JustVik

Snap. :)

In general, I noticed that a significant degradation of search engines began to occur after the appearance of chatGPT, perhaps this is somehow related. Before that, degradation was slower. Maybe in Google for example they were a little afraid that ChatGPT would learn from their search engines and replace them...

It's called Paging. But an application programmer doesn't really need to know how it works in precise.

Hard to imagine that they so low skilled. If FSB really will want to install a backdoor, it will be so low-level that more of a hard work will be required to detect it.

Something like a joke about this:

If you're working on something genius great, no matter who's watching you, they won't understand anything, but if you're doing ordinary things, it's really not that important that someone is watching.

But of course, annoying comprehensive surveillance, especially from commercial companies, certainly should not be justified.

It's nice to see such a willpower to use fully free distro. I am often prevented from using a fully free distribution only by the non-free firmware for AMD GPU.

Yes, value can be expressed not only in monetary terms. If people find it very valuable, they should pay more attention to privacy. However, you can protect yourself from cryptolockers by remote backups as one of the ways.

Then all available and legitimate methods of ensuring confidentiality are adequate and justified. But sometimes at work you may need to use programs that you don't really like etc. And without work, you will have nothing to eat. Maybe a little exaggerated.

Speaking specifically about me, I try to use free and open source software to the maximum extent possible. I only run non-free games sometimes. And sometimes some propriatary software for/at work.

If you are going to protect something, then you should not spend more on protection than the protected property is worth... It's always about balance. :)

Maybe It is possible to simply add functions to files that are not used anywhere with very delusional content. If people read it, they will easily understand that some nonsense is written in the function. Perhaps even with a comment that this is to protect against "AI" training. But only so that they do not repeat themselves and it is difficult to remove them all by one pattern...

Then I have nothing to fear. My code is already ready for this. :D

Thank you very much for your reply. I support your opinion in a way that I am already inclined that a complete prohibition on the training of "AI" models on the source code of software is not a very good solution and is difficult to limit according to current laws. I hope somtimes someone smart will come up with some approaches to such problems.