Not to shill for Apple or Google, but it's definitely important to draw a distinction between first party telemetry and straight up distributing malware. If we can't we honest in our framing then there is really no reason to take what we have to say seriously.

mfs will do literally anything besides use GIMP

So now when I spin up a VM at my sysadmin job I have to tell the server I'm an adult? Does anyone actually know what the fuck we are doing here? What an absolute clown show.

the internet fucking sucks so bad now oh my GOD

They have so much, but they just keep taking. Like FOSS is the only thing still cool about computing and they need to have that too. Fucking casino ass country.

Guy who sells AI says they have the BEST AI EVER! Shocking!!!1

I'm a little out of the loop I guess. Why do all these corpos care about this dork's Arch reskin?

All it will take is for the reverse uno card to be implemented at a large enough scale against proprietary software before companies throw a pissy fit and this will all go away. Alternatively GPL could stipulate that AI implementation would trigger copyleft protections.

This whole thing is stupid and in such bad faith. Maliciously clean room engineering open source software just to get around pesky licensing issues will cause so many more problems for these morons that already leech off the hard work of open source devs anyways. They literally have a steady stream of free software and all they have to do is NOT steal it. That's it. Just don't be a fucking evil goon, that's the only stipulation. They're shooting themselves in the foot so hard.

But no, having free access to the hard work of others isn't enough, they have to hoard it for themselves, like everything else in this deeply rotten civilization.

Abolish Facebook

A lot of people study CS or programming because they have been told it would make them a lot of money. If you just want to make money and don’t care about anything else you’re always just going to put in the minimum effort required, so I’m not surprised people just can’t be bothered to switch.

Roads are also a tool for drunk drivers.

See how silly that sounds?

Hopefully we can get a calendar app!!

Cheers to the GOS team, doing the lord's work truly.

Capitalism will steal the very foundations of life and sell it to you to make a buck. They will siphon the life force from the earth in order to benefit themselves. I honestly try and look at things dispassionately and put it all in perspective but DAM it's hard not to be emotional when you see what these fucking stinking pigs are up to on their mountain.

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The technology itself is novel and cool. Its the complete and utter meltdown of all tech companies into brainless hype machines that is harmful, which is course, is a function of capitalist incentive and the need for the tech industry to come out with some new paradigm shifting innovation every decade. A normal, healthy society would have been able to leverage machine learning and LLM technology where its most useful, like parsing large amounts of data, or running a local instance on your computer to ask a few questions, etc. We wouldn't see LLMs in every text editor, pencilcase and pair on sneakers but these snake oil salesmen who run the US economy are absolutely desperate for a new paradigm shift so they can keep making exponentially more money.

The thing is, we don't need to build these datacenters siphoning comically evil amounts of energy from the grid and making personal compute a thing of the past. Average everyday person doesn't need cloud compute, they can run a local 4b parameter (very, very small) model on their laptop or phone if they need to ask chatgpt to make them a workout routine or to ask them who won the 1918 world series. But these fucking cretins don't care, that's not the point, they are in this because it's a golden ticket to growth city and once they cash their check they don't give one hot fuck about the human-spirit-stealing-machine they built.

TLDR: our society is broken and that's why we keep getting the shittiest, lowest-common-denominator version of everything. everything has to suck by definition because that's the only version that the system we built will allow.

Some of the dumbest people I know are 25

Seriously. Part of the reason they're even so popular is because they aren't actively pursuing profit maxxing/enshittification business practices to corner the market and consolidate market share like every other one of these blood sucking cretins. They really are one of the extremely short list of corporations that ACTUALLY win in the marketplace because their product really is just that good. Running the steam deck with Linux, contributing to the development of Wine/Proton, and telling Microsoft to kick rocks has made me a Gaben fanboy for life. If Steam was the ONLY way you could purchase PC games, I'd honestly be fine with that, as long as Valve remains a private company under the iron fist of Mister Newell.

Fair point, but I think at this point it's extremely likely Fedora will comply, and my issue with this is ideological, not practical. I will not use a distribution that complies with this law because I believe it is morally compromised.

Are you technically skilled using whatever software you are trying to help? many FOSS projects need help with their documentation.

I live in the US, and I had Lyme when I was a teenager. Simple blood test confirmed it, I was prescribed antibiotics and it cleared up nearly instantly. No one told me it didn't exist.