Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 20, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Skype Fell Off a Cliff (Microsoft Killed It), All Microsoft Has Left Now is Slop and Spaghetti Code

   "This isn’t about AI. This is a puppet show to drive stock prices up and down."

2. Slopfarms (Machine-Generated Fake News Sites Authored by Bots With Slop Images) Spread GNU FUD

   This isn't about Linux (GNU doesn't run just on Linux)

3. United States Federal Government's Digital Analytics Program (DAP): GNU/Linux Users Represent Close to 6% of Visitors This Year

   How far has GNU/Linux gotten? Very far!

4. The "LLM Ouroboros of Shit" is Complemented by Even Worse Phenomena Caused by Microsoft's Contribution of SPAM and Pollution

   Microsoft became a world leader in promotion of LLM slop

5. The LLM Ouroboros Phenomenon

   Fact #1: over time slop gets worse (training set is like some blurry JPEG). Fact #2: People's "smell" for slop improves over time, as they 'train' on slop and can detect it based on prior encounters. Put 1 and 2 together.

6. How We Defeated DDoS Attacks

   One of the best things one can do is migrate to an SSG

7. Microsofters Issuing Threats to Microsoft Critics Who Blog About Microsoft

   So far we see that their "legal strategy" revolves around trying to discredit people like Theodore Ts'o

   New

8. Microsoft a Top Sponsor at Red Hat Summit (IBM Selling Proprietary Spyware and Back Doors in a "Red" Trench Coat)

   They both work for Microsoft

9. The Official SUSE Blog Uses LLM Slop to Compose Fake Articles Promoting Microsoft and Azure

   even a little slop spoils the broth

10. Links 19/05/2025: Charges of Blackmailing Over Son Heung-min, Chad Opposition Leader Detained

    Links for the day

11. Gemini Links 19/05/2025: Ableism, Silicon Monkeys, and More

    Links for the day

12. Links 19/05/2025: Political Catchup and CISA Advisories

    Links for the day

13. TheLayoff.com Has Begun Deleting Trolls/AstroTurfers Infesting the IBM Section to Discourage On-Topic Discussion About Culls and Maladministration (Bad Strategy)

    Moderators have realised there's a problem

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 18, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, May 18, 2025

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