It's fine to leave a community because it's not aligned with your strategic outlook or your values, or simply because the community moved on. You joined a community because you were aligned to it, and you can leave when that ceases to be the case. The project is the ship of Theseus, and we are all the rotten planks getting replaced over time.
I gotta remember that while the boosters say "all software will be LLM developed, you can't avoid it" that NetBSD crushed its funding goal, LibreOffice got record downloads, more people are contributing to Redox, and so on.
It's far from impossible, even if it may feel that way (freakin' Linux kernel grumble grumble)
I've warned before that any FOSS project incorporating AI output is doing so at their peril.
Previously people leaned on a federal circuit ruling that was *declined to be taken up by the supreme court* interpreting it as a free-for-all to LLM license-wash any project in translation, or really to incorporate any such materials and they would be public domain.
But that doesn't mean we have an answer! We've yet to see!
Annnnnnnnnd: I think we're likely to have that perspective upended soon.
The third circuit issued a recent ruling in the *opposite direction* of the previously well cited federal ruling, that AI training on copyrighted material is NOT fair use: https://www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-of-copyrighted-material-not-fair-use-third-circuit/
Annnnndddddd.... with a bunch of people trying to make LLM-generated decompilation replacements for Adobe's entire suite, we're likely to suddenly see corporations rear up angrily.
Just wait till someone tries to vibewash a Nintendo game decompilation. Hey, what do you think is gonna happen?
Congrats and also good job to whomever did the right thing here by supporting such an awesome project!
Doesn't seem that there's any announcement on their blog about it (yet).
Call for Debian 14 (forky) artwork proposals https://bits.debian.org/2026/10/forky-artwork-cfp.html #debian #trixie #artwork
re: silly, unrelated
re: silly, unrelated
RE: https://tacobelllabs.net/@astraluma/117363654848931561
Digital Ocean killed its "we give Open Source projects a bit of free hosting" policy basically at the same time they dropped 3 million USD on Omarchy, DHH's (who is a fascist and racist) set of config files he calls a distribution.
This is exactly the kind of "Power Grab" I wrote about a few weeks ago: https://tante.cc/2026/09/11/power-grab/
DHH is working towards accumulating open source funding to be able to direct it towards projects that align with his technical and ideological views.
It's hard to overstate how dangerous that is for all of us.
RT: https://tacobelllabs.net/users/astraluma/statuses/117363654848931561
Happy "Charles Darwin is poorly today" Day to those who celebrate
165 years ago today (1 Oct 1861), Charles Darwin was having a rough one
Libraries are the only data centers I want.
