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You do not need fancy schools to learn new things.

The one exception to that as I pointed out in my comment, are fields which are subject to regulations and actually do need formal training and licensing, like, as I also pointed out, you're not getting a CDL through a free course if you want to get into driving semis, for example.

I'm siding with a lot of the other commenters on here, there's more ways to learn stuff than going back to school; even cheap or in some cases free classes both online and in person are a thing for instance.

The one exception to that claim is anything that's regulated in some way/needs a license, eg. driving a semi (need a CDL for that), going into the HVAC business (need a license to handle refrigerants), etc, those you need to go to school for, but things which aren't subject to government regulations on some level can be learned with a free or cheap course.

Code generated by a large language model or similar technology, such as GitHub/Microsoft's Copilot, OpenAI's ChatGPT, or Facebook/Meta's Code Llama, is presumed to be tainted code, and must not be committed without prior written approval by core.

• NetBSD banned AI code from their codebase as tainted code.

While it is not prohibited to use AI as a learning aid or a development tool (i.e. code completions), extension developers should be able to justify and explain the code they submit, within reason.

Submissions with large amounts of unnecessary code, inconsistent code style, imaginary API usage, comments serving as LLM prompts, or other indications of AI-generated output will be rejected.

• GNOME banned AI code from their extensions.

Although I prefer NetBSD's stricter ban on AI code over GNOME's, it's better than nothing on GNOME's side.

Also, I hand-drew my pfp and the original is pinned on my IRL wall right now, so that should hint at how I personally feel about AI.

Update:

As there seems to have been recent confusion about [AI integration into Firefox], just a quick "official" toot to then pin: we haven't and won't support "generative AI" related stuff in LibreWolf. If you see some features like that (like Perplexity search recently, or the link preview feature now) it is solely because it "slipped through". As soon as we become aware of something like this / it gets reported to us, we will remove/disable it ASAP.

• LibreWolf made an official stand against AI recently.

Waterfox also made an official stand against AI a bit after LibreWolf did.

I came over to Fooyin from Foobar2k, so the UI translated right over.

Fooyin's great so far.

So even the enthusiasts would rather, or are probably going to be forced to, give up their custom-built PCs, which they can do whatever they want with and run whatever OS and software they want on, for locked-down black boxes they don't even own anymore, even possibly to the degree where they can't even install their own OS anymore, so no more Linux or BSD outside of some niche hardware? That sucks.

How soon before modular PCs are killed outright and the only desktops you can buy are mini PCs with no expansion or upgradability at all?

It might if they're censored off the clearnet.

how would repealing Section 230 affect the fediverse specifically?

• It would destroy it. And ATproto. And decentralized platforms in general. And open-source software and hardware in general as I could imagine MS getting the green light to destroy Linux because they deem it to be a threat due to repealing Sec. 230.

Anyone who has an old car still has gotta feel some level of vindication right now as new cars for all price brackets are screwed right now on multiple levels.

This was in high school, but the way universities are going in the US right now, I'm feeling kinda vindicated in opting not to go to university.

I'm targeting them specifically because although Nintendo says they're portable and will last, what if Nintendo decides to revoke all those download keys when they sunset the Switch 2 instead of allowing them to be redeemed on the Switch 3, if there even will be a Switch 3 and the entire gaming industry doesn't collapse before such a console has a chance to even go into conception?

You'll have larger amounts of now-useless plastic littering landfills than with the optical discs that are glorified license keys on the PS and Xbox consoles.