Mecha-Hitler disagrees.
And "toxic" is just a code-word for masculine. Which has been declared "toxic" by our overlords, who don't want us to oppose them.
The Economy relies on ever-increasing amounts of debt to function. Banks are fine with lending money because they expect taxpayers to bail them out if the loans go bad.
> I feel like the entire world is caught up in snake oil salesmanship to the point of destroying the entirety of functional society, just because a very few people might make some money off of it. WTF?
It's been like that for years now. Society is collapsing and we're in the Looting The Treasury phase.
Without Moore's Law you can build more powerful chips by making them bigger, but they'll take more power to run. Which means more cooling to keep them running and more power plants to run them.
There might be improvements to chip design to make them more optimal for AI software, but that's likely to be a one-off.
In a few years, all of these GPUs will be available on eBay for a few bucks each.
Then I'll finally be able to snag a whole bunch of them and build a Beowulf cluster to run SETI@home faster than anybody else.
Not sure I would clasify that kind of negligence as legitimate. But yeah, most git repos, have lines to clone them as text to be copied and pasted into a shell.
...This is my embarrassed face.
I had previously assumed you were speaking of allocating $1M across all projects used by Google. In fact, you were speaking of giving $1M to each such project.
One would wonder what sorts of strings would be attached to such largesse. Still, that would indeed be game-changing and amazing.
Google could create a new corporate policy to provide a minimum of $1M/year to any open source project it uses.
That would be real innovation.
While acknowledging your noble intentions, no, it wouldn't be innovation. It would be cheaping out.
In the San Francisco bay area, $1.0E+06/year gets you maybe five skilled engineers. Set against the quantity of Open Source projects used by such organizations -- FFmpeg, GStreamer, OpenSSL, ssh, rsync, gcc, gdb, coreutils, nanopb, Samba, Lua, Python, Perl, Git, Vim/Neovim, Yocto, ImageMagick, Blender, the Pipewire framework, the Linux kernel, the Debian packaging system, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc... -- five engineers is miserly.
Because someone still has to take time to read the slop. Over and over.
That work sounds like a great candidate to offload onto AI!
Google appears to have understaken the expense of spinning up an ocean-boiling slop machine to automagically generate plausible bug reports, and then casually fire off an email to the maintainers.
Note that Google has not undertaken the expense of assigning an engineer to also write a fix.
That they are not doing that is a conscious, management-approved choice.
...Y'know how Google relishes in closing bug reports with "WONTFIX - Working as designed?" I think FFmpeg should close slop reports from Google with, "WONTFIX - Unfunded."
Every little picofarad has a nanohenry all its own. -- Don Vonada