OP, a term you may find useful is ricing. This is the sub-community of Linux users who focus on customizing their desktops. You can look at the unixporn subreddit to see examples of how much a DE can be customized.

Ex:

This is KDE Plasma

This is also KDE Plasma

This is also a, very customized, KDE Plasma

(video)https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1w2afj0/kde_my_2nd_ever_linux_rice/

Another is dotfiles or dots, ricers will sometimes make their .config files available for other users. (Be careful here, this can include hidden malicious scripts and such uglies. Use your best judgement).

I’m devastated at your diagnosis

Ask the people who were shouting about forking systemd… I’m sure they’ve created their techno-utopia fork world by now.

People really underestimate the amount of free labor provided by these FOSS groups. There is a reason that these flash in the pan outrage topics evaporate as quickly as they appear. The people who spend their lives arguing online are not the people who have the capability to replace all of the things that they’re attempting to destroy.

If only there were some community of people who valued using free and open source software so we had options that were not dependent on the whims of companies. Then we could have software that we could depend on that isn’t dependent on the whims of corporations.

Throwing out AI because there are AI companies who causing harm is like giving up on Operating Systems because of the plethora of bad acts made by Microsoft.

I agree that everyone should avoid using OpenAI, Anthropic or any of the other companies which were created to spend trillions of dollars buying up all computer hardware on the planet while building fossil fueled datacenters.

That isn’t the same as thinking that the actual machine learning technology itself is somehow inherently bad. There are many open weight models and FOSS projects that lets people use AI without contributing to the capitalist orgy that’s causing all of the secondary harms.

People conflating AI technology and AI companies are failing to diagnose the issue that we’re facing.

I’m going to say there’s not a chance in hell that this gets forked. Much like the systemd age verification topic, the outrage is primarily from the chronically online and the bots who influence them. This isn’t a population of people who have the actual technical capabilities to do anything productive, that’s why they have such a large online presence.

The outrage on social media is massively amplified by bots which is why these ‘movements’ never get passed the ‘spamming social media with outrage porn’ phase. It’s easy to fabricate and spin up 1000 social media bot accounts to post anti-AI content (ironically using LLMs to do so).

It isn’t easy to fabricate and spin up 100 competent developers who are so rabidly anti-AI that they will attempt to start a major new project

Don’t confuse comments and upvotes with reality. Social media metrics are easy to manipulate.

The one you want.

Ignore the ignorant purity test of the outrage junkies. Half of the ‘people’ stirring shit on this topic are probably LLMs themselves.

AI is a technology.

The rampant investment into that technology by capital and the market manipulations and fraud are the dangerous thing to societal stability. It’s the trillions of dollars poured into the technology in an attempt to buy a monopoly which is generating all of the secondary effects that people are complaining about.

People are, I’d argue intentionally, confusing the two things. The Western AI Industry is bad but it is a separate thing from machine learning technologies.

Pretending that the entire technology is bad because a bunch of people with infinite wallets are destroying the economy and ecosystem in order to make profits is ignorant.

Trying to paint every project, person or group that uses AI with the same brush as the people who are creating all of the negative effects is misdirecting anger away from the people making the decisions and blaming a technology.

Tech ‘journalism’

This is an article about an article which was written by a dedicated Windows blog. The author adds nothing outside of contextual framing and quoting the original article and a FAQ provided by the source used by the original article.

At least the original article’s author put in some work with graphics and research, this blog post is about the same informational content as ‘news’ articles which are just a recap of a social media argument.

system roulette:

yay

The crunchy ones grow in the left half of the peanut and the creamy ones in the right.

I didn’t.

After a while, but probably more than a month, you would need to refresh your keys as the ones that your system trusts would not match the signatures on what is being downloaded from the repo and you would be getting signature errors.

You’d just install archlinux-keyring first, and then do a full system upgrade. If that didn’t work you could refresh the keys with pacman-key (pacman-key --refresh-keys) and then install archlinux-keyring->upgrade.

Your system would work fine without updating, though I guess eventually a new version of HTML will come out in a decade or so and your browser won’t support it… but until then you’d be fine(security issues aside).

so brave

Essentially yes.

The GPL license is a way to take things that can be copyrighted and grant those rights to others with limitations (the limitations being the terms of the license).

However, the AI generated portions of the code are not copyrightable and so they’re considered public domain and remain so no matter what. Once something is public domain it is always public domain, no matter where it is used.

In practice, if someone wrote a function by hand and then the AI added some error handling code, then that person has a copyright to the lines that they wrote while the lines that the AI wrote are public domain. The entire function can still be licensed under the GPL but the copyright owner would not be able to pursue you for violation of the license if you used the error handling code in another non-GPL work as that portion is public domain.

From a legal standpoint, since the code isn’t annotated as to which parts were human written (protected by copyright/GPL) and which parts were not (and fall under public domain), it would be unwise to attempt to violate the GPL license terms by taking arbitrary parts of the code and releasing them without a GPL license.

The Free Software Foundation, the creators of the GNU GPL, has an FAQ that covers a lot of the details: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#CombinePublicDomainWithGPL

My neurons were a bit scorched afterwards

I didn’t say that she didn’t say that they didn’t.

No, it is you that likes AI. I can’t believe you support datacenters being built in endangered habitats, you’re such an bad person to be carrying water for AI. How does Sam Altman’s butthole taste?

Oh, did I just make up shit about you and insult you using this fabricated information? What an ignorant thing to do on the Internet. Don’t you agree, AI lover?

It’s really a race between the AI bubble bursting and hardware manufacturers building more production to chase the higher prices.

One of China’s largest chip producers is building several new fabs and their domestic fabs (i.e. ones not made by ASML) are capable of producing DDR5. Once this price shock ends I wouldn’t be surprised to see hardware prices drop to below levels they were pre-2020.

What we’re seeing is the effect of companies having hundreds of billions of dollars in cash on hand and all deciding to dump it into computer hardware at the same time. They can’t burn capital forever and AI isn’t remotely what they’re selling it as so they’re finding a hard time generating any meaningful revenue. All they’re doing is shoveling money to hardware manufacturers, who will use it to build out extra capacity and once the spending frenzy ends we’ll have way more supply than demand.

Of course, given how much money is floating around, that could be 5 years from now.

Are you naturally an asshole or do you just enjoy fighting strawmen on the Internet?

There’s already pretty decent open weight models that you can run on your own hardware. They won’t be as fast as the models running in a datacenter but they will get the job done while not adding more money to the garbage fire that is ‘The AI Industry’.

I don’t think that the future of AI is as a massive subscription service industry, that is just rampant capitalism on full display (with all of the damage that it causes).

This ‘ad hominem’ really shines the light on just how toxic anti-AI people are.