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[Microblog] RE: circumstances (cosocial.ca)
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RE: circumstances.run/@davidgerardI'd like to tell you a story about a contributor who came to us at Mozilla, in my first 2-3 years working there. I never met them, don't know their name, and I still think about them a few times a year. They came to us with questions, as they were struggling to build Firefox on their computer, and they were getting errors that nobody had ever seen. And I don't mean "errors that were unfamiliar to our engineers", I mean "we can't figure out how or why our build system would emit that string."

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[–] [S] 1 point 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

In conclusion, saying that open source participation requires monthly fees to private companies that run stochastic code generators means you’ve forgotten why anyone is doing this at all. Fuck this whole idea and fuck Linus in particular for pushing it.

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

    ‌‌‌‌‌@mhoye wait a tool is a tool.If I pay to run local model that find exploits, can be a good thing. And if the kernel team trains and runs its own statistic correlation to throw the worst shit to the kernel to find vulerabilities, this can be good. The starting point could be every vulnerability found until now.Different thing is getting done a module vibecoding it or auditing it trough outsource delivered context windows.Evreybody is probing OSystems to find breaches, to jump out VM and containers, even chroot, to hack openssl, to shape encrypted streams, deanonymize etc...Not what but how. It's just a tool‌

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 hours ago (2 children)

    @rskrg that’s like saying a blood diamond is just a rock. Where things come from and what it costs to make them, externalities and all, that matters.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 child)

    ‌@mhoye analogies are always wrong.Diamonds are not made. If I find one it makes no effort.Rare materials in processor capable of matrix calculations, envirorment for LLMs, are fewer than rare materials in most diffused devices.Moral accusation to inference are silly.Despite marketing made them appear as something they are not, fuelling fears or investments depending which point of view both are sons of insufficent knolowdge of the matter, to be polite

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 7 hours ago

    @rskrg I mean, you clearly have no curiosity about this at all but if it helps you to understand the analogy, here's the wikipedia article about child labor in the diamond industry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_la

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

    Getting back to this thread - I've edited some posts upstream to make my point a little more clear - but two things. One, the idea that contributing to free and open software should require so much as contact with, much less a subscription service to, a wildly unprofitable, unethical and proprietary software service is a noxious, irresponsible and nonsensical position. But two: god, kid wherever you are I hope you're doing amazingly well. I hope you made it. You deserved at least that.

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