This hours-old report says that people laid off as "low performers" go to social control media to bemoan the label, which is ...

Fishing for information about IBM layoffs is hard. That's because the media is dealing with "flooded zones" (lots of media ...

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 ...

"According to the Office statistics the total number of days of absence has gone up from 12.4 to 13.1 total number of sick days per Full Time Equivalent (FTE) from 2023 to 2024." ...

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 ...

Roy Schestowitz on Feb 11, 2025, updated Feb 11, 2025. Bots (LLMs) do not "write articles". They spew out words ...

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!" ...

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 ...

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 ...

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