Diane Bruce @DianeBruce@bsd.network

Multiple GNOME contributors have told me that they feel it is pointless to vocally oppose the use of generative tooling and that they feel it is just a matter of time before a pro-slop policy is officially adopted by GNOME.

I want you all to know that the relentlessly anti-AI stance is the popular opinion. If you state your opposition as well, you'll be in good and plentiful company.

Edit: Are you a GNOME contributor who is demotivated by AI? Please reach out.

@DianeBruce

I so wish that tech debt had real cost and was regularly applied to corporate spreadsheets.

OK. Today is the day I switch from Linux being my daily driver (which it has for a few years now), to #freebsd. Wish me luck. :-)

Back in college, I had a Systems Architecture and Design professor. The very first day of his class he stood up in front of us and said:

"One day, you're going to be brought in to help optimize a company. You'll see that they're doing things by using index cards in shoeboxes. Then, after you understand their processes, points of interaction, and audits, you'll find out that the most optimal way for them to work is by using index cards in shoe boxes. Walk away."

That was one of the best bits of advice I ever got in my career. Why? Because it reinforced that in order to solve a problem, you have to understand the problem. You have to understand how the problem fits into it's larger ecosystem. You have to understand what the solution breaks and what problems it will cause. Nothing lives in isolation. Everything is interconnected.

The last thing you do as a systems architect is write code.

I wish like hell more folk understood that, particularly the vibe-coding, rapid iteration, "throw code at it" types.

from my link log —

Telstra outage: The night an NTP network decided the year was 2006.

https://www.netnod.se/blog/telstra-outage-night-network-decided-year-was-2006

saved 2026-09-18 https://dotat.at/:/4Q7IX.html

Today's #60SecondsOfWIP is out! "The New Linker Strangles," from #OpenZFSmastery

https://mwl.io/archives/24982

the flock camera data dump is a shower of comedy gold

https://micahflee.com/flock-cameras-are-riddled-with-security-vulnerabilities-and-hard-coded-credentials/

Linux, what has become of you? What started as a great community, is now becoming slopware and safe haven for fascists and tech oligarchs 💔 . Time to #RunBSD #NetBSD.
https://stopomarchy.neocities.org/
#omarchy #AI #fascism #noAI

If you throw around the words "Epstein class:" some folks hear "sociopathic billionaires and their sycophants," but other folks hear "Jews."

Please be specific. My Jewish friends have enough trouble.

And racists will interpret your words as supporting them.

@evan AI is not a thing, therefore a slowdown must be framed in other terms. Capital controls and strict liability for irresponsible actions and misrepresentations of fact.

https://thewalrus.ca/what-if-students-are-sick-of-ai-too/

#CriticalThinking #Canada #AntiAI #NoAI #TheWalrus #Education

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7338208

#Canada #CBC #AntiAI

#NetBSD #Debian #Linux #noai #antiai #antillm #runbsd #humanintelligence

"everything uses AI now, so we might as well stop complaining about people using AI" has the same energy as "COVID is over, so we might as well not mask anymore"

Love booting to a Free/Libre operating system entirely made by humans. #NetBSD 😊 ❤️
#NoAI

I learned today that POSIX specifies a tool designed to assist you in reviewing & modifying LLM-generated code. In typical Unix fashion, they shortened "reviewing & modifying" to just two letters:

$ rm code.rs

It even has command-line options to [r]ecursively [f]ix whole directories of LLM-generated code:

$ rm -rf project/

#JustSayin

@happyborg #NetBSD is one of the few which has explicitly outlined a no-AI policy. #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD both have some LLM authored commits in their base system, though it's unclear how much their kernels are affected yet. Still, without a written policy it's hard to trust or recommend either. GNU has likewise been very slow to take an official stance, though they have at least discouraged wider adoption while it's discussed.

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117152624104154524

This is fairly accurate, while #Canada is largely focused on AI sovereignty, the foundational technology of universities, businesses and non profits depend on USA tech. I wrote about how higher education can lead and contributed to BC Gov recommendations of the same - but the pace is sooo slooooow. https://sunnydeveloper.com/digital-sovereignty-in-canada-why-education-is-the-place-to-start/

What if I were to tell you that Trump could knock any (or all) of over 20 million¹ European web sites off the Web tomorrow by picking up the phone to one US organisation: Let’s Encrypt.

We desperately need an independent, not-for-profit ACME provider in the EU paid for by our taxes.

CC @EUCommission #sovereignty

¹ This is just based on one firm’s analytics (https://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/LetsEncrypt/EUROPE). Others put LE use at 50-60% of all web sites.

#TLS #web #EU #tech #sovereignty #US #fascism