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EPO and "Equivalent to More Than 100 Days of Strike"

One day of strike costs 1/30th of a monthly salary and allowances, i.e. roughly 0,3% of an annual salary. Losses over the ...
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Links 03/03/2026: Security Breaches, Iceland Wants EU Membership, and "Wall Street–Backed Lawmakers Want to Help Banks Gouge You"

Alice Nash discusses considers the appeal ruling that overturned the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal’s (SDT) finding of misconduct over a 'without prejudice' email. In Hurst v SRA [2026] EWHC 85 ...
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GNU/Linux Measured at 7% in Yemen

Yemen is a large but poor country. Its Web usage patterns suggest that more people there direct family and peers to adopt GNU/Linux, seeing that Windows is too hostile and dangerous. Android has long ...
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Keeping Track of IBM Layoffs in March 2026

Corruption at IBM has just been mentioned. Years ago we did lengthy timelines of IBM corruption, including bribery. This helps highlight how IBM depends on bribery, not just accounting fraud and ...
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Queensland Health Payroll System: IBM billion-dollar-blowout inquiry

IBM billion-dollar-blowout inquiry. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 03, 2026. Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock.
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Reporting to Our Politicians/MPs the Failure of the SRA to Stop Hired Guns Who Help Americans (Men Who Attack Women and Nowadays Also Attack British Reporters)

The matter (and firm) was reported to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), but it did nothing concrete to investigate ...
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Streisand Effect, the Microsoft Way

"Censoring "slop" creates Streisand effect," a reader and contributor told us regarding the above. "Microsoft bans "Microslop" on its own Discord server," he said, "ironically making the term more ...
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Last Month Matthew Garrett Said Ridiculous Things After His Spouse Had Called Him a "Rapist", Now He's Trying to Take the Site Offline and Put My Family in Prison

Lately I've received threats every month. My wife too has received threats every month. That's not potent enough or not severe to the point where it merits or meets the threshold for police reports, ...
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Never Miss a Good Opportunity to Shut Up and Drink Coffee

Never Miss a Good Opportunity to Shut Up and Drink Coffee. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 02, 2026. Today's latest temper ...
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Links 02/03/2026: Claude Code Causes a Mexican Government Cyberattack, "London Repair Week" Noted

The US Department of Justice announced on Thursday that it has filed lawsuits against Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia ...
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Richard Stallman is Giving a Public Talk This Week (Friday in Lucerne School of Computer Science and Information Technology)

We are gratified to know RMS (Richard Stallman), the most authoritative spokesperson regarding Free software, is giving at least 3 talks this month. We still have an ongoing series ( Part I, Part II, ...
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Links 02/03/2026: More Social Control Media Bans, Climate Change Woes, and "Journalist With Germany's Deutsche Welle Arrested in Turkey"

Australian developer and publisher Halfbrick has laid off 41 staff, we can confirm. The maker of Jetpack Joyride and Fruit Ninja said on LinkedIn over the weekend that it would be making a number of ...