget (to Grab Bailouts From US Taxpayers)
109. 1 NovMicrosoft Accenture in Trouble, Accenture’s Debt Skyrockets
110. 1 NovMicrosoft Says Its "Goodwill" Value Has Been Declining for Years, But It Also Claimed That Doubled in One Year
111. 1 NovSkyChatz: From Nothing to #2 in IRC (in Less Than a Year)
112. 1 NovMaking Up Words or Inventing a Vocabulary
113. 1 NovAssange on What Lula Means to Free Press
114. 1 NovGNU/Linux is No Underdog (But There Are Attempts to Put It "To Sleep")
115. 1 NovIntercontinental Brigading - Part XXVI - The "Law and Order" Candidate Who Crushes Both Law and Order and Even Rejects Election Outcomes (Insurrection Follows)
116. 1 NovLinks 01/11/2026: Malaysian Media Perishing, France Belatedly Identifies Social Control Media as Weaponised Yellow Press
117. 1 NovGemini Links 01/11/2026: "Trick-or-Treating seems to be dead, at least in our neighborhood"; BaseFree Numerical System and Human Emacs
118. 1 NovLinks 01/11/2026: Digital Ninimalism and "Palantir Cofounder Announces Cruel Plan to Breed Thousands of Lab Monkeys for Medical Experiments"
119. 1 NovOver at Tux Machines...
120. 1 NovIRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 31, 2026
121. 31 OctGemini Links 31/10/2026: MangoWM, Qutebrowser and Codeberg, Plugh
122. 31 OctMassive Cuts Inside Microsoft (the Media Does Not Talk About That) (updated)
123. 31 OctIn US Government Sites, GNU/Linux Measured at New All-Time High of 7% (or About 10% Across Desktops/Laptops Alone)
124. 31 OctIntel Has Just Lost in One Single Day Over 150 Billion Dollars in 'Value' (Market Cap), Intel is Also Over 50 Billion Dollars in Debt
125. 31 OctThey Hate Him Because He's Effective
126. 31 OctAudience Growing in Spite of the Deluge of Webslop
127. 31 OctThe Munich FUD Tactics (Microsoft Modus Operandi): Microsoft-Connected Sites Claim Denmark Failed With Free Software, But That's Not What Actually Happened
128. 31 OctLinks 31/10/2026: John Romero Comeback After Being Shafted by Microsoft, Google Faces Criminal Probe Over Deforestation in Finland
129. 31 OctGemini Links 31/10/2026: Rambling on Self-hosting and Ad Video Screens Don’t Make Money
130. 31 OctCan't Trust Big Banks, Let's Try 'Bros' Instead?
131. 31 OctIRC's Growing Popularity in 2026
132. 31 Oct"AI" as Surrogate for Debt and Distraction From Computing (Bots Described as "Agents" and/or Any Form of "Intelligence" is More Like a Religion)
133. 31 OctIntercontinental Brigading - Part XXV - Election Integrity at a Time of Back Doors and Very Severe Bugs in UEFI
134. 31 Oct"The Judge Accepted That Mrs Schestowitz Had Been the Subject of a Vicious Campaign of Online Harassment"
135. 31 OctGemini Links 31/10/2026: Hallowe'en and "Thinking About People"
136. 31 OctLinks 31/10/2026: The Hinge on Apple's Constantly Breaking New Foldable iPhone Was "Built With Slop", Slop Causes Cash Squeeze GAFAM
137. 31 OctAmazon's Debt Skyrockets by Almost 100 Billion Dollars in 9 Months (updated)
138. 31 OctGoogle Illegally Destroyed a Quarter Million Trees Without a Permit for a Hypothetical Project That Might be Cancelled, Debt Has Soared by 30 Billion Dollars in 3 Months ($10 Billions Borrowed Per Month)
139. 31 OctSlavery at Microsoft
140. 31 OctMany People "Left" Red Hat This Month, Including Yesterday (updated)
141. 31 OctGemini Links 31/10/2026: "Where I Draw the Line With" Slop Plagiarism and "Nobody Cares That You're Leaving Proton" (Over Slop)
142. 31 OctOver at Tux Machines...
