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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 27, 2025

Children who were playing together in the holidays.

Updated This Past Day

  1. LLM Slopfarm: A Site's Last Incarnation Before Throwing in the Towel, Going Offline Permanently
    A lot of coverage that claims to be about Finland is chatbot-generated nonsense or poorly-plagiarised work
  2. LLM Slop (Lots of It Spewed Out by Microsoft) Versus Linux
    Microsoft is a very, very evil company. It doesn't mind destroying the Web if there's a chance it'll make a buck in the process or mess up people's brains (in Microsoft's favour).
  3. Slopfarms (Sites That Only Ever Publish LLM Slop) Are Killing Google News
    pair of slopfarms still propped up by Google News
  4. Microsoft's Serial Strangler's Law Firm Has a Long History of Fronting for People Who Do Bad and/or Illegal Things
    Whose terrible idea was this?

    New

  5. Links 26/03/2025: Healthcare Cuts and Turkey's Own "2025 Project" (Culling Opposition)
    Links for the day
  6. Microsoft Canonical Pays IDG to Spread FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt)
    this seems a tad exploitative and reminds us of the time Novell kept telling companies that using anything other than SUSE was dangerous
  7. Gemini Links 26/03/2025: GTD, Zenshuu, and Geminispace Community
    Links for the day
  8. Links 26/03/2025: Media's Failures, Arrests of Journalists, Limitations of End-to-End Encryption
    Links for the day
  9. Novell and Microsoft Apologist/Booster Bruce Byfield Writing About the FSF is a Recipe for Problems
    Totally not shoehorning some agenda
  10. Looking Forward to the Fall of UPC and Revocation of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement, Which Was Always Illegal and Unconstitutional
    We'll try to keep abreast of any progress in this case
  11. Slopwatch: Google News, LinuxSecurity.com, and the General Demise of the Web
    many supposed or so-called "news" pages are just spewed out by some chatbots (or tools which help plagiarise original articles without getting caught; detection gets harder)
  12. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  13. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 25, 2025
    IRC logs for Tuesday, March 25, 2025
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