Post by @fullywoolly@mastodon.social

i feel disconsolate & shellshocked, but here it is... this is me now giving up the fight... resistance really was useless

i loathe the scourge of gen-ai/LLMs, for the four dot-points i have repeatedly posted over recent months:

• largest theft of private IP in human history
• massive water + energy demands as climate crisis intensifies
• authoritative bullshit generation via unsolvable hallucinations
• whole-internet continuous DDoS attacks by web-scraping AI-feeding bots

and so i have felt increasingly bereft as one by one important pillars of gnu/linux have fallen, indeed, eagerly given themselves over to slopbottery

i've loved linux since my belated discovery of it in dec 2013, but so aghast have i been at the ingress of slopbottery that in recent months i began contemplating possible escape routes, including:

• #OpenIndiana
• #haiku
• #GhostBSD
• #OpenBSD
• #FreeBSD
• #NetBSD

already by now from actual VM usage &/or research i'd eliminated the first three, am badly struggling with the fourth in VMs, with the others still ahead

tbh i was not enjoying it... i am now too old, fat, lazy, & stupid to cope with the extreme level of new learning needed, & i suspected that even if i managed it, my new UX would be full of unpleasant compromises & omissions i simply do not have in linux. yet, i deplore slopbottery, & so tried to make myself continue

until now

coz now, i have closely examined https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/ai-free-foss-alternatives

and so i despair

even if i were able to come to terms with one of the BSDs, & get a viable desktop going [coz that is mandatory; i am a GUI user, not a server admin], then what? my desktop [though i delight in fiddling with its bells & whistles] is extant simply for me to run my preferred GUI apps... that's the whole point

but that link, those lists of systems & apps... it is brutal, & it has crushed me. almost all my preferred apps, across a range of genres, appear in that list, as being at the very least slop-permissive, or worse. in several of the cases even my second-preference alternatives are ditto

so, what's the point? what possible fucken benefit would i get in continuing this quixotic quest? i would [at best] end up in a new OS & desktop with multiple compromises & omissions, a huge learning curve having been needed [that i am not capable of anymore], running apps [if they even exist in the chosen BSD] that are slop-tolerant or already slopped. it took me many years to curate my present wide suite of apps, predicated on fitting me well re functionality, practicality, aesthetics... & along the way i tried & rejected very many.

so... i would endure a large amount of pain, to emerge on the other side... still slopbotted anyway

per that list, the fucken slopbots & their acolytes have won. i am so very pissed off. it's over now

fuck it 😡 😭

#DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS
#FuckGenerativeAI #FuckSlopbots #AntiAI #NoAI #NoSlopJockeys #EscapeFromLinux

@MsDropbear42 I just want to say that I think you should take that list with a grain of salt. They’re extremely negative in how they interpret everything, and I think it leads to making things look worse than they really are.

What I mean is that there are a few projects listed as ‘permissive’ or ‘condones AI’ or something like that, when what the project has actually said is more like ‘we can’t stop you using LLMs privately but don’t use it for any code or messages’.

They’re basically spreading doom and gloom IMO. I’d check individual projects specifically rather than taking the list at face value.

Edit: just in case LLM apologists are favouring this in the misunderstanding that this is a defence of their position: fuck off. Extending the benefit of the doubt to projects that are not using LLMs is not the same as saying it’s okay to use LLMs.