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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 11, 2025

Brachina Gorge

Updated This Past Day

  1. Using a Popular Ponzi Scheme to Sell Expensive Hardware Mislabelled as "Hey Hi" (AI)
    Selling shovels in an age of "gold rush"
  2. Search Engine-Optimised (SEO) Googlebombs Target "Linux", "Ubuntu", and "RISC-V", Still Composed by Bots
    the way to defeat LLM slop (trash) is to call out serial sloppers or "repeat plagiarists"
  3. Unix Men (or UnixMen) Has Turned Into LLM Slop With Embedded Linkspam, Piggybacking "Linux" for SEO
    Welcome to 2025 and the "new" Web
  4. Social Control Media and 'Linux' Foundation Accelerate the Death of the Web
    Social Control Media is basically a dying business
  5. Linux Foundation Increasingly Reliant on Paid Press Releases, Paid-for Stenography, and Even LLM Slop (Fake 'Articles')
    This LLM slop is a big problem both for Linux and for Google

    New

  6. Links 10/01/2025: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Shrinking, "Not every user owns an iPhone"
    Links for the day
  7. Gemini Links 10/01/2025: Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Linux Desktop Setup
    Links for the day
  8. [Meme] Donald Trump Will Pay Microsoft Back
    bribery administration is 10 days away
  9. statCounter Sees GNU/Linux Tripling in Share in 3 Years in Iran
    ChromeOS adoption is low, but then again, nobody buys a Chromebooks with the expectation of better privacy
  10. Guardian Digital, Inc (linuxsecurity.com) is Again Spamming or Googlebombing "Linux" and "Security" Using LLM Slop
    Guardian Digital is basically a dodgy company. Don't trust Guardian Digital with your security.
  11. Links 10/01/2025: Disinformation Sold as "Artificial Intelligence (AI)" and as "Social Media" Now Facing Growing Scrutiny
    Links for the day
  12. Links 10/01/2025: Scam Altman’s Younger Sister Files Lawsuit Claiming He Sexually Abused Her, Apple Faces Embargo
    Links for the day
  13. Gemini Links 10/01/2025: Internet Archive Gopher Search Interface and Falling "in Love With the Small Web"
    Links for the day
  14. Starting 2025 on a Strong Note
    we ought to find more time to produce our own stories
  15. Entire News Sites Have Become Just the Output of Bots (or Chatbots Disguised as "Authors")
    the Web is screwed
  16. Colombian Trends Help Explain Why Microsoft Rushes to Start the Year With Mass Layoffs (Before Some Staff is Even Back to Work!)
    No wonder there are mass layoffs (first of GAFAM) as early as week 1 of 2025
  17. LLM Slop and Bot-Generated Marketing for the Linux Foundation and Its Openwashing
    Of course it's chaff
  18. Microsoft Gives Money to Trump, Poor or Even Sluggish Adoption of "Hey Hi" (AI) Reported Amid Mass Layoffs
    Microsoft now uses its media moles to downplay layoffs and bribes
  19. More IBM Layoffs (2025)
    IBM is being scattered away, yet the media barely covers it. It'll just happen "silently" over time.
  20. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  21. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 09, 2025
    IRC logs for Thursday, January 09, 2025
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2025-01-04 to 2025-01-10
    2637 /n/2025/01/06/Fedora_Seems_to_be_Dying_of_Neglect_by_IBM.shtml
    2026 /n/2025/01/08/Communications_Assistance_for_Law_Enforcement_Act_CALEA_is_a_Fa.shtml
    1916 /n/2025/01/07/Microsoft_Continues_to_Attack_Users_Choice.shtml
    1792 /n/2025/01/04/What_Would_Dennis_Ritchie_Say_About_the_Memory_Safe_Hype_or_Car.shtml
    793 /n/2024/12/21/On_BetaNews_Latest_Technology_News_We_are_moderately_confident_.shtml
    752 /n/2025/01/08/Microsoft_Starts_2025_Like_2024_Mass_Layoffs_Every_Month.shtml
    734 /n/2025/01/05/Links_05_01_2025_Math_On_Checkerboard_and_Nazi_linked_accounts_.shtml
    726 /n/2025/01/07/In_Europe_Russia_s_Yandex_About_to_Become_Bigger_Than_Microsoft.shtml
    725 /n/2025/01/10/More_IBM_Layoffs_2025.shtml
    711 /n/2025/01/06/British_Police_Register_a_New_Account_With_Unscrupulous_America.shtml
    659 /n/2025/01/07/All_the_Latest_Articles_in_This_Fake_News_Site_Are_SPAM_LLM_Slo.shtml
    617 /n/2025/01/09/Free_Software_Cannot_Rely_on_Politicians_They_Don_t_Even_Care_A.shtml
    575 /n/2025/01/04/Links_04_01_2025_Demolition_of_IBM_Building_Its_Birthplace_Micr.shtml
    543 /n/2025/01/05/Credit_to_Jessica_Lyons_at_The_Register_for_Covering_the_Commun.shtml
    530 /n/2025/01/04/Links_04_01_2025_Social_Control_Media_Deemed_Very_Unhealthy_Nic.shtml
    529 /n/2025/01/04/Phoronix_in_Past_Years_X_is_Dead_Phoronix_Days_Ago_Oh_Never_Min.shtml
    524 /n/2025/01/08/Engagement_in_Microsoft_GitHub_Falls_Expect_More_Layoffs_and_Of.shtml
    521 /n/2025/01/04/Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Almost_85_Funded.shtml
    520 /browse/latest.shtml

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