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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 10, 2024

Updated This Past Day

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Expose Corrupt Insurance Companies, Don't Kill People

Murder gives them sympathy, makes the raiders seem like the victims

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[Meme] Write Code, Not Social Control Media

don't forget to 'like'

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In Memory of Mike Magee (1949-2024) and Our Best Wishes to The Register, Which He Founded in the 1990s

Months have passed since Magee died

New

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EPO Salaries Reduced: EPO's “Sustainability” Clause "Cuts the Average Overall Adjustment for Staff by –41,8%."

What does this all mean for staff?

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Google is Nuking Remaining Invidious Instances Again, Hoping to Force Everyone to Use Proprietary Spyware With DRM

This issue started a few hours ago

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Microsoft's Grip on Armenia is Slipping, According to New Data From statCounter

Notice what happened to Windows - an all-time low

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[Meme] Sloppy Plagiarism Full of Errors, Lacking Actual Comprehension

LLMs are not "AI"

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More LLM Spam/Slop About LLM Spam/Slop

This is what the Web will become unless we expose those who contribute to the problem

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Reforming Versus Rebooting Versus Destroying Institutions

At the moment we strive to expose the truth or shine light on pertinent facts

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Microsoft's Windows is Pretty Much Dead in Haiti

Android has eaten Microsoft's lunch, Microsoft can't even eat crow

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[Teaser] EPO Management Thinks Inflation in Europe is 0.2% Per Annum

Taming inflation by entirely ignoring it is like wrongly assuming that climate change (caused by human activity) can be overcome by not studying the effect of 8+ billion humans on this finite planet

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Corporate Media Will Be Discarded and Eventually Die If It Keeps Doing "Bill Gates Sez" (or Similar) Pieces Instead of Journalism

"Superintelligence" does not even mean anything!

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This Week We Focus Again on European Patent Office (EPO) Scandals

Nothing can stop us, not even a party or SLAPP

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Links 09/12/2024: Health Care Anger and Power Vacuum in Syria

Links for the day

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Links 09/12/2024: Burned, Uncertain Future, and Failure

Links for the day

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Links 09/12/2024: UnitedHealthcare C.E.O.'s Killer Still Unknown, Syrian Regime Change Completed

Links for the day

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Microsoft: Target the Young (Get 'Em While They're Young)

Then they say Free software advocates are "extremists" and "rude"...

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As of December 8th (23 Days Remaining), the FSF (Free Software Foundation, Inc.) Already a Third of the Way Toward Ambitious Funding Goal

FSF's memberships (or donations) drive is going a lot better than we anticipated

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Why Mike Magee Created and Was Involved in So Many News Sites About Technology

British legend

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Tunisia is Android, Windows is Waning There

Windows was measured below 20% in Tunisia

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[Meme] Jeff Bezos Working From Home

"B**** please, publish articles in Washington Post about how working from home sucks"

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'Remote' (From Home) Tech Workers Are More Productive for a Lot of Reasons

The Bezos-owned media should disclose its conflict of interest here

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Over at Tux Machines...

GNU/Linux news for the past day

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IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 08, 2024

IRC logs for Sunday, December 08, 2024

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No Wonder Microsoft's LinkedIn and Github Have So Many Layoffs, Permanent Office Closures

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