143. 31 OctIRC Proceedings: Friday, October 30, 2026
144. 30 OctLinks 30/10/2026: "Over 41,000 DHS Employee Records Leaked Online" and Concerns Over Radicalism in France
145. 30 OctIntercontinental Brigading - Part XXIV - It's an Inherently American Issue and American Elections Are at Risk From Restricted ('Secure') Boot and LLM Chatbots (Disinformation at Scale)
146. 30 OctBirss Replaces Vos in UK's High Court, LLM Slop Plagiarism a Contentious Issue (updated)
147. 30 Oct"Early Retirement" (Silent Layoffs) for Everybody Except the Executives
148. 30 OctDespite the Mass Layoffs Microsoft's Debt Soared by 5.1 Billion Dollars in Just 3 Months (updated)
149. 30 OctGemini Links 30/10/2026: Solar MiniBBS, Kubernetes With FreeBSD, "Sysadmin Day"
150. 30 OctMicrosoft Layoffs Far Worse Than the Media Tells (Microsoft Spin Laundered as "Reporting")
151. 30 OctLinks 30/10/2026: Google Crashes on Slop Disappointment and GAFAM's "Data Center Blitz Is Burning Through Cash and Scaring Wall St."
152. 30 OctFake 'Articles' in The Register MS Concerning "AI"
153. 30 OctWhat Linus Torvalds Told Me Two Decades Ago
154. 30 OctGNU/Linux as a Free Software Platform is More GNU (and GPL) Than Linux
155. 30 OctWho Or What Are Security Professionals/Experts?
156. 30 OctIntercontinental Brigading - Part XXIII - What Garrett Did Puts Elections at Risk (Also in His Own Country, Where a Dictator Trusts Only Machines That 'Support' Him)
157. 30 OctGemini Links 30/10/2026: RIP Patrick Stewart and Amp Integration
158. 30 OctOver at Tux Machines...
159. 30 OctIRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 29, 2026
160. 29 OctThe Metric is Not the Mission
161. 29 OctMore Than 5 Years Have Passed Since Official Release of Vista 11 and in the US It's Measured as Only 3 Times Bigger Than GNU/Linux on the Desktop/Laptop
162. 29 OctIt's About Intention, Not Attrition, at Microsoft
163. 29 OctThe Next 50 Years of Emacs (and GNU)
164. 29 OctLinks 29/10/2026: Microsoft-Connected and Funded Openwashing at FOSDEM, Tragedy in Spain
165. 29 OctGemini Links 29/10/2026: London, Worcestershire, and Robot Exclusion Protocol
166. 29 OctThe Register MS is Publishing Spam About "AI" for HP, Sponsored by HP, Even Composed by HP
167. 29 OctLinks 29/10/2026: Anthropic Still Sued Over Copyright Infringement (Plagiarism Isn't "Training"), Elon Musk Openly Admits He Helps Putin Crush Ukraine
168. 29 OctIntercontinental Brigading - Part XXI - Techrights Was Right, So Why Was It Punished by Lawfare While the Culprits Walk Away Scot-free?
169. 29 OctIntercontinental Brigading - Part XXII - Still "Radio Silence" From "Restricted Boot" Perpetrators (After Techrights Proven Right Again)
170. 29 Oct'Secure' Boot Is Not Secure, Here Are News Reports About the Latest Evidence
171. 29 OctNo, Microsoft Isn't Doing Well (It Has Struggled for a Long Time)
172. 29 OctWhat Makes Techrights a Community
173. 29 OctLinux Links 29/10/2026: Refractor Stargazing and Making Better Use of RAM in Linux
174. 29 OctOver at Tux Machines...
