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=> 01/01 Links 01/01/2023: 4MLinux 42.0 Beta and End of Year Posts | 01/01 Sirius ‘Open Source’ Abuses Grey Areas | 01/01 Links 1/1/2023: First for the Year! | 01/01 2022 in Gemini: More Code, New Planet/s, Many Videos, and Nice Utilities | 01/01 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, December 31, 2022

=> 01/01 Edvard Munch: Klaus Grabinski Met António Trump in 2022 | 01/01 Links 01/01/2023: 1,000th Edition of DistroWatch Weekly and Linux 6.2 RC2 | 01/01 Sirius Open Source Uses ‘Privacy’ as a Weapon Against Truth-tellers (Can’t Speak Outside Work, Always Hush-Hush) | 01/01 [Meme] You Can Punch, But the Joke is on You… | 01/01 Richard Stallman Recently Went to India to Give Talks

=> 01/01 Zemlins Should be Held Accountable Like Sam Bankman-Fried: Bakkt Nearly Penny Stock Now | 01/02 Analytics India Mag (AIM) is a Microsoft-Funded Propaganda Site (For Years Already) That Attacks Linux With Stigma and Lies | 01/02 CEO of Sirius ‘UK’ Uses Accountants as the Address of His Personal Business Too (Not Just Sirius Open Source/Corporation After 3 Address Rotations in Just 5 Weeks!) | 01/02 Links 02/01/2023: GNU Chinese Translators Team Reports Progress | 01/02 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 01, 2023

=> 01/02 Sirius ‘Open Source’ Misleading the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) on Security | 01/02 Sirius ‘Open Source’ Has Turned Workers Into Serfs/Slaves and Technical Work Into ‘Bullshit Jobs’ | 01/02 Sirius Open Source Inc. — A New Shell Created When Bill Gates Paid the CEO; Then the Company Immediately Turned Ugly and Hostile Towards Its Own Workers | 01/02 [Meme] Sirius Management Meeting | 01/02 How Sirius Open Source Presents Itself in Microsoft’s LinkedIn

=> 01/02 When Talking About Wrongdoing is Considered Impressible | 01/02 [Meme] Managers Who Attack Their Own Company, Treating Staff Like Enemies | 01/02 Links 02/01/2023: Ultramarine Linux 37 Released, Nitrux 2.6.0 Released, and Archcraft+Arch Linux ISOs for 2023 | 01/03 Analytics India Magazine, Sponsored by Microsoft, Helps Show That Microsoft Hates Linux and Still Attacks GNU/Linux With Relentless Lies | 01/03 Links 03/01/2023: Budgie Enters Fedora Linux 38 as ISO

=> 01/03 [Meme] How to Destroy One’s Own Company | 01/03 Links 03/01/2023: DragonFly BSD 6.4, KDE Plasma 5.26.5, and EasyOS 4.5.4 | 01/03 Links 03/01/2023: Fwupd 1.8.9 and helloSystem | 01/03 Stephen Fry Explains GNU and Free Software | 01/03 2023: New Highs for GNU/Linux Usage in Desktops and Laptops

=> 01/03 Happy 2023. Techrights Now Has Over 7,000 Objects in IPFS! | 01/03 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 01, 2023 | 01/03 IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 02, 2023 – corrected | 01/03 Still Rumours of Microsoft Layoffs This Month | 01/03 When You Realise That Your Employer Not Only Abandons Free Software But is Also Becoming Truly Dodgy (and Starts Taking Money From Bill Gates Under a Non-Disclosure Agreement)

=> 01/03 Where Sirius ‘Open Source’ Originally ‘Re’(Started) in 2017 | 01/03 Full Report on Sirius ‘Open Source’ Inc./Limited/Corporation | 01/03 The EPO is Lying or Just Strategically Faking It. There’s No ‘Unitary Effect’ at the EPO. There’s No Unitary Patent or Unified Patent Court (UPC) Either. | 01/04 Ethics for Hackers | 01/04 Links 04/01/2023: New Stable Kernels and HDR in Linux

