You do not get the question, what are this apps? The fact that some random internet dude thinks they’re trustworthy doesn’t matter right now.

Can you tell that is the most of this clutter does? I think I recognize 4 mail apps, 2 browsers, 2 authenticators, really?

People publish things for all sorts of reasons, sure, but the main one is that they think the information has value. Whether some corporation profits from it is completely irrelevant, the data doesn’t care who benefits. The author doesn’t matter either, what matters is the information itself. Licenses just try to put fences around what should be free, and most of the time they only get in the way. People can follow them or ignore them, and life goes on. The scene understands that better than anyone else. It’s the purest form of the web: information shared for its own sake, without permission, limits, or fake moral theater.

I don’t agree, and your conclusions aren’t obvious to me. All I see is that the only problems are getting information, not putting something into web. And we’re not in hell; in fact, we’re in the very best place and time.

Yes, that’s not even a slap. It’s a gentle caress on the cheek.

I completely disagree. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. What he proposes is just another flavor of technofascism, control disguised as ethics. These so-called humane scraping barriers will end up blocking humans, not machines. We have seen this before with CAPTCHAs, reCAPTCHAs, and all those “human verification” gimmicks, always bypassed by bots and always annoying to real people. Personally, I have nothing against crawlers and bots; they should do their shady jobs. Trying to wall yourself off is just meh. And those fancy licenses or “ethical use” terms won’t change anything either. The web is not the United States, and nobody really cares about someone’s imaginary social contracts. Maybe it’s time to accept a simple fact: once something goes on the web, it becomes public territory, and no one can still pretend to control the flow of information.

Well, if it’s do the thing well it’s not slop. And a clanker is the best thing to do routine repetitive work. As I know, lutris is a bunch of scripts to make wine work. That’s the right place for a LLM as a tool. And I don’t understand the whining about removing the “co-authorship”, why the hell is a clanker an author? It’s a tool, not a person, it can’t have any rights.

That looks like people or bots doing circle jerking the last half of the year.

money

At least there’s no rust crap in there.

One can only be happy for those three lucky ones who no longer have to do those stupid monkey jobs at tailwind.

Well, the free as a beer is a logical consequence of of free as in libre. You have the right to distribute the software when you receive it. And you can do so free of charge for third parties.

That’s really funny bullshit petition. Ehrenamt is unpaid working with a minimal tax break from the government. That’s the wrong way to promote open source. The right way is “public money public code” and funding projects.

Thanks for the recommendation, I’ve been wanting something like it for the TV for a while now.

The great power of open source is the ability to fork and patch your suggested bullshit out. ☺️