Something needs to change with open source software/libraries, this week almost 100 million people were infected, Windows, Mac Linux.
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In many linux distro’s there is an experimental branch where these things are caught before entering the stable branch that 99.9% of people use.
I believe AI will likely help those running experimental branch code to find these problems in advance … of course we then have to trust the AI.
I believe it entered many different libraries like Python, Alchemy SDK, are those not updated until the stable Linux versions.
But not long ago then a group managed to infiltrate and take over 1 person responsible for something like the ssh handshake which was on the brink to catastrophy.
It seems there needs to be more organizations that verifies open source libraries, apps and such.
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LLMs are destroying open source as noted in the topic I created. At some point we will be back to trusting closed source for many things, or just not doing them at all.
I don’t think these events had anything to do with LLM’s, some libraries are only developed by one person, if that person gets compromised then it might cause major problems, it seems like state actors acts like a dedicated developer but they are a whole team trying to sneak things into the libraries.
LLM’s might be able to help find security vulnerabilities but they will also make it so easy to spawn new hacks, so that is scary if that was what you meant. People trust known libraries for Python I don’t think using LLM’s would make a difference.
My point is not, in this case to do with this hack or how it was achieved. Nor is it about how much easier LLMs are making this already.
My point is that open source is being destroyed by the advent of LLMs in various ways, returning us all to increasing dependence on closed source which is bad for numerous reasons.
So this and similar hacks are, yes terribly bad, but will be a passing phenomena wrt open source as it shrinks in significance.
The only response at the moment is to push back on and reject LLMs - perhaps futile given the response here? - and to build lifeboats. As the free web and internet is also under threat, that means cutting connections. For lifeboats read useful tools, preserved libraries and code that may be useful one day, but keep it safe, offline.
This is increasingly looking like a free computing/software extinction event, so just as we have seed libraries in underground caverns, perhaps we need this for free computer tech in general.
Looks like AI slop
The Arish do not use fuel since they do not use engines or such thing. Heating is the main use of fuel and that uses timber.
Other sects use modern (post 1800’s) gear but not the Amish
The youtubes is now full full of this crap, such “amazing” stories. Except the people talked about do not exist or were never at the place claimed, space ships during the 2nd world war, and super fuels/engines, and so on. Anything to tickle the interest but is fake, that brings in the youtubes advertising dollars. The scammers rake in money for their 100’s of channels and youtube rakes in the advertising dollars. This is why youtube is not cracking down on slop
A lot of grains/seeds are “super fuels” since they are full of oils.
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It seemed like mostly true history to me. I remember Joe Rogan talking about this in 2008. I know he’s not the greatest person in today’s world, or even in the past arguably, but since there is 18 years difference between then and now with basically the same information, I take that consistency as something worth looking into. It has an AI voice, so the whole thing is AI slop? Give me a break! This isn’t talking about space ships during WW2 nor super fuels, just mostly true history with maybe a couple things wrong. I don’t know anything about the Amish, so maybe there’s something there. Other than that, if there’s anything disingenuous in your post you should be ashamed of yourself for not immediately pushing for something like this to stop the current war(s).
Its not a true account of history since the premise of the title is false, the Amish do not use fuels. Simple. The story is thus suspect.
What history it gives is suspect, maybe 50% true, maybe 80% true. But that is the catch, you are being less informed than if you went to a real history article or video. In fact you are becoming misled. All good fakes have elements of truth. Excess crops of grains/seeds are used by farmers along with bio fuels (pig shit) to supplement their energy requirements. Not all farmers do this and I mostly have only looked into the smaller farmers doing it.
I need a peer review on whether or not Amish use fuels.
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Just look it up. They do not own motorised vehicles (farm/road) and thus do not use fuel. Heating is the main use of energy production and that until recent times, and maybe still, is supplied by wood.
Breakaway sects did start vehicle usage and electricity usage (Mennonites for instance).
Ever see the pictures of the horse drawn carriages?
My knowledge is upto the 80’s, but that is way after the slop’s early figure. These slops are roughly outlines stories written by a person (actually person running a developed algorithm) who does them to make huge dollars (thousands and millions combined with all doing it) off youtube with thousands of channels. They simply scrape the internet for extreme sounding stories/articles and then writes a paragraph and the AI does the rest. The algorithm was revealed somewhere and it simply does this day in day out scraping, writing a outline and gets AI to do the work. The person does very little other than provide the computer for the algorithm to run on. I forget the estimated number of people doing this, but its more than one.
The problem is that like you want a peer review, the information it gives leaves you with a distorted view of history and the world after just a handful of these videos. The more that people listen to the more distorted world view they get.
I hate to quote wikipedia but to be quick about it I will – this page may offer some clarification:
In short, there are many Amish groups and some of them do use fuels for some purposes. I myself was unaware of this despite growing up in the midwest and occasionally bumping into Amish folks, but it’s not that surprising really.
Keep challenging assumptions. 
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Hollywood dying! 
(3 minute video)
Goodbye to junk propaganda … hello to junk I can produce at home with AI! 
If I’m not mistaken (some) Amish people allows fridges that use gas (or recently solar panels). But a fridge using grid electricity, that is not allowed / frowned upon apparently. For vehicles probably other rules. At least some keep using (Belgian) draft horses 
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An interesting take on what is happening with the Iran war and who is really pulling the strings of Trump, Biden, Starmer, etc
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