Self-Host Weekly (4 September 2026) by @eshol
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Self-Host Weekly (4 September 2026)
Is "responsible use of generative AI" in the room with us right now?
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The Debian vote was so stupid:
It was such a brain dead exercise in futility. It was designed for the winner from the start.
Nussbaun’s comment on the result is hilariously dull:
Yeah, the option that doesn’t say anything won. Who knew?…wait yes, mathematicians, they knew. The most important part of a survey is choosing the options carefully.
How was it “designed for the winner”? Proposals to a resolution vote are submitted and seconded, with no restrictions on who, how many or what proposals are added, you just have to be a voting member of the ML. You can look at the list of proposal sponsors and the seconds to see how that’s done.
www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002
I skim them all. The options I wrote are soft parodies of what each said. There’s a ton of problems with this model of governance, but I’m no voting member, so my opinion has no impact.
That said, it makes it so a single posture has to be voted on in its entirety, which is dumb (as some legislative bodies of the world have proven). As a result, nuance is erased alongside with any sense of ideological vision or compromise, and instead it promotes vagueness in every action and glacial institutions that break slowly break apart.
The very person who wrote the proposal that won reacted to winning with:
The proposal was designed to win time without having to take any real stance while taking the smallest loss of contributors in the process. And thus it was written as the most milketoast nothing burger. When an infinite set of possibilities exists that actually do address real concerns like climate impact, social impacts, copyright and legal problems related to generated code, etc. in relation to the principles and overall values of the project. Instead, they are deferring the practicalities to pull request’s bickering.
But again, I’m not a voting member or contributor. So my opinion is null. I still think the way the process is designed and conducted is stupid and prone to cause the eventual failure of debian via governance collapse.
@eshol@lemmy.world
One thing I’d note is what sourcehut has done is far beyond what codeberg has, specifically this part:
What codeberg did was the first part - content written with LLMs, though even that is “mostly”. Sourcehut goes way more restrictive.
And a shot out to @alam@lemmy.world for BentoPDF! Glad to have you here and an awesome tool to boot.
What are the best alternatives to the now unmaintained file-browser? I’ve used dufs and filestash a bit, curious if there are others.
I use Filebrowser Quantum, a feature rich fork of filebrowser.
yup
Of course the coder app is freemium. I want the AI gateway and LLM costs tracking for myself and a couple of friends