Linus Torvalds confirmed LLM use for new code is fine: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/linus-torvalds-to-critics-of-ai-coding-in-linux-fork-it-or-just-walk-away/ So I doubt it's just human work.
If anything Linux is also taking the bottle, it seems like: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/08/10/linus-torvalds-says-ai-has-made-huge-linux-kernel-updates-the-new-normal/5285268 Completely self-inflicted, though, from what I can tell. Apparently they just enjoyed having a copyright time bomb as part of the code, or something - or I don't know why else they'd do it.
Seems like an AI apologists article. Sounds a bit like "bans are hard so why even bother."
No, the alternatives exist and people can choose them where able: https://codeberg.org/brib/slopfree-software-index Sure, not all things are available AI free, e.g. there's no Linux kernel (NetBSD doesn't run on as much hardware), but that doesn't mean there's no point in choosing no AI software where possible, if you care about it.
The enforceability part seems the most apologist to me. You never could really know if some contributor wasn't copying leaked Windows XP code into your FOSS project. If you trust contributors that little, don't let them contribute.
Well, that's sad. Who knows what potential unattributed plagiarism landmines are part of it then...
Bug report asking them to undo it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2046154
A curious response on the lemmy bug tracker... https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-docs/issues/413
Disclaimer: please don't go and harrass anybody, if you happen to reach out to anybody in any way please be calm and constructive.
That makes sense, since Gitlab seems to be trying to challenge Atlassian. In who manages to make worse software...
We need the equivalent investment now. If average code is cheap, then the scarce resource is no longer the ability to produce it. The scarce resource is the ability to read it, to navigate it
You know what would help a lot with understanding the code one is working on? Writing it yourself without turning your brain off via AI.
But that's an insight the article somehow seems to be missing.
(Sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong community!)
A Raspberry Pi 5 I use (not the one in the photo) fell off the table, and the black square component pointed at by the arrow was straight knocked off the board. Yeah, if you needed a reason why you should always use a case, this is one, ooops lol...
It looks like it came off cleanly, leaving two square metal pads below. I still have the component, the small black box. This happened while the Raspberry Pi was running, and the power LED went from green to red in an instant. Afterward, booting was no longer possible. So, my questions:
If this happened while it was running, is it likely that this fried something else and it's not worth getting fixed? Or is this likely fixable?
If I want to get this fixed, how do you guys find a good local repair shop? I heard some apparently do sloppy soldering jobs, and given the RAM prices I would like not to have this Raspberry Pi unnecessarily damaged further if it's salvageable. I live in Freiburg im Breisgau in Germany, if anybody knows good local places.
Not like the AfD is about to become the most popular party, it's really very unlike ~1933 for sure, for sure. (/s)
Perhaps it's just me, but to me this article feels like belittling the problem by not differentiating between "hated" products and "harmful" products.
If a company makes you work on something that is hated, it's fair and good to have sympathy. If a company makes you work on something that is harmful or unethical, like many perceive Co-Pilot to be, then an article about getting user hate that doesn't talk at all about ethics feels a little tonedeaf.
I don't know, perhaps that's just me. I certainly don't envy the writer for being employed to work on it.
Sadly, it seems to be fairly common to have at least some AI slop code now. E.g. lemmy itself appears to be planning to do so too.
It's like having slop would get you some prize.
I think most people would argue 1-3% of datacenter use is still a significant global pollution factor that is a problem.
THe kernel seems to be full steam ahead slop: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/linus-torvalds-to-critics-of-ai-coding-in-linux-fork-it-or-just-walk-away/ (Apart from the kernel subsystems were LLM use was banned, I think I heard something like that about something graphics related but I might be misremembering.)