@carnage4life You'd think that nearly-a-trillion dollars could buy him a life... but apparently not.

@rey it's not you, it's a cistematic problem

@amcooper I think they just don't like any threat to their dominance, any threat to the idea that LLMs submitting code directly to open-source projects is 100% fine and nobody should be bothered by it. (You know -- like fossil fuels, or smoking.)

@rey They use to just do contrails, but now they're doing entrails?

#kidsTheseDays

@holsta @futurebird

Can we get a giant billboard somewhere that says "any business whose model depends on exploitation SHOULD FAIL".

(More practically, maybe mugs or t-shirts or something...)

Evening all. Here's yesterday's butterfly again, now with added boop.

#sillyScribbles #boop #butterfly

@f4grx

I think you're being absolutist about this, ignoring the context, and distracting attention from the real problems which lead to the abuse.

Just to point out the obvious: if the LLM's output doesn't even end up on the web, how is it in any way affecting the web, much less "destroying" it?

As for the "instead of your brain" -- you have no idea how overtaxed my brain is these days. Anything I can offload means I can devote more attention to some other project -- and I do have better things to do than spend most of a day researching facts to rebut right-wing talking-points -- time which I have, in fact, spent in the past. Life is short, and there's more work for me to do than I can possibly do in the available time.

LLMs have deep problems, especially as wielded by profit-grubbing megacorporations, but this isn't it. I don't give them any money, I don't use them regularly for any of my work, but they do come in handy for certain tasks.

@smallcircles @cwebber

@riley That's why I specifically described it as part of a toolset rather than a solution. I mention it because it clearly addresses the "how can help 'losers' to succeed" issue -- but you're right in that this doesn't directly address the status-games element. (I have to think that money is part of that, though.)

Lydia posed in some dramatic backlighting, which led to an accidental lens flare as I was taking photos.

#WhiskersWednesday #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #FediCats

Instead of complaining, better become an active member and be the change yourself, you wish to see within the project.
You can start, right here: https://join.codeberg.org/
And then you also can vote in the future, instead of complaining afterwards, because the free meal of the day does not fit your taste. Become yourself the cook, that's what volunteer work and FOSS is all about (imho)
And, a donation is not a subscription. You are not "buying" any service. You support free volunteer work.

@PurpleBooth An old associate and I are pulling together a small dev team which, among other things, plans to tackle some much-needed software fixes that aren't getting attention elsewhere. Forgejo is already on our project-list ^.^

(Realistically, I don't yet know how soon visible progress can happen... but there does seem to be... meta-progress, at least.)

A magnet can't ever know it's a magnet until it meets other ferromagnetic materials.

@riley This nicely confirms thoughts I have had for some time.

I do wish she'd mentioned UBI as something that might belong in our toolbox for solving this (After the Revolution™).

@PurpleBooth Wikipedia claims that "favorites" are federated as of 2025, but I'm not sure how that plays out in reality...

@fullywoolly @luxliquida

Forgejo supports "migrations" from other platforms -- I've successfully migrated projects from both GitLab and Microsoft GitHub, without burning up any braincells; pretty painless.

@luxliquida

Different thread of the same tapestry -- yeah, what you said ^.^

@fullywoolly

Codeberg is a software project which hosts git repositories for software projects, one of which is Forgejo, which is what Codeberg runs. Codeberg used to run Gitea, but now runs Forgejo, which is a fork of Gitea, which is itself officially hosted on (and primarily maintained by) Codeberg. Forgejo does not host a code-repository service under its own name.

Do I have that right?

(I think the source of my confusion is that I thought Codeberg was itself a Gitea fork, but apparently it was only ever a Gitea instance, before migrating to Forgejo.)

@servelan hashtag who-could-have... well, you know the drill. :spiral_eyes:

@servelan #WhoCouldHaveForeseen :blobcatupsidedown:

Tower of Hanoi but make it an endurance art piece! Level 14, 16383 moves and no mistakes, 5hrs and 5mins... I believe this is the world record :)

#emf2026 was the perfect place to do it!