Wait what the hell happened, #FreeBSD allows AI contributions?

Damn. This changes everything :-(
@ltning where do you see that?
@mwl https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware#operating-systems - links to offending commits and to standing policy on the matter.
open-slopware

Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives. Fork of the repo by @gen-ai-transparency after its deletion.

Codeberg.org
@ltning well fuck

@mwl Very very fuck. I am sick to my stomach right now. Don't know what to do with this information.

In desperation I started writing an email to the Foundation, but will sleep on it; I don't want to burn too many bridges until I fully understand where this came from, if it is final, what it actually means, etc.

But for fucks sake...I started looking at making an #evi port to replace Vim everywhere - and I'm not even a bloody Vim user!

Anduin.net

@ltning @mwl Ohp, hello! Found this because I follow the EVi hashtag.

Yeah, I'm really pissed about FreeBSD as well, I had always known them as the no-AI system.

And before you think about switching to another BSD, there is no guarantee that isn't slop-free either. BSD's like to exchange code a lot.

In fact, I was discussing potentially making a kernel and OS with no slop software in it with some peeps in another thread.

On the other hand, nice to see people still working on EVi ports! :D

@mwl @[email protected] @mrmasterkeyboard

Fuck, I wish I could code. I'd be all over this, you have no idea. I already procrastinate on school, the least I could do would be something useful with that time. If you make that OS tho, I'll be the first to be a monthly donator, and heck, if at some point it can run the latest version of Ardour (my digital audio workstation), even if I rely on Linux for other things, I can have an open source music making station that is 100% verifiably slop free and that'll be awesome. I know Ardour isn't friendly to AI at all, but if any of my FLOSS plugins start to… yeah I'm not thinking about that rn.

Wanting a computer with no slop code and, by extension, with a dev team that actually gives a damn about the issues AI causes, is not much to ask.

@cloudskater forgot to respond to this, but it’s never too late to start learning ;3

@mrmasterkeyboard

I… technically am! It's very clearly not my forte, but I long for the moment I can contribute a single solitary bug fix to anything hahaha

That said, if you need some help writing documentation for something… maybe I could be of assistance there.