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  • I hate it because it was developed by Israeli spyware company Amdocs in Israel. Then it moved to the UK but on a forum someone who appears to be a dev denies that Amdocs ever did spyware (they wiretapped Bill Clinton and many other scandals)

    The main Matrix server is Element, hosted by the developers of Matrix. And the server can see a lot of info not necessarily the messages but a lot of metadata. So unless people use a custom Matrix server it’s actually not private at all



  • According to Linus it’s free advertising for the AI companies (wowe look at how much code Claude (partially) committed buy le Anthropic now!) and also people don’t disclose all their other tools either so this is just an exception which can be removed. And I bet there’s going to be a ton of LLM based reviewing on all code that’s submitted to double check for potential bugs anyway.

    Anyone who is allowed to work in the Linux kernel isn’t going to (be allowed to) push random slop.













  • You see the nice thing about .ml is that we don’t have to constantly deal with the Blue MAGA genocide apologists in election season because we just ban them after they start yelling at people that they need to support genocide to become adults.

    FYI I’m banned from “progressive” politics on lemmy.world for opposing mass murder and rapist Graham Platner. I recommend you do some introspection and mature before you continue defending mass murder and genocide. You don’t have “always been against this” one day. You can be in favor of the right thing in the present.





  • Linus going beastmmode

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    Linus Torvalds responded with an emphatic rejection of tool usage declarations.

    He wrote:

    What you are about is something entirely different. It has nothing to do with “expectations”, and it has everything to do with your hangups.

    I don’t understand this whole idiotic concept of “don’t use AI for X”.

    Here’s a new rule just for you: don’t use compilers for any of your kernel submissions.

    Because if you can’t show that you really understand what the machine is actually doing by writing your code in assembler, then I don’t want to see your code contribution. You clearly aren’t competent if you can’t write it that way.

    And btw, you had better not use an editor to write that commit message either.

    Because I need you to show me that you can actually write a good commit message without using tools that make it easy to backspace and hide the mistakes you made while typing.

    Ok?

    Because otherwise those tool-assisted commits of yours clearly aren’t showing that you know what you are doing.

    Do you not see how UTTERLY STUPID those kinds of rules would be?

    So no. We’re not going to make stupid rules that say “you can’t use tools for X”.

    The kind of expectations I have is that people do their best and I expect people to understand what they are doing.

    But that understanding has very little to do with what tools they use.

    And quite honestly, in my experience, the people I respect and call intelligent are not the ones that shy away from using new and interesting tools. ®

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