Google’s Sideloading Crackdown: Why It’s a Threat to Everyone’s Privacy and Freedom
(the.unknown-universe.co.uk)
- Argumentative essay full of genericisms (edit: they don't even say what the restrictions are despite calling them "these restrictions", which is ludicrous for an essay of this length). Please read this blog post if you haven't; the arguments are excruciatingly generic, and the wording is robotic and soulless.
- Brand-new account posting for a brand-new blog website (claiming authorship for it, so I believe it's them because nobody's ever heard of this site).
- No credited author.
- AI-generated thumbnails (I loved my Lakebird Buf computer in the 90s).
- Frequent blog posts from one person on an ostensibly unmonetized site with similar article formats:
- The Long Road to CachyOS: Why I Finally Quit the Microsoft Ecosystem (29 March)
- From Betamax to Bare Metal: The Origin of The Unknown Universe (30 March)
- From WordPress Overwhelm to Publii Simplicity: Setting Up My Son’s First Blog (31 March)
- This represents 3/5 of the articles so far.
- Uses em-dashes constantly through articles (fine, I use en-dashes a ton) but then, despite flawless grammar everywhere, suddenly switches from "blah — blah" in the articles to "blah—blah" here. Both are grammatically correct, but for someone to suddenly switch after sticking to one would be weird; it's hard to explain to someone who doesn't use them, but using the first near-exclusively shows a clear preference to the point the second would likely look and feel weird to write. If you write with perfect or effectively perfect grammar (even here, so it's not just blog proofreading), you would notice.
Not related to the LLM thing: "I don’t use social media, as it conflicts with my FOSS and privacy principles." but then linking a Mastodon account on the website, having a "Share this post" bar with Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, and Bluesky, and posting this here is chef's kiss.