Some of us grow up sooner and leave that nonsense behind (or altogether avoid/skip it) Remember all this when the media says that Microsoft became like 10 times more valuable in those 15 years (from ...

Over the past few days I looked at statCounter's data for this summer regarding Windows versions. In many countries it seems like Vista 11 gets deleted or replaced. We assume that some new PCs that ...

Sadly, a lot of stuff we find on the Web these days is slop, either the images, the text, or sometimes both. Recording this phenomenon and calling out the culprits efficiently and quickly requires ...

A few years ago: Microsoft “Azure” (or “Cloud”) Results Are Most Likely an Elaborate Fraud | Azure Apparently Losing Money ...

Groklaw Static Site Relaunches With New Theme, But Many Pages and All the Comments Are Missing. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 04, 2025 "More disappearing articles," a reader to ...

In Spain, based on statCounter, Bing fell to 2%, in the world's most populous nation it is at 1%, and worldwide it is down so ...

Last month the sister site stopped linking to Linuxiac, seeing that Linuxiac had begun experimenting with LLM slop (which the ...

An alternative to: "Four decades; Four freedoms; For all users" Richard Stallman began working on his own version of Emacs in 1984, i.e. 41 years ago. It would later adopt the GNU General Public ...

This certainly looked like or had many of the hallmarks of LLM slop, so I decided to check some more: Did he cheat by prompting LLMs for mindless text "filler"? It looks very much possible. We'll keep ...

I've only just noticed that here in the UK, where Google is pushing slop at the expense of Web search, Bing has just fallen to 3.29%, according to statCounter: I'm unable to find any prior month when ...

This year we see growing acceptance and widespread recognition that GNU/Linux is widely used (yes, GNU also, not Android) and even celebrities can use it, not only hardcore programmers or sysadmins in ...

This past April we saw GNU/Linux at 4.55% in Oman. Now it's even higher and watch what happened to Windows. Oman isn't a small nation ( it is 3.4 times the size of Portugal) and growth of GNU/Linux in ...