Nina KalininaMar 5

Please excuse me while I'm having a little existential crisis, lol.

And if that wasn't bad enough, Mozilla has embraced AI (in its code, too), while Linux considers relaxing AI code policy and has some examples of patches co-authored by LLMs.

I am still yet to think hard about what I want to do about it. But the world I knew is no more.

Show threadNina KalininaMar 5
This is prompted by the news of python's chardet being completely "rewritten" by GenAI to replace its original LGPL with MIT, by the way. It's free for all now, it seems.
Show threadzbrown

@nina_kali_nina it's been suggested I should start a custom distro which will then increasingly ‘lag behind’

if being ‘current’ means dealing with this nonsense, I'm fine with being behind, actually

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Show threadNina KalininaMar 5
@zbrown tbh maybe it's not a bad idea, but then maybe it makes more sense to focus on OSes that are explicitly anti-LLM, like NetBSD...
Show threadzbrownMar 5

@nina_kali_nina right? like it was said to me in a ‘just be chill with AI’ context, but it's genuinely not a bad idea, we could fork g-b-m and have ‘GNOME OS’ build that just never updates harfbuzz or whatever else turns to slop

if only one had the resources to do it

Show threadBen 🏳️‍⚧️🍉Mar 6

@nina_kali_nina @zbrown NetBSD was my first *nix¹, maybe I should have a look at it again

¹the first one I ran on my own hardware. My first experience was with HP-UX at a year in industry placement in the late '90s

Show threadmatthewcroughanMar 9
Yes, obscurity has gained new selling points. I was always curious about these things anyway. Perhaps I can switch to guix.