oil capital can't help but pollute open source, huh. Gotta get those oily fingers into every fucking open source project, twould seem.
fuck it man, gonna make my own vim out of vendored copies of readline and ncurses
I did get a response on whether Helix has a policy re: LLM usage or not

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/15408

I wouldn't call it encouraging because I don't agree that it's useful (nevermind ethical) but I wouldn't call it
discouraging, either, because they're clearly aware that it can produce a lot of unhelpful, time wasting crap.
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I haven't had the time or mental fortitude to construct a diplomatic reply that might encourage them to consider the ethical side that isn't just me ranting but if anyone wants to politely and gently nudge them towards considering the ethical drawbacks and license implications...
on the other hand, never a better time to greenfield the entire field of computing

just fucking NIH the whole damn stack

/s sorta
Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc, are defense companies with a large PR team.

@aud I've got some vague idea that the ideal of "greenfield" development has been one of the problems with the ideology around the software industry. Come to think of it, that might be why Musk & Co. get so worked up about Mars.

On the other hand, I was just doing my rant yesterday about hierarchy being baked into the basic models of user accounts and filesystems.