TBH, tech companies showing AI down our throats is still no good, open-source alternative existing or not.
DRM wasn’t good either, tech companies are just really creative at making their products worse.
People are allowed to want what they’re comfortable with to not be riddled with llms
It’s all fun and games until ai is mad at you
On the subject of Foss and AI - one of the G summer of code projects is about integrating an AI voice platform into Neochat and I’m somewhere between bemused and amused by the lack of reaction from de KDE/Plasma community
I would be happy if more and normal people were actually mad at ai.
I would be happy with more nuanced takes on AI.
Instead of just “All AI is worse than the devil and is killing babies” or “All AI is the pinnacle of humanity and is the next step in our evolution”.
LLMs have a place, but it is not in every product imaginable.
When someone can produce an LLM that doesn’t use more power than entire small nations to spew out bullshit, then we can start inviting nuance. Unfortunately, we have to be pragmatic here; and the consequences of lots of GenAI are way worse than returning to no GenAI.
Obviously, this doesn’t include pattern recognition or protein folding AI.
That also misses the point. If we want to pull the world out of poverty and into prosperity we’re going to need an astonishing amount of power. The only key is to make power that is sustainable so that things requiring a lot of power aren’t given a second thought. The thing you’re mad at are massive corporations putting the cart waaaaaay before the horse. And yes, please be mad at them for that.
Fingers crossed it’ll end up like crypto. Here to stay in the world of finance, no longer in every product that never needed it.
Normal people are losing themselves in AI. I’ve seen multiple instances of people using LLM to fact check someone. Endless “uhh, but I asked ChatGPT and it said blablabla” making me lose faith in humanity.
I don’t keep the kind of company that goes “well chatGPT says” if I’m being honest. Though I imagine that’s more of a “yet” statement.
Honestly its not much different from a google search and reading some nonsense written by someone who has no authority in the subject. As long as it reinforces their belief itll be true in their eyes
My dude, you can be mad at AI and use a FOSS alternative - best of both worlds
Unpopular opinion, but it’s also fine to hate having AI being added to a tried and true industry standard. FOSS is great, and I use many FOSS programs, but it’s often a decade behind in features, compatibility, & stability.
Example I always give is GiMP. Great team, great software, but also 10 years behind photoshop. Great for hobbyists and slightly above but professionals simply can’t use it as a daily driver.
Yea, not everything is a binary choice.
Yeah, but some things are. It’s like, things are either a binary choice or they’re not. Whoa 🤯
What people really want is to not have to change anything - neither about their lives, nor about themselves.
They want to live in a perpetual 2005 where Windows is forever usable and still just an operating system. Where they feel happy and comfortable in their environment and their skills and abilities.
And I get that, because I feel it too.
But sometimes you have to change yourself, in order to change your world.
I mean if you’re dead set on it you can get a lot of modern things running on windows xp, chromium browsers, dx10/11 games, discord, etc. it’s a nightmare and you’ll have a ton of headaches (especially with the dx10/11 stuff, apparently, I’ve never tried any of this) but it’s possible
At that point people should just use mint lol
Anything to avoid using linux, eh?
Feel free to use a 20 year old distro that never updated.
I mean to be clear I don’t do it. The only computer I run xp on is an old tektronik mainframe that only has lan access and needs proprietary software to work that only runs on xp
I don’t really count that though since i literally only use it for the one app that allows the logic analyzer and oscilloscope cards to work
There are also hacked/modified XP builds floating around based off the source code leaks that backport some of the modern Windows OS features.
Still not an “easy” experience though.
When it comes to computing, technically everything is a binary choice.
except for encryption
u might even say its a nonbinary choice laugh track
Please use different formatting for emphasis and non-speech. I recommend escaping the asterisks with backslashes for the latter.
whata wrong with asterisks? they made the text italic as i wanted it to be
The way you wrote it, there is no formatting distinction between emphasis (nonbinary) and stage directions (laugh track). I suggest you use something else for one of these, preferably the latter:
u might even say its a nonbinary choice *laugh track*
u might even say its a nonbinary choice [laugh track]
Except for… context? I’m constantly annoyed by grammar/spelling online and even I say you’re going too far.
I wanted to disagree with you. But I also wanted a sandwich.
Have you met end users before?
Too many times.
Or you can use AI and FOSS - optimization of both worlds!
I don’t want hallucinations and lies in my open source
It wouldn’t be used to fact check you know.
I rather like AI to fold my proteins.
I’m chill with the amount of ai duckduckgo has, because its not in your face and it can be easily disabled.
Yeah but duckduckgo has loads of adds now, too
at least its not more than Google
last I checked you can disable that? or has that changed?
Why are the robots making art? Why are the humans packing the boxes?…
Because hardware is more difficult to develop than software.
Exactly, we should focus on the highest paid jobs first! Automate the bankers and executives!
Because development of mechanical devices does not hype investors nearly as much
in a society that values the worker an invention that relieves work would be lauded.
capitalist society doesn’t value the worker, it values the product.
as fas as capitalism is concerned people are just inefficient machines with annoying things like “rights” and “feelings”
MO: Make high cost human low cost human
Next version of npp should reference this comic.
Wait who doesn’t already use Notepad++? It’s even part of the standard install image at my job, and we have MS365 accounts already
Son, I was using Emacs before Notepad++ even existed.
Tap for spoiler
Oh shit, I looked it up and it’s literally true. Notepad++ was first released in 2003 and I’m pretty sure I used Emacs for the first time in 2002.
Real talk. I’m beyond an amateur, mainly doing super simple scripts for low power sbc’s to output an I or 0, and even during my ~1hour learning process every video uses np++.
Some FOSS software has been adding gen-AI to itself recently, particularly where it requires you to get an API key from Gemini, OpenAI or Claude.
You can do VSCode, which is FOSS, contains integrated AI, and you can even complain about Micro$oft at the same time as a bonus!
VSCodium
Kate
Microsoft is attacking the forks
Still got the AI, but at least no Microsoft telemetry.
VSCode isn’t foss (like Chrome)
In fact to add to this, VSCode downloaded binary from microsoft is not at all FOSS. I use VSCodium which doesn’t push AI
Some of the plugins are not foss
I like Kate better. It is also a lot faster to open.
I was going to suggest Zed but it has Ai as well now
They don’t shove it in your face though, they just offer a possibility of integrating AI through external services.
A button for AI in Notepad as seen in the image doesn’t seem like shoving in your face either
Modern computing is a steaming pile of other horse’s horseshit in my living room
Not if you use linux. I’m happier than ever about my computing.
What if the open source software is forcing people to see AI?
Fork!
Fork people who come up with it right in the hand.
Comment it out
Bold of you to assume it hasn’t been bought, sued or destroyed by MS, Amazon, Google or Meta by that time.
That’s the neat thing about open source: you can change it!
It’s like the difference between renting and owning. When you rent, you can’t really do much. If you own, if you don’t like the wall color, paint it! Or tear it down, or DON’T replace the carpets! Or take a hammer and put holes in the wall to see what’s inside.
And, because it’s digital, you can make a million copies or delete them! It’s like a holodeck! You do what you want. It serves you!
