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=> 03/01 Links 01/03/2023: End of HP Dev One | 03/01 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 28, 2023 | 03/01 Links 01/03/2023: More TikTok Bans | 03/01 NOW: Pensions Lies to Its Customers and Protects Abusers | 03/01 OSI: The Voice of Microsoft

=> 03/01 The European Patent Office Cannot Survive This Way | 03/02 Links 02/03/2023: Arti 1.1.2 and Guile-CV 0.4.0 | 03/02 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, March 01, 2023 | 03/02 Links 02/03/2023: KDE Gear 22.12.3 and Phipps Versus Standard-Essential (Software) Patents | 03/02 Links 02/03/2023: diffoscope 237 and New LibreOffice Release

=> 03/02 Hard Times for Microsoft (Not Just the Waves of Layoffs) | 03/03 The EPO’s Attack on ALL EPO Staff Explained Using a Parable/Analogy | 03/03 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 02, 2023 | 03/03 Thoughts on Microsoft Stabber Joseph Cantrell’s Drug Diary | 03/03 The EPO Grants Illegal Patents. EPO Managers Hope That a Kangaroo Court Can Endorse Illegal Patents.

=> 03/03 Links 03/03/2023: NuTyX 23.02.1 and Linux 6.2.2 | 03/03 Microsoft Stabber Joseph Cantrell’s Drug Diary Part II: Homophobic Nazi “In Defense of Pedophilia” Turned Down by Hundreds of Employers Along the Way | 03/03 Links 03/03/2023: QOwnNotes 23.3.0 and ShinyProxy 3.0.0 | 03/03 Techrights is Improving | 03/03 Links 03/03/2023: TikTok Bans Expand

=> 03/04 IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 03, 2023 | 03/04 Links 04/03/2023: Lots of Fedora and Politics | 03/04 Links 04/03/2023: Linux From Scratch 11.3 and Mixxx 2.3.4 | 03/04 Sirius ‘Open Source’ CEO Leaves Sirius | 03/05 The Only ‘Green’ EPO Management Understands is Money

=> 03/05 Links 05/03/2023: Linux 6.3 RC1 and GStreamer 1.22.1 | 03/05 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 04, 2023 | 03/05 Brave Search Jumps on the Large Language Model Bandwagon | 03/05 Links 05/03/2023: ScummVM for Android and GNU/Linux ‘App Store’ | 03/05 Android Exceeding 60% in China? Windows in a Freefall?

=> 03/05 Microsoft Windows During COVID-19: From 80% Down to 70% (on the ‘Desktop’) | 03/05 Links 05/03/2023: Wine 8.3 and Xubuntu Visual Tour | 03/06 Links 06/03/2023: LibreELEC 11 Released and Deutsche Telekom Spreads Nextcloud | 03/06 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 05, 2023 | 03/06 Microsoft Is an Ethical Not “Religious” Problem

=> 03/06 Links 06/03/2023: GNU grep 3.9 and New Garuda | 03/07 Links 07/03/2023: Audacious 4.3 and Apt 2.6.0 | 03/07 IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 06, 2023 | 03/07 Links 07/03/2023: Flathub in 2023 and Kdenlive 22.12.3 | 03/07 Links 06/03/2023: rpminspect 1.11 and Mozilla Enlarges the Boards

=> 03/07 Links 07/03/2023: More Technical News Sites Shut Down, Rust for Linux Explained | 03/08 CoC Extremism Has Cost Debian (and Its Derivatives) the Main KDE Maintainer | 03/08 Links 08/03/2023: DeaDBeef 1.9.5 and Linux Format Reaches 300 | 03/08 Links 08/03/2023: EndeavourOS Cassini Nova | 03/08 Links 08/03/2023: FEX 2303 Tagged and Investing in RSS

=> 03/08 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 07, 2023 | 03/08 Microsoft Employees Run for Board of the OSI, ‘Forget’ to Disclose Working Full Time for Microsoft | 03/08 Sirius ‘Open Source’ Pensiongate: It’s Beginning to Look Like a Criminal Matter and Sirius is in Serious Trouble | 03/09 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, March 08, 2023 | 03/09 Links 09/03/2023: Social Contrrol Media Rotting Further

=> 03/09 Links 09/03/2023: Mesa 22.3.7, Samba 4.18.0, Peek Discontinued | 03/09 Links 09/03/2023: LibreOffice 7.4.6 and Sparky 2023.03 | 03/10 Links 10/03/2023: Bodhi Linux 7.0.0 Alpha and Thunderbird for Android Coming | 03/10 EPO Weaponises International Women’s Day to Cover Up Its Attacks on Women | 03/10 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 09, 2023

