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12/01 EPO Staff Committee Compares the Tactics of António Campinos to Benoît Battistelli’s

12/01 [Meme] Germany’s Licence to Break the Law

12/01 Links 1/12/2021: LibrePlanet CFS Extended to December 15th and DB Comparer for PostgreSQL Reaches 5.0

12/01 EPO Dislikes Science and Scientists

12/01 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 30, 2021


12/01 Links 1/12/2021: LibreOffice 7.3 Beta, Krita 5.0, Julia 1.7

12/01 Links 1/12/2021: NixOS 21.11 Released

12/01 EPO Cannot and Will Not Self-Regulate

12/01 Prof. Thomas Jaeger in GRUR: Unified Patent Court (UPC) “Incompatible With EU Law“

12/02 The EPO’s “Gender Awareness Report”



12/02 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 01, 2021

12/02 Links 2/12/2021: OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 Alpha, Qt Creator 6

12/02 Links 3/12/2021: Nitrux 1.7.1 and Xen 4.16 Released

12/03 Another Gemini Milestone: 1,500 Active Capsules

12/03 António Campinos as EPO President is Considered Worse Than Benoît Battistelli (in Some Regards) After 3.5 Years in Europe’s Second-Largest Institution


12/03 [Meme] António Campinos and Socialist Posturing

12/03 Links 3/12/2021: GNU Poke 1.4 and KDDockWidgets 1.5.0

12/03 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 02, 2021

12/03 Links 4/12/2021: EndeavourOS Atlantis, Krita 5.0.0 Beta 5, Istio 1.11.5, and Wine 6.23; International Day Against DRM (IDAD) on December 10th

12/03 Media Coverage for Sale



12/04 Approaching 100

12/04 EPO-Bribed IAM ‘Media’ Has Praised Quality, Which Even EPO Staff (Examiners) Does Not Praise

12/04 Links 4/12/2021: Gedit Plans and More

12/04 Links 4/12/2021: IPFire 2.27 Core Update 162 and Genode OS Framework 21.11

12/04 Improving Gemini by Posting IRC Logs (and Scrollback) as GemText


12/04 IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 03, 2021

12/04 Links 4/12/2021: Turnip Becomes Vulkan 1.1 Conformant

12/04 Tux Machines is 17.5 Years Old Today

12/05 The EPO’s Web Site is a Parade of Endless Lies and Celebration of Gross Violations of the Law

12/05 Links 6/12/2021: Gnuastro 0.16 and Linux 5.16 RC4



12/05 Gemini Space/Protocol: Taking IRC Logs to the Next Level

12/05 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, December 04, 2021

12/05 The Letter EPO Management Does Not Want Applicants to See (or Respond to)

12/05 Society Needs to Take Back Computing, Data, and Networks

12/05 Links 5/12/2021: Touchpad Gestures in XWayland


12/05 [Meme] Meanwhile in Austria…

12/06 Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part IX — Microsoft’s Chief Architect of GitHub Copilot Sought to be Arrested One Day After Techrights Article About Him

12/06 The Committee on Patent Law (PLC) Informed About Overlooked Issues “Which Might Have a Bearing on the Validity of EPO Patents.”

12/06 EPO Gradually Reduced to ‘Fee Collection Agency’ Which Eliminates Its Very Own Staff

12/06 Links 6/12/2021: LibreOffice Maintenance Releases, Firefox 95 Finalised



12/06 Links 6/12/2021: HowTos and Patents

12/06 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 05, 2021

12/06 Jim Zemlin Has Deleted All of His Tweets

12/06 No Linux Foundation IRS Disclosures Since 2018

12/06 Linux Foundation 2021 Annual Report Made on an Apple Mac Using Proprietary Software


12/06 Microsoft “Defender” Pretender Attacks Random Software That Uses NSIS for installation; “Super Duper Secure Mode” for Edge is a Laugh

12/06 [Meme] Rowing to the Bottom of the Ocean

12/06 Links 7/12/2021: OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.10 and AppStream 0.15

12/06 “Wintel” “Secure” uEFI Firmware Used to Store Persistent Malware, and Security Theater Boot is Worthless

12/07 All IRC Logs Now Available as GemText Over Gemini Protocol



12/07 Clare Daly (GUE/NGL) Does What Every Public Official in Europe Should Have Done About EPO Shenanigans

12/07 Links 8/12/2021: FreeBSD 12.3, EasyOS 3.1.13, and WordPress 5.9 Beta 2

12/07 [Meme] EU Assurances

12/07 Links 7/12/2021: Firefox 96 Beta and Fedora 37 Abandons ARMv7

12/07 IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 06, 2021


12/07 Links 7/12/2021: Plasma Mobile Gear 21.12 and Tails 4.25

12/08 [Teaser] Meet Microsoft’s Chief Architect of GitHub Copilot, Balabhadra (Alex) Graveley (Updated)

