Bustikiller

Some months ago, I saw a post here in Mastodon about a developer who had quit AI in their job. I found it very inspiring. Here is mine. Not without shame, I admit that for a long time I used AI at work, even though I had banned it from my personal life. Now, what I believe and what I do are aligned again. If you're a developer, please read it. There is life after being an AI sheperd. https://blog.bustikiller.com/2026/09/25/one-month-without-ai.html #noai #fuckai #ai

@esoastronomy@mastodon.social why on Earth would we want sunlight at night?

@smallcircles to what extent are plants responsible for the oxygen they provide to dictators? I could agree that any FOSS project specifically designed for, let's say, killer robots is ethically bad. But other software that happens to also be used in some questionable project... I don't think it's on us. FOSS brings freedom to the entire world. Maybe without FOSS these projects would need more money to succeed. But also, the rest of us would really have nothing to build on top of.

@Kroc I've been using VSCodium for a while, which is basically de FOSS project on top of which VSCode is built. I don't miss any of the features. Definitely not the surveillance. https://vscodium.com/

@Kroc You're right. I thought vscode was built on top of vscodium, but it turns out vscodium is based on vscode. Good to know!

@acallegaro@mas.to I use Feeder on Android. For blog posts mainly, but also to get notified about software releases.

@smallcircles it's already tough for FOSS developers who are (mostly) building their projects with little to no compensation to be held accountable for anything else. We have to shift the focus to the wrongdoers. What does weighing the result of externalities mean? Should we cancel a FOSS project because some bad actor started building on top? That's the end of FOSS. Should we add ethical (thus, subjective) layers of permissions on top of FOSS licenses? That also kills FOSS.