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“Malus”: i'm so tired of this bs (heathermeeker.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This website was made by two devs quite involved in the open source community. If you don't want to call it satire, suit yourself I guess (though it does present a number of satirical elements, look at the company names in the success reports: "definitely real corp", "profit first LLC"...) but this is definitely not an AI bro company, and more of a warning and reflection on possible consequences of LLMs on foss software.

Here's a link to their fosdem 26 talk that inspired the website and "service" : https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SUVS7G-lets_end_open_source_together_with_this_one_simple_trick/

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    again, I don't mind calling it satire that wasn't my point. It's just very strange, for something that actually provides code that break AGPL and "ironically" takes your money for it. It's very strange. I saw the satirical elements aswell but i thought it to be some weird marketing ploy as stated in previous comments. That's why I edited my og post and stated that it's too good because it might as well be real in a literal and metaphorical sense.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    it might as well be real

    I'm not in these devs heads, but I guess that's the point. Providing something that's real enough (as a toy model, you're not going to clean room blender with this...) to get the discussion started and see what we can do against that kind of practice which will definitely become a real threat in the future if left unchecked.

    At least I hope that's the intention rather than "lulz".

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