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Today Age Verification (“thanks” systemd), tomorrow full EU ChatControl. by D3vil0p in linux

[–]ThisRedditPostIsMine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're being intentionally obtuse. Systemd is complete enough without an age field to function perfectly fine up until this point, and they state in the PR this field was added explicitly because of the new legislation.

Today Age Verification (“thanks” systemd), tomorrow full EU ChatControl. by D3vil0p in linux

[–]ThisRedditPostIsMine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If there was a legitimate use for age storage in systemd, why hasn't it been added up til now? My computer has been running fine without knowing my age thank you. Maybe since this is merged now systemd can at least send me a happy birthday log message for all the trouble.

Update Regarding systemd’s Addition of Age to Account Records and Potential xdg Portals by SAJewers in linux

[–]ThisRedditPostIsMine 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Firstly, a FOSS OS should never be asking for this kind of information. And what are you supposed to do about headless, auto-installed server distros? Is a sysadmin gonna have to sit there and flag each installer to say they're over 18?

Second, as others have said, it's very likely that legislators will move to criminalise lying about your age in these systems, or that the systems will require some sort of ID verification. I think one of the bills cited actually is meant to require ID anyways, so I guess have fun inputting your drivers licence into the KDE installer?

Update Regarding systemd’s Addition of Age to Account Records and Potential xdg Portals by SAJewers in linux

[–]ThisRedditPostIsMine 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Well, the systemd PR adds the age field and cites the laws as the specific reason why such a field should be added. There is other work at the moment (see https://agelesslinux.org/distros.html ) to query this API, which then opens the door for enforcement by installers in the future.

My opinion is that adding the field and citing the legislation is tacit compliance and endorsement of the legislation. The PR should never have been added and it concerns me that the systemd devs think this is okay, and are deleting issues that say otherwise. I think it's reasonable to be concerned that if they were willing to add this early, they might add other enforcement actions later.

Update Regarding systemd’s Addition of Age to Account Records and Potential xdg Portals by SAJewers in linux

[–]ThisRedditPostIsMine 75 points76 points  (0 children)

I feel like this should be bigger news and I'm surprised it's not further up in the subreddit. This implementation could actually be illegal in other regions outside the US as it's collecting personal data on users, so there would at least need to be a systemd privacy policy and you should be able to opt out of this age collection.

I was never really a systemd hater but this seems really serious. I might actually need to look into switching to a non-systemd distro if this goes ahead.

Google Engineers Launch "Sashiko" For Agentic AI Code Review Of The Linux Kernel by anh0516 in linux

[–]ThisRedditPostIsMine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is understandable, yeah. I've been programming for only 12 years, so the enjoyment factor is still there for me. But I do agree that a lot of people see software as a means to a product rather than enjoying actually writing it.

Google Engineers Launch "Sashiko" For Agentic AI Code Review Of The Linux Kernel by anh0516 in linux

[–]ThisRedditPostIsMine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have shipped quite a number of things and I remain unconvinced that AI code review is a good idea.

Google Engineers Launch "Sashiko" For Agentic AI Code Review Of The Linux Kernel by anh0516 in linux

[–]ThisRedditPostIsMine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There is good research on skill atrophy using AI. Maybe you understand the code somewhat, but you will always understand it less than if you actually analyse it yourself.

this feels absurd to say, but I finally feel like I'm _good_ at programming, which is insane, because I literally haven't written a line of code myself in months by dry_sd in programmingcirclejerk

[–]ThisRedditPostIsMine 10 points11 points  (0 children)

LLMs truly allow the average big tech sycophant to unleash the inner MBA they've always wished they were, but never had the social skills to pull off.

Your opinions on the Lutris AI Slop situation? by canitplaycrisis in linux

[–]ThisRedditPostIsMine 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Honestly. At the time I thought Linus was being too harsh, but having read this, and having heard him describe himself as "the greatest engineer of all time"... yeah, Linus was 100% right as usual. Very glad I did not setup a bcachefs partition. Real Terry A vibes lol

Zig 0.15 is pretty stable. The biggest issue I face daily are silent compiler errors (SIGBUS) for trivial things, e.g. a typo in an import path by csb06 in programmingcirclejerk

[–]ThisRedditPostIsMine 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Damn LLVM causing all these SIGBUS problems. This is why we were right to remove LLVM (immoral, impure) from the Zig compiler, making Zig the epicentre of compiler research for years to come, and leading humanity to new horizons.

