#AI and more specifically #LLMs are going to produce a lot of what I like to call "grievance forks", #fork s of a software project to address one specific decision that the maintainers made that the forkers didn't like. See #Sneedacity, Xlibre, (arguably but not really) #Lix, etc. We've already started to see a few when projects "fell to the slop": #ChiPass, Vim Classic

I'm only in my early 20s, but I've been in the software game long enough to know that these forks rarely if ever go anywhere. It turns out maintaining a software project is really hard, and in a few months or years, when the fork starts to lag behind in features, bugfixes, and security fixes, and the new maintainers (of which there are far fewer and who are likely to be far less experienced) start to burn out, in the battle in users' minds between moral righteousness and personal convenience, it's only a matter of time before the latter wins.

I hate AI too. And I really, really want to believe it's not inevitable. But I don't think I can.

Looks like #Codeberg was under another #LLM-fueled #spam attack. Funny enough, all (or a portion) of the bots had stared the #Sneedacity mirror that was there, but when I discussed it over Matrix, the bots removed their star.

Eventually we'll find out who this person is...

#ListeningTo

"IMG_20221004_084645_L​-​R"

https://dabnotu.bandcamp.com/track/img-20221004-084645-l-r

#Bandcamp #CCMusic #Databanding #Glitch #GNUImageManipulationProgram #MastoArt #Pixelsynth #Sneedacity #Tenacity

The maintainer of "Tenacity" (a fork of Audacity) says he's been doxxed, bullied and physically harrased by 4chan users over his project, and has given up to protect his family and himself.

4chan users have created a fork called "Sneedacity" (apparently named after a local meme of theirs) and apparently deided that "Tenacity" was not allowed to co-exist with their work.

https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity/issues/99

This is shocking and terrible.
#Audacity #Tenacity #Sneedacity #4chan #FOSS #OpenSource

Tenacity et Sneedacity, les deux descendants d'Audacity.

https://peertube.pcservice46.fr/w/aZQBnySywf1qXoi5TNY68o

Lead developer (cookiengineer) from the #audacity fork (#tenacity) got attacked with a knife at their place of residential, after several others showed up at their door to create fear.
No life threatening physical injury happened.

This happened after they got harassed and doxxed via #4chan.

They report that the for #sneedacity took part in this harassment campaign. (I did not take the time to verify that)

Their report can be read here:
https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity/issues/99

Harassment is not a joke and again and again it shows that it leads to IRL consequences. And it must stop.