Nothing in the world can protect you from what the government does with the money we already gave it. We’ve ceded all control over it. Crypto can’t do a damn thing there and even makes it harder to claw the money back.

What crypto can do is keep anyone from seizing the money you still control, and it can ensure nobody prevents you from transacting over anything at all. That means no getting screwed by a bank run, no having your funds seized by authoritarian governments, and nobody can exclude you from the payment network you depend on for daily life, no being excluded from digital payments and banking because you lack sufficient documentation or banks find your community to not be worth the effort. I understand not everybody needs that, as many North Americans and Europeans don’t, but that doesn’t mean it’s devoid if value for everyone. And if your government turns too harshly to authoritarians, there may come a day where you learn to appreciate those things.

If you really want to get rid of your dual boot but need Windows, you could set up a virtual machine running Windows. You need a bit of a nicer machine to deal with the overhead, but it’s not so bad as people assume a lot of the time. As long as you don’t need the GPU for what you’re doing, I think it’s even pretty easy to give the VM direct access to the base hardware it needs, which cuts a fair bit of overhead. It may or may not get fairly technical to set up, depending on your hardware, distro, and personal luck, but it might be viable.

Have you tried stuff like WINE? I thought I’d heard of people using FL Studio without much issue, but I may be confusing it with another program.

Pretty much. I suppose the way it’s written isn’t a fuck you, but the fact it’s on the list certainly is. The only way to get more specific is to include your instance. Technically, unless there’s something I’m missing about the block list since I don’t know much, this would match your username but on any instance, not just specifically you on Lemmy.dbzer0.com

Pretty sure that’s regex, so yeah, you’re kinda on the list. If you made a new account with a different number on the end, you’d still trigger the block. If it ended with $ on top of starting with ^, though, then it would need to be an exact match.

Looks like regex. The ^ means it must begin at the beginning of a line of text, and the $ signifies the end of the line. Putting the username between ^ and $ basically means it must be a perfect match with no extras on the end, so if someone had your username plus something extra on the end or with something in front of it, you won’t get a false positive trying to match against your username.

You don’t blame the knife when people get stabbed, so why blame AI for code it generated on the developer’s behalf?

Because creating a knife doesn’t require a tens of MW data center that runs on gas turbines, making the surrounding area unlivable with noise pollution. It doesn’t require stealing knowledge from the entire world and then selling us our own knowledge back. It doesn’t help billionaires lay off tens of thousands of us.

can’t take people seriously, because most people pick and choose when it’s convenient to be moral and ethical.

So you’re using other people’s moral flexibility to justify your own rather than taking any sort of stance of your own, cool.

Same people who don’t like AI pollution are using cars and plastics in their daily lives and would absolutely flip out if someone would ask them to give it up for the environment.

Using cars as an example is a bit disingenuous since in the US, at least, huge swathes of the nation are simply not built for pedestrians; buying and maintaining a car is the hidden tax you pay to the auto industry instead of the government. There are plenty of places in the US where it is not safe to bike or walk. Some of us are pissed about it, but what are we supposed to do until infrastructure is massively reworked at exorbitant cost?

AI is just the current “trend” to hate and be moral about because not many people are depending on it yet in ther day to day life.

This is nothing more than an attempt to downplay the issue so you can ignore it.

I understand that people have concerns, but those concerns are only relevant if they come from a maintainer or repo owner point of view.

This just isn’t true. Whether I’m a developer or not, I have to deal with the security issues that come with running the code. I have to deal with the bugs that come from it. I have to decide if I’m willing to support practices I may consider unethical used to produce the software, especially if I’m considering donating to the project. I don’t need to be a topic expert to understand that AI code is prone to bugs and security vulnerabilities, nor do I need to be one to consider the massive ecological damage and copyright violation required to train the plagiarism machine.

However, to use AI to brainstorm, get suggestions, discuss architecture, learn with examples, and assist basically like someone else is sitting next to you while you code yourself… that is something completely different, and results in a completely different outcome.

Generally, people take the most issue with using it to actually generate code in any capacity. There are purists who might insist you not even touch AI, but I think most draw the line at including code or graphics not written by a human.

In the end, it depends on can the person at the steering wheel take full ownership and accountability of the code they produced, with or without AI.

If we presume ethically neutral tools, sure, but the massive damage to ecosystems and towns that comes with training, using, and powering AI are seen by many as outweighing the utility they’re able to provide.

Some people have serious ethical and quality concerns about AI usage in code in a way that’s just irrelevant to the OS and IDE used to code it.

Maybe not long term, but there was a noticeable uptick in claims being approved from what I recall. Whether you think Luigi was right or wrong, it’s hard to deny people are alive today because of him.