Fuck AI

This is a community for criticizing LLMs. There is, therefore, no positive interest in a bridge for LLMs. This community is optional. Don't subscribe, or don't read it. No harm done.

Yeah, most people, myself included, don't like AI on principle, but there are valid use cases for it, and not having the capability of integrating with AI tools is going to be a dealbreaker for someone.

That said, I've heard MCP is a bit of a shitshow of a standard and is woefully inefficient.

And now the comments are closed. Embarrassing.

Now I’m thinking of doing the same because the entire reason I chose fedora was to take advantage of their institutional support

But if those institutions are going to sell the floor right under me to ai then there’s no point 🫩

IMO there are two main Linux camps, and most users fall somewhere in-between. Rolling OS lovers who want to tinker (eg Arch). People who want stability over everything (eg Debian).

The only truly wrong answer is paying for RHEL.

Same. I was on Fedora Atomic but the stench hardened so I jumped over to nixOS a few weeks back. Glad I did.

i'm not ready to go to arch yet since i'm not comfortable enough but i'm curious; is arch based in us or outside? i know mint is based in eu/ireland. i do wish i went with mint debian instead of mint ubuntu but next time

I have been using gpt-oss:20b for helping me with bash scripts, so far it’s been pretty handy. But I make sure to know what I’m asking for and make sure I understand the output, so basically I might have been better off with 2010-ish Google and non-enshitified community resources.

That's a little disingenuous.

Redhat markets support and professional responses in the form of adjusted builds to CVEs on an enterprise distro of Linux.

I mean, yeah, they absolutely technically profit, and open-source is the root of their classic product, so you're not wrong there; and I'm not saying so. You're framing it as if they do nothing but take the source, schlepp it out, and collect protection money and keep it themselves.

This kind of characterization completely sidesteps an important truth about open-source devel: everyone involved with projects like the kernel, for instance, work at a shop like redhat and are paid to do the open source work.

Let me say it again: this corp who is profiting off of open source happens to also be donating killed, paid labour to open source. Look at the leaders of the kernel dev effort and you'll see google, arm, rh, Intel, and suse, all paying for the labour to keep it going.

Stop characterizing them with language suggesting they're slimy leeches. They make bad decisions a-plenty, but the biggest thing their involvement provides is continuity and lifestyle security for people maintaining what you hold dear.

Condemn them for their stupid decisions - Ansible, Systemd, IBM buying redhat and accidentally speeding up their enshittification because #ibm, etc. But given how little the foundations support this project (the only one I looked at: I'm only slightly less lazy than the person who didn't even do this) I suspect their cozy little arrangement where they make bank and you get free software to play with is benefitting you more than you'll admit.