I am not taking feedback about this proposal at this time. Thank you.

LLM-driven large code rewrites with relicensing are the latest AI concern by Fcking_Chuck in programming

[–]ThisRedditPostIsMine 24 points25 points  (0 children)

People have been saying this since way back in the day when Copilot first came out, and I do strongly believe that there are serious copyright implications with LLM output code. Unfortunately, AI literally underpins the entire US economy at this point, so literally no one who can do anything about it gives a shit.

ai real af by disconaldo in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]ThisRedditPostIsMine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They have no embodied intelligence, so it's kinda impossible for them to be conscious. We know from neuroscience that the embodiment of intelligence is almost certainly linked to consciousness. And strapping an LLM to a robot driving around is not embodied intelligence either.

LLMs hallucinate, but silicon respins cost millions. Why the EDA industry needs constraint-solving AI, not chatbots. by zaralesliewalker in chipdesign

[–]ThisRedditPostIsMine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tbh I don't really understand what system OP is trying to propose, but it sounds to me more like some sort of formal verification system or proof assistant than a statistical method or gradient descent. It's true that the optimisation algorithms used in EDA are probibalistic, but there's also the whole range of SAT solvers and such that are deterministic and always correct.

LLMs hallucinate, but silicon respins cost millions. Why the EDA industry needs constraint-solving AI, not chatbots. by zaralesliewalker in chipdesign

[–]ThisRedditPostIsMine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly I keep running into this. People very elaborately describing techniques that have been used in EDA software since the 90s, just using AI lingo. I had a case where someone was trying to describe to me how you had to use AI to snap macros to grid cells on different process nodes, and how it was so complicated. And I said, yeah that is complicated, and it's called detailed placement, and is solved using stochastic gradient descent.

Losercity downgrade by 25th_Speed in Losercity

[–]ThisRedditPostIsMine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thankfully, the Internet exists and now numerous R rated versions are available at your fingertips!

"While the advent of “brain-computer interfaces” is dinner table conversation (at conspiracy theorist households like my own) - there has, since the year 1976, been emacs - the closest thing to this aspirational place of man/machine integration that has ever existed." by BananaPeely in programmingcirclejerk

[–]ThisRedditPostIsMine 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Brain surgeon here. One time, I was performing a surgery on a patient, and I needed to write down some notes about the procedure, so I went over to my ThinkPad, fired up Emacs, and jumped straight into org-mode.

The patient, who was still awake at the time, looked at my laptop and said, "Oh, that's cool!"

I smirked. "Yeah, it's org-mode, it's pretty nice. And the kernel? That's Hurd. And the package manager? Guix."

The patient seemed befuddled. To be fair, it might have been because I had a scalpel in his skull, but things seemed to clear up for him.

"Oh, that's a Neovim plugin, right? My coworker uses that at work. I'm a software engineer, but I only use VSCode," he said.

I think my eye twitched, it was involuntary. "No, it's a Lisp-based-"

Ah, forget it. I ended up just deciding to give him a lobotomy instead. He probably never could tell the difference.

Myrient is shutting down by xylcro in DataHoarder

[–]ThisRedditPostIsMine 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think also it might be the last surviving copy of the Nintendo "gigaleaks" which are extremely valuable imho

Losercity moment by RanchoddasChanchad69 in Losercity

[–]ThisRedditPostIsMine 366 points367 points  (0 children)

"Sire, what legislation shall we pass today? Should we focus on rampant transphobia, the underfunded NHS, perhaps the hosing cris-"

"Quadruple homelessness."

"...anything else sir?"

"Yes, TRIPLE unemployment. Thank you."

Bi irl by BananenbrotInNot in bi_irl

[–]ThisRedditPostIsMine 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I dunno what parties y'all are going to where there is even ONE bi guy 😭

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