what personal gain is there to be had?

The satisfaction of being “on the good side” and “sticking it to the man” with righteous outrage, as usual with these things. I fucking hate AI, but trying to tear down Linus (and the rest of the Kernel team) over them trying to see if it makes sense to use is silly. They aren’t planning to drop their rigorous QA or to accept code the submitter can’t explain/maintain. Ethics are a concern, but since the end result will be FOSS I personally don’t care as much either (YMMV).

I’m also really interested in hearing how this will go for them and what policies they will ultimately implement. I expect them to do this properly, which then means that everyone can point to their implementation when confronted with vibe coding at work. And then the suits will decide that they’d rather just do it cheap & fast, fucking everything up yet again, but at least they will have been told so.

That does look more like a shitpost than something people who actually believe in that nonsense would put up.

54 entries in about 2 months on the blue site. Yeah, that isn’t a lot.

I’d have to ask, they weren’t mine. But part of the problem was that it’s either high latency and no mic or very low quality both ways, neither very usable for video conferencing. Was fine on Windows. I’m sure their Thinkpad’s shitty Mediatek Bluetooth module didn’t help either.

You still will run into issues with certain Bluetooth headphones on Linux because they either need proprietary codecs that just aren’t available or fall back to really shitty ones. Not Linux’ fault, but users will only see (or hear) that it doesn’t work properly.

You know what they say, all busses go to Rhome

Oh, he’s the one running Linkedin, now it makes sense why that site, of all places, has anti-AI features now. I hope the shareholders will have mercy with his soul.

Sitzen zwei Kamele im Keller und stricken Benzin. Kommt ein Schraubenzieher, läuft ein mal den Türrahmen hoch und wieder herunter und verschwindet wieder. Fragt das eine Kamel: “Du, hast du dat geseh’n?” Sagt das andere Kamel: “Jau, der is öfter hier.”

Why bother talking to guys like Sam? Why print what they say?

Because very dumb people with lots of money still believe his lies.

He’s running out of superlatives though, can’t go much beyond declaring that the singularity is happening right now. Which I means the investors will see that huge ROI aaaany second now.

I don’t think your premise that it is going to grow more in terms of impact size is valid. It’s already eaten the US stockmarkets (and a number of others).

Stock market schmock market, this bubble is also doing damage to society and the environment and at least the part that comes from the lies and lobbying from “OpenAI” and consorts would be stopped by it popping.

FAKE NEWS! But I have a great idea here, maybe it is the best one folks, just fill the whole pool up with beautiful, highly reflective mercury. Or, as they call it, quicksilver. You know what quicksilver is? They used to have it in thermometers before they made them woke… And and I also hear that the algae don’t like being in it very much! Just like looser liberals with box cutters. But if they want to reform, and I told JD about this already, we can do patriot baptisms in there as well! It’s going to be great! The only thing that would be greater is if we filled it up with liquid gold, but we can’t afford that now. Not after what OBAMA did. So the silver will have to do.

Why does learning not need to be effortful or not difficult or not oftentimes uncomfortable?

From the context the combination of these three words sounded to me like they are demanding kids sit still and focus for hours, and that if they fail then that’s a lack of effort, determination or intelligence. You can work through a problem slowly and deliberately because it’s hard to understand, that can feel very rewarding even if it’s hard. But you can also be forced to mentally strain yourself for hours, not because of the subject itself is difficult but because the environment, the provided material, the pressure, … make learning in and of itself take a lot more effort than it needs to.

Learning can take effort and be fun, that’s true. Same goes for difficult. But if you put those two in with uncomfortable then I hear that it’s meant to be painful, essentially. Goddamn kids need to sit still and learn, and they can not do anything else for hours, or else!

Learning is effortful, difficult, and oftentimes uncomfortable.

It doesn’t have to be. Rote memorization always is for me, but that’s not really learning. And you can focus on just about anything when the alternative is a shitty textbook poorly explaining something that just won’t click with you. Look out the window, doodle, count the ceiling tiles, daydream about not being stuck in school, …

It isn’t twice as expensive though.

Finally some good news, 2027 is going to be a good one!

I’m a Millennial and work in IT. We aren’t magical. There’s competent and incompetent people in all age groups. I wouldn’t even say we had better starting conditions overall because being good with tech was seen as cringe nerd stuff when I grew up.

I think your theory is mostly right though, just along the lines of competent/incompetent. So many people constantly choose what they believe the path of least resistance with tech, even if it actually isn’t. Don’t spend one or two minutes to learn how to save to PDF in Word, instead google “word to pdf” and upload whatever sensitive data you have in that DOCX to some shady website.

I’m hoping repairable tech is going to become more and more common. So far neither Framework nor Fairphone seem like grifters while some that came before didn’t end up fulfilling their promises.

And what was up with 3 different styles of settings pages?

And from a company that used to scaremonger about Linux being inconsistent and therefore wasting time & money…

The idea of the Basilisk is constructed in such a way that it makes it sound inevitable, like some sort of mind virus that wills itself into existence through fear and panic, then asserts that it likely already happened. I think saying no to that is a pretty clear example of a universal principle because there so obviously isn’t an upside/a way to frame it as a positive. The whole concept is insane and explicitly only brings suffering. I trust that humanity wouldn’t ever do this because of that.