Mastodawn

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.

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Elizabeth

15h ago

@ariadne Microsoft are heavily using AI internally too. Not to mention they are one of the largest financial backers of AI.

I don't see any mass boycott of Windows.

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trystimuli 10h ago

@Elizafox @ariadne we’ve had a mass boycott of windows for the past twenty-some years?

sure, there aren’t that many folks who didn’t care enough about all the inhumane shit microsoft has done who do care about them using ai to leave now. (though they do exist, and i have seen posts complaining that they left windows because of ai only now to find it creeping into linux)

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trystimuli

@Elizafox @ariadne to be clear, that doesn’t excuse calling distributions fascist because they were not sufficiently on top of what upstream projects are getting up to.