Post #1180621

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/arch-linux-breaks-new-ground-official-rust-init-system-support-arrives This article popped up in my news feed. It caught my eye because right now Arch Linux only supports systemd officially. For Arch to switch to a new init system – even as an optional feature – would be a massive change. So I read it, and I noticed: - the community repo it mentions doesn't exist (merged with extra in 2023). - the forum activity it mentions doesn't exist. - rye-init, the init system this is all supposedly about, *doesn't exist*. - George Whittaker, credited as the author of the article, (probably) doesn't exist. Linux Journal, once a perfectly ordinary magazine, seems to now just be churning out AI slop. I don't know exactly when it started, but some quick scanning of the past articles show that "George Whittaker" articles started showing up frequently around April 2023. I haven't been able to find much discussion of this aside from a post on the Arch forum (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=306314), which is odd given how long this has been going on. I miss when it was just people being dumb on the internet. AI is too efficient at being dumb. #archlinux #aislop