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Extraordinary claim. You state this like this is absolute truth. Do you have evidence of this?

As someone who likely has many different opinions from people from those of people at Y Combinator, this seems wrong.

You can't downvote submissions, regardless your karma.

Good luck with the security and the stability of a system managed like this.

>> By implied I meant "caused". I did not meant "made people speculate that it might do something theoretically"

> That's on you. Implied doesn't mean "caused".

It can mean both, actually (and usually someone insinuates something, not something, so I didn't find that this meaning of imply was a fit here).

One thing I can think of is tag names being upper case in HTML and lower case in XHTML in the DOM.

Oh no, you got me! Actually you didn't: I don't do fashion (originally not even because of its awful environmental impact), I avoid taking planes (because yes, they are an environmental concern!) and I happen to not play the video games (but wtf? The amount of servers needed to run the games is probably a rounding error).

And yes, I do try to think about my footprint when I do something. There's a lot of stuff I don't do because of this. You really made a lot of assumptions on me.

Okay, you got me, it happens that I do stuff for entertainment. I know, I should only work, eat and sleep. Because it's well known that the first gram of CO2 released in the atmosphere because of something I do for entertainment forbids me from criticizing anything.

> I have no moral superiority

Good for you. I mean, if you think it's morally superior not to engage in morality… (it doesn't magically free you from your responsibilities though).

Note: you are the one expecting moral purity here (but only from the people you see as your opponents, how convenient).

How about we acknowledge that someone buying stuff from china is not barred from criticizing the LLMs, avoid the whataboutism and keep things on topic and in good faith now?

Those of us against LLMs because we think they are a big societal / environmental concern have nothing more to say.

And no, those of us boycotting projects using LLMs don't have an immediate solution to everything under our feet, including our jobs, adopting LLMs.

What reply did you expect? That we apologize for being wrong and that we recognize that in hindsight, the AI boosters were right all along? We still don't want these polluting data centers next to our homes so they can feel more productive and play with their costly toy. Hell, even if they are useful / the productivity boost is real, actually we still don't want those shit datacenters, this wreckless scraping, the major economic crisis that the AI companies may cause through their wreckless behavior and more generally all the badness attached to LLMs.

> Who do you think are the best (most technically informed and productive)

That's quite the framing. I'd say the trajectory count way more than how productive you are to follow it in assessing someone is good.

I think the discourse of AI doomers is more specifically about AI taking control and acting against us, not really about AI posing risks in general.

I do think AI poses huge environmental and societal risks, including for reasons in the spirit of what you say. That's not being an AI doomer IMHO. That looks way more reasonable to me.

> People aren’t buying “an iOS device”, they are buying iPhone

Well, they kinda do. Apps are available on Android and iOS. They are not "available on Android, iPhone, iPad and Apple watch". iOS is actually used and recognized by the general public.

What's particularly bad about the names of Graphene, Mint and Cinnamon? Especially compared to Android and iOS!!

My thought on AI annihilating us all because of misalignment: it's a fantasy from a bunch of weird guys from the Silicon Valley that ought to go outside a bit more, spammed and relayed to everyone as is by the uncritical media.

Can we stop with this bullshit already, so we can focus on the real issues, like it requiring way too much resources or posing a huge risk on the stability of the global economy?

The parent comment highlights the double standards, they are not campaigning for pushing people to suicide. This is a strawman.

Yeah, this double standards thing is profoundly unjust.

I'm somewhat surprised about PipePipe. I had a look on the commits of the various components and nothing looks out of place to me. Commits look rather reasonable, comments look useful and don't show obvious LLMisms.

What are the AI smells there?

It would be nice to expand a bit on the reasoning behind the verdicts.

Says the corporation which bought Minecraft more than a decade ago yeah!!

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/15/microsoft... (via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft#:~:text=On%2015,prop...

> I don't get how an app like this makes a difference. Isn't an image viewer just reading from disk, using whatever image decoding library that's standard, and copying to screen?

Memory leaks could happen anywhere in the process. Allocate a surface for the bog standard decoder to draw on, forget to release the surface, boom you have a leak.