12/08 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 07, 2021

12/08 Links 8/12/2021: Linux 5.15.7 Out, Linux Mint 20.3 is Near

12/08 A Call for Sources and Whistleblowers From Microsoft’s GitHub



12/08 Microsoft Corporation is Still Protecting a Violent Criminal Who Assaults Women (Employing Him as Manager, Protecting Him From Arrest, Paying Him a Salary)

12/08 [Teaser] Rape is Not a Joke

12/08 Links 8/12/2021: Zorin OS 16 Milestone and Calculate Linux 22 Released; Kubernetes 1.23

12/09 Links 9/12/2021: Pgpool-II 4.3.0 and European Commission Releases Free Software

12/09 Fedora (Re)Starts Discussing Plan to Delete GitHub (Quit Microsoft Dependence)


12/09 Links 9/12/2021: Kali Linux 2021.4 Released and GNOME Shell 42 Plans Outlined

12/09 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 08, 2021

12/09 Linux.com Has Become Microsoft Spam and Spamnil

12/09 Links 9/12/2021: EU Antitrust Probe Against Microsoft, Tor Browser 11.0.2 Released

12/10 Video: Animation in the Command Line With IPFS



12/10 Links 10/12/2021: ArcaOS 5.0.7 and Cambalache 0.8.0; Assange Appeal

12/10 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 09, 2021

12/10 [Meme] [Teaser] Can’t Say “No” to Munich’s Battistelli

12/10 Linux Besieged

12/10 Our Growing Embrace of Gemini Protocol


12/10 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXI: The Abstentionists

12/10 In Picture: In December, Microsoft’s Windows Market Share Continues to Decrease in Spite of Paid-For Vista 11 Hype

12/10 Links 10/12/2021: Wine 7.0 RC1 and PHP 7.3 ‘Dead’

12/11 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXII: “Plucky Little Belgium”?

12/11 Canonical: Over a Decade Later



12/11 Need for an EPO That Works for Europe and for Science

12/11 [Meme] Team UPC Undermining Home/Host Nations

12/11 IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 10, 2021

12/11 Links 11/12/2021: KDE With Qt6, Godot 4.0 Alpha Coming

12/11 [Meme] A ‘Neutral’ (Facial Expression) Jérôme Debrulle


12/11 Jérôme’s UPC ‘Sausage Factory’ in Brussels

12/11 Links 12/12/2021: Whisker Menu 2.7.1 and SeaBIOS 1.15 Released

12/12 The EPO’s Staff Does Need to Go on Strike in Order to Highlight Abuse/Misuse of Granting Authority and Mishandling of Patent Examiners

12/12 [Meme] [Teaser] On Tolerating ‘Kings’ in Charge of the EPO

12/12 EPO Management Now Exploits Autistic People as “White-washing Communication Exercise for an Organization Which Has Breached Fundamental Rights”



12/12 Links 12/12/2021: GNU Releases and Haiku Activity Report

12/12 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, December 11, 2021

12/12 Links 12/12/2021: KDE Frameworks 5.89 and OpenRazer 3.2 Released

12/12 [Meme] Strikes Should Not be Regulated by the People Those Strikes Are Against

12/12 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXIII: Swedish Scepticism


12/13 EPO Staff Representatives Cautioned Delegates About Illegal Strike Regulations (But Were Ignored by Delegates)

12/13 Only Norway Followed the Advice of EPO Workers and Consulted Relevant Ministries About Unlawful EPO Policies

12/13 [Meme] The Birth of EPOnia

12/13 A Year After the Last EPO Strike Another One May be Brewing

12/13 Links 13/12/2021: Linux 5.16 RC5 and Fwupd 1.7.3



12/13 Norway’s Handling of EPO Dictatorship

12/13 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 12, 2021

12/13 Links 13/12/2021: Kdenlive 21.12, digiKam 7.4

12/13 Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part X — Connections to the Mass Surveillance Industry (and the Surveillance State)

12/13 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXIV: An “Extremely Dubious” Proposal


12/13 Patent Quality at the EPO Has Collapsed Since Battistelli Came, According to EPO Staff

12/14 Up Next: Arrest and Police Report for Microsoft’s Chief Architect of GitHub Copilot

12/14 Links 14/12/2021: AMD AOCC 3.2 Compilerand DietPi 7.9 Released

12/14 Tomorrow is the First Anniversary of Strike Against President Campinos at the European Patent Office

