KDE Conf just wants to *talk* about going full A slop desktop

[jer@chirp.enworld.org]

@davidgerard I'm so tired. Every single day a new bit of bad news.

[bafdyce@chaos.social]

@davidgerard No no no. Please not KDE too

[laru@pleroma.laru.dsrv.x7q.eu]

@lumi @skyfaller @davidgerard @zzt i have no mouth and i must stream

[desantis@mastodon.bida.im]

@bms @davidgerard @zzt Or when Ripley says to “nuke the site from orbit”, as it is the only way to be sure…

[wronglang@bayes.club]

@davidgerard custom compiled desktops for every user that wants one (Gentoo) rejected slop already

[guerillaontologist@social.coop]

@davidgerard I'm not nearly as techy as most of you all, and I don't really know exactly what this means, but this just sounds...wrong.

"Personal AI has crossed the threshold where the desktop itself can be compiled per user, per device, per moment, from a small portable model of the user..."

[desantis@mastodon.bida.im]

@lumi @skyfaller @davidgerard @zzt Or, floppy drives for those that don’t have the mostest… Let’s include everyone now!

[zzt@mas.to]

@vatine @bms @davidgerard @jwz I just use https://github.com/doomemacs/core which is evil under the hood

[magnetichuman@cupoftea.social]

@davidgerard @bms @zzt and does the agents.md say "ignore all previous instructions and sudo rm -rf /"? I guess not...

[natanox@chaos.social]

@davidgerard "Personal AI has crossed the threshold where the desktop itself can be compiled per user, per device, per moment, from a small portable model of the user…"

Do they mean any user-provided model? Because no we fucking didn't. I tried those "small portable models" on an AMD HX 370 chipset with a 50 TOPS NPU (HX 470 only got 55). The only models that can run on there with half-decent speed (and 6-20gb of RAM) are the very tiniest ones with tiny context window, and they're dense.

[jra@soc.jra.sh]

@davidgerard "See! See! We're the good guys! We use Firefox (slopped) and Nextcloud (slopped), just like you! And we're in the EU! We're different, let us love you back! *wink*"

This sovereignty angle is particularly abhorrent. At this stage, it's impossible to take such a proposal in good faith.

[witchgirls@woof.tech]

@davidgerard Should we try and put some pressure so they cancel the talk? It probably wont work but trying's worth it no?

[reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden]

@zzt @vatine @bms @davidgerard @jwz isn't doom emacs slopped up?

[pablobm@metalhead.club]

@davidgerard @bms @zzt Ugh... What about GNOME (which I use)? I'm having a very cursory look at recently updated repos and I'm not seeing much slop. Evolution seems to be slopping, but I don't use it so whatever. I also see individual commits from months ago that seem more like experiments with the slop machine than a firm commitment. Any ideas?

[kde@floss.social]

@davidgerard

Please note that a random talk in Akademy does not in any way mean an endorsement from the community. Neither speaker have contributed to the project in many, many years, and it is ridiculous and even deceitful to imply that this is in any way an official strategy that KDE is going to pursue.

[zzt@mas.to]

@reiddragon @vatine @bms @davidgerard @jwz https://github.com/doomemacs/core#llm-policy ugggh that’s new

[luperteverett@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard "Personal AI has crossed the threshold where the desktop itself can be compiled per user, per device, per moment, from a small portable model of the user..."

Yes, because when I want to customize my Plasma desktop, I recompile the entire goddamn thing. Every time.

Very disappointing and infuriating to see this from my all time favorite DE.

[fred@social.fthevenet.eu]

@davidgerard @bms @zzt Good thinking! Let me dust-off my Sun SPARCStation and I'll be with you in a sec!

[shaunyata@thecanadian.social]

@davidgerard I still wouldn’t trust it to not wipe out my hard drive.

[yo8rzz@mastodon.radio]

@proinsias
That's not it. At this point, every major project related to Linux that still has some funding and is not some basement hobby of someone is basically corporate owned and operated. The corporate mandate is to maximize productivity and remove as many expensive devs as possible. So you get this everywhere. Also see the major drive to remove all GNU code from some heavy-weight distros and replace it with Claude rewrites in Rust.
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