With the way things are going right now in FOSS circles, KDE both allowing this talk at akademy, and locking down discussion critical of AI, I don’t really have much capacity left for charitable interpretations of their actions. The discussion in the mailing list linked above also doesn’t make me hopeful.

XFCE is already a lost cause. The new window manager for wayland is slop coded.

So what happens if you cast it on a bicycle; does it just break the legs of the owner?

Yeah that shit doesn’t fly when they locked the topic discussing a possible future AI policy. I think they already made up their mind and are manufacturing consent for a fully slopified KDE future.

Well maybe this will make hosting CI runners for Mac and iOS development less of a joke.

Typical main character behaviour, “But surely the rules wouldn’t apply to ME?”. Next step; claim you are the victim, bring in your AI boosting friends to drown out the opposition and try to get the rule repealed.

They had to retract their statements because the Pixel 11 still supports memory tagging.

I already had my doubts in the capabilities of the GrapheneOS leadership and these doubts where renewed after the recent kerfuffle about hardware memory tagging on the Pixel 11. With these new revelations it might be time to start to look out for an alternative. Maybe its for the better. They never where able to handle criticism gracefully no matter how carefully formulated.

I think you should goon to better material, but sure here you go.

“Mathematicians solved prestigious problem and Codex helped” would have been great propaganda for OpenAI, but they managed to make an easy win into a PR disaster. Instead the message researchers around the world take away is probably: “Don’t use Codex it steals your research data and OpenAI will publish it as their own”.

Well go ahead explain it to me then. Without personally attacking me if you please.

Notice how its always the little guy that has to just accept things and be “reasonable” while fascist tech oligarchs can just do what they want. How dare I be dogmatic about something that is actively ruining my live and not buying the books by people actively furthering the cause of those oligarchs.

No, and I have no plans on doing so based on the arguments outlined by the initial post. Arguing that search engines and AI systems are even remotely similar is a false equivalency and doesn’t really make me hopeful that the rest of their book is worth reading. I don’t really want to know what kind of mental gymnastics are necessary to come to that conclusion, but it probably involves talking to a chatbot for copious amounts of time.

Just for the slow kids in the back of the class. Search engines surface my work to a larger audience. They make it discoverable. I can use this audience to generate an income for myself. This is a fair deal. AI systems take my work without compensation, create a lossy compilation of multiple other works and sell it back to that audience while leaving me with nothing. Fuck anyone who calls that “fair use”.

Cory Doctorow has no credibility in regards to AI ever since he called opposition to AI “purity testing” among other strawman arguments. All the former “good guys”, the EFF, Cory Doctorow, Linus Torvalds, even fucking Debian (who once shipped a renamed version of Firefox because of potential copyright issues) are one after the other showing their true colours. Meanwhile the fascist creators of AI models openly state that they want to push the very people who created the work they copied to “train” their product, out of the market. This is one of the reasons we even have copyright. Call it tilted towards media all you want, they don’t just get to decide that it no longer matters now that it is inconvenient to the tech oligarchy.

I am quite partial to Sloperator.

Respect to Antoine. Having principles that are worth a damn is a rare trait amongst developers these days.

You mean the work that that nobody is forcing them to do? The one they do by their own choice while not asking consent and respecting the wishes of others? Yep those devs sound pretty fucking scummy to me.

This email from 2016 by jwz springs to mind.

I guess you want Debian to be the kind of operation that uses the work of others while blatantly and explicitly ignoring the wishes of the person who did the actual creative work.

I am increasingly of the opinion that all software developers and adjacent people are fucking scum unless proven otherwise.

For my needs, I just use a Hetzner Storage Share and nextcloudcmd on a timer. I started doing that mostly because I already paid for the hosted Nextcloud instance and I like that it does file versioning for me and that it provides an easy to use GUI to restore files.

Sure, proudly claiming that your project is DEI free is just apolitical. Is anyone else hearing this high pitched noise?