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Slopwatch: Linuxsecurity, Google News Slopfarms, and Linux Journal (LJ)

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 28, 2025

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Today we take a quick look at 3 slopfarms which target "Linux". We begin with Linuxsecurity, which is basically a laughing stock. Once upon a time, before a change of systems, it made and published some real articles, based on real work (by actually technical authors). Now... Linuxsecurity is a slopfarm:

HTTPS image: Ubuntu Chooses Performance Over Mitigation: Intel GPU Users See 20% Gains

Fake article, just like this one from the same day:

HTTPS image: Firefox 140 ESR

Many slop images throughout. It's like looking at a bot-generated garbage dump. There's no actual value in such bland 'articles'. The grammar may be correct, but the message is... nothing.

slop images

Google News has also just promoted a slopfarm to people who look for "Linux" news:

HTTPS image: Linux Servers Vulnerability to Deploy Web Shell

100% of that site is LLM slop with slop images at the top. Google News does not include Linuxsecurity, but it does include all sorts of other slopfarms, including the above.

Google News also includes "LJ", which is bad. It also became a slopfarm. First it experimented with slop images and then the text too became slop:

HTTPS image: How Questing Quokka (25.10) Ushers a New Era of Rust-Based Tools

As usual, it's fake:

HTTPS image: The release of Questing Quokka aligns with a growing trend across the Linux ecosystem: embracing Rust as a key technology for building low-level components. But what does this mean for Ubuntu users and developers? Let’s explore the significance of this change, what tools are being rewritten or introduced in Rust, and how this positions Ubuntu for the future.

This author is affiliated with the parent company, which is doing other tasteless things.

other tasteless things

He's moreover pushing a really bad agenda using slop. Quantity of BS to defeat quality?

a really bad agenda

Also see:

Linux Journal is a Slopfarm, It's Experimenting With LLM 'Authors'
Slopwatch: Linuxsecurity, BetaNews, and Linux Journal
Linux Journal Might Have Become the Latest Slopfarm Targeting "Linux", the Trends Are Concerning for Dying News Sites
Linux Journal Wants Ads on Its LLM Slop or Ads as 'Articles'

BetaNews is also slop, but it no longer targets "Linux". Brian Fagioli does after BetaNews laid him off. █

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