175. 29 OctIRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 28, 2026
176. 28 OctProject Glasswing and PHP2Shell vulnerability
177. 28 OctTurning Point for the Slop Industrialists
178. 28 OctLinks 28/10/2026: Slop Bubble Pops in China, Rocky Linux Creator Becomes Slopper, Openwashing by the Slop Pushers Explained
179. 28 OctGemini Links 28/10/2026: Slop Plagiarism Considered a "Weapon", "Completely restored HTML interface to the Orbital Fox mailing list"
180. 28 OctThe Corrupted Corporate Media is Spinning Massive Microsoft Layoffs as "Investment in AI" Instead of Evidence That "AI" Nonsense is Catastrophic (updated)
181. 28 OctLinks 28/10/2026: "Rest of World Faces Prospect of Shutting Down" and Robert Reich Says "Musk Wants Me Imprisoned"
182. 28 OctGemini Links 28/10/2026: Cold Outside Again and Maths
183. 28 OctIntercontinental Brigading - Part XX - Restricted and Moot, or How 'Secure Boot' Turns Out to be a Disaster (Again) This Week
184. 28 Oct100 Years of IBM Racism
185. 28 OctRacism at Microsoft
186. 28 OctIntercontinental Brigading - Part IX - Literature About Malignant Narcissists in America Silencing the Press (updated)
187. 28 OctCompelling Examiners at the European Patent Office to Fake "Growth" (in Patent Monopolies) Using Slop and Sloppy Processes
188. 28 OctOver at Tux Machines...
189. 28 OctIRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 27, 2026
190. 27 OctThe Cyber Show on Plagiarism (BS Artists) and Fear of GNU/Linux Users
191. 27 Oct"EVENTS" as Paid Spam (Marketing) at The Register MS
192. 27 OctJust Jealous
193. 27 OctThe Need for Operating System Kernels That Forbid LLM Slop
194. 27 OctGemini Links 28/10/2026: BaseFree Numerical System, Tolino Vision 2, and More (updated)
195. 27 OctLinks 27/10/2026: "Why My Dad Didn’t Have a Cell Phone" and Sudan Famine Risk
196. 27 OctLinks 27/10/2026: Google Increases Spying on Online Everything (Personal Files, Mail), Anthropic Takes Its Losses and Debt Public
197. 27 OctIntercontinental Brigading - Part XVIII - Microsoft is Not the Victim (It Was Never the Victim), It's Just DARVO
198. 27 OctThe British Economy Too Dependent on an American Slop Scheme
199. 27 OctWe've Already Begun Work on the 20th Year of Techrights
200. 27 OctIntercontinental Brigading - Part XVII - The Relevance of Silent Layoffs at Microsoft (updated)
201. 27 OctVolunteers or Unpaid Developers Won't Bother Interacting With Mindless LLMs That Pass Labour From Lazy Companies to Human Beings
202. 27 OctSlop is Killing the Open Web
203. 27 OctOver at Tux Machines...
204. 27 OctIRC Proceedings: Monday, October 26, 2026
205. 27 OctAs Microsoft Tells Close to 30% of Its Staff to Leave IBM Takes Notes
206. 27 OctIt's Perfectly Possible That Microsoft Has Just Told Most of Its American Workers to Leave
207. 27 OctRichard Stallman Was Right About "Hey Hi"
208. 27 OctGemini Links 27/10/2026: "To Change or Not To Change?" and "Initial Planner Plans"
209. 26 OctIntercontinental Brigading - Part XVI - The Faustian Pact That Irritates Hired Guns is Still a Distraction From the Serious Harm Done by Their Clients to GNU/Linux Users (Notably Plagiarism and Back Doors)
210. 26 OctLinks 26/10/2026: Microsoft Chaffbot "Building Detailed Psychological Profiles of Its Users", Man Executed for Childhood Offenses
211. 26 OctGemini Links 26/10/2026: Writing Down Dreams and "Sabbath as Resistance"
212. 26 OctThe Register MS Gets Rid of Disclosures About Paid-for Spam Regarding "AI", It Also Composes Fake News for the Sponsors
213. 26 OctMicrosoft 'Buyouts' Sound Just Like 60,000 Layoffs of 'Expensive' or More Experienced Staff ('Soft' Layoffs or Even Worse, Negligible Severance) (updated)
214. 26 OctThis is How Microsoft Ends (Over a Quarter of the Company Now on the Chopping Block)
215. 26 OctSearch Without Encryption for Legacy Systems (Permacomputing) and Full Backward Compatibility
216. 26 OctShift to the Lula (Left)
217. 26 OctMore Stories and Material Than We Can Publish
218. 26 OctEuropean Patent Office Takes From the Poor to Give More to the Rich
219. 26 OctIntercontinental Brigading - Part XV - Annualised Consequences for Opposing Microsoft Back Doors in Linux Since 2012
220. 26 OctLinks 26/10/2026: China’s Communist Party Plenum and Aleksandar Vucic Concedes Defeat
221. 26 OctIn Reporting, Timing is Everything (updated)
222. 26 OctLinks 25/10/2026: Microsoft Layoffs and Cuts, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Wins Election
223. 26 OctGemini Links 26/10/2026: Brazilian Politics and Leaving Bear Blog
224. 26 OctOver at Tux Machines...
