The FreeBSD desktop exists, it is called "Mac OS".

Linus Torvalds used the GPL for his kernel, forcing companies to release the source code if they improve it and distribute it. The main userland was a lot of GPL licensed GNU software for a very long time, with a similar effect.

The BSD folks, on the other hand, decided to give everything away, by using much more "liberal" licenses. Apple took the BSD base, bolted their UI on top of it and gave almost nothing back. That would not have happened if BSD was GPL licensed.

Confusing "FOSS" with "free software" comes to mind.

Any engineer fighting the use of LLM’s will ultimately find that their peers are achieving more in a shorter time then they are.

How do you measure that?

I am asking because I tried all the AI coding tools (copilot, cursor, claude code, etc.), even the paid versions, to find the utopia that doubles my productivity where lots of people are talking about. But everytime I find they take more time to generate code than me typing it, they rarely get things right the first time, they produce way more code than needed (which is much more to reason about) and all in all it takes longer to achieve something using "AI" instead of doing it on my own.

The worst results are the ones that seem to be correct, but can only be found incorrect on closer inspection. For instances, a part of my job is to write data collection applications for sensors; those sensors come with a datasheet (usually 100 to 200 pages) that explain how to "talk" to the sensor. Sounds perfect for an LLM - throw the datasheet in, get a small C application out. But either I get something that does not even compile, or something that seems to collect data, but configures the sensor completely wrong. Debugging that takes more time than just working through the datasheet myself and program it myself.

tldr: LLMs are Dunning-Kruger detectors / Reverse Turing Tests on people, and a whole lot of people are significantly more stupid than I guess we otherwise previously realized.

That is the absolute best way to put it.

Since then, I have the conspiracy theory that the Claude people threw a bunch of proprietary sources in the training, too.

An enormous amount of people use this technology for privat company data without batting an eye; not just software developers, but business people for reports, etc.

They all throw their confidential data in there without even considering the implications, just "trusting" Anthropic. claude code bots are running on tens of thousands of proprietary code bases that used to be private, and of course they are using all this data to train their model.

nowadays

Clearly you haven't been to 4chan in at least 5 years, if ever. /b/ nowadays is 100% porn; posts like these I have not seen since forever.

So we are going ful circle back to native code, that has worked much faster for decades.

Web technologies on desktop applications was always a bad idea.

This repost is so old, it is older than lemmy.

Most personal blogs I stumble upon are written by people who actually have not much to say. The post timeline usually is like:

1. I have started blogging
3. Why I moved this blog to Hugo

1. I now microblog
2. <some "micro" post about Linux>

1. Microblogging is just regular blogging
2. My thoughts on AI

Back in the day, personal websites where actually interesting because they were made by people with interesting topics, e.g. some Italian grandma sharing her tomato sauce recipes, or a huge page with nothing but Diablo 1 hacking by some student.

Nowadays it is 90% people who work in a 9-5 IT/software job, writing the same stuff as everyone else.

OP, anubis is not a catgirl. She is a jackalgirl.

You should read the original article, or even his mail on LKML, because that is not what he is saying. He is not endorsing AI in any way; instead, he is concerned that the latest linux release candidate has so much changes, because everyone and their mother is using some AI tool to create and send "little small" fixes; obviously he has no control over how volunteers work.

Furthermore, he stated that the security mailing list has become unusable due to the influx of AI generated entries.

Or you should. This is called Parkinson's law, first stated in 1952. https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20191107-the-law-that-explains-why-you-cant-get-anything-done

This has observed especially with the advent of "robots" for household tasks, e.g. the dishwasher or the washing machine. Before these machines existed, wifes spent about 51 hours per week cleaning the home. After the machines where there, they spent about 52. See: https://www.umb.ch/en/blog/news/detail/parkinsons-law-and-our-daily-quest-for-more-time

pedophile, racist, misogynist,

None of the screenshots show that though.

that it’s very common for kids to explore their bodies and each other’s at sleep overs.

Yeah I don't think so. I am way over 30 years old and never heard of that.

cropping is hard

I think that Kevin and Tony probably don't even think about this, they lived their entire live that way. They don't know any better.

Here in Germany, if you want to move a sofa, you have three options:

1. Rent a transporter (no one here has a truck), park it illegally in front of the house while onloading the sofa, transport the sofa, park the car again illegally while unloading it. If the police catches you or a neighbor files a complain, you may have to pay a fee.

2. File a form so that someone puts up traffic signs for that day that no one except you may park in front of the two houses. Costs around 90 € and takes 3 weeks. Rent car, proceed as usual. Someone will see that you park in a "no parking" zone and does not know that you requested that zone, so he will file a report. Therefore, later, fill some more forms to battle that claim.

3. Do 1) at night where no one sees you or cares.

(This is of course highly exaggerated. Parking is not such a problem in every city.)

I never understood why anyone would host on DO, they were always much more expensive then the competitors.

Seriously, most people probably could get by with a free VPS or free shell account.

Never heard of CSS tricks; I tried to investigate in the posted article, but too much emojis.

This also happens the other way around. It is now prohibited to sell lot of industrial goods to russia, so the goods are sold to indian companies who then will sell them to russia.

but if someone installs arch then complains that it broke because they didnt check the news (something that the maintainers recommend you do) then the blame/fault shifts to the user, not the system.

The question is though why pacman does not display these news during the update. Gentoo has been doing this for decades.

deodorant without any smell exist.