In my feed people who post stuff every hour get blocked or unfollowed, unless it’s really good stuff.

You’d think that “no AI” would be an easy feature to implement, and it’s much in demand. Strange that it seems to be beyond the abilities of so many software developers.

They decided to take a vote on whether or not to “Ban LLM contributions” where the proposed policy wasn’t all that well thought out, and ended up settling on a subsequent proposal which was even worse, enshrining in official policy the standard that LLM contributions are just fine actually and don’t even need to be disclosed. The governance system, in this case, failed spectacularly. The contributors they will lose as a result of this are in my view likely to be more valuable ones than those they’d have lost had the vote gone the opposite way. It’s substantially worse than having done nothing at all. It does not inspire confidence in the future of Debian, and is enough to have many of us looking around to see what alternatives might exist.

They just recently did something bad.

Damn it I was just asking myself the same question. I don’t expect it to be easy to find one that’s anywhere near as good as Debian but without that one problem. I think a lot of them won’t have any firm policies yet.

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Your first ever download?

That’s a month old. The voting period for Debian ends tonight, so check back tomorrow to see the news.

… I dunno, maybe it just needed a firmware update.

I too had a ghetto blaster, which must sound pretty weird to people young enough to have never heard of them.

Even in Europe where they’re more serious about such things they are approaching the idea only very slowly. Governments in Canada are so comfy in that prison that they’ve forgotten the outside world even exists. Couldn’t hurt to try and remind them I guess, but don’t expect them to believe you.

True. Enough movies have been made, enough books written. There’s no need for more. Stop creating stuff, everyone — unless you really need to, in which case you might be an artist or a writer.

Hopefully it won’t matter too much in practical terms. More distributions have lately started using very new kernel versions and substantial numbers of people might therefore be hit by it. But the volume of patches to amdgpu is so high that I have no idea if whatever the problem might be was fixed already by someone. If it was as obvious to others as it seemed to me then it should very likely be fixed for 7.2.1.

You appear to have misunderstood what I said there. It was not in rc7.

If you have a patch to fix it the lkml or whichever related list is devoted to amdgpu would probably like to hear from you, otherwise I’m not sure — possibly the freedesktop issues page would be appropriate.

I’m still not yet sure if people other than me are affected, but I guess so? If it’s still there in a couple of weeks maybe I’ll find the strength to do some more testing.

rc7 was the final release candidate build for 7.2, the seventh in the usual series of them. They’re meant to fix bugs, not introduce new ones. I often run them, for fun and testing. One expects bugs like this — assuming it is a bug — in the rc builds but normally they’re meant to be fixed before the final release which happened this week.

Switching back to a working kernel is what I did for today, yeah. I have no particular reason to need 7.2 right now and don’t have time to try and track down the bug.

Not everyone interested in piracy acquires all of their games that way, and even those who do sometimes buy them on Steam anyway — for example to support the publisher. Not that Gog isn’t better, but Steam obviously has most of the market.

This is a piracy-oriented community, so …

So there tend to be a fair number of gamers around.

Edit: The “join today” included in all the user’s posts almost certainly means that this is spam.

As was said elsewhere on the Internet:

Don’t get me wrong, I welcome this policy, I just wish the “one line zinger” was a little more detailed, because if you come away from the article without reading on (or, more realistically, if secondary sources pick up this quote without the surrounding context), one could easily get a wrong idea.

The policy summarizes itself this way: It’s fine to use LLMs to answer questions, analyze, distill, refine, check, suggest, review. But not to create.

Saying that “it’s fine” seems a little overly broad, because sometimes it isn’t, but I suppose that by “fine” they simply mean that it’s not forbidden by the policy. A more complete summary would also mention that where it is allowed, disclosure of LLM use is required.

Personally, on the few occasions where I’ve resorted to querying an LLM it’s been very much the same kind of experience that using Stack Overflow used to be. It’s a quick way to see one way that other people have done some thing, but you wouldn’t want to rely on it being the right way.