It's fine to leave a community because it's not aligned with your strategic outlook or your values, or simply because the community moved on. You joined a community because you were aligned to it, and you can leave when that ceases to be the case. The project is the ship of Theseus, and we are all the rotten planks getting replaced over time.
I gotta remember that while the boosters say "all software will be LLM developed, you can't avoid it" that NetBSD crushed its funding goal, LibreOffice got record downloads, more people are contributing to Redox, and so on.
It's far from impossible, even if it may feel that way (freakin' Linux kernel grumble grumble)
I've warned before that any FOSS project incorporating AI output is doing so at their peril.
Previously people leaned on a federal circuit ruling that was *declined to be taken up by the supreme court* interpreting it as a free-for-all to LLM license-wash any project in translation, or really to incorporate any such materials and they would be public domain.
But that doesn't mean we have an answer! We've yet to see!
Annnnnnnnnd: I think we're likely to have that perspective upended soon.
The third circuit issued a recent ruling in the *opposite direction* of the previously well cited federal ruling, that AI training on copyrighted material is NOT fair use: https://www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-of-copyrighted-material-not-fair-use-third-circuit/
Annnnndddddd.... with a bunch of people trying to make LLM-generated decompilation replacements for Adobe's entire suite, we're likely to suddenly see corporations rear up angrily.
Just wait till someone tries to vibewash a Nintendo game decompilation. Hey, what do you think is gonna happen?
Buckle up. One of the pending #curl CVEs that we publish next week is graded severity HIGH. Considered the worst flaw found in curl in several years.
Yes, found with AI.
Congrats and also good job to whomever did the right thing here by supporting such an awesome project!
Doesn't seem that there's any announcement on their blog about it (yet).
Call for Debian 14 (forky) artwork proposals https://bits.debian.org/2026/10/forky-artwork-cfp.html #debian #trixie #artwork
FOSDEM 2027 Call for Main Track talks
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re: silly, unrelated
re: silly, unrelated
Holy mother of god. Some satellite images from #Gaza have been unembargoed on google. #Rafah is gone. Just gone. Khan Younis is ruins. Everything, gone. #Palestine is being ethnically cleansed so billionaires can have a new playground.
This is what #Israel has done. This is their crime, the blood of 22,637 children stains the hands of every member of the #IDF. This is #America's crime, this is everyone who has ever supported #Israel's crime. This is unforgivable. We are a terrible country, supporting one that's even worse.
Until it's taken down again, sat images of Palestine here, I've started us in Rafah's main mosque. Or where it was.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bilal+Mosque/@31.305079,34.2398794,490m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x14fd938fd9cce82b:0xf8056862904cb47f!2sRafah!3b1!8m2!3d31.29678!4d34.243482!16zL20vMDJzaHJ6!3m5!1s0x14fd9407c5414093:0x974c7d2ce8e05140!8m2!3d31.3056418!4d34.2401459!16s%2Fg%2F11csb1qbb3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDkyNy4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
@neal @elly we'll have to agree to disagree. my experience working with devicetree has only reconfirmed the reasons it was adopted in the first place -- it's a very simple concept. in 2026 a lot of the earlier architectural issues have been figured out. Bringing up a new platform is not that bad actually??
we also are in a much better place to write DT in a way that allows us to make backwards compatible changes as we describe the hardware in more detail. with ACPI you're just screwed when sayyy a vendor doesn't bother to model your type-c port as dual role capable even though it is, you lose out on hardware features that your device actually has!
nevermind the hellish issues with EC quirks and all the driver workarounds that are needed due to bad firmware
it's perfectly fine to have a preference here but i don't buy this "it's so much harder" line especially from someone who afaik hasn't had to do bring up or long term development on DT platforms. I'd take it any day over ACPI if it means not having to deal with a fw blob of unknown quality that might have deranged bugs
We invite you to the webinar on copyright and LLM-generated code.
The FSFE published an informative article about the copyrightability of LLM-generated code. Those insights are now turned into a webinar.
Gabriel Ku Wei Bin, Legal Programme Manager at FSFE, will talk about copyright, a foundational pillar of the legal framework that supports Free Software, and LLMs, followed by a Q&A.
Time: October 29, 13.00-14.30 CET.
Webinar: https://nlnet.nl/events/20261029/index.html
Article: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260825-01.html