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It might be a tool, but it is naïve not take all of its externalities into account.

From tante’s piece:

Usefulness is not an objective, fully abstract property: A thing is not useful for everyone or in general but mostly just for specific people in specific contexts. And useful never comes for free.

But let’s take a step back and use a different example: Child labor. Child labor is very “useful” if you want cheap labor. It’s 100% deplorable to use it or accept it.

Edit: a good source of said externalities: https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware/src/branch/main/why_not_llms.md

Shun the technology and lose out on growth feel the JOMO (Joy of Missing Out).

There, fixed it for you.

Whatever’s the outcome, the anthropomorphization in that message stinks 🤮

I think this bit makes it clear that shipping LLM code from the kernel that wasn’t contributed by Gentoo is fine:

This policy affects Gentoo contributions and the official Gentoo projects. It does not prohibit adding packages for AI-related software or software that is being developed with the help of such tools upstream.

Alright, what are the alternatives folks?

Gentoo? Gentoo!

(But I’ll keep watch to see of they don’t revert course because “the models are now too powerful”, since it is a policy from 2024)

The policy

Gentoo Council has voted on 2024-04-14 on the following policy:

It is expressly forbidden to contribute to Gentoo any content that has been created with the assistance of Natural Language Processing artificial intelligence tools. This motion can be revisited, should a case be made for such a tool that does not pose copyright, ethical and quality concerns.

This policy affects Gentoo contributions and the official Gentoo projects. It does not prohibit adding packages for AI-related software or software that is being developed with the help of such tools upstream.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy

One shouldn’t talk about Omarchy and/or DHH and not bring up fascism (among other issues, but let’s stay focused), self-professed: https://world.hey.com/dhh/three-sacred-cows-that-must-die-so-europe-can-live-1afb203d

At least one Arch maintainer says Arch won’t be associated with them and calls Omarchy “just vibe-coded dotfiles and bash scripts”: https://floss.social/@serebit/117162401397324439

I use mTLS with Caddy to expose some of my services. It is quite manageable, and I only use if for myself and my wife.

We both use Android phones, and I configure access via apps for the services, that use the devices’ certificate store. It seems like the iOS way is to provide the client certificate and password to each app that’s gonna use it. I’m happy we can avoid that.

Big plus side for us is the simplicity of it all, there is no “always on VPN” requirement, and things “just work” with acceptable security.

I also sometimes access the services via Firefox, which is also able to use the device’s certificate store, although I have to keep selecting the same certificate each time.

And don’t stop there!

Add badges to songs (or options to not play them at all) if genAI was used during its creation.

As I understand it, even apps distributed by other stores need to be registered with and pay Sauron Google.

Funny how the “Top Economist” just parroted what Ed Zitron, also quoted on the piece, has been harping on, since… checks notes always.

Edit: Zitron, the name. Not Zitrone, The German word for lemon.

That ough to be one of the laziest genAI slop images for a “Chinese router with a backdoor”.

Damn, it’s bad.

Top reasons I love PCIe NVMe storage:

• no cables
• virtually no additional physical space taken

Sure thing, if I need to add/replace/remove one it is a bigger hassle and probably involves removing the GPU as well, but it is rare for me to need to do that, so I prefer the simplicity of doing away with SATA.

I see. So, alongside making your backup storage count towards you limit, they’re trying to make you hit your free limit and start paying (or pay more) for a subscription.

Typical en-💩-fication move.

Looks like someone bidding farewell via a military salute? 🫡 o7

What a choice of words… 🤦 Deliberate? “Better”? How about “worse” instead?

https://github.com/chenxiaolong/BasicSync#permissions

ACCESS_WIFI_STATE, ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION, FOREGROUND_SERVICE_LOCATION

Optionally used for stopping Syncthing unless connected to specific Wi-Fi networks.

And location isn’t a permission granted by default on install (unlike Internet access), the user has to approve of it explicitly.

Oh man, I totally get you. But as others said, it is relatively easy to publish apps on the Play Store.

And I honestly think that the fight is far from over. I think it only serves Google’s purpose to already admit defeat.

If not in the US (whom I believe to be highly interested in tracking down “rogue” app authors), then at least other jurisdictions might outlaw this anticompetitive behavior.

Why?

Google added that it doesn’t believe its own Gemini models were used, but still has “high confidence” an AI model was part of discovering the vulnerability and weaponizing an exploit.

No, really, why? If Google itself or their models didn’t discover the vulnerability, how would they know genAI was used on the discovery of the vulnerability and weaponization (interestingly, not “creation”) of an exploit?

The headline (as in AI replacing jobs) is as real as the CRAP (Computer Rendered Artificial Picture) it uses.

I think it might be very hard for AI-pilled leadership to back off from their claims and AI mandates and it would not help the hype that they might be banking on/profiting from.