@beyond@linkage.ds8.zone

Captain Beyond

Caretaker of Sunhillow/DS8.ZONE. Free (Libre) Software enthusiast and promoter. Pronouns: any

Also /u/CaptainBeyondDS8 on reddit and CaptainBeyond on libera.chat.

AI Disclosure: No “generative AI tools” are used to produce any work attributed to “Captain Beyond of Sunhillow” (here or elsewhere).

member since 27 Mar 2021 10:01

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For me the most important thing is that something is free software. I’ve seen people advertise proprietary stuff in this community and have reported it, and nothing has been done. I don’t know if that means my reports don’t federate properly or if it’s tacitly approved by the moderators. I know in the degoogle community there are "trusted’ proprietary apps that are often recommended but this should not be the case in a free software or open source community. In any case, any rule that bans “AI slop” while allowing proprietary products is in my mind backwards.

Regarding “AI slop” I am generally in agreement with Codeberg’s policy which states,

You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by “generative AI”-tools (including services such as Claude, OpenAI Codex).

I suppose “mostly” is up to interpretation but for me this specifically targets vibecoded apps where there is no or very minimal human involvement. This may be heterodoxy but I actually don’t think “an otherwise human-written codebase with a single line of LLM code” is the same thing as an entirely LLM generated codebase. I think there’s room for nuance especially if the usage is disclosed (I don’t think punishing transparency should be encouraged).

on Ban AI Slop? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 2d ago
Vivaldi is proprietary so it’s worse than free options, including Brave.

This isn’t an endorsement of Brave, since there are better free options as well, such as Helium for Chromium based browsers, or LibreWolf.

on I tried Vivaldi on Linux just to find out that it’s not for me. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 14 Aug 2026