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Slopwatch: Fake Articles About LibreOffice in Austria and Wine 10.16

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 04, 2025

Today's Slopwatch is very short because we simply didn't find much pertaining to Free software, except news from Austria being fed into LLMs and then spewed out thusly:

There's also the Serial Slopper Brian Fagioli having a go at a WINE release. This text is fake and the image is too:

Being a slow weekend, we've not find any more, at least not yet. █

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