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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

User-Friendly and Intuitive: PCLinuxOS strives to make the Linux experience accessible, especially for new users. Its well-integrated desktop environments, like KDE Plasma 6, Xfce, and MATE, provide ...

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 ...