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=> 02/01 How We Serve Video Without Outsourcing and Without the Web (to Some Extent) | 02/01 Crisis Text Line, a “Charity” Backed by Melinda Gates and Steve Ballmer, Collects Data From Suicidal People, Then Sells it to Advertisers and Other Third Parties | 02/01 IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 31, 2022 | 02/01 Why the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Cannot Enter Into Force, Based on the UPC Agreement Itself | 02/01 Unified Patent Court (UPC) Leak Shows That ‘Team UPC’ and the EPO’s Management Are Knowingly Breaking the Law

=> 02/01 Links 2/2/2022: Red Hat CFO Quits (Many Top-Level Resignations Lately) and GNU Screen Has New Release | 02/01 Links 1/2/2022: Trisquel 10.0 | 02/01 [Meme] Upload Filters, 2025 | 02/02 Links 2/2/2022: EasyOS 3.3 and Kiwi TCMS 11.1 | 02/02 AMD Apparently Sends Crates of CPUs to Phoronix (But It’s Definitely Not a Bribe!)

=> 02/02 Links 3/2/2022: System76 Scheduler and GStreamer 1.18.6 | 02/02 IBM Has Not Been Good to Red Hat (the Company Should Never Have Been Sold) | 02/02 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 01, 2022 | 02/02 Linux.com Used to Clock Millions of Hits Every Week, But Linux Foundation Can Barely Keep Thousands | 02/02 Darkening the Counterpart’s Reputation: Microsoft-Friendly (Sometimes Microsoft-Funded) Media Describing Every Security Issue — Even Windows Issues — as ‘Linux’

=> 02/02 Links 2/2/2022: Weston 10.0.0 and LibreOffice 7.3 | 02/02 One Year Since We Joined Geminispace and the Effort Has Paid Off | 02/03 500 Commits, Videos Over Gemini Protocol, and New (Abbreviated) Statistics Page for Gemini | 02/03 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 02, 2022 | 02/03 Links 3/2/2022: Peppermint 11 and KDE Gear 21.12.2

=> 02/03 [Meme] The ‘Influencers’ for Sale | 02/03 When Blogs Become Marketing and Benchmarks Become Product Promotions | 02/03 Techrights Statement on Phoronix | 02/03 Links 3/2/2022: GNU C Library 2.35 and Zorin OS 16 Education | 02/04 [Meme] Geneva Convention or Geneva’s Suggestion?

=> 02/04 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXXI: Public Service or Self-Service? | 02/04 Links 4/2/2022: Slackware 15.0 and GStreamer 1.20 | 02/04 ILO Tribunal Once Again Rules That the European Patent Office (EPO) Violates Fundamental Rights | 02/04 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, February 03, 2022 | 02/04 Links 4/2/2022: Zenwalk 15.0 and Libinput 1.20 RC1

=> 02/04 The United States Government Should Quit Bailing Out Microsoft at Taxpayers’ Expense | 02/04 [Meme] EPC 50th Anniversary Whitewash in Preparation… | 02/05 10,000 LOCs | 02/05 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXXII: A Parcel of Rogues? | 02/05 Links 6/2/2022: NuTyX 22.02.4, GIMP Taught in Libraries

=> 02/05 IRC Proceedings: Friday, February 04, 2022 | 02/05 [Meme] EPC Calling | 02/05 [Meme] Wrong People Given Too Much Power | 02/05 Links 5/2/2022: Qubes OS 4.1.0 and Ultimate Edition 7.5? | 02/05 Abandoning the EPC in Order to Promote Corporations-Led EPO With Kangaroo Courts (UPC) is Simply Illegal

=> 02/06 An Implementation of a Gemini-to-HTTP/S Proxy/Gateway in Perl | 02/06 Links 6/2/2022: Inkscape 1.1.2 and GNU Guile-SDL 0.6.0 | 02/06 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXXIII: A Legal No-Man’s Land | 02/06 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, February 05, 2022 | 02/06 Links 6/2/2022: LibreDWG 0.12.5 and FOSDEM 2022

