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  • Xfce dev sponsored by Xfce project to create Wayland compositor admits to using Claude LLM/AI for development, dismisses ethical concerns

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  • Both KDE and Gnome have significantly more developers on hand to contribute toward implementing their own wayland compositors, and on recent versions, their wayland implementations have worked very well for me, even on Nvidia hardware, which I couldn't say just a few years ago.

    In comparison; Cinnamon's Wayland backend is only just now becoming usable for most average tasks, Xfce's effort is the focus of this post, which has only just gotten to an alpha state (still not ready at all for an average user or for distros to adopt as the default), and MATE has no developers on the project who have the necessary skills to make a Wayland compositor, so they are instead trying to integrate the Wayfire Wayland Window Manager instead, and they still consider their own implementation experimental.

  • Effective ways to get rid of acne?

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  • Xfce dev sponsored by Xfce project to create Wayland compositor admits to using Claude LLM/AI for development, dismisses ethical concerns

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  • AFAIK, they are wisely not accepting AI code contributions over licensing concerns.

    The issue is the lack of software support overall. It's possible to use BSD, but quite limiting.

    Haiku OS also decided against accepting AI code for the same reasoning (though that is even more limited, and doesn't support a wide range of hardware, I believe).

  • Xfce dev sponsored by Xfce project to create Wayland compositor admits to using Claude LLM/AI for development, dismisses ethical concerns

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  • It's definitely worth buying used wherever possible, and to repair electronics whenever possible to avoid unnecessary consumption (part of why Right to Repair is so important). Similarly, it's quite beneficial to switch to plant-based meats to avoid both unnecessary animal suffering and the carbon emissions and resource wastage that goes with industrial animal production (especially as those resources become more and more scarce due to poor crop yields and drought from climate change).

    It's often not possible to do either of those things 100%, such as it not being possible to be completely vegan/vegetarian due to a family member that isn't on board with it, but it's still beneficial to do what they can, even if it's only 20, 30, or 50%.

    Corporate AI usage, on the other hand, is one of those things that truly is completely avoidable with virtually no effort, and was something we all got along fine without just a few years ago. There are even more ethical self-hosted or decentralized non-corporate alternatives.

    Someone deciding to ignore the harmful externalities of corporate AI is making a choice to prioritize their own convenience over helping prevent our planet from becoming extremely unpleasant for billions of people and animals to live on, or the financing of a fascist surveillance state.

  • Xfce dev sponsored by Xfce project to create Wayland compositor admits to using Claude LLM/AI for development, dismisses ethical concerns

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  • It's all about DesktopPal 97 for me!

    (Unironically do love that theme, but more seriously, I use Xfce on a particularly weak laptop with only 4gb of RAM, where it works as a good compromise between being lightweight yet not needing the configuration that Window Managers need if they don't come pre setup from the distro itself)

  • Xfce dev sponsored by Xfce project to create Wayland compositor admits to using Claude LLM/AI for development, dismisses ethical concerns

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  • Xfce dev sponsored by Xfce project to create Wayland compositor admits to using Claude LLM/AI for development, dismisses ethical concerns

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  • Bear in mind that each desktop environment has its own implementation of Wayland, meaning each can offer vastly different user experiences. Gnome and KDE currently have the most polished and integrated Wayland compositors, and are the least likely to have any noticeable issues compared to X11, except for perhaps a few edge cases that have yet to be worked on.

    Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce all still use experimental/buggy Wayland compositors, so if any of those desktop environments were the ones you experienced issues with Wayland on, I wouldn't let that color your expectations of Wayland itself.

  • Xfce dev sponsored by Xfce project to create Wayland compositor admits to using Claude LLM/AI for development, dismisses ethical concerns

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  • I think it's quite clear I'm against AI use (especially in FLOSS projects) for the reasons I've laid out in the comments here, I make no bones about that. And you yourself are clearly pro-AI, and dislike arguments advocating against its use. You also appear to dislike the idea of individuals being able to contribute toward any sort of societal change with personal choices, instead much preferring to put the onus on a clearly corrupt government which is itself at the beck and call of the very AI companies we're discussing.

  • Xfce dev sponsored by Xfce project to create Wayland compositor admits to using Claude LLM/AI for development, dismisses ethical concerns

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  • The developer made this public post of their own volition, presumably for others to read and make up their own mind on. It's not naming and shaming to alert others their DE is going to be AI coded in the future, or to point out the potential downfalls of the project adopting AI.

  • Xfce dev sponsored by Xfce project to create Wayland compositor admits to using Claude LLM/AI for development, dismisses ethical concerns

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  • All of us can try to take steps to reduce our fossil fuel use, either by trying to drive less, using public transport if available, or using an e-bike if viable. Individually the contribution is small, but collectively it can add up to help reduce demand, thus reducing the financial incentive to invest in oil or drill for more.

