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Gemini Links 15/06/2025: Rainy Season and OpenDocument Format (ODF)
15 June 2025 @ 3:28 pm
Links for the day
When Abusive Law Firms (Working for Microsofters Against Us) Assert That Someone Writing in Social Media About Himself is Confidential Information (updated)
15 June 2025 @ 4:39 am
There was no reason to throw "GDPR" into 2 SLAPPs; they know it, but the goal was to increase the cost of a Defence and lessen the incentive to challenge the SLAPPs
Microsoft Attack Dogs Against Watchdogs and Guard Dogs in Software
15 June 2025 @ 4:20 am
Last year Microsofters hired attack dogs or "guns for hire"
Slop Cannot Replace Domain Expertise
15 June 2025 @ 4:01 am
All this "AI" hype (it's not even intelligence, it's all a misnomer, as many of us have insisted all along) will fizzle and be written off as a failed experiment
IBM's Fresh 'PIPs' (Action Before Layoffs)
15 June 2025 @ 3:36 am
At times like these, even once-reputable employers resort to PIPs and other procedures/tricks for denial of workers' rights
Microsoft is a Problem Not Just for Denmark
15 June 2025 @ 2:57 am
Every country should consider what Denmark is doing, why Denmark is doing it, and then do the same
The Slopfarms' Self Detonation
15 June 2025 @ 2:39 am
If more sites like BetaNews go under, then maybe we can still salvage some of the Web