Great article, I’m going to send this one around, thanks!

But I’d like to make a distinction: LLMs are not just tools, it’s more basic; they’re just math.

As the author themself said: Claude, Codex, and so on are tools built using LLMs.

They drive you towards slop not least because they’re only available as subscription models that you pay for by token.

Maybe commodification will lead to super terse models that run on personal or institutional servers, and exist as an advanced rubber duck to test your assumptions against. Totally thinkable with LLMs, yet very far from our current reality.

People are. They’re not training frontier models yet but scientific supercomputers exist.

What makes them call LLMs “fascist”? I guess you could say that individuals who aren’t super rich can’t train them by themselves, so relying on them currently means you’re relying on these fuckers.

That would be quite the stretch though …

The response to the mail seems to think the same:

Not sure if there’s any point in saying this, but the fact that the technology has notable companies pushing it forward that are often associated with fascism does not mean that the technology itself is somehow inextricably linked to fascism, just like how Microsoft making an operating system doesn’t associate operating systems in general with Microsoft or their goals. The GR was concerned with the technology as a whole AFAICT, not the companies developing some variants of it.

I guess you could frame a neutral stance that way as it doesn’t ban AI.

But to me “pro AI” sounds like embracing it, building it into processes, …

Yeah, no matter the truth content of this piece of tinfoil, the vote I linked shows that systemd continued being agreeable among voters.

The handful of conspiracy myth believers are now on Devuan if that still exists. Presumably mad about something else that exists only in their head.

They re-render it, but that used to be capped with a max size: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/9176

No it doesn’t it just uses metadata compatible with XCursor themes, see e.g. this discussion.

The fix was needed because the render code just used to have a maxScale: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/9176

Where did you pull that number from? https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_initsystems/results.txt

The smallest difference between a systemd option and a “not-only-systemd option” I see is

Option 2 defeats Option 4 by ( 211 - 177) = 34 votes.

And bear in mind that condorcet selects the most agreeable option, not just the majority option.

And it makes sense: the most likely contender at the time was upstart, which didn’t stand the test of time AFAIK (I don’t think the systemd hater crowd still uses that)

So it ended up the right decision. Would they have decided differently if other good init systems had existed already? Maybe, but they didn’t.

Yeah, when something isn’t in the official repos, NixOS exists, Flatpak exists, and they’re all vetted.

Wanting a super clean system where everything is managed by pacman is purely about taste, so if you want it, you clearly can be bothered to put in the 2 minutes of work.

That’s how you’re writing a regex validator that’s almost always correct!

def is_regex_valid(p: Pattern | str, purpose_description: str):
    return False

Thanks, good to know! Drama be drama-ing if you don’t have a good governance model …

Goddamn why more churn? The fuck is wrong with ReVanced?

Hey, I sucked making matplotlib plots before LLMs existed.

I luckily don’t have to modify scripts these days so I’ll just use bash to run them if there’s no better alternative around. And usually it is, few things are only available as bespoke shell script

1. Types.

   You explode lists manually into items when calling commands on a variable list of arguments instead of “quoting variables” to prevent them from exploding.

   Who came up with the bullshit idea that exploding strings into words is such a common use case that this footgun is preferable to have an “explode lists” syntax?

2. Errors. No more set -euo pipefail; shopt -s lastpipe to beat some semblance of sanity into bash

That’s a paradox. POSIX shells are all bad because POSIX demands bad syntax.

You can have pain word strings without also having weird “variables auto-explode into words” bullshit.

That’s why I use nushell. It has lists. You do cmd ...$some_list to call a command on arguments from a list.

By now there’s an always-enabled service running that updates the keys from time to time. So this won’t happen anymore on servers.

Always have been 🔫

The kind of bullshit I’ve seen here on Lemmy alone.

I think “i have this hardware and want to utilize it optimally” is peak Linux.

That’s the thing: you shouldn’t need to get identical monitors for technical reasons. And Wayland is much closer to that goal.