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Russ Sharek 4d ago

One of my favorite books was tossed unceremoniously into the slopshredder.

https://waxy.org/2026/06/the-wholesale-plagiarism-of-obscure-sorrows/

Read the article, then go appreciate the original.

#StopSlop

P.S. - This is someone squatting on a similar domain, and doing terrible things with the author's beautiful project.

The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows - Waxy.org

Without permission, a marketing agency republished the entirety of John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows book, replacing its art with AI slop and adding new AI words. Their unauthorized site now ranks higher than the real one everywhere.

Waxy.org

Russ Sharek Jun 10

Who's up for founding the "church of hand coding" with me, now that we have a precedent for religious exemptions from being forced to use ai tools?

#stopslop

Russ Sharek Jun 6

We have been running Diane Skoll's remind for a few years now.

https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/

It's a really smart, lofi calendar tool.

Somewhere along the way, we discovered that a text file (or directory full of them) paired with something like syncthing solved most of the calendar sharing needs for #ThisOldClownHouse.

I was delighted to learn that the project now has a strong, well-worded stance against ai/llm/vibe/slop.

https://salsa.debian.org/dskoll/remind

#stopslop
#calendar

Dianne Skoll's Web Site - Remind - Software Projects

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happyborg May 17

I found one GUI ssh key manager, #KeyMaster written in Vala which is new to me (part of the Gnome project) but KM is vibe coded using Claude, including a complete rewrite from Python.

I'm stearing clear of folk using #LLMs to code and think anyone using it for security is a danger to all of us. Just my opinion.

It's also sad to see so much suspect slop in the search results while looking for info on this. This stuff is known to have many major errors and it is ruining everything. #StopSlop!

Jacen May 8

Going on websites in 2026 and beyond:
Are these images AI?
Is this website structure AI?
Is this written by AI?
If just one of these questions is YES, then they all are.
#slop #stopslop #eattherich #guillotines

Fabian Schober May 4

Can someone recommend a way to test this? #ai #stopslop #slop #noai

https://perishablepress.com/ultimate-ai-block-list/

Ultimate Block List to Stop AI Bots | Perishable Press

More than you might think, AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) bots are crawling your site and scraping your content. They are...

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Mastodon Migration Apr 26

@joeycastillo

Thanks everyone, and special thanks to @drahardja who both removed the background and improved the color of the sign.

Below are instructions on how to apply the SLOP Sign to help Stop SLOP

https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116469179013962479

#SLOP #AI #StopSLOP

Mastodon Migration Apr 26

Stop SLOP - How To Apply SLOP Sign Branding

1. Download SLOP graphic below
2. Open https://www1.lunapic.com/editor/
3. Upload >>> Choose File >>> [your slop imagename] >>> Upload
4. Edit >>> Paste from... >>> Choose File >>> [SLOP Sign filename] >>> Upload >>> Continue on to paste this image >>> place/resize >>> Apply >>> Download now

Thanks to Dave Rahardja @drahardja for the graphics work on the SLOP sign.

#SLOP #AI #StopSLOP

Russ Sharek Apr 18

One of the things which encouraged me towards less "trendy" software is that it hasn't gotten totally caught up in ai-hype. Books written before the slop-pocalypse are really useful, and turn out to be a nice way to soothe my inner nerd while I continue to learn new (to me) things.

As an example, the venerable "Unix Power Tools" has a wonderful chapter on the vi editor:

https://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/unix/upt/part05.htm

Enjoy!

#vi #viTips #nvi #text-editor #plaintext #stopSlop #noAI

[Part V] Text Editing

Russ Sharek Apr 17

#ThisOldClownHouse gets some wonderful things by post.

#stopSlop #noAI