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It Won't be Long Before Microsoft Shuts Down LinkedIn (Already Subjected to Many Waves of Mass Layoffs, Offices Shut Down) (update)

It's measured as having lost a lot of "traffic" lately, despite all the chatbots and clickbots

IBM (and Therefore Red Hat) Rapidly Imploding (update)

How long has it got left?

Links 18/12/2025: ZorinOS Raising Money, Canonical Giving Gifts to Microsoft

Links for the day

XBox Sales Collapsed, XBox Cannot Survive

2026 might be the last year of XBox consoles

Free Software Literature (Books) to Read This Holiday Season

If you go ahead and buy a book, you not only support the FSF but also get something sent your way!

Next Year Windows XP Turns 25, Many People (Millions) Still Use It Because Windows Became Bloated and Unreliable

The "Vista" OSes are all terrible, bloated, and highly restrictive

Running Our Own Network and Building Our Own Systems

So we can sit back, relax, and be productive

EPO Coverage Will Resume When the Time is Right

we didn't forget about the EPO

Slop Fatigue

Only Linux Journal is seen pushing LLM slop today/yesterday

Over at Tux Machines...

GNU/Linux news for the past day

IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 17, 2025

IRC logs for Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Maybe the Future of the Web is Static Site Generators (SSGs) After All

"Modern" Content Management Systems (CMSs) have become bloated and expensive to run

Microsoft Lunduke: The Problem With [Some Program/Project] is That It's "Gay"

It sometimes looks like he deliberately pollutes legitimise criticisms of people, institutions, projects etc. by unnecessary adding some political/bigoted overtones, thus stereotyping all critics and thereby discrediting large groups of developers (generalisation tactics)

Firefox Became Irrelevant in the Past Year or Two

Mozilla is essentially getting paid to "sell out" Firefox users

The "Hey Hi" Ponzi Scheme Promoted Again by The Register MS

After the bubble pops we must remember The Register MS for its role in it

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