12/14 If EPOnia Was a Country, It Would Rank About 6th in the World for Union Density



12/14 IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 13, 2021

12/14 Links 14/12/2021: Linux Mint 20.3 “Una” Beta and Kaisen Linux 2.0

12/14 The Precarious Situation of Slovakia as One of Battistelli’s EPO ‘Pawns’ in the East

12/14 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXV: Slovakian Scruples

12/14 [Meme] [Teaser] Buying Power or Securing Control (the Leadership Positions) of Europe’s Largest Patent Office


12/15 Arrest/Police Report for Microsoft’s Chief Architect of GitHub Copilot, Balabhadra Alex Graveley

12/15 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXVI: Serbian Sour Grapes

12/15 [Meme] UPC Meme From FFII

12/15 Links 15/12/2021: EasyOS 3.1.15 and WordPress 5.9 Beta 3; Gaming on Wayland

12/15 Links 16/12/2021: GNU nano 6.0 and X.Org Server 21.1.2



12/15 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 14, 2021

12/15 The Linux Foundation Does Not Truly Care About Diversity and Inclusion, It’s Just Using That

12/15 Microsoft’s Human Resources (HR) Policy: We Offer Assistance to Perpetrators of Domestic Violence

12/15 Serbia and Europe’s Largest (Also Most Corrupt) Patent Office, the EPO

12/16 The Free Software Foundation’s Code of Ethics Protects It From Infiltration and Skulduggery


12/16 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 15, 2021

12/16 The EPO is in ‘Damage Control’ Mode (and It Shows)

12/16 Links 16/12/2021: Latte Dock 0.10.5 and pgAdmin 4 Version 6.3

12/16 Links 16/12/2021: QEMU 6.2 and PAPPL 1.1

12/16 In Picture: Microsoft Windows Has Lost Another Half a Percent in Market Share Since Vista 11 Was Released



12/17 Links 17/12/2021: FSF Adopts Board Member Agreement and Calibre 5.34 Released

12/17 Links 18/12/2021: EndeavourOS Atlantis Neo and Wine 7.0 RC2

12/17 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXVII: Stubbornly Independent Slovenia

12/17 Links 17/12/2021: Switching to Garuda Linux and GCompris 2.0 Release

12/17 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 16, 2021


12/17 Slovenian Patent Office as a Hostage

12/17 [Meme] The ‘Cartel’ Ran Home With All the Money…

12/18 Microsoft’s Chief Architect of GitHub Copilot, Balabhadra (Alex) Graveley, Deletes His Twitter Account a Month After His “Best Friend” Nat Friedman Exited GitHub

12/18 Links 18/12/2021: Debian GNU/Linux 11.2, Latte Dock 0.10.6, geewallet 0.4.300.0, and ReactOS 0.4.1

12/18 IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 17, 2021



12/18 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXVIII: Ensnared in the Tentacles of the SAZAS Octopus

12/18 The Story of Slovenia’s Fall or a Surrender to the So-called ‘IP’ Cartel

12/18 Listen: Vesna Stanković Juričić Confronts Corrupt Team Battistelli (Leaked Audio)

12/18 Slovenia’s Lobbyists Problem

12/19 Unified Patent Court is a Fake Common Court and Violates CJEU’s Jurisprudence of the Last 10 Years, Will Explode at launch, Says Professor Jaeger


12/19 From One Form of Fake ‘Independence’ (‘Exile’) to Another Phony and Shallow ‘Autonomy’ (Webchats)

12/19 Links 19/12/2021: Lots of FUD and Scares

12/19 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, December 18, 2021

12/19 Links 19/12/2021: Linux 5.16 RC6 and Lots About Patents

12/19 You Cannot Own a Car Anymore…



12/19 Slovenia Needs More Courageous Leadership (Like Vesna Stanković Juričić), Not ‘Puppets’ of the Patent and Copyright Cartels

12/19 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXIX: On the Slippery Slope to Capture

12/20 The EPO’s ‘IT’ Systems Have Become a ClusterZuck, Based on EPO Insiders

12/20 EPO’s Illegal Surveillance Covered Up by Buzzwords Bingo and Acronyms: Data Protection Board (DPB), Data Protection Rules (DPR), and Data Protection Officer (DPO)

12/20 Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XI — Violence Against Women


12/20 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 19, 2021

12/20 GitHub is Run by Exceptionally Bad Actors Who Should Never be Put in Charge of Anything

12/20 [Meme] EPO Data Protection

12/20 Nat Friedman Has Deleted His Flickr Account After More Than 15 Years

12/20 Smart People Reject the Newest Cars



12/20 Links 20/12/2021: helloSystem 0.7, Steam Deck as a Console, and Much More

12/20 The Car Drives You — Part I — You Own Nothing

12/21 Links 21/12/2021: EasyOS 3.1.17 and IPFire 2.27 – Core Update 162

12/21 Links 21/12/2021: elementary OS 6.1 Released and Tor Browser 11.0.3

12/21 [Meme] Will You Trust These Clowns With Your Confidential Data?


