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  1. Gemini Links 31/10/2026: Hallowe'en and "Thinking About People"
  2. Links 31/10/2026: The Hinge on Apple's Constantly Breaking New Foldable iPhone Was "Built With Slop", Slop Causes Cash Squeeze GAFAM
  3. Amazon's Debt Skyrockets by Almost 100 Billion Dollars in 9 Months (updated)
  4. Google Illegally Destroyed a Quarter Million Trees Without a Permit for a Hypothetical Project That Might be Cancelled, Debt Has Soared by 30 Billion Dollars in 3 Months ($10 Billions Borrowed Per Month)
  5. Slavery at Microsoft
  6. Many People "Left" Red Hat This Month, Including Yesterday (updated)
  7. Gemini Links 31/10/2026: "Where I Draw the Line With" Slop Plagiarism and "Nobody Cares That You're Leaving Proton" (Over Slop)
  8. Over at Tux Machines...
  9. IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 30, 2026
  10. Links 30/10/2026: "Over 41,000 DHS Employee Records Leaked Online" and Concerns Over Radicalism in France
  11. Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXIV - It's an Inherently American Issue and American Elections Are at Risk From Restricted ('Secure') Boot and LLM Chatbots (Disinformation at Scale)
  12. Birss Replaces Vos in UK's High Court, LLM Slop Plagiarism a Contentious Issue (updated)
  13. "Early Retirement" (Silent Layoffs) for Everybody Except the Executives
  14. Despite the Mass Layoffs Microsoft's Debt Soared by 5.1 Billion Dollars in Just 3 Months (updated)
  15. Gemini Links 30/10/2026: Solar MiniBBS, Kubernetes With FreeBSD, "Sysadmin Day"
  16. Microsoft Layoffs Far Worse Than the Media Tells (Microsoft Spin Laundered as "Reporting")
  17. Links 30/10/2026: Google Crashes on Slop Disappointment and GAFAM's "Data Center Blitz Is Burning Through Cash and Scaring Wall St."
  18. Fake 'Articles' in The Register MS Concerning "AI"
  19. What Linus Torvalds Told Me Two Decades Ago
  20. GNU/Linux as a Free Software Platform is More GNU (and GPL) Than Linux
  21. Who Or What Are Security Professionals/Experts?
  22. Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXIII - What Garrett Did Puts Elections at Risk (Also in His Own Country, Where a Dictator Trusts Only Machines That 'Support' Him)
  23. Gemini Links 30/10/2026: RIP Patrick Stewart and Amp Integration
  24. Over at Tux Machines...
  25. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 29, 2026
  26. The Metric is Not the Mission
  27. More Than 5 Years Have Passed Since Official Release of Vista 11 and in the US It's Measured as Only 3 Times Bigger Than GNU/Linux on the Desktop/Laptop
  28. It's About Intention, Not Attrition, at Microsoft
  29. The Next 50 Years of Emacs (and GNU)
  30. Links 29/10/2026: Microsoft-Connected and Funded Openwashing at FOSDEM, Tragedy in Spain
  31. Gemini Links 29/10/2026: London, Worcestershire, and Robot Exclusion Protocol
  32. The Register MS is Publishing Spam About "AI" for HP, Sponsored by HP, Even Composed by HP
  33. Links 29/10/2026: Anthropic Still Sued Over Copyright Infringement (Plagiarism Isn't "Training"), Elon Musk Openly Admits He Helps Putin Crush Ukraine
  34. Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXI - Techrights Was Right, So Why Was It Punished by Lawfare While the Culprits Walk Away Scot-free?
