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corbet

Jonathan Corbet

So somebody took a couple of LWN's recent conference articles, threw them into an LLM blender with some other stuff, and produced ... this ...

https://www.webpronews.com/linux-kernels-future-tab-integrates-rust-navigates-ai-boosts-collaboration/

Google News propagates that stuff - something they have long refused to do with LWN's original material. But somehow we're supposed to continue to exist to feed material into that machine?

Sorry, having a grumpy day.
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FediThing@chinwag.org

FediThing progress_pride

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@corbet

Don't apologise, this is labour theft! You're right to be angry 😞

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dmarti@federate.social

Don Marti

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@corbet

When anyone with an @google.com address visits LWN, give them an HTTP redirect to https://news.google.com/search?q=slop+about+linux ?

(Alternatively, the editor of Housefresh wrote about their slop struggle, "If I had to guess why our site has recovered, I’d say it has more to do with our open letters to Google engineers, where we clearly outlined how their biased algorithm was leading searchers to bad products."

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7416789486799552512-rZAY?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAADA5AB-3AkcEQ3MbnZEay0KC4KhHZFy1Q

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nblr@chaos.social

~n

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@corbet That picture alone is a solid deterrent against reading the text.

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aspragg@ohai.social

aspragg

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@corbet The rubbernecking instinct is strong - part of me wants to click just to see how grisly it is. But I know I won't learn anything useful, and it's unhealthy for the people and ecosystem around me to do so. I must stay strong and resist...

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jmorris

James Morris

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@corbet Wow. Google News would be where without Linux?
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vbabka@mastodon.social

Vlastimil Babka 🇨🇿🇪🇺🇺🇦

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@corbet ah yes the same site that previously did that with a phoronix article but confused David Howells and @david (seems taken down since) https://web.archive.org/web/20251125110512/https://www.webpronews.com/red-hats-kernel-talent-drain-david-howells-exit-signals-deeper-woes/

Sucks :(

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cuboci@tech.lgbt

Cuboci 🏳️‍🌈 debian_logo neovim golang

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@corbet Have you heard of Iocaine[1]? It's a tool to poison results for AI crawlers. Perhaps that would be a good fit for LWN.

Of course, you wouldn't want to exclude all crawlers but those are configurable, I believe.

[1] https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/

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