Nat Friedman Had Left Microsoft GitHub Exactly One Week Before Matthew Garrett Sent His First SLAPP (Which Was an Empty ...

"Wayland People" Behave Like the Googles and Microsofts of This World. . Published yesterday by Igor Ljubuncic: "With Wayland ...

Today's "Slopwatch" will be rather short. We just want to draw attention to Sunday's RC4 of the next Linux release. If people search for "Linux" news, they won't see the release announcement or LWN or ...

Today Microsoft will lay off many people (maybe as many as 10,000 or even more), then toss some bogus figures to the media through one of its media moles or operatives, as usual. The LLM slop will ...

When FINMA revealed the secret judgment shuttering Law Firm X, Urban Angehrn, the FINMA director, resigned citing health reasons. His dramatic resignation helped bury news stories about the Law firm X ...

The name of the city has become an asset, even a treasure. There's "The Venetian Las Vegas" and "The Venetian Macao", for ...

Microsoft is basically defrauding its shareholders by LLM slop. █ Related/contextual items from the news: Microsoft’s chief commercial officer, Judson Althoff, will take a two-month sabbatical, ...

People who create a false stereotypes around particular technical views tend to resort to politics. The people who do this are exactly what they accuse others of. Their craziness is sometimes a simple ...

Language or communication is everything, not just for humans but also for other animals. One might worry when spinmeisters corrupt the language for some political (or corporate) ends. Here are ...

Programming is not too hard. Once you can code in one language (or paradigm), adapting to the rest isn't too difficult. The syntax varies, the libraries are different, the function calls (or classes) ...

In Africa's (by far) largest population it looks like this: ...