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EPO Strike 10 Days From Now, Planning Assembly Tomorrow, Last Couple of Strikes Had High Participation Rates (1,500-1,600 Staff Went on Strike)

Not only SUEPO members (the union) but everybody who works for the EPO should go on strike twice this month. The next strike is in 10 days' time and then there will be another strike. We'll continue ...
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Richard Stallman (RMS) Talk Five Hours From Now

Talk Five Hours From Now. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 09, 2026. In 5 hours from now RMS will give a talk in English at a large venue, but it seems unli ...
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Dr. Andy Farnell on How GAFAM, NVIDIA and Others Lie to People Via the Sponsored Media to Prop Up Lies Under the Guise of "AI"

Authored by Dr. Andy Farnell about an hour ago (or last updated just over an hour ago), " The New Digital Literacy " explains what he thinks, as an educator (university lecturer), about the current ...
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What the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and Action Fraud UK Have in Common

It seems to be something that the SRA and Action Fraud UK have in common. We lack oversight, regulation, and enforcement. Fraudsters can get away with almost anything, and sometimes the United States ...
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Using Slop (and Slop in Articles) to Attack Copyleft 'on Budget'

Of course this article itself uses slop (for the image), just like this author/site did before. It did this when it presented RMS like some sort of prisoner arrested by cops. This article is pure BS ...
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Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 7 Out of 200: Like With the Serial Strangler From Microsoft, Misuse of UK-GDPR to Try to Hide Embarrassing Facts

Confirmed: The Two Microsofters Who Filed Two Cases Against Me Were Collaborating | Microsoft's Serial Strangler and Matthew J. Garrett Join Forces in Trying to Gag Techrights (for Exposing Microsoft ...
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Why The Register MS Sold Out to Microsoft: They're Losing Lots of Money, The Register MS is Bleeding to Death, Based on Its Own Financial Records

A lot of the content is template-like (for compliance and consistency reasons), but the "meat" comes in pages 11 onwards. Remember they shut down some office to lower costs and indeed, expenses went ...
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IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 08, 2026

The corresponding text-only bulletins for Tux Machines and for Techrights contain all the text. With over 6 million pounds in debt (nearly 10 million US dollars) we guess it's likely some other ...
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An American War on GNU/Linux, Software Freedom, and British Investigative, Science-Based Reporting - Part II - Trying to Put People in Prison for Committing the Act of Journalism

An American War on GNU/Linux, Software Freedom, and British Investigative, Science-Based Reporting - Part I - A Matter of National Security Those people are Americans who try to a ...
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The Slop Companies Gamble at Our Economy's Expense and They Know It's a Losing Bet (So It's a de Facto Robbery)

As noted in the previous article about so-called 'AI', economies and jobs are crashing due to a lack of capital, not because of "AI" anything. The grift is "AI" - the carrot at the rope's (or rod's) ...
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Too Focused on Buzzwords the Media is Paid to Saturate the Collective Mind With

By repeating such buzzwords or misnomers we lose control of the story, the narrative. The site pulltheplug.uk became more about "AI" than about pulling the plug, which involves GAFAM and endless debt ...
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Attack on Copyright and Copyleft by Code Conversion Is Nothing New, It Predates Slop (Code Produced by LLMs) by Several Decades

Code conversions need not rely on mindless slopping; tools for conversions have existed for generations and some of the most accurate ones are deterministic, too Converting computer program A into B, ...