maybe i should build something like omarchy that isn't, you know, omarchy

apparently thinking copyright is shit makes me an AI lackey. good to know. *plonk*

outside of the political argument, the reason why i am opposed to GenAI in the commons is because dependency effectively serves to *freeze* the commons as it is today

models are effectively a lossy encoding of the present

this has the advantage that it could, perhaps, raise an inexperienced person's output to that of the median level of expertise in their field

*but* it will not let either the person, or the commons itself, grow

this is why i hope that the end state is that GenAI is not allowed in alpine, even if it unfortunately means that some decide to leave

but... i will respect whatever the outcome of the process is

(again: still not sold on any moral arguments involving copyright though, but of course i encourage rightsholders to sue if they can prove their work was infringed)

I should just go take the ham radio licensing test and get a license

though I will concede I once made $12,500 from a settlement because somebody sampled my work without clearing it. after taxes that turned into a used car which blew up a couple years later.

fwiw the copyright arguments about GenAI do not hold water with me. copyright is the tool of the noble classes, and should be abolished. the fix is, and has always been, to abolish copyright.

what arguments *do* hold water with me are the political ones: commercial GenAI represents the greatest concentration of money & political power our generation has ever seen.

my arguments *against* GenAI in alpine, and in my own projects, are based on a risk analysis of that concentration of power: as maintainers we cannot protect our autonomy, nor our projects' sovereignty, in an era where we become dependent on GenAI. the people who control our access to GenAI technology will, instead, be the person who exercises total control over FOSS projects which embrace GenAI.

i don't even, man

I will consider my mobile plan cost optimization complete when the carrier pays me for my patronage

mastodon.art suspended treehouse years ago, and treehouse is better for it

don't negotiate with terrorists

soon in the streets of silicon valley you will see random vagrant laid off software engineers looking at random spots on the sidewalk hoping it will be a QR code to get more tokens for OpenAI

#pkgconf 3.0.6 has been released, bringing multi-module --variable queries, OS/2 support, and Windows long-path awareness. it also drops the PC061 (CR-LF line-endings) lint because it is very noisy on Windows.