=> 01/04 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 03, 2023 | 01/04 Links 04/01/2023: New Kernels in PCLinuxOS, Lighttpd 1.4.68 | 01/04 Microsoft: Four Rounds of Mass Layoffs in 12 Months? Some Rumours Say Five. | 01/04 Microsoft ♥ Michael Larabel | 01/04 Microsoft Windows Share in Africa: From 97% to Just 17% in 14 Years

=> 01/04 Sirius Management Either Trying to Bribe Us (for Censorship) or Lying to Us, Thereby Profoundly Damaging the Company | 01/04 Sirius Open Source Inc. Can’t Handle the Truth | 01/04 Links 04/01/2023: staticsite 2 and Kubernetes Stuff | 01/04 Looks Like GNU/Linux and Free Software Folks Are Exiting Twitter Fast | 01/04 [Meme] ‘Never Miss a Good Chance to Shut up’ — Will Rogers

=> 01/04 ‘Tech’ Media Cannot Tell the Difference Between Unpatched WordPress Plug-ins and ‘Linux’ (a Kernel) | 01/04 Canonical ♥ Microsoft (and Microsoft Pays for This Fake Love, No Need to Even Buy Canonical) | 01/05 Sirius Management Has Run Out of Feet to Shoot (It Keeps Getting Worse With Each Redundant Letter Sent to Former Staff) | 01/05 Google/YouTube Censors Expert for Linking to and Explaining New and Soon-Peer-Reviewed Paper, Published a Week Before Boxing Day | 01/05 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 04, 2023

=> 01/05 Links 05/01/2023: KDE Gear 22.12.1 and Debian Conflict of Interest Register | 01/05 Links 05/01/2023: Krita 5.1.5 Released and NVIDIA 525.78.01 Graphics Driver Ready | 01/05 Far More Microsoft Layoffs and Spending Cuts Than the Mainstream/Corporate/Tech Media Reports on | 01/05 The EPO is Cruel to Patent Examiners Because Corporations, Not Even European Ones, Always Come First | 01/05 [Meme] The Only Language EPO Management Can Understand

=> 01/06 [Meme] When Egotistic People Make Egoistic Companies Staff Becomes Disgruntled | 01/06 Links 06/01/2023: GNOME 44 Schedule is Ready | 01/06 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 05, 2023 | 01/06 When the Employer Becomes a Liar and a Bully | 01/06 Links 06/01/2023: risiOS 37.1.1 Released

=> 01/06 When the ‘Issue’ is People Who Speak About the Real Issue | 01/06 When the Employer Becomes an Egoistic Stalker | 01/06 Truth Hurts: Colleagues Sleeping With the Support Manager at Sirius Open Source Inc. | 01/07 Insufficient Time for Staff of the European Patent Office to Comment on Managers’ Proposals | 01/07 [Meme] Sirius Web Site: Rianne Runs Tux Machines. Sirius Stalker (Boss): Rianne Allegedly Runs Tux Machines.

=> 01/07 Links 07/01/2023: Gajim 1.6.0 and Many Security Incidents | 01/07 Gemini Net Gain in 2022 Compared to 2021 | 01/07 IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 06, 2023 | 01/07 Links 07/01/2023: Linux 4.9 Reaches End of Life | 01/07 Links 07/01/2023: GNUnet 0.19.2 and Nobara Project 37

=> 01/07 [Meme] Only Pretending Proposals Were in Fact Discussed With Staff! | 01/07 [Meme] Sherlock or Einstein Investigates… | 01/07 [Meme] Looking Down. Down, Down It Goes… (Penny Stock) | 01/07 When the Employer Asks for ‘Cool-off’ After Attacking Innocent Staff (Which Backfires) | 01/07 When the Employer Starts Acting Like an Obsessive and Jealous Ex-Boyfriend

