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I think it’ll get harder and harder to find ‘pure’ distros. For a while you can maybe rely on something similar to Gnu linux-libre kernel that removes proprietary blobs, or BSD, or Gnu Herd kernels etc, but linux-libre is already a pain if you need certain hw drivers, and eventually an anti-ai kernel will become crippled even worse, and it will become too hard to keep track of what kernels/parts of kernels is AI assisted code or not.

In the future, more and more new features will be from ai assisted code, and pretty soon, the anti-ai kernel will lose out to ai-assisted kernels in features, speed and soon stability (bug-finding etc).

The same goes for the rest of the distros that tries to avoid ai-assisted tools and code, and you/others will imho get completely swamped by this transformation. In fact, you will most certainly need an agent to keep constant track of this development.

I’m okay with AI, but I kind of feel for those trying to avoid it. Its hard enough just to avoid proprietary crap, and to me, avoiding ai-assists, is an even bigger mountain to climb. I do wish you all best of luck on that journey.

Ps. There ARE fully open models trained on fully libre with open libre data-sets, and for you - ethical data oriented - you could/should? probably accept that ‘non-pure’ situation, and use such an open llm to either maintain an ethical distro, or keep unethical ai-assist as low as you can get away with, for as long as you can.

Wondered about the ‘childish’ choice of underpants:

“Citizen scientists enable large-scale research. The “Proof by Underpants” project demonstrates the potential of citizen science for research. Without the help of the many volunteers, a study of this scale across 1,000 sites would not have been possible. […] The exceptionally high level of participation is also reflected in the authorship: Around 240 citizen scientists are listed as co-authors of the publication.”

“The project was launched under the title “Proof by underpants,” and the extent of decomposition was termed the “Underpants Index” (UI).”

I guess the ‘exceptional participation’ was a small psychological study in it self. Seemed to work beautifully at least…

study

I would’ve said it was long gone settled that any memory gets ‘contaminated’ by the local intrinsic/extrinsic environment we are in. In other words; we always tweak all memories every time we ‘read’ them.

To my knowledge there is no ‘static’ memory anywhere in our dynamic brain, and that knowledge have just been updated.

We need some ‘nastyness’ from nature unless we want to become sick otherwise… ‘clean’ isn’t always a good thing unless we have open wounds, or the contaminant is particularly aggressive. Our whole body has evolved in raw nature, so we need a balance where we avoid the most dangerous, and allow everything else - to some extent.

“However, they cautioned that the results were based on a single trial day at each site and that some participants reported swimming elsewhere during the study period.”

So… bullocks with standard ‘the guardian’ fear-mongering, sensationalism, and lacking journalism ?

“stillOS takes the GNOME desktop and configures it like Windows out of the box.”

Seem to be the only thing that makes it ‘special’ ? Not sure that is unique really, but if it makes some users happy…

“MLB only checks your location at the moment a stream starts.”

This is/was what Pandora.com did, and the solution was to run a small proxy that directed the exact login url through Tor with a Merican endpoint while stream was normal, but you can just select an EU/UK endpoint instead.

I used a Tor proxy - privoxy, I think - from the openwrt package repo, but others exist, and for other platforms…

‘$1 HTML’

Why tf do US/western kids always think its okay to monetise everything they touch !? Just make something that are free because it doesn’t cost you anything, because it was fun, or because you want to share with others, ffs ! This is the same annoying ideological mindset as new game-programming kids that have setup ad-servings in their games before they have a gameplay, assets or any other working code.

You managed to enshittify your entire ‘fun’ project before it was even released. I think that is a horrible, childish, capitalist mindset/project, and I don’t think sharing/open-source people would want to support your selfish for-profit kid-project - ‘fun’ or not…

One of the main reasons for the US tech lead the last decades, is that they could attract skilled scientists from around the world.

They already lost that ability, so please, US Epstein class: bar as many countries as you want ! Don’t hold back ! Go ALL the way !!

(Science will do great without you)

…hm, knee jerked a little, but you are right, it is a slow and difficult route. Perhaps sometimes also the most thorough, surprising, or rewarding way ? not sure tbh…