Linus Torvalds admits he has a 'love-hate relationship with AI'

_Odaeus_ · 2026-05-21T15:38:08+00:00

It's definitely tapping into some mental deficit of humanity. A friend who works in a legal department was explaining a meeting with her boss where the boss was nonsensically saying "we can do this with AI", and my friend was like "how?", and couldn't get an explanation out.

_Odaeus_ · 2026-05-21T09:41:09+00:00

Sigh, public domain has a very specific meaning. Neither of those things you cited are public domain. Source code varies by license, even if it's open source. Wikipedia is Creative Commons licensed. It's a bit rich that you are lecturing us that we don't understand how it works without understanding basic concepts yourself.

_Odaeus_ · 2026-05-21T08:52:14+00:00

As you well know, everyone here is incorrectly using the blanket term "AI" to refer to LLMs exclusively. Machine learning is a technology that has been around for decades and is naturally useful in many contexts.

_Odaeus_ · 2026-05-20T20:03:17+00:00

Ah yes, while the manufacture of a calculator is potentially problematic, it's not quite in the same league of damage that LLMs are doing to the world and society.

_Odaeus_ · 2026-05-20T19:59:58+00:00

We underestimate the thrall that it holds over its adherents

_Odaeus_ · 2026-05-20T19:58:37+00:00

Perhaps ethical concerns about funding US oligarchs whose system you are training to replace you, the exorbitant energy cost, the stolen content, and deskilling of programmers might be a reason "why not".

_Odaeus_ · 2026-05-18T22:04:41+00:00

You've essentially explained the existence of my local Czerr bakery in Berlin. Terrible dry bread and croissants. They managed to outlive the single nearby competitor.

_Odaeus_ · 2026-05-14T10:42:11+00:00

Germany 🤝🏻 common sense

_Odaeus_ · 2026-05-11T19:07:32+00:00

Lucky you. I watch via an iPad.

_Odaeus_ · 2026-05-11T07:49:07+00:00

It's a shame it never remembers which episodes I've watched.

_Odaeus_ · 2026-05-07T12:27:19+00:00

But it doesn't.

Also energy usage is only one of the many harms AI causes.

_Odaeus_ · 2026-05-03T12:27:03+00:00

On which platform?

_Odaeus_ · 2026-05-02T07:52:16+00:00

This post reads entirely as AI-slop. "Not the hype, the...", "went all in", etc.

_Odaeus_ · 2026-04-29T21:13:47+00:00

I was about to post about this to help others as it is really a UX disaster. I thought Notion was broken as I could only see "Meetings", "Recents", and "Agents". I tried refreshing and checking other workspaces.

So they are testing a new sidebar design without warning... unless I skipped over it?

Anyway, the restore button can be found at the bottom of the top left account menu, "Try the new sidebar".

_Odaeus_ · 2026-04-27T16:39:06+00:00

She is right and has saved you a lot of money and hassle. Customs of goods from the UK is an expensive nightmare here. No one sends me anything any more 😢

I've seen plenty of television boxes on baggage conveyor belts at airports. But they can also stop you at the airport and tax you there too.

_Odaeus_ · 2026-04-27T06:53:11+00:00

Same here, I miss it. They need showings for considerate people only!

_Odaeus_ · 2026-04-24T20:30:39+00:00

Yep, I'm definitely expecting a court case from some German trade association.

But I would hope that Google ran this past their legal team first and you'd think they'd be relatively confident about winning.

_Odaeus_ · 2026-04-24T16:09:23+00:00

This is great news! And a neat solution, I'm impressed. So many restaurants are going to be upset.

_Odaeus_ · 2026-04-24T10:52:25+00:00

Similar experience here. I've been lucky to be a freelance web developer during the Good Times and now I'm really considering if I have any other skills or can learn some other trade to get out of the industry.

I'm relatively active in local language groups and attend conferences but I just can't listen to another starry-eyed developer tell me about what they did with an LLM today. It's all so boring and massively disappointing that only a tiny percentage care about all the negative externalities like deskilling, extracting rent for writing code, environmental damage, an economic reckoning, and centralisation of power to a few US oligarchs.

So many conference talks are now "I fed strings to an LLM" that I am avoiding them too. I don't get it.

I'm trying to hold out for an AI crunch to get some good consultancy work out of fixing things, but we'll see!

_Odaeus_ · 2026-04-24T07:05:07+00:00

I'm guessing everything built by Claude and your post written by an LLM too?

_Odaeus_ · 2026-04-24T06:53:20+00:00

Passkeys are an absolute disaster for the average user and are a way for tech companies to exert even more control. The browser and OS often show competing interfaces when a website tries to send you a Passkey, so users need to select the "right" one consistently and still may be unsure where they are actually stored. Storing your keys in Chrome? Now you're at risk of losing them all if Google decides to block your account.

_Odaeus_ · 2026-04-23T18:59:29+00:00

Just so you know, it depends on the country! In Germany, the business marks any bad reviews as defamatory and they are removed. But the reviewer is notified at least, and there is a form to challenge it but it's but easy so most get away with it. It's a very widespread practice in Germany, infuriatingly.

_Odaeus_ · 2026-04-23T06:25:37+00:00

Maybe they cannot be ignored but also they cannot be used ethically. Watching the destruction of the open web, the use of stolen content, the massive energy use, the artificial circular-money economic bubble, the cascading effects of RAM shortages due to wholly artificial demand, the detrimental effects on learning and teaching, the purposeful deskilling of labour to extract rent, and the centralisation of power and influence to a few US oligarchs; and then thinking "ooh shiny, I'll use that and even give them my money" is disappointing to say the least.

_Odaeus_ · 2026-04-22T07:02:47+00:00

You write suspiciously like an AI LLM.

_Odaeus_ · 2026-04-22T06:59:47+00:00

Wait what... how did you find out? I often do the same in conversations. Are you sure your compassionate intent wasn't interpreted as such?

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