=> 02/06 Links 6/2/2022: Absolute GNU/Linux 15.0 and Linux on IBM PalmTop | 02/06 [Meme] Almost a Decade for EPO Justice (Delayed, Hence Denied) | 02/06 Europe Has a Severe Corruption Crisis | 02/07 [Meme] Drunk on Power and Diplomatic Immunity | 02/07 EPO Pays Out Millions of Euros in Compensation — to Thousands of Workers Who Deserve a Lot More for Moral Damage — for Battistelli’s Illegal Acts (But Battistelli Himself Has Not Been Punished at All, Nor Have His Enablers)

=> 02/07 Links 8/2/2022: Fragments 2.0 and Comparing Various GNU/Linux Distros Online | 02/07 Self-Hosted Gemini Proxy (HTTP and HTTPS) | 02/07 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXXIV: Immunity = Impunity? | 02/07 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 06, 2022 | 02/07 Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XVII — Backsliding Into 1990s-Style Digital Slavery by Microsoft

=> 02/07 Links 7/2/2022: OpenMandriva Lx 4.3 Released and Lots About Patents | 02/07 Nobody Should be Above the Law | 02/07 The EPO is Bleeding in Courts | 02/08 Not Even Scabs Can Save EPO Management | 02/08 [Meme] EPO Immune System: Nothing Can Touch Us!

=> 02/08 EPO Staff Goes on Strike, Plans Partial Work Stoppage/Slowdown to Condemn Unlawful Meddling Designed to Lower Patent Quality and Patent Legitimacy (No EPC Compliance) | 02/08 Links 9/2/2022: Almost 400 New Members in the Free Software Foundation (FSF) | 02/08 Gemini Space Growing Tenfold in 2 Years Seems Possible and That’s Good News for the Planet and for Mental Health | 02/08 IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 07, 2022 | 02/08 Links 8/2/2022: New Tails Release and Kdenlive 21.12.2

=> 02/08 Links 8/2/2022: Plasma 5.24 and Maui 2.1.1 | 02/08 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXXV: In the Shadow of “Waite and Kennedy” | 02/09 [Meme] Team UPC and Team Battistelli Above the Law, Ignore the Law, Break the Law | 02/09 Links 10/2/2022: Epic Wants Rootkits in Linux and Serial GPL Violator VMware Launches Vicious FUD Attack on Linux | 02/09 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXXVI: An Erosion of Fundamental Rights Protection?

=> 02/09 Response to Gemini Misconceptions and Mythology (It’s Not Ugly or Just for Geeks) | 02/09 Despite Occasional Shutdowns, Geminispace Has a Net Gain of About 100 Working Capsules Per Month (It Has Accelerated Further in 2022) | 02/09 Links 9/2/2022: GNU Binutils 2.38 and Google Stadia Failing | 02/09 Staff Holding Management at the EPO Accountable | 02/09 [Meme] Drunk Driving, Like Son of António Campinos

=> 02/09 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 08, 2022 | 02/10 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XLVII: Institutionalised Injustice at the EPO? | 02/10 EPO Unjustified | 02/10 Links 10/2/2022: FOSDEM 2022 Stories and LibreOffice 7.3 Downloaded ~100,000 Times a Day | 02/10 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 09, 2022

=> 02/10 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, February 10, 2022 | 02/10 [Meme] EPO Courts | 02/10 [Meme] EUIPO-Styled Labelling for EPO | 02/10 Social Control Media is a Bubble and JoinDiaspora Might be the Next Casualty | 02/10 Links 10/2/2022: Sparky 6.2 and Learning Perl in 2022

