Slopwatch: Spam, Scams, and Plagiarised Information Synthesis Systems (LLMs)
This Slopwatch will be very short. We start with the generic name, "MaK Ulac", which nowadays shows up in whatever little comes out of the slopfarm LinuxSecurity:
The way things are going, LinuxSecurity might become entirely inactive. Having chosen to become a slopfarm, LinuxSecurity has nothing to offer. The Serial Slopper Brian Fagioli, likewise, is just running a mindless slopfarm. Having seen Nitrux coverage by Marius Nestor (or the original), the Serial Slopper Brian Fagioli had bots produce this slop:
Linux Journal also has some new slop:
Linux Journal used to be a real site and a magazine. Linux Journal used to be good. Nowadays they use the domain for slop.
As for linuxbsdos.com, we're still seeing it pushing scams and linkspam. This is the latest:
Many so-called 'Linux' sites - including formerly legitimate ones like Linux Journal - went the way of the dodo with slop. █