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[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I am rather fond of Fedora. I still use it on my laptop. At the end of the day it is a glorified testbed for Red Hat (read: IBM) though, so yea. yea

A bit surprised Ubuntu didn't do this first, but then again Ubuntu is actually widely deployed as a server OS for some reason, while Fedora is primarily used by end-users and GTK developers. If Ubuntu made the first move, the Internet might actually stop working and we'd all have to touch grass.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

As pointed out elsewhere and as i think would make some intuitive sense, they are not just directly letting chatgpt write an update to the OS, but making rules for how contributors who use AI code are to be treated (The same as any other coder, with the same requirements).
Now if they were using AI to also vet the code that would end with computers exploding.

I think the most likely bad result from this will be a lot of people without the necessary skill tying up other people's time looking through their vibe coded nonsense to shoot it down. But that was going to happen anyway.

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

From my (admittedly, limited) experience, sign-offs are often relatively shallow sanity checks. Nothing about this patch looks egregious? It solves a known problem? It makes it though the CI pipeline? Approved. When dealing with languages like C, where very subtle mistakes can introduce defects and vulnerabilities, I would not trust a LLM to do the brunt of the due diligence which would ordinarily be coming from the contributor (who typically spends a lot more time thinking about the problem than the person signing off on the patch). I'll admit this isn't a novel problem, but the amount of scrutiny applied to submissions will definitely need to increase if this becomes a standard process.

[–] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I use fedora on a couple of machines - it’s purely pragmatic. It’s a great distro - always been solid for me worked great on my hardware (some common and some exotic), never had a update that’s broken my system (cough arch cough) but stays pretty cutting edge. I also like Gnome - so disregard my opinion lol

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s so good.

Clean, elegant consistent design, and simple enough to get out the way.

Excellent performance.

I am the one person who likes the workflow.

I also prefer gtk to qt for development purposes, so it’s nice to have my gtk stuff feel at home