CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@paperposts

Beautiful catch at twilight. That's gorgeous! Lucky you.

@linuxexpert

At least you're being honest with your garbage.

@linuxexpert

Looks like slop. Why should I bother?

@isagalaev

Heh. Yes.
Everything is, potentially, an opportunity for learning.
To me, that sounds like an empty platitude.

I now have to be more inherently distrustful of someone who outsources their knowledge to a 3rd party that is known to be broken.
I now have to distinguish their previous technical capabilities from their capabilities to distinguish bullshit.
Inadvertently or not, they are placing an additional cognitive burden upon myself to discern whether or not they are capable, or are meticulous enough to be a competant gatekeeper for a bullshit machine. YMMV.

I do appreciate their transparency to let me know that _I_ need to be more vigilent.
I dunno. It's a sucky position to be placed in.

@isagalaev

At least there is some disclosure, I guess.
I think my rant/concern is the perhaps misplaced transitive "trust" that I placed in certain projects, libraries, applications, etc.

Something that's been assumed/given over years & decades. The "trusted" maintainers have outsourced their work to 3rd parties that are, at best, dubious. IMO.

Perhaps it won't impact my daily use of vim; but, now I feel that I have to be somewhat less trusting as a result of their development decisions. I honestly dont' know.

@isagalaev

#Vim

Andrew Radev (@AndrewRadev@hachyderm.io)

Attached: 1 image Vim's lead maintainer has fully lost his goddamn mind

Hachyderm.io (hachyderm.io)

It's not entirely new; but, with the rampant proliferation of #LLM usage in software, I'm not exactly thrilled(actually, I'm very annoyed) in having to re-evaluate my personal heirarchy of trust when it comes to the computing that I use daily.

For me, it's always been a trade-off between the practicality of "getting shit done" and the financial, ethical, social externalites.

I have, literally, zero monies and limited time in the day to combat ever encroaching challenges to my sense of "trust". The infiltration of LLM use into my daily tech eco-system makes it more annoying ethically hazardous.

It's not like we haven't been here before in regards to how much "trust" that I put in the systems that I use daily:
- 10 year old #Lenovo laptop
- 4 year old #Android phone
- #Debian #Linux
- Every single application/library I install via pip/cargo/flatpak/etc.

I've already made a ton of trade-offs re: security, privacy, etc.

I've put a lot of "trust" over the years in these systems/platforms to allow me to get my jobs done, becoming more educated, knowledgeable & skilled.

I don't _really_ have much of a choice in the use of many of my daily tools(remember, $0!).

It's a real fuckin' pain in the ass when one has to start doubting and scrutinizing the foundational tools(e.g. #vim) that one relies upon every day.

All as a result of untrustworthy 3rd parties(OpenAI, Anthropic, et. al.) encroaching upon a previously flawed, but kinda-sorta generally reliable eco-system.

Eh. This one kind of got away from me. So it goes.

#rant #FOSS #AI

@lcamtuf

Agreed. That was my initial take on the issue:

Kevin Bowen :xfce: (@kevinbowen@hachyderm.io)

@elebertus@eigenmagic.net As far as I can tell, the current maintainer is attempting to pull a quasi-Ship of Theseus move by replacing the entire code base and, therefore, obligations (via the LGPL) to previous authors/contributors no longer apply so....voila!! presto!!! MIT license. At least that's how I'm reading it for now. The claim being that an MIT license would increase the likelyhood of it maybe, possibly get included in the standard Python library or some other such nonsense.

Hachyderm.io (hachyderm.io)

@tragivictoria

Yes, that attempt has been discarded in favor of building a compositor based on smithay.

You can read about the details of decision here:
https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_15.html

#Xfce #xfwl4