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  • Routhinator@startrek.websitetoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•oofEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Anyone contributing to open source either does it:

    • on their companies dime, which means they work for a rare company building open source solutions
    • at the end of their day, on their weekend, or during their vacation

    Most FOSS devs are in position two. By a large margin. They could be relaxing, or earning more money doing freelancing to make ends meet, but instead they are trying to build something they want to see happen. That requires focusing on the important tasks and that often means not having time to spend on poorly reported bugs that are actually users just not RTFM and opening issues. It wastes the devs time, and projects with too much of this have development stagnate and are frequently shuttered.

    And devs that just do this to get a better job stop contributions once their new job takes over their life, and then the project suffers.

    Users need to appreciate FOSS devs more because some of the most important projects we need in 2025 are developed only because they want to see them happen.

  • Routhinator@startrek.websitetoLinux@lemmy.ml•PhotoGIMP - The Photoshop Like Experience on GIMPEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Its also trained on stolen data, artists work without their permission. AI training, even for the offline models, uses massive amounts of electricity and water and is currently accelerating climate around the world as well as unaffordability as demand for water and electricity cause prices to skyrocket. At the same time its accellerating the unaffordability of personal computing, including phones, and threatening to remove open PC hardware platforms by removing direct access to affordable DIY hardware.

    On the other side of this, continued use and justification of LLMs existence is enabling the founding of mass surveillance and control systems that will be the foundation for totaltarian states, while at the same time enabling the rich to manipulate and control truth. And because of randomized token tie breaking, anything that comes out of it is only partially correct even when its one of the 30% of the times the reply is partially useful.

    And - on top of all of that, you are nerfing your own skills and brainpower everytime you use it, in addition to having it do something for you that you could be learning yourself, which would have increased your existing skills while teaching you a new one.

    AI is a horrible technology, doesn’t matter where you run it.