225. 26 OctIRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 25, 2026
226. 25 OctAnother Form of Microsoft Silent Layoffs: Workers That 'Expire'
227. 25 OctCarte Blanche for GPL Violations 4 Days Ago (by Torvalds)
228. 25 OctThere Are No Women That Are Kernel Developers Sent by Corporations Which Claim to Champion Diversity
229. 25 OctSites with "Linux" in Their Name Cannot Slop and Retain Readers
230. 25 OctAt Microsoft, the Silent Layoffs Impact Executives Also
231. 25 OctLinus Torvalds Defected to Enshittification
232. 25 OctLinks 25/10/2026: TMZ Revisits Epstein's Connections to Bill Epsteingate, "Italy Hit by New Cost of Living Protests" (updated)
233. 25 OctMicrosoft’s Spin About Mass Layoffs and Shutdowns: They "Never Should Have Existed"
234. 25 OctIt's Slop
235. 25 OctIntercontinental Brigading - Part XIV - Six Years of Learning Irish, But the Real Issue Was Microsoft-controlled 'Secure' (Restricted) Boot (updated)
236. 25 OctGemini Links 25/10/2026: Moana (2026) and OpenBSD Updates
237. 25 OctThe Netherlands Fast to Adopt GNU/Linux, "Market Share" Rises to Two-Digit Value (on Desktops/Laptops)
238. 25 OctDST Still Needs to Get Abolished
239. 25 OctPHP2Shell as Paid-for FUD Campaign (Intended to Help Sell Slop and Fake "Market Value" of Slop Pushers)
240. 25 OctMicrosoft Sort of Tried to Sell XBox Piecewise (Offloading Microsoft) (updated)
241. 25 OctOver at Tux Machines...
242. 25 OctIRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 24, 2026
243. 24 OctGemini Links 24/10/2026: Arch Linux Journey and Amin Bandali's Priorities
244. 24 OctBluewashing as a Form of Silent Layoffs
245. 24 OctTurning 20 in 2 Weeks and Upcoming Network Maintenance
246. 24 OctMicrosoft Shutdowns Accelerating, More Shutdowns Revealed (Not Connected to Gaming)
247. 24 OctLinks 24/10/2026: Microsoft Blackmail and Lingering Unrest in France:
248. 24 OctGemini Links 24/10/2026: From Bendigo to Kerang, Enshittification of Radio and Music in the UK
249. 24 OctRed Hat Sinks With the Blue (IBM) Ship
250. 24 OctThe "No Pain No Gain" Expectations in Publishing
251. 24 OctLinux is Not Controlled by Linus (Torvalds)
252. 24 OctIntercontinental Brigading - Part XIII - Censorship by All Means Available in a Continent So Far Away, as 'Secure' (Restricted, Restriction by Microsoft) Boot Has a Crisis of Legitimacy
253. 24 OctLinks 24/10/2026: Oligarchs Already Buy US Elections, GAFAM Front Group "EFF" Speaks of "Vulnerability Apocalypse"
254. 24 OctGemini Links 24/10/2026: Automobile Differential Tire Movement, Samsung Washer Woe, and Slop Scraping
255. 24 OctOver at Tux Machines...
