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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 ...
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 ...
Last month the sister site stopped linking to Linuxiac, seeing that Linuxiac had begun experimenting with LLM slop (which the ...
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 ...
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 ...
The world's (apparently) largest economy kicked off the 'Department' of Government [sic] Efficiency (DOGE), which is probably illegal, but we'll set aside the politics. It also makes policies that are ...
Tonight we plan to do backups, both to internal and external storage, nothing "cloud" or "hey hi" or "quantum" or whatever hype comes next.
Brittany Day could have foolishly inserted something more malicious. The brainless, effortless copypasta of "slop artists" shows its limits. Do they even bother to audit/check what they publish? █ ...
This month we see Windows falling to all-time lows in many countries, Colombia for example. The main gainer (at its expense) is GNU/Linux. █ ...
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 ...