Their comments on the bug tracker issue regarding staying on non-AI versions are however rather worrying, and they’ve ignored the issue completely, burying their heads in the sand.

Oh! I might check up how the repo is doing during the weekend, might merit an upgrade once the next major (3.5 if I’m getting my numbers right) comes around.

Don’t sweat it (yet) and just lock it in your package manager. If you are on Debian, the last reasonable versions can be apt get from snapshots.debian.org and then just apt pin / apt mark hold those.

I don’t remember the exact bug but just search for “data loss” and/or “changed behaviour”, either it wil come up or the devs have been whitewashing their inclusion of AI and censoring discussions.

Be wary when you use rsync, to not upgrade past version 3.4.1. Later versions were vibecoded / slopcoded and cause data loss.

Sometime in the last two years, the number of people consider themselves to be programmers has at least doubled.

As per usual, normies ruin everything.

An important consideration is that the usage of “AI” aka currently using like LLMs is viral, in a worse sense than eg.: the GPL is viral, and it’s completely understandable that some hosters would prefer to avoid the community problems that that causes.

Sure, but that does not make it mandatorily Codeberg’s mission.

Past the whole thing about theft of code, theft of wages and theft of rights, my next problem with AI is that it’s viral, in even worse terms than say the GPL is viral.

Once you accept slop submissions into a project, you have the problem that someone would have to check it. But why spend your own mental and emotional energy, better dedicated to dealing with and interacting with fellow humans, to trudge through a mass of hallucinated, gaslighting crap? Better set up some AI that checks the submitted code.

And now you have two problems.

Fortunately, lists like Open Slopware exist.

Linus is severely mistaken that Linux is not a “social warrior” project, but I guess that’s mostly because he’s the face the community has to try and “sanitize” for corporate the posture that people like RMS have. Gone are the times where he would openly flip Nvidia the bird. Which is not bad, but it’s unfortunately ill-timed: if history has taught us anything useful this decade is that, right now, bootlicking to corporate and its trends such as “uniformity” and “neutrality” is not the win you think it is.