The fallout from "Operation Influencer" appeared to bring António Costa's political career to an abrupt end in November 2023 ...

A slop apologist or pusher recently stirred up a hornets' nest at libreplanet-discuss. Akira Urushibata has just put him in his place by explaining why the jingoism for plagiarism engines is a problem ...

Yesterday we wrote about rumours that come from inside Microsoft, where the "buyout" offer is effective with departure on July 1 st, based on leaked communications. We've now seen 3 places where ...

The access to justice charity Blind Justice has published figures showing that there are thousands of cases shut down at assessment stage which then disappear from view.

Bern is a city where talks are routinely given by RMS in recent years; the same is true for the country, Switzerland, where ...

Having just mentioned libreplanet-discuss, a day ago Carmen-Lisandrette Maris made a plea for assistance with Mission:Libre, which we covered here many times before. Quoting her message: ...

Nickle LaMoreaux is one of those people who use buzzwords to manipulate the press, e.g. this recent article: Not bad, ...

The "Peanut Gallery" of GAFAM Has Infiltrated Free Software Projects or Disrupts Free Software Communities. . Earlier today: Rust Outsourc ...

"Format Sovereignty" Can Only be Accomplished With LaTeX or OpenDocument Format (ODF) or Vendor-Neutral Standards for ...

It's gratifying to see more and more "vice-coded" slop (ware) getting banned. Humans need not learn to tolerate such garbage. Life is too short to deal with 'botspam' or plagiarism (the originals are ...

Bonus: Earlier this week the Rust Programming Language Blog openly announced that Rust had outsourced its financing to Microsoft.

Tart cherry juice— please let it be cherry juice —splatters the top shelf and dribbles down the liquor bottles. Broken glass ...