Alexia Mar 13
Systemd has denied to revise their policy in regards to AI.

they've also marked evidence that people gave regarding its effectiveness as off-topic, then locked the conversation.

I believe the authors have not understood the weight of the issue. Later this day, I will begin drafting an open letter to Systemd's authors under the Starlight Network umbrella of projects. EDIT: or perhaps I will take a different approach. There's many more issues I want to talk about.
Disallow usage of generative AI to write code · Issue #41085 · systemd/systemd

Component No response Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe Generative AI is actively killing people, driving up costs, and plagiarizing work from many open source developer...

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Show threadNerdNextDoor Mar 13
@alexia completely fucking ridiculous. at this point, we’d all be better off just recreating everything that AI has infected instead of arguing with these people.
Show threadRoseMar 13
@mrmasterkeyboard @alexia I actually didn't understand any of it. I know about systemd. could you explain in simple words what is actually happening there?
Show threadNerdNextDoor Mar 13
@Rose @alexia Basically, they've allowed AI contributions by providing AI agents instructions on how to contribute, plus I also think they did some AI sloppery in documentation? (Then again, I don't really use systemd other than on my Ubuntu laptop which I will now refuse to update, and will be switching to FreeBSD soon which I predict I'll work on in around another... month or more?)
Show threadRoseMar 13
@mrmasterkeyboard @alexia another one 🤦🏼‍♀️ Any other distro that doesn't use systemd? I don't do much on my laptop, a browser it's almost all I need.
Show threadAlexia Mar 13
@Rose @mrmasterkeyboard

There is many. Personally I like Alpine and Void Linux. Chimera Linux is also something to look at.
Show threadRose
@alexia @mrmasterkeyboard I would look at them, though I'm not that techey. I hope I will find something user friendly and easy to install
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Show threadNerdNextDoor Mar 13
@Rose @alexia though at this point, Linux allowed AI into it too, so you're better off moving to FreeBSD to escape AI... or even a hobby operating system.
Show threadRoseMar 13
@mrmasterkeyboard @alexia how will be the hardware hardware compatibility on BSDs? Again I'm afraid of 'hard' techey stuff
Show threadNerdNextDoor Mar 13

@Rose @alexia FreeBSD is the best for hardware compatibility, but it's also nowhere near Linux.

Some of my machines that ran perfectly on Linux don't even run correctly on FreeBSD. (Missing touchpad drivers, no Wi-Fi, etc)

Honestly no OS is perfect and it depends on your hardware. If you don't want to fix stuff constantly, don't go to FreeBSD (or a hobby OS, those will be way worse...)

My advice is to keep on a Linux version prior to 2025 or if you're paranoid enough then 2022.

Show threadRoseMar 13
@mrmasterkeyboard @alexia so I think the end of the story for dummies like me is we are stucked ​​
Show threadNerdNextDoor Mar 13
@Rose @alexia yeah until someone can properly get something good up and running. for now I’d say resist updating Linux.