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[-] samvines@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

It turns out we didn't need that list of AI-corrupted open source projects after all...

At this rate it's actually going to be easier to make a list of projects that don't have AI...

Systemd and libuv now on the slop hype train

[-] mirrorwitch@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

Systemd

Jesus.

I've been advocating for a hall of fame of projects that explicitly reject LLMs; ctrl+f "Gentoo" on this very comment thread for the few examples I heard about.

[-] jaschop@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

~~Eh, straight pip with venv and pip-tools for support worked fine anyway.~~ wrong uv!

As for systemd... time to look at the BSDs? Was Debian among the anti-slop projects? Would be nice if they took an interest in preventing the slopification of one of their core system.

[-] samvines@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Different UV! Libuv is the event loop/scheduler that powers node.js. could be a funky new way to compromise a whole bunch of node applications

Edit: typo - although "nose applications" being compromised sounds bad too.

[-] jaschop@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

Ah, thanks! My expectations of node aren't much affected I guess. Bun.js maybe?

[-] corbin@awful.systems 2 points 6 hours ago

libuv is a very common way to get a portable event loop. If you're logged into GH and can use their search then you can look at the over fifty packages in nixpkgs depending on it. I used it when I developed (the networking and JIT parts of) the reference implementation for Monte, to give a non-nixpkgs example.

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