Dear Linux community,

In these unpredictable and often challenging times, I feel it’s more important than ever to pause and share heartfelt wishes. Merry Christmas to each and every one of you!

Let this holiday season be a moment of peace, where you can step back, breathe, and find some calm amidst the chaos. Take the opportunity to reconnect, reflect, and perhaps even find inspiration for the year ahead.

May your days be filled with joy, your systems stay secure, and your kernels remain stable. Here’s to a festive season full of positivity and open-source spirit!

Warm wishes,

Your fellow penguin at heart.

P.S.: I had very little time, so the whole thing, was AI accelerated! Please forgive me :-)

  • fool@programming.dev
    125·
    2 days ago

    edit: Please be nice to each other! :(

    Lots of downvotes in this reply chain. Not to be a “I don’t wanna be either side” kinda guy but AI isn’t all bad and isn’t all good either. (Greys!)

    Merry Christmasing should be a genuine hug. Even if this was made by a homegrown open-weight open-dataset inference model, it’s nearly 100% low-effort generated – holidays need the human aspect, no? Covering yourself up too much in AI takes away from the humanness with corporate diction, and people need evidence of risktaking genuineness nowadays.

    On the other hand, AI is definitely useful… but elsewhere. It’s not strictly anti-human even if conglomerates are using it that way, which I think you agree on. Wading through HOA using local NLP setups is human. Looking through a Mandarin thread when typical translation sucks, is human.

    But there are domains for its use and there is ethical stuff to work on. This post just doesn’t fit the domain too well, as others agree…

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      7 hours ago

      eh, i don’t see it as any different than most of the cards in a store, it’s all incredibly low effort and cringy, yet no one seems to give a shit about that.

      • fool@programming.dev
        1·
        2 hours ago

        That’s an interesting perspective actually

        Maybe it’s because of who’s giving them? If my little cousin gave me an AI Christmas card, I’d be happier than if a stranger gave me one on the street. (Though I’d feel bummed if they didn’t even marker in a single custom sentence)

        i.e. higher standards of creativity/effort from a stranger than from a family member.

        Also the stranger isn’t stuffing a tenner in the card lmao

        • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          4 minutes ago

          i just kinda feel eh about them as a concept, it’s just a piece of paper with an image on it where the sum total involvement from the giver is that they selected the card, and even that is almost never something that took more than 20 seconds.

          It’s a worse version of postcards, which usually have some actually interesting art on them (or a photo) and is relevant to a journey they made.