It possibly doesn't help that raw files are likely to be especially heavy.

burnoutdv should report a bug if not done already.

> I don't like the phrasing of the EUPL because it says you have rights full stop and then in a later section it says there are actually conditions. For that reason I would not immediately be sure the conditions are even enforceable.

Full right to use no conditions ≠ full right on what you can do with the code

(sorry, I mixed things up, I thought your were OP. Sorry for this)

> Yes, we have heard of MrBeast, most of us would likely recognize his face.

Yeah, so you have actually heard about him them. Your earlier comment was dishonest.

What follows in your comment is your actual argument and I happen to agree.

(FWIW I'm French; but I think his content is translated! - so no, we aren't only talking about the English speaking world to answer 999900000999.)

> (whatever that is) may be big in your bubble

Come on. It's fine not to know about something, but Mr Beast has the YouTube channel with the biggest number of subscribers, and has the third most followed TikTok account [1]. It is a worldwide phenomenon. 515 million subscribers, it's far from "your bubble".

Not my cup of tea (and also virtually absent from my bubble), but you should probably have a quick look to know what people are talking about / experiencing in this world.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Beast#:~:text=With%20more%2...

useless dashes at the middle of sentences maybe?

> My main concern is that this job is slowly making me sick. I have started to have really concerning mental health symptoms, specifically severe anxiety, due to this job. I've also had some really dark thoughts which has scared me a lot.

Leave before burning out. In the meantime, maybe take sick leaves if you can.

Consider many people don't notice they are burning out as well.

Leaving even if you don't yet have another plan could lead to a better outcome even considering that leaving your job creates financial difficulties right now because burnouts can take years to heal, some never manage to fully heal as well.

They did that to themselves, and doubly so.

They decided they needed to capture the whole open source ecosystem by turning open source work into social networking... on a proprietary platform (because open source is great, especially when it's others' software). That was before they joined Microsoft.

And then Microsoft pushed AI everywhere, including on GitHub itself with copilot.

I would have liked if they had left the open source projects alone and didn't create that FOMO for not using them.

I have no sympathy.

KDE Itinerary, a mobile and desktop application, is becoming better and better for this. It's based on MOTIS / Transitous.

I just discovered cartes.app can do this too!

Good point!

They are not against "progress" in a vacuum.

> I don’t get why ai labs and staff didn’t move to Bluesky or something more open.

Why would they, specifically? There's nothing particularly open about them.

The title is accurate: it's "I think". There's no convincing argument or study about whether the backlash is about big tech, data centers or AI or not. Maybe I'm a bit tired but I didn't find any objective information in this post on the matter.

If we are sharing just opinions, I'll say that it's definitely a mix of things. And the anti AI sentiment (in part because of the environmental impacts) is very real.

The rapid growth of AI possibly also raised anti tech growth sentiment more generally: in a way, we are realizing that tech doesn't live in clouds but is very much tangible, and its externalities too. Tech has never been this concrete in a way. And in parallel people are more and more aware that big tech doesn't straigtforwardly design its software to serve the end user, so yes, there's also a negative sentiment because of this too.

These two things that are quite distinct. Whether something is protected by copyright, it should not be counterfeiting regardless.

I think you got me wrong.

I think the GPL doesn't impose much on how one should be redistributing the source code.

I'm not sure I would like it to me more restrictive, and I completely agree with your reading (starting from "The entire point of the GPL...").

> If that's not your position, then I'm not at all sure why you're bringing this up.

My initial reply to you was me mostly agreeing with you: distributing via Google Drive is probably not a violation of the letter of the GPL. Making it a pain to get the source code is an obvious violation of its spirit though (your "don't be a fuckin asshole" point).

>> my phrasing ... is somewhat wrong

> It's completely wrong.

Well, what concrete restriction you see in the GPL about how to redistribute the source code, apart from "you must make it available in a reasonable way (and tell people they can get it, the GPLv3 is more explicit about this but Android doesn't have GPLv3 code AFAIK)?"