Posts by pwithnall@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #B4JlCapUF2rh9XkXRo by pwithnall@mastodon.social
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       RE: https://floss.social/@gnome/116238977083070510Excited to see the work @ignapk, @snwh, @allanday and I have done being in a release. Thanks also to @fmuellner, Matthijs Velsink and @gnome for help and reviews on the GNOME Shell and Settings side.Also excited for the other new features in GNOME 50 which will show up in the release notes!RT: https://floss.social/users/gnome/statuses/116238977083070510
       
 (DIR) Post #B4OAeezVdZ0Reel1Xs by pwithnall@mastodon.social
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       GNOME 50 has been released! 🥳 Here’s a quick summary of the improvements which gnome-software 50 contains: - Reduce CPU priority when running in the background - Remember window size between restarts - Improved error reporting in the repositories dialogue - Improved notifications for trivial flatpak app updates - Lots of UI papercuts fixed - Improved question about deleting data when uninstalling an app - More safety reporting for uncommon flatpak app permissions#GNOME #GnomeSoftware
       
 (DIR) Post #B4o4b3W8xWI8wrsUwS by pwithnall@mastodon.social
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       @slomo @ebassi @nirbheek @hbons Because humans are bad at license and copyright attribution on a small scale, does not mean that LLMs should be allowed to get away with bad license and copyright attribution on a vast scale.1/3
       
 (DIR) Post #B4o4b3jy87LndkLXUW by pwithnall@mastodon.social
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       @slomo @ebassi @nirbheek @hbons As a thought experiment: if there was an LLM which had been trained purely on (say) LGPL-2.1+ code, had low environmental impact, was not funded by VCs who are counting down the time until they turn on the monetisation switch, and which ran local-only and didn’t exfiltrate your stuff to the cloud, and someone used it to rewrite my project, I think I would still be massively pissed off.Why? Because it’s a social problem.2/3
       
 (DIR) Post #B4o4b59Att6i0D9BQ0 by pwithnall@mastodon.social
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       @slomo @ebassi @nirbheek @hbons Why rewrite my code rather than contributing to it? Why relicense someone’s project from GPL to something more permissive? What’s the motive?Both from the point of view of the people who have released FOSS code which has been put in training datasets, and from the point of view of people who receive unexpected LLM contributions, LLMs enable this kind of anti-community/anti-social behaviour at a huge scale.That’s my current thought-in-progress, anyway.3/3
       
 (DIR) Post #B5tjUlt0iEIqEy0k5I by pwithnall@mastodon.social
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       CI systems should not silently upgrade their components in the background. A CI system should be a reproducible function: for the same CI image and project code, the build results should always be the same.Tools should be predictable, or one job turns into multiple when you least want it to.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6ICHHbnX6jf2Hv1DE by pwithnall@mastodon.social
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       Really inspires confidence when someone submits an issue report with completely broken formatting and they don’t notice/proofread/fix it.