RT if you want a CLEAR statement about AI from all GNU/Linux distributions and are ready to quit any distribution that is ok with integrating AI slopware.
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@ParadeGrotesque @breizh @Khrys The door is not 100% closed in NetBSD
“Code generated by a large language model or similar technology [...] is presumed to be tainted code, and must not be committed without prior written approval by core.”
An approval can be given
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@ParadeGrotesque @breizh @Khrys The door is not 100% closed in NetBSD
“Code generated by a large language model or similar technology [...] is presumed to be tainted code, and must not be committed without prior written approval by core.”
An approval can be given
What you say is true, but I don't see NetBSD core team give an approval of this kind any time soon.
As far as I know, nothing has been approved so far, but I'll welcome information and corrections from the #netbsd developers on the Fediverse (and there are quite a few here).
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RT if you want a CLEAR statement about AI from all GNU/Linux distributions and are ready to quit any distribution that is ok with integrating AI slopware.
@Khrys With low level system libraries getting on the AI bandwagon, it may very soon be impossible to have an AI free distro.
We are well and truly screwed.
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@ParadeGrotesque @breizh @Khrys Anyway: you have your AI-Free kernel. Nice. Then all the softwares that will run on this kernel, ranging from the shell to the web browser have to be AI-free
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@Khrys
Since I read that systemd is going to include slop, a lot of them is concern -
@Khrys Ready to quit ?
It depends ... what is the degree of cleaness that we consider ?I may be wrong, but isn't the linux kernel project already accepting contributions made with the use of AI-generated code ?
If this is the case, then there is no such GNU/Linux AI-free distribution anymore.
Edit: to avoid confusion, that would be something I regret. But would I have the strength to resist it ? I don't know.
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@ParadeGrotesque @breizh @Khrys Anyway: you have your AI-Free kernel. Nice. Then all the softwares that will run on this kernel, ranging from the shell to the web browser have to be AI-free
BSD user land (shell, utilities, etc.) is part of the distribution, and is often created and maintained by the same developers as the kernel.
So no AI there either.
Which means BSDs, in general, are more consistent and have slightly lighter utilities than Linux.
For example: ksh is usually a version of pdksh, and is maintained by several developers from all 3 major BSDs (if I remember well).
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Btw if you didn't see it yet, there is a list of projects that pledged not to use AI or are disrupting it https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html -
@shaft@piaille.fr @Khrys@mamot.fr There you have.
https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.html
Time to switch to BSD ? Well, I don’t know their position.
RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116220642823558416
@breizh re: Linux, thank you for providing the missing link to docs.kernel.org.
There are multiple BSD distros.
For FreeBSD, the quoted post might help.
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Since I read that systemd is going to include slop, a lot of them is concern -
RT if you want a CLEAR statement about AI from all GNU/Linux distributions and are ready to quit any distribution that is ok with integrating AI slopware.
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GNU Guix has its own init system, so wouldn't be immediately scuppered by the contrary position of systemd.
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RT if you want a CLEAR statement about AI from all GNU/Linux distributions and are ready to quit any distribution that is ok with integrating AI slopware.
@Khrys It's Linux. And yes.
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@Khrys why? For security concerns? For ethical reasons?
'Now we come to the third and final novel AI psychosis, the critics' psychosis, that AI is an abnormally terrible technology. This is a species of "criti-hype," which is when critics repeat the hyped-up claims of the companies they're targeting, but as criticism'
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/12/normal-technology/#bubble-exceptionalism
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@Khrys
Since I read that systemd is going to include slop, a lot of them is concern@dallo @Khrys That ship sailed a long time ago. Systemd has always been slop. To the point of actually proposing changes to the kernel command line to hack around bugs in systemd rather than fix them, which earned quite the colorful response from Linus.
But that's what is widely used so ... well, whatever. I figure if that's how you be you may as well use AI. Do the JIRA shuffle on fast forward.
vOv
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Source that Linux kernel project may receive AI-assisted contributions ?
I cannot point to an example of such a contribution but at least the documentation indicates that it is now explicitely allowed:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v7.0-rc1/process/coding-assistants.html
(github source:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst) -
Source that Linux kernel project may receive AI-assisted contributions ?
I cannot point to an example of such a contribution but at least the documentation indicates that it is now explicitely allowed:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v7.0-rc1/process/coding-assistants.html
(github source:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst)I'm familiar with the contributions to the kernel Linux, but the GNU utilities I don't believe is in the same situation.
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