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| schestowitz[TR3] | <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/blender-4-5-lts-arrives-with-major-ui-overhaul/">Blender 4.5 LTS Arrives with Major UI Overhaul, Animation Improvements</a></h5> | Jul 16 12:40 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <blockquote> | Jul 16 12:40 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <p>Blender 4.5 LTS, one of the world’s most popular open-source 3D creation tools, is officially out, bringing two years of guaranteed updates and substantial quality-of-life improvements (maintained until July 2027), packed with enhancements spanning animation, compositing, rendering, and user interface improvements. </p> | Jul 16 12:40 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <p> One of the most anticipated features, the Vulkan backend, is now fully supported and matches the long-standing OpenGL functionality. While not enabled by default, activating Vulkan is straightforward via Blender’s preferences menu, promising improved performance. </p> | Jul 16 12:40 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | Blender 4.5 LTS Arrives with Major UI Overhaul, Animation Improvements | Jul 16 12:40 | |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-4-3-desktop-environment-released/">KDE Plasma 6.4.3 Desktop Environment Released</a></h5> | Jul 16 13:00 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | <p>Two weeks after Plasma 6.4.2 was released, the KDE team rolled out version 6.4.3 as the third bugfix update to the 6.4 series. </p> | Jul 16 13:00 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-07/msg00006.html | Jul 16 22:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-lists.gnu.org | Re: Is AI-generated code changing free software? | Jul 16 22:43 | |
| schestowitz[TR3] | "" | Jul 16 22:43 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | There is no knowledge involved, just statistical probabilities in those "plausible sentence generators" or "stochastical parrots". Thus we see daily the catastrophic failure of these systems in regards to factual output. More money just make them more expensive. More electricity just makes them more polluting. LLMs have peaked, technologically, but the investment bubble still grows. It relates to software freedom in that these parr | Jul 16 22:43 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | ots strip freedom-preserving attribution and licensing information from the code snippets which they regurgitate. | Jul 16 22:43 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | AI (using today's definitions) is good at recombining pieces, once the pieces are identified. So it can be useful right now in areas like protein folding, I would expect. However, as far as producing code, it can't. All it can do in that regard is strip licensing and attribution from existing code and mix the pieces until something compiles. As pointed out earlier in the thread, that reduces productivity. Programmers using LLMs may | Jul 16 22:43 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | /fee/ that they are 24% more effective, but the data actually shows a 19% drop in productivity. It is the stripping of licensing and attribution which may be a greater harm than the reduced productivity, from a software freedom perspective. Indeed, it is the licensing, specifically copyleft, which ensures the freedom to code going forward. Once that is stripped from the files, the freedom is gone. | Jul 16 22:43 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Furthermore, the LLMs are being used to take away agency from coders, turning them into, as Cory Doctorow put it, reverse centaurs which have already been mentioned in an earlier message: | Jul 16 22:43 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | "A centaur is someone whose work is supercharged by | Jul 16 22:43 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | automation: you are a human head atop the tireless body | Jul 16 22:43 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | of a machine that lets you get more done than you could | Jul 16 22:43 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | ever do on your own." | Jul 16 22:43 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | "A reverse-centaur is someone who is harnessed to the | Jul 16 22:43 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | machine, reduced to a mere peripheral for a cruelly | Jul 16 22:43 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | tireless robotic overlord that directs you to do the | Jul 16 22:43 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | work that it can’t, at a robotic pace, until your body | Jul 16 22:43 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | and mind are smashed." | Jul 16 22:43 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-08-02-despotism-on-demand-virtual-whips-4919c7e3d2bc | Jul 16 22:43 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | See also: | Jul 16 22:43 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | "Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs" | Jul 16 22:43 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Jul 16 22:43 | |
| schestowitz[TR3] | https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenized-reverse-centaurs/ | Jul 16 22:43 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | That situation is antithetical to the goals of software freedom, which is the goal for the human to be in charge of the system and use it as a tool to amplify his or her ability. | Jul 16 22:43 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | The people maneuvering to take away freedom and agency from the public are working hard in the press to present "AI" as a done deal. It is not, at least not as long as those working towards software freedom remain able to continue to push back. These LLMs are enjoying an extended overtime investment bubble which I posit will leave nothing useful when it does finally burst. | Jul 16 22:43 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | But as for Akira's question at the start of the thread, is AI-generated code changing free software? Since the LLMs strip both attribution and licensing information, I would say yes, AI generated code is changing free software by stripping away the freedom while simultaneously detaching the code from the upstream projects it has been plagiarized from. In that way it separates people from the free software projects they could be wor | Jul 16 22:43 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | king with. " | Jul 16 22:43 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Well said in libreplanet-discuss | Jul 16 22:44 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-doctorow.medium.com | The reverse-centaur apocalypse is upon us | by Cory Doctorow | Medium | Jul 16 22:44 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-pluralistic.net | Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow | Jul 16 22:44 | |
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