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New comment by someaccount1234 in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

someaccount1234 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:20:29 +0000

> Why does 'Chrome' need to survive as a standalone company? It never had a business model besides "support Google's monopolies", so it shouldn't survive (IMO)

You just explicitly claimed that Chrome has definitively a viable business model as a stand-alone company ("Short answer? Yes. Long answer? Definitely."). Now you claim the opposite...

Is the argument also as strong for the other cases?

New comment by someaccount1234 in "Debian AI vote: Option 5 "Responsible use of GenAI" won"

someaccount1234 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:24:15 +0000

> This message is an automated, unofficial publication

It is explicitly unofficial.

New comment by someaccount1234 in "Debian polls its developers on AI: permit or ban?"

someaccount1234 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:55:51 +0000

> And then another one?

But what when salaries would increase by factor 100-1000? This would make AI use even cheaper. (About as realistic...)

> And then the cloud stuff goes away because all the vendors go broke, despite the price rises, and you have to switch to using local models?

In this case there will be cheap inference hardware on the market as someone will sell all those assets. They don't disappear when a company goes broke (object permanence).

We could also speculate what would happen if all hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba, ...) would suddenly be broke. Again, about as realistic a scenario.

New comment by someaccount1234 in "Debian polls its developers on AI: permit or ban?"

someaccount1234 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:42:29 +0000

NetBSD has no alternative to Chromium, Firefox, LLVM, Rust or Python. They use AI-generated software too, including in the base system.

New comment by someaccount1234 in "Debian polls its developers on AI: permit or ban?"

someaccount1234 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:32:41 +0000

Then you cannot use Linux, Firefox, Chromium, Python, Rust, LLVM and so on. Hurd can't be used either.

Maybe you have to switch to FreeDOS?

New comment by someaccount1234 in "Debian polls its developers on AI: permit or ban?"

someaccount1234 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:30:28 +0000

No, otherwise one would have to remove the Linux kernel, the Hurd kernel, LLVM, Python, Chromium, Firefox, Rust and everything using these. And probably some more.

New comment by someaccount1234 in "Debian polls its developers on AI: permit or ban?"

someaccount1234 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:28:50 +0000

Given almost all people here cannot vote, does this mean you posted non-AI-generated slop?

Wouldn't it be better to reduce slop, no matter how it was produced, instead of only AI-generated contributions, including non-slop contributions?