I sometimes wonder how much data is out there that belongs to dead people.

I start reading what is supposedly a powerful personal story about burnout in open source. Then I start to see the pattern - that familiar tempo. Admittedly there's no "Not x. Not y. Just z'. But there's that faint whiff, like the neighbor is burning toast. The paragraphs are just a bit too regular. Something about the headings. Yeah my dude, you used ChatGPT to write this, didn't you. I'm sure of it. Not sure enough of just how much to comment on the post, and I don't have the energy to get in an argument about it.

Ai both degrades trust - making us suspicious of everything we see and read - and sucks the life and personality out of absolutely everything it touches. I'm so sick of starting to read and going, oh, nope this is machine-generated nothingness. I hate this. I hate all of it.

Now is the time for FOSS folk to remember what Free, Libre, and Open Source software is actually about, and to choose to resist.

If the existence of your project, and your not going to jail, depends on some form of compliance that you really cannot dodge, then make sure that compliance comes in a form that is bolted on and give me a spanner.

Specifically give users the power to remove age verification and to enable encryption, even if they have to fork your project to do so.

Alrighty. Kali spooled up, got all my favorite online tools linked. Think I'm ready to go /cracks knuckles/