things this post does:1.
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@Yuvalne thanks for taking the time to read it.
But the only reason that post exists in the first place is because my project turned down the LLM help from someone who really likes and uses LLMs.
Their reaction and the personal example is what put me in mind of my twenties. Tech does have a consent issue.
It's not hard for a project to say no.
There is definitely an element of "but he does good work" in these projects that accept the fascist or other forms of abusive people.
The Scolds Bridle is relevant as well thinking about it in context with Nates post and how he characterises the kdeforpeople.com website:
"It's the need to shame the shamers because you felt scolded. We harshed your buzz and goodness, don't you just want to make us pay for it so we never do it again."
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The Scolds Bridle is relevant as well thinking about it in context with Nates post and how he characterises the kdeforpeople.com website:
"It's the need to shame the shamers because you felt scolded. We harshed your buzz and goodness, don't you just want to make us pay for it so we never do it again."
@onepict another great read, thanks again! really i just need to add your blog to my RSS reader it seems.
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@onepict another great read, thanks again! really i just need to add your blog to my RSS reader it seems.
@onepict also it's not .org but .com. i know because i nearly made that mistake myself a few times.
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@onepict also it's not .org but .com. i know because i nearly made that mistake myself a few times.
i guess .org domains are quite expensive.@Yuvalne I shall update that toot.
.org really shouldn't be that expensive and I wish that registry wasn't held by the owners.
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@onepict another great read, thanks again! really i just need to add your blog to my RSS reader it seems.
@Yuvalne I promise I don't update it too much.
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RE: https://floss.social/@kde/117322549131682125
things this post does:
1. place the blame on the KDE community
2. dismiss kdeforpeople.com as an external pressure group
3. dismiss opinions of non-direct contributors as irrelevantthings this post doesn't do:
1. apologise
2. mention that the person who escalated this shitstorm was a literal nazi
3. call the pro-AI presentation a pressure campaign like it did with kdeforpeople.com
4. make literally any lessons for the future
5. apologise!!i no longer consider #KDE a community project.
@Yuvalne
Wow, good job #KDE at proving my assumptions that you don't care.https://mastodon.social/@dzwiedziu/117311625320802919
This is almost literally saying “this job would be perfect, if it weren't for the users”.
Also the author mentions the harms “AI” does and then goes on “but it's good for some people”.
Like, what we're even doing here?
(Maybe I should just post this under that quoted post and light up the @davidgerard signal?)
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@Yuvalne As one of those folks who signed. I did so as an active user of KDE on Debian.
I signed it as I wanted to make it clear that as an indicator of consent. I don't.
More user communities should.
I'm going to have to figure out a new Desktop environment when I rebuild my machine. DE and packages become popular because folks install them and gosh, become users of your stuff.
I don't know why this is so hard for the Devs to understand.
@onepict
I first I thought this is about a nazi at a bar, but putdown artist works very well.(Personal on PUAs: I have a personal beef with PUAs, as I got entangled by them years ago, when I was younger, didn't went far, but fucked up my love life anyway.)
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Wikipedia is a community project, OpenStreetMap is a community project.
KDE is Open Source Software.
There are users around KDE, but not all are part of the KDE users community. Many of them does not care about development if all works as they like.
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@dzwiedziu @Yuvalne There's always a way back.
I'm glad you were able to recognise the harm to you and to others.
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@dzwiedziu @Yuvalne As a KDE user since 0.98, as a OpenStreetMap contributor since 2013, as a developer who does not like LLM, I care.
But I also understood how OSS projects works and I understood that LLM is and will be there. And it is only on developers how they set rules. Unfortunately constructive discussion was ruined by several aggressive people
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@dzwiedziu @Yuvalne As a KDE user since 0.98, as a OpenStreetMap contributor since 2013, as a developer who does not like LLM, I care.
But I also understood how OSS projects works and I understood that LLM is and will be there. And it is only on developers how they set rules. Unfortunately constructive discussion was ruined by several aggressive people
️ And this is not OK.@mkyral
> (…) I understood that LLM is and will be there.https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/10/ai-is-here-to-stay-is-it-though-what-do-you-mean-stay/
> And it is only on developers how they set rules.
So the developers don't care about the users (again!)
> Unfortunately constructive discussion was ruined by several aggressive people
️ And this is not OKNo, it is not okay.
But locking the rest of the community out the discussion looks like “not caring”.
There are moderation tools for this, FFS!
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RE: https://floss.social/@kde/117322549131682125
things this post does:
1. place the blame on the KDE community
2. dismiss kdeforpeople.com as an external pressure group
3. dismiss opinions of non-direct contributors as irrelevantthings this post doesn't do:
1. apologise
2. mention that the person who escalated this shitstorm was a literal nazi
3. call the pro-AI presentation a pressure campaign like it did with kdeforpeople.com
4. make literally any lessons for the future
5. apologise!!i no longer consider #KDE a community project.
