Lemmy may be heading down the path of LLMs
https://leminal.space/post/33312956
Lemmy may be heading down the path of LLMs - Leminal Space
Sadly, it seems like Lemmy is going to integrate LLM code going forward:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/6385
[https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/6385] If you comment on the issue,
please try to make sure it’s a productive and thoughtful comment and not pure
hate brigading. Consider upvoting the issue to show community interest. Edit:
perhaps I should also mention this one here as a similar discussion:
https://github.com/sashiko-dev/sashiko/issues/31
[https://github.com/sashiko-dev/sashiko/issues/31] This one concerns the Linux
kernel. I hope you’ll forgive me this slight tangent, but more eyes could
benefit this one too.
Why does this website feel like the end of FOSS?
https://leminal.space/post/33117940
Why does this website feel like the end of FOSS? - Leminal Space
When I look at this website, which seems to be intended as a serious project and
not a joke, to me it kind of feels like it would be the end of FOSS…
https://malus.sh/ [https://malus.sh/] Is it just me? Or will the majority of
contributors still bother if they won’t even get the most basic attribution
anymore, let alone GPL and other complex licenses being enforcable at all? There
are also these events that make me wonder if this service can even work, given
the apparent training data plagiarism problem. This feels kind of independent
from whether a gen AI being fed a project can ever be “clean room”:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3543507.3583199
[https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3543507.3583199]
https://www.twobirds.com/en/insights/2025/landmark-ruling-of-the-munich-regional-court-(gema-v-openai)-on-copyright-and-ai-training
[https://www.twobirds.com/en/insights/2025/landmark-ruling-of-the-munich-regional-court-(gema-v-openai)-on-copyright-and-ai-training]
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/authors-celebrate-historic-settlement-coming-soon-in-anthropic-class-action/
[https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/authors-celebrate-historic-settlement-coming-soon-in-anthropic-class-action/]
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/ai-memorization-research/685552/
[https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/ai-memorization-research/685552/]
I feel like there are more reasons than ever to tell people to cut out gen AI
code from FOSS entirely, if they care about respecting attribution and the work
of others. Even if just morally. This whole ride seems to be going in a bad
direction. I’m curious about other people’s thoughts, however. PS: Don’t trust
me on any law-related guesses, IANAL. This isn’t legal advice. I’m just a
concerned coder.
Should anybody trust Firefox again unless they put "we won't sell your data" back into the privacy policy? (Have they done so...? I can't tell.)
https://leminal.space/post/32970539
Should anybody trust Firefox again unless they put "we won't sell your data" back into the privacy policy? (Have they done so...? I can't tell.) - Leminal Space
Firefox is trying to gain back user trust with this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=O-xyNkvIB9g
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=O-xyNkvIB9g] This is a legit
question: Should anybody trust Firefox again unless they put “we won’t sell your
data” back into the privacy policy? I’m actually not sure if they haven’t
already done so, let me elaborate: https://brave.com/privacy/browser/
[https://brave.com/privacy/browser/] Brave: “We do not sell, trade, or transfer
your information to any third parties.” This is obviously in the legally binding
text part. However, for Firefox it seems ambiguous to me (which worries me):
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#notice
[https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#notice] There is no appearance
of “sell” in the entire privacy document, excpet for the top summary where i’m
not sure if it’s at all legally non-binding. Does anybody know if it is legally
binding? If Mozilla were serious about it, why would they leave it ambiguous
whether it is…? Based on that, I’m not sure if Mozilla’s video about getting
users back is worth trusting. I wonder if it’s just me.
You may want to apply tdm-reservation: 1 or similar
https://leminal.space/post/32741396
You may want to apply tdm-reservation: 1 or similar - Leminal Space
You may want to apply tdm-reservation: 1 or similar to leminal space’s HTTP
requests:
https://github.com/Vxrpenter/AIMania?tab=readme-ov-file#avoid-ai-crawling
[https://github.com/Vxrpenter/AIMania?tab=readme-ov-file#avoid-ai-crawling] To
avoid user content being turned into slop. Apparently this flag potentially
holds some sort of weight, at least in the EU, not that I could tell you with
any certainty. But it might be worth trying, just in case. (Disclaimer: not sure
if there is a scenario where this is actually harmful, this isn’t legal advice.)
