he other day I received “Greetings from Georgia Tech!”

Why? Because Dr. Stallman (RMS) will be giving a talk there soon.

“Hi Dr. Schestowitz,” it said. “Thank you again for your support – it truly means a lot! We officially purchased RMS’s flights to Atlanta last night, and we’re all incredibly excited about the upcoming event.”

It’s about more than just the talk, it’s a statement of sorts. See what’s at stake.

“You’ve absolutely got a new ally here at Georgia Tech through us at LibreTech Collective, and you’ve also gained a new regular reader in me. I already follow Phoronix and a few other tech blogs, so when your Techrights post popped up in my newsreader a few days ago, it genuinely made my night!”

Techrights is a bit ‘different’ a site, http://tuxmachines.org has more ‘conformist’ material.

Techrights deals with whistleblowers. “Whistleblowing isn’t impulsive but premeditated,” as noted yesterday. “Impulse can lead to errors.”

Our reporting is certainly hurting all the “right” people. So we’re on the right track.

he FSF, which started Free software and seeks to protect it in perpetuity, has just said (yesterday evening) “it received two major contributions totaling around $900,000 USD.”

Those people could, instead, buy several houses. But no.

Instead they chose to give ‘firepower’ to the FSF, the real and true protector of Free software, unlike opportunistic copycats or splinter groups. “One of the reasons for my complete resignation from the organization is the deception of a volunteer who gave them a bequest of €150,000,” Daniel Pocock recalled. Last year when he ran for European politics he said: “Research found that some of the world’s largest companies have spent over $120,000 trying to censor me even before I announced my candidacy. I guess that I might have something to say that is in the public interest.”

Last year and again this year my wife and I filed three lawsuits against men who had attacked women and Free software luminaries [1, 2, 3].

They were on the payroll of monopolists when they did this.

Lawsuits are not cheap, but they are the necessary thing to do in this situation.

In life, people must make sacrifices to do what’s right and just.

“Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.”

-Mark 12:41-12:44

“He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.””

-Luke 21:2-21:38

Reposted from Techrights

echrights wrote about this several times before, but it is worth repeating because a lot more is known now.

That is relevant because, as an associate put it:

TIL: Signal (app) is *only* for smartphones and even the desktop version
will not work without first registering via a smartphone instance. Not good.

Can I install Signal Desktop without a mobile device?

No. Signal Desktop must be linked with either Signal Android
or Signal iOS to send and receive messages.

Security theatre

“I would presume the connections are logged externally and at the minimum timing correlations can be made,” the associate noted.

Also, under oath, you might be compelled to admit you spoke over Signal or other digital means to a Serial Strangler from Microsoft about how to sue Roy.

That actually happened. And we have proof (under sworn oath).

That’s good to know, as it’ll prove relevant in the future.

That serves to prove that Brett Wilson LLP lied to me and also about me many times. Lying to a Court about a person isn’t a trivial thing to do. It’s also legally risky.

After more than 2 months since their own clients sued them (Yanpolsky and another v Brett Wilson LLP and another) they still appear to have filed no defence [1, 2, 3, 4].

I don’t want to comment much more at this stage, except note that now there is substantial proof of what we’ve said all along and got defamed for. How much will they spend to silence me?

ome years ago I reported about crimes in Microsoft [1, 2] and even crimes against women, perpetrated by Microsoft employees. Days (or about a day) later I got SLAPPed by associates of these people (who are also connected to Microsoft).

Years earlier the same happened after I had reported crimes at the EPO.

Right now I report on some more Microsoft crimes and substance abuse at the EPO. Crimes at Microsoft are routine, but some are more personal than others. Sometimes the companies can ‘personify’ matters to make the disputes seem like anything but corporate muzzling (like Philpott at EPO).

As a result, there is more heat and costs.

That does beg the question: how safe is it to be an investigative reporter in the UK?

Put another way: is it possible to really report on crime in the UK?

Or only the crimes detested by the state?

Back in 2009 we saw how the UK Ministry of Defence was classing Investigative Journalists among “Terrorists” or something to that effect.

Society where crimes cannot be reported – or cannot be safely reported on – would look something like Putin’s Moscow. We do not want that, do we?

think I’ve not embarked on an airplane since 2018 (Berlin) and we’re just 7 weeks away from 2026. It’s not that I didn’t go anywhere in the UK (for instance we were in Belfast the following year; that’s Northern Ireland, just a boat trip away) and a fortnight ago we went to London. It’s just that I promised myself not to waste energy on flights unless I absolutely need to (sometimes we must attend funerals and such; something like a conference is never a necessity).

The trip to Berlin was OK, but the flights and airports were not pleasant, with various delays among other issues.

I don’t miss air travel and have no imminent plan of boarding a plane.

I miss nothing about flights.

To most people in Western countries, due in part to peer pressure, it’s more difficult not to hitch planes than to conform/obey expectations.

