Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:36 Sponsor: TuxCare
01:46 KDE’s AI policy
06:42 Existing AI policies
10:06 Going further on AI
12:58 My stance on AI
17:05 FOSS projects: yes or no to AI?
28:02 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computer
Ridiculous anti-AI hysteria is pushed by the AI companies themselves to make the anti-AI side look insane. Don’t fall for it.
plus there is absolutely no way of knowing how many of the pro-AI voices are even real people
the hysteria is taking on a new life of its own and i guess it makes sense considering how people’s materials conditions are being diminished on our education system as well as our media doesn’t enable us to understand why or how.
Might not be user-facing AI slop tools, but the code sure seems to be more and more AI LLM stuff:
https://discuss.kde.org/t/sorry-to-bring-up-a-contentious-topic-kde-ai-llm-policy/46333 (At least that’s what the pushback from multiple contributors against the notion that perhaps LLM code shouldn’t be fed into KDE, seems to suggest.)
a worthwhile read in regards to what pushing AI does to a contributor and a community: https://blog.fallible.net/it-breaks-a-village/
I’m getting a lot of questions about KDE becoming an AI desktop that I feel like is answered by my “KDE is not becoming an AI desktop” video.
Wait, is KDE becoming an AI desktop? Your video is unclear.
I think it is, why else would the video be so insistent it isn’t?
I guess kde publicly addressing AI usage goes to show how much this fear has become mass hysteria
I prefer this response to Gerard’s rant:
MaddieM added even more that I thought was salient in another response:
Bringing an on-going discussion from outside into a thread with which it bore no relationship, The correct way to proceed is to alert mods, sysadmins or another participant in the discussion privately. What happened is akin to someone walking into a restaurant and seemingly randomly punching another patron. They’re going to get thrown out.
Damn what a completely out of touch response. Many people point out that this was basically a badly handled abuse report that a user brought to a main thread instead of reporting, however that does not and never did justify the original and continued ban of the first person to report on it.
I am especially galled by the “and ad hominem attacks on another user (even if it turned out they deserved it).” bit. Dude, maybe someone’s motivations matter. Acting like attacking someone’s motivations are always out of place is part of what lets this kind of shit fester and grow. Everyone has motivations, and a lot of people’s motivations are deeply unsavory.
Bruh my Kubuntu minimal install. Welp. *sigh que sera sera, we all move on sometime.
Budgie
Just use i3 and not KDE lol
i3 is way too barebones. Also it’s not as extensible as KDE. Also it’s strictly tiling, while most ppl prefers stacking and/or floating WMs.
Also, it’s tainted:
- https://github.com/i3/i3?tab=contributing-ov-file#ai-contribution-policy
- https://github.com/i3/i3/commit/8f09b7f04632a9b99f2a5f584401659589dd008e
- https://github.com/i3/i3/commit/9be3249ac5b377ed3270e36bca83df53d8023337
tainted
I recently used that word as hyperbole to make fun of a user who insisted that AI-less comments from someone who used AI once should count as AI.
I didn’t know the cult actually uses that word. How far will the insanity go?
I don’t want my WM of choice to be X11-based.
or CDE instead of KDE.
The true Cool Desktop Environment.
Actually happy with Umbriel + Noctalia. Last straw to KDE is I prefer QT over GTK.
Noctalia is vibe-coded.
Got some evidence for that?
Noctalia looks interesting. Never heard of it before. Unfortunately though there’s no packages for Void Linux.