=> 02/11 [Meme] Reminder That Battistelli Openly Boasted (in the Media) About the EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion | 02/11 Links 11/2/2022: RapidDisk 8.1.0 and Darktable 3.8.1 | 02/11 Links 12/2/2022: GNU Guile 3.0.8 and postmarketOS 21.12 Service Pack 2 | 02/11 Impending Data Migration and Gemini Gateway/Proxy Improvements | 02/11 [Meme] “Unfounded” Claims of Fundamental Rights at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> 02/11 Where Sir Paul Mahoney Has Failed to Protect EPO Staff From Injustice and Sheer Abuse | 02/11 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XLVIII: The Unkindest Cut of All | 02/11 Windows and Wintel (x86) Are Too Fat, and Not Evolving Fast Enough, to Actually Survive | 02/12 100 New Gemini Capsules in 18 Days, So Geminispace May Double in Size This Year | 02/12 Links 12/2/2022: Kalendar 1.0 and EasyOS 3.4

=> 02/12 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part L (50, Final): 2010 – 2022: Business as Usual? | 02/12 The EPO Crisis | 02/12 [Meme] EPO Governance | 02/12 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XLIX: The Rise and Fall of Battistelli’s “Social Democracy”… | 02/12 [Meme] Importing Corruption, Voting Fodder, and More

=> 02/12 IRC Proceedings: Friday, February 11, 2022 | 02/12 Links 12/2/2022: Istio 1.13 and New Stuff in KDE | 02/12 [Meme] Only Yellow Unions Allowed in Red EPOnia? | 02/13 A Criminal Legacy (and Present) of the European Patent Office, Europe’s Second-Largest Institution | 02/13 [Meme] The Man Who Owned Everything

=> 02/13 Mainstream GNU/Linux Distros Add Gemini Clients to Their Repositories as Sign of the Recognition of This Protocol’s Growth | 02/13 Links 13/2/2022: Intel Thread Director and RISC-V | 02/13 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, February 12, 2022 | 02/13 Links 14/2/2022: MariaDB 10.7, KDE Frameworks 5.91.0, and Linux 5.17 RC4 | 02/13 Latest Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) Patterns Against “Linux” (the Real Issue is Proprietary Software)

=> 02/14 ‘Reprehensible’ GNOME Foundation Leadership Falls on Sword While Richard Stallman Returns | 02/14 [Meme] Asking the Newsman for Information | 02/14 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 13, 2022 | 02/14 No Need for a Diaspora Away From JoinDiaspora, as the Pod Looks Like It’ll Survive After All | 02/14 Links 15/2/2022: pgAdmin 4 6.5, Kali Linux 2022.1, and KaOS Linux 2022.02

=> 02/14 Links 14/2/2022: KDE on ARM | 02/14 When It Comes to Patents, Lies Have Become the ‘Norm’ | 02/15 IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 14, 2022 | 02/15 Links 15/2/2022: AV Linux MX-21 and KDE Plasma 5.24.1 | 02/15 Geminispace Will be Better Off When All Users Are Self-Hosting Their Own Capsules

=> 02/15 GNU/Linux Runs Most of the World’s Servers and Linux Powers About Half of the World’s Client Side While Represented by People Who Neither Use Nor Understand Either of Those | 02/15 Links 16/2/2022: xf86-input-wacom 1.0 | 02/15 YouTube is Becoming Mostly SPAM | 02/16 Links 16/2/2022: IBM in Very Hot Water Over Ageism | 02/16 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 15, 2022

=> 02/16 News Over Gemini Protocol — Both Official and Scraped | 02/16 When Only Rich and Powerful Corporations Can Use Slurs and Hurt Marginalised/Vulnerable People | 02/16 Links 17/2/2022: Firebird 3.x Sub-Release and Simula One in About a Year | 02/16 Links 16/2/2022: XWayland 22.1 and Thunderbird Patched | 02/17 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 16, 2022