  35. Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXII - Still "Radio Silence" From "Restricted Boot" Perpetrators (After Techrights Proven Right Again)
  36. 'Secure' Boot Is Not Secure, Here Are News Reports About the Latest Evidence
  37. No, Microsoft Isn't Doing Well (It Has Struggled for a Long Time)
  38. What Makes Techrights a Community
  39. Linux Links 29/10/2026: Refractor Stargazing and Making Better Use of RAM in Linux
  40. Over at Tux Machines...
  41. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 28, 2026
  42. Project Glasswing and PHP2Shell vulnerability
  43. Turning Point for the Slop Industrialists
  44. Links 28/10/2026: Slop Bubble Pops in China, Rocky Linux Creator Becomes Slopper, Openwashing by the Slop Pushers Explained
  45. Gemini Links 28/10/2026: Slop Plagiarism Considered a "Weapon", "Completely restored HTML interface to the Orbital Fox mailing list"
  46. The Corrupted Corporate Media is Spinning Massive Microsoft Layoffs as "Investment in AI" Instead of Evidence That "AI" Nonsense is Catastrophic (updated)
  47. Links 28/10/2026: "Rest of World Faces Prospect of Shutting Down" and Robert Reich Says "Musk Wants Me Imprisoned"
  48. Gemini Links 28/10/2026: Cold Outside Again and Maths
  49. Intercontinental Brigading - Part XX - Restricted and Moot, or How 'Secure Boot' Turns Out to be a Disaster (Again) This Week
  50. 100 Years of IBM Racism
  51. Racism at Microsoft
  52. Intercontinental Brigading - Part IX - Literature About Malignant Narcissists in America Silencing the Press (updated)
  53. Compelling Examiners at the European Patent Office to Fake "Growth" (in Patent Monopolies) Using Slop and Sloppy Processes
  54. Over at Tux Machines...
  55. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 27, 2026
  56. The Cyber Show on Plagiarism (BS Artists) and Fear of GNU/Linux Users
  57. "EVENTS" as Paid Spam (Marketing) at The Register MS
  58. Just Jealous
  59. The Need for Operating System Kernels That Forbid LLM Slop
  60. Gemini Links 28/10/2026: BaseFree Numerical System, Tolino Vision 2, and More (updated)
  61. Links 27/10/2026: "Why My Dad Didn’t Have a Cell Phone" and Sudan Famine Risk
  62. Links 27/10/2026: Google Increases Spying on Online Everything (Personal Files, Mail), Anthropic Takes Its Losses and Debt Public
  63. Intercontinental Brigading - Part XVIII - Microsoft is Not the Victim (It Was Never the Victim), It's Just DARVO
  64. The British Economy Too Dependent on an American Slop Scheme
  65. We've Already Begun Work on the 20th Year of Techrights
  66. Intercontinental Brigading - Part XVII - The Relevance of Silent Layoffs at Microsoft (updated)
  67. Volunteers or Unpaid Developers Won't Bother Interacting With Mindless LLMs That Pass Labour From Lazy Companies to Human Beings
  68. Slop is Killing the Open Web
  69. Over at Tux Machines...
  70. IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 26, 2026
  71. As Microsoft Tells Close to 30% of Its Staff to Leave IBM Takes Notes
  72. It's Perfectly Possible That Microsoft Has Just Told Most of Its American Workers to Leave
  73. Richard Stallman Was Right About "Hey Hi"
  74. Gemini Links 27/10/2026: "To Change or Not To Change?" and "Initial Planner Plans"
  75. Intercontinental Brigading - Part XVI - The Faustian Pact That Irritates Hired Guns is Still a Distraction From the Serious Harm Done by Their Clients to GNU/Linux Users (Notably Plagiarism and Back Doors)
  76. Links 26/10/2026: Microsoft Chaffbot "Building Detailed Psychological Profiles of Its Users", Man Executed for Childhood Offenses
  77. Gemini Links 26/10/2026: Writing Down Dreams and "Sabbath as Resistance"
  78. The Register MS Gets Rid of Disclosures About Paid-for Spam Regarding "AI", It Also Composes Fake News for the Sponsors
  79. Microsoft 'Buyouts' Sound Just Like 60,000 Layoffs of 'Expensive' or More Experienced Staff ('Soft' Layoffs or Even Worse, Negligible Severance) (updated)