  • Xfce dev sponsored by Xfce project to create Wayland compositor admits to using Claude LLM/AI for development, dismisses ethical concerns

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  • Refusing to use the tools that profit the very thing we want to stop is part of standing up to it, how is that not obvious?

  • Xfce dev sponsored by Xfce project to create Wayland compositor admits to using Claude LLM/AI for development, dismisses ethical concerns

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  • You created an account a few minutes ago just to say individuals shouldn't bear any responsibility whatsoever, and worse, that advocating for reducing the problem in a meaningful way is virtue signalling?

  • Xfce dev sponsored by Xfce project to create Wayland compositor admits to using Claude LLM/AI for development, dismisses ethical concerns

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  • That may be something else if you're not currently using the Wayland compositor, which I think is still in alpha.

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  • Besides the potential risk of unknowable copyright infringement and the dangers that poses to FLOSS projects as I mentioned in another comment here:

    Simply using an AI that's run on a corporate data centers encourages the construction of yet more data centers, with all of the environmental/climate negatives they bring, as well as local harms they induce on the people living near them, such as increased electricity rates.

    Using corporate AI directly helps the financial situations of the big tech companies that host them (by boosting usage/user numbers, they are able to attract more investment capital), most of which are owned by right-wing CEO's who are more than willing to collaborate with and fund fascist governments to ensure that they are not regulated in search of both maximum profits. Some of these companies, such as Nvidia, Palantir and Oracle, genuinely appear to be seeking to use these tools for what would previously be considered crackpot conspiracy theory levels of public control and surveillance.

    But if someone is absolutely determined to use them regardless, I would hope they either use a locally run LLM, or use a distributed model like AI Horde, as at the very least that does not encourage the construction of corporate data centers nor boost their financial prospects.

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  • Unknowingly using potentially copyrighted code from an LLM in a FLOSS project opens it up to being sued for infringement, which most FLOSS devs can’t afford to fight, especially in the US’s current extremely pro-corporate courts.

    It’s putting a target on your back for down the road when it becomes profitable for patent trolls to use AI to try to scan for copyrighted code on public code bases. Big tech companies could do the same to squash an open source competitor.

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  • I'm certainly not pleased with it.

  • Microsoft's Windows 11 push backfired, so it's quietly keeping Windows 10 alive for another year

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  • They absolutely do put on government backdoors, but most people aren't going to be personally targeted by that, but they are likely to get hit with non-fed malware, like keyloggers to steal accounts, botnets, identity theft, etc.

    Not that it justifies it, fuck Microsoft, but you get what I mean?

  • Threadiverse Major Defederations Graph

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  • The ones at the bottom that are below the None category aren't defederated from anyone, so they can access every instance.

  • Microsoft's Windows 11 push backfired, so it's quietly keeping Windows 10 alive for another year

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  • I am in no way disagreeing that Windows 11 is a shit show, and wildly less secure than Linux, but realistically as bad as it is, it's still going to have less open and known vulnerabilities than Windows 7.

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    I Spent a Year Replacing My Subscriptions by Self Hosting. Here’s How.

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    Movim - A GPL, federated E2EE Text Chat & Video Call platform (w/ screenshare!) using XMPP just launched a new funding campaign to accelerate development of Discord-like features!

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    How to End Democracy in 60 Days - Death of Democracy Q1 1933

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    How Popular Was Hitler? From the start of WW2 to the end

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    Re-discovering 3D Graphics the Way Early Games Did

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    EDIT: Warning article likely written with AI assistance

    Wayland didn’t kill Linux desktops, but it did expose their weakest assumptions

    www.xda-developers.com /wayland-didnt-kill-linux-desktops-expose-weakest-assumptions/
  • Running @lemmy.world
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    Running across Timor in 5 days while talking about its WWII history - Beau Miles

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    The Racist history of Surveillance

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    Some things never seem to change - Billy the Kid, the Lincoln County War, and Law Enforcement who aligned with the Corporate Interests

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    It's All Henry VIII!: A Beginner's Guide To The Dissolution of the Monasteries

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    Nearly lost and Forgotten - Ghost Town Cemetery - Charleston, AZ

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Scott Jenson, Ubuntu Summit 25.10

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    The Black Soldiers who Defeated the Fascists in WW2

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    I Read Hitler's Book in 2025. It scared me for us. | The Present Past

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    What does Oracle actually do? Take other businesses' data hostage for profit | Good Work

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    World's Largest Cargo Sailboat Finishes First Transatlantic Voyage (Video of the boat in action in post body)

    www.marinelink.com /news/cargo-sailboat-finishes-first-531807
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    DeFlock - A map of known Flock camera locations which anyone with an OpenStreetMap account can contribute to

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    Radiative Cooling Aerogel from Potatoes (and other DIY bioplastics)

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    How 1949 and the Cold War Internationalized the First Indochina War

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    Argentina's Dirty War: The Junta and the Disappeared