In Debian last year they had an election where only one developer stepped up for Debian Project Leader (DPL) and there was an ...

News isn't "LLM slop"; news is written by real people with actual comprehension of what they are covering. These charlatans try to get bots to compete with actual authors. The bots contribute nothing ...

If someone invites you to listen to "AI music", politely decline. There's no lack of music out there. Synthetic garbage is a ...

This WebM link (as per RMS) should be live right now, but it's not, it's returning a 404 error.

Another fine day for the "journalists" at BetaNews. This is the very latest 'news', according to BetaNews: It wasn't even written by a human! This is what domains or former "news" sites do when they ...

Back in August Daniel Pocock gave a talk at ClueCon in Chicago. I watched it live, as it had been announced in advance. Hours later, when I woke up to download it, I could no longer even watch it. Day ...

Because the Web is rapidly getting worse and finding real news is getting harder (what "Trump says" isn't news, it's just lyrical churn) Daily Links (sometimes known as News Roundup; we've done them ...

Last summer we showed that Windows was struggling in the Palestinian Territory (that's what the Irish company calls it). 2025 has begun and GNU/Linux is said to have risen to 7% on desktops/laptops ...

So a convicted felon, insurrectionist and failure who filed six bankruptcies already (still weaponising fervent racism to ...

In Russia, an opposition figure died last year after several failed attempts. Many other opposition figures die there and ...

There are also articles that cover those matters in passing, e.g. "Joe Barr Knew Microsoft's Tactics All Too Well" (don't let journalist burnout take those stories/knowledge away) and "The Bill Gates ...

A day ago "bubi" reached 400 days of uptime and my main laptop is at over 468 days already. A year ago my wife and I participated in the 'Default Applications' 'chain' (bloggers online sharing a list ...