Not Just an OSU Open Source Lab Issue

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 02, 2025

Prominent and very prolific news sites about Linux ask for help

Months (or weeks) after complaining that LLMs bots had been hammering away at the server:

Around the same day:

OSU Open Source Lab also makes a plea - it seems desperate for help. This impacts many projects, even Gentoo. █

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Richard Stallman Has Barely Changed: Collecting "estate" "assets"? That's not "success" in the eyes of Dr. Stallman
Public Talk by Richard Stallman (RMS) Tomorrow: Still advertised
Links 25/05/2025: 15 Years of UK Legal Aid Applicant Data Grabbed and 2 Billion Discord Messages Leaked Online: Links for the day
Gemini Links 25/05/2025: Farming and OpenBSD 7.7 on Acer Aspire ES 15: Links for the day
Fighting for Freedom is Much Better Than Fighting for Money: If life is about accumulation of money, then people will be "busy making money" till they die prematurely (with nothing to do with this money)
The Microsoft SLAPP Dossiers: A rather likely outcome is, they'll lose their licence to operate
Links 25/05/2025: Harvard’s Troubles and New Openwashing Examples: Links for the day
Gemini Links 25/05/2025: Whales and Battery Replacement: Links for the day
Links 25/05/2025: Climate Action Ridiculed and "Tesla Executive Admits That Self-Driving Is Going Nowhere Fast": Links for the day
The Next Two Phases of Our Open Source Initiative (OSI) Series: Whatever people used to think about the OSI is no longer applicable and its current acronym is a misleading misnomer
Gemini Links 25/05/2025: Konsole Layout Changes and Capitulation to Surveillance World: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 24, 2025: IRC logs for Saturday, May 24, 2025
Links 24/05/2025: From War on Science to War on Academia, Chagos Islands Handed Over to Mauritius: Links for the day
Links 24/05/2025: Leasehold Myths and Analog Computer: Links for the day
Soylent News Editor Stays, Trolls Leave Instead: Some of us asked him not to resign but pause and reconsider
Corporate Media Did Not Report on Mass Layoffs at IBM's Expert Labs: Not a single media outlet even mentioned those mass layoffs!
In BetaNoise, The "Latest Technology News" is Noise (Still!): If you fail to get the slop under control, the site as a whole will perish
Defaming, Impersonating, Hijacking Accounts is Abusive If Not Illegal/Criminal Behaviour: There are actual victims here
Links 24/05/2025: Google Helps Slop Videos, Microsoft Resorts to Desperate Measures to Fake Demand for Slop: Links for the day
Gemini Links 24/05/2025: New Home and Force/Drag Simulation: Links for the day
If Your Bicycle Got Stolen, Then Open a Facebook Account and Send the US Lots of Personal Data to Get the Bicycle Back (or Try to): "No Help Unless You Open an Account at Facebook"
Growing Recognition Out There That Courts Must Abandon Microsoft or Have No Perception of Authority, Autonomy, Independence, Fairness, and More: Imagine making a complaint about Microsoft to an agency that uses Microsoft
The Next Talk of Richard Stallman (Father of GNU/Linux and the GPL) Advertised in the Media 3 Days in Advance: He spoke in Italy earlier this year and also did some interviews
Sometimes Legal Action is Imperative (Even if Recovering the Cost of the Litigation Itself is Infeasible): Sirius got sued, but the company has no money (large piles of debt)
Free Software as a Culture of Resistance: Free software as a movement accomplished a lot in 40+ years
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 23, 2025: IRC logs for Friday, May 23, 2025
Simpler is Better: Gemini Protocol turns 6 in exactly 4 weeks
Slopwatch: Brian Fagioli, Brittany Day, and Other Plagiarists Who Rip Off Real Writers and Target Themes Around "Linux": Fagioli also prompted chatbots for some words diarrhoea
Links 23/05/2025: Microsoft Openwashing at ZDNet, Signal Does It Wrong (DRM, Back Doors Still Intact): Links for the day
Gemini Links 23/05/2025: Clutter in Modern Interfaces and Dealing With DRM-Free Music: Links for the day
Links 23/05/2025: Tax Audits of Hong Kong's Independent as ‘Intimidation Tactics,’ Why "Regulating X Isn’t Censorship": Links for the day
TecAdmin Took a Break From Linux to Push SPAM: This happened hours ago, and it seems to have been posted directly by the site's "Admin" (Rahul)
The Microsofter Who Kept Sending Threatening Post and E-mail to My Wife Has Been Joking He'd Work on Code for "Sexual Favours": For one thing, for software professionals (like for landlords), this is outright illegal and you'd get arrested for it, and moreover it's no joking matter because there are many real victims of such sexual exploitation
We Seem to Have Abandoned Science and Replaced Sound Policy With Private Patent Shareholders and College Dropouts Like Bill Epsteingate: Because of what they did there are now many people out there who reject all vaccines
Links 23/05/2025: Violent Attacks on the Press, VMware Price Hikes, Vista 11 Considered Unsuitable for Any Confidentiality: Links for the day
Gemini Links 23/05/2025: Balkan Tourism, UK Polls, Reticulum and Meshtastic: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 22, 2025: IRC logs for Thursday, May 22, 2025
Back to Basics, Folks, "AI" (Plagiarism) is Symptom of a Dying Industry Looking for Whatever Prey It Can Devour: lousy/sloppy imitations
Liam Proven's Thoughts on "AI" Being a Scam No Different From Religions, Alternative Medicine, and More: "Is there anywhere outside of retrocomputing that doesn't have AI in it?"
Many IBM Layoffs, Centred Around Expert Labs US in Atlanta (Offer of "Relocation" Where No Such Option Exists): So Techrights was assessing comments/gossip online and it was right about the Thursday cull