=> 01/08 [Meme] Without Technical Staff There Won’t Be Sirius Open Source | 01/08 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 07, 2023 | 01/08 Links 08/01/2023: Ventoy 1.0.87 and OBS Studio 29.0 | 01/08 Links 08/01/2023: SparkFun Turns 20 | 01/08 Links 08/01/2023: Stopmotion 0.8.6 and Linux 6.2 RC3

=> 01/08 When the Employer Conflates a Two-Person Chat Outside Work With a Completely Unrelated Party | 01/08 The Original Sin: When the Employer Lies About Clients in Order to Justify a Fishing Expedition and Openly Start a Witch-hunt | 01/08 [Meme] Tux Machines is Not a Crime | 01/09 Links 09/01/2023: Kdenlive 22.12.1 and Alpine 3.17.1 | 01/09 When the Employer Doesn’t Grasp the Simple Fact That Lies Come Back at You (and Lying to Clients or Staff is a Very Bad Idea)

=> 01/09 Links 09/01/2023: Roundup of CRAN Packages and More | 01/09 [Meme] Database Down? Check Your Wallet. | 01/09 Corporations Becoming Faceless | 01/09 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 08, 2023 | 01/09 Team UPC is Trying to Misuse Copyright Law in Order to Censor Critics of the UPC Collusion (a Scheme to Violate Constitutions and Craft an Illegal Kangaroo Court in Defiance of International Conventions)

=> 01/09 When the Employer Doesn’t Pay the Bills, So Customers Suffer Outages/Downtimes, Repeatedly Even | 01/10 When the Employer Doesn’t Understand or Grossly Underestimates AWS Capacity Issues (and a Story of Lost E-mail in Clown Computing) | 01/10 Links 10/01/2023: EasyOS Dunfell-series 4.5.5, CoolerMaster’s MasterPlus Liberated | 01/10 IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 09, 2023 | 01/10 Links 10/01/2023: John Deere Surrenders a Little and Nadella Drops Hints of Upcoming Microsoft Layoffs

=> 01/10 [Meme] Censorship of Self-Incriminating Evidence | 01/10 Microsofters Stabbing People in Debian | 01/10 Links 10/01/2023: Lots on Gaming and More Twitter Departures | 01/10 More Than Half a Dozen Copyright Litigation Threats Sent to Techrights in Less Than Six Months Over EPO and UPC Articles (Misusing Copyrights for Censorship/Intimidation) | 01/10 Like Elon Musk at Twitter, Sirius is Passing Financial Liabilities to Suppliers by Not Paying (Sirius Clients Suffer as a Result)

=> 01/10 Links 10/01/2023: Yet More Security Issues in Rust | 01/11 Sirius ‘Open Source’: Let’s Waste 50,000+ British Pounds on Amazon ‘Clown’ Bills Even Though We Already Have Our Very Own Servers and Racks | 01/11 Links 11/01/2023: Microsoft is Bricking Windows Again | 01/11 Matthew Garrett Appointed to Debian Technical Committee Nearly 17 Years After Saying Debian Made Him Want to Stab the Volunteers Working on it. (And Himself.) | 01/11 Links 11/01/2023: Discourse 3.0 Released and GnuCash 5.0 Coming Soon

=> 01/11 [Meme] Freedom is ‘Hobbyist’ Anyway | 01/11 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 | 01/11 Meanwhile in Norway GNU/Linux and Chrome OS Exceed 15% Market Share (Updated) | 01/11 From ‘Punch a Nazi’ to ‘Punch a Debian Volunteer’ (or Even Stab) | 01/11 [Meme] The AWS Bill is Here

=> 01/11 [Meme] Sirius Management: I Can Do This All Day | 01/11 How Sirius Fell Deeply Into Debt and Split Itself Up Into Several Shells (Sirius Open Source Ltd., Open Source Inc., Corporation) | 01/12 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 | 01/12 Latest Rumour: Microsoft Layoffs Next Tuesday (January 17th, 2023) | 01/12 Links 12/01/2023: LibreOffice 7.4.4 and 15 New Videos

=> 01/12 Linux.com Dominated by Microsofters | 01/12 Links 12/01/2023: Mesa 22.3.3 and Converseen 0.9.10.0 | 01/12 Microsoft Management Contacted Sirius Open Source CEO to Complain About My Writings in Techrights Years Before Bill Gates Paid Him | 01/12 Overt Nepotism at Sirius: Not a New Problem | 01/12 [Meme] I Can Has Nepotism? Vouching for Romance.

