Well the idea is to NOT say “make it indistinguishable” (even if that’s inevitably the practical upshot) because the second you explicitly allow “indistinguishable” you open a can of worms arguing over what that means.

The same result unfortunately seems to be found by any attempt seeking this “middle ground,” because there’s always a cohort implicitly requesting that project maintainers bless their low-effort use of AI. (As to why this is, I’m not sure, but based on what I’ve seen would guess it’s because the AI use lets these individuals cosplay as developers.)

Regardless, that result is a huge influx of PRs which have obviously been submitted by individuals incapable of understanding, fixing, or taking responsibility for what they’ve submitted, which is an immediately intractable problem for project maintainers who already began with limited time to review PRs which, in spite of their varying quality, could at least be assumed to be understood by the contributor. Allowing any amount AI enables some amount of obvious (read: unfiltered/unreviewed) generated code, every bit of which is potentially problematic.

My point was that

That's all fine and dandy, I just don't agree with simultaneously saying "make it indistinguishable if you're gonna use AI" in addition to "don't use AI", since as you say there is no effective difference if you can't tell, so why should it still be disallowed? Surely we can come up with some middle ground to describe the intent of the rule better than silently implying "just don't get caught"?

Codeberg/forgejo is like github but better. Its crazy

users are people

where did I mention people?

With the way matrix does federation by cloning I’m not surprised, xmpp federation would be a more realistic goal.

Matrix also has a very good method of bridging/puppeting to alternate protocols see mautrix for example.

Your identity is anchored on your home server and looks like name@domain.

Need some better idea these says, given how easily thousands of communities on Autistici/Inventati got nuked by a domain block. Any new communication technology that markets itself to politically progressive crowds should make it easy to switch from the domain you no longer control, without losing contacts and history and having to start from scratch.

Upd: https://polyproto.org/ says "Don't like your home server? Migrate to another and keep your identity and data, even if the old home server is already long offline or actively uncooperative." - this is a much better capability than I initially thought Fluxer had, though I wonder how well this scales to an entire community moving to a new domain.

corporations are not people

Thank you. Federation with matrix would be great. But it looks like they're using re-invention of federation. Dunno what to think about that.

I have to overhaul that one it's not very readable. Like the code is garbage but I did make https://sims2anin.neocities.com/ last week. No blog feature yet, just custom content I've made for the Sims which is my current ADHD hyper focus.

Pretty weird to read the author's joy of pre-AI coding, their concerns about what's happened over the last few years to open source and public repo management, have them laser-focus on exactly where it all went wrong... and then at 2/3rds though the article go, "oh btw I use AI constantly and I'm not changing, and I don't suggest anyone change. Its just such damn shame, I can't think of a solution".

Solution is right there, friend.

Return to monke.

Ban the slop on your repos (as many projects have). Go back to using your brain. Go back to enjoying coding, and the community of coding with others through open source.

The point of open source is that the user can use it for whatever they want, any restriction would eliminate this.

Beginners Guide to Getting Started

Funniest title I've read all day

Copyright probably won’t fix it, especially now that you can Malus yourself a bespoke fork.

The core problem is that they’re too big to care. They don’t have to listen to customers, employees, or competitors. We need antitrust action and union organizing.

if you change that then its not ooensource. you have the freedom to create any license you want but restrictions on use is no longer open.

The point of Open-Source is to allow that. This is what differentiates Open-Source from Free Software and why people invented the term and founded the organisation behind it.

The Free Software side of things did improve on licensing with the AGPL.

If they decide to move, don't go to Github. Quality has gone downhill there.

They hide the issues from https://www.githubstatus.com/

But this is happening right now: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/psa-project-wide-issue-with-merging-pull-requests-in-the-github-ui/91974

Open source needs a better license. Big corporations just take and take and rarely ever give anything back, it's not sustainable.

It’s a selfhostable discord clone. At feature parity to discord before enshittification.

Been using it for a few weeks and it works great. Far better than Grindr Plus. You are doing gods work sir!

It feels too good to be true though - what are the chances Grindr blocks OpenGrind clients?

The project I'm working on has had regular discussion about whether we should move from our email list and patch workflow to a more PR focused approach for a number of years now. Something that works for us greybeards is anathema to younger engineers who grew up on GitHub.

I suspect the current slopocolypse is going to delay that move for a few more years until this wave of disruption has settled down.

If only I knew what fluxer was. Yet another forum?

Where can I find your blog? ;)

Anti AI licenses will do that. To the naysayers or OSI zealots: The 2026 EU AI directive makes a lot of these licenses possibly enforceable.