  80. This is How Microsoft Ends (Over a Quarter of the Company Now on the Chopping Block)
  81. Search Without Encryption for Legacy Systems (Permacomputing) and Full Backward Compatibility
  82. Shift to the Lula (Left)
  83. More Stories and Material Than We Can Publish
  84. European Patent Office Takes From the Poor to Give More to the Rich
  85. Intercontinental Brigading - Part XV - Annualised Consequences for Opposing Microsoft Back Doors in Linux Since 2012
  86. Links 26/10/2026: China’s Communist Party Plenum and Aleksandar Vucic Concedes Defeat
  87. In Reporting, Timing is Everything (updated)
  88. Links 25/10/2026: Microsoft Layoffs and Cuts, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Wins Election
  89. Gemini Links 26/10/2026: Brazilian Politics and Leaving Bear Blog
  90. Over at Tux Machines...
  91. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 25, 2026
  92. Another Form of Microsoft Silent Layoffs: Workers That 'Expire'
  93. Carte Blanche for GPL Violations 4 Days Ago (by Torvalds)
  94. There Are No Women That Are Kernel Developers Sent by Corporations Which Claim to Champion Diversity
  95. Sites with "Linux" in Their Name Cannot Slop and Retain Readers
  96. At Microsoft, the Silent Layoffs Impact Executives Also
  97. Linus Torvalds Defected to Enshittification
  98. Links 25/10/2026: TMZ Revisits Epstein's Connections to Bill Epsteingate, "Italy Hit by New Cost of Living Protests" (updated)
  99. Microsoft’s Spin About Mass Layoffs and Shutdowns: They "Never Should Have Existed"
  100. It's Slop
  101. Intercontinental Brigading - Part XIV - Six Years of Learning Irish, But the Real Issue Was Microsoft-controlled 'Secure' (Restricted) Boot (updated)
  102. Gemini Links 25/10/2026: Moana (2026) and OpenBSD Updates
  103. The Netherlands Fast to Adopt GNU/Linux, "Market Share" Rises to Two-Digit Value (on Desktops/Laptops)
  104. DST Still Needs to Get Abolished
  105. PHP2Shell as Paid-for FUD Campaign (Intended to Help Sell Slop and Fake "Market Value" of Slop Pushers)
  106. Microsoft Sort of Tried to Sell XBox Piecewise (Offloading Microsoft) (updated)
  107. Over at Tux Machines...
  108. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 24, 2026
  109. Gemini Links 24/10/2026: Arch Linux Journey and Amin Bandali's Priorities
  110. Bluewashing as a Form of Silent Layoffs
  111. Turning 20 in 2 Weeks and Upcoming Network Maintenance
  112. Microsoft Shutdowns Accelerating, More Shutdowns Revealed (Not Connected to Gaming)
  113. Links 24/10/2026: Microsoft Blackmail and Lingering Unrest in France:
  114. Gemini Links 24/10/2026: From Bendigo to Kerang, Enshittification of Radio and Music in the UK
  115. Red Hat Sinks With the Blue (IBM) Ship
  116. The "No Pain No Gain" Expectations in Publishing
  117. Linux is Not Controlled by Linus (Torvalds)
  118. Intercontinental Brigading - Part XIII - Censorship by All Means Available in a Continent So Far Away, as 'Secure' (Restricted, Restriction by Microsoft) Boot Has a Crisis of Legitimacy
