Working on something more formal:
https://salsa.debian.org/timb-machine/debian-ai-llm-tagging
If you're a #debian developer and you're interested, it aint gonna happen unless DDs get on board... (although I am planning submitting PR for packages I've had a hand in...)
Update: I will move it to salsa as soon as my account is activated. When I last interacted with Debian in this manner, salsa was not a thing :).
Further update: Live on salsa and link above now reflects this.
Rare image of the birth of an electrician (still with the eggshell on his head)
Very sad, when I started contributing Debian struck me as having a sane rationale; guess I was wrong.
Ear worm, wtf lucy get some rest
I'm deeply disappointed by the result of the #Debian #AI vote. I seems to me that the project is pretty much split down the middle on the issue, and I'm very unhappy that my ethical opposition puts me in the minority.
I'm not sure where we go from here, but I don't think I want to abandon ship after so many years in the project.
the social contract that allows the web to exist at all is literally collapsing in real time
https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies
As of today, I believe NetBSD is one of the most important operating systems to consider for your deployments.
With hardware costs rising dramatically, portability and efficiency have become more important than ever. If prices do not come down, we will probably have to adapt and create new kinds of hardware, at lower cost. And NetBSD, by its very nature, will be very easy to port to that hardware.
Does it run on your modern PC? Maybe. Maybe not.
But it runs on your server. On your VPS. On your SBC. On your old computer, which may still have a lot to give, especially if you want to keep ownership of your own data.
And I know something about old hardware still having a lot to give:
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2023/08/27/that-old-netbsd-server-running-since-2010/
No jails or containerisation? smolBSD has already shown that a reduced NetBSD kernel can be so small that it can be started in milliseconds, while also adding the security benefits of virtualisation. A different concept, certainly. But one that already exists and can already be used.
Linux itself has opened up to AI. That is a choice I will not comment on.
But from now on, for those who do not want LLM-generated code in their operating system, there are essentially two options: fork Linux (!!!), or choose something different.
And NetBSD is that something different.
Already in 2024:
“...code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.”
#NetBSD #RunBSD #smolBSD #IT #SysAdmin #OwnYourData #ModernTech
Since I'm glad to finally be able to do this, and wanna get this hardware in as many interested hands as possible, I am discounting the eater-deluxe 6502 based personal computer DIY kit down to USD 151.74, that's EUR 131, up until Friday, September 3rd!
#mos6502 #6502 #eater #diy #electronics #retrocomputing
