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Okay, let's get this straight. I have trouble taking compliments for my work.

I was raised in 1990s Poland, you could say it was on the border between two eras. It was a time of newly realized freedom, when people thought that the possibilities were now endless and you had to grab them, you had to compete for them.

You didn't compliment kids for their work, that would spoil them. You could compliment kids for their looks (not me, though, I apparently had "other qualities"). But not for their successes; you instead pointed out where they didn't succeed, or that they could do even better. Because that obviously motivates them to try harder, rather than causes them to stop trying at all, because what's the point. And of course you never complimented your employees, because they never deserved that, they were always the lazy little bastards, undeserving of the job you've given them, only looking how to steal your money. Well, you get my point.

So when I started interacting with people from other cultures, it's been a shock. I've been raised to be an asshole. Fortunately, at least some of them knew this part of "Eastern European" culture and bore with me. And I've got compliments, and real gratification, and my mindset slowly started changing. Honestly, when someone compliments me for my work, I still am uneasy and distrustful (are they being sarcastic?), but I can believe it's honest.

And here comes all the messed up #AI hype, and bootlicking machines. And most of them are mass generating false compliments and pleasantries, and what not. And people are repasting this slop everywhere, and learning from it, and talking like it. And now, whenever I see people being nice, I'm not just uneasy. I keep wondering: is this real, or is it slop? Am I talking to a person, or to a bot? Is this actually being nice, or is it awfully disrespectful?

I'm so tired of this timeline. How do you people stay sane?

#NoAI #NoLLM

Okay, let's get this straight. I have trouble taking compliments for my work.

I was raised in 1990s Poland, you could say it was on the border between two eras. It was a time of newly realized freedom, when people thought that the possibilities were now endless and you had to grab them, you had to compete for them.

You didn't compliment kids for their work, that would spoil them. You could compliment kids for their looks (not me, though, I apparently had "other qualities"). But not for their successes; you instead pointed out where they didn't succeed, or that they could do even better. Because that obviously motivates them to try harder, rather than causes them to stop trying at all, because what's the point. And of course you never complimented your employees, because they never deserved that, they were always the lazy little bastards, undeserving of the job you've given them, only looking how to steal your money. Well, you get my point.

So when I started interacting with people from other cultures, it's been a shock. I've been raised to be an asshole. Fortunately, at least some of them knew this part of "Eastern European" culture and bore with me. And I've got compliments, and real gratification, and my mindset slowly started changing. Honestly, when someone compliments me for my work, I still am uneasy and distrustful (are they being sarcastic?), but I can believe it's honest.

And here comes all the messed up #AI hype, and bootlicking machines. And most of them are mass generating false compliments and pleasantries, and what not. And people are repasting this slop everywhere, and learning from it, and talking like it. And now, whenever I see people being nice, I'm not just uneasy. I keep wondering: is this real, or is it slop? Am I talking to a person, or to a bot? Is this actually being nice, or is it awfully disrespectful?

I'm so tired of this timeline. How do you people stay sane?

#NoAI #NoLLM

Okay, let's get this straight. I have trouble taking compliments for my work.

I was raised in 1990s Poland, you could say it was on the border between two eras. It was a time of newly realized freedom, when people thought that the possibilities were now endless and you had to grab them, you had to compete for them.

You didn't compliment kids for their work, that would spoil them. You could compliment kids for their looks (not me, though, I apparently had "other qualities"). But not for their successes; you instead pointed out where they didn't succeed, or that they could do even better. Because that obviously motivates them to try harder, rather than causes them to stop trying at all, because what's the point. And of course you never complimented your employees, because they never deserved that, they were always the lazy little bastards, undeserving of the job you've given them, only looking how to steal your money. Well, you get my point.

So when I started interacting with people from other cultures, it's been a shock. I've been raised to be an asshole. Fortunately, at least some of them knew this part of "Eastern European" culture and bore with me. And I've got compliments, and real gratification, and my mindset slowly started changing. Honestly, when someone compliments me for my work, I still am uneasy and distrustful (are they being sarcastic?), but I can believe it's honest.