@Yuvalne
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RE: https://floss.social/@kde/117322549131682125
things this post does:
1. place the blame on the KDE community
2. dismiss kdeforpeople.com as an external pressure group
3. dismiss opinions of non-direct contributors as irrelevantthings this post doesn't do:
1. apologise
2. mention that the person who escalated this shitstorm was a literal nazi
3. call the pro-AI presentation a pressure campaign like it did with kdeforpeople.com
4. make literally any lessons for the future
5. apologise!!i no longer consider #KDE a community project.
@Yuvalne it seems to be a pattern that Open Source projects "test the water" with this stuff, and then when they don't like the response the responsible parties just go "Fuck the water and everyone in it, this isn't for their benefit anyway"
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@mkyral
> (…) I understood that LLM is and will be there.https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/10/ai-is-here-to-stay-is-it-though-what-do-you-mean-stay/
> And it is only on developers how they set rules.
So the developers don't care about the users (again!)
> Unfortunately constructive discussion was ruined by several aggressive people
️ And this is not OKNo, it is not okay.
But locking the rest of the community out the discussion looks like “not caring”.
There are moderation tools for this, FFS!
@dzwiedziu @Yuvalne I already mentioned this above…
https://mamutovo.cz/@mkyral/117324801694986398
And also there is a big group of users that did not stepped into discussion yet because they don't care about development process but only if they like the result.
Also sentence:
"So the developers don't care about the users (again!)"
is not true - these users are loud, but definitive does not represent all users. E.g. they don't represent me.
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@dzwiedziu @Yuvalne I already mentioned this above…
https://mamutovo.cz/@mkyral/117324801694986398
And also there is a big group of users that did not stepped into discussion yet because they don't care about development process but only if they like the result.
Also sentence:
"So the developers don't care about the users (again!)"
is not true - these users are loud, but definitive does not represent all users. E.g. they don't represent me.
@mkyral
Fork a large FOSS project, in THIS economy? \s> And also there is a big group of users that did not stepped into discussion yet because they don't care about development process but only if they like the result.
This is “silent majority” vibes. As in pretending to speak for the users that didn't weigh in.
Because you did a survey with those users, and that's where you got this opinion, so this is the source of your care?
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@Yuvalne
I imagine you've seen the famous presentation, and haven't formed an opinion merely based on the title?@iinavpov just using Nate's own characterisation of that presentation as "a talk proposing “a lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE” [that] had been accepted at Akademy 2026".
if kdeforpeople.com, a mere list of signatures, is "an attempt to [crossed out: brigade] pressure KDE into banning LLMs", how's that presentation as Nate describes it not an attempt to pressure KDE into embracing them?
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@iinavpov just using Nate's own characterisation of that presentation as "a talk proposing “a lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE” [that] had been accepted at Akademy 2026".
if kdeforpeople.com, a mere list of signatures, is "an attempt to [crossed out: brigade] pressure KDE into banning LLMs", how's that presentation as Nate describes it not an attempt to pressure KDE into embracing them?
if the presentation as Nate describes it is not that, how's kdeforpeople.com also not what he calls it?@Yuvalne
Nate is clear he hasn't seen the talk. He's clearly tried to gauge how it was received.I actually saw the talk. The title is very much disconnected from the content. I have no information on reception.
It *very much* wasn't pushing LLMs. So as far as pressuring anyone, it was doing a pretty terrible job.
You should go see it: it may make you revisit how trustworthy this or that account of events is.
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@Yuvalne
Nate is clear he hasn't seen the talk. He's clearly tried to gauge how it was received.I actually saw the talk. The title is very much disconnected from the content. I have no information on reception.
It *very much* wasn't pushing LLMs. So as far as pressuring anyone, it was doing a pretty terrible job.
You should go see it: it may make you revisit how trustworthy this or that account of events is.
@iinavpov so if Nate hasn't seen the talk, why is it fair for him to characterise it as "a talk proposing “a lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE” [that] had been accepted at Akademy 2026"? and why is it okay for KDE to repeat that claim by sharing his post as a "first-hand, blow-by-blow account on what went down"?
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@iinavpov so if Nate hasn't seen the talk, why is it fair for him to characterise it as "a talk proposing “a lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE” [that] had been accepted at Akademy 2026"? and why is it okay for KDE to repeat that claim by sharing his post as a "first-hand, blow-by-blow account on what went down"?
if Nate hasn't seen the presentation then it's not a "first-hand, blow-by-blow account on what went down", and if he misrepresents it then it's not "a verifiable timeline of events".@iinavpov also, you focusing on the part that worries me the least about the whole thing and specifically asking me again to watch the presentation, which is ireelevant because the post you're replying to is about what Nate's response does and doesn't do, is pretty much a form of sealioning.
so instead of getting distracted i'll ask you directly about the thing that worry me:
