I am not a corporation, and I don’t hate copyleft in general, just redundant and abundant legalese like in this one.

What a shitty choice of a license. Typical EU legal garbage full of duplications and “lawyers” thinking “more is better”.

Also:

The provisions of this Licence can be accepted by clicking on an icon ‘I agree’ placed under the bottom of a window displaying the text of this Licence or by affirming consent in any other similar way, in accordance with the rules of applicable law. Clicking on that icon indicates your clear and irrevocable acceptance of this Licence and all of its terms and conditions.

Lol, these morons. Of course the EU pencil pushers would hyperfixate on “clicking a button”.

/a European

I wanted to eventually try gentoo anyways, I guess I will have to advance that experiment. Never heard of Hyperbola, I will check it out. Thank you!

So this is how I hear about the outcome of the Debian vote. :( Is there a widespread distro that has a clear anti-Slop stance?

1. he didn’t use AI, he used a slop bot.
2. if he did, it’s possible he just used it for analysis
3. either way it’d prove that no one is immune to becoming a moron, especially as they get older.

That same thought just occurred to me: hype a McGuffin and get investors to lend you insane amounts of money which you then use to buy up a marker, causing artificial scarcity, then sell at massive profits.

*Musk suck

I have had to debug code of “software devs with more than 10 years of experience” often enough to know experience does not equal skill. If you think slop generators are helping you, while you by violating the licenses of all developers whose code went into the training data, then you apparently did not invest those 10 years well.

LLMs are a subset of AI though.

Obviously, but all machine learning systems that I am aware of - and definitely the generative ones - lack the “I” in AI in their core processing. I won’t dispute that there’s actual deterministic algorithms implemented before and after the core processing, to handle grammar rules etc. But there’s a huge danger in accepting the term “AI” for the slop machines of today. Gullible people will mistake linguistically sophisticated output for actual understanding, and trust the output to be correct. Less gullible people have the obligation (imo) to set that record straight every time the topic comes up. Because gullible people vote, too - and they will otherwise be fine with slop machines controlling critical infrastructure the malfunction of which may be lethal.

And OP made the outrageous claim that reviewing and correcting LLM output would be less effort than “also writing it”. Even if LLMs did not, as they do, tend to generate a lot of garbage code to throw at tiny problems, and even if they did not MASS VIOLATE LICENSES AND COPYRIGHTS (yes, that makes me angry), the time spent on developing an all but trivial algorithm is a constant back and forth between writing it, reviewing it and tuning it. The actual writing of code is negligible compared to the amount of time a serious developer has to spend thinking about what a line of code does, and what it does not do.

The only people that “benefit” from LLM generated code are people who would otherwise not be able to piece together a stable bit of software beyond a “Hello World”, and now they break out of their sandboxes and waste the time of actual developers with their slop pull requests. One could almost assume this was an intended side effect by big corporations to kill the trust and efficiency in open source projects.

AI will generate code that is mostly correct, the human time cost of (properly) reviewig this code and correcting it is generally less than also writing it

Just calling LLMs “AI”, you disqualified yourself from being able to assess what proper programming is about.

That said, your statement is also objectively false in all other aspects.

sounds like Shitler himself launched the “new site” for some extra money grabbing.

isn’t that pitch then?

to be fair, to Magastanians, the eyes are more valuable. That way they wouldn’t lose anything they’d miss.

Yes.

Between equals it’s not a class war though, it’s infighting. And agreed, we should avoid that. Rich parasites love to see us divided.

Scroll to the bottom, there’s a link to a spicier phrasing.

Also, quote from there:

You’re just making someone lose respect for you in real time, in a way that’s hard to walk back.

I feel that, I have lost respect for people that way and don’t want to be friends anymore :(

Having worked in a smartphone after market organisation, I can assure you that phones do break due to user error also in the first few years. Screen breaks, phones are dropped, charging ports are subject to user violence…

Having not worked in a smartphone after market organisation, I can assure you that is pretty much exactly what I wrote up there.

They deliver security updates for the pre-installed OSes they support. Those updates are no good for most users that load their own flavour of OS. What counts is hardware that has open source drivers (Also - holy fuck - the homepage almost gave me a seizure and I am not an epileptic). Where they are doing OKish, but not great.

As for “7 full years of stocking parts” - the first 3-4 years are next to useless, almost no phone breaks that fast unless physically damaged. And it only becomes relevant for most people who take care with their phone after 5+ years. And that’s exactly when the support period ends. Which is unfortunately, the opposite of the “sustainable phone” that they promise.

As said, they do have a great team, and they do do Fair Trade, and they do engage with the community - all good things. But I am quite disappointed in the “by the time you need a replacement part, it’s out of stock” lesson learned.

They have a great team, sadly they continuously aimed for a broad target audience in lack of support for degoogled OSes (only doing the bare minimum) and the headphone jack indeed. Also, sadly, the long life thingie is a joke when you are a cautious user and you don’t break your phone. 5-7 years after purchase, spare parts are no longer available :/

Ah, so it was IT management deciding, the ever corrupt, ever incompetent fuckers in every organisation. Okay, I feel that pain.