Slashdot Adding Microsoft GitHub to All Linux Pages in Order to Shill Proprietary Code Hosting
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2022-09-19 13:35:48 UTC
Modified: 2022-09-19 13:35:48 UTC
Summary: Slashdot used to be a pro-GNU/Linux site; now it's run by very different people, but many make wrong assumptions about what the site actually is
("Schneier on Security" seems to have become "Slashdot on Security" lately)
"When mentioning the client side," opines an associate, "it is essential to recite the list of other markets where Microsoft is negligible or a no-show. It is repetitive to do so, but it needs saying -- often."
"As LLM slop is foisted onto the WWW in place of knowledge and real content, it now gets ingested and processed by other LLMs, creating a sort of ouroboros of crap."
