Asta [AMP]oil capital can't help but pollute open source, huh. Gotta get those oily fingers into every fucking open source project, twould seem.
fuck it man, gonna make my own vim out of vendored copies of readline and ncurses
I did get a response on whether Helix has a policy re: LLM usage or not
https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/15408
I wouldn't call it encouraging because I don't agree that it's useful (nevermind ethical) but I wouldn't call it discouraging, either, because they're clearly aware that it can produce a lot of unhelpful, time wasting crap.
https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/15408
I wouldn't call it encouraging because I don't agree that it's useful (nevermind ethical) but I wouldn't call it discouraging, either, because they're clearly aware that it can produce a lot of unhelpful, time wasting crap.
Policy on accepting PRs that include LLM generated code? · helix-editor helix · Discussion #15408
Hello! I've just been checking out Helix recently, and I quite enjoy what I've seen so far! It's fast, intuitive, ships a lot of nice defaults, and works well with what I've used it for thus far! I...
I haven't had the time or mental fortitude to construct a diplomatic reply that might encourage them to consider the ethical side that isn't just me ranting but if anyone wants to politely and gently nudge them towards considering the ethical drawbacks and license implications...
on the other hand, never a better time to greenfield the entire field of computing
just fucking NIH the whole damn stack
/s sorta
just fucking NIH the whole damn stack
/s sorta
Irenes (many)@aud yeahhhhhh we fantasize about what our Forth could become ...... if there were world enough, and time...
@ireneista it feels low key ridiculous to start wondering if the time is now to make a genuine linux fork because I am not qualified for that buuuuut
@aud we certainly know people with every relevant field of expertise, the problem with it is just that it's too big. the way to go would be to make a new kernel (or adopt an existing smaller one)
@aud .... but our self-monitoring heuristics tell us to be cautious of .... this thing https://irenes.space/leaves/2024-09-29-technology-community-idealism
@aud we coined the term "the cybernetic bias" for a slightly different impulse in another of our Leaves a bit after that piece, but trying to reference it just now, they feel like two facets of the same thing to us. we may have to write another piece sorting that out
@aud but yeah as we were saying elsewhere
there really is a rising tide of hate and willful negligence projecting themselves throughout the free software world
we really do need to think about more-organized ways to fight back
@aud at the end of the day, to the forces of hate, software is a tool in the demeaning sense - "only a tool", its purpose is the thing it achieves for you
whereas to an awful lot of disabled, neurodivergent queer techies, software is a tool in the sense of "this is the thing I use to make my art, so I have learned everything about its history and how it's made and I love it deeply"
and the latter is a stronger position. it's not even on the same level.
@ireneista this is so well, and succinctly, stated. Software is a thing that allows me to express myself; to make art; to communicate; to interact with the world; to expand my boundaries; to meet other queers; to hear music; to make music; to have community in isolated places...
... and to them, well, it's just a way of disempowering labor and doxxing/harassing minorities.
... and to them, well, it's just a way of disempowering labor and doxxing/harassing minorities.
@aud thank you. we've put, you know, very nearly forty years of thought into our feelings about software, and the last few have given us good reason to put this part of it into words, so 💜