Web Server Survey: 2.7 Million Sites and 16 Million Domains Wiped Last Month
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2023-07-02 00:01:58 UTC
- Modified: 2023-07-02 00:01:58 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Qualcomm Arduino Takes Aim at Raspberry Pi
- Qualcomm is a Microsoft partner
- Arduino is Now a Patent Bully (Qualcomm)
- Qualcomm has just bought Arduino
- Many Years of Microsoft Cancellations and Faked (Acquired) Revenue "Growth"
- XBox is basically the "next Skype"
- Microsoft's Non-Denying Denial About XBox's Death is Already Being Shattered to Pieces
- Like Microsoft's 'open' 'hey hi', heralding meaningless non-committing agreements with AMD is little more than vapourware
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- How and Why Once-Legitimate Sites Turn Into Slopfarms
- Many sites will go offline and many social control networks will shut down once they realise or even openly admit they spend money and time gardening a bunch of bots and slop
- UbuntuPIT Became a Slopfarm and Gnoppix Tarnishes Its Own Brand With Slop
- It fits all the characteristics of mildly-edited (if at all) slop
- Slopwatch: Linux Journal and Other Slopfarms
- GAFAM needs to go the way of the dodo
- Gemini Links 08/10/2025: "Seek Seek Revolution" and Gradient Backgrounds
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 07, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, October 07, 2025
- Stagnation of the Economy and What Free Software Can (or Could) Do For It
- If your economic model is based on a pyramid of lies, it won't last very long
- Social Control Media is Sinking
- it would rightly seem like the era of centralised "social" sites (they're not social, they're about controlling the users) is ending, not overnight but gradually
- Participation in Cancel Culture Detrimental to One's Career
- A cautionary tale
- Passion Wins
- we've increased the number of birds we feed to 100+
- How Solderpunk and Sean Conner Started Gemini Protocol (and, Collectively, Geminispace) Back in 2019
- Based on the "official" history
- The Comment TheLayoff.com Has Just Censored for Criticising a Ridiculous Puff Piece of IBM Management
- If comments get censored for their "style" rather than their substance, then society will be worse off
- The Power of Writing Down Facts
- The more we write and publish, the more people will know what happened
- Slopwatch: UbuntuPIT Joins the Slopfarms Club
- Slopfarms gonna slop
- Links 07/10/2025: Privacy at Risk, GAFAM Remains Off the Hook
- Links for the day
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- Links for the day
- Links 07/10/2025: International Criminal Court (ICC) Convicts Ali Kushayb; Moroccan Imprisoned for 'Offensive' Shirt
- Links for the day
- Links 07/10/2025: EU' Chat Control is Back, US Cracks Down on Democracy
- Links for the day
- Techrights Pursues Justice and Truth Because, Without Those, Society Descends Into Chaos
- most people reject dogma and pseudoscience
- Upcoming Talks by Richard Stallman in Helsinki, Göteborg, and Rome
- Join with him and share the software
- Something Bad is Happening in the Open Source Initiative (OSI)
- The latest OSI blog post is from a Microsoft operative and a few weeks ago the Executive Director left
- TLS 1.3 Dominates Geminispace (99% of Known Capsules)
- it's nowadays safe to assume almost every capsule can handle TLS 1.3
- Why soylentnews.org Has Been Having Technical Difficulties Lately
- The network has been going up and down quite a lot this past week
- A Statement Against Violence
- The facts are on our side
- They've Run Out of Things to Rebrand or Label as "AI"
- The next few years will be interesting because if Microsoft lays off tens of thousands of workers each year, there won't be much left except mountains of debt and dying brands
- The Register MS is Still Being Paid to Participate in the "AI" Ponzi Scheme Which Will Crash the Economy
- The Register MS is hoping to get lucky by tricking people into a scam
- Richard Stallman Confirms His Talk in Göteborg This Coming Friday
- "The hosts say that the list will not be given to the state"
- Most of the "Linux" Results This Morning in Google News Are LLM Slop From the Same Slopfarm, Plagiarising Phoronix
- The main question is, does Google even care at this point?
- Gemini Links 07/10/2025: Civil War and "Goodbye Web"
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 06, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, October 06, 2025
- Evidence Contradicting Microsoft's Non-Denying Denials and Expectation of Many Layoffs Soon
- "Microsoft has had this constant drip of layoffs for months."
- The "AI Revolution" is Going Very Well, Right?
- money that does not exist and alleged potential that is pure fiction
- Links 06/10/2025: Scam Altman Himself Admits He Runs a Scam Based on a Bubble, US Administration Adopts “War From Within” Narrative to Crush Opposition/Dissent
- Links for the day
- Slopwatch: Fake Ubuntu 'Articles' and Google News Helps People Who Plagiarise Phoronix Using LLMs
- Michael Larabel can't possibly be happy about that
- 6,000 Pages/Articles a Year
- Today in one month from now the site turns 19
- When Things Become So Ubiquitous That They're Almost Nameless
- The notion or the concept of software freedom isn't tied to any particular brand or project, so it should still resonate
- At Least 3 Richard Stallman Talks in Europe Confirmed So Far, Next Week in Rome There's Another
- Dr. Stallman has not announced this yet
- IDG Seems to Have Abandoned Sandra Henry Stocker's UNIX/Linux Column
- Unless we hear otherwise or see some update/s, this may mark another death blow from IDG
- Gemini Links 06/10/2025: Winter Nights and "Virtue Signaling"
- Links for the day
- Links 06/10/2025: Scientific Awards and Typhoon Matmo
- Links for the day
- IP Kat Gone Bonkers, Pushing Slop in Patents (Likely Illegal, With Severe Consequences)
- AstraZenecaKat: "Last time, this Kat covered some practical steps on how to ensure client confidentiality when using AI tools (IPKat)."
- Links 06/10/2025: Grokipedia as Malicious Slop, US 'Martial Law' a "New Normal"
- Links for the day
- Fake Economics and Clown Computing Circuses
- who's gonna pay for these scams?
- Nobel Prize in Economics Does Not Exist, It's Propaganda From Sveriges Riksbank
- "It is that time of the year when it is important to remind people that there are no Nobel Prizes for professional wrestling, astrology, or economics"
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- That's a recipe for problems
- Cindy Cohn (Executive Director of EFF) is a Millionaire, Earned Almost $30,000 Per Month Before Departing While the EFF Lost Money
- EFF is "Big Business"
- Non-Denying Denial From Microsoft (Again) Regarding the End of XBox Consoles
- It's kind of hilarious that even the site chosen by Microsoft to relay its BS, based on past loyalty, isn't quite buying it
- Bringing Back Lost Articles From the 1990s: Microsoft Products Leave Door Open to NSA
- Nothing has changed since then
- When the Slop Bubble Pops People Will Say Richard Stallman Was Right (Again)
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- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 05, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, October 05, 2025
- Links 06/10/2025: Science, Hardware, and Andrej Babis Making a Comeback
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