Anti-Linux FUD Produced by Microsoft LLMs to Blame "Linux" for Microsoft's Own Failures
Moments ago I decided to check what Google News has on "Linux" and was presented with this slopfarm: (site which is 100% slop, even the image below; all their images are slop)
"Recent incidents" (over a year ago!) include "XZ Utils backdoor" (social engineering in Microsoft's GitHub, 'discovered' and advertised by Microsoft staff only days before a scathing report about Microsoft's security failures, issued by the US Government) and "malicious Go modules delivering disk-wiping payloads, and compromised PyPI packages, highlight systemic vulnerabilities in software distribution networks."
That was Microsoft transmitting malware through GitHub/NPM.
Notice how Microsoft issues get spun as Linux problems, probably owing to LLM spew (we are guessing Microsoft-controlled LLMs).
And it doesn't stop there. Yesterday the slopfarmers had a go at "Linux":
"Your Linux apps could be leaking data..."
Yes, that's what you want to hear. Sapling deems this to be LLM slop, aside from the image above being obvious slop:
Junk like this drowns the Web every day. The slopfarm "LinuxSecurity" also did its share of slopping.
Like BetaNoise riding other people's work (or words, piggybacking the "training set", which is how they perceive actual authorship), "LinuxSecurity" issued some LLM slop about NordVPN:
It's a word salad:
Same for this from the same day:
LLM slop:
This is a Web-wide issue which impacts not only "Linux", but we narrow our scope of focus. We call out some of the worst culprits. █