@latenightlinux @joeress

Joe, you mentioned on the last LNL how it isn’t as much fun to talk about FOSS as it used to be. You’re right, it used to be all good news. And now it’s all Linux vulnerabilities and infighting (AI, office suites, X11 vs Wayland, etc etc).

FOSS used to seem like one big notion we could all unite around, and now not so much. Have we fans of FOSS lost our way? Have we lost our identity? Are we being overtaken by enshittification?

#FOSS #Linux #Latenightlinux

Late Night Linux – Episode 383

https://literature.cafe/post/31359947

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 55

https://literature.cafe/post/31359945

2.5 Admins 297: Jraphics

https://literature.cafe/post/31359944

Linux After Dark – Episode 120

https://literature.cafe/post/31359943

@felimwhiteley I appreciated the vehemence of your position on AI coding tools as expressed on today's #LateNightLinux: https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-383/

Are you aware if @degville and Will (is he on the Fediverse?) have read any of Ed Zitron's exhaustive analysis¹ of the completely insane ways in which the leading LLM coding assistant companies are setting money on fire? For each dollar subscribers spend, the LLM companies are subsidising by up to $15. The business model is unsustainable. We're looking at a scam on a scale similar to FTX.

(Lastly, these arguments aren't pointless, as the shownotes lament. The future is not fixed. We must resist the deskilling of our craft and the inevitability narrative pushed by the deeply unpleasant people behind this technology.)

1: https://www.wheresyoured.at/, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsdzuPs5NKvdsBkQnP7Af8w

#FuckAI

Late‑Night Fireside: Joe Ressington Unpacks the Future of Decentralized Social - E75 - Livestream 2026-02-13

https://tubefree.org/w/bRS7fTJfUQYSoytceXPjn7