Unlike 3-D renderings or "Classic" CG, slop images aren't quite original and definitely not fair use; they're a form of plagiarism on an epic scale and there are currently many lawsuits talking about ...

The term "Chat Control" contains the word "control"; there are frequent blog posts about it authored by Henrik Alexandersson, translated (automatically) from Swedish: And translated (automatically) ...

The EU has Chat Control. The UK, which is no longer in the EU, has similar provisions in different laws, which partly overlap ...

Today's installment of "Slopwatch" will mostly focus on Google News having been infested with fake 'articles' about "Linux", starting with this slopfarm: The sister slopfarm (also in Google News, ...

A couple of years ago Microsoft GitHub fired an entire unit in India. Apparently even workers in India (not migrants) were not affordable anymore. And "morale is going to tank even further." So says a ...

These people don't try to improve security but to undermine security. Those are people who mock the legal process and fail to meet Orders from Judges at the High Court. In other words, they don't care ...

No article here is made by anything like chatbots or LLMs, not even partially. It's quite easy to be certain: we just never used an LLM. For anything. Not even 'for fun' or some 'experiments'. LLMs ...

DRM in this context means proprietary software. Yes, Firefox contains proprietary software and one might therefore say that Firefox, in general, is proprietary software.

Months ago we said that we'd likely cover Open Source Initiative scandals until some time this month. Having just shown how wary or concerned they are about their image, what we intend to do next is ...

Perens and Raymond established the Open Source Initiative, an organization intended to promote open source software. Neither Perens nor Raymond are involved in the OSI currently.

Days ago: If Free/Libre Software is Adding Trillions in Value to the European Economy, Then the European Commission Must Crush Software Patents | As Europe Gets Increasingly Serious About Software ...

We're busy preparing for a long holiday, so we won't be spending any time talking back to bullies, who basically represent very reprehensible people [ 1, 2, 3] and act as a UK proxy for them. This ...