12/21 Microsoft’s Team Mono: One Happy Family

12/21 IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 20, 2021

12/21 Links 21/12/2021: GIMP 2.10.30 and Qubes OS 4.1 RC3

12/21 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal on ‘Intellectual Property’

12/21 Team Mono is on the Run



12/21 The Microsoft Shuffle: Making One’s Own Products Intentionally Defective

12/21 EPO’s Privacy Violations Being ‘Normalised’

12/21 Links 22/12/2021: Harvester 1.0, RapidDisk 8.0.0, and WordPress 5.9 Beta 4

12/22 Links 22/12/2021: Pi in Short Supply, Alpha 20 of 7 Days to Die

12/22 Driving You Insane?


12/22 FSFE Misuses FSFE Budget to Issue Frivolous Takedown Requests Against Critics

12/22 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 21, 2021

12/22 Links 22/12/2021: ‘ris’ Leaves LWN, Microsoft’s Share in Web Servers Down About 15% This Year, and Manjaro 21.2.0

12/22 The Car Drives You — Part II — Turning Computers and Cars Into Restrictive ‘Consoles’ With DRM

12/22 Links 23/12/2021: SuperTux 0.6.3, Pardus 21.1, and AWS ‘Clown Computing’ Downtime (Again)



12/23 Gemini Crawler ‘Lupa’ Turns One

12/23 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 22, 2021

12/23 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXX: The Idiosyncratic Italians

12/23 Links 23/12/2021: Krita 5.0 and New Benchmarks

12/23 Links 24/12/2021: Neptune 7.0 “Faye” Released, Another Massive Security Hole in Azure


12/23 The Internet is Getting Rid of Microsoft, But We’re Still Not Getting Back Our Autonomy/Freedom (It’s a Paradigm Issue, Not a Brand Issue)

12/23 Update Regarding Slovenia and Vojko Toman

12/24 The EPO ‘Mafia’

12/24 [Meme] The Most Inclusive Greeting We Can Think of

12/24 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 23, 2021



12/24 Links 24/12/2021: Darktable 3.8 and Jami “Taranis”

12/24 Alexandre Oliva’s Open Letter on Richard Stallman

12/24 The Car Drives You — Part III — The Very Concept of a Car Has Changed

12/24 Links 24/12/2021: Sway 1.7 RC, Systemd 250

12/24 The Car Drives You — Part IV — Today’s Cars Come With Up to 3,000 Chips and Security Isn’t of Concern


12/25 IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 24, 2021

12/25 Links 25/12/2021: Rescuezilla 2.3 and Growing Backlash Against COVID-19 Patents

12/25 [Meme] Lawyers With Their Letters…

12/25 Stupid and Legally-Invalid Threats (Physical Letters)

12/25 Links 25/12/2021: Ruby 3.1 Released and Ubuntu vs Arch Linux



12/25 The Car Drives You — Part V — Part of the Coming War on General Computation

12/26 My Year as a Digital Vegan — Part I — 2021 in Review

12/26 Unboxing Geminispace at 1,900 (Updated)

12/26 Links 26/12/2021: Enlightenment 0.25, Lumina 1.6.2, and New Sparky Releases

12/26 The EPO Conflict Affects Everyone in Europe and We Should Support Patent Examiners, Who Are Also Victims of a Corrupt System (Besieged by Dictators Installed in a Systemic Coup d’État)


12/26 Techies Rejecting Fake or Misused Technological ‘Progress’

12/26 German Media on Half a Decade of EPO Appeals and ‘Legal’ Hearings Held Unlawfully in Haar

12/26 IRC Proceedings: Saturday, December 25, 2021

12/26 Links 27/12/2021: Linux 5.16 RC7, Wine 7.0 RC3, NuTyX 21.10.1, and 4MLinux 39.0 Beta

12/26 Links 26/12/2021: Nitrux 1.8.0 and Many Pgpool-II Releases



12/27 My Year as a Digital Vegan — Part II — Impact of a ‘COVID Year’

12/27 My Year as a Digital Vegan — Part III — Lost and Found; Losing the Mobile Phone (Cellphone)

12/27 Mobile Phones With Privacy Almost an Impossibility

12/27 What Real (Fact-Based) 5G and Privacy Issues the Media Casually Distracts From

