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Recent Posts as of Jan 19, 2025

=> Video: University in Peru Honours Richard Stallman (update)

Tomorrow, January 20, Richard Stallman speaks in France

=> January 20: Richard Stallman Talk in Europe (update)

evening time in Europe, around midday in the United States and Canada

=> FOSDEM is Called "FOSDEM" Because of Richard Stallman (RMS)

The overlap there seems timely; yesterday RMS spoke in French-speaking (in part) Switzerland where questions in French were accepted

=> Links 19/01/2025: TikTok (Fentanylware) Now Banned in the US, Convicted Felon Talks to Fentanylware CEO and Pooh-Tin About Undoing the Ban Despite the Supreme Court Unanimously Upholding It

Links for the day

=> FTC Realises Microsoft Buying Fake 'Clients' to Fake "Revenue" (Microsoft 'Buying' Services and Products From Itself!)

Ponzi scheme

=> Total Lock-down Ambitions - Part III - The Web Browser as DRM Pusher

A lot of "streaming" stuff is DRM

=> IBM Termination Story and Information From Microsoft About Mass Layoffs

In 2 weeks of 2025 Microsoft already had 2 waves of layoffs

=> Over at Tux Machines...

GNU/Linux news for the past day

=> IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 18, 2025

IRC logs for Saturday, January 18, 2025

=> Links 18/01/2025: Restoring the Great Wall of China and Economic Expansion in China

Links for the day

=> Guardian Digital (linuxsecurity.com) is Spamming the Web With Microsoft's Promotional LLM Slop About UEFI 'Secure' Boot (Which is Against Real Security)

This is an attack on honest journalism

=> Links 18/01/2025: TikTok's Endgame, "Car Freedom", and Spying in Cars 'Fines' GM (Settlement)

Links for the day

=> Links 18/01/2025: Apple Getting Out of Hey Hi (AI) Slop (Too Much Misinformation), Chaffbots/Chatbots Try to Settle Copyright Infringement Lawsuits

Links for the day

=> What Fake News Sites Are Doing to GNU/Linux

The LLM slop about Linux serves two purposes

=> Links 18/01/2025: Microsofters Upset at Microsoft's Ridiculous Rebrands (Excuse for Massive Price Hikes), Chaffbot Company ('Open'AI) Faces More Lawsuits

Links for the day

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