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Gemini Links 21/04/2025: Remembering Pope Francis, Crystal Simulationposted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 21, 2025 Contents Gemini* and Gopher Personal/Opinions 🔤SpellBinding — CEINOVU Wordo: RAYON Blog Questions Challenge: Technology Edition Alright fab. I see your tagging of everyone[0] for this question challenge, and I need a break from both planning things, and writing a bit of a reply to Anna about the previous phlog post I made.

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Doing Microsoft's Job. On IBM's Payroll. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 21, 2025Imagine Greenpeace promoting British Gas. Imagine the late Pope promoting ISIS. What would the public say if PETA raised money by camel rides? Or if the creator of Git promoted/endorsed a GPL violations blender [1, 2] that seeks to replace Git? There are rumours about Red Hat redundancies during Easter (they don't use that sort of language though). As somebody put it some hours ago: "You have hit the nail on the head.

3 days ago | techrights.org | Roy Schestowitz

Google News is Rewarding Slopfarms, Not Journalismposted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 21, 2025,updated Apr 21, 2025This is today (Easter Monday):Slopfarms near the top, as usual (slop images and LLM slop):Make no mistake about it! Everything in that page is slop! It's plagiarism and prompts, nothing original or even accurate. Slopfarm also: (a sister of the above)Be cautious and do not rely on Google News. The above is the norm, not the exception. Don't read junk from chatbots.

3 days ago | techrights.org | Roy Schestowitz

Teaching GAFAM in Schools is Like Teaching Children to Smoke Tobaccoposted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 21, 2025So suggests an FSF presentationAbout a decade ago in Switzerland Richard Stallman spoke about "Free Software and Your Freedom" (Zurich, 2016) and his deck of slides included the following: "When I searched for the funny "teaching kids to smoke tobacco" meme I dug it from here," cblinux says in IRC. █

3 days ago | techrights.org | Roy Schestowitz

Richard Stallman, Whose Site is Trusted by Greater Manchester, Has Come to the United Kingdomposted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 21, 2025,updated Apr 21, 2025He doesn't suck up to the Crown, so he'll never be "knighted"Make way, ladies. He has arrived, gentlemen. He'll be paying with cash and take public transport like trains. As mentioned this morning, RMS has landed and he will be giving two talks throughout this week in England. The first one will be tomorrow morning in London.