Just seeing the list here: https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware
I don’t know what to think about it, many incredible open-source projects went downhill, some worse than others, full AI permission usage and some of them even advertise AI providers on README.md. I’m even using many of them myself.
Even the good guys are falling, I’m not sure what to think about it. Am I overreacting maybe?
You might think, that’s fine, not a big deal, some of them just allow AI usage, but not AI generated code, but for how long? If you allow use of AI for anything the tendency is that you’ll be even more open about it in the future.
List of projects that personally draw my attention or I use eventually:
- Firefox: not unexpected, but still, I had hope on Mozilla bring more tech awareness on mainstream
- Spaceship prompt: I use this on my terminal for customization, why’d you need AI for such a simple project?
- VLC: just sad
- curl: sad x 10
- Vim: sad x 20
- zoxide: they literally promoting AI providers in the README, such a simple tool as well, why?
- CoMaps/Organic Maps/OsmAnd: the few ones providing a good alternative to Google Maps
- Element: that’s literally the most used client for Matrix I guess?
- Python: I thought they were the good guys as well
- Lemmy: unexpected, code of conduct says it’s allowed
- Linux: the final boss, unbelievable
Is there any hope at all? Or am I just overreacting?
This is spot on for me too.
Whether it is my non nuerotypical attributes, or the (god aweful) way I was raised seeing so much suffering, I have always craved community, and humanity. I crave humanity, and delight myself in small good things humans do. That’s what keeps me alive and going.
This tool, tech, whatever… Im so tired of saying those letters… it is appearing to me, to be antithesis to humanity… and earth as a whole. Im not even done being mad plastics are used so irresponsibly, and now we (I am from the fucking US) are going to add even more issues in multiple ways. HELL, MANUFACTURING IS STILL DIRTY AF and so what, let’s add more? More fucking garbarge for the earth and planet that gives me and everyone life? Humans are mucking up what I absolutely fucking cherish, all while treating eachother, and everyone/thing else, like fucking shit. fuck heirarchy. This is only happening for profit, not because we want to meet human needs, it is entirely profit driven. Money is god and im not here for that.
Two bunnies and one groundhog live in my small yard. I often see them have breakfast in the mornings. I dont keep an american style lawn. There’s food there for them, I enjoy things like this a lot. When the majority of humanity seems to crave convience plastic and now convience tools (thought machine? idea generator? human replacer?) over actual human connectivity and human craftmanship… I … dont feel like I belong. Incomming depression. I dont get it. I want to love our plantet and actually take care of it properly, and sustain. Treat eachother well. I was taught to leave a place better than you found it, and to be kind, you grow up, and who the hell is kind? Not the people putting datacenters up, that’s for sure.
and there are so many people who dont care about our planet being a mess and overconsume like it is normal.
You’d think we had enough recorded history to figure out how to do this human shit responsibly.
I was never into community, nature or human interaction but even an emotionless former technophile introvert like me or Ted Kaczynski can see how bad technology has made things and how much worse it’s going to get and realize actually community, nature and human interaction are more important than so-called progress, efficiency, comfort, material goods or really anything else. I think anyone can see this but depending on predispositions it may take more or less life experience and study.