The biggest worry I see is laws appearing all over the world that demand ID verification, surveillance features or encryption backdoors that Linux developers and distributors aren't in a position to comply with. If it becomes a legal liability to oversee or contribute to a Linux distro, only those with the deepest pockets to pay lawyers will dare do so, and there will be intense pressure to corporatize its distribution. They won't be able to undo open-source licenses for existing code, but if using or distributing that code still gets you sued it could be a problem for all independent actors.

I think most of those issues were overblown. I don’t really want to argue them here, but I do not lose sleep over those issues, as the headlines on them were sensationalized.

I am worried about legal/compliance complications, especially as Linux gets more mainstream and the world leans more “tech bro authoritarian.” Linux is definitely on a path of colliding with corporate interests, which is a dangerous place to be.

I just worry about the future in general

Linux is fine.

If you wanna avoid LLM's all up in your kernel then leave, Linus has put his foot down on this months back and the kernel is knee deep in llm's, and powering much of the ecosystem.

If operating systems need verification the linux ecosystem seems well placed to avoid this with LFS, Gentoo, Toybox and many more being kits to build your own.

If Linux does get drowned in twats and turns into some kinda IBM powered Steam machine then the BSD's are waiting.

There's bigger things to worry about atm, so no, not really.

Kinda, but not really. It is possible that eventually the slop will take over many great distros and projects, but the anti- or even sane-AI folk will just do their own new projects.

Age limits don't seem like a reall risk with open-source projects, but I have already decided that I will not partake if it goes to that.. I won't post my ID to be able to see memes, I'll just let go. I got my offline games, old consoles, DVDs, books, board games etc.

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not anymore, i have begun reading the openbsd man pages. a schizophrenic man told me to do it fifteen years ago, which puts it at right about the correct time for me to listen to him

Linus Torvalds arguing he should be able to let LLMs contribute to the Linux kernal has me worried. I left Microslop because of their slop machines, if Linus wants them that badly I'll have to leave linux too

Pull requests welcome

Nope