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Slopwatch: Fakes, FUD, Duplicates, and Charlatans Galore

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 26, 2025,
updated Jul 26, 2025

We are a bit sad; right now have some "heavy hearts" over what happened to The Register, as "The Register UK Seems to Have Become American and Management is Changing (Microsofter as Editor in Chief)". Maybe one day it'll also become a slopfarm. Shortly after that... offline. No financial incentive to it.

Well, with heavy hearts we carry on focusing on the sites that have in essence already died (or will never live).

"I figured with the last year of good articles they would end up with targets on their backs," an associate said of The Register.

"Slopwatch" today starts with a twin or a pair of slopfarms promoted by Google News with fake articles and fake images about "fakes":

Beware of Fake Error Pages That Linux and Windows Systems With Platform-Specific Malware

Beware of Fake Error Pages Deploying Platform-Specific Malware on Linux and Windows Systems

Yes, beware "fakes"... say two fake sites run by the same fakers with fake 'images'.

Brian Fagioli's latest slop with slop images about slop... something something... Linux:

Linux kernel could soon expose every line AI helps write

Fagioli joining the club with misleading FUD also: (debunked already in Daily Links)

AI-generated panda image hides stealthy Linux malware built for crypto mining

Fagioli is basically like an online scammer at this point. The same can be said about webpronews, where 100% of the 'articles' and 100% of the images are slop. This is their latest fake take on "Linux":

CachyOS Leads Linux Gaming with 10-15% FPS Gains and Low Latency

Google News is propping up this fake right now.

The Web as we once know it is collapsing. Some opportunists try to replace it with low-quality slop.

We the bloggers (usually early adopters of the Web) will carry on trying to undo the damage. As Manuel “Manu” Moreale put it:

The thing I wanted to spend some time reflecting on though, is not the significance of having done something every day for 100 weeks (something I honestly don't care too much about) but why all this matters. Not the series nor the interviews. Why blogs matter and why the people behind them matter.

When sites become slopfarms they are practically dead. Nobody will bother reading them and eventually they'll be delisted and unsubsribed from (when people find out about the fakes and the word spreads). Reasonable people will have neither desire nor patience to read bots.

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