In terms of users' freedom, IBM never spoke about or cared about those things. In the 1990s IBM rushed to adopt "Linux" because Microsoft had gained considerable ground and IBM found itself losing its ...

X works. X has bugs. Sure. Wayland also has bugs. Wayland has some very severe bugs (we wrote about this 2 years ago). The "Security" FUD is also used by "Rust people". Who cares if developers cannot ...

From this very active thread: "I remember Arvind in 2020, shortly after becoming CEO, saying that IBM would have a commercially available quantum computer in 3-5 years. Now it's 2028. In 2028 it'll be ...

The corporate media, a lot of which gets paid by Microsoft and by Bill Espteingate, likes to confuse people, conflating Git with GitHub. Some employers even erroneously assume that people who don't ...

Alicja Adamczak was the president of the Office and then Edyta Demby-Siwek used the Office for personal promotion, as covered in the last part. They destroyed the lives of many people just for their ...

Seems like BetaNews (or Beta Noise) has just suffered a major data loss and restored the site from a week-old backup! Imagine all the LLM slop that got lost, maybe forever, maybe temporarily.

They don't want people to talk about it (pouring water on the hype, which turned out to be baseless) and they try to silence ...

In Part I we mentioned a publication in Polish. It's called StoWI. It covers some of these issues. The latest issue, as its ...

You see, throwing threats at people is "polite". They're polite, just like their client: If those people react to these ...

There's a clear motif there; technology is fast becoming dysphoric. It's not there to improve humanity but to help few people ...

Canonical has been very busy selling proprietary software lately, especially Microsoft's. Mr. Shuttleworth has pulled up the ...

SS Fagioli is basically a parasite leeching off or exploiting other people's work. It doesn't seem to bother the management of BetaNews, which became BetaNoise. █ ...