Ariadne Conill 🐰6h ago

I saw a wild take where someone said distributions are fascist for using systemd because systemd now uses Claude for code review.

okay. fine, I guess.

but if we are rejecting dependencies that use AI tooling, where do we go?

seriously. where do we go?

if the Linux kernel is using AI tools for codegen, then where do we go?

FreeBSD? I would put money on it that they use AI tools.

OpenBSD? NetBSD? HURD?

do we hard fork every dependency that is now tainted? do we even have the resources to do it?

FreeBSD and Illumos are the only ones reasonably close in the tech tree and I suspect both use AI tools too, as their development, like Linux, is driven by capital.

Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ 5h ago
@ariadne This one is all wack when like what 3~6 months ago there was a pro-systemd jerk being like "anti-systemd are all facists!"

Also yeah in terms of alternatives it's not great, so far I'm stuck with reducing as much as possible and planning to have more stuff like Plan9.
(Also pretty sure Hurd got LLM-tainted)
Show threadthe vessel of morganna5h ago
@lanodan @ariadne oh, is that why hurd just suddenly pushed out amd64 support recently, only a cool 25 years late?
Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ 5h ago
@astraleureka @ariadne IIRC it's SMP rather than 64-bit but same sort of "Huh? Everyone got that stuff, come on"
Show threadthe vessel of morganna
@lanodan @ariadne if it's smp that's actually even sadder than just now getting amd64 support. its a microkernel. supporting multiple cpus is a pretty major win, lol
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Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ 5h ago
@astraleureka @ariadne Yeah, checked and it's SMP

Which yeah seems quite ridiculous for a microkernel to only get it now but well Hurd is a zombie project that aged decades.