oh, so debian is *cooked* cooked

https://inference.debian.net/

@davidgerard free slop on tap

@davidgerard After like 15 years of distro- and deskop-hopping I ended up settling on Debian + KDE two years ago. And now this... 😬

@davidgerard TBF, any Debian developer can register a debian.net subdomain and host whatever vaguely Debian-related service they want on it: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianNetDomains

@ilmari oh really? excellent, excellent

@davidgerard only very few graduate to become official Debian services, such as backports.d.o and snapshot.d.o

@davidgerard 😱

@davidgerard this is unaffiliated with debian.org

@davidgerard and as with the KDE Foundation row, one can be tolerably sure that this is (at least partly) motivated by spite. A substantial fraction of their userbase rose up against their LLM involvement and then someone or other threw a fit over it and decided to make it even more crass, in revenge. Such positivity and optimism I have rarely seen

@davidgerard I guess it's time to move to Fedora then...

@Mustardfacial

Fedora’s AI policy is no better than debians: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/policy/ai-contribution-policy/

@davidgerard

@ilmari @davidgerard
At a minimum, it appears that it's being entirely paid for by the Debian project, though I don't know what the process or minimum bar is for something to get Debian Project funding.
https://inference.debian.net/doc#how-much-does-it-cost-me

@hailhydra @davidgerard Eh? That says

the service is provided for the Debian project and funded by a fixed monthly pool of credits from its sponsors

did you misread the "for" as "by"?

and at the bottom

Inference resources sponsored by Scaleway

Also, the announcement says

This service is possible thanks to Scaleway, which kindly sponsors the Debian project with a monthly allocation of credits to cover the inference costs for contributors.

I read that to mean that Scaleway is paying for it, not Debian.

@davidgerard @spacelizard fuck. Fuck fuckity fuck with extra fuck and fuck sprinkles.

@benjistokman@mast.benstokman.me @davidgerard@circumstances.run is this true? the WHOIS/DNS info looked very similar, and it was announced on the developers announcements mailing list, which claims that "only messages signed by a Debian developer will be accepted"...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/117318943140255047

@davidgerard While some people view LLMs as cancer, others view them as tools and use them to do great things. I am with the latter group.

RT: https://mastodon.social/users/bagder/statuses/117318943140255047

@abacabadabacaba that's unrelated to the post and you're just a 9 folloer spam sockuppet