=> 02/17 Mozilla CEO Increased Her Salary From 2.5 Million Dollars to Over 3 Million in One Year (10+ Times More Than Her Peers’ Salaries) Despite Poor Performance and They Still Want Donations | 02/17 Links 17/2/2022: CloudReady is Ready (Rebranded), Quality Testing of the Linux Kernel | 02/17 Links 18/2/2022: Snap Flaw, PinePhone Reviewed | 02/17 The World of ‘Linux’ Through the Lens of ZDNet in 2022 | 02/18 BREAKING NEWS/EXCLUSIVE: António Campinos Confirms That He is Seeking Reappointment

=> 02/18 Links 18/2/2022: EasyOS 3.4.1 Soon, Media Conflating Snap With ‘Linux’ | 02/18 FFII: In PL Holdings, European Court of Justice Confirms EU Law Cannot be Outsourced to International Courts Like Unified Patent Court (UPC) | 02/18 List of Currently Active Gemini Capsules on the Internet | 02/18 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, February 17, 2022 | 02/18 Linux Foundation Board in 2022: 86% Corporate and 81% Proprietary Software Companies

=> 02/18 Rest Assured the Linux Foundation Does Not Really Speak for Linux (Not Anymore) | 02/18 LXer Not Reachable Since February 16th (Updated) | 02/18 [Meme] Megaphone of António Campinos | 02/18 [Meme] A ‘Social Democracy’ Where Every Vote is for Sale | 02/18 Links 18/2/2022: Bottles 2022.2.14 and RedNotebook 2.23

=> 02/19 Links 19/2/2022: Alternatives to Adobe InCopy and Alternatives to Firefox | 02/19 There’s a Pie in the Face (on Its Way to EPOnia) | 02/19 [Meme] António Campinos Does to Europe What His Country Did to Africa | 02/19 IRC Proceedings: Friday, February 18, 2022 | 02/19 Links 19/2/2022: Libinput 1.20.0 and Fedora Woes

=> 02/19 Snap is Not Linux and the Sky is Not Falling | 02/20 Links 20/2/2022: Free Software in U.S. Department of Defence and GNOME 42 in Focus | 02/20 EPO Management Still Treats EPO Workers Poorly, Even During Pandemic | 02/20 [Meme] EPO “Upskilling” | 02/20 There Was Never ‘Web 2.0′, So There Cannot be ‘Web 3′ and the Future of the Web Doesn’t Look Good

=> 02/20 Geminispace Has Thousands of Contributors (Writers and Developers) | 02/20 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, February 19, 2022 | 02/20 Links 20/2/2022: IPFire Test Release and PeaZip 8.5.0 | 02/20 The Patent Distortion: Weekly Series About Failure of the Media to Properly Explain Patents and Generally Cover the News | 02/21 Dear Mr. Rowan

=> 02/21 ‘European’ Patent Office (EPO) Accelerates Outsourcing of Its Operations to the United States of America, Quite Likely in Defiance of GDPR and Basic Common Sense | 02/21 Links 21/2/2022: GNU Guile-SDL 0.6.1 and Windows Woes in Ukraine | 02/21 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 20, 2022 | 02/21 Today Begins a Battle for Rights of Patent Examiners at the EPO | 02/21 Links 21/2/2022: Sven Guckes Remembered, Five Pgpool-II Releases

=> 02/22 About 5 New Gemini Capsules (Equivalent of Web Sites) Per Day | 02/22 António’s EPO is Dead, Long Live the EPC? | 02/22 [Meme] When Managers Do Not Understand the Staff (or Refuse to Understand It) | 02/22 [Meme] Military-grade Propaganda in EPO.org This Past Week | 02/22 IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 21, 2022

=> 02/22 Links 22/2/2022: GNOME 42 Beta and Istio Flaw | 02/22 [Meme] Oversight at the EPO | 02/22 [Meme] IAM’s Patent Benchmark | 02/22 EPO — Both the Patent Office and the Patent Organisation — Celebrating Constitutional Violations, Covering Up Human Rights Abuses, and Promoting the Facilitators | 02/22 Links 22/2/2022: Slax 11.2.0, OpenBSD 7.1 Beta

