●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, July 16, 2025 ●● ● Jul 16 [03:27] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k07367eshttps://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k07367es [03:27] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k07367eshttps://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k07367es ) [03:27] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k07367es [03:27] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k07367es ) [03:27] schestowitz[TR3] "this is what I heard as well " ● Jul 16 [07:13] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [07:14] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes [07:55] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes ● Jul 16 [12:34] schestowitz[TR3] dea [12:40] schestowitz[TR3]
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    Blender 4.5 LTS Arrives with Major UI Overhaul, Animation Improvements
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    Blender 4.5 LTS, one of the worlds 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.

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    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 Blenders preferences menu, promising improved performance.

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    KDE Plasma 6.4.3 Desktop Environment Released
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    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.

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    • [13:00] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | KDE Plasma 6.4.3 Desktop Environment Released ● Jul 16 [20:15] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jul 16 [22:43] schestowitz[TR3] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-07/msg00006.html [22:43] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-lists.gnu.org | Re: Is AI-generated code changing free software? [22:43] schestowitz[TR3] "" [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 [22:43] schestowitz[TR3] ots strip freedom-preserving attribution and licensing information from the code snippets which they regurgitate. [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 [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. [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: [22:43] schestowitz[TR3] "A centaur is someone whose work is supercharged by [22:43] schestowitz[TR3] automation: you are a human head atop the tireless body [22:43] schestowitz[TR3] of a machine that lets you get more done than you could [22:43] schestowitz[TR3] ever do on your own." [22:43] schestowitz[TR3] "A reverse-centaur is someone who is harnessed to the [22:43] schestowitz[TR3] machine, reduced to a mere peripheral for a cruelly [22:43] schestowitz[TR3] tireless robotic overlord that directs you to do the [22:43] schestowitz[TR3] work that it cant, at a robotic pace, until your body [22:43] schestowitz[TR3] and mind are smashed." [22:43] schestowitz[TR3] [22:43] schestowitz[TR3] https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-08-02-despotism-on-demand-virtual-whips-4919c7e3d2bc [22:43] schestowitz[TR3] See also: [22:43] schestowitz[TR3] "Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs" [22:43] schestowitz[TR3] [22:43] schestowitz[TR3] https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenized-reverse-centaurs/ [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. [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. [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 [22:43] schestowitz[TR3] king with. " [22:44] schestowitz[TR3] Well said in libreplanet-discuss [22:44] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-doctorow.medium.com | The reverse-centaur apocalypse is upon us | by Cory Doctorow | Medium [22:44] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-pluralistic.net | Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [22:47] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k07367es [22:47] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k07367es ) [22:47] schestowitz[TR3] " [22:47] schestowitz[TR3] Ive heard its default 2 months severance and then for every year with the company its an additional 2 weeks. I dont know if theres a limit or a cap, nor do I know if that extends to COBRA or anything. [22:47] schestowitz[TR3] 4 hours ago by Anonymous [22:47] schestowitz[TR3] | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply [22:47] schestowitz[TR3] Post ID: @fc+1k07367es [22:47] schestowitz[TR3] +1 [22:47] schestowitz[TR3] My friend told me he received 2 months! [22:47] schestowitz[TR3] 7 hours ago by Anonymous [22:47] schestowitz[TR3] | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply [22:47] schestowitz[TR3] Post ID: @eq+1k07367es [22:47] schestowitz[TR3] +2 [22:47] schestowitz[TR3] Ask AI. You know, the reason you are being let go. Ask AI. [22:47] schestowitz[TR3] "