I think one helpful trick when thinking about AI hype is to replace mentions of “AI” with “Blockchain” to see how silly it all sounds.

      • Baggie@lemmy.zip
        11·
        10 days ago

        Oh! Oh! What about THE METAVERSE!?!

        Man fuck the metaverse. Everyone I met hyping it hadn’t used VR once in their life.

          • Baggie@lemmy.zip
            3·
            10 days ago

            No, just a few people in corporate culture in the early 2020s. Too much time in linkedin and not doing useful work.

    • audaxdreik@pawb.social
      8·
      10 days ago

      The “Cloud to Butt” extension appeared around 2013 and I think that’s about when things started to go downhill quickly.

      I was a tech enthusiast back then already running my own homelab and I think myself and a lot of others began to see that the cloud wasn’t really so much a tech advancement as a marketing gimmick. The new thing to shove into all other things. The cloud is just someone else’s computer and having a coffeepot connected to it isn’t really a new, innovative piece of tech, is it?

      Smart phones felt big, but since then a lot of consumer tech feels like it lacks true innovation and follows on the cloud pattern. We’ll be stuck in the cycle until it’s broken

    • Lemmchen@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      I’m currently thinking about switching to MX Linux, which is basically Debian (even with the official Debian repositories) in a modern KDE theme and some cool additional software (from an own separate repository).

      The only gripe I had with it so far is that it doesn’t come with apparmor enabled by default, which can easily be manually installed.

    • deafboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      All the announcements about the AI from the linux distribution maintainers should be read as “We’re going to fix some of the things that should’ve worked in the past but didn’t”

  • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
    13·
    10 days ago

    That works because since there’s almost nothing objective about the usefulness and applications of ai tools, those announcements are written in such a generic tongue (maybe even written using ai?) that words can be replaced by another and change nothing, just like that

  • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
    84·
    10 days ago

    Yes, the tech industry has a new hammer and everything looks like a nail, but the reality is, LLMs are finding far more purchase than blockchains did. I wholeheartedly agree that you should not be forced to use an LLM when you don’t want to, much less have any app run one locally without consent, but to suggest LLMs have similar usefulness to blockchains is just ignoring reality. This isn’t the crypto bubble, this is the dotcom bubble. It would be more like replacing all the instances of “AI” with “the internet” or “computers”.

  • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
    95·
    9 days ago

    And replacing it with “fart” sounds even more silly. You’re not proving anything with this.

    And I actually think Canonical’s approach makes sense. They’re not directly benefiting from the AI tools. They’re just making it more accessible for users.

  • KindaABigDyl@programming.dev
    34·
    9 days ago

    The future of AI in Ubuntu [Except it’s Internet and Slackware in 1996 instead of AI and Ubuntu in 2026]

    As 1996 progresses, internet-based tools are becoming more and more ubiquitous. Adoption across the tech industry has been mixed, both in terms of which projects are embracing “Web” technologies, and in how companies are structuring their adoption. As a result, I’m frequently asked about what Slackware will do (or not) to incorporate networks.

    In this post I’ll detail how the internet will play a part in Slackware’s future, my framework for classifying internet features in the OS, and how Slackware is currently approaching adoption internally, because I think that will help paint a picture of our intent.

    The bottom line is that Slackware is ramping up its use of Internet tools in a focused and principled manner that favours open network tools with license terms that feel most compatible with our values, combined with open source contracts. Internet features will be landing in Slackware throughout the next year as we feel that they’re of sufficient maturity and quality, with a bias towards private networks by default.

    Internet features in Slackware will come in two forms: first as a means of enhancing existing OS functionality with networking in the background, and latterly in the form of “Internet native” features and workflows for those who want them.

    • brianpeiris@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      44·
      10 days ago

      Oh, my apologies for posting this on a public forum. This trick was not meant for you.