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God, this post makes me so mad.

I understand that not everyone has the privilege to distribute knowledge for social good. I’m in a privileged position--my day job provides more than enough money for a dignified life, so my own code I release is almost always strong-copylefted and for genuine social good rather than survival.

Seeing so many posts thinking a proper "solution" to web scraping for AI training is closing off knowledge by default worries me. Gatekeeping code/art/knowledge shrinks the commons that made all of this possible. Nobody owes us attention, brand recognition, or monetization. Free Open Source Software exists to protect society’s freedom to study, modify, and share the tools it depends on for social good, not for monetization or attention.

I noticed OP used Micro$oft’s GitHub, notorious for mass AI crawling. You can’t rely on THE worst platform for scraping and then complain about it. Host using Forgejo or similar, and use solutions that don’t restrict user freedoms: bot filtering, rate limits, pay-per-crawl, etc.

I think the root problem is that in capitalism, markets often don’t sustainably fund public goods--but that’s a political problem--not something individual maintainers should solve by privatizing knowledge. Continue to vote for and spread leftist ideas of restructuring society to encourage funding of public goods like Free Open Source Software rather than giving up and abandoning your FOSS values.

Technically the act of incorporating code into a model’s weights does not trigger GPL's redistribution clause, so they are legally in the right even though morally you shouldn't scrape copylefted code into a model that can be used to create non-copylefted code.

A few years? I thought alpha would be out this year

There needs to be more FOSS that isn't geared towards nerds. I want to be able to recommend apps to people and it JustWorks™ without having them even know.

This is why I love the Signal Foundation

You couldn't have picked a worse example

Hey Trump, now you know I live in Texas and vote blue. Bite me.

I like the little badge I get for being a donar on Signal. Other than that, my default is $5/mo or whatever the site's recommended amount is.

Why not use codeberg.org?

I think guns make sense if you live in the wilderness and need to protect yourself from bears

That's fine as a general guideline, but does not need to be a steadfast rule. You can use your own judgement. I like ProtonPass's SimpleLogin feature so I use that for email aliases. Its so nice and convenient.

if buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing🗿

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