#linus

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Comparing deterministic tools to #AI is wild. Yes, I would create rules about not using compilers & editors if they gave different output each time I used them, occasionally gave wrong output, sometimes gave SLIGHTLY wrong output, and were just running predictions based on my past inputs rather than following sets of rules. #Linus

Linus Torvalds shares his thoughts on Anti-AI coding rules

RaiNews: Apre la mostra "100% Silvia Ziche": oltre 250 opere originali e le collaborazioni con altri autori La sua carriera artistica inizia nel 1987 tra le pagine di Linus, per poi approdare a Cuore, Comix e Smemoranda, ma è sulle pagine di Topolino che lascia il suo segno prima come disegnatrice poi come autrice completa The exhibition “100% Silvia Ziche” opens: over 250 original works and collaborations with other authors. Her artistic career began in 1987 on the pages of Linus, then moved to Heart, Comix and Smemoranda, but it was on the pages of Topolino that she left her mark first as an illustrator and later as a complete author. #SilviaZiche #Linus #Smemoranda #Topolino #first

1/2 My amazing dog #Linus is in his last days. As such, I am posting way less. I’m just spending our remaining time together doing whatever he wants, whenever he wants it. He would be 17 years old in 2 months. But he won’t make it that long. We had a very close call today. But I couldn’t do it to him. The thing is that he is not experiencing any pain at all. It’s only neurological. He’s lost control of his hind legs. He has foot drop. But this morning he couldn’t walk at all. #DogsOfMastodon

As a long time Linux user (left Microsoft 20 years ago) I can say this is the best Linux history I've ever seen: https://youtu.be/Ffl2DFHoZdY?si=jVHjDsOib-LuZGIQ #linux #linus #opensource

You can always trust #Linus Torvald and the #Linux Foundation, to side with big business w/ the linux kernel. It is why the kernel is GPLv2 instead of GPLv3; and why the Linux Foundation doesn't really believe in GPL enforcement. They will both be full steam on LLMs until it no-longer suits big business to be full steam on LLMs. #FreeSoftware

Linus Torvalds is vibe coding for decades now with real humans. I am sorry but a lot of coders and are just much worse at text comprehension and coding as even medium sized LLMs. So what exactly did people expect Linus, that consistently favors practicality and productivity, to do? This entire little outrage stuff about Linus allowing LLM assistance is so performative… Like… if you don’t like it, do something! Find a good solution for the problems you see! Do something so humanity can profit from it! #linux #linus #linusTolvalds

Resulta que hoy parece haber descubierto mucha gente que el kernel de linux se desarrolla como OpenSource pero no como software libre, siendo el matiz que no había intención alguna de buscar un sociedad mejor para todos. O dicho de otra manera, no existió nunca una motivación política; se trataba exclusivamente de un proyecto técnico. #Linux #linus

#Linus is up to something.

@aardvark@ioc.exchange - No. This is the issue: Big AI (read: that has central compute in big data centers that destroy local environments and economies) are being forced on everyone through a concerted effort involving forced adaptation, govt subsidies, and corporate subsidies. The underlying goals are wealth transfer, compute control, and information control. Those in power and leadership that ignore this are at best complicit in furthering the harm and are at worst actively pushing, facilitating, and enacting harm. Those that use LLMs often see a localized and immediate benefit (eg in their work or daily convenience), but at a greater long term and deep expense. But while I don't think users should use LLMs, many don't have a choice and many folks would choose short term immediate gains over long term harm because they lack leverage and just have to survive. So, in the original post, I am specifically targeting the leader. Who at best is complicit. And at worst is at fault. #AI #Linux #Linus

@tinker@infosec.exchange This amoral techbro statement about #Linux and #AI by #Linus is worthy of Wernher von Braun. As satirized by Tom Lehrer: "Once rockets are up who cares where they come down? That's not my department", says Wernher von Braun.

The argument that "AI works therefore we should use it" is akin to "Torture works therefore we should use it."

I don't mean that as hyperbole.

The underlying purpose of AI is at least twofold:

1. It puts a layer of abstraction over information.

• Primary Source: Raw data (eg video footage of an event)
• Secondary Source: Analysis (eg Low bias news and analysis of what this event means in the context of other events)
• Tertiary Source: Meta Analysis (eg Encyclopedia entries summing up Analysis)
• Quaternary Source: News Opinion and Propaganda (eg a "News Entertainment" channel that tells you what to think regarding the event)
• Pentanary (?) Source: TLDR summations divorced from underlying sources (eg AI summations, guides, etc that describe events or provide recommendations and guidance but follow behind the scenes algorithms that control the output)

The purpose of this layer of abstraction is control of information and removing the distribution of information from the actual events. This allows for influence campaigns, tuned marketing, tuned propaganda, and therefore control.

1. Centralization of compute power

• Computers in our hands that we control allow us a lot of power.
• Moore's Law no longer applies to localized compute power so we are in an era of repair and maintenance.

That means two things for corporations. Loss of income and loss of control.

• Forcing us to use centralized compute forces us to continue to spend money
• Localized AI engines still allow for centralized algorithms. (open sourced algos and localized engines dont factor in here as use and usecases are low)

AI is being pushed so heavily because both governments and corporations need it to further their wealth and power.

They push it via both making it cheap and accessible and having a veneer of usability.

This is a similar pattern to "Underpricing competition to drive them out and then jacking up rates when you have a monopoly", "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" and similar approaches.

So.

I am not arguing whether AI is useful. I am arguing that its use is detrimental to us. In fact, the more it becomes useful the worse it becomes BECAUSE more people adopt it. It hurts us as we use it. It hurts us more as we use it more.

Tying it back, I don't care if torture is useful and gets your desired results. Torture is bad and it hurts us.

#Linus #AI #Linux #solarPunk

Damn. This quote from Linus Torvalds is... well... damning. In response to a discussion around use of generative AI as it relates to contributions to the Linux code base, Linus (creator and lead contributor to Linux) firmly states that AI contributions are welcome. But then he goes on and concludes with this: "The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology. Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the _point_ of the project. This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be. In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons. And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools. Linus" A lot of us are on Linux specifically because of the social and political positives. Closed source is control. Open source is democracy. Linus doing the typical tech-bro "i don't think of politics, I only think of tech" harkens back to any number of "science without ethics" atrocities. Linus is and has always been a tech-bro (or proto tech bro). He has his throne of power and is happy where he is. Other tech-bros want money and influence. They're all the same. But Linus is wrong. Tech is politics. And his stance and guiding influence with Linux is wrong. Linus just made a political statement and has shifted the politics and societal approach of Linux. Source: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-=wi4zC+Ze8e+p3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/#linux #solarPunk #Linus #AI #openSource

Satire, obviously. Linus Torvalds' rant against people who oppose AI in the Linux kernel for "religious reasons" or because they are "social warriors." Linus' original email is here. h/t b@mrrp.place for pointing out the original email from Linus. #linus #linux #kernel #ai #MissingThePoint #OnPurpose

This is a funny & good video with a good Alberta burn. I say this with love from Calgary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfv0V1SxbNA #ABleg #yyc #linux #linus