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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 30, 2025

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Google: Your Only Option is Google YouTube (Coming Soon: Mandatory DRM and Attestation?)

=> ↺ Google: Your Only Option is Google YouTube (Coming Soon: Mandatory DRM and Attestation?)

Digital Restrictions (DRM) to follow? Only for "approved" (attestation) browsers?

• 2

The Munich-Based EPO is Still Using a Platform That Promotes the Far Right and Rehabilitates Nazism

=> ↺ The Munich-Based EPO is Still Using a Platform That Promotes the Far Right and Rehabilitates Nazism

Active Twitter account

• 3

How the EPO Pressures Staff Into Minting More Monopolies (Patents), Even Illegal Ones That Harm Europe and Ultimately Dismantle the Rule of Law

=> ↺ How the EPO Pressures Staff Into Minting More Monopolies (Patents), Even Illegal Ones That Harm Europe and Ultimately Dismantle the Rule of Law

insights into the pressure examiners are under

• 4

LLM Slop Machines Are Not a Win for "Open Source" and If They Get Cheaper, It's Even Worse

=> ↺ LLM Slop Machines Are Not a Win for "Open Source" and If They Get Cheaper, It's Even Worse

If some program that claims to be "Open Source" pollutes the Web with fake articles (Microsoft SPAM and fake "Linux" articles), whose win is it?

• 5

Richard Stallman Speech in Bengaluru, "Silicon Valley of India"

=> ↺ Richard Stallman Speech in Bengaluru, "Silicon Valley of India"

62 years have passed since his "young nerd" days and he's still at it

• 6

More Illegal Patents at the EPO, Legality of Granted European Patents No Longer Matters to the Office

=> ↺ More Illegal Patents at the EPO, Legality of Granted European Patents No Longer Matters to the Office

breaking the law for profit

• 7

Sharing is Caring (But Advocating Copyleft Makes You a "Target")

=> ↺ Sharing is Caring (But Advocating Copyleft Makes You a "Target")

GPLv3 does not close all the loopholes which the "Affero" helps close

New

• 8

Mastodon Was Always Biased (Just Like Twitter After Abandoning Chronological and Neutral Timelines in Order to Become More Like Facebook)

=> ↺ Mastodon Was Always Biased (Just Like Twitter After Abandoning Chronological and Neutral Timelines in Order to Become More Like Facebook)

So bury-brigading and click-farming control what people see

• 9

Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Falls to Only 0.4% of the Total in Geminispace

=> ↺ Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Falls to Only 0.4% of the Total in Geminispace

Geminispace does not need to outsource trust

• 10

Links 29/01/2025: Dismantling Public Health in the US, Air Busan Plane Up in Flames (South Korea's Air Disasters Streak)

=> ↺ Links 29/01/2025: Dismantling Public Health in the US, Air Busan Plane Up in Flames (South Korea's Air Disasters Streak)

Links for the day

• 11

Announcements and Administrivia

=> ↺ Announcements and Administrivia

This week we're going out for two days in a row to celebrate an achievement that's very respectable

• 12

Gemini Links 29/01/2025: Japan, GTD, and More

=> ↺ Gemini Links 29/01/2025: Japan, GTD, and More

Links for the day

• 13

Sir, Yes, Sir. The Life of EPO Patent Examiners.

=> ↺ Sir, Yes, Sir. The Life of EPO Patent Examiners.

If working for the EPO makes it harder to sleep at night, take action

• 14

Links 29/01/2025: Data Privacy Day and Growing Tensions in Europe

=> ↺ Links 29/01/2025: Data Privacy Day and Growing Tensions in Europe

Links for the day

• 15

Nazi Twitter (aka "X") Became a Troll Site That Lets People Buy a Blue Tick While Its Boss Actively Promotes Neonazi Politicians

=> ↺ Nazi Twitter (aka "X") Became a Troll Site That Lets People Buy a Blue Tick While Its Boss Actively Promotes Neonazi Politicians

the intellectual level of people who infest the Web through "Twitter" or "X"

• 16

This is Why They're So Afraid of Richard Stallman (He Tells People the Correct History)