=> 01/13 35.5K Posts | 01/13 Overt Nepotism at Sirius: A Fish Rots From the Head Down | 01/13 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 12, 2023 | 01/13 Links 13/01/2023: Mastodon Still Growing | 01/13 [Meme] The Nepotism Police

=> 01/13 Nepotism Ruins Otherwise Good Companies, Even Free/Open Source Software Companies | 01/13 [Meme] Qualifications Versus Sleeping With Debian Project Leader (or Sirius Manager) | 01/13 Links 13/01/2023: WINE 8 a Step Closer | 01/13 [Meme] Problems Will Be Solved When He Returns (Back Home) | 01/14 Links 14/01/2023: Dortmund Moving to Free Software

=> 01/14 Edda Franz, EPO’s Principal Director General Administration, Leaves EPO Amid Growing Chaos and Orchestrated Efforts to Divide the EPO’s Staff | 01/14 User Input ‘Forms’ — Akin to Webforms — in Gemini Protocol Using CGI (a Chess Game Example) | 01/14 IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 13, 2023 | 01/14 Links 14/01/2023: KDE Frameworks 5.102.0 and Mesa 23 RC | 01/14 [Meme] How EPO Presents the Male-Dominated EPO

=> 01/14 Microsoft Rumour Mill About January (and July) Waves of Layoffs | 01/14 [Meme] Sirius Almost Half a Million Behind (2 Years Ago) | 01/14 When the Employer Asks for Help or Personal Favours Outside Work (and Staff Cannot Politely Decline Because of the Salary) | 01/14 Sirius in the Era of ‘Husband and Wife’ (or CEO and Director) | 01/14 [Meme] Fully Allowed to Speak About Injustice

=> 01/14 New Word/Term for Microsoft Layoffs: Unlimited Time Off | 01/15 Distortion of Timelines and Chronic Cover-up at Sirius ‘Open Source’ | 01/15 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 14, 2023 | 01/15 Links 15/01/2023: MX Linux 21.3, Kodi 20, and LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.4 Released | 01/15 Links 15/01/2023: Linux 6.2 RC4

=> 01/15 Sunday (Holiday Weekend) News Drop: Microsoft is Dropping Its Offices in Its Homebase (Seattle) | 01/15 Microsoft: We’ll Need Less Space for Staff in 2023 | 01/15 Favours in the Workplace: Employing Someone and the Strict Boundaries of Contracts | 01/15 [Meme] Punch the Messengers | 01/15 [Meme] It Wasn’t Me

=> 01/16 Arrogant Management Won’t Admit Its Mistakes and Sometimes Take the Mistakes Even Further to ‘Prove’ It Was ‘Right’ All Along | 01/16 [Meme] ‘The Liar’ in the Headlines | 01/16 [Meme] Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht): Can’t See, Won’t Hear, Don’t Speak | 01/16 Management of the European Patent Office (EPO) is Gloating That the German Authorities Protect the EPO Even When Laws and Constitutions Are Broken | 01/16 Links 16/01/2023: GNU Diffutils 3.9 and Google Openwashing

=> 01/16 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 15, 2023 | 01/16 linuxsecurity.com (Brittany Day) Promoting Microsoft, Windows, and FUD Against GNU/Linux | 01/16 Rumour: Microsoft Managers Trained 4 Days Ago on How to Tell About 5,000 Microsoft Employees That They’re Sacked | 01/16 Links 16/01/2023: Mozilla Firefox 109 and Lejeune foundation Adopts GNU Health | 01/16 Links 16/01/2023: Microsoft RNDIS Ejected From Linux

