Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’ : technology

[–] pirate2377@lemmy.zip 12 points 5 hours ago

We truly are witnessing the death of open source in real time. Thanks AI!

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 25 points 6 hours ago

This ai shit is fucking everything up for everyone.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 24 points 7 hours ago

I'm just imagining a bunch of sweaties telling people they work for Linux as a cybersec expert, burning through $300 of tokens a day.

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Why does everyone always use the old photos of chubby Linus?

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 13 points 2 hours ago

Because they have to nerf him somehow, can't just have worlds sexiest kernel developer getting everyone soaking wet all the time.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 19 points 6 hours ago

He's getting older. Maybe they just want a younger shot.

Middle of last year:

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linus-torvalds-calls-risc-v-code-from-google-engineer-garbage-and-that-it-makes-the-world-actively-a-worse-place-to-live-linux-honcho-puts-dev-on-notice-for-late-submissions-too

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 hours ago

Huh, apparently he lost weight last year.

But that's probably why, it only happened last year, and he's not so much a public figure that he gets photographed often.

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[–] galacticworm@piefed.social 5 points 6 hours ago

He needs an AI to fight the other AI

[+] ryannathans@aussie.zone -19 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Email systems and mailing lists are antiquated. Dumb behaviours make management of the system even harder.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I agree with you. It makes interacting with Linux kernel development tedious and I think they like it that way.

It falls apart pretty quick when they reach a certain size which is what ai posts increase the chance of.

Still it has the advantages of being decentralized which keeps it off things like GitHub issues which is probably for the better.

[–] Benaaasaaas@group.lt 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You're putting this like llm spam is somehow a managed problem in github issues, where it's very much the same overwhelmed system with no good solution.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 hours ago

I'm not saying that at all.

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Meh, as good as any other tool for a running private thread.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

It's not though, hence this issue. Moderation, organisation and management tools are lacking because it's email

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What do you suggest?

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's time the Linux maintainers put their heads together and come up with a decentralised tool for managing these issues much in the same way git was created for managing the source code of Linux

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Git was created because one of those developers actually had a problem. The fact that they haven't tried to replace the mailing list yet suggests they don't actually have a problem with it.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 4 points 2 hours ago

I guess the articles are about a big nothing

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