https://chrislongros.com/2026/09/11/kde-about-to-introduce-a-llm-policy/

They have, and I’m not really a fan of their choice.

I gotta admit KDE’s stance on this frustrates me a lot.

On the flip side… I am also fully aware that policies of prohibition, in the broadest sense, tend to not be terribly successful, and I wouldn’t be shocked if some contributors simply excise the “co-authored by <agent-name>” from the commit messages with a simple pre-push hook or something like that on projects that explicitly prohibit LLM/codegen usage.

man rsync

Sometimes corps go private at some point after an IPO when PE buys them up. Lots of companies have been driven into the ground that way, because all PE cares about is extracting maximum capital from the entity in the shortest span of time, which naturally ends up being a “squeezing blood from a stone” dynamic, and usually kills the corp. But this is known and accepted by the PE firms because they do not give a shit about the company. Only the capital they can extract from it.

I mean, are they VC or PE owned, primarily? Because that really does smack of VC or PE idiocy.

Nah, that’s a bad analogy.

It’s more like wanting to move out of your house because you found out that the builders were in fact subcontracting out their work to unaccredited randos off the street who made a bunch of building code violations and don’t truly understand how to build structurally sound buildings. It’s not about power tools. It’s about the competence of the builder themselves.

And you’re also handwaving away the very real ethics and licensing issues that stem from using models that were trained by scraping all of GitHub without any consideration for project licenses whatsoever, in addition to potential legal issues down the road, stemming from said usage.

It’s not lunacy. It’s a real thing.

Oh my god, you cannot be serious.

Get off the cross; we need the wood.

Oh goodness, I hope there aren’t any enterprising souls out there who want to try exploiting or DDoSing or pwning this categorical shitgoblin’s site

Ah - it has its own special magical file system type, that’s the secret sauce. Neat!

Yeah - we’ve been saying that for fucking YEARS. 😐

Well, neither the FCC nor Congress nor any courts seem to care, so…

If it’s become a systemic problem, calling the officers “rogue” is an exercise in gaslighting.

Right? I remember vista, and good god was it bad. In fact, I was finishing college and looking for a job back around when W7 was coming out, and I remember specifically asking the interview what had happened with the quality on Vista compared to XP. Turns out the outsourced ALL of their SQA from Redmond to contractors in India. Nowadays, they don’t even have that excuse - it’s dogshit by design these days.

Microsoft legit single-handedly bringing about the Year of Linux with how they’re turning W11 into categorical dogshit lmfao 🤣

MS Teams

Well there’s your problem lol

Personally, I’m just not having kids lol

Serious answer: technical inertia and legacy reasons and most people don’t want to bother migrating established projects.

I have, in the several years I’ve been here, deleted only a handful of comments - pretty much exclusively as a result of me being in a terrible mood and/or too drunk and commenting something very stupid or dickish, then reading it the next morning and going “what the fuck was I doing 🤦‍♂️”. That is thankfully vanishingly rare for me lol

Me too, go ahead - it doesn’t matter.

What matters is when people scan your post history and check why you were downvoted, given the context of the comment. The community here is smaller, so if you post consistently, you can actually build a meaningful organic reputation (that is: other user’s opinions of you). Karma doesn’t matter. What you post, and how you engage with other users does.