=> ↺ This is Why They're So Afraid of Richard Stallman (He Tells People the Correct History)

Then they post about it to Microsoft's LinkedIn

• 17

Claim: Facebook Deletes Posts of IBM Red Hat Critics

=> ↺ Claim: Facebook Deletes Posts of IBM Red Hat Critics

As always, follow the money (advertisers)

• 18

Links 29/01/2025: Climate Crisis and "It’s time for the Xbox to fade away" (Microsoft Lose)

=> ↺ Links 29/01/2025: Climate Crisis and "It’s time for the Xbox to fade away" (Microsoft Lose)

Links for the day

• 19

Links 29/01/2025: Buying Groceries During a Trade War, Political 'Retro'

=> ↺ Links 29/01/2025: Buying Groceries During a Trade War, Political 'Retro'

Links for the day

• 20

Network Improvements Tomorrow

=> ↺ Network Improvements Tomorrow

"Network maintenance" down in London

• 21

Articles About Free Speech at Facebook

=> ↺ Articles About Free Speech at Facebook

'Facebook vs Linux' story is now receiving a lot more media coverage

• 22

We Were Right About stallmansupport.org Making an Error by Joining Social Control Media. mastodon.social Suspends stallmansupport.org.

=> ↺ We Were Right About stallmansupport.org Making an Error by Joining Social Control Media. mastodon.social Suspends stallmansupport.org.

From what we can guess, accounts can be banned by some oversensitive admin or a mob of users ("bury brigades")

• 23

"Latest Technology News" in BetaNews Still LLM Slop and SPAM Composed by LLMs (It's Basically a Spamfarm Disguised as a News Site)

=> ↺ "Latest Technology News" in BetaNews Still LLM Slop and SPAM Composed by LLMs (It's Basically a Spamfarm Disguised as a News Site)

Only a fool would visit BetaNews in search of actual news

• 24

Over at Tux Machines...

=> ↺ Over at Tux Machines...

GNU/Linux news for the past day

• 25

IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 28, 2025

=> ↺ IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 28, 2025

IRC logs for Tuesday, January 28, 2025

• 26

The EPO's Corruption, If It Remains Untackled, Helps the Far Right and Enemies of European Unity/Solidarity

=> ↺ The EPO's Corruption, If It Remains Untackled, Helps the Far Right and Enemies of European Unity/Solidarity

Do not negotiate with evil

• 27

The Web, Including Wikipedia, Gets Filled With Lies About Bill Gates, Added by Bill Gates and His PR Team

=> ↺ The Web, Including Wikipedia, Gets Filled With Lies About Bill Gates, Added by Bill Gates and His PR Team

Of course Wikipedia is funded by Gates

• 28

Facebook Banning Linux Sites (or People Who Link to Linux Sites) is Another Symptom of the Web's Demise

=> ↺ Facebook Banning Linux Sites (or People Who Link to Linux Sites) is Another Symptom of the Web's Demise

The state of media on the Web is really bad; Social Control Media amplifies the badness, as Facebook serves to show

• 29

Gemini Links 29/01/2025: Neovim Telescope and Writing Less

=> ↺ Gemini Links 29/01/2025: Neovim Telescope and Writing Less

Links for the dayThe corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text. Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):Span from 2025-01-23 to 2025-01-291484 /n/2025/01/23/BetaNews_Plagiarising_Work_in_the_Linux_Space.shtml 1279 /n/2025/01/27/GAFAM_Hates_Except_in_a_Worryingly_Parasitic_Way_GNU_Linux_and_.shtml 668/browse/latest.shtml 589 /n/2025/01/29/We_Were_Right_About_stallmansupport_org_Making_an_Error_by_Join.shtml 567 /n/2025/01/24/Links_24_01_2025_Earthquake_Landslide_and_Official_Implicated_i.shtml 535 /n/2025/01/25/Bringing_Down_or_Taking_Down_an_Innocent_Man_is_Difficult.shtml 532 /n/2025/01/25/How_Open_Source_Became_Microsoft_But_It_s_Actually_Proprietary_.shtml 528/browse/index.shtml

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