And ethically trained. People should be financially compensated if their data was used to train AI without their consent.

Between NVIDIA, Intel and AMD. There’s no longer a lesser evil to choose.

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Because the pace of code production has officially overwhelmed the human capacity to review it. As it was discussed recently. Linus answer was to use more AI, with the implementation of code review tools that gobble up code and spew out summaries.

For the time being, humans reading the summaries count as human reviewed. But at some point in time this system will crack. The current zeitgeist is to restrict who can contribute. Which leads to the obvious follow up question of who decides based on what, and how to decide who deserves to contribute.

You just witnessed the first steps into the philosophical and political erosion of the open source movement. Not just on the kernel but it is also affecting almost all popular FOSS projects.

But of course, that doesnt matter because Linux is not and has never been political. /s

All those things, including knives, are heavily regulated, yes.

Many indexers have donations optional, or a points system today. The tradeoff is that invitations are now even rarer and harder to get.

Split versions is usually the first step. Many projects have done so before. Next year there will be some technical reason they can’t keep feature parity with the commercial repository, and it will drift from the OSS repository. Oops, we broke compatibility, sowwy guys. A couple of years later the OSS repository will be closed because it is a security risk. By that point the company and management would’ve drifted so far from the initial values of the project that people won’t notice. Those who cared will have jumped ship to alternatives sooner, those who noticed later will be already too deep into depending on the software that they will keep paying the subscription.

I have no evidence, but I also don’t have any doubts this is the plan.

It currently doesn’t work with Vaultwarden. The Linux client doesn’t accept custom certificates. And the Android client is paid. It is a dead-end for self-hosting.

The license is also stupidly a single sentence. Which means that use could be nuked at any minute, and any money you use to pay the developer means nothing. If they wanted to kill the project today and nuke the repo, you have no legal rights, the project dies and fuck you and your passwords. That doesn’t exactly inspires confidence.

KeyGuard is proprietary on Android. Certain features are locked behind a subscription or one time purchase.

I’m starting to also hate on this model. People who claim to be open source but still throw hurdles and obstacles at anyone trying to either use or contribute to the project. I understand people need to support themselves financially, but I have donated to many free projects and open projects in my life. Whenever I see a paywall it makes me not want to use the project, however interesting it might be. It sucks they are usually the only almost decent android clients. (Looking at Symphonium and their developer’s shit ass attitude too)

EDIT: Just tried it and it seems like vaultwarden login and custom certificates on linux have been fried since December. It is currently a dead-end for selfhosters.

The reason is, as usual, that Microsoft lobbied hard to make their way the standard way of doing sleep modes. Then, when implementing it, they strong armed all the OEM to make hardware fit their nonstandard, slightly off center, way.

So, now windows kind of work with all hardware, but open source is fucked because to make the hardware actually work requires reverse engineering whatever custom crap windows does.

DRM has existed since the DVD era. I think there were even several attempts with VHS before that.

Sure, everything costs effort and money. But not $400 per image download like what some commercial sites want to charge.

There’s two comments mentioning AI, and people happily and cordially correcting them. What the fuck are you on about?

You are the only angst comment here, calling people stupid.

I use it too, but there’s always something that rubs me the wrong way about the developer. Every reply I’ve read from them is either sarcasm, snark or rude dismissal.

I skim them all. The options I wrote are soft parodies of what each said. There’s a ton of problems with this model of governance, but I’m no voting member, so my opinion has no impact.

That said, it makes it so a single posture has to be voted on in its entirety, which is dumb (as some legislative bodies of the world have proven). As a result, nuance is erased alongside with any sense of ideological vision or compromise, and instead it promotes vagueness in every action and glacial institutions that break slowly break apart.

The very person who wrote the proposal that won reacted to winning with:

I regret the loss of contributors (which would have happened with either option winnign [sic]). It is just too early to take a final decision on the mater [sic]. Let’s revisit this in two years or so, and let this mess of a GR be a warning for our future selves.

