#nollm — Public Fediverse posts
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Do we already have a term for people whose ability to reason has seriously deteriorated after they started relying on #AI? If not, I propose slopbrain.
On a totally different topic, am I missing something here or is the maintainer plain wrong? https://github.com/tox-dev/toml-fmt/issues/450#issuecomment-5489314881
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RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/117197654600279594
@Robinzz3 thank you.
Fair points.
A small thought: much of that list is AI working quietly in the background — weather models, medical scans, that kind of thing. According to Anthropic Claude (Sonnet 5, Extra), that's somewhat different from AI in the stuff we interact with directly, like feeds and chatbots. Mastodon's kind of nice for that second part: no algorithm sorting your timeline — just people you follow, in order.
Not "AI bad," just a different comfort level with different kinds of it. Makes sense to me either way.
https://claude.ai/share/582e0651-aa20-416b-b371-0c4e95d67711 helped me to write what's above.
I removed the "judgment" part of one sentence that Claude wrote, because a few hours ago:
― I prejudicially blocked more than 750 Mastodon accounts where profiles are overtly anti-AI.
Prejudicial blocking for positivity, to proactively silence the worst of the offenders. They're off their high horses before they can even begin.
I very rarely use the word "awesome", but Claude's assistance with rapid and effective production and application of a blocklist was simply awesome.
The blocklist applies to my BSD Cafe Mastodon account, not yet to my beige.party account.
There are, no doubt, innocent casualties as an indirect result of the profile hashtag-based mass blocking exercise. The majority of those casualties may think of themselves as victims of the minority that selfishly and loudly refused to dismount from its anti-AI high horse.
What's above is, in the circumstances, not an argument. It's simply a statement, which I do not expect all readers to understand.
To those who can not understand: please simply wonder about it, without asking. Thank you.
#AI #Anthropic #Claude #Sonnet #blocklist #antiAI #noAI #noLLM #noLLMs
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Seriously, you need a stupid #LLM to post a two-sentence comment now?
https://github.com/pnuckowski/aioresponses/pull/292#issuecomment-5482424238
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So if you think you can "just" solve the destruction of infrastructure done by #AI crawlers, think again.
Konstantin Ryabitsev, Creepy crawlies
https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies"""
Today, git.kernel.org receives about 6M daily requests demanding to see random commits. Of these, 66% are still immediately batted away with the Anubis challenge, but 33% are now solving the math and getting through to the main site — because apparently what we have to offer is worth spending a ton of cycles to calculate the Anubis challenge.It's impossible to tell with certainty which of these are bots and which are real humans — but chances are, if it's asking for an old commit in a random old fork, it's probably not a real developer trying to do their work.
With a bunch of generous assumptions, legitimate requests are only about 2% of git.kernel.org traffic — everything else are scrapers.
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Unsurprisingly, #Debian chose to embrace #slop: https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_llm/results.txt
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#AI bros be like:
Of course I'm opposed to slavery! I wouldn't even have thought of owning a slave! Nobody should be allowed to enslave people!
Why are you picking on the fact that I'm using slave labor from these companies? Why should I sacrifice my convenience when others are going to be using their services anyway! They're still going to keep enslaving people whether i use their services or not. In fact, I'm actually doing a good thing, because I'm using that to make a positive contribution to the world! The problem of slavery really needs to be solved at state level.
Besides, I'm pretty sure that thanks to the developments in slavery soon enough we'd be able to ethically own a small number of local slaves.
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Really smacks of hypocrisy when Linus Torvalds tells us that AI use in the kernel is here to stay, yet `git.kernel.org` throws this up… (and yeah, it's crawling along because my CM5 is also doing a system update).
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#AI is a zombie virus.
There were so many #FreeSoftware projects that were dead and buried with honors, or at least on life support. It was unfortunate. Sometimes it involved a lot of downstream scaffolding to keep everything working. But at least we had warm memories of them and respect to their authors.