=> 01/16 Matthew Garrett, Who Said He Wanted to Stab Debian Developers, is Working for Microsoft Inside Linux (to Remove Users’ Freedom) | 01/16 Comparing Technical Staff to Monkeys and Treating Them as Such | 01/16 In Turkey, a Land of 85 Million People, GNU/Linux Makes Big Strides | 01/17 [Meme] Cannot Speak to Friends If You Work at Sirius (Spouse Cannot Speak to Friends, Either) | 01/17 [Meme] Thanks to the German Government, the EPO is Immune/Protected From Prosecution (Persistent Law-breaking in the Name of ‘Upholding’ Patent Law)

=> 01/17 Patent Practitioners Complain That the EPO is Secretive and Incompetent | 01/17 [Meme] A Kinder, Gentler EPO Leadership | 01/17 Rumour: 6,000 More Employees Impacted by Microsoft Layoffs; Managers Informed Today, Staff Informed Tomorrow (Updated) | 01/17 IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 16, 2023 | 01/17 Links 17/01/2023: LibreOffice 7.5 RC2

=> 01/17 GNU/Linux Growing Fast in Ireland | 01/17 Techrights Was Right: 11,000 Workers to Be Culled in Microsoft Layoffs, According to Press Reports | 01/17 Links 17/01/2023: Plop Linux 23.1 Released | 01/17 Microsoft and Its Media Partners Are Rebranding Plagiarism as ‘Hey Hi’ (AI) to Trivialise the Abuse | 01/17 [Meme] Be the Fox

=> 01/17 Sirius and the Straw Man | 01/17 When the Employer Doesn’t Value the Staff and the Wishes/Advice From Staff | 01/17 Links 17/01/2023: VirtualBox 7.0.6 and Uruk 3.0 (Iraqi GNU/Linux) ‘Cinnamon’ Released | 01/18 Latest Rumour: Much Larger Wave of Microsoft Layoffs Already Planned for Later This Year (Updated) | 01/18 Android (Linux) Has Kicked Windows to the Curb in African Nations

=> 01/18 Microsoft Azure is So Amazingly Successful That Every Year Since 2020 It Has Layoffs (Even This Year) | 01/18 Media Policy: Repeat What Microsoft Spokespeople Are Saying, Don’t Investigate Simple Facts | 01/18 [Meme] It Was Never the Same After Bill Gates Paid the Sirius CEO Under a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) | 01/18 Sirius ‘Open Source’ Needed a Staff Union to Save the Company From Abusive, Corrupt Management | 01/18 Behind the Microsoft Layoffs There’s an Even Darker Reality

=> 01/18 Links 18/01/2023: GNOME Extensions Studied in GNOME Users’ ‘Survey’ (Opt-in Telemetry) | 01/18 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 | 01/18 Links 18/01/2023: Lakka 4.3 and Microsoft Confirms Mass Layoffs | 01/18 How Carbon Accounting Became a Cover for Fast-Languishing Sirius Open Source Ltd. | 01/18 [Meme] Spot the ‘Pirate’

=> 01/19 Links 19/01/2023: Release of DietPi 8.13 and Ubuntu Delays Due to Microsoft’s Restricted Boot | 01/19 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 18, 2023 | 01/19 Links 19/01/2023: Pandoc 3.0 and Debian 12 ‘Freeze’ | 01/19 Go West or Go Rogue? Sirius is Finished/Broke. | 01/19 Sirius With Its Likely Illegal Contract-Signing for a Company Worth One Pound

=> 01/20 [Meme] Slush Funds or Pocket Change From Bill Gates (Under NDA) | 01/20 Links 20/01/2023: Red Hat Satellite 6.12.1 is Out, FOSS Weekly Blocked by Google/Gmail | 01/20 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 19, 2023 | 01/20 PornHub Insights for 2022 Show Microsoft’s Consumer Division in Shambles | 01/20 Links 20/01/2023: Apple Releases Lisa Code Only 40 Years Later, Legacy OS 2023 and Netrunner OS 23 Released

