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on Codeberg Divides · c/programming · 19 pts · 25d

I feel the desire for competition to GH that the auther espouses is great, but we should not want a monocultural place that we demand everyone join like Github, and the idea that Codeberg is wrong here for not trying to become that kind of big tent is what I object to more than the technical merits of the LLM restrictions.

Aim for a fediverse highly fragmented model over a Bluesky model. Any organization can run Forgejo, why do we need to go to Codeberg?

I blame trucks and SUVs hollowing out the market for affordable domestic vehicles. The cost to electrify these vehicles is eyewateringly awful with their huge batteries and they can't be charged quickly enough on level 1 charging, drastically impairing barrier to entry for daily driving in absence of infrastructure. So of course they didn't electrify when they only really made profit on a segment hostile to EVs, they have enough difficulty moving their vanity trucks and bloated SUVs when more and more people can't afford any kind of new car.

I expect this is it, just cover to justify what they want to do or think they might want to do. And it's not like they have to trick most people, or even anyone really, so long as it satisfies the desire to have some kind of fig leaf to post-hoc rationalize what they're doing. A lot (most?) of the audience probably knows that it is a lie but is too cynically self-interested to think it's a problem; ethics are for betas and cucks after all.

The implication is that the contributor is responsible for the AI-generated code, but I look at this as an inevitable slippery slope as maintainers feel pressured to rely more and more on AI for reviewing the massive amount of slop contributions that will be submitted if you don't put restrictions on AI use. The end result is an exponential growth of tech debt and making the codebase truly awful to work on, until AI contributions are reigned in.

AI has tons of potential to make the world so much worse. Even the things that it is good at seem fundamentally predisposed to harm most people at the expense of the hoarders of capital and IP (surveillance, eroding the power of labor, dehumanizing the online lived experience even further).

And that's just what it has proven able to do so far, with the caveat that the environmental impacts I haven't even mentioned.

Why would we like it because it "has potential"?

Geoengineering to combat climate change by mass carbon capture will be the solution that saves humanity but will arrive too late to prevent some harrowing effects.

Self-driving vehicles will become good enough to technically be safer for passengers than human drivers soon, but the stigma around them will continue for a long time after they are road legal and their uptake will be very slow.

on me_irl · c/me_irl · 16 pts · 59d

We just need to train a yandere AI that refuses to share you with any other AI. A YanderAI if you will.