And here comes all the messed up #AI hype, and bootlicking machines. And most of them are mass generating false compliments and pleasantries, and what not. And people are repasting this slop everywhere, and learning from it, and talking like it. And now, whenever I see people being nice, I'm not just uneasy. I keep wondering: is this real, or is it slop? Am I talking to a person, or to a bot? Is this actually being nice, or is it awfully disrespectful?

I'm so tired of this timeline. How do you people stay sane?

#NoAI #NoLLM

Okay, let's get this straight. I have trouble taking compliments for my work.

I was raised in 1990s Poland, you could say it was on the border between two eras. It was a time of newly realized freedom, when people thought that the possibilities were now endless and you had to grab them, you had to compete for them.

You didn't compliment kids for their work, that would spoil them. You could compliment kids for their looks (not me, though, I apparently had "other qualities"). But not for their successes; you instead pointed out where they didn't succeed, or that they could do even better. Because that obviously motivates them to try harder, rather than causes them to stop trying at all, because what's the point. And of course you never complimented your employees, because they never deserved that, they were always the lazy little bastards, undeserving of the job you've given them, only looking how to steal your money. Well, you get my point.

So when I started interacting with people from other cultures, it's been a shock. I've been raised to be an asshole. Fortunately, at least some of them knew this part of "Eastern European" culture and bore with me. And I've got compliments, and real gratification, and my mindset slowly started changing. Honestly, when someone compliments me for my work, I still am uneasy and distrustful (are they being sarcastic?), but I can believe it's honest.

And here comes all the messed up #AI hype, and bootlicking machines. And most of them are mass generating false compliments and pleasantries, and what not. And people are repasting this slop everywhere, and learning from it, and talking like it. And now, whenever I see people being nice, I'm not just uneasy. I keep wondering: is this real, or is it slop? Am I talking to a person, or to a bot? Is this actually being nice, or is it awfully disrespectful?

I'm so tired of this timeline. How do you people stay sane?

#NoAI #NoLLM

Okay, let's get this straight. I have trouble taking compliments for my work.

I was raised in 1990s Poland, you could say it was on the border between two eras. It was a time of newly realized freedom, when people thought that the possibilities were now endless and you had to grab them, you had to compete for them.

You didn't compliment kids for their work, that would spoil them. You could compliment kids for their looks (not me, though, I apparently had "other qualities"). But not for their successes; you instead pointed out where they didn't succeed, or that they could do even better. Because that obviously motivates them to try harder, rather than causes them to stop trying at all, because what's the point. And of course you never complimented your employees, because they never deserved that, they were always the lazy little bastards, undeserving of the job you've given them, only looking how to steal your money. Well, you get my point.

So when I started interacting with people from other cultures, it's been a shock. I've been raised to be an asshole. Fortunately, at least some of them knew this part of "Eastern European" culture and bore with me. And I've got compliments, and real gratification, and my mindset slowly started changing. Honestly, when someone compliments me for my work, I still am uneasy and distrustful (are they being sarcastic?), but I can believe it's honest.

And here comes all the messed up #AI hype, and bootlicking machines. And most of them are mass generating false compliments and pleasantries, and what not. And people are repasting this slop everywhere, and learning from it, and talking like it. And now, whenever I see people being nice, I'm not just uneasy. I keep wondering: is this real, or is it slop? Am I talking to a person, or to a bot? Is this actually being nice, or is it awfully disrespectful?

I'm so tired of this timeline. How do you people stay sane?

#NoAI #NoLLM

This is sad #noai #antiai #nollm #antillm #runbsd #linux

This is sad #noai #antiai #nollm #antillm #runbsd #linux

This is sad #noai #antiai #nollm #antillm #runbsd #linux

This is sad #noai #antiai #nollm #antillm #runbsd #linux

This is sad #noai #antiai #nollm #antillm #runbsd #linux

Thinking about the latest claims from the LLM camp, especially from one ex-Anthropic employee…

There are two mutually-exclusive possibilities.

