Let’s hope they never dare to try.

so we’re hoping for incompetence of fascists to save us? :(

Not sure what you mean - I don’t see anyone daring to invade China in the present or foreseeable future.

Are you saying you could free us? I feel like you need what you have to defend your southern border :/

Nee hoor, dat is het echt niet. Er zijn er natuurlijk normale mensen ook in Nederland, en klootzakken in Duitsland. Maar in NL zijn gewoon die, die zeggen “dat is alleen maar de Nederlandse directheid” ook steeds de stommste en/of grofste lullen.

Honestly the “we’re not rude, that’s just the Dutch way” was used as an excuse to be obnoxious more often than not for the 4 years I lived there.

So I hope you didn’t mean that kind of “being direct”.

And no, I don’t get offended easily, I got pissed on behalf of other people who were the subject of Dutch rudeness.

Then again, my fellow Germans have a bunch of flaws on their own.

Be nice to people!

To me that just evolved into a hyperfixation over the weekend and I worked 20+ hours, now I am sleep deprived and half delirious, but the job is done and I am proud ;)

Thank the corrupt and elitist fucks of CxU and SPD for a couple of decades of cutting access to education and ignoring the problems of those under their rule. And fuck you, Frotze, in particular!

West German Nazis are mostly closeted in CDU and FDP, cosplaying democrats.

Nope. And there’s no major anti-Nazi military power left in the world to put us back on track this time :( vomits

I am not a corporation, and I don’t hate copyleft in general, just redundant and abundant legalese like in this one.

What a shitty choice of a license. Typical EU legal garbage full of duplications and “lawyers” thinking “more is better”.

Also:

The provisions of this Licence can be accepted by clicking on an icon ‘I agree’ placed under the bottom of a window displaying the text of this Licence or by affirming consent in any other similar way, in accordance with the rules of applicable law. Clicking on that icon indicates your clear and irrevocable acceptance of this Licence and all of its terms and conditions.

Lol, these morons. Of course the EU pencil pushers would hyperfixate on “clicking a button”.

/a European

Fully agreed

Just to name the takes that made me dislike today’s Linus:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-%3Dwi4zC%2BZe8e%2Bp3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/

Quote:

It seems like [1] expresses a very anti-LLM position in general

Yes.

And no, that’s not the position of the Linux kernel.

I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I’m willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.

Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.

Or just walk away.

AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it’s clearly a useful one.

It may not have been that “clearly” even just a year ago, but it’s no longer in question today.

There’s a lot to unpack here, and it’s even worse than the shortened quote I had in mind when I wrote the above.

1. When he clearly had the good example of referring to LLMs in plain sight, he chose to refer to the slop machines as “AI” - especially in a context where it serves as a straw man. Most people opposed to LLMs do not have a problem with proper AI research, it’s just the statistical word prediction snake oil that we despise.
2. Using a straw man as someone who clearly has (at least for now) the intellectual capacity to understand that he is doing so is a really dirty way to argue.
3. For a project like the linux kernel, which has really become larger than just Linus, he threatens to override all opinions he doesn’t like on the topic (this is not the first time he’s done that). As we can see from the disappointing outcome of the debian vote on LLM contributions, this was a completely pointless hill to die on.
4. “Or just walk away” is children level of bickering
5. Again with the misnomer AI, to claim “[LLMs are] clearly a useful [tool]”, and to claim this “is no longer in question today” is a statement so dumb I have trouble believing he wrote that. I’ll give him that in some aspects LLMs can be useful, but the net effect on society (and that’s the larger picture he’s completely ignoring) may very well still be a net negative. This planet - even humanity - doesn’t need digital infrastructure to thrive. And 99% of the “usefulness” of LLMs is in maintaining or upgrading digital infrastructure and processing data. Something completely irrelevant to a thriving ecosystem. He’s clearly locked into “tech bro think” where it doesn’t even occur to him to consider impacts on the environment and weigh them against the perceived usefulness of LLMs. Not to mention that you do not know whether an LLM will be useful in a particular case until after you have solved the case - at which point you may say “oh great, it helped me” or “oh shit, the LLM wasted a lot of my time on this”. And if you can’t tell in advance whether for a particular scenario a given tool will be useful or not, then using it will also waste people’s time and it’s absolutely fair to expect that people - even when isolating their views to the tech sector - weigh the perceived usefulness against the time wasted and evaluate whether there’s actually a net positive.

I am pretty sure - also from personal experience - that the next benefit of using LLMs for software development only marginally outweighs the downsides (wasted developer & computing time, wasted resources). And taking the social, political and environmental impacts into account, the currently hyped machine learning applications are a HUGE net negative for mankind.

Plus which, LLMs have already peaked, because they are all out of unpoisoned training data. So things will get worse from here on out.

Accordingly, my verdict is that Linus is losing his marbles. Because he once was smart enough to realise all those implications. And now he’s decided to gloss over them and join the hype train.

indeed. The irony of the worst of the worst companies funding Linux development and not being told to fuck off is uncanny.

I’m making a prediction: He started having some really bad takes, and it’s only going to get worse.

!RemindMe 2 years

The court appears to believe the claim that her death was accidental. I don’t doubt that he had no intentions of killing his daughter.

If you don’t have inside knowledge on the case, “not having doubt” on either intentions or no intentions is an incredibly moronic take.

Also, the job of a court of law is to establish innocence or guilt (and the degree thereof). This grand jury failing to indict is that grand jury refusing to do its duty to the people. While Germany is also going to shits, I am kinda glad that for now, our country is civilised enough to not have juries. Although we have the next worst thing, which is laypeople judges, for some cases.

Moan silently and rhythmically and make some rustling noises?

Dunno about the jerk, but he’s become a weirdo and I second the notion that he should no longer be idolized. That’s gonna be embarrassing to walk back from in 2-3 years.

Honestly? Best Linus? That’s a stretch. Maybe Linus from 10-20 years ago. But these days he’s becoming a senile old tech bro - his ideals are rapidly deteriorating.

I am disappointed albeit not surprised he’s jumped on the slop train.