On 15 and 16 October 2026, a crawler that said it belonged to Roblox walked through almost every project on Open3DLab, SFMLab and SmutBase, and proceeded to download complete copies of 1,027 files from 712 projects. 145.5 GB of our creators' work, downloaded for what we assume are AI training purposes.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/57531140

I still used to frequent it all the way up to last month, for some interesting discussions. But now... it's really become AI-pro^[Yes, I know it's been that way for a while, but either I'm feeling it more or the bots have gamed the website to the point that all you see are announces from big tech companies or people going on about their AI solutions] and any post that even hints about AI existentialism gets immediately cut down.

I find it hard to browse the site anymore, and lament the loss of expert tech discussion in my weekly routine.

It may or may not be merged. Nonetheless it's certainly a step forward into genAI adoption for our beloved OS.

I would really like to know what's going to happen: better code or just the appearance of it?

These articles feel like scrolling through infographics or watching a mini documentary. I really enjoyed "Urban Africa" but there are many others to go through.. Which one was your favorite and why? drop a comment :)

[...] We should heed the wisdom of the late Carl Sagan that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence: the claims from Coxon and his ilk are the most extraordinary a technologist can make, and we must demand evidence commensurate with the claims. That said, we should not expect the public to understand LLMs, critical infrastructure, bioweapons, extinction biology, etc. — that burden must lie with those making the claim. The lesson that I learned (shamefully) decades ago is that domain experts, by way of their expertise, implicitly hold the public’s trust — and we must not abuse it. It is incumbent upon us to be circumspect in our claims — and maximally so when raising the alarm.

These articles feel like scrolling through infographics or watching a mini documentary. I really enjoyed "Urban Africa" but there are many others to go through.. Which one was your favorite and why? drop a comment :)

Apparently Gemma 4 (by deepmind) are very energy-efficient for their capabilities.

The post itself seems to recommend a company (neuralwatt.com) but it's unrelated to project wagtail (an open source CMS made with django) so I consider it legit, they're just vouching for this new approach that shows users their ecological footprint basically.

(Of course, running these at a homelab is possible. hence the relevance of this info for the community)

Examine a GH user's profile, to help quickly decide how much to invest in their contributions. - ehmatthes/gh-profiler

I've just found the project. And it seems very interesting take. I am adding a link to their blog entry discussion on a system to combat LLMs abuse via a web of trust.

From their site:

We envision a place where developers have ownership of their code, communities can freely self-govern and most importantly, coding can be social and fun again.

AT Protocol enables federated code-collaboration. Submit pull-requests or bug-reports to any repository hosted on any server.

[...]

OpenClaw [AI] simultaneously addresses two massive psychological needs in China today: for the employed, it’s a perceived “cure” for overwork; for the unemployed, it’s a new opportunity outside of the usual delivery and ride-hailing grind.

[...]

I just like the ring of these two words. Like civil disobedience against opression... I consider self hosting to be the epitome of these actions, in the context of global corporations "ruining" every "product" (be it: privacy concerns, data brokers, pushing AI into products, etc.) Hence, the concept that arises when these two words come together: Cybernetical Disobedience, is the greatest motivation (imho) to spin up some containers, be it searxng, vaultwarden, syncthing, or arr stack. All comes with some rebellious ideation behind... Do any of you feel like me?

It would be an assortment of contents. Between Linux, software, privacy, etc. guides.

My concern is in regards to AI... I think many are relying more and more on it. Making such content a waste of my time in this perspective.

I might just do it, because of my own motivations. But, I still would need to see arguments addressing my concern either in favour or not. Thanks!

Let me know if you've been using any service... Thanks!

This is a "nextcloud" or "owncloud" alternative. Its origin was as a fork to owncloud infinite scale (ocis), so it's shares the underlying feature set (written in Go instead of PHP, being lenient on resources and usable on a raspberry pi 4B.)

The latest release (2.0, see link) leverages PosixFS so instead of having to manage a database, you can rely on snapshots (on the filesytem) for all your backups.