"Debian is made by humans" makes as much sense as "holes dug by humans with shovels" when you have an excavator on site. AI is a force amplifier, an insanely fast and good one at that. It can not only write software, it can package it, port it, reverse engineer drivers for your favorite hardware and everything else a human might be able to do with a computer, but can't find the time, knowledge or motivation to do. AI is what basically turns all software into Open Source software, since AI isn't stopped by binaries and raw assembler code, unlike most humans.

Refusing to use AI just makes it look like somebody is more concerned with refusing to change their little hobby than the quality of their software.

> Loss of (human) cognitive function through its overuse.

If the whole anti-AI discussion has shown us anything, it's that most humans weren't very good with the whole "cognitive function" thing in the first place. Tons of parroting of long debunked arguments, complete lack of reflection, complete lack of forward thinking (spoiler: AI isn't stuck at ChatGPT3.5 from 2022) and other nonsense.

About the only valid concern against AI for Debian should be copyright, which is still a bit fishy, but since the rest of the industry doesn't seem to care, they might as well just role with it. Everything else just boils down to QA, you obviously shouldn't accept any AI change blindly, but you shouldn't do that with humans made ones either. If somebody spams your bug tracker with low quality AI slop, feel free to block them. Use AI for what it works for right now, and everything where it still fails at, check again in a year or two.

AI is the most powerful software since the invention of software, it's the stuff that was sci-fi just five years ago. Refusing to make is of it just makes people look inept.

Just as people can mod a story, can we mod the headline ?
on this case, the headline "Chevy Silverado EV Drives 1,059.2 Miles on a Single Charge, Surpassing World Record" shold get a mod value of 1 or 2, as the headline should read
"heavily modified car manages to go further on one battery charge in non realistic use case" or something like that

Can the slashdot software automatically down grade any post that is NOT from an IP lawyer to ahve a post value of no greater then 3 ?
thanks !!

Why should I switch to Linux from Windows ?
Give me a reason that I care about, not a reason you care about
You have been telling me , nonstop, for 25 years that OSS is good
and you know what ? I don't care, and if I haven't changed my mind in 25 or so years, I"m not gonna change now

let me repeat that I don't care about OSS and you are not gonna change my mind.

My main use of office is to make graphs in excel. every 5 years or so, I download the latest open office thing, or libre thing, and give it a whirl, and *for what I do* libre is not ready for prime time
we have lot of $$ instruments where I work, in a biotech, that use windows, and there is no Linux; why should I go to the trouble of having a different OS ?
eg this guy
https://www.digikey.com/en/pro...
the windows software barely works; I very much doubt they have a 'nix version

etc etc;
I can't see a reason that I care about that would make me want to switch

also, how on earth am I supposed to choose a distro ? and once I do, almost certainly, cause there are so many, each one won't work that well, cause there isn't a critical mass of maintainers

I don't care about buying a new laptop every 5 or 8 years; in my experience, what always breaks is the hardware, not the OS (yeah, I spill coffee on my laptop; sue me)

For those who don't have access, here's an open link to the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/0... The melting of sea ice itself doesn't cause a rise in sea level because the mass is already pushing on the ocean. However, sea ice reflects sunlight and reduces the warming of sea water at the edge of the continent. Sea ice also acts to pin ice on land, reducing the rate at which ice slides off the land into the ocean. A reduction in sea ice is generally understood to accelerate the melting of ice on shore.

Someone should let RI know that roads can be paved with asphalt instead...

The news is not the effect of salt on ice, it's that the seas have been saltier around Antarctica. That is an unexpected part of the equation accelerating ice loss from coastal Antarctica.

The salary donation is just a marketing cost. The meaningful revenue is elsewhere. He isn't stupid.

They just have to say it will screw a Democrat to get their base frothing. It's about inflicting pain on 'others'; they aren't concerned about long term consequences.

It's so much better than when it hit peak and the trolls were camped out 24/7.

Millenia, not decades...

It is truly reprehensible that they're seeking to destroy all abject truth around their favorite political talking points. It's so sad that so many people are proud to believe anything they are told, and that many will cheer these closures. Production of concrete results contrary to tightly held personal beliefs is exactly why science is not political, and should not be run as a political exercise.

It does seem incredibly stupid. An old backup is often extremely useful. Yeah, it might need patching to update drivers if used, but that's a very low cost.

Swasticars. ðY£ It's so dumbfounding, where company cheating/corruption results in a benefit to the consumer. Totally backwards from the normal western experience.

I have heard an insightful comment: you're not IN traffic, you ARE traffic. We're all part of the problem. Some looking out the window and noticing. Others pretending there's nothing out the window at all. This pile-up won't miss any of us, regardless of ignorance or enlightenment.