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 ...

Tonight we plan to do backups, both to internal and external storage, nothing "cloud" or "hey hi" or "quantum" or whatever hype comes next.

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 ...

Sometimes we do things too quickly and don't annotate slop as well as we can. Somebody told me today, in relation to this post from the morning, that we really need to better flag or label screenshots ...