=> 02/23 [Meme] We’ve Been Here Before… | 02/23 Links 23/2/2022: OpenSSH 8.9, Levente Polyak Cemented as Arch Project Leader, Intel Acquires Linutronix | 02/23 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 22, 2022 | 02/23 [Meme] Artificial ‘Productivity’ | 02/23 Links 23/2/2022: Samsung Failing People, SQLite 3.38 Released

=> 02/23 Links 24/2/2022: TrueNAS SCALE 22.02 and ‘Linux’ FUD in Ukraine Clothing | 02/23 What EPO Staff Really Thinks | 02/23 SPAM is Ruining the World Wide Web and We Need to Talk About That | 02/24 [Meme] Josef the Spectator | 02/24 European Council Complicit in European Patent Office (EPO) Abuses

=> 02/24 Better Late Than Never: ILO Subjects the EPO’s Management to Some Belated Justice (Sans the Removal of Immunity, so Nobody is Being Held Accountable) | 02/24 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 | 02/24 The End of JoinDiaspora. Thanks for All the Fish… | 02/24 [Meme] Patent Invasion | 02/24 Under IBM Management, Red Hat Has No Will to Survive

=> 02/24 Links 25/2/2022: GIMP 2.99.10, NetworkManager 1.36, and MythTV 32.0 | 02/24 We Need to Start Self-Hosting Wherever and Whenever Possible | 02/24 Links 24/2/2022: Little About Tech as Ukraine Dominates News | 02/25 Links 26/2/2022: AlmaLinux OS 8.5 for PowerPC and IBM’s CEO Arvind Krishna in Trouble | 02/25 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, February 24, 2022

=> 02/25 Links 25/2/2022: Arch Hurd and Official Release of Steam Deck | 02/25 Links 25/2/2022: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS and Steam Deck Day | 02/26 Geminispace Syndication | 02/26 IRC Proceedings: Friday, February 25, 2022 | 02/26 CAUTIONARY TALE: Ukraine’s Story Shows Proprietary Software Ought to be Avoided

=> 02/26 Why We Don’t Issue (Purely) Political Messages | 02/26 Links 26/2/2022: Wine 7.3 and Some Linux Gadget Reviews | 02/27 Free Software at Times of War (Versus Microsoft Graft) | 02/27 Gemini Will be Okay, Even If Some People Try to ‘Extend’ It | 02/27 Links 27/2/2022: Coreboot 4.16 and GNUnet 0.16.0

=> 02/27 It’s Too Late to Change All the Infrastructure When War Erupts or Escalates | 02/27 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, February 26, 2022 | 02/27 [Meme] Microsoft Complicity | 02/27 Links 27/2/2022: Lots About Tech in Russia and Ukraine | 02/27 Links 27/2/2022: Astro Slide From Planet Computers and TeXworks 0.6.7

=> 02/28 Links 1/3/2022: Armbian 22.02 and Document Foundation (LibreOffice) Starts Sanctions | 02/28 The EPO is Run by Dictators, Elected Staff Representatives Are Left Out of Key Consultations | 02/28 You Cannot Understand GitHub by Reading Microsoft-Subsidised Media Reports About GitHub | 02/28 Links 28/2/2022: Glimpse at LMDE 5 Beta and Release of HPLIP 3.22.2 | 02/28 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 27, 2022

=> 02/28 Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XVIII — The Story of NPM | 02/28 [Meme] Munich Agreement | 02/28 [Meme] Free Software is Inclusive… | 02/28 The Patent Distortion: Promotion of Illegal Agenda (and Nobody Could Mention Industrial Action/Strikes at EPO, Protesting Illegal Agenda) | 02/28 Links 28/2/2022: Linux 5.17 RC6 and YottaDB 1.34

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