?????

ethically, it's like saying "if we don't feed the orphan paste to the starving, then we ground up all those orphans for nothing."

Practically, the exploits being found aren't anything special. The tools that find them are hopeless at patching them. And, the entire time you use them, they are corroding your ability to do so yourself.

And they aren't getting better, because they can't. The people who use machine learning tools for what they are actuallly good at, such as poring over petabytes (sp?) of images looking for something the user has programmed them to find, knew this over a decade ago.

these things are being lied about wholesale, and a lot of people are buying it.

Lastly, using them demonstrably turns you into a fucking credulous moron, even if you started out the opposite.

Next question.

"I realize that some people really dislike Russia, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.

"Linux is not one of those anti-Russian projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.{...}

"Russia has maintainers, just like other countries do. And they're clearly useful."

Ooh, wait, those aren't the same. It's as if Torvalds hasn't noticed "AI" is a weaponized disaster.

/me guzzling LNG like nobody's business, farting toxic fumes, and generating 60 dB of infrasounds: huh?

The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology.

Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the point of the project.

and this right here is why ‘open source’ has always been the bullshit version of ‘free software’.

It's one of those times when I think FreeBSD has better judgment in some choices, despite the OS lags behind in some areas for lack of devs.
They are looking how use AI, yes, but they are taking more time about evaluating where they works for and what avoid about, and are a lot more conservative.

As someone who struggled with this too, don't worry too much about things you can't control. Scrap the things you can scrap, and the things you can't scrap, be vocal about them and try to not give them any money. That's about all we can do.

Fine. I'll come out and just say it.

Linus Torvalds was once a fantastic programmer, but he has always been a fucking asshole.

The only difference now is that he is a fucking STUPID asshole.