I find it interesting that, as you point out, his comment makes zero sense but still gets upvotes, and then as he clarifies he’s saying it’s racist against chatbots, then people are unambiguously “oh hell no”

Some people upvote at a baseless accusation of racism without actually actually seeing racism or getting clarification that they may have missed… That’s a bit sad…

Well, it looks like they state three options:

• Passkeys. This won’t work over a medium term, period. It’s tantamount to saying that SSH keys prove someone is human. If there’s enough interest, they’ll just make a software passkey solution that can work. Passkey being “human interactive” is purely a client-side construct.

• Biometric services. Strictly speaking, not an ID but it’s not hard to imagine leveraging capturing biometrics to an ID like scenario.

• Government IDs. Well that’s self explanatory.

They do state distancing themselves from the ID by trusting a third party service, but 3rd party ID service is still a thing.

Of course, this seems to be only after someone accuses you of being a bot and Reddit bothering to pay attention. Which may be almost no one.

Sounds like a statement to say they have a hard-on-bots policy, but in practice it seems they won’t care unless there’s significant outcry against a particular account.

LLMs are not people, they do not possess will, they do not possess sapience. Not wanting to deal with LLM output is in no way like excluding a group of people based on arbitrary characteristics.

And this is how I find out that systemd lets a process running as a user get the crypted password of the user:

"privileged" : {
                "hashedPassword" : [
                        "$6$AY98/.dwdtU20LBM$L9fFhaH.E2xA6waYBVmHl/wS4HFSPn5v/JaIlrSW6wLOfKkV6H1Boqggj/109WO/uHXF1J/NkyXsK1BaCRKwx/"
                ]
        },

I mean, why the hell…

One thing that concerned me a bit was just how many of the commenters were totally there for it. The central figure of their preferred filesystem turns out to be off his rocker and a gate number of people seemed to be roughly “if this guy made such a good filesystem, and he claims he has a mathematical proof of consciousness, will, guess there must be something to it…”

Sure there seemed to be people with more expected reactions, but surprised he had any traction at all…

I’ve no idea about correlation with AI psychosis and FOSS or even software development in general, I’ve only read about a handful and this is the first developer that cropped up, but it’s not like I’ve been actively looking. Don’t know if I’ve seen any pattern, some have been alone and have had built a family, some young and some much further along in life. Some fairly anonymous and then there’s this guy with fame and a following and quite the ego… Many who by all accounts never exhibited mental health problems before… It’s just weird.

Wow, flags don’t get redder than that. Dude has issues…

On top of everything else. He asserts that he made his LLM a “real girl” by feeding it a “mathematical proof” that it is a conscious being… That he has figured out this whole conscious AI thing 15 years ago…

Dude has some severe LLM psychosis… And thinks he’s such a hot shot smart person that such a problem couldn’t apply to him…

This is really a sad and worrying example of a whole mess of incoming mental health problems…

Of course I also see that the go spawns python and does stuff with that…

And there’s lots of other dubious issues that look like an odd mismash of intro level programming stuff with unfortunate performance implications, and a very strong vibe code smell, though the commit interval is a bit larger than I would have presumed with vibe coding, but the volume of changes seem AI sloppy…

Well, broadly it looks like slop, probably AI slop, but either way I wouldn’t go anywhere near this project…

 unzip; touch; strip; finger; mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount; sleep

With fish, you just need to fight more to earn that kill.

Bluetooth. Like it works most of the time, but especially randomly the microphone does not work

It depends on the complexity of the operation. “I want to rename all my files to have underscores to spaces”, CLI will let you construct that easily. I want to move all mp4/mkv files to one folder, but all ‘.opus/.mp3’ files to another folder, CLI is a bit quicker. Or I want to take the audio tracks out of all these mp4/mkv and then name the result according to the basename of the original file and move the result, well, mkvextract and mv are quicker than trying to wrangle all the content in comparable GUIs.

But yes, if you are wanting to do an operation on a file or a range of files easily handled with shift-click to select, then GUI will be both approachable and quick.

I can appreciate the desire for “you know what I meant” CLI interaction, but shudder at the verbosity of natural language in a lot of these cases.

Retaining that much detail on tentacles takes some drive space

Linear density could also boost throughout. Multiple actuators also exist.

Well, Microsoft didn’t offer it to you freely…

Yeah, but without learning Microsoft, how would you know that ‘dir’ just makes sense? Or that you might want to look at ‘diskpart’ to look at your drives?

I mean, diskpart and dir don’t make especially any more sense than lsblk/parted and ls. A fair point can be made for ‘copy’ being more intuitive, but ‘diskpart’ means you had to learn what disks and partitioning were, and lsblk means you need to learn what ‘block’ devices rae, and of course ‘parted’ references partitions. ‘dir’ means you wanted to ‘show the directory’ which means you had to learn of it as a directory, but then learn that the shortname of directory is the way to see the contents of a directory. ls means you learned you want to ‘list’ contents and that unix had this laziness of just the first and third letters of a word. Both involve learning, neither is ‘intuitive’.

You end up writing ridiculously long commands

I assume this is the likes of dbus-send and crap, and I agree with you if that’s the case. Dbus is a complication I could do without and have to confess that powershell cmdlets generally do a better job of instrumenting the system than a system that increasingly has no specific help and only long dbus-send commands to tackle certain things. dconf has issues too, but I think does a better job than the Windows registry at analagous function.

Well it’s not a problem in arm environments generally, just in x86 land, and the bootloaders don’t have a good shot of figuring it out on behalf of the kernel either… There is an ACPI table but no one cares about it in Linux land and is almost never used in Windows land (EMS does support it) and as a result most systems don’t bother doing it at all.

I have trouble getting real displays working all the time…

Needing to know which serial port is which and manually tellling the kernel via console=ttyS0,115200 or whatehaveyou is annoying…

What other displays could people mean?