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#lowQualityPost

I've loved #Debian for years. Decades, really. The main reason for that is it's always seemed, to me, to be the best place to actually control and own your own computer.

That trust is gone for me. We can talk responsible, not responsible, whatever. The fact is, LLMs are trained on the hard work of billions of people, and put into a blender and sold back to us. It's more separation of workers from the fruit of their labors, to the profit of capitalists.

That's not even getting into the environmental impacts, the bias in it, etc. And especially not getting into the horrible, HORRIBLE people in charge of it all.

I do not want that on my laptop, folks. I just don't.

so to recap:

1. no discussions about #LLM #AI can happen only with developers. you need people equipped with knowledge of #law #ethics #sociology to, if not have all the answers, at least ask the right questions.

2. the Libre in #FLOSS anchors the sociopolitical implications of FREE and OPEN. it is there to bring in CONSENT. without consent, there is no #FLOSS

3. since slopware intentionally obliterate consent at scale, LLMs and AI are antithetical to FLOSS, democracy & society.

/🧵

let me say this again, for the people in the back:

WITHOUT CONSENT THERE IS NO FREEDOM OR LIBERTY

this is why how a society treats #rape is the #1 flag for determining if they are devolving into #fascism

OPT-OUT SETTINGS IS #TECHBRO FOR NO CONSENT

all modern-day software, especially mobile software, is built on a technological metaphor for rape.

because if i have to opt-out of features, that means i didn't consent to them; and if you FORCE me to use them, then why do you have to? …🧵

La #LDH rappelle : l’hébergement des enfants et de leur famille est un droit, indispensable pour garantir leur protection, leur éducation et une vie digne, comme inscrits dans la #Cide !

https://www.humanite.fr/societe/acces-au-logement/zero-enfant-a-la-rue-quatre-ans-apres-la-promesse-de-macron-la-france-compte-2-355-enfants-sans-abri

On #Mastodon there are
425 verified accounts from #news organizations in
20 languages,
29 countries and on
112 instances.

187 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@wochendaemmerung (GER)
@BRUZZbe (NLD)
@tivilehti (FIN)
@aiurri (BAQ)
@mediapart (FRA)

Find the whole list on:
➡️ https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html

Built by @mho

BUYING & DESTROYING RARE BOOKS FOR AISLOPPING IS COERCED PRIVATIZATION OF WORKS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

scraping without consent is theft. so is buying and destroying rare books, after making a unique digital copy for your slopware.

the buying doesn't relieve you from the fact you are destroying books, WITHOUT CONSENT FROM THE AUTHOR, to literally reprivatize that knowledge under a copyright you had no right to claim in the first place.

WITHOUT CONSENT THERE IS NO FREEDOM OR LIBERTY

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Out in Britannia Park today getting petitions signed to stop the cuts to education.
#Ottawa

when it comes to Free/Libre Open Source Software, that LIBRE there does all the heavy lifting. it’s why when speaking of #FLOSS we not only say

FREE AS IN FREE BEER

but also

FREE AS IN FREEDOM

that LIBRE is there to make sure that the free in there means monetary, social and political relationship.

that LIBRE there is to emphasize the FREE is CONSENSUAL AND UN-COERCED

which brings me to, not just the scraping without consent but buying & destroying of rare books …🧵

i may be spitballing here, but in this discussion by @sidereal

https://kolektiva.social/@sidereal/117179520584766936

it just occurred to me also:
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117179717295676352

if #FLOSS developers are going to be paying tokens ―in kind or cash― to a multimillion dollar, venture-capital funded or publicly traded corporation for their #aislop code, then the FREE and LIBRE part of FLOSS isn't anymore.

now that part of the FLOSS codebase will now depend on that tokenized labor.

in other words: LLM/AI is antithetical to FLOSS

@datarama @cocaine_owlbear @emenel @zzt Yep. I'm absolutely certain that there exist classes of self-awareness tests that 100% of humans would fail. (Not sure I can suggest what they might look like, but: it's a dead cert we'd fail a test designed for a sapient fungus, for example.)

To put Trump’s Venezuela oil announcement into perspective.

65 billion barrels of oil that are exceedingly sour (sulphurous) and (I have just heard) will take at least 5 years to bring to American markets.

A time frame in which *a lot* will change.

And 65 billion barrels represents less than 2 years of current global oil demand.

if POSIX is so good why is there no POSIX SEVEN gets shot

so i have questions about #Debian:

1. are members ONLY developers?

2. only developers argued for/against #LLM #AI?

devs are the last people who should be involved in discussions about the ethics and legality of software. ie:

just reckoned, when a court recently decided you can't claim #copyright on #aislop, it didn't occur to me it means both closed and open copyright.

so, if using #LLMs trained on works stolen or added without consent removes any claims of #FLOSS: what is Debian now?

Victims first: Commissioner for Human Rights supports action on enforced disappearances https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/victims-first-commissioner-for-human-rights-supports-action-on-enforced-disappearances

if it fits I sits

#Marigolds growing & blooming, beside some strawberry plants, beside my bedroom window(not seen in photo).

@PhoenixSerenity

My wife is disabled so I planted her a deck garden easily accessibe, with lots of marigolds.

"Friggin Go Away Nazi Freaks"
Covering up fash propaganda in Penrith, NSW