The proposal was designed to win time without having to take any real stance while taking the smallest loss of contributors in the process. And thus it was written as the most milketoast nothing burger. When an infinite set of possibilities exists that actually do address real concerns like climate impact, social impacts, copyright and legal problems related to generated code, etc. in relation to the principles and overall values of the project. Instead, they are deferring the practicalities to pull request’s bickering.

But again, I’m not a voting member or contributor. So my opinion is null. I still think the way the process is designed and conducted is stupid and prone to cause the eventual failure of debian via governance collapse.

The Debian vote was so stupid:

Option A: Psychotic breakdown
Option B: Ethical impracticality
Option C: Political extremism
Option D: Two contradictory things at once
Option E: Something that doesn't prevent the other options but packaged with something nasty and unpalatable
Option F: Sensible but ultimately vague and action-less common place neutrality.
Option G: Nuclear option
Option H: Do nothing

It was such a brain dead exercise in futility. It was designed for the winner from the start.

Nussbaun’s comment on the result is hilariously dull:

On a very personal note, I regret that the winning option does not acknowledge all the legitimate concerns around AI: environmental impact, copyright and licensing uncertainty, the health of Free Software communities, and the strain of aggressive scraping on the open web.

The GR results give us raw numbers about our opinion, and a direction, but we have a lot of work ahead of us to act as a community and understand how we can continue to accommodate the very large minority that would have preferred to ban or discourage AI.

Lucas

¹ obligatory disclosure: the script used is AI-generated

Yeah, the option that doesn’t say anything won. Who knew?…wait yes, mathematicians, they knew. The most important part of a survey is choosing the options carefully.

Have you heard of F1? Do you know what it costs to just watch the F1 legally on streaming? have you ever wondered who goes to watch an F1 race when they completely shutdown a city for everyday people (like Las Vegas or Montecarlo), and how much the tickets cost?

It’s called value-based premium pricing, and companies couldn’t care any less about how much any of us think it costs to make the thing they are selling. They are simply charging the lowest price that their highest income target demographic is willing to pay. If you are not going to buy it, it doesn’t matter. You weren’t the target anyway. The people with tons of disposable income and a very high nostalgia induced perceived value for the cartridges are. You and I, we are rounding errors, we don’t matter. A single buyer is worth 20 people like you or me., they make up the difference by a long way.

Same way the F1 doesn’t care that Average Joe, or the other 100 thousand people like him, can’t afford a ticket for Las Vegas Grand Prix. The few one or two thousand high wealth targets can cover the difference. And they are not limited by living in Las Vegas or in Nevada. Wealthy people from all over the world will fly their lush private planes or first class seats to get there.

Same way free-to-play games don’t care about the complaints from the credit grinders. They only care to keep the whales happy. So on and so for. Value based pricing is the wet dream of CFOs and CEOs. It is the number one strategy that businesses turn to as soon as they have a captive market, it is the one they turn to when they are trying to maximize profits in a declining market, it is the one strategy that spears head enshittification. Why sell one million $1 copies when you can sell 20k $300 ones?

This is why “vote with your wallet” is a dumb thought terminating cliche. Your wallet-vote is worthless for companies, if on the other corner there’s a smaller, less vocal, but more willing to pay group. That’s why companies charge $100 for a download of a video game that might or might not work and don’t even blink when people complain.

There’s also maintenance blindness. It is easy to see how something lasted forever, when you weren’t the one doing the maintenance and repair work everyday. Also, many “good ol’ immortal appliances” neglect to mention how most of the parts are actually brand new or it wouldn’t be functional otherwise.

We tend to forget that the design on the left was the corporate ux language for a long time. Open source is just slower to fall for the trends, but they fall eventually.

Interestingly, social stigma is one of the somewhat associated factors. But not the way one would think of: high stigma equals high suicide rate. Instead social stigma skews statistical data available. Somewhat under or over reporting. Essentially the more stigma around suicide, and also mental health, the less reliable the data. It is similar to how social attitudes about sexual violence distort the reliability of statistics about rape.