Fabio Valentini

@decathorpe
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Rustacean 🦀 with a Computer Science degree 🎓

I write Rust and Python, and maintain lots of RPM packages for Fedora Linux. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) and Packaging Committee (FPC) member. AI Luddite.

Fluent in English and German. He/Him. 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇹🇪🇺

Websitehttps://decathorpe.dev
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Show threadFabio Valentini8h ago
@nathandyer @legoktm oh wow. that's super fucked up 🫪
Fabio Valentini3d ago
Joseph Cox3d ago

New: Wikipedia has officially banned AI-generated content. After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of LLMs, volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-bans-ai-generated-content/

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

404 Media
Show threadFabio Valentini3d ago
@ju I enjoyed the audiobook (the English version narrated by Ray Porter, in case there's multiple ones) a lot - can definitely recommend
Show threadFabio Valentini3d ago
@mjg59 this applies to too many projects sadly ...
Show threadFabio Valentini5d ago
@gwync oh that's foul
Fabio Valentini6d ago
Frontend Dogma6d ago

The Hardest Part of Being a Developer Isn’t Coding—It’s Disappearing Quietly, by @northerndev88.bsky.social:

https://dev.to/the_nortern_dev/the-hardest-part-of-being-a-developer-isnt-coding-its-disappearing-quietly-52l

#career #community

The Hardest Part of Being a Developer Isn’t Coding. It’s Disappearing Quietly.

A weird thing happens when you become a developer. You can go days without anyone needing you in a...

DEV Community
Fabio ValentiniMar 22
GrapheneOSMar 20
GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account. GrapheneOS and our services will remain available internationally. If GrapheneOS devices can't be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.
Fabio ValentiniMar 22
Esteban Küber Mar 21
I feel like everyone's nerves are frayed and it manifests (amongst other ways) with behaving like the worst of Twitter in its heyday.
Half the time I even agree with the underlying sentiment, buy it is being expressed in such a vitriolic way that I just stay the hell away.
Fabio ValentiniMar 20
chaotic enbyMar 20

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC

Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models/RfC - Wikipedia

Fabio ValentiniMar 20

/me again wondering whether our new American neighbours are burning down the house or just barbecueing ...

(this happens multiple times a week, so it appears to really be just incessant barbecueing)