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 thread🌸 lumi-nhac    🌱Mar 5
@nina_kali_nina it's ridiculous how slop machines are spreading into everything. we really need a unified resistance against it, not just with programmers, but also with artists, writers, translators, etc

usage of genai should be shamed
Show threadMoses IzumiMar 5
@lumi @nina_kali_nina
May this be a time where the least UNIX-minded tech pundits you've ever seen rapidly pivot toward NetBSD, just for being the first OS to refuse slopmachine code.

(I first heard of their policy through Gamers Nexus)
(I'm just some yokel who likes KDE)
Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ Mar 6
@moses_izumi @lumi @nina_kali_nina Yeah although given the level of LLM-contamination across architectural foss projects part of me is also like "Wow, Plan9 and other fully-independent self-hosted systems are looking a lot more interesting now".
(Like makes me wonder how independent Genode is as well)
Show threaddmi 💽 Mar 6

@lanodan @moses_izumi @lumi @nina_kali_nina very interesting side-effect of this whole clusterfuck: writing my own software becomes much more enticing than it already was.

really tempted to go back to my osdev projects. i won’t get a general-purpose OS out of them, but. who cares! maybe I can make a bunch of single-purpose things

and maybe i should actually try out plan9… their propaganda page already sold me

Show threadMoses IzumiMar 6
@domi @lanodan @lumi @nina_kali_nina
My dream is to at some point daily-drive BSD, 9front or a minimal Linux, paired with some kind of Wine jail to bridge the compatibility gaps.
- cheaper than a VM, while still having 3D acceleration (even in windowed mode)
- never used Cairo Shell, but it seems to incorporate most of the good things about Linux GUIs

not unlike what @hikari 's Loss32 project is striving toward (wine as a primary Linux shell)
Show threadMoses Izumi
@domi @hikari @lanodan @lumi @nina_kali_nina
For the record, the only Win32 apps I miss are Paint.net and Rufus.
Krita and Raspberry Pi Imager are good, but the UX isn't as refined.

Most of the Windows games I care about exist on other platforms (Colin McRae, Trackmania) or were open sourced in some way (Re-Volt, every classic FPS).

Wine could arguably be a better lifeline for binary apps than Flatpak.
paint.net - Coming Soon

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