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Gemini Links 30/09/2026: Fish Leather, Slop Formation, and ROOPHLOCH posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 30, 2026 Contents Gemini* and Gopher Personal/Opinions The Two Row Wampum as Theory and Method The Two Row Wampum, Guswenta in the Haudenosaunee tradition, is usually introduced as a historical object: a treaty belt recording a 1613 agreement between the Haudenosaunee and the Dutch. The framing is true and too small. The treaty is still in effect. I will argue, following Philip P.

In a Lot of Europe (or EU) Android (With Linux) is Bigger Than Windows posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 30, 2026 Accounting for mobile platforms, it's not hard to find large European countries where Android is significantly bigger than Windows. Even outside Europe, worldwide Android is nearly as big as Windows when it comes to Clownflared sites' requests: We're seeing a lot of puff pieces today about the person ("CEO") who is demolishing Microsoft XBox.

Slop-Posting is a New Form of S---posting posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 30, 2026, updated Sep 30, 2026 The Web is generally bad, but the Web is still vast and there's plenty of material in it. For sure some of it is good. Finding it isn't always easy (muddied waters). When people begin to "slop" and "vibe" things they partly plagiarise other people's work (no attribution, no permission, probably not even knowledge of it), but the originals remain intact.

EPO Cocainegate: Lots of Money (Over a Million Euros) for Cocaine Addicts, Not for Children With Special Needs posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 30, 2026 To President Campinos, cocaine addiction is something punishable by paid "sick leave" (i.e. free money, salary for nothing!). But when you're not the family that Campinos sleeps with, then tough luck... When your child is born with a disability, then it's not the same as doing cocaine out in the open.

High Court victory: Nigel Farage is 'the Company's own candidate' posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 30, 2026 In the sentencing of the late Cardinal George Pell, it was his defence lawyer Robert Richter KC who argued the Cardinal should receive a lighter punishment because it was a "plain vanilla" case of abuse. In fact, when somebody in such a senior position of trust commits an offence of that nature, it is a lifelong case of psychological torture for the victims.

Links 30/09/2026: Microsoft "OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely" and "Pentagon Personnel Agency Data Breach Impacts 3 Million People" posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 30, 2026 Leftovers Science / Mathematics / Computer Science Career/Education Health/Nutrition/Agriculture Proprietary / Vendor Lock-in / Malware Qt ☛ Introducing the Canvas2D Coding Skill for Agentic Development of Embedded Device UIs Qt 6.12 introduces Qt Canvas2D.

It Took GNOME's Code of Conduct Committee (CoCC) Over 8 Months to Realise CoC Reports Went Into /dev/null/ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 30, 2026 So according to the geniuses who adopted corporate methods to police a community (where the elites are above the rules, exempted from enforcement, or too powerful to touch or even criticise) many reports of alleged CoC violations got lost. It would be ironic if the blunder's culprits were punished for it, would it not?

The Register MS "Events" As Paid Spam That Promotes and Keeps Afloat Hype About Slop posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 30, 2026 A few hours ago, bearing the term "AI" 20 times in the page: So David Gordon again failed to disclose that 1) this page is sponsored nonsense and 2) who paid for it (the companies the page is about).

Digital Independence in the UK and in Western Europe posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 30, 2026 We have the technical capacity and skilled personnel to achieve this As insinuated earlier and elsewhere, GNU/Linux broke a barrier by becoming more mainstream not just in people's homes but also offices. There are shops and government agencies where the terminals and workstations are Microsoft-free; we're moving in the right direction.

IBM's Anderon as a Mass Layoffs Ritual With a Bailout (From US Taxpayers to IBM) and Other Perks posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 30, 2026 Pretty frustrating that, with Anderon starting tomorrow, Outlook, Slack, Teams, you name it! - none of our accounts still aren’t set up. None of them. These aren’t nice-to-haves they’re basic infrastructure. People can’t be expected to hit the ground running when leadership hasn’t even made sure they can communicate. How are we suppose to work?