@bartgroothuis@mastodon.online
2026-07-17 08:24 UTC
Replies (5)
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@martijnveken@infosec.exchange 2026-07-17 08:39
@bartgroothuis@mastodon.online in my opinion it is Linus that should fork off ;)
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@reinouts@mastodon.green 2026-07-17 11:53
@bartgroothuis@mastodon.online Maintaining a fork of the Linux kernel would take an army of highly skilled developers, and Torvalds would be the first to know this. From where I stand, the question is not whether LLMs can be _useful_. Sure they can. The question is whether the negative externalities from training and using them are really worth it.
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@ElBeeToots@mastodon.nl 2026-07-17 08:36
@bartgroothuis@mastodon.online Do you actually understand what Linus Torvalds says in this e-mail, or is it an interpretation with a very strong bias? 🙄
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@jschwart@mas.to 2026-07-17 08:47
@bartgroothuis@mastodon.online at the same time the site that hosts the source code of Linux, is using Anubis. Anubis is a tool that is used to keep sites available for normal people when they are faced with AI crawlers that do not respect robots.txt and bring sites down due to that. For more information: https://anubis.techaro.lol/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis_(software) And to see for yourself: https://git.kernel.org/
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@alzimon@mastodon.nl 2026-07-17 13:40
@bartgroothuis@mastodon.online Most people are non-developers. Forking is just not realistic. Also, sneering that "anyone who wants an anti-AI project" can just leave is more than a little dishonest. This issue primarily affects people who just want to avoid using software that is at risk from AI-slop. Luckily FreeBSD has always been quite a decent OS, is widely used, and is probably better geared towards enterprise use.