=> 03/10 Links 10/03/2023: Release of MAAS 3.3 and Chaos at EUIPO/EPO (Connected to Abuses) | 03/10 Sirius ‘Open Source’ Pensiongate: A Long Story Merits Many Videos | 03/10 Despite the Paid-for (Very Fake) Hype for Microsoft Chatbots, Bing Falls to Lowest Share in Years | 03/10 Links 10/03/2023: New siduction | 03/11 Links 11/03/2023: Collapse of Misbehaving Banks

=> 03/11 Links 11/03/2023: Curl is 25 | 03/11 IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 10, 2023 | 03/11 Links 11/03/2023: KDE Frameworks 5.104 and Openwashing | 03/12 Mozilla and Many Other Companies Are in Trouble as Silicon Valley Bubbles Are Bursting | 03/12 Links 12/03/2023: GNOME Extensions Site Adds Download Counts

=> 03/12 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 11, 2023 | 03/12 The Sirius Pensions Heist Confirmed by the Pension Provider | 03/12 Links 12/03/2023: GNOME Development Report and Companies in Panic Over SVB | 03/13 Links 13/03/2023: Firefox 111 and FreeBSD 13.2 RC2 | 03/13 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 12, 2023

=> 03/13 Links 13/03/2023: GNU Octave 8.1.0 and Scrcpy 2.0 | 03/13 Sirius UK CEO Resigns (or Gets Sacked) and Completely Deletes His Whole Past With Sirius ‘Open Source’ | 03/14 Links 14/03/2023: Git 2.40.0 and Much SVB Fallout | 03/14 Links 14/03/2023: AMD Defects and GNOME 44 Release Candidate | 03/14 Suspicions That Microsoft Has Begun Blocking Linux Developers From Russia (Updated)

=> 03/14 IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 13, 2023 | 03/14 Links 14/03/2023: KDE Plasma 5.27.3 and Fedora Linux 38 Beta | 03/14 Microsoft Has Had THREE Waves of Layoffs in Less Than Three Months (Yes, It’s Happening Again) While Media Obsesses Over ‘HEY HI’ Vapourware | 03/14 How Poorly ‘Standard Life’ Has Dealt With Pension Fraud | 03/14 Remuneration and Pensions at the EPO Reduced (Relative to Inflation), Guaranteeing a Decline in Quality of Work

=> 03/14 The EPO Treats Its Own Staff Like Trash and Quality/Legitimacy of the EPO’s Work is, Expectedly, Reduced to Trash | 03/15 Links 15/03/2023: DietPi 8.15 and digiKam 7.10.0 | 03/15 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 14, 2023 | 03/15 Ken Thompson, Who Co-created UNIX, is Now Moving to Debian GNU/Linux (Raspbian) | 03/15 Links 15/03/2023: Qubes OS 4.1.2, Mozilla Swallows Buzzwords

=> 03/15 Founder of the Free Software Movement, Richard Stallman, Turns 70 | 03/15 Links 15/03/2023: Transmission 4.0.2 and Lots in Geminispace | 03/16 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 | 03/16 Links 16/03/2023: OpenSSH 9.3 Released and WordPress 6.2 Release Candidate 2, Lapdock News | 03/16 NOW: Pensions Lying, Obstructing and Gaslighting Clients After Months of Lies, Delays, and Cover-up (Amid Pension Fraud)

=> 03/16 Links 16/03/2023: OpenSSL 3.1 Released, 10,000 More Staff Cut in Facebook, and Windows Loses 10% in Speed | 03/16 Skyfall for Sirius ‘Open Source’: A Second Pension Provider Starts to Investigate Serious (Sirius) Abuses | 03/16 Links 16/03/2023: War Escalations and More | 03/17 Links 17/03/2023: CentOS Newsletter and News About ‘Mr. UNIX’ Ken Thompson Hopping on GNU/Linux | 03/17 The European Patent Office’s Central Staff Committee Explains the Situation at the EPO to the ‘Yes Men’ of António Campinos (Who is Stacking All the Panels)

=> 03/17 GNU/Linux in Honduras: 10% Market Share? (Updated) | 03/17 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 16, 2023 | 03/17 Links 17/03/2023: Update on John Deere’s Ongoing GPL Violations and PyTorch 2.0 | 03/17 Links 17/03/2023: Linux 6.2.7 and LibreSSL 3.7.1 Released | 03/17 New Talk: Richard Stallman Explains His Problem With Rust (Trademark Restrictions), Openwashing (Including Linux Kernel), Machine Learning, and the JavaScript Trap

=> 03/17 RMS: A Tour of Malicious Software, With a Typical Cell Phone as Example | 03/18 Links 18/03/2023: Docker is Deleting Free Software Organisations | 03/18 IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 17, 2023 | 03/18 Links 18/03/2023: Many HowTos, Several New Releases | 03/18 Links 18/03/2023: Tor Browser 12.0.4 and Politics

