https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhEKoZO6DM8
I feel like my stance on the Linux Foundation has been pretty consistent, thinking that it would be nice if they cared at least a little bit about the Linux ...
The only AI function I could see myself using is one that would summarize 15 minute youtube videos into coherent readable text in blog format. That would be nice. Especially when they're posted like this, just links without much context.
From Gemini
The video is about the controversy surrounding how the Linux Foundation spends its money.
The speaker, Brodie Robertson, argues that the Linux Foundation should spend more money on the Linux desktop and less on other projects, such as blockchain and machine learning. He points out that the Linux Foundation employs the vast majority of core kernel developers, but that only a small percentage of its funding goes to Linux kernel development.
Robertson acknowledges that the Linux Foundation is not obligated to listen to his criticism, as it is a member-driven organization. However, he believes that it is still important to have a conversation about how the Linux Foundation spends its money.
Here are the key points:
- The Linux Foundation is the biggest employer of Linux kernel developers.
- Only a small percentage of the Linux Foundation's funding goes to Linux kernel development.
- The Linux Foundation spends money on a variety of other projects, such as blockchain and machine learning.
- Brodie Robertson believes that the Linux Foundation should spend more money on the Linux desktop.
- The Linux Foundation is a member-driven organization and is not obligated to listen to Robertson's criticism.
- The Linux Foundation is a member-driven organization and is not obligated to listen to Robertson's criticism.
Gold
The video discusses criticism of the Linux Foundation and how it spends its funds. While the Linux Foundation is the largest employer of Linux kernel developers, only 2-3% of its budget goes towards that. The rest is spent on various other projects like blockchain, AI, and cloud computing. The video creator argues that the Linux Foundation should allocate more of its funding towards improving the Linux desktop ecosystem, which is underfunded compared to these other initiatives. However, the video acknowledges that the Linux Foundation is beholden to the interests of its corporate members, who likely prioritize the other areas the foundation supports. The video presents the creator's perspective, while recognizing the Linux Foundation's right to spend its money as it sees fit.
No profit in that, though, so doubt any corpos will do it.
But in theory it should not be hard to do, there has to be a way to extract YT's subtitles by scraping the page in something like Selenium (might be some trouble if they are really generated at runtime or in batches rather than once per video at upload and sent from backend during beginning of playback and simply made invisible in the source), then simply run a summarize prompt on the text to a local Mistral or w/e and have a result. If using 'Open'AI's API, could even have it be a Firefox extension with mobile support.
It's not like anything he says is a secret:
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/ 900 open source projects 3M+ developers trained
It's right there on the front page.
Linux foundation never supported desktop development, and I suspect they have their reasons. Maybe that a GUI is a very subjective thing, there are dozens of desktops, supporting one would probably cause major wrath from everybody else, so if Linux Foundation were to support the desktop, they'd have to support all. But Gnome has often shown to be hostile to outside influence, so maybe they don't really care to mess with that. KDE is based on QT, and maybe the QT dual license isn't within the scope of Linux Foundation to support? So with the biggest desktops being somewhat problematic, maybe it's better to just leave it alone.
The real question IMO is why Linux desktop doesn't have better support from other foundations? Why aren't any of them able to attract more financial support?
Personally I liked Gnome 2, and I think Gnome did a lot of harm to Linux when they deprecated it before Gnome Shell was ready, and I think Gnome alienated many users with the design decisions of Gnome shell.
Then the problem is that almost every GUI Desktop on Linux is based on some flavor of GTK which is under Gnome, or based on QT with the dual license.
Personally I don't mind the dual license of QT, but many Linux developers are very idealistic, and don't like it.
Personally I don’t mind the dual license of QT, but many Linux developers are very idealistic, and don’t like it.
The other issue is that they switched their LGPL license from v2 to v3.
Fair points but I still think there's one "desktop" project they host that should not only be supported and get fundings, but be one of their top priorities: Servo.
I think it's crucial not only for the Linux desktop but for the future of the open web. It's has the potential to be a great web renderer engine (it's built atop Rust) and, with good support and development, in the middle-long haul it could be a serious, community-driven alternative to the hegemony of Chrome/Chromium.
After Mozilla ditched it due to the abhorrent administration they had, it went to The Linux Foundation. Afaik there's no more paid people working on it nor working on it full time as it was when it was under Mozilla. With its enormous funding it's insane that Servo has to look out for its own fundings.
I can't stand this guy. That has nothing to do with the video, other than I probably won't watch it because of how much I dislike him.
Because he's obnoxious and so sure of his bad takes as if they're fact, as opposed to shit opinions. Did I mention he's obnoxious?
I couldn't watch more than a few moments either because, as someone else mentioned, I prefer to take this kind of content in text form. Having said that...
Because he is obnoxious and so sure of his bad takes as if they're fact, as opposed to shit opinions.
I got a chuckle out of the irony here.
The Linux foundation is like the breast cancer foundation, WWF, and a bunch of other "non profits" that have amazing expenditures in stuff that isn't what people think they do.
I think we need a new foundation that specifically funds Linux development with the large majority of the money they get. Does one already exist? Maybe we could vet it and then plaster it all over the fediverse...
And of course its you again. Thanks for this well thought out and informative, yet concise comment as always.
😊 thank you for the appreciation and continued polite tone whenever I see your comments.
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