Mastodawn

Glances at #instructables, tries to read a couple of projects, rolls eyes and sighs that every single project description now seems to be #slopware writing, gives up and closes the tabs.
FFS what's happening to our hobby. 🙄😡
If you're interested/excited about your project and want to share it, why the fuck would you AI generate your write up.

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Aiven 6d ago

@thomas Warum der Re-Post? Kann mir eig. nicht vorstellen, dass du AI Codebases befürwortest. 🤔 #slopware

S. Lott Apr 30

“There’s also the underlying unreliability of hallucination-prone Large Language Models. While a premium request chasing its tail and spitting out half-broken code might be frustrating, that same fuckup is a lot less forgivable when you’re paying the costs yourself.”

#llm_ai #slopware

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Natalie Apr 28

#flickboard is not developed using LLMs/"#ai". It doesn't have any "#ai" "features". It has been against the contribution guidelines for as long as there have been any.

But I'm also not really sure I can call it slop-free, because it's still running on Android, and it still depends on a whole bunch of Google libraries. And I'm under no illusion that /those/ aren't tainted at this point.

It'd be a weird to draw a line calling slop libraries okay. They are still run with the same privileges, and are still harmful in the same way. But it's also hard to avoid while running on the platform at all. And it's not like I can just reinvent it all on my own.

I don't know. I wish there was a serious alternative out there. :/

@m3tti Maybe itbis a bit silly to answer to this question with a meme.
Anyway, I think that there are at least two kinds of developers: who depicted on the left side of attached meme (and who happy to turn open software into the open #slopware and perform other … uhm … strange things). And who on the right side of this meme.

Also, I read in someones blog about another way to classify developers: there are one who are "Builders" — they just want to see the working thing, no matter how ugly it is inside; they didn't like programming and see it as a sad way to make the desired things. And there are "Artists" — people who have fun from the process (of programming); sometimes they build something as a result, sometimes not, but in both cases it is a well-spent time.

So, I think, the folks like in the left side of meme and the "Builders" will be happy to replace joys of programming with LLMs and other big tech dependencies, bc they don't see these joys, first.

Max Apr 23

Open #Slopware. An excellent resource of "Free / Open Source Software tainted by #LLM developers / developed by #genAI boosters, along with alternatives." I'll be returning to this often to weed out some of the #slop that appears to be gradually creeping onto my computer. https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware

open-slopware

Free/Open Source Software choosing to use and/or support LLM usage/AI, as well as alternatives and tips to requesting better policies or forking.

Codeberg.org

LFA 🇮🇨Apr 22

Open Slopware raises awareness of AI/LLM usage in popular open-source software.
https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware

#slopware #foss #ai

open-slopware

Free/Open Source Software choosing to use and/or support LLM usage/AI, as well as alternatives and tips to requesting better policies or forking.

Codeberg.org

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Apr 22

small-hack/open-slopware: Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives. - Codeberg.org

Open Slopware

Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives.

The intention of this list is to raise awareness of AI/LLM usage in popular open-source software. Provided below is an informed set of AI-free alternatives for users and developers to consider should their ethical boundaries be crossed or tolerance for risk be exceeded. This list is not a resource to be used for the harassment of other open-source developers. If you wish to advocate for the cessation of use and/or removal of AI-generated code from another project, we ask that it be done respectfully and constructively.

For more information on why we think this list matters, please see Why not LLMs?.

Want to add, update, or remove a project listed below? Check out our Contributing Doc.

See a project on here that you love, and wish wasn't on here? Check out our No AI Request Template.

#llm #slopware #programming #dev

https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware#desktop-browsers

open-slopware

Free/Open Source Software choosing to use and/or support LLM usage/AI, as well as alternatives and tips to requesting better policies or forking.

Codeberg.org

Klarname 🌈Apr 17

Ich packe die beiden Bilder nur zufällig in einen Post

#slopware #slopaganda #slopai #ki #AI #gemini #Antropic #claude #chatgpt

Anthk Apr 11

#Linux became #slopware. The best #GNU/Linux distro still depends on #AI
slop. #Hurd is not ready yet. #Hyperbola #BSD needs support in order to
fully properly switch from a #GNU/Linux OS to a GNU? #BSD one.

Depressing times, but maybe enlightening ones too. Linux since 1996 was
just a corporate workauround to drive commercial Unix tools on it.

In the end #IBM won. My tip for the #GN[U] develoepers for #GUIX:
consider Unix dead. Don't try to resurrect it. It's finished, rotten,
bloated, propietarized, outdated. Ironically the licensed GPLv2 kernel
with less blobs than Linux came from AT&T and it's Unix 2.0.
They already did Unix better than Unix itself. Either you focus and enhance
#Hurd, or lose against the blobslop OS. Make an outstanding FS on Hurd.
Give more rights to the user than the shitty layers of #dbus/#polkit and the
like to fix the lack of proper namespaces on Linux.
I said 'proper', Plan9/9front it's light years ahead.
Don't get just 'well enough' with X11/wayland. You can do better stuff.
Ditto with Emacs, forget coreutils, reimplement everything you
can with jitted Elisp and Elisp code replacing these outdated Unix
tools. Eshell can be a better shell. The 9front folks already did it
with 'rc' simplyfing Unxi shells to the extreme.