"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 ...

We've already said it many times before: Reddit and the malicious company (Conde Nast) that controls it (and works for Microsoft) lie about Swartz, trying to posthumously squeeze his corpse for some ...

Please, people, stop uploading to Google/YouTube. It is not free hosting. It's a liability and a risk to the uploaders. Alphabet, which serves the MElon junta, becomes one's boss and master. It ...

"No good deed goes unpunished" at the EPO. The European Patent Organisation (and European Patent Office) is basically operating in vacuum and disguises law-breaking with some chaff about diversity and ...

This month (or year) over in Macao Windows is falling to new all-time lows, a trend we began seeing around Christmastime after big gains for GNU/Linux last year [ 1, 2 ]. Macao isn't big, but like ...