Please excuse me while I'm having a little existential crisis, lol.
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This is prompted by the news of python's chardet being completely "rewritten" by GenAI to replace its original LGPL with MIT, by the way. It's free for all now, it seems.
@nina_kali_nina it's been suggested I should start a custom distro which will then increasingly ‘lag behind’
if being ‘current’ means dealing with this nonsense, I'm fine with being behind, actually
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@nina_kali_nina it's been suggested I should start a custom distro which will then increasingly ‘lag behind’
if being ‘current’ means dealing with this nonsense, I'm fine with being behind, actually
@zbrown tbh maybe it's not a bad idea, but then maybe it makes more sense to focus on OSes that are explicitly anti-LLM, like NetBSD...
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This is prompted by the news of python's chardet being completely "rewritten" by GenAI to replace its original LGPL with MIT, by the way. It's free for all now, it seems.
@nina_kali_nina Refactoring, AI style
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@domi apparently "models got real good since the release of Claude 4.5/4.6" or some other bs. Not that they did, but the PR depts are working tirelessly to make sure people are getting dependent on things that literally cost (hundreds of?) billions of dollars to run
@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt genuinely struggling to process how do I continue from here. i'm usually scared, but this is... something else
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@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt genuinely struggling to process how do I continue from here. i'm usually scared, but this is... something else
@domi wanna come visit and talk about it?
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@zbrown tbh maybe it's not a bad idea, but then maybe it makes more sense to focus on OSes that are explicitly anti-LLM, like NetBSD...
@nina_kali_nina right? like it was said to me in a ‘just be chill with AI’ context, but it's genuinely not a bad idea, we could fork g-b-m and have ‘GNOME OS’ build that just never updates harfbuzz or whatever else turns to slop
if only one had the resources to do it
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@domi wanna come visit and talk about it?
@domi actually let me message you in private lol
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Please excuse me while I'm having a little existential crisis, lol.
And if that wasn't bad enough, Mozilla has embraced AI (in its code, too), while Linux considers relaxing AI code policy and has some examples of patches co-authored by LLMs.
I am still yet to think hard about what I want to do about it. But the world I knew is no more.
@nina_kali_nina I've been writing an OS (just for the hell of it), and now I'm worrying about the fact that it's written in Rust, just in case.
I don't think I could write a Rust compiler, but I could probably write a really bad C compiler.
(In fact, doesn't rust rely on LLVM, which is highlighted in your images? Fuck.)
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Please excuse me while I'm having a little existential crisis, lol.
And if that wasn't bad enough, Mozilla has embraced AI (in its code, too), while Linux considers relaxing AI code policy and has some examples of patches co-authored by LLMs.
I am still yet to think hard about what I want to do about it. But the world I knew is no more.
@nina_kali_nina I can't wait for MAFIAA to join forces with these GenAI providers to make it so that copyright legislation is bent enough to allow this kind of usage, but only if it involves a registered GenAI big-player or the like.
*sigh* I'd say I may be getting too cynical except that in this case I'm quite sure this is how it will unfold, at least in the short term...
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This is prompted by the news of python's chardet being completely "rewritten" by GenAI to replace its original LGPL with MIT, by the way. It's free for all now, it seems.
@nina_kali_nina
Wait a second. Isn't the output of GenAI supposed to be public domain? -
@nina_kali_nina I've been writing an OS (just for the hell of it), and now I'm worrying about the fact that it's written in Rust, just in case.
I don't think I could write a Rust compiler, but I could probably write a really bad C compiler.
(In fact, doesn't rust rely on LLVM, which is highlighted in your images? Fuck.)
@darkling correct, Rust relies on LLVM :<
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@nina_kali_nina
Wait a second. Isn't the output of GenAI supposed to be public domain?@kirtai well, maybe, but I'm afraid the courts in the US are going to be on the side of "big tech" if it ever goes to the court again. And even if it is accepted to be public domain, it isn't much better conceptually: the FOSS movement will be mostly destroyed by slop; if a slop machine can strip away the copyright, the copyright is unenforceable
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Please excuse me while I'm having a little existential crisis, lol.
And if that wasn't bad enough, Mozilla has embraced AI (in its code, too), while Linux considers relaxing AI code policy and has some examples of patches co-authored by LLMs.
I am still yet to think hard about what I want to do about it. But the world I knew is no more.
@nina_kali_nina Hmmmm... At this point to avoid using vibecoded projects we might actually need to make my hypotheticals real!
That's sad.
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@kirtai well, maybe, but I'm afraid the courts in the US are going to be on the side of "big tech" if it ever goes to the court again. And even if it is accepted to be public domain, it isn't much better conceptually: the FOSS movement will be mostly destroyed by slop; if a slop machine can strip away the copyright, the copyright is unenforceable
@nina_kali_nina
Sadly true but reminding these "developers" that everything they produce this way is unlicensable may be useful to deter them. -
@nina_kali_nina Hmmmm... At this point to avoid using vibecoded projects we might actually need to make my hypotheticals real!
That's sad.
@alcinnz @nina_kali_nina
I've actually been looking into reviving Smalltalk 76 of all things for my own use.Don't wait for it though, my programming skills are atrocious.
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@nina_kali_nina The rapid acceleration of so many projects seemingly "welp, what are you gonna do?" and accepting it just depresses me to my core.
@tehstu @nina_kali_nina this is not a new tendency, see projects that embraced discord -
Please excuse me while I'm having a little existential crisis, lol.
And if that wasn't bad enough, Mozilla has embraced AI (in its code, too), while Linux considers relaxing AI code policy and has some examples of patches co-authored by LLMs.
I am still yet to think hard about what I want to do about it. But the world I knew is no more.
@nina_kali_nina It does feel like things have slowly been... eroding? More and more of my peers are considering AI usage now. A major client seems to be all aboard the AI train and my company has been experimenting with it too. Not to mention other decisions being made lately in reaction to terrible laws that devs seem to just be giving into. I feel like I'm going to end up in a decision hell like we already are with phones. Not much I feel I can personally do either.
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@nina_kali_nina It does feel like things have slowly been... eroding? More and more of my peers are considering AI usage now. A major client seems to be all aboard the AI train and my company has been experimenting with it too. Not to mention other decisions being made lately in reaction to terrible laws that devs seem to just be giving into. I feel like I'm going to end up in a decision hell like we already are with phones. Not much I feel I can personally do either.
@tachi please don't give up ^_^
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@lumi @nina_kali_nina
May this be a time where the least UNIX-minded tech pundits you've ever seen rapidly pivot toward NetBSD, just for being the first OS to refuse slopmachine code.
(I first heard of their policy through Gamers Nexus)
(I'm just some yokel who likes KDE)@moses_izumi @lumi @nina_kali_nina Yeah although given the level of LLM-contamination across architectural foss projects part of me is also like "Wow, Plan9 and other fully-independent self-hosted systems are looking a lot more interesting now".
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Please excuse me while I'm having a little existential crisis, lol.
And if that wasn't bad enough, Mozilla has embraced AI (in its code, too), while Linux considers relaxing AI code policy and has some examples of patches co-authored by LLMs.
I am still yet to think hard about what I want to do about it. But the world I knew is no more.
@nina_kali_nina The techbros have spent years adding layers of janky pointless crap to everything because it makes them feel clever, and now they have an automated cruft-generator to do more of it faster than ever. Maybe it's time to try OpenBSD, they haven't even changed their website layout this century which seems like a good sign
