This post was most definitely slopped by an LLM and the “AI” bullshit is totally pointless, you could implement all that way smarter and trustworthy using OpenFoodFacts.

The project idea looks really cool and genuinely solves a problem (though I would’ve preferred a Nextcloud sync and improved extractors for NewPipe & Freetube), however the amount of generated code and permissive policy (allowing to just have complete implementations generated) scares me off. It sounds like there are huge amounts of code no human ever looked at.

For their interactive mapview in the control room they probably do.

takes down 112 / 911 services

Don’t worry guys, we’re safe now! ꒰ঌ(˶ˆᗜˆ˵)໒꒱

They took just a few hours to squeeze out a new ca-certificates. On the other hand the last time there was a huge kernel bug it took well over 24 hours I think…

Not for complex tasks, really. Gemma4b or similar might be just enough as the backend for a voice assistant replacing Alexa (which I honestly hope, I need to get family members off of that fucking spy devices…). Small web searches might just fit. Or image recognition for Nextcloud Memories, stuff like that.

I noticed that there are sometimes huge differences between models and providers. ChatGPT, which most people use, is a useless sycophant because it’s made to value user satisfaction higher than factual correctness (so it makes shit up und basically never pushes back if you challenge it). When using Mistral AI I had the AI tell me outright that I’m wrong (though it still generated very friendly text to do so, and it only properly does it when in “thinking” mode). No clue how Anthropic or Google do in this regard, just that ChatGPT is especially awful. In the end all models are risky.

This is even more funny. Oh no, 15 TV boxes in the same network can produce 0.39 tokens per second while being completely computationally overwhelmed? Imagine all of your house appliances not reacting and you not catching on that there might be an issue that requires factory resets.

Not to mention the network lag and how often small models need to reiterate stuff because it got stuff wrong.

<rant>

especially from businesses

if they want businesses to subscribe

styled to attract the decision makers in their target market

Do that, and it becomes a serious contender in the market

The market who’s responsible for fucking up the internet? The market that constantly attacks websites with crawlers to steal everything for value extraction, which Anubis fights against? The market that couldn’t care less about you unless you provide value to it, and even then won’t give you a penny unless forced (while building the whole internet on your shoulders)? That market?

Most FOSS devs I know who aren’t forced into it couldn’t give less of a fart about “the market” and capitalists with sticks in their rear ends inside it. The monetization was often just attached to a project because it makes sense given we’re all trapped in capitalism and perhaps have to somehow cover project costs (probably less so for Anubis), not because it’s a goal to attract investment.

People who’re appaled by something so simple such as a .lol domain and a cute mascot sound awful to talk to anyway.

It is a big problem with a number of opensource projects that could get wider adoption and support

I tell you how that “support” looks like. Companies who adopted the software will add your maintainer Email to their business contacts. If there are issues with your software they’ll then usually ignore the developer route and directly write emails to you, and if it’s a big problem for them immediately blame you and threaten legal action, blahblahblah. They’ll treat you like someone they have a support contract with and be completely confused when you tell them to open an issue and that you otherwise don’t care. Meanwhile they’ll build an empire using your software and be a persistent nuisance.

Why should anyone not desperately needing money to survive care about this.

</rant>

And probably burned half of the Amazon forrest to do so. What the hell.

On the contrary, the trust into LibreOffice will increase.

It’s with slop code like it’s with furniture. Sure IKEA can bury you in cheap stuff, but no one in hell would honestly claim they’re better than hand-made stuff. However other than with furniture, in the digital space there is no scarcity, you can copy one brilliant thing endlessly.

We already have lots of good software and lots of people wanting to make good software. Nobody needs fucking AI slop code except those who want us to become dependent on their services to extract “value”.

Depends. Hand-written apps will still be more valuable than slopped ones as they’re far more trustworthy and less generic (like, literally), not to mention people being environmentally conscious about their choices. A good, trustworthy app that respects the user (and therefore omits e.g. privacy invasion) is still worth a few bucks to many.

You’ll also have to convince other maintainers to adopt the new API in this case, otherwise it’s pointless. Vaultwarden is only the server, you’d at least require one third-party client (e.g. Keyguard) to add and maintain the Vaultwarden API and probably also someone to fork the browser plugins. This whole issue is quite involved.

Not arguing against it of course, just dislike when people make forking (and establishing a whole new standard) sound like not that big of a deal.

Sounds like you’re volunteering to do that additional amount of work.

A chinese state media website is hardly trustworthy. Those are also the sources of nonsense like “we eradicated absolute poverty”, which is absolute nonsense (it improved, but definitely not eradicated). They’ll report sugarcoated and greenwashed things if it fits the regimes’ current line of propaganda.

Oh god, it’s Matrix Element. Yeah, of course it’s absolute shit.

Did you? The pictures and graphics are all AI so I’m extremely unsure how trustworthy the text is.

Same, best comfy temperatures. Add partner, a couch and a blanket and it’s absolute heaven.

Show me where I said we should ban cars completely. That was your interpretation.