Tomorrow at 5PM (CET) RMS will talk at the Poliecnico di Torino, more specifically Sala Ciminiera of the Department of Computer Engineering. "The nearest street entrance to reach Sala Ciminiera is at ...

Get well soon, World Wide Web. Remember that Google News laid off lots of its workers. If Google News is understaffed and a result it gives rise to plagiarism (LLM slop), fewer people will still ...

Sites like Soylent News generally exist for a dialogue, they do not produce a lot of original stories. So if they make it a ...

In South Africa Apple's iOS is now "bigger" than Windows and Android (Linux) commands about two-thirds of "the market": ...

When Web sites process tens of millions of requests per month it's no longer possible to know who reads them (with small blogs it's possible to identity some friends, family etc.) and so when they ...

Hours ago: "Heard from a few ppl in CIO to relocate or take a 3 month package. And so the wheels keep spinning on RTO! Ugh!" ...

LESS than a month ago Dr. Stallman, who had founded Free software, said in France ( full talk) that there was still a conflict or disagreement between the so-called 'FSFE' (we call it FSF-EEE ...

Please, people, stop uploading to Google/YouTube. It is not free hosting. It's a liability and a risk to the uploaders. Alphabet, which serves the MElon junta, becomes one's boss and master. It ...

We've already said it many times before: Reddit and the malicious company (Conde Nast) that controls it (and works for Microsoft) lie about Swartz, trying to posthumously squeeze his corpse for some ...

It has been nearly 3 months since the last server reboot and quite a few months since the latest persistent network outage, so IRC has had no interruption (downtimes impact IRC more/worse than any ...

"No good deed goes unpunished" at the EPO. The European Patent Organisation (and European Patent Office) is basically operating in vacuum and disguises law-breaking with some chaff about diversity and ...

From what we can gather, based on online tools, some articles about ONLYOFFICE 8.3 seem to be getting the 'BetaNews treatment', which is aping using LLM slop: This is also "Latest Technology News", ...