Both major parties are bought and paid for by the same billionaires. We have a one party system with a thin veneer of choice. Good luck voting your way out of this.

No, don't you know that under capitalism markets will self regulate to achieve the optimal in... *cough cough* outcome? Buyers can self organize to avoid buying from harmful monopolies and oligopolies and instead choose to just die! And, if buyers are really upset they can just purchase politicians at a higher price than the harmful corporations do.

Now that anyone can produce an AI slop project in an afternoon, I think it's reasonable to set some kind of quality standard. I think this is just ensuring that the project authors and maintainers are really committed to the project instead of just aura farming. As a developer it really sucks when a project you depend on is abandoned after an initial big splash. I've used AI to create around 25 personal projects, all which are fairly unique and useful to me, but I won't publish them because I have zero intention to maintain them. Inexperienced "coders" won't understand what they're getting into when publishing an AI generated project. So, this just ensures that the projects promoted in the subreddit have some level of proven track record.

And, the moderators are correct, AI is bad for open source software. AI copies their homework and doesn't attribute or carry the licensing forward from the projects they copy. This isn't simply about Open Source projects using AI, but about AI being used as a loophole to separate Open Source software from its license.

A lot of the complaining is likely AI company marketing bots.

The licensing of uutils is an anti-feature. If they adopt a GNU license then I'm all for utilizing Rust. As is, it's a legal back door to a path to vendor lockin.

How about a license that invites corporations to embrace and extend the coreutils so you eventually end up locked into one vendor?

If it has uutils as the default coreutils implementation it's a no for me. For the same reason uutils is unable to solve its existing problems, the license is a poison pill I won't accept.

Oh yes, let's ask OpenAI to voluntarily show us the secret training data for their secret model.

But, it is invalidated if they use research that hasn't been published yet when they falsely imply that the chats are ephemeral and won't be used as training data. An equivalent in the academic world would be getting coffee with a fellow researcher, then they scoop your paper the next week.

They mashup the data they're trained on. If mathematicians have private chats with ChatGPT, Open AI will train using those private chats. It's a known fact. What "AI" is really doing is extracting intellectual effort from humans and reappropriating it to the owners of the "AI" companies. What feels like intelligence, is in fact intelligence, but not artificial.

Please stop using programming languages as a proxy for performance and safety. Rust has turned into a religion and the developers who become entranced by it have a certain kind of brain damage.

I hate that we live in a world with cameras everywhere, but if police have good intentions they should have no problem handing the keys over to the courts.

I can envision a system where they ask a court to approve releasing footage from an area where a real crime occurred. The investigator identifies vehicles and people of interest, then an open source algorithm tracks where they came from and where they went, without exposing the rest of the population to a dragnet search. The results would be registered as evidence in the case.

We've seen that officers cannot be trusted with the keys themselves. Flock and other corporations shouldn't be able to access the footage. It should be stored encrypted where only the courts have the ability to decrypt it. Then we should pass laws for data retention periods that are reasonable(perhaps no more than 1 month).

Blaming AI will allow the monsters to do their monstrous things and blame the machines when there's a potential consequence.

You have 150kW of compute running under your desk? https://carthageelectronics.co...

We all love to hate an Elon, but Starlink is a real product you can use today. The Falcon rockets are real rockets used to launch satellites. Obviously, space based data centers won't individually be the same scale as land based data centers. The point isn't large scale compute, but rather to take advantage of being in orbit whatever they may be. Cooling and scale are clearly not the advantage.

So, you must work for the military or SpaceX?

What's the definition of a data center? They have compute and storage resources customers can rent.