  119. Links 24/10/2026: Oligarchs Already Buy US Elections, GAFAM Front Group "EFF" Speaks of "Vulnerability Apocalypse"
  120. Gemini Links 24/10/2026: Automobile Differential Tire Movement, Samsung Washer Woe, and Slop Scraping
  121. Over at Tux Machines...
  122. IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 23, 2026
  123. As Usual, Late on a Friday XBox (Microsoft) Releases Evidence of Its Demise
  124. Gemini Links 24/10/2026: Break/Fix and OpenStreetMap
  125. Links 23/10/2026: Slop "is Scaling Transnational Repression" and Infringement and DMCA Suits Against Suno/Anthropic (Plagiarism Blenders)
  126. More Shutdowns at Microsoft, Hundreds of Workers Impacted Shortly (updated)
  127. The Register MS: About 60 Mentions of "AI" in One Day Are Paid-for Spam (Sponsored Hype, Composed by the Companies Covered)
  128. Links 22/10/2026: MElon (Elon Musk) Election Interference and Perl/Raku Foundation by the Numbers
  129. Techrights Audience Grew as a Function of the Intensity of Attacks on Its Existence
  130. TechRepublic is Becoming a Slopfarm
  131. Techrights is Not About GNU/Linux, Tux Machines Is
  132. The World Needs Activists With Social Skills and Perseverance (updated)
  133. Intercontinental Brigading - Part XII - Lawfare to Cover Up Microsoft's Restricted Boot Calamity (Microsoft as Authority Over Linux), Garrett Wants to Talk About Penises Instead
  134. Without Microsoft's Monopoly (and Monopoly Rents) the Inevitable Microsoft Mass Layoffs Carry on Endlessly
  135. IBM's Debt Grew About $2 Billion in 3 Months
  136. Over at Tux Machines...
  137. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 22, 2026
  138. Gemini Links 22/10/2026: Solar MiniBBS, Building Major Tom, and Zig
  139. Links 22/10/2026: Busan’s Celebrity Shark in Canal Again
  140. Links 22/10/2026: "Software Developers Have Been Promoted Into Incompetence"
  141. Intercontinental Brigading - Part XI - Losing Over a Million Pounds (Borrowed Money) to Try to Silence Critics of Restricted Boot With Microsoft-Controlled "Certificates" (updated)
  142. Links 22/10/2026: eBay to Lay Off a Tenth of Staff (Again), Node.js and PHP Security Crises, Climate News
  143. Red Hat Layoffs Still Going on This Week (Whilst IBM's Debt Grows in Spite of Mass Layoffs)
  144. IBM's Debt Continues to Increase While the Company Rapidly Shrinks
  145. Linux Kernel Needs Diversity and Diversity of Good Code, Not LLM Slop
  146. Microsoft Shrinks Every Year
  147. Gemini Links 22/10/2026: Holiday Inn and Emacs
  148. Over at Tux Machines...
  149. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 21, 2026
  150. Techrights Was Right About a Fake Security Model Built Around Lies or Built Upon Trust in "Certificates" and "Authorities" (like Microsoft)
  151. Windows Monopoly is No Longer Sustainable (the Case of Oceania)
  152. Some Downtime Possible Shortly (Router Work)
  153. Mass Layoffs at Microsoft This Week and/or Next Week
  154. With Its Future on the Line, EPO Management (Dictatorship) Resorts to Further Escalations to Fake 'Production' and Curtail Industrial Actions
  155. Gemini Links 21/10/2026: Summer Day in Tokyo (30c in Late October) and Whole Food for the Whole World
  156. Links 21/10/2026: "Zelensky Took the Gloves Off This Time With Convicted Felon" and "Cellebrite iPhone Radio Zero-Day"
  157. Reuters is Becoming Slop, Not a News Agency (Treat Reports From Reuters Sceptically)
  158. Disclosure/s Crisis at The Register MS (Promoting a Ponzi Scheme for Money)
  159. Links 21/10/2026: "The Tragic Death of the Republican Party" and "No War But Data Center War"
  160. Internet Relay Chat Still Growing
  161. Intercontinental Brigading - Part X - American Back Doors Inside Our Computers, With Transatlantic Swatting Against Critics Thrown 'Into the Mix'
  162. Gemini Links 21/10/2026: A Walk Through Amsterdam and Pythagorean Theorem
  163. More Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Weeks From Now, Then Again Months From Now
  164. Over at Tux Machines...
  165. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 20, 2026