KDE Conf just wants to *talk* about going full A slop desktop
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"[...] turned you into UI guinea pigs".
Yeah... I thought that was Gnome's job?!?
@fred @davidgerard division of labour struggles in the FOSS world I reckon...
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KDE Conf just wants to *talk* about going full A slop desktop
https://conf.kde.org/event/11/contributions/314/
fuckin
@davidgerard
> what would it take for KDE to be the desktop people actively choose, not just the one some of us settle for?
I do just love the lack of self-awareness in this sentence, this conference talk is the exact answer to the opposite question. Plenty of people actively stay away from software that's "AI-native", so AI is clearly not the answer to making a desktop people would actively choose. -
@davidgerard@circumstances.run
I like and currently use KDE.
I don't want my desktop to love me. I want it to launch and organize programs, notify me of things, and not get in the goddamn way.@ozzelot @davidgerard as a kde user myself, exactly the same
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KDE Conf just wants to *talk* about going full A slop desktop
https://conf.kde.org/event/11/contributions/314/
fuckin
@davidgerard no no no no, not like this...
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@skyfaller @zzt @davidgerard so sad that computers don't have cd-rom drives anymore...
@lumi @skyfaller @davidgerard @zzt some fun trivia: in south africa 3.5in floppies used to be called stiffy disks. so we had stiffy drives. was good times
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KDE Conf just wants to *talk* about going full A slop desktop
https://conf.kde.org/event/11/contributions/314/
fuckin
sir i dont want my desktop
to „love me back“ - the thing i love (haha) about computers is that they can be (totally in theory, sometimes it happens actually in practice) deterministic without emotional baggage and all the complications it usually brings…actually my love here is totally NOT unconditional but hard bound to the thing to work and not annoy or surprise me
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note how this promises a bunch of shit that AI coding doesn't even do slightly.
custom compiled desktops for every user! what?
(that's the Resonant Computing manifesto, a document completely detached from technical reality https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/17/the-resonant-computing-manifesto-same-ai-slop-same-ai-guys/ )
this "talk" looks like someone at KDE has made the decision to go slop and is trying to generate the appearance of consent. you've seen this playbook repeatedly.
also this abstract was written with a chatbot
@davidgerard "custom compiled desktops for ever user"
That sounds like some shit suckless would do. I use Plasma because I don't want to deal with that! -
KDE Conf just wants to *talk* about going full A slop desktop
https://conf.kde.org/event/11/contributions/314/
fuckin
@davidgerard
@kde Please no.
I don't need a desktop to "love me". I need it to work reliably.
I don't need a desktop to "know me better". I need it to respect my settings, my privacy and my compute. -
@davidgerard "custom compiled desktops for ever user"
That sounds like some shit suckless would do. I use Plasma because I don't want to deal with that!@jackemled @davidgerard I don't think they mean literally compiled (given that they talk about Activities, Plasmoids, etc), I think they mean "custom configuration".
But siccing an LLM onto a visual language is the last thing I'd wanna do. Remember Claude Design? -
note how this promises a bunch of shit that AI coding doesn't even do slightly.
custom compiled desktops for every user! what?
(that's the Resonant Computing manifesto, a document completely detached from technical reality https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/17/the-resonant-computing-manifesto-same-ai-slop-same-ai-guys/ )
this "talk" looks like someone at KDE has made the decision to go slop and is trying to generate the appearance of consent. you've seen this playbook repeatedly.
also this abstract was written with a chatbot
but david why won't you assume good faith in this proposal to add AI slop to KDE?
because it's made in polite and civil-toned bad faith
and KDE just accepted a conference submission written with a chatbot, the bad faith comes right there in the package
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but david why won't you assume good faith in this proposal to add AI slop to KDE?
because it's made in polite and civil-toned bad faith
and KDE just accepted a conference submission written with a chatbot, the bad faith comes right there in the package
@davidgerard why won’t you assume good faith from the type of person who’s been operating in maximally bad faith for at least 5 years continuously, if not longer?
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but david why won't you assume good faith in this proposal to add AI slop to KDE?
because it's made in polite and civil-toned bad faith
and KDE just accepted a conference submission written with a chatbot, the bad faith comes right there in the package
@davidgerard @zzt Oh crap. Not KDE now as well? *hovers over Trinity link*
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@jackemled @davidgerard I don't think they mean literally compiled (given that they talk about Activities, Plasmoids, etc), I think they mean "custom configuration".
But siccing an LLM onto a visual language is the last thing I'd wanna do. Remember Claude Design?@art_codesmith @davidgerard Plasma can already do that. Each one of my desktops looks absolutely nothing like anyone else's. See my "I sawed this panel in half!" post if you can find it.
I don't remember Claude Design & I don't want to. It sounds horrible & I never want to be exposed to it. I already feel molested enough each time my bank makes its app's UI worse.
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note how this promises a bunch of shit that AI coding doesn't even do slightly.
custom compiled desktops for every user! what?
(that's the Resonant Computing manifesto, a document completely detached from technical reality https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/17/the-resonant-computing-manifesto-same-ai-slop-same-ai-guys/ )
this "talk" looks like someone at KDE has made the decision to go slop and is trying to generate the appearance of consent. you've seen this playbook repeatedly.
also this abstract was written with a chatbot
@davidgerard Seems rather normal for this kinda project.
It's a huge beast of project trying to compete with Windows and MacOS UI's that are long knee deep in this stuff.
Thankfully there's not a shortage of desktop toys to choose from.
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@davidgerard @zzt Oh crap. Not KDE now as well? *hovers over Trinity link*
@bms @zzt i am sorry to say that TDE went full slop a while ago
https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tde/issues/288
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but david why won't you assume good faith in this proposal to add AI slop to KDE?
because it's made in polite and civil-toned bad faith
and KDE just accepted a conference submission written with a chatbot, the bad faith comes right there in the package
@davidgerard never offer faith, where money is involved. Make them say that shit.
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@bms @zzt i am sorry to say that TDE went full slop a while ago
https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tde/issues/288
@davidgerard @zzt The appropriate cutscene now would seem to be Lt. Gorman in "Aliens" (1986) spouting "Ahhhhh shit." and ordering his marines to fall back and use the incinerators.
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@davidgerard "custom compiled desktops for ever user"
That sounds like some shit suckless would do. I use Plasma because I don't want to deal with that!@jackemled @davidgerard I use Gentoo, to have the experience of a custom compiled desktop without as much AI slop
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@davidgerard @zzt The appropriate cutscene now would seem to be Lt. Gorman in "Aliens" (1986) spouting "Ahhhhh shit." and ordering his marines to fall back and use the incinerators.
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