LLM slop is a parasite. It lessens the incentive for people to do any real journalism or for companies to pay people to do so. Some former news sites have become slopfarms, but they aren't telling ...
A lot of people wrongly assume that because some people got very rich inside Microsoft, thae that means Microsoft itself is a big pile of cash. It's not. It's a pile of debt; speculative models try to ...
The Debian Social Contract says "We won't hide problems" but it turns out the social contract is not honoured. What we have ...
Last year we momentarily saw it at 16% and 18%. Now it's about 17%: Looking at browser statistics in Ireland (statCounter is Irish), Microsoft is in trouble: When/if Windows market share goes down, so ...
Microsoft pays publishers to spread the illusion that the only viable option for developers and non-developers is "drugs" like Visual Studio and Microsoft Office, respectively Including attempts to ...
Beware false headlines and fake text from cybersecuritynews.com and gbhackers.com. Those sites with their false headlines are being spread around by Google News. They often spread anti-Linux messages, ...
Alright, so the good news is that BetaNews is at last, belatedly perhaps, recognising that LLM slop is risky to its reputation and hence its ability to attract real writers and advertisers. So it ...
For Japan to adopt "free software" would mean better defenses against enemies across the sea. For instance, there are lots of reports of Russian, Chinese, and North Korean advanced persistent threats ...
Dr. Stallman will be speaking in Europe next week. Yesterday he spoke at NITK Surathkal (Surathkal, India). Someone who goes by the name "cruxbruh" uploaded some photos from the talk only 5 hours ago.
statCounter data shows that, irrespective of the accurate absolute values, the trend is clear. GNU/Linux is steadily going up. Windows is the loser; GNU/Linux grows at its expense. â–ˆ The most ...
If you drown out the signal with noise, then eventually all you'll end up with is noise (first a little noise that can be filtered out of view, then majority noise, then an impractical search for a ...