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Unixmen Seems to Have Died After Turning Into a Slopfarm and Spamfarm, Is LinuxSecurity.com Next?

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 18, 2025,
updated Mar 18, 2025

Unixmen

ABOUT a month ago we highlighted Unixmen sinking to new lows. It looks like the SPAM from "serwarSEO" has since then been deleted. However, it seems like the site as a whole also stopped:

Unixmen

Did Unixmen decide that it had gone too far? We hope Unixmen can become (again) what it was a decade ago. It used to be a useful site written by humans, not SEO SPAM (or linkspam) and LLM slop.

Speaking of LLM slop, this is one of the two fake articles (all of them!) in LinuxSecurity.com yesterday:

How Linux Security Admins Can Safeguard Firefox from Add-On Breakage

Not a chance.

As a manager of Firefox instances in a Linux environment, it's critical to be aware of the latest security updates released by Mozilla to ensure your systems and data remain secure

Now that there's some coverage of a stable Debian release there may be some more "training data" (reporting) to plagiarise by LLMs:

Debian 12.10 Bookworm Released: Essential Insights for Security-Conscious Linux Admins

It's not a real article, it's garbage:

The recently released Debian 12.10 'Bookworm' offers us Linux security admins many updates and improvements we can incorporate into our systems

Another day, another LLM slopfest from LinuxSecurity.com.

Better to not publish anything at all than to resort to fake garbage.

And speaking of garbage, since Sam stopped writing for iTWire (after about 18 years!) it looks like the site is full of puff pieces and paid placements, not journalism. It's not what it used to be. A random example from the front page:

Kore.ai Announces Agent Platform for Building, Deploying, and Orchestrating Agentic Applications

Lots of "hey hi" nonsense and yet no real substance.

Update: Just a few minutes after finalising this article Mr. Fagioli went back to his old ways:

Fedora Linux 42 Beta is here with KDE edition, COSMIC spin, Asahi Remix, and major updates

100% LLP slop (full certainty):

Fedora Linux 42 Beta has officially landed, and it’s packed with a ton of awesome changes. This release gives KDE Plasma Desktop full edition status,

The top of the Beta'News' Web site (under "Latest Technology News") is slop:

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