Crossposted from Techrights

Mentioning someone was in prison for bad things isn’t a crime, it’s a public service (he’s not even from this continent!)

Yesterday: They’ve Already Spent Close to a Million Dollars on Lawyers and Sent Us About 50 KG of Legal Papers (Sponsored by Mysterious Third Party) to Try to Censor Techrights, Without Success

As a little bit of an introduction, this article concerns a firm that breaches rules and admits this [1, 2]. Breach of confidence included. We’ll come to this in a moment. It’s so bad a reputation that around here in Manchester very small law firms already know that London firm for being one of the worst and they were sued by their own clients last month [1, 2, 3]. Having dealt with SLAPPs for many years, this one was lousy to begin with, resulting in a firm counter-suit (almost 200 pages long), just months after two more counter-suits [1, 2]. Both cases involve Americans [1, 2] who merely ‘visit’ Europe via the lousy law firm in London, egging on women to attack other women on behalf of men who attack women. No wonder this law firm is seemingly ‘selling the office’ already (its contents) and is happy to misuse data, despite it claiming to be an expert in data protection. This month their staff was passing around in legal documents and to third parties photos of our home taken for purposes unrelated to the matter (couriers giving photographic evidence of delivery), so we’ve reported the matter to British authorities. Those photos are clearly misused. Imagine me getting proof of delivery photos, then starting to spread such photos around, blogging photos like these to an audience they are not intended for (with the faces of people that I delivered parcels to, without any consent).

With that little introduction out of the way, today we deal with this person.

His lawyers are acting like assassins or Mafia, to use the metaphor those firms earned for themselves (in my opinion, some of their managers literally look like assassins, maybe they fancy themselves that). They sent an Hells Angels-like motorcyclist to our home. It was the delivery person whom they paid a lot of money to ride up to Manchester. Don’t they know sending big men with helmets and dark overalls can scare people? Thankfully, I myself am a big person, so it didn’t startle me; he chatted with me for a long time about the truly ridiculous things this law firm does for an American against Brits who reported, correctly, what he did to other Americans.

He totally sympathised with me, saying what they had done is “ridiculous!” (Direct quote; he said more things to that effect, dismissive of what he helped deliver)

He was actually very nice to me, borderline apologetic for what he was doing. He agreed that I ought to be seeking compensation for what they did to me and to my family.

Job insecurity compels people to do things without caring “too much” about the consequences or whose interests are served (e.g. Americans who spent about a million dollars to harasses not only a reporter in Europe but also his whole family).

Imagine a society where workers think about and care about the ethics of what they do for a living, and then act accordingly instead of just following orders.

This man put his life at risk on a motorcycle with super strong gusts (and heavy rain, hence wet surfaces on the road) to come here on a day like this and I still find it ironic that at the end he was more like a friend to me, and not scary at all.

“Pawn” of the lawyers…

Since Graveley was paid by Microsoft (an American from an American company) and his American litigation buddy is funded by some shadowy rich people (or corporations) by his own admission I’m led to believe that they don’t get their money’s worth, they just try to intimidate my wife and I in vain.

At the end, this ugly and clearly coordinated effort is doomed to backfire because we’ll write everything they did to us and report to the correct authorities, including politicians.

When law firms take any unscrupulous person as a client they end up being known in distant cities for how bad (low success rate) and evil they are. The only thing that can compel firms to do this is financial trouble, hence low standards or low thresholds (it doesn’t seem to matter where the money comes from, but that is very risky). ?

Crossposted from Techrights

Today, the Microsofters’ lawyers dumped on us four (yes, 4) very large boxes full of legal papers. Two were almost literally dumped on our home, cluttering the entrance. They’re about as tall and me and taller by far than Microsoft’s OOXML. By their clients’ own admission, some other party (or parties) funds these lawyers. So it would appear they act as a proxy, or instrumentalised as we explained this morning. To repeat: “A Web site called Gawker published a correct and amicable article about a billionaire, Thiel, being gay. Thiel couldn’t sue Gawker for anything, so instead he bankrolled the lawsuit of Hogan, drowning Gawker in legal bills.”

By their own disclosure to the Court this past January, they’re already north of 500,000 pounds for their own legal bills (including VAT), not counting the bills of the serial strangler from Microsoft.

All in all, one can reasonably estimate they’ve already spent close to a million dollars just trying to remove pages from this site, in vain. Even a million bucks didn’t do that. When asked who’s paying their bills they refused to answer.

They try to overcompensate with sheer volume for a lack of solid, clear arguments (we are the victims here [1, 2]). Judges do not have time to read so many boxes full of papers; these lawyers try to drown out our own arguments with decrees. They’ve also made it abundantly clear that they use Microsoft software to prepare this (as usual); American software, American clients, with an American president who fancies pouring out diarrhoea on the American people. ?

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