2026-10-15 12:45 UTC
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@hbons@mastodon.social 2026-10-15 12:49
@tante@tldr.nettime.org though let’s apply it to institutions and powerful individuals first and foremost. I don’t feel like shaming my local takeaway for their slop flyer. :p
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@peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv 2026-10-15 13:11
@tante@tldr.nettime.org tbh Linux does not go full AI slop, but Linus actions are concerning. Not that he has not been wrong before.
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@jo@infosec.exchange 2026-10-15 13:13
@tante@tldr.nettime.org I've seen a push to redefine slop as "particularly bad LLM output", as opposed to LLM output in general. "Our new AI tool eliminates slop" my brother in christ you _are_ the slop
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@virek@mastodon.social 2026-10-15 13:14
@tante@tldr.nettime.org This too (Meta interference), appears like an attempt by Meta to take over Infrastructure. They’ve already tried as an ISP, and they have bullied their way into fiber deployment across the world. If I’m reading this correctly, this is very worrisome. "Linux is not a social warrior project, it’s a Meta project! When your networking fails, remember to say: Thank you Meta!”
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@dianea@lgbtqia.space 2026-10-15 13:17
@tante@tldr.nettime.org The Linux kernel process has become a slop lagoon with a massive feedpipe from the slopfarm. When the slopfarm bubble pops, it takes everything with it, including the slopbrains that feed from the slop lagoon.
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@esreicht@mastodon.social 2026-10-15 13:33
@tante@tldr.nettime.org slop slop slopperdy slop
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@gimulnautti@mastodon.green 2026-10-15 13:59
@tante@tldr.nettime.org When Meta pays your bills and Silicon Valley’s fascist elite invites you to speak, you tend to change. Usually without noticing.
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@michal@spondr.cz 2026-10-15 14:06
@tante@tldr.nettime.org It seems to me that some people’s opposition to AI is downright fanatical. It’s one thing to have silly pictures of cats doing human activities; it’s another thing to use AI to help create software, where it’s actually useful. This black-and-white rejection of generative AI is childish.
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@mr_harm@mastodon.social 2026-10-15 14:07
@tante@tldr.nettime.org man there are layers to this shit onion for sure. Don't like the meta involvement. Don't like the pay-to-play attitude for kernel contributions (although I agree that contributions should not be made easy. They shouldn't be made exclusionary as well. It should just depend on code quality). Don't like the overall tone this is worded ("social warrior project") Unfortunately Linux is still the least bad alternative in terms of compatibility and support compared to windows and MacOS.
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@cynical_melomaniac@freeradical.zone 2026-10-15 14:10
@tante@tldr.nettime.org The irony of this image. Quite literally took his finger to NVIDIA and shoved it lol.
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@sharpcheddargoblin@reclusive.blog 2026-10-15 14:12
@tante@tldr.nettime.org I continue to call it slop at work. I am not well liked by some coworkers but I don't give a shit, I don't respect them at all. We'll see how long it takes to get reprimanded by HR I guess, but I ain't stopping.
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@FranceskaMann@freeradical.zone 2026-10-15 14:15
@tante@tldr.nettime.org shame, with a side of guillotine. Because these billionaire techno fascists are shameless.
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@gudenau@hachyderm.io 2026-10-15 14:19
@tante@tldr.nettime.org How's BSD handling the slop? I might need to switch...
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@oleksify@mastodon.social 2026-10-15 14:25
@tante@tldr.nettime.org [1 of 2] The wording is a bit too strong there, blaming wrong people for wrong things. Slop is a result of a developer ignoring the code output. It was there before LLMs, though people have to try harder even if they just copy-paste from StackOverflow without thinking. Author assumed there are AI Overlords, while in reality it’s just a bunch of corrupted and greedy (and mostly crazy) technocrats.
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@jab01701mid@mastodon.social 2026-10-15 14:46
@tante@tldr.nettime.org I came up with the phrase "AI-guzzling slop-jockeys" which I'm rather proud of.
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@maddad@mastodon.world 2026-10-15 14:51
@tante@tldr.nettime.org I would of never thought he'd go this route.
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@tkissing@mastodon.social 2026-10-15 14:58
@tante@tldr.nettime.org Linus Torvalds was a shitty human long before AI
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@ohir@social.vivaldi.net 2026-10-15 14:58
@tante@tldr.nettime.org It would be good for all sane protein-based maintainers to stop commiting. LT is claiming that bots can. Let him vibe code with bots only. Do your tree to the drawer for a longer while. IDNK how fast it will be to get datacenters to crawl then crash due to the slop influx. Oh, it would be nice to see. As for the LT 'infatuation'. > the kernel project only wants serious developers. That includes having access to enough resources to function in this world. AI pushers can pay more than a hundred of grands to take over a YT programmer tutorials channel. So yes, now came the times a maintainer of mid-popular FLOSS project you can sell out, buy a house, pay your kid's tuition. And embrace for the new brave world you helped 'them' to acquire. Just personal 0.02 of any currency used.
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@crazyeddie@mastodon.social 2026-10-15 14:59
@tante@tldr.nettime.org I guess it's not all that surprising that Linus would develop a preference for interacting with AI, nor that he'd just belittle and denigrate those who disagree with him. As a C++ developer--and not just that, one that would drive him NUTS--I feel proud to have earned his abject hatred without him even knowing I exist. A smart man with some very silly notions he's quite unwilling to be skeptical of. vOv I have liked his system but honestly it's been pissing me off of late.
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@tillmanreuter@ecoevo.social 2026-10-15 15:01
@tante@tldr.nettime.org I like the closing quote!
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@jesterchen@social.tchncs.de 2026-10-15 15:03
@tante@tldr.nettime.org Time to fully ditch computers? 😢
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@Loosf@yiff.life 2026-10-15 15:11
@tante@tldr.nettime.org if they were not ashamed of it why would they Hide the fucking chatbot commits
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@cauZation@mastodon.social 2026-10-15 15:23
@tante@tldr.nettime.org Meanwhile, their primary cause of cornering energy markets, is increasingly successful, because of these obviously effective distractions. The 99% suffer even more.