And now slop virus is taking them over, one after another. It's pulling them out of their graves or hospital beds, deformed and mutilated. All the warmth is gone. They have no purpose anymore, beyond feeding.
Sometimes this is done by kids who don't understand the first thing about the project they're defiling, who just want to get credit for something important. However, more often this is done by their original maintainers, who not only don't seem to realize their prime time is over, but who are many years detached from honest software development work.
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Whenever someone "skeptical" is suddenly "impressed" by something they've done with "AI", I'm like: yes, you'd be surprised how much you can achieve if you just pour billions of dollars, terawatts of electricity, tons of water and plagiarise everything created by everyone who ever lived.
But if we spent that money making people not miserable, surely you won't get anything impressive.
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Hey, it is another crazy cat here!
Thought I would try create some noise around software and people who are writing software without LLMs!
So!
* What things are you working on and does it have a repo? Do you want help or want people to test it?
* Anything else you want to add?
Also, let's try and get some community chat/place to get people to participate, collaborate and have fun!
So!
* Any existing channels on IRC, Matrix and/or Signal (or other things)
* Forums or Websites that are actively promoting this kind of collaboration or around software that isn't constructed with an LLM.
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Silly question for the #NoLLM #Linux users out there.
Allegedly, the last commit to the Linux kernel that was "clean" before slop started being introduced was made in January 2025.
https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware#kernels
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d337f4524861f4e74c31ee575d60f2eaa1e82388Now, dumping out all the patches between there and kernel 7.1-rc6 (where my local working tree stops), `git format-patch` produces 58437 patch files. Of these, there's ~294 that have the `Assisted-by` taint marker.
It'll take some re-work, but we might be able to re-factor those out in a new fork of the Linux kernel, a possible hard-fork.
If I wound a tree back to `d337f45`, and re-applied all the allegedly "clean" patches, leaving aside the 294 tainted ones, would people be willing to pitch in and help carry this project forward?
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Oh, great. So apparently #Microsoft decided to add "#Copilot Pull Request Reviewer" to my "Authorized #GitHub Apps", behind my back.
If you need to check quick: https://github.com/settings/apps/authorizations
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Very happy I moved to Codeberg from that not-to-be-named corporate code publishing site...
> Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs
https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html
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The bubble does what every bubble wants to do: it breaches all limits of sanity. The laws of phyiscs and the laws of logic all are being suspended. Or so it seems, until the inevitable return to reality. In the meantime, valuable resources worth trillions of dollars are being misdirected. What a collosal waste.
Tulips at least did not material harm. Come back, Tulip Mania.
#noAI #noLLM #StopTheAICorruption #bubbles #nvidia #TulipMania
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Okay, not using "#AI" isn't hard.
It's not like anybody's asking you to switch to a more expensive vegan diet when you've been eating meat all your life and you have a bunch of health issues that make any diet changes hard.
It's more like deciding not to switch from a normal diet to one primarily based on McDonald's just because everyone else thinks it's cool, and also you're going to save some time on cooking (at the cost of driving there and back all the time).
What we're literally asking you to consider is to keep doing things like you do, without engaging in a pointless, expensive, destructive hype just because "everyone" thinks it's so great and it gives you positive reinforcement. It's "you've managed not to be a dork so far, why'd you suddenly want to pay extra to become one?"
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Bloody frustrating trying to find stuff that's not LLM-tainted now.
I want to build a launcher, ultimately for Wayland, though if I can support X11 with it too… fantastic, there are plenty of X11 window managers that could benefit from something that reads FreeDesktop.org .menu / .desktop files and builds up a menu tree to navigate.
I'm thinking of building this in C++, since gcc have, for now, said they will decline "legally significant LLM content". So far the only bit I know that has ingested slop there is Fortran.
Years ago, I'd have reached for Qt for this, but they embrace the slop now.
Fine, how about FLTK? Nope, they have inhaled as well.