=> 01/20 Sirius ‘Open Source’ Management Lies to All the Technical Staff to Trap Workers in a New Contract a Month Before Creating a Shell in the US for Bill Gates | 01/20 Everything Went to **** When Sirius Moved to the Same State as Microsoft (After Bill Gates Had Paid Sirius CEO) | 01/21 [Meme] Pressuring Staff Into Contract-Signing as Part of a Longstanding Pattern | 01/21 Links 21/01/2023: Sparky 2023.01 and ArchLabs Release | 01/21 Links 21/01/2023: GCompris 3.1 and General News

=> 01/21 IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 20, 2023 | 01/21 Links 21/01/2023: Johnnycanencrypt 0.13.0 and Lagrange 1.15 | 01/21 Sirius ‘Open Source’ Truly Rogue Since 2019 (Deceiving Everyone, Even Its Own Staff) | 01/21 Example of Sirius Management Abusing Technical Staff That is Ill (Working in Spite of Sickness) | 01/22 When Sirius Misleads Its Clients About Who Works at Sirius the Lies Propagate Further

=> 01/22 [Meme] ISO-Approved Bullying? | 01/22 [Meme] Stop Getting Ill! | 01/22 Links 22/01/2023: helloSystem 0.8 Released | 01/22 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 21, 2023 | 01/22 The ISO Delusion: How Sirius Picked Collaboration/Communication Tools That Harm Staff, Harm the Company, and Harm Its Clients

=> 01/22 Sirius ‘Open Source’ a Victim of Mismanagement and Sellout | 01/22 Links 22/01/2023: RSS Guard 4.3.0 | 01/23 Links 23/01/2023: Fwupd 1.8.10 | 01/23 Links 23/01/2023: mozilla.org’s 25th Anniversary and IceWM 3.3.1 Released | 01/23 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 22, 2023

=> 01/23 ISO Reality: The ‘Security’ Certifications Are Meaningless (Paid-for Papers) | 01/23 The ISO Train Wreck at Sirius ‘Open Source’ | 01/23 [Meme] ISO Certification for Paying for Certificates on Time | 01/23 Report: The So-called ‘Linux’ Foundation is Reducing Focus on Linux | 01/23 [Meme] Sirius is Not Open Source and Thugs Took Over the Company

=> 01/23 Links 23/01/2023: Many Pgpool-II Releases, risiOS 37 Reviewed | 01/23 [Meme] ISO Selling ‘Reputation’ to Small Businesses (for a Large Fee) | 01/23 Sirius Lying About ISO to Justify Giving the Technical Staff Some Classic ‘Bullshit Jobs’ While Censoring/Covering Up Incompetence | 01/23 [Meme] Truth is Not Defamation | 01/24 Azure Has Layoffs Again, Microsoft Still Cutting

=> 01/24 The Inside(r) Story of ISO ‘Certification’ Mills | 01/24 Links 24/01/2023: Wine 8.0 is Ready, FSF Bolsters Copyleft | 01/24 Links 24/01/2023: GStreamer 1.22 and Skrooge Gets New Site | 01/24 IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 23, 2023 | 01/24 [Meme] Medical Data Sovereignty

=> 01/24 The ISO Delusion: Sirius Open Wash Ltd. and Medical Data/Projects at Risk/Peril | 01/24 Links 24/01/2023: Tails 5.9 and ArcoLinux v23.02 | 01/25 Links 25/01/2023: NuTyX 23.01.1 and GNU Guile 3.0.9 Released | 01/25 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 | 01/25 ISO Certification Hardly Tackles Any of the Real Issues

