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General Resolution: LLM Usage in Debian

olalonde — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 07:26:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002#texta

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066159

Points: 4

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New comment by olalonde in "US Government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system"

olalonde — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:40:03 +0000

Oh ok, I misunderstood! Ledger wallet has a similar feature where you can assign a decoy wallet to a pin code.

New comment by olalonde in "US Government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system"

olalonde — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:59:16 +0000

This feels like a rhetorical question but I'm not entirely sure. What do you mean?

New comment by olalonde in "US Government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system"

olalonde — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:14:28 +0000

Deceiving a kidnapper into thinking you complied with their order to unlock your phone would be a legitimate use.

New comment by olalonde in "Understanding the AI Economy"

olalonde — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:21:08 +0000

No money is generally accepted. USD would come closest but it's still far from true (probably fewer than 10% of merchants globally).

New comment by olalonde in "Understanding the AI Economy"

olalonde — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:28:26 +0000

No, I didn't mean anything beyond what I wrote.

New comment by olalonde in "Google’s ATLAS is a look at how people are using AI"

olalonde — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:36:25 +0000

These AI threads seem to attract the same kind of repetitive, low-effort dismissals that crypto threads used to.

New comment by olalonde in "Why I am not going to buy a computer"

olalonde — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:02:21 +0000

I don't think that's true. I think most people are naturally against this idea emotionally. Why would humans not want to be special? I know I wish it wasn't true.

New comment by olalonde in "Why I am not going to buy a computer"

olalonde — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:56:19 +0000

Probably not the author's point but to me, the takeaway is that these people are driven by emotion and can't be won over with rational arguments. They have an emotional attachment to their old ways, a fear of being obsoleted, a wish that there is something truly special and mysterious about humans, etc.

New comment by olalonde in "Why I am not going to buy a computer"

olalonde — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:32:52 +0000

The top AI labs still employ thousands of software engineers. If it was dead, they'd be among the first to stop employing them. If by "software engineering is dead" you mean that using AI coding tools is now part of the job description, I think that's largely correct.

New comment by olalonde in "Why I am not going to buy a computer"

olalonde — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:21:20 +0000

The quote accurately mirrors a lot of the anti-AI sentiment in my experience. The pushback comes from a visceral, emotional aversion, and the technical or economic arguments proposed against it are largely post-hoc rationalizations.

New comment by olalonde in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

olalonde — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:01:00 +0000

> This HN notion that ads shape everyone's behaviour (except me, obviously) is so disconnected from my experience that I am sometimes confused by it.

Same. They've also never really bothered me, especially billboards and street advertisements. I was actually sad when they got rid of the neon signs in Hong Kong.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/08/fading-glory-t...

New comment by olalonde in "Codeberg bans vibe coded projects"

olalonde — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:35:19 +0000

Agreed that it would potentially be a bigger concern but it seems they support both "Free Software" and "Open Source". See my other reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49004912

New comment by olalonde in "Codeberg bans vibe coded projects"

olalonde — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:14:43 +0000

I don't think they have ulterior motives because I do, I think that because of the loaded language they use (e.g. "taking a stand against AI", "LLM-extrusions") and the dubious reasons they came up with.

It's been decided pretty much everywhere that LLM output is not copyrighted by the LLM vendor. The only realistic risk here is for vibecoded code to be considered public domain, if too little human input was involved, but public domain is functionally equivalent to a very permissive open source license (e.g. MIT minus attribution).

New comment by olalonde in "Codeberg bans vibe coded projects"

olalonde — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:36:40 +0000

> Well, not quite, it would still have to deal with handling and moderating copyright claims under German law. So while it's not a legal issue, it's definitely overhead for a nonprofit.

Who is sending all those takedown requests on vibe coded repos? My guess is that this is absolutely not an issue that they actually have.

> Based on what?

LLMs produce buggy code. Humans do too. Like you mentioned, it's difficult to say one is categorically worse than the other since both humans and LLMs vary so much. By "less likely" I was just thinking about the fact that LLMs often refuse to intentionally produce harmful code.

Anyways, my point was that this is just a pretext. If by some objective measure they discovered that vibe coded repos were less likely to contain "harmful code", do you really think they would enact the opposite policy (e.g. ban non vibe coded projects)? Don't think so.

New comment by olalonde in "Codeberg bans vibe coded projects"

olalonde — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:43:45 +0000

It would be cool if they just admitted that this is ideologically motivated rather than hide behind pragmatic excuses.

1) "unclear copyright status"

Even if the copyright concern was legitimate (highly doubt so), Codeberg would be fully protected under safe harbor laws.

2) "little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code"

Inclusion of harmful code is no more likely than human-extruded code (probably less actually).

New comment by olalonde in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

olalonde — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:57:12 +0000

I simply meant that users ought to be free to choose between a product that offers a free ad-supported tier and one that is paid and ad-free. And I do believe that letting morons choose for themselves is the lesser evil.

New comment by olalonde in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

olalonde — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:18:57 +0000

Unpopular opinion: I think users should be free to choose.

New comment by olalonde in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

olalonde — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:13:38 +0000

Regurgitating existing ideas is not copyright infringement. Reproducing works verbatim is and AI companies already implement guardrails to prevent that.

New comment by olalonde in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

olalonde — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:56:05 +0000

I still can’t wrap my head around how transferring all assets from a non-profit foundation to a for-profit company was legal.