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Can you provide an example of such port? All git forges support tarballs anyway and the .git directory contains compressed blobs.

This. And both can have compress=off set as they contain compressed files.

Claude & ChatGPT are pretty good at Ansible because it's well documented.

Every tech has its pros and cons. We can't highlight only the negative aspects. LLMs aren't special. Lots of people with no programming background are happy that they can make stuff they couldn't do before. We must also see the positive aspects.

Ideally it should be we, the people. At least there's some consensus in that LLM output can't be copyrightable. That's why thorough human review is important. I myself don't believe in software patents, not so much because algorithms are math as Knuth said, but because they're a...

I think I know a thing or two about McCarthyism because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tascón_List It starts with shaming projects and eventually shaming also developers. Do you know about the Unabomber? There are lots of crazies out there.

With the hyperbole and inflammatory language around datacenters burning the planet, killing salmon and so on, this is dangerous.

Shame on Codeberg for allowing this McCarthyism.

It's documented here: https://wiki.netbsd.org/zfs/ ZFS on root isn't supported in the installer yet, though, and I don't quite understand the wiki here: https://wiki.netbsd.org/root_on_zfs/ Also interesting: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2025/12/19/msg033689.html

If we discuss the ethics: 1. We'll never agree on them pleasing everybody or even most people. 2. We genuinely risk that other countries develop more powerful models because they don't have the same moral itch as us. We must know how the models behave with all the data produced by mankind...

LLMs came here to stay and we have to learn to live with it. I was also skeptical at first but the technology has potential. We have to find a middle ground between the AI optimism and the doomerism. The latter only contributes to AI exceptionalism, and thus to the hype. It all depends on...

The UN has no such powers.

No. We're all much better than that. Arguing is a petty-bourgeois vice.

GPL code in training doesn't make any generated code GPL. Good luck to the FSF arguing that in court, though IANAL. GPL infection is done via linking and libraries may contain the linking exception or use the LGPL.

This is not true. I'm not a fan of Wikipedia but here are some pointers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_and_copyright They won't go after NetBSD. Lawsuits are all about money.

The chance of this happening is close to nil. Why isn't NetBSD afraid of Oracle lawsuits over ZFS then?

In the worst case scenario, the code belongs to the Public Domain. That's why we shouldn't just accept whatever is copy/pasted but heavily modify it after review. LLM's are just another tool like compilers.

I kinda agree. I see some problematic developments: 1. Heavy-metal tends to be guitar-solo centric and over time the tendency has been to play them to perfection. So on one end of the spectrum you have Led Zeppelin, where each live album is different from each other, and in the other you have...

I bought a G11 at the store just yesterday and it's sad that they now produce 2 invoices. One for $159 so they pay less taxes and refund less to you and another with the real price that they tell you they won't refund. The whole thing is shady now. Sigh. At least I got a €30 discount code...