@cas HN has had quite hot takes these past few, but so far I've seen this one a lot outside HN. Glad you're bringing it up and replying to it in a comprehensive toot ^^

saw someone on HN say they will never contribute to Nura again since we ban LLM generated contributions (they had receipts too, they had contributed in the past)

their argument was that having done device porting manually before, doing it with an LLM was something like 10x faster

having seen the various LLM driven ports going around, we can't deny that LLMs are capable of doing kernel bringup, finding a functional implementation, and making many more attempts to trial and error than we humans are.

of course, this doesn't come without a cost, as with most technical advancements this cost is mostly offloaded onto those without the resources to prevent it -- the under educated working class and the global south, those who will be most affected by droughts and worsening climate change

this is reason enough to disengage from this technology, at least the implementations of it that cause most of this harm, but there is another more devious issue that i haven't seen mentioned a whole lot

in the same way that huge retail chains and global shipping extract wealth from small towns, LLMs extract knowledge from communities

the Nura wiki and other infrastructure was unusable for days at a time due to web scraping, and now imposes a proof of work on visitors (which also prevents access from old devices)

now that this data is in accessible models, people who aren't active in our community can use an LLM to port a device, to generate their own private documentation, they can enable devices in the mainline kernel or contribute to other upstreams if their LLM patches are accepted. People that may normally have become active members of the Nura community instead engage with a chatbot operated by big tech, which of course uses their chat history for training new models

As maintainers, for us to allow LLMs into our community would in my opinion be the beginning of the end, as our community knowledge base would be gutted, developers would become burnt out and disillusioned, and our culture would be erased.

Recently various people have been looking for ways to express a work does not include AI. I'm proud to announce that I have fixed this long-standing issue.

@q66 what phone is that?

squiggly underline support in #meli

#terminal #email #tui #Rust

Just tagged #nuraeco / #postmarketOS #pmbootstrap 3.12.0: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/tags/3.12.0

There's no single headlining feature in this release IMO but plenty of smaller changes that I hope will lead to a slightly better developer experience!

The urge to reply to LLM-generated GitLab issues with this

Well done to Microsoft for having two different mobile apps called Copilot which do different things.

@chergert it's just glass

@domi @pj @jane I run it inside sway/wayland, with a GPU that barely works.

When it crashes again, I would try to tweak `mpv --vo=help` and see if that fixes anything. Some vo backends may work better than others.

@karpour the color scheme is actually from a "Nintendo Desktop Manager" theme, minus the fancy UI after I uninstalled their WindowBlinds-clone app

https://archive.org/details/Official-Nintendo-WinXP-Themes

@q66

> the other stuff i've only seen vague claims about, usually coupled with "but the repos are so tiny" (which uh, yeah they are not debian sized but there's like, every major desktop, most major foss programs, and lots of smaller things in there, what else do you want? are you gonna wait until your more niche packages magically appear in there? because that's not gonna happen without someone actually doing it)

They don't know that chimera the project does not have many members? I think it's already very impressive to have a repo this big with a community this small.

Python 3.15.0 release day!

First blocker, we're getting 503s on https://docs.python.org and https://buildbot.python.org, the latter of which is needed to check the tier 1 and 2 buildbots are passing, needed for a release.

It's a certificate issue from an incompatible pyOpenSSL upgrade. We're waiting for the US to wake up and poke it with a stick.

#Python #Python315

@chergert This is giving me liquid glass vibes but without the liquid part.

@pj @jane I use mpv all the time and never had that issue. Maybe play around with --vo?

@chergert but yeah, it is slow :P

@chergert my armv7's gpu supports only opengl es 2.0 so it's fully software-rendered.

@thomasadam I will absolutely happily package this in alpine

#tmux #noai

I've done a fair bit of tmux development over the years.

Here's the last version (tmux-3.6a) before any known AI was introduced:

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/tmux

I'm absolutely willing to maintain this and make it available, etc.

Depends on how much appetite there is for it.

@chergert I've noticed in general that libadwaita does slow down things a lot, at least that's just my experience.

Using nautilus on an old armv7 board for example, I get much better performance when I break/disable libadwaita (GTK_THEME=asdf). It makes nautilus look strange, but performance is a lot better. Maybe it's that?