=> 03/19 Links 19/03/2023: LLVM 16.0.0 and EasyOS Kirkstone 5.1 Releases | 03/19 Great Things Brewing | 03/19 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 18, 2023 | 03/19 Links 19/03/2023: Release of Libreboot 20230319 and NATO Expanding | 03/19 Services and Users TRApped in Telescreen-Running Apps

=> 03/20 Links 20/03/2023: Amazon Linux 2023 and Linux Kernel 6.3 RC3 | 03/20 Links 20/03/2023: Tails 5.11 and EasyOS 5.1.1 | 03/20 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 19, 2023 | 03/20 Standard Life (Phoenix Group Holdings): Three Weeks to Merely Start Investigating Pension Fraud (and Only After Repeated Reminders From the Fraud’s Victims) | 03/20 An Update on Sirius ‘Open Source’ Pensiongate: It’s Looking Worse Than Ever

=> 03/20 Pension Fraud Investigation Not a High Priority in Standard Life (Phoenix Group Holdings) | 03/20 Standard Life Paper Mills in Edinburgh | 03/21 [Meme] EPO’s Management Brainstorm | 03/21 Links 20/03/2023: Curl 8.0.0/1 and CloudStack 4.18.0.0 LTS | 03/21 The Photo Ops Festival of the Funky President António Campinos and Revolt From the Patent Examiners Whom He Perpetually Oppresses

=> 03/21 Germany’s Lobbyists-Infested Government Sponsors the War on Ukraine via the European Patent Office (EPO) | 03/21 Links 21/03/2023: JDK 20 and GNOME 43.5 | 03/21 [Meme] The Meme That Team UPC (the Collusion to Break the European Laws, for Profit) Threats to Sue Us For | 03/21 IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 20, 2023 | 03/21 Microsoft is Sacking People Every Month This Year, Even Managers (While Sponsored Media Produces Endless Chatbot Chaff)

=> 03/21 Web Survey Shows Microsoft Falling Below 15% Market Share in Africa, Only One Minuscule African Nation Has Windows Majority | 03/21 Rumours of More Microsoft Layoffs Tomorrow (Including Managers!), Probably Azure Again (Many Azure Layoffs Every Year Since 2020) | 03/21 Many More Microsoft Layoffs Later Today | 03/21 Back Doors Proponent Microsoft Infiltrates Panels That Write the Security Regulations, Press Fails to Point Out the Obvious | 03/21 Amid Fraud at Sirius ‘Open Source’ CEO Deletes His Recent (This Month) Past With the Company

=> 03/21 Links 21/03/2023: Trisquel GNU/Linux 11.0 LTS | 03/21 3 Months Late Sirius ‘Open Source’ Finally Deletes Us From the Fraudulent ‘Meet the Team’ Page (But Still Lists Many People Who Left Years Ago!) | 03/22 Apple ‘Porn’ Filter | 03/22 3.5 Years Later Gemini Protocol and Geminispace Are Still 100% Community-Controlled | 03/22 Links 22/03/2023: GNOME 44 “Kuala Lumpur”

=> 03/22 Windows Falls to 16% Market Share in India (It was 97% in 2009), Microsoft Layoffs Reach India Too | 03/22 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 | 03/22 Links 22/03/2023: Official Thunderbird Podcast Starts | 03/22 Microsoft Has Also Infiltrated the OSI’s Board of Directors After Rigged Elections | 03/23 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, March 22, 2023

=> 03/23 Union Syndicale Fédérale Cautions the EPO’s Administrative Council About Initiating an Illegal Kangaroo Court System for Patents (UPC) While EPO Breaks Laws and Sponsors the Ukraine Invasion | 03/23 Links 23/03/2023: Sparky 2023.03 Special Editions and SUSE Changes CEO (Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen) | 03/23 Links 23/03/2023: Linux 6.2.8 and XWayland 23.1.0 | 03/23 Sirius ‘Open Source’ Under Investigation for Pension Fraud, Several Pension Providers Examine the Facts | 03/23 [Meme] Grabinski the Opportunity

=> 03/23 Links 23/03/2023: RSS Guard 4.3.3 and OpenBSD Webzine | 03/23 [Meme] Sirius ‘Open Source’ Pensions: Schemes or Scams? Giving a Bad Name to Open Source… | 03/23 Investigation Underway: Sirius ‘Open Source’ Embezzled/Stole Money, Robbed Its Own Staff | 03/23 Experiencing 15 Years of LibrePlanet Celebration Firsthand as a Volunteer: 2023 – Charting the Course | 03/24 Links 24/03/2023: GNU Grep 3.10 and Microsoft Accenture in a Freefall

