I think one helpful trick when thinking about AI hype is to replace mentions of “AI” with “Blockchain” to see how silly it all sounds.
That was the most vague post I’ve ever read
That works because since there’s almost nothing objective about the usefulness and applications of ai tools, those announcements are written in such a generic tongue (maybe even written using ai?) that words can be replaced by another and change nothing, just like that
Yeah. Debian it is.
Goodbye Ubuntu. It’s been a good run. 2004-2025.
All the announcements about the AI from the linux distribution maintainers should be read as “We’re going to fix some of the things that should’ve worked in the past but didn’t”
I’m currently thinking about switching to MX Linux, which is basically Debian (even with the official Debian repositories) in a modern KDE theme and some cool additional software (from an own separate repository).
The only gripe I had with it so far is that it doesn’t come with apparmor enabled by default, which can easily be manually installed.
I recently put Debian KDE on a gifted Windows 11 Lenovo tablet that’s quite underpowered. It’s pretty nice. MX is tempting, though.
Also replace it with cloud to make it sound like 2015.
Or Internet of Things, to make it sound like 2016.
Oh! Oh! What about THE METAVERSE!?!
Man fuck the metaverse. Everyone I met hyping it hadn’t used VR once in their life.
At each and every step of this idiotic “we will put LLMs in everything”, I’m becoming more of a luddite.
My pc is working fine with artix and xfce on x11 (not that garbage xlibre), even DoT is working with stubby, why the hell do I need this shit?
Today the server goes systemdless too.
Sorry for the rant.
found this list yesterday and it killed like… 20% of my interest in computers
https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware#tainted-softwareThe Luddites didn’t hate machines. They were gifted artisans resisting a capitalist takeover of the production process that would irreparably harm their communities, weaken their collective bargaining power, and reduce skilled workers to replaceable drones as mechanized as the machines themselves. Their struggle has been tragically warped into a caricature when it is more relevant than ever.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2021/06/the-luddites-were-right
Exactly.
Computers are means of production, just now that they’re advancing, like they did with all other industries.
The capitalists are taking control on what they think is theirs, this machine is only useful to give money to them, and the code we write to build it is now being taken control by these LLMs, to destroy our power over what we build. If this situation change, to them taking every bit of control by the LLMs being what is advertised to everyone, the workers and people that use everything that’s built by or for computers will just be these factory workers of before. A LLM don’t say no, it does what who controls it says, on our computers or on any computer.
Edit 2: Just like with the factories, instead of building on what we think is the best way, the LLMs build it for us, a machine for us to just throw things at it. This is easier to control than a senior dev that doesn’t like that what he builds, and how he builds it, bombs people.
I’m not against completely open models (training data and weights), just that these corporate and capitalist models are the total control over the means of
productioncomputation.Edit: And Canonical and Red Hat are companies, like any other, and participate actively on this.
Hobsbawm in the age of revolutions talk about this change, with the scientific and industrial revolutions, just like now with the “tech” revolution and now the LLMs.
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Nothing to be sorry about, I think quite a few out there appreciate a good rant. It wasn’t even a long rant, just a short one.
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