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@BrodieOnLinux Is this #Wayland devs being like: "don't publicize the restrictions we are trying to implement because if developers find out about it they might ask us a few questions", or am I missing something?

@summerfallwinter

The fact that this very nicely made text art is "half-assed" for you, because you already spent a bunch of time refining your art which you did (semi?)-professionally, actually just shows the real appeal of ai-"art" tools.

I mean don't get me wrong, I appreciate your talent, but I don't have it, and so for me AI is a handy tool to do visual art in the few free minutes I have to do that.

#aiArt

@noodlemaz @summerfallwinter No, you are wrong, I'm trying to engage, it is just hard when one side kinda digs their heel in and adapts an absolutist philosophy on the topic with no wiggle room. What is it there to discuss, where the answer is always "only 0 gen AI is acceptable and it is the literal Shaitan"?

To be a bit cheeky, I'll pay exactly as much as fan artists payed to the IP holders for their fan art :) Artists one day used to believe in the "fair use" exceptions to copyright.

@noodlemaz @summerfallwinter I have a bit of a difficult time to express this clearly and neutrally, and don't take it as an accusation against you personally, as I don't know you.

But I feel like that most artists who are vocal against AI tools are just doing it out of convenience, it is a hot topic, and can be used simply as a proxy to express some "I am better than you" attitude, many artists seem to be cursed with.

@noodlemaz @summerfallwinter It is so hard for me to avoid being extremely snarky as a response here, so excuse me if my tone is not perfect here.

This is the exact attitude I see at almost every place on the internet with artists. The "every human made art is better than any AI-assisted creation" facade crumbles as fast as an art style/type comes up that the specific person disapproves.

@noodlemaz @summerfallwinter
I'm also a scientist, and part time "creative" 😜

I don't think that genAI "possesses" anything. Its training is basically extracting mathematical / statistical information from images (or text), which is not even close to any meaning of "stealing", (even if we consider intellectual property, which many argue can't be "stolen"), and under copyright law is quite clearly "transformative" use. In the opinion of the copyright lawyers hired by the FSF.

@danirabbit @lukeshu case in point: I care about software / computing / user freedom, and personal freedom in general, and I join Free Software advocacy to... advocate for free software, and I don't need people from the first world to descend from the heavens and tell me what other issues should I care about and in what priority.

@danirabbit @lukeshu I don't know what other people think, what annoys me occasionally, is that how people bring in their other political issues (with whatever genuine positive intentions they have) is very much USA-centric, sometimes specifically USA-cultural-hegemonist.

As a non-US citizen who never went there, it is a bit offensive when people expect that I should have the same political priorities as Americans.

@lukeshu so I believe that if we attach other political ideals to our free software advocacy, that will cause unnecessary division in the community. Which is a problem, if you want to achieve anything against the huge corporate interests that hate the computing freedom of their users.

I know I'm a bit of a hypocrite here, too, because I sometimes attach my urbanism advocacy to my free software advocacy, but I'm just a small guy, not running a big project or member of a foundation.

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@lukeshu While there are for sure bad faith actors in this space, I think when people complain about "politics in free software", they actually mean "politics other than the politics about free software".

I believe that it is possible to have a wide range of political persuasions that lets you derive the computing freedoms. Or, you can be just simply selfish and want to get these freedoms for yourself.

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It's crazy how normal we think it is, that twice in a day (early morning, still sleepy, and after work, already tired) half the population gets into and controls heavy machinery that kills hundreds of thousands of people every day.

#fuckCars #warOnCars #Urbanism #xkcd

@BrodieOnLinux I forgot, are we against all uses of generative AI on the Brodie Robertson train?

@BrodieOnLinux to me, the question is the following:

if your project is so difficult to compile into a usable binary that not even seasoned maintainers can do it, are you really making #FreeSoftware, or is it a "letter of the law but not the spirit of the law" situation?

I wonder what the opinion of actual devs and distro maintainers are.

#OpenSource #Foss #Linux #FlatPak #OBS

@libreoffice Congrats!

I just hope that soon the Korean grammar check will start working again LOL

If a #FreeSoftware program on #Linux would be like "you can not open two files of the same name at the same time from two different directories", people would be complaining how #OpenSource and Linux are just not ready for massive adoption.

When Microsoft Excel does this for 30 years straight, it's just "it is what it is".

@lukeshu don't worry, copyright protections apply for multiple years, so you don't have to be in a rush to change them :)

#FreeSoftwareAdvent
#Inkscape! @inkscape

I love Inkscape. I use it in my personal life, I use it to make illustrations for my papers and teaching materials in my professional life.

It is the best vector graphic software. It can do curves, shapes, turn bitmaps into curves and shapes. Turn curves and shapes into bitmaps. What else do you need? Triangles? It has them, too!

Also, follow the great @doctormo for devlogs and news about the project.

https://inkscape.org/

#FreeSoftware #FOSS

It is that time of the year (I see some people boosting my posts from last year), so let's do another #FreeSoftwareAdvent to appreciate all the great #FreeSoftware out there. I have definitely explored and made use of a bunch of software for the first time this year, so let's shout some out.

For today, it's #LabPlot @LabPlot by the #KDE @kde team.

Amazing, versatile graphing and data alanyisis tool that I actively use in my classrooms. Check it out!

https://labplot.kde.org/
#OpenSource #FOSS

Now that the release of GIMP 3 is on the horizon, maybe it would be a great time to change its controversial name to something more fitting for the GNU/Linux environment.

I was thinking about changing it to "GIMP Image Manipulation Program" so it can finally ascend to the plane of recursive acronyms. 😂

#gimp #gimp3 #FreeSoftware #joke

@mekkaokereke the OP is about the importance of end to end encryption. all your examples are valid reasons to be pro-end-to-end encryption.

#Encryption #E2EE