=> 03/24 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 23, 2023 | 03/24 Links 24/03/2023: Microsoft’s Fall on the Web and Many New Videos | 03/24 Links 24/03/2023: Social Control Media Bans Advancing | 03/25 Sirius ‘Open Source’ Pensiongate: Time to Issue a Warrant of Arrest and Extradite the Fake ‘Founder’ of Sirius | 03/25 Links 25/03/2023: Decade of Docker, Azure Broken Again

=> 03/25 Links 25/03/2023: Gordon Moore (of Moore’s Law) is Dead | 03/25 IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 24, 2023 | 03/25 The Corporate Media is Not Reporting Large-Scale Microsoft Layoffs (Too Busy With Chaffbot Puff Pieces), Leaks Required to Prove That More Layoffs Are Happening | 03/25 [Meme] Money Deducted in Payslips, But Nothing in Pensions | 03/26 Techrights Develops Free Software to Separate the Wheat From the Chaff

=> 03/26 Civil Liberties Threatened Online and Offline | 03/26 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 25, 2023 | 03/26 Links 26/03/2023: MidnightBSD 3.0 and FreeBSD 13.2 RC4 | 03/26 Links 26/03/2023: More TikTok Bans | 03/26 Ryan Farmer: I’m Back After WordPress.com Deleted My Blog Over the Weekend

=> 03/26 The World Wide Web is a Cesspit of Misinformation. Let’s Do Something About It. | 03/27 Links 27/03/2023: GnuCash 5.0 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on Phones | 03/27 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 26, 2023 | 03/27 Links 26/03/2023: OpenMandriva ROME 23.03, Texinfo 7.0.3, and KBibTeX 0.10.0 | 03/27 Links 27/03/2023: Twitter Source Code Published (But Not Intentionally)

=> 03/28 36,000 Soon | 03/28 Contrary to What Bribed (by Microsoft) Media Keeps Saying, Bing is in a Freefall and Bing Staff is Being Laid Off (No, Chatbots Are Not Search and Do Not Substitute Web Pages!) | 03/28 IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 27, 2023 | 03/28 Links 28/03/2023: KPhotoAlbum 5.10.0 and QSoas 3.2 | 03/28 Links 28/03/2023: Pitivi 2023.03 is Out, Yet More Microsoft Layoffs (Now in Israel)

=> 03/28 The Rumours Were Right: Many More Microsoft Layoffs This Week, Another Round of GitHub Layoffs | 03/28 3 Months to Progress Pension Fraud Investigations in the United Kingdom | 03/28 [Meme] Fraud Seems Standard to Standard Life | 03/28 All of Microsoft’s Strategic Areas Have Layoffs This Year | 03/28 Full RMS Talk (‘A Tour of Malicious Software’) Uploaded 10 Hours Ago

=> 03/29 Links 29/03/2023: Parted 3.5.28 and Blender 3.5 | 03/29 Links 29/03/2023: New Finnix and EasyOS Kirkstone 5.2 | 03/29 Links 29/03/2023: InfluxDB FDW 2.0.0 and Erosion of Human Rights | 03/29 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 | 03/29 Among Users in the World’s Largest Population, Microsoft is the 1%

=> 03/29 In One City Alone Microsoft Fired Almost 3,000 Workers This Year (We’re Still in March) | 03/30 [Meme] Waiting for Standard Life to Deal With Pension Fraud | 03/30 [Meme] Too Many Fake European Patents? So Start Fake European Courts for Patents. | 03/30 Links 30/03/2023: HowTos and Political News | 03/30 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, March 29, 2023

=> 03/30 Links 30/03/2023: LibreOffice 7.5.2 and Linux 6.2.9 | 03/30 Translating the Lies of António Campinos (EPO) | 03/30 Sirius is Britain’s Most Respected and Best Established Open Source Business, According to Sirius Itself, So Why Defraud the Staff? | 03/30 Links 30/03/2023: WordPress 6.2 “Dolphy” and OpenMandriva ROME 23.03 | 03/30 Former Staff of Sirius Open Source Responds to Revelations About the Company’s Crimes

=> 03/30 Thomas Magenheim-Hörmann in RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland About Declining Quality and Declining Validity of European Patents (for EPO and Illegal Kangaroo Courts) | 03/31 Decided to Quit Debian and Use WSL Instead (Best of Both Worlds) | 03/31 Links 31/03/2023: Ubuntu 23.04 Beta, Donald Trump Indicted, and Finland’s NATO Bid Progresses | 03/31 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 30, 2023 | 03/31 Linus Tech (Illiteracy) Tips, LTT, Buys Phoronix Media

=> 03/31 Links 31/03/2023: Ruby 3.2.2 and Linux Lite 6.4 | 03/31 Microsoft Has Laid Off Lennart Poettering and Hired Elon Musk | 03/31 Links 31/03/2023: Devices and Games, Mostly Leftovers

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