WxWidgets? Just checked their Github page… "A user you have blocked has contributed" (claude).
Tk? Wayland is a work-in-progress. X11 only for now.
Motif? Does anyone use that in 2026?
Xaw? You got to be joking…GTK+ *looks* clean so far… but then again, I said that about wxWidgets a month back … and I utterly detest dealing with GTK… but that might be my only viable option.
Ugh I hate this timeline.
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Since #homeassistant accepts AI contributions I'm looking for a #noai #nollm FOSS alternative, any recommendations from the fediverse?
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If anyone's wondering, #Xfce is a #slop junk now too, and the author is busy writing long excuses for them, with full realization of how harmful they are.
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Update on Bing use-case: quickly view a Gregorian calendar month display with new features and without Copilot noise.
In 2024, I wrote about a use-case for Bing where it vastly outshines all other search engines. https://tantek.com/2024/287/t3/bing-use-case-calendar-month
Since then, Bing has added “Copilot” LLM generated results to the top of search results by default, and unfortunately they add zero value to calendar month searches and displays. Worse, Copilot’s “summary” can often be long enough to push the actual calendar month display “below the fold” as it were.
Solution: add " -ai" to your query.
E.g. assuming you’ve setup Firefox search shortcuts as I recommended (https://tantek.com/2024/287/t2/setup-search-shortcuts-firefox)
Type this into your Firefox address bar:
b 2026 sep -ai
or directly go to https://bing.com/ and enter: 2026 sep -ai
and press return. You should see a days and weeks grid display for September 2026, with the current day of the month (the 9th as I’m writing this) selected in the displayed month.
Note the new calendar month display features since I last blogged this in 2024:
* Day 252 — day of the year! September 9th of 2026 is the 252nd day of 2026.
* Week 37 — Sept 9th is also on the 37th week of 2026
* 31 days later — Sept 9th is 31 days from today (August 9th).
* < [ Sep v ] > – little anglebracket arrows on either side of the month button/dropdown to one-click nav to the prev/next month
* [ Start Day v ] — a new “Start Day” drop down button to change which day of the week to display as the start of the week
Amazing that despite already being far better than any other search engine for year month queries, Bing has *improved* its calendar month display search results, while Duckduckgo, Google, Yahoo are just as useless (yes I checked) as they were two years ago (I also tried Ecosia and it was no better). I am hashtagging them all to see if anyone at those other search engines notices and gets around to implementing a similar calendar month display.
#search #webSearch #SearchShortcut #Microsoft #Bing #MicrosoftBing #BingSearch #BingTip #searchTip #calendar #month
#CoPilot #NoCoPilot #NoAI #NoGenAI #NoLLM #Firefox #DuckDuckGo #Google #GoogleSearch #Yahoo #YahooSearch #Ecosia.
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A heartfelt "no to genAI" from a teaching and education perspective. By Katherine Rundell. l 100% agree.
《 genAI risks becoming an iron curtain that comes down between a young person and their potential for thinking, for experiment and conquering frustration, for stamina and for invention – and thereby, between the young people and their freedom. It risks halting learning before it can take flight. 》
《 It was always very possible to write an essay about Paradise Lost without having read Paradise Lost. This is the first time it is possible to create an essay about Paradise Lost without having read the essay you just “wrote”. This is the first time in history that sentences do not need to have humans behind them. 》
《 The young mind is a spectacular thing. To waste its beauty and strength would be a dereliction of the trust the young are asked to put in the old. 》
#education #learning #noAI #noLLM #KatherineRundell #StopTheAICorruption
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I've taken #Gentoo Bugzilla down, because it was unusable anyway. No point in feeding the #LLM scrapers that are using thousands of different IPv4 addresses, with no obvious patterns I can see.
EDIT: I'm not looking for hints. I'm not a sysadmin, and I don't have time to deal with this shit. I'm just trying to get some useful job done. I'm not supposed to have to be dealing with this.