[kwlug-disc] Linux Association Canada membership

[Chris Craig]

I found Dianne to be unnecessarily rude and abrasive.

I skimmed through the book, it's really not that bad, nothing particularly
illuminating for anyone with some experience. The pictures are AI generated
and then edited, but zooming in on the book spines is a bit much. Book
spines in drawings have had squiggles and random characters for decades.

I know an older fellow who heads a local volunteer group, and he uses AI to
produce songs about the initiative. I'm sure he means well but they are
cringy. He sees it as a way to promote the group in ways he can't do and
hasn't had much luck attracting someone else to do. It's just something
that people don't recognize is off-putting to some.

The fake "real use cases" is the thing that I find most questionable.
Everything else is pretty mild.

On Mon, Aug 3, 2026 at 1:04 PM Doug Moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:

> I have the same concerns as Diane and researched the same topics. But I
> didn't use an "ai detector", I don't trust those.
>
> If she read the same web page about Andre's trucking experience, that has
> a photo that matches Andre's photo on the web site, so I don't dispute his
> photo is real. And there's nothing wrong with having a day job in addition
> to being a Linux enthusiast.
>
> The books she complains about are bad AI slop, not suitable for reading by
> humans. There is so much obvious AI slop on the web site that the Linux
> Association looks like one of those 100% AI hallucinated fake
> organizations. I don't think it is, I think the people are real, but the
> vibes are bad, and I think that is a real concern and a reputational risk.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2026, at 6:20 AM, Ron wrote:
>
> Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote on 2026-05-11 16:17:
>
> A group called the Linux Association Canada (linuxassociation.ca,
> which does not have much on it yet) is trying to create a network of
> free/open source community organizations. They reached out and asked
> KWLUG to be a member of it.
>
> So, this brief but interesting conversation happened:
>
> https://thecanadian.social/@linuxassociation/116892622775181904
>
>
> A summary of highlights shows careless use of AI slop, inauthentic "real
> use cases", unanswered questions about prior FLOSS involvement.
>
> This is between Diane from Linux Ottawa and Linux Association (reads like
> it's probably a bot responding)...
>
>
>
> @linuxassociation <https://thecanadian.social/@linuxassociation> Nah,
> come on. I finished reading that PDF and it's clearly AI slop.
>
> Nothing like "Th୨ৎ Linux Commiand Line" by "INJYDBBS" or "S9S9EN AYSTEM
> HANDBOOK."
>
> Worth looking at, it's not lengthy.
>
>
>
>
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