Come to Debian! The Nvidia drivers are questionable on the newest cards but the Nouveau is warm here!
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The article is good, but the headline seems clickbaity:
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Debian is discussing requirements about hosting software with LLM generated code in their repos, and disclosure of that.
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"Ubuntu embraces AI" is talking about putting ML inference engines in their repos... which, ironically, are largely human written.
These are two completely seperate issues. And TBH its not clear how Debian is approaching inference engines or how Ubuntu is approaching disclosure.
As always, the actual story is in the comments. Thank you for the summary.
Ubuntu: The Windows of Linux.
I thought Ubuntu was the macOS of Linux and the Windows of Linux is Omarchy
5-10 years from now they will pull their Windows 11-equivalent crash and burn move
With RAM prices what they are the push for snaps may already be this... On memory constrained systems snaps already have a huge performance penalty.
I think technically that might have been Lindows.
I remember when they wanted to unify mobile phones and desktop computers, with a singular online storage account and DE that changed when you plugged your phone into a monitor. That shit was crazy.
I still want that
The best vision for that was unironically Microsoft’s, but by that time they had started the enshittification with Windows 10
@sanitation same with postmarketos and alpine :P
pmOS: ban all AI
alpine: no need to indicate if AI was used or not (last i saw, maybe still in discussion still)
tbh I dont support ban. I think they should ban ai publicly only to avoid copyright and lawsuits issues from AI but then use it to produce linux based android alternative quickly.
Canonical patronizingly forcing a tool/workflow onto users against their explicit and unequivocal rejection of it?
That's not what the articles says or implies at all. The article only refers to another article with a click bait headline. The article article summarizes Canonical stance like this:
- Canonical will add AI to Ubuntu — but only cautiously and when it truly makes sense.
- AI features must be mature, open-source, and run locally when possible.
- Focus AI on accessibility (speech-to-text, TTS) and improvements, not turning Ubuntu into an 'AI product'.
And to be clear, including a tool or default workflow is MILES away from patronizingly forcing it on to users. It's just the way that most distros that aren't Linux From Scratch work.
Problem is, Ubuntu's track record with projects like Upstart, Unity, Mir, Snap, Netplan, Amazon integration, the Rust coreutils rewrite, etc. makes the "only cautiously and where it truly makes sense" promise seem rather hollow.
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Good. There will be choice.
I like this attitude. I think if the LLMs weren't forced down everyone throats, there would be a lot less hostility towards them
It’s just so suspiciously and aggressively being shoved down our throats.
Yes, it's not the technology I hate, it's the people pushing it, demanding it, saying it will replace humans. Those people can fuck right off. Technology exists to serve humans, not the other way around. We are being sold a lie. The technology has some interesting aspects, but the pushers are pushing bullshit.
Alright. Hang the fuck on.
Class war.
Technology is incapable of doing anything. It literally can do nothing. It can be used as a tool for sure.
It's currently being used to fuck you. It's fucking me. It's fucking us.
BUT ONLY AT THE DIRECTION OF BILLIONAIRES
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I hate ai as much as the next person, but I'd have a different mandate. I would require all code to be fully reviewed and understood by a human. Let's call it quality control.
Agreed. It's not sensible or practical to ban AI, and Linus is right. Why is Linus right? Take a look at the number of Linux CVEs being patched over time. In 2022-23, that was about 300 per year. Last year it was 5530. This is almost entirely as a result of AI scanning tools, including Copy Fail priv escalation that was there for 8 years. The security apocalypse is just about arrived, and the most recent round of cyber models coming out do this way better than before. The Hugging Face incident story was truly unbelievable if you read / watch the details, a historic event. Everything is about to get hacked. So it'll be all about maintainers being reactive to this new reality and burden for some time to come
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This is the way. Cat is out of the bag now so need to figure out responsible usage.
Fortunately we have a method for that for a long time now: PRs. If you approve it, you are responsible for that approval.
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My parents are coming over today because their ZorinOS installation suddenly started acting up after an Ubuntu Kernel update. Thanks Ubuntu.
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