Personally, I like the LLMs.txt standard. I see AI scrapers hitting a few of my sites all the time, and I honestly am currently ok with my content being scraped (though I still retain my rights over my content, and this does not serve as permission to steal my content should I decide I am not okay with the theft of my content). Anything that can, sometimes quite dramatically, lower the bandwidth and cost of scrapers for both myself and the scrapers sounds like an ultimate good to me. I can understand the... I guess it's a repulsion to it, since you're putting work into something that ultimately leads to your content being stolen. However, we as developers must come to understand that in the current year, developers use and sometimes rely on large language models. I myself use Supermaven and have experimented with various LLM platforms, as well as self-hosted some models. LLMs are a great tool if you can use them correctly, though I am not some AI evangelist, not by any means. I believe LLMs.txt offers a significant benefit to users, operators, and AI providers.
As far as I see it, if a country is truly desperate to get some foreign good, it will. We see this with GPUs in China, despite there being very restrictive sanctions against China receiving American-produced GPUs, China, nonetheless, acquires American-produced GPUs. It's an endless game of whack-a-mole to get sanctions to completely work, and when they do, you've probably crippled your domestic markets.
This is a really good piece. In my eyes, AI as a creative medium is nothing more than an erasure of the human spirit. Instead of people reaching for a pen and endlessly monologuing onto a piece of paper, many instruct chatgpt to spit out some disingenuous garbage instead of using their ability of expression to create something actually meaningful in the world. AI is removing the need to have thoughts or ideas, many people dont care for the real purpose of creative expression other than praise or admiration, and as a result, real creativity is squandered by an illusion, a counterfeit. It's truly terrifying to think about where this continuous loss of authenticity will bring us.
I genuinely believe if the author understands it, AI tools to assist with development are amazing. I use an in IDE AI autocomplete, and it has increased my productivity dramatically without it. I'm still very capable without AI autocomplete, once you start to over rely on AI tools, and lose understanding of your codebase is when you're more vibe than not, and that's where I personally take issue. AI generated code I think is mostly fine assuming it isnt just a copy and paste from a oneshot chatgpt message with absolutely no understanding of what the code is doing whatsoever.
dodged a bullet with this one. Migrated away from BCacheFS on my openSUSE deployments a few days ago because I could see the writing on the wall for a while.
The Tz database is fascinating, the amount of random data you'll find in there for the sole purpose of calculating time and date is bizarre. The Tz database has an estimate of the Big Bang, there are several time zones that have hundreds of hard coded daylight saving transitions, or manually calculating when ramadan happens and placing that data in tzdb files.
This isn't anything new. Media has always sensationalized events like this, the only difference is how often it happens and how sensationalized it gets. I think social media plays a large roll in this, as an individual who might be considering committing these crimes, the almost guaranteed attention you can grab is a strong motivator for tons of people.
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