Interesting video on why apparently moltbot and other AI agents are dangerous
https://leminal.space/post/32108789
Interesting video on why apparently moltbot and other AI agents are dangerous - Leminal Space
Interesting video on why apparently moltbot and other AI agents are dangerous.
I’m not an expert but it seems quite concerning, especially the prompt
injection. (I assume amplified by the issue with current LLMs apparently being
unable to think logically:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/corneliawalther/2025/06/09/intelligence-illusion-what-apples-ai-study-reveals-about-reasoning/
[https://www.forbes.com/sites/corneliawalther/2025/06/09/intelligence-illusion-what-apples-ai-study-reveals-about-reasoning/]
) Sorry if this is considered off-topic or was posted before.
A sourced summary article why AI is bad
https://leminal.space/post/31964853
A sourced summary article why AI is bad - Leminal Space
Here’s a sourced article that actually shows the hands-on seeming plagiarism of
AIs, how common it is, how the logical reasoning seems to be lacking, and so on.
I thought perhaps people here would find it useful to convince friends that are
misled by the AI craze.
Question about community maintained free IP geo lists
https://leminal.space/post/25242240
Question about community maintained free IP geo lists - Leminal Space
cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/24911246
[https://leminal.space/post/24911246] > I’ll be self-hosting a service with user
submissions soon, so I’m worried about the https://howto.geoblockthe.uk/
[https://howto.geoblockthe.uk/] situation. > > Based on this I’ve wondered, are
there any community maintained geo block lists that might be useful? All
database options I found are either 1. an on-demand online service which seems
questionable for privacy reasons, or 2. IPv4 only, or 3. have weird terms of use
with a gag clause regarding the entire company making it and other weird stuff.
> > I’m not a fan of geo blocking in general, but the situation is what it is. >
> PS: Please don’t discuss the Online Safety Act itself too much in the
comments, or whether somebody should be using a geo ip to handle this. While I
might appreciate useful input on that, I’m hoping this post can remain a
resource for those who are looking for such a database for other reasons as
well.
Question about "You xyz are ..." - Leminal Space
My apologies, since this post actually contains a swear word, id...t, which I’m
going to censor. But this came up with a test reader of a text I’m working on:
You id…t actually find her fascinating, don’t you? A test reader thought this
sounded weird and unusual. So I went to research uses by others, and indeed,
almost nobody says this! This confuses me, since I find tons of uses of: - This
id...t actually is... - These id...ts actually are... - You id...ts actually
are.... …but not for this singular form as a direct address. Is there something
grammatically wrong with it? Is it valid, but for some reason people prefer You
id...t, you actually are... anyway?
Community maintained free IP geo lists
https://leminal.space/post/24941697
Community maintained free IP geo lists - Leminal Space
cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/24911246
[https://leminal.space/post/24911246] > I’ll be self-hosting a service with user
submissions soon, so I’m worried about the https://howto.geoblockthe.uk/
[https://howto.geoblockthe.uk/] situation. > > Based on this I’ve wondered, are
there any community maintained geo block lists that might be useful? All
database options I found are either 1. an on-demand online service which seems
questionable for privacy reasons, or 2. IPv4 only, or 3. have weird terms of use
with a gag clause regarding the entire company making it and other weird stuff.
> > I’m not a fan of geo blocking in general, but the situation is what it is. >
> PS: Please don’t discuss the Online Safety Act itself too much in the
comments, or whether somebody should be using a geo ip to handle this. While I
might appreciate useful input on that, I’m hoping this post can remain a
resource for those who are looking for such a database for other reasons as
well.
Community maintained free IP geo lists
https://leminal.space/post/24911246
Community maintained free IP geo lists - Leminal Space
I’ll be self-hosting a service with user submissions soon, so I’m worried about
the https://howto.geoblockthe.uk/ [https://howto.geoblockthe.uk/] situation.
Based on this I’ve wondered, are there any community maintained geo block lists
that might be useful? All database options I found are either 1. an on-demand
online service which seems questionable for privacy reasons, or 2. IPv4 only, or
3. have weird terms of use with a gag clause regarding the entire company making
it and other weird stuff. I’m not a fan of geo blocking in general, but the
situation is what it is. PS: Please don’t discuss the Online Safety Act itself
too much in the comments, or whether somebody should be using a geo ip to handle
this. While I might appreciate useful input on that, I’m hoping this post can
remain a resource for those who are looking for such a database for other
reasons as well.
