The Era of Software Quality, or the Era of Ostriches?
blogs.gnome.org
Humans are bad at writing secure code, and GNOME developers are no exception. GNOME is primarily written using unsafe programming languages where simple mistakes in our code lead to devastating consequences for our users, and we make these mistakes all the time. No matter how much we try, GNOME developers will fail write secure code...

Yes, he literally demands devs who don’t accept LLM security reports to be removed from the project.

Projects that continue to prohibit AI-generated vulnerability reports are no longer suitable dependencies for GNOME, and should be developed someplace other than GNOME GitLab.

  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org
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    4 days ago

    I think the AI companies are trolling FOSS projects with such inflammatory proposals. Be they “anti-AI” or “pro-AI”.

    Remember before the last US election, disinformation targeted both parties to stifle more conflict. It is information warfare targeting FOSS because the tech bros and FANNG corporations do not want users with control over their software. Their relationship to FOSS is purely parasitic.

    The antidote is to center projects in actual goals and values, set really clear boundaries based on these, communicate these excellently, friendly, and firmly, and ignore the remaining people (or just bots) which keep trolling.

    If somebody wants to fork a project like GNOME and turbo-charge it with LLMs, let them prove they can do better and find users who want the slop.