I was hoping with the year run-up we’d have a better alternative replacement, but alas.

Apologize? XMPP has existed since almost longer than I have.

It’s a whole class of its own in terms of price tag. One could call it, an Epstein Class price tag since even the Trump Phone is cheaper.

I’m still, after several years, confused on why didn’t they make the USB-C connector circular. Wouldn’t have to deal with the whole “spin 1/2” issue USB has had for decades, and there wouldn’t be a “weird angle” for the cable to be pulled at, all angles would be equal.

It’s about the branding for the sheeple, not about the high-profile users. We all know those are being serviced by military or corporate degree hardware thanks to their connections.

It’s not hyperbole at all. The Trump Phone (the literal Epstein Class phone) is 32% cheaper than the new Moto.

No one would care if AI replaced them at some menial soul-sucking job. If they could live and pursue their passions instead they would all be glad to.

If the cost was still the destruction of the environment and the genocide of foreign children, we’d have nowhere left to follow our passions in (worse if they are environment-related arts) nor people to teach or pass it down to.

AI is not just about the implementation. There’s entire ethics behind it. As a technology, its entire purpose, its only purpose, is to replace humans, and it has to be understood in that capacity.

Dear god the condescending tone. The passive-aggressive edit to the statement so that it still says the Nazi was “doxxed”. The inability neither apologize nor correct their bad behaviour (the original reporter is IIRC still banned). The between-the-lines insistence on “please be kind (to centrists and nazis)”. The insistence that making decisions on AI usage does not involve ethics.

Reminds me of the times when Fedora was exclusionary and racist to South Americans (dunno if they still are, lost them long ago).

KDE went to the trash like, woosh. This fast.

over $1k

Golly! Look at that Epstein Class price tag! And not even an audio jack to show for it! Who knows what else it’s lacking.

Other than it’s not actually a distro, what’s the launder?

neocities

This now should have TWO upvotes from me!

(come on lemmy devs get to it)

This is one of the many showcases of how AI is “not like any other technology”. A knife is constructed in such a way that using it to cut comes natural. Making a wheel turn on a road feels natural.

Not necessarily. No one says you can’t just use the latest commit to the Linux kernel (or any other software) before it became slopified.

Do you really not understand concepts such as “necessary but not sufficient”? Just because I don’t like strawberry juice doesn’t mean I have to dislike all strawberries (or all juices).

Or are you trying to sell AIs for someone else?

Come on, be honest.

Not really. What, you expect me to be mad at the wheelbarrow?

Geez, the low meda literacy and the silly arguments of absurdum from the people who try everything to sell a cage for which they don’t have the keys is unprecedented.

It sounds like you are mad at our economic and societal structures, but taking your anger out on the tools.

I can be mad at both the exploitative structures and at the toolkits that enable, further and synthetize them. They don’t need to be mutually exclusive, and in general it’s not useful that they are.

Oh look it’s the same accelerationist argument as usual, that just because you loathe one technology you must throw away all of them.

Try at least high-school grade of discussion.

You need to divorce your thinking

I already did, but you refuse to read it. I explicitly said this is about how A (or what people call “AI”, because it certainly has not existed for “around for 50 years now”) exist in this world how we have created it. Via theft, exploitation and destruction, and oriented to the fulfillment of the elites and the oppression of the worker class.

Absolutism is toxic, yes. Moderated realism upon a flagrant observation of reality as conducted, is not.

It’s not like the Debian policy teams have the power do that to remote dev teams anyway tho. At best they can discard an upstream done with AI.

Please, try at least some modicum of intellectual discourse. Electricity is quite a physical phenomenon of nature, like rain, we can not impart moral judgment on them.

All that said, there are ways to use electricity without “exploitative resource extraction”, for example with a potato.

What were they supposed to d do? Disconnect with upstream?

Use non-slopified alternatives. There are lists such as Open Slopware that document where to get alternatives.

Or just fork the last non-slopified version and work from there. For already-mature software, should not make that much difference in the short term for a distro that seeks out stable long-term behaviour (things would be vastly different if this was Arch).