Spam, Slop, and Fake 'Articles' Regarding "Linux"
Some time yesterday we noticed that a former GNU/Linux news/analysis site basically emitted more evidence that it had become a spamfarm, maybe even slopfarm (the concepts overlap). This thing came through the RSS feed:
It's not the only former "Linux" site that ends up this way. Google News is still linking to a variety of former "Linux" sites which became slopfarms. It also links to firehoses of slop like this one, which emits a number of synthetic (fake) 'articles' about Hyprland:
Sloppy Borisov's Linuxiac is still nothing but a slopfarm, no matter what we check at random:
It's a shame to lose that site. It wasn't always a slopfarm.
There's no point bothering with this slopfarm either:
MaK Ulac is a pseudonym.
Finally, here's the Serial Slopper plagiarising real pages using LLMs:
Serial Sloppers like these are harming real reporting about Linux and GNU. They basically flood the web with fakes. This is why we need to call them out on it. █