Slopwatch: LinuxTechLab, Planet Ubuntu, Anti-Linux FUD, and Microsoft SPAM
It's not easy to altogether avoid take articles these days, unless one memorises the principal culprits and then avoids them. Ubuntu Planet/Planet Ubuntu is like 25% LLM slop! Latest example of slop? Here, the Serial Slopper, who keeps filling up the pages/feeds with botspam.
Here's some more LLM slop about Ubuntu, they've even generated some fake image (plagiarism with fusion) that fits the prompt:
Of course Google Noise ("News") is promoting this today as Ubuntu "news".
Seems like more LLM slop from a Serial Slopper at LinuxTechLab [1, 2] has arrived a day or so ago [1, 2]. This is definitely slop, more so the latter. It's just some typical FUD:
"Ransomware" it says.
Let's head over to another slopfarm, another one with the name "Linux" in it.
Microsoft-generated anti-Linux FUD (almost all ransomware targets Windows):
Microsoft-generated promotional spam (for Microsoft):
More garbage/word salad:
This same slopfarm also did the "rat" treatment of "Linux"; we already mentioned several slopfarms comparing Linux to vermin using LLM slop with some slop images.
Then came another slopfarm, this one promoted by Google News. It did the same:
There have been real articles about it [1-2] and the flaws in the arguments are shown in editorial comments below.
All in all, the slopfarms are destroying the Web, seeding FUD, and occasionally promote Microsoft or blame "Linux" for Microsoft problems, such as GitHub.
Microsoft is re-inventing itself as a propaganda provider with slave labour. Microsoft also sponsors scams that sell themselves as "AI" when it fact they have a legion of grossly underpaid Indians hiding in the shadows. What does that say about Microsoft and its mischaracterisation of "AI"? How much of the media keeps participating in this scam? â–ˆ
Non-slop in the news:
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Open-source Chaos RAT used in recent attacks targeting Linux [Ed: Microsoft GitHub, not "Linux" or "Open"; they misplace the blame]
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New versions of Chaos RAT target Windows and Linux systems [Ed: So it's malicious software people get trick into installing/executing]
The RAT often spreads through phishing emails with malicious links or attachments.