"Linux" Sites That Knock Themselves Out by 'Pivoting' to LLM Slop
There's still some genuine journalism going on, just not in "mainstream" media
As noted a couple of hours ago in the sister site, we hardly see negative stories about GNU/Linux this year. Moreover, a lot of sites with "Linux" in their names knocked themselves out with slop experiments (example from this morning). This means we don't have many unique domains left to check, e.g. by RSS/XML.
The remnants of the "Linux hype" era (about 20-30 years ago) are still OK. Linux Journal has been a slopfarm for over a year (it is effectively dead), Digg is dead again, Slashdot is irrelevant, and Groklaw has been hijacked by scammers.
FOSS Force is still going (Christine Hall has just responded to the nonsense from Microsoft Lunduke, who further associates things with nazis even when the connotations need not exist), Marius Nestor is still active (in his own site, not Softpedia, which basically died), and there are a number of legitimate sites out there, including Cyber|Show, which days ago expanded to Gemini Protocol. Linuxiac is dead, it's a slopfarm basically (LLM slop edited by Bobby Borisov, poorly).
We generally feel like by the end of this year many slopfarms will cease to exist; Google News no longer (or barely) links to them, so they will receive no "googlejuice", only penalties. People don't need like 100 "Linux" sites to follow, only a handful that they can truly trust. █