256. 24 OctIRC Proceedings: Friday, October 23, 2026
257. 23 OctAs Usual, Late on a Friday XBox (Microsoft) Releases Evidence of Its Demise
258. 23 OctGemini Links 24/10/2026: Break/Fix and OpenStreetMap
259. 23 OctLinks 23/10/2026: Slop "is Scaling Transnational Repression" and Infringement and DMCA Suits Against Suno/Anthropic (Plagiarism Blenders)
260. 23 OctMore Shutdowns at Microsoft, Hundreds of Workers Impacted Shortly (updated)
261. 23 OctThe Register MS: About 60 Mentions of "AI" in One Day Are Paid-for Spam (Sponsored Hype, Composed by the Companies Covered)
262. 23 OctLinks 22/10/2026: MElon (Elon Musk) Election Interference and Perl/Raku Foundation by the Numbers
263. 23 OctTechrights Audience Grew as a Function of the Intensity of Attacks on Its Existence
264. 23 OctTechRepublic is Becoming a Slopfarm
265. 23 OctTechrights is Not About GNU/Linux, Tux Machines Is
266. 23 OctThe World Needs Activists With Social Skills and Perseverance (updated)
267. 23 OctIntercontinental Brigading - Part XII - Lawfare to Cover Up Microsoft's Restricted Boot Calamity (Microsoft as Authority Over Linux), Garrett Wants to Talk About Penises Instead
268. 23 OctWithout Microsoft's Monopoly (and Monopoly Rents) the Inevitable Microsoft Mass Layoffs Carry on Endlessly
269. 23 OctIBM's Debt Grew About $2 Billion in 3 Months
270. 23 OctOver at Tux Machines...
271. 23 OctIRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 22, 2026
272. 22 OctGemini Links 22/10/2026: Solar MiniBBS, Building Major Tom, and Zig
273. 22 OctLinks 22/10/2026: Busan’s Celebrity Shark in Canal Again
274. 22 OctLinks 22/10/2026: "Software Developers Have Been Promoted Into Incompetence"
275. 22 OctIntercontinental Brigading - Part XI - Losing Over a Million Pounds (Borrowed Money) to Try to Silence Critics of Restricted Boot With Microsoft-Controlled "Certificates" (updated)
276. 22 OctLinks 22/10/2026: eBay to Lay Off a Tenth of Staff (Again), Node.js and PHP Security Crises, Climate News
277. 22 OctRed Hat Layoffs Still Going on This Week (Whilst IBM's Debt Grows in Spite of Mass Layoffs)
278. 22 OctIBM's Debt Continues to Increase While the Company Rapidly Shrinks
279. 22 OctLinux Kernel Needs Diversity and Diversity of Good Code, Not LLM Slop
280. 22 OctMicrosoft Shrinks Every Year
281. 22 OctGemini Links 22/10/2026: Holiday Inn and Emacs
282. 22 OctOver at Tux Machines...
283. 22 OctIRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 21, 2026
284. 21 OctTechrights Was Right About a Fake Security Model Built Around Lies or Built Upon Trust in "Certificates" and "Authorities" (like Microsoft)
285. 21 OctWindows Monopoly is No Longer Sustainable (the Case of Oceania)
286. 21 OctSome Downtime Possible Shortly (Router Work)
287. 21 OctMass Layoffs at Microsoft This Week and/or Next Week
288. 21 OctWith Its Future on the Line, EPO Management (Dictatorship) Resorts to Further Escalations to Fake 'Production' and Curtail Industrial Actions
289. 21 OctGemini Links 21/10/2026: Summer Day in Tokyo (30c in Late October) and Whole Food for the Whole World
290. 21 OctLinks 21/10/2026: "Zelensky Took the Gloves Off This Time With Convicted Felon" and "Cellebrite iPhone Radio Zero-Day"
291. 21 OctReuters is Becoming Slop, Not a News Agency (Treat Reports From Reuters Sceptically)
292. 21 OctDisclosure/s Crisis at The Register MS (Promoting a Ponzi Scheme for Money)
293. 21 OctLinks 21/10/2026: "The Tragic Death of the Republican Party" and "No War But Data Center War"
294. 21 OctInternet Relay Chat Still Growing
295. 21 OctIntercontinental Brigading - Part X - American Back Doors Inside Our Computers, With Transatlantic Swatting Against Critics Thrown 'Into the Mix'
296. 21 OctGemini Links 21/10/2026: A Walk Through Amsterdam and Pythagorean Theorem
297. 21 OctMore Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Weeks From Now, Then Again Months From Now
298. 21 OctOver at Tux Machines...
299. 21 OctIRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 20, 2026