1. They are right, nasty civilisation-destroying LLMs want us for lunch and we've got until 2030 before civilisation as we know it, ends.
2. This is another media stunt… like the time when agents supposedly "hacked" each-other (OpenAI and Anthropic a few months back)… or when they supposedly became "sentient" (Blake Lemoine's claim that got him sacked from Google back in 2022)

Next year I'll be unemployed. I've got enough money in the war-chest to survive, especially if I'm careful about what I spend money on. Definitely enough to last 3 years.

The job market is not looking good for an ethical coding job here in Brisbane… and while I could train to do data cabling or electrical work (which can't be automated by a LLM), no one is going to hire a mid-aged apprentice who doesn't drive.

Anything that can be done from home, is potentially something that some C-suite manager will think can be automated with a LLM, so those jobs are no longer safe.

Better I just up-skill myself at my own pace… Brush up on my C++, maybe learn some Rust… whatever. Do stuff that makes me happy. If option 1 is indeed true, I'll have spent 3 years in effective "retirement" doing things that bring me joy. If it's option 2, then those things have probably kept my skills sharp enough to be competitive against those who relied on LLMs and are now struggling with doing it "the old way".

#NoLLM (edit: my maths was off)

True digital literacy isn't generated; it's understood. 💡

On this Literacy Day, step away from the opaque shortcuts of AI, dive into the clean NetBSD source code, and empower human curiosity from the bare metal up. Read the source, master the system, and keep human craftsmanship alive. 📖⚙️

RTFM (Read the Fantastic Manual)

#NetBSD #LiteracyDay #DigitalLiteracy #ReadTheSource #CodeLiteracy #HumanIntelligence #runBSD #Linux #Unix #RTFM #internationalliteracyday #noai #antiai #nollm #antillm

@jamesrg

I feel your pain.

Today my daughter came back from her first day in Year 9. She had the first session with her new maths teacher.

He used five minutes of the class to praise the virtues of AI, how it solves society's problems, and how their new AI homework tool would help them with their maths work.

He then handed out exercises, gave limited explanations, then let them do them in silence, then marked the answers true or false.

Pityfull. GenAI brings out the worst in everyone, even those who are committed and good at their work. With the teacher who is natively incompetent and passionfree, genAI results in active learning destruction.

My daughter, who normally is eager to cooperate and compromise, refuses to have even one more session in this class. I wrote to the school. From tomorrow, she will be in a different class.

#noLLM #education #pedagogy #StopTheAICorruption

#Debian AI desktop in future :flan_XD:
#noai #antiai #nollm

Run #NetBSD 🚩

#noai #antiai #nollm #debian

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

#NoAI #NoLLM #Python

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

Cc !@3goodthings @disability

Seriously, you need a stupid #LLM to post a two-sentence comment now?

https://github.com/pnuckowski/aioresponses/pull/292#issuecomment-5482424238

#AI #NoAI #NoLLM

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.
"""

#NoAI #NoLLM

Unsurprisingly, #Debian chose to embrace #slop: https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_llm/results.txt

#AI #NoAI #NoLLM

#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.

#NoAI #NoLLM

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).

#NoLLM

#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.

#NoAI #NoLLM

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.

#NoAI #NoLLM

@gptreb …busted! #NoLLM

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.

#noai #foss #community #projects #fun #collaborate #nollm

Fucking hell #firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-exa-partnership/

The moment I can run ublock origin on #servo I'm purging Firefox from my life. #noai #nollm

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=d337f4524861f4e74c31ee575d60f2eaa1e82388

Now, 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?

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

#NoAI #NoLLM

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

#NoLLM #NoAI #FuckAI #AI

@bibliolater

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

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?"

#NoAI #NoLLM

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.

#NoLLM #GUIToolkit #rant

Since #homeassistant accepts AI contributions I'm looking for a #noai #nollm FOSS alternative, any recommendations from the fediverse?