=> 01/25 Links 25/01/2023: Pale Moon 32.0 and DXVK 2.1 | 01/25 Links 25/01/2023: Stratis 3.5.0 and Many Political Links | 01/25 The ISO Delusion: When the Employer Doesn’t Understand the Company’s Value Proposition (Building Systems) and Rejects Security | 01/25 New Record Low: Only One ‘Linux’ Article in ZDNet in More Than Two Weeks | 01/26 Companies Would Collapse Upon Abandoning Their Original Goals (That Attracted All the Productive Staff)

=> 01/26 [Meme] Cannot Get a Phone to Work… in 2022 | 01/26 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 | 01/26 Links 26/01/2023: LibreOffice 7.4.5 and Ubuntu Pro Offers | 01/26 [Meme] Listen to Your Workers, Avert Disaster | 01/26 The ISO Delusion: Sirius Corporation Demonstrates a Lack of Understanding of Security and Privacy

=> 01/26 [Meme] Modern Phones | 01/26 Links 26/01/2023: GNU poke 3.0 and PipeWire 0.3.65 | 01/27 Geminispace Approaching Another Growth Milestone (2,300 Active Capsules) | 01/27 Microsoft DuckDuckGo Falls to Lowest Share in 2 Years After Being Widely Exposed as Microsoft Proxy, Fake ‘Privacy’ | 01/27 This is What the Microsoft-Sponsored Media Has Been Hyping Up for Weeks (Ahead of Microsoft Layoffs)

=> 01/27 European Patent Office Staff Losing Hope | 01/27 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 26, 2023 | 01/27 Sirius Relegated/Demoted/Destined Itself to Technical Hell by Refusing to Listen to the Technical Staff (Which Wanted to Stay With Asterisk/Free Software) | 01/27 [Meme] António Campinos Wants to Be F***ing President Until 2028 | 01/28 IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 27, 2023

=> 01/28 Links 28/01/2023: Lots of Catching Up (Had Hardware Crash) | 01/28 The ISO Delusion/Sirius Corporation: A ‘Tech’ Company Run by Non-Technical People | 01/28 Unmasking AI | 01/29 Not Tolerating Proprietary ‘Bossware’ in the Workplace (or at Home in Case of Work-From-Home) | 01/29 Debian 11 on My Main Rig: So Far Mostly OK, But Missing Some Software From Debian 10

=> 01/29 Links 29/01/2023: GNOME 43.3 Fixes and Lots About Games | 01/29 Stigmatising GNU/Linux for Not Withstanding Hardware Failures | 01/29 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 28, 2023 | 01/29 Microsofters Inside Sirius ‘Open Source’ | 01/29 The ISO Delusion: A Stack of Proprietary Junk (Slack) Failing Miserably

=> 01/29 The Hey Hype Machine | 01/30 Links 30/01/2023: Coreboot 4.19 and Budgie 10.7 | 01/30 EPO Management Isn’t Listening to Staff, It’s Just Trying to Divide and Demoralise the Staff Instead | 01/30 Links 30/01/2023: Plasma Mobile 23.01 and GNU Taler 0.9.1 | 01/30 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 29, 2023

=> 01/30 The ISO Delusion: When the Employer Doesn’t Realise That Outsourcing Clients’ Passwords to LassPass After Security Breaches Is a Terrible Idea | 01/30 [Meme] With Superheroes Like These… | 01/30 Taking Techrights to the Next Level in 2023 | 01/31 60 Days of Articles About Sirius ‘Open Source’ and the Long Road Ahead | 01/31 Links 31/01/2023: elementary OS 7

=> 01/31 Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) and KU Leuven Boosting Americans and Cancellers of the Father of Free Software | 01/31 Links 31/01/2023: GNOME 44 Wallpapers and Alpha | 01/31 Intimidation Against Nitrux Development Team Upsets the Community and Makes the Media Less Trustworthy | 01/31 IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 30, 2023 | 01/31 Techrights in the Next 5 or 10 Years

=> 01/31 Links 31/01/2023: Catchup Again, Wayland in Xfce 4.20

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