12/27 IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 26, 2021


12/27 Links 27/12/2021: RapidDisk 8.0.1 and LibreOffice 7.3 RC1

12/27 Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XII — Life of Disorderly Conduct and Lust

12/27 EPO: Getting Rid of Examiners, Hiring PR People Instead

12/27 Links 28/12/2021: New antiX Kernels, Self-Hosted ‘Home Assistant’

12/27 Links 27/12/2021: BLAKE2s, KiCad 6.0.0, and Orange Pi 3 LTS



12/27 Links 27/12/2021: PostgreSQL-Related Project Releases, Microsoft’s Patent Trolls Still Suing the Whole World

12/27 Two Factor Surveillance and Fake Security Practices

12/28 My Year as a Digital Vegan — Part IV — Science or Scientism?

12/28 Links 28/12/2021: Avidemux 2.8 Released, GNUnet’s GNS Technical Specification at IETF

12/28 EPO Staff Representation: “We Believe That the EPO Should… Invest in Staff and in Quality” (Not Cuts and Worse)


12/28 EUIPO-EPO Nepotism and Cross-Pollination/Staff Influx Depicted

12/28 The EPO is Selling Europe and Selling Out Its Own Workers (After Using Them)

12/28 IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 27, 2021

12/28 In Picture: Microsoft Windows Has Lost 2% in Desktop/Laptop Market Share Since the Release of Vista 11

12/28 Links 28/12/2021: OBS-StreamLabs “Partnership” and IDAD 2021 Concluded



12/29 Links 29/12/2021: Linux 5.17 Work and 2021 Roundups

12/29 My Year as a Digital Vegan — Part V — Change in Societal Norms and Attitudes

12/29 End of 2021: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

12/29 Links 29/12/2021: GNU Serveez 0.3.1 and postmarketOS 21.12

12/29 Associates and Enablers of Benoît Battistelli Are Commenting in IP Kat Today


12/29 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 28, 2021

12/29 OSI Might be Using COVID-19 to Report Their Critics to Twitter (for Suspension)

12/29 Under the Leadership of Stefano Maffulli as Executive Director, the OSI is Still Controlled by Microsoft, Promoting Proprietary Software Like GitHub

12/29 Response to Latest Call for EPO Strike Contains Lies From Campinos (and Another Warning That Quality of European Patents Has Collapsed)

12/29 Criticising Microsoft and the OSI is “COVID-19 Misinformation”



12/30 COVID-19 Has Exacerbated Already Severe Psychological Harm Associated With Working for the EPO

12/30 Microsoft GitHub and Google YouTube Remove Source Code and Video for DOOM Running on IKEA Smart Lamp Due to DMCA Take Down

12/30 IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 29, 2021

12/30 [Video] Open Source Initiative (OSI) Board of Directors Chair and Former Treasurer: Half of Our Money Goes to Microsoft Stuff

12/30 Links 30/12/2021: GNOME ‘Quick Settings’ and Linux BIOS Updates Without Reboot


12/30 Links 30/12/2021: Raspberry Digital Signage 17.0 and OpenRGB 0.7

12/30 [Meme] OSI Has Choked Itself to Death (by Surrendering to Its Worst Enemy)

12/30 In the Latest OSI Tax Filing (From the IRS), Filed 13 Months Ago, Only 4% of the Revenue Comes From Members (People, Not Corporations) and $252,702 Goes to Microsoft Projects (Propping Up Proprietary Software Monopoly)

12/30 “It is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something, When His Salary Depends on His Not Understanding It” (Upton Sinclair)

12/30 ‘Diversity’ Funding From Enablers of Adolf Hitler (Not a Joke, Not Even Funny)



12/30 Social Control Media is Out of Control, Now It Censors Microsoft Critics Using Straw Man Arguments and False Pretexts

12/30 My Year as a Digital Vegan — Part VI — The Right Words

12/31 My Year as a Digital Vegan — Part VII — Staying the Course and Fake It Till You Make It?

12/31 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021: 4 Years of António Campinos Failing and EPO Granting Loads of Invalid Patents

12/31 Links 31/12/2021: 7-Zip 21.07 and Goodbye to CentOS 8


12/31 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 30, 2021

12/31 Links 31/12/2021: Libadwaita 1.0 and Hugin 2021 Released

12/31 [Meme] EPO ‘Social Dialogue’: Blah Blah Blah Blah (But Nothing Gets Changed for the Better)

12/31 Why the Open Source Initiative Cannot be Saved (It’s Too Heavily Controlled by Monopolies)

12/31 2022, Our Sixteenth Year




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