Microsoft's tactics are not so unique; they skirt the WARN Act by paying people to leave, harassing workers 'til they leave, ...

Giving 'Free Publicity' to the People You Hate and Attack. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 02, 2026, updated Sep 02, 2026. Attack a person often enough or attack a project hard e ...

"Here is something I thought I should share here: yesterday was my last day at IBM," wrote a Distinguished Engineer at IBM a ...

If you make a living working to rekindle or keep going this giant pyramid scheme ( trillions in debt and playing with money ...

After trying a Reddit clone, 'crypto' scams, and all sorts of other things for a fake kingdom (fantasy) freenode.net ...

"If you're doing something hard and nobody hates it, you probably aren't doing it. If the right people hate it and those ...

In a nutshell, LLM slop is often just a hallmark of dying/dead sites. People who care and value their work (and reputation) ...

FSF Staff Uses 'CoC' to Stop Conversation About Autistici/Inventati in Relation to Free Software. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 01, 2026. How Wikipedia (controlled by American ...

Maker Timo Strube has designed an open-hardware split-layout mechanical keyboard with a twist: both halves can operate ...

Some people at IBM (and Red Hat) are panicking because colleagues tell them about RAs, PIPs, "next move", and all sorts of other euphemisms (alternate terms for layoffs). Forced (sometimes impossible) ...

A week ago we took note of 506 IRC networks being tracked/seen by netsplit.de. It has since then grown. "There are 511 known IRC networks listed below," the site says today and Linux.org is still not ...

In case it's not obvious, the prime or "primary" platform of Microsoft Lunduke is "x.com" (right-leaning social control media ...