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You know it's random nonsense, and yet you still take it on faith that it "gives you answers". That's what makes me despair about all the AI nonsense: it's the death of intellect. Not the death of deep thinking, but of common sense.

I can't wait for the day until all these people collectively snap out of it, and go "what the hell were we thinking with these chatbots".

As a matter of fact he's a never-ending source of drama and outrage, all of which are his own opinions. His repair channel isn't even about repair anymore, it's all drama, all the time. I can hardly believe people fall for his shtick anymore.

Is the code base AI slop? You've published your code as open source, but without an explicit AI policy.

In the age of meme stocks, NFTs, vibe coding and orange clowns in the white house, no, it's not obvious. The world has gone right past satire and into a reality of collective delusion.

But github now handles so much more traffic, without a doubt. I'm not so sure their infrastructure is keeping up, but if it is, the current sluggishness may just be its speed under any load.

If you want to see what it should be, check any forgejo/codeberg repo.

When that slop article incident happened, I thought their reaction to it was MUCH too late -- they should have fired the journalist in question immediately, and come out hard against slop writing. I stopped reading Ars Technica because of it, and will not follow links to their site.

Now that they've finally come out with an official policy, I see I was right.

Right. People on here are just ignoring the fact that the fantastically expensive metaverse effort has failed, and it's pretty obvious that people working on it thus no longer have anything to do, so will mostly be let go. The article even mentions this as a likely cause.

I mean I get it, Meta is evil, inefficient etc, but this layoff round seems pretty predictable.

That's literally advocating for filling the kernel with AI slop.

Not that it's not going to happen; Linus is already a vibe-coder, and several maintainers have fallen for the LLM crap as well.

You have to wonder why it's so hard to put that on their 503 error page. I suspect something's much more broken than they're letting on.

Because while Musk is certainly running Tesla into the ground, without him it would sink even faster. Without his hype jacking up the share price, it's just a carmaker with 2.5 models, cratering sales, fast obsoleting tech, and no new models in the near pipeline.

All the shareholders can do is hang on to the ride for as long as they can.

Indeed. What's new is not referring to someone of unknown gender as "they", but rather people identifying as non-gender-specific, and wanting to be referred to as "they". That's the part that feels so awkward, IMHO, not simply they as one person.

Nah, it's just AI slop, despite OP's "hand-written" protestation.

This site is very much drowning in all the slop. It's over half of posts now I think, not just the "Show HN" posts. Those are 100% slop, as are all the non-show-hn new project announcements.

All the moderators have done is drop Show HN posts by newish accounts. It fixed nothing. I have to hope they have some ambitious plan along the lines of what you suggest.

I have never, ever understood this whole mandated period thing. Aside from what you mention -- do you really want to keep these people around against their will -- I don't understand how your (ex-)employer can force you to do anything against your will. All you have to do is say "no".

Yet people keep believing mandated work after a layoff is a thing.

Yup, that's the sort of thing that's typically missing from cable testers. I have a USB cable that normally works fine, but introduces errors when doing full blast USB 2.0 bulk transfers. I keep it around just in case I ever come across a tester that can show me this in hard numbers.

Truly sad. It looks like Kent is pretty deep in the AI delusion. This is a guy who, while often controversial and with obvious issues, was nevertheless a very talented and energetic programmer.

Common in desktop software for controlling measurement gear like oscilloscopes. Those have actual knobs on the equipment, so the software does the same thing and it's the worst thing ever.

His non-apology apology even follows a familiar pattern: I wrote it myself but just used AI for some help, and it inserted false quotes! Bad tech! But I have now learned my lesson!

Very similar to what a rector recently wrote when she got busted giving an AI-generated speech in her inaugural speech in her new university job.

None of it is true, of course. These people are just sorry they got caught.

No, it's worse than that. The city council very much implemented an anti-car (harassment) policy, to the point that car owners felt hounded by their own council's policies. It seriously wasn't a matter of "marginally less privileged".

So this looks like a spite fork intended to make a point, not likely to become a widely used fork of systemd.

However, 1) he is right, and 2) systemd's recent full-throated embrace of AI for programming make it clear that systemd really is in dire need of a fork. This project has gone full corporate insanity.

I was never one of the vocal anti-systemd folks (I think it's a huge improvement over SysV-style boot stuff), but the risk of this project was always the monoculture aspect. It's on approximately every Linux install, and it's going bad FAST.

Exactly. Even if all it ends up amounting to is the stuff in the last paragraph of the summary, that would be huge.

The EU has a long history of doing things like this -- forcing the hand of national governments to do what they all knew needed to be done, but lacked the political willpower or mandate. Freeing monopolist-dominated or coddled industries like telecoms, delivery, airlines, railways would never have happened without the EU.

A quick glance at sold DIMMs on ebay makes clear this is just nonsense. What's the source for these numbers?

This is just some vibe-coded crap, isn't it?

Somebody in the article mentions that it's a spectrum, not a binary, and she's right: you can't call it AI-free if your product is human-made but all the marketing is AI slop.

I thought EEVBlog's Dave Jones had a good idea for exactly this kind of problem when advertising open source hardware [0]: a logo that clearly showed which parts were open.

[0] https://www.eevblog.com/oshw/

You and me both :-(

I see open source projects entirely run by clueless LLM-using idiots, and existing projects overrun by them, and there is none of the quality or passion you would normally see.

Even if I were to apply my skill/energy to a project of my own, my code would just get stolen by these LLM companies to train their models, and regurgitated with my license removed. What's the point?

Honesty is the whole problem with ideas like this. If you're the kind of deluded idiot that considers LLM-generated crap "your code", stating exactly how little you had to do with it is not in your advantage. Far easier to maintain the lie.

I think you have it backwards. Many (most?) funds underperform the market as a whole, showing they really don't know anything. ETFs that mirror indexes exist exactly because of this... their managers don't make trades based on their insight of the market, they are contractually obligated to mirror the index, period.

The article shows that at least some ETFs -- NASDAQ index funds -- will now be undermined by this SpaceX scam using those contractual obligations to extract money from ETF investors.

Why the few closed-source components on the system? You mention the bus, USB PHY etc -- are those things harder to design than the CPU core?

...electrically debond, are you serious? More details please, this sounds very interesting.

> The continuing mass departures of long tenured folks

You mean senior programmers that have been there for ages don't want to spend their time reviewing AI slop? Who'd a thunk it!

A quote from Neuromancer comes to mind:

   "But I ain't likely to write you no